Exploring The Power Of Street Art With The Legendary Roger Gastman
I know Roger Gastman from his magazine “While You Were Sleeping.” They did an article about me sometime in the early 2000s. But more than that, we were always sort of in the same orbit. When I was a kid, skateboarding was basically illegal and, on top of that, my friends and I were writing graffiti — throwing up tags wherever we could. If you were a skateboarder in New York, you also had a tag. That’s kind of what we grew up doing. There was this whole world of us, at that time, who were skating and creating graffiti. Roger and I were both in that orbit. It’s a pretty big shared experience to have. Roger started as a graffiti writer and then sort of became a pre-internet node — the one man who knew everyone in the scene . In a post-internet world, he’s parlayed that into becoming the foremost expert on this entire culture . He was a consulting producer on Exit Through The Gift Shop , he’s authored and edited books and magazines, he’s curated museum shows. And I have to say, he’s don