Born To Bomb

Photos and stories about and from Brisbane’s original 80’s graffiti pioneers such as TEZ – JAFA – HAMS – FURIOUS – SINISTAR – SCAPE – NICE – KASINO – RAVAGE – MALIS – TRAFIK and hundreds more.

Interviews with SCAPE, DJ KATCH, AROUZ, KOOLIE, DUPE and others.

Stories ranging from the first panels done in Brisbane to writers who did bank robberies, jail breaks to Brisbane’s first wholecars. Over 56000 words in this books so plenty to look and and pretty to read.

Excerpt.. “These artistic but anti-social tendencies of N.Y.C. graffiti writers translated well throughout the western adolescent world and graffiti painting practice exploded around the world from 1982 onwards. Interestingly, as the N.Y.C. Mayor and Transit Chief were desperately trying to rid the Metropolitan Transit Authority of graffiti on its rail network, it was exploding everywhere else like a global virus. The impetus that took that graffiti writing movement from New York City, across the western world was largely young people emulating what they had seen in movies and music video clips coming out. Kids in Dortmund, Germany were just as likely to copy the breakers in the “Buffalo Girls” music video clip as a kid from Brisbane.”