An old side name that my old crew used to hit up in the late 80’s “ren” or VC Ren.. I’ve been wanting to do something with 3 letters since my style seems to stretch out so much, a 3 letter name would come in handy for fitting into tighter spots. I think I’ll keep playing with this one.

I’ve been having a lot of fun down in these tunnels, not even sure when I’ll come back above ground.

Ren

Here’s one..yea another tunnel shot, when I saw that this tunnel was made of brick I had to get it.. The raw cinder block was a nice surface to work with. Nothing like spending alone time in the dark painting. Meditation.

Cave painting

I Decided to go down here one more time and get a color piece in among all the silvers. Brought down crew mate Arest to get one in as well. I Freestyled the piece  as usual and rocked a silver 3D. It was a fun one.

Chunk of Funk

Arest150

I didn’t have a lot of time left, but I did have some, so I rocked this little one on the way out after rocking # 56. I’ll need to get back out of these tunnels sooner than later, but for right now this is what I’m on for some reason. If you paint it they will come (toys)

I decided to take a trip underground in an effort to avoid the heat…getting flicks down here is a challenge, but not impossible.  I need to bring more lighting next time.  This one was more of a trial run, just to see how the flicks would come out.

36th Chamber down here

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After finishing one silver for #52, I still had more than enough paint in my bag for another one, so I dropped this one the same morning.  I really wasn’t feeling it at all, and I almost abandoned the piece after I seen some lady watching me from a 2nd story window afar. That building wasn’t there 25 years ago, but while some things change, others don’t, and people in this neighborhood are not too keen on calling the cops, so I stuck with it and it came out alright and  I actually kind of liked it in the end, and no sign of the Babylonians..I remember Quasar or Sake telling me about some old lady that would come out and give you lemonade if you were piecing the wall across from her back yard near this spot..Back then you worried about the Gang Bangers from the neighborhood and less about cops. It was a good morning to be out and about and taking in the history.

Sun out just in time to hate on the photo op..

Same exact spot 1988…Zone, Echo(RIP), Shok, Space, Haze, Kere, Taken(RIP), Escape, Zeno….Raid (RIP) took the photo. We were posing in front of Zeno’s “Crunch” piece which ran for years. Even the Cholo writing was fresher then..Miss these days.

I took a trip to an old spot that used to be poppin in the 80’s…old school San Diego kings like Phantasm (sake), Quasar, Dest, Izzy, Zeno, Max, Zard, Raid, Kazi, Buster, Etc..all had pieces here back in 85-87. When I was just a toy, I would go here to flick the pieces with my 110 camera. In 88 I was skilled enough to put up a piece here with Shok VCR and Space DBL, which would be the first of many that I would put up here. This spot had a variety of spaces, railroad/trolley tressel walls, tunnels, bridges and the angled pit walls that were popular for huge productions by Quasar and Sake.  Pieces were still being put up here up until about 89-90 Until writers started moving on to to other spots in the city like the Euclid pit and Olive St. Anyways, it was good to be back, although there were zero remnants of the old days, the fade of the sun and the buff have pretty much taken all of that out, sadly and I did look pretty hard. More on this spot in my next post…

Never forget your roots