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Spotted by otoss in Shek Kip Mei.

Thanks for the contribute.

The streets are full of interesting stuffs.. weird phrasing....

? Want a bunk bed?

Learned it from a friend that Mr. Tsang Tcho Choi aka The King of Kowloon has passed away at the elderly resting home last week but there was no official release to confirm. Today on the news, the King of Kowloon has passed away last week by a heart attack, the king has left us for good. R.I.P. There are a couple sayings about Mr Tsang, here is one of them. Mr. Tsang found out from the family pedigree one day in the 70's, the land of Kowloon has been granted by the King to his family before England has taken it away, and according to the pedigree he should be inherited the ownership of the land. Obviously the ownership has no longer belong to the family somehow and since then the King started writing about the non-recoverable land and the family story. Initially the King wrote around his living area, around Kwun Tong Area, and in the late 90's his writing has filled up every corner in Hong Kong. The name "The King of Kowloon" is found in his writing and this is what the people known him for. For over 30 years of writing, no doubts the King is one of the earliest man who writes in the public, Hong Kong. Although not every man would agree he was an artist, nor graffiti writer, some says Mr Tsang has mental problem that makes him to write but this was disagreed by the King's family. The spirit of expressing himself on the wall, for an old man start writing in the middle of his life and he kept that up for more than 30 years, is still worth a respect. We grew up in your land, with your writing in our hood, shall god offer your the right to write in heaven continue spreading the message in the world above us. - Rest In Peace, the King ever.

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Earlier entries for Tsang: http://www.urbanmessenger.org/2006/12/mr-tsang.html http://www.urbanmessenger.org/2007/04/king-of-kowloon-part-2.html

The streets are yours, use the full of it.>

Notice things around you, they could be very interesting, if not, make it interesting.>

thanks for dom's pic>

Don't be lazy to transfer your pictures from your digital camera to your computer.

Send us your photos> Cheers >

 

wheat paste by ping

self portrait by 3 cutie pie.>

 

Street literature> "victims" poem by Lo Fang

 

Plan B stencils by Dom

ad attack in nathan road>

they looked more like vandalist than we do...>

thanks sam for the pics>

contribute your pics people >

 

Lately there are some social issues that people wanted to raise.

Thanks dom for the pics>

Please send us some interesting things around you>

keep contributing> many thanks >

 

Smoking zone>

 

6.4 ads

 

 another 6.4 ads

 

Democracy carton post.

 

More 6.4 ads.

He makes stencils for his living.

20 years strong.

If you want to have a talk wit him, he's always open for it.

He might teach you a few technical stuffs and inspire people to do some interesting things.

You'll find him near Langham Place in Mongkok.

 

His office..>>

 

check out his styles..>

Besides street artists, many others too would like to post bills and do some creative things on the streets.

Chan Tong Lane -> Chan Tong Wah, Seen in Wan Chai, Hongkong Island

cursing is always a traditional type of expression...

flicks by wilfred and katol

 

Big bitches and lil bitches, peeing on the floor will get your penis disintegrated> spotted at the back stairscase of a kwun tong commercial building.

 

Bitch ass cop 850, fu%k you and hope your whole family dies. Spotted in numerous places in TST.

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Scribling for expression? writing for commercial?

No buses for you guys today....

Pumping masters self-advertising

 

Upon approval by WK himself, this series of Samsung ads has nothing to do with him which leads us to the question of creativity... thx redy for bringing up this questions and shooting the pics. Nowadays, we are bombard by the media everyday. Think of the ads you see on TV, newspaper and mags, how many of them are trully original? If you haven't read the SCMP article below, i would like to quote this from drift, " You can't copy. If you do something that someone has done before, you suck." Perhaps, this not only fit into the world of graf but also in any sector that relies creativity to survive. ie, music and design industry. I would say nearly 80 percent of the people passing through the TST mtr station would think that it's a pretty darn cool ad. In some sense, people that did these ads are pretty successful - they get some cash and the audience likes it. What's wrong with the person behind this ad is that he/she is not showing any respect to the originator. Plus, he/she does not think that it's a problem to steal other people's idea without giving any credits. Aren't people tired to see ads or commercial stuffs using simial graf/street art elements over and over again? Einstein defines insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Apparently we are living in a world full of insanity... Some people might think that we are overreacting, but if you are fine being an average mediocre person, just do nothing and keep breathing.

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