The week in pictures

This is Dave and Elly who gave me a ride to the airport at the begining of the trip and back at the end.

This is Keyshon who gave me new tickets at the airport when I had missed my flight and also told me about distressed passenger rates at the motel.

This is when my paint got seized at the airport. I counted them take out all but one can out of my bag. I walked down the hall knowing that they had missed a can. I prayed about it and went back and give them my last can too.

This is Sumit who I met at the airport and drew a picture for.

This is wall who I also met at the airport. He used to piece in San Diego 25 years ago.

This is a character that I did in Threat's Garage that Ezra showed me how to cut and shade on.

Piece #12

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." - Ephesians 6:12

this is the piece talked about here in day three of the mexico trip

Mexico Trip: Day 9

In the morning Threat dropped Dyle and I off in downtown San Diego. We looked at the local graffiti, went to a graffiti store, ate food, got lost, walked around, rode the trolly, got lost, rode the trolly, got lost again, walked around, took a train to Oceanside, talked about how strange america was from our home countries, tried to get any phone to work, got a haircut, saw a girl pee on the sidewalk 20 ft from a bathroom, got lost and eventually met up with Sandy who was waiting for us for a long time. It was a great adveture! His graffiti crew from New Zealand was competing that day for a world wide graff competition "write for gold". He gave up his ticket to annother guy in his crew and missed out on the finals just so he could come out and paint with the Gospel Graffiti Crew. Threat, Sandy and Dyle drove me to the airport and saw me off. I shared a room with Dyle for the last week and I'm really gonna miss him (and Threat and Sandy). I caught all my planes, slept well on the flights, got picked up at the airport, and crossed the border without complication.

Mexico Trip: Day 8

J.one left early in the morning and Dyle, Ezra and I just hung around the house sketching and doing canvases. In the evening Sacks and Rue came over and Sandy was talking about how she learned and how Threat taght her to be super clean by just painting with silver paint and one or two other colours because it has alot of overspray and it teaches you to inately paint super clean but you have to do it for 20-50 pieces without doing any colours in between. I talked to Threat about it and how they did it in the old school he said it'll help me out. So I made the commitment that after I do my production with Viceral on the Embassy that I'll do 20 pieces of silver. After, I went over to info's house and he was showing me how to do some letters and we talked about life and the church and discouragement.

Mexico Trip: Day 7

All the writer's at threats house were tired from painting so much over the last few days so we relaxed in the morning I drew in some other people's books but by the time the afternoon came we were all itching to paint again so we painted threat's "wall of fame" in his garage. Info dropped by cause he wanted to say good bye to me before I left and to tell me that I'm in his prayers. I know he's gonna be reading this but I'll say it anyways... He's a really nice guy, he's been writing for a decade or so and it was such an honor for him to come by just to see me, a new writer, and to wish me well in my graff life and to piece in my book.

Mexico Trip: Day 6

I woke up really early and Fasm and i arrived first at the wall and started painting. His piece was up high and he needed the scaffolding up to work on it so while he was waiting he helped me out with my piece and decribed some things about lighting and helped me out with the shading of the axe in my piece. I met Camer1 from Frisco (left) who was very nice and friendly, right off the bat and gave me a hug. It was like we were old friends even though we had never met in person. I also met Sacks and his wife Rue. Sacks is a really funny guy also very friendly he was joking all while he was painting his piece, it was hilarious. I interviewed Dyle and then switched to camerman for Fasm's interview. We started early and worked through till sunset because it was the last day that we were in Mexico. Ezra seemed to be fighting against the focus of the piece and ignored Fasm and Threat's direction to remove bats from his piece. He was the only non-christian writer and really didn't understand that we wanted the focus to be on the message. But in the end you know... it came together really well and the whole huge production looked so nice.

Mexico Trip: Day 5

Threat, J1, Ezra, Dyle and I woke up really early in the morning and eventually left and met up with Fasm at the paint store. We crossed into mexico from San Diego and checked out the massive wall that we were supposed to paint it was on the side of a church. Threat was having second thoughts but Fasm decided we should paint it dispite the amount of time we had and the size of the project. We painted until it turned dark and stayed at Eric the youth pastors house. He is a very kind man, friendly, warm and encouraging. He took Ezra, Dlye, Dom and I to a stake house and we had a long conversation about God, evolution, and free will. Durring the conversation I pointed out a flaw in Ezra's logic, he got upset and accused me of making up stuff. Ezra is getting on my nerves a little bit but I'm learning to check my heart and decide to show him love and respect anyways. After a pointless (and illogical) conversation about evolution Eric closed by realizeing the pointlessness of the conversation and telling Ezra and Dom the important thing that they need to know if they want thier questions answered.

"You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." - Jeremiah 29:13

If anybody really wants to know God they can find him. You may not find him if you give it a half hearted effort but if you seek him with all your heart you will find him. That's a promise from God. His promise isn't that you'll find him if your a good person or if you read your bible or if someone prays for you and talks to you about God. His promise is that you will find him if you seek him with all your heart.