Interview - Noway 67 NR WZRDGANG
Go ahead and introduce yourself… What part of the world do you stay in, what do you write, and who are you? How did you start vandalizing and what compels you to continue? Give us the basic information shit.
I write Noway and represent NR and WZRDS crews. I stay in Vancouver CANADA. I started doing dummy letters when I was like 14 or something then picked up a can in 2005. I like to spray big letters usually on trains so friends that live far away can see them and I keep doing this cause like tattooing, you can’t be done. You can’t finish graffiti; I have bad ADD so anything that keeps my interest for a while I really like, and the amount of fucking visual garbage I have to look at everyday keeps me motivated to do something nice.
TOP 5 MEDIUMS/UTENSILS
Speed Ball Ink
B4 nib on my dippy pen
Concentrated Water Color
Spray paint (Down for whatever but yeah when you hold a can of American Rusto that shit goes hard. Best part of going down to the states is that shit, them switching the tips was a real boner move but I ain’t that mad. Montana is a nice treat.)
Arches Board (Doing paintings on floppy garbage paper is just stupid.)
TOP 5 PLACES TO TRAVEL
Barcelona (Get your drink on. Get your paint on. Get your skate on. Hot spanish women.)
Montreal (Just a fun place to get dummy.)
Portland (Awesome people, Reefers, great food.)
San Francisco (Insane amounts of good tattooing. Good food.)
Toronto (Good graffiti, other graffiti dorks I like chilling with, and lots of spots)
TOP 5 INSPIRATIONS
Walking around looking at shit, figuring out how to make it better
Nature
Anything to do with freights “you’re just like a little dude…”
Positive people doing their own shit
Tetrahydrocannabinol
TOP 5 ARTISTS ; WRITERS OR OTHERWISE
Kaput VTS NR IBD WCB (Funk master style doctor, best writer IMO.)
Hieronymus Bosch (OG wierdo vision. Dude was on some shit or had a very wild mind.)
Afex AST.(Been killing freights and out styling everyone for a while now.)
I think photography is too personal to share with a lot of other people but that BOOGIE dude takes some raw ass photos that I really like.
Too many tattoo artists to name, dudes that just kill it. Steve Bryne, Tony Hundahl, Jeff Zuck, just people that create powerful images that you can’t ignore.
TOP 5 SONGS TO JAM WHEN WORKIN’
Lack of Comprehension - Death
Runaway - Del Shannon
A Beautiful Place Out in the Country - Boards of Canada
Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath
I listen to a lot of shitty Dubstep and electronic music (Guilty pleasure)
TOP 5 ‘TOP FIVE’ QUESTIONS TO ASK AN INTERVIEWEE
How many girls have you banged?
Fish, Chicken, Beef or Pork taco?
When will the world end?
How many elements of Hip Hop do you represent?
You mad?
TOP 5 PEOPLE TO WORK WITH
Solo
Mock One (SMALL MONEY SEEM BIG .. One of those dudes you can paint with and not worry about them being fucking stupid and too loud.)
Kaput (I know I am gonna get burnt every time we paint but makes me try and step my game up.)
HMIL and MERLIN (My metal brothers.)
Any one who is fun and not a fucking idiot
TOP 5 HOMIES WHO GET IT POPPIN’
Pasoe FTW IAH WZRDS PG. (Does work.)
House AST (Really good sprays.)
Noise. Dude sprays a lot.
Mock clean solid bold graffiti
Herbs (My Toronto brother; needs to paint more and faster but that dude rules.)
TOP 5 FAVORITE PIECES OF ALL TIME
Conz did a mustache on a statue at the Hard Rock Cafe in Calgary a long ass time ago, that was the first piece of graffiti I really remember. It made me laugh and stoked that someone can just go fuck with something if they want.
Afex pieces from 2002-2005 got me really stoked.
That ERASE full car with over lapping colors that thing is so fucking sick!
RIOS and DOIT’s ARMN full car with the black letter and the legs.
Trik roll down in China Town in Toronto
TOP 5 THINGS TO DO WITH A STACK OF BENJIS
Well it would be a stack of Sir Robert Bordens…
Get tattooed
Travel
Get tattooed
Travel
TOP 5 INTERVIEWS YOU WANT TO SEE
Sever (That dude is really good.)
Duece 7 (I know the guy but I know he would have some funny shit to say.)
Tomcat 19 (Real life Huck Finn.)
Yeti (I wanna know what’s up in that dude’s head, the shit he paints is wild.)
Coaltrain
Give some shouts to the big homies , rep your clique, bang your set, say whatever the fuck you want to say.
SMALL MONEY SEEM BIG, NR, VTS, WZRDS ALL HOMIES, DO WORK, DON’T BE A FUCKING ASSHOLE, DON’T BE A DUMBASS SHIT HEAD, LISTEN TO YOUR GRANDPARENTS, LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO ARE BETTER THAN YOU. STAY THE FUCK OFF TRAINS WITH YOUR GROSS CHARACTERS, DISREGARD FEMALES ACQUIRE CURRENCY, LOVE LIFE, BE POSITIVE, QUIT YOUR JOB IT SUCKS.
