NyseOne's Storytime

First - no the second - piece I had painted after a six year hiatus. Actually, it had been so long, that I painted a similar piece behind Zane's shop in Escondido a week before painting this one, just to...

"Each doodle is a fragment in time and occasionally that fragment sparks a memory.

Detail from “Jaims” piece1987 Hanks Tires, Woodland Hills by @nyse_one - I really wanted to paint characters back then but I didn’t feel like it was my best skill so I focused more on letters. Jaimee was the love of...

I like historical fiction. Occasionally, I take a stab at it myself. It was the second to the last day of spring that year of 1720, when a dashing young military officer scrabbled silently over a wall near Paris, and...

I remember when I got bussed to the inner-city during forced integration in Los Angeles in the 1979. From my suburban home to the ghetto. Myself and 27 other mostly-white kids from the suburban West Valley, over an hour each...

1996-2006, NyseOne. A decade of street art in San Diego. First, some background. In the mid to late 1990's, I was a very busy guy. I owned C.R.E.A.M., Cafe in University Heights, Neighbourhood Boutique in the same building, and ran...

I wrote this piece for the CBD Education Network in April 2020. Between 2000 and 2018, over $1.5 billion dollars was spent on government-funded cannabis research in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom combined. Over $1 billion dollars...

1984. “Peace” My bedroom. Ozone... Earlier that year I had hit my first spray paint tag. I wrote “Stingray,” with a can of Standard Brands Black in the cafeteria at Parkman Junior High. I also painted the sidewalk at the...

This is a small tribute to a few people that have been a part of our graffiti community for a long time. This is the alternate cover of While You Were Sleeping, number 11. I’m pretty sure it was published...

This is the first piece I had painted after a six year hiatus. It was commissioned by someone in the Hollywood Hills that worked for the Obama Campaign, for the entry way of his mid-century style house. They wanted a...

I used to own this 1964 Falcon sedan delivery. My old ride. Dropped in disc brakes all around, power assisted-steering… Dropped a brand new mustang crate engine. Headers, 5 on the floor... the car is a beast. And that year,...

“No Swimming” 1994I don’t remember who hooked this wall up. It was on the side of a pizza joint just off of Mission Boulevard in Pacific Beach. I rarely paint characters, but it seemed like the right size for something...

The Early Years (1985-1988) The first original song I ever recorded was on a 4-track in 1987. I was 16 years old and my squad of friends were inspired by both art and music, not so much by academics. We...

Ozone. 1986. Joel’s bedroom. Before I wrote Nyse, I had a number of different names. Ozone was the most noteworthy of those, as it it the name made me infamous. I was also the name I bore as I taught...

Drawn & Quartered, 2006 Subject Matter Gallery. Featuring Poor Al ( @incaseyouforgotme), Alex Pardee (@alexpardee), Robert Bowen (@bowenstuff) and myeself...It was a great show and a great time, I think we each sold several pieces and we did some super...

Randal Christopher drew this, a long long time ago. “Weepies - Whole Wheat Flakes In The Shape Of Failure”Randal’s Kleeman and Mike comics, sagas, and animations rise to the “Lord of the Rings” level status in terms of scope and...

In 2005, I opened C.R.E.A.M cafe in San Diego. Originally I considered calling it “Mad Society Kafe” (MSK being the initials of my affiliate graffiti crew) but liked the acronym for “Coffee Rules Everything Around Me” and of course the...

Tyke, 1996 Nyse’s Electric Shop Yard, UCSDA nice, compact, burner...Over the years, I was lucky enough, persistent enough (relentless), and convincing enough to actually make a few walls and yards legal. This was the 5th one I made happen, the...

Since my first Commodore 64, when I programmed in BASIC a database to manage information on my comic book collection, I was obsessed by this digital/traditional divide.  That program I wrote was stored on a cassette tape. That baffled me...

“Use the Pump” 1988 NYSE (aka Crest) Shoup Drainage Wash. I started this yard when I was Ozone, in 1986. Although I wrote Ozone through 1988, I had a few other names at that time that I occasionally painted it...

This is an ongoing and endless effort to reconcile my traditional street graffiti with the life of such work beyond the streets. Whether in the curated environment of a gallery or the personal and private spaces of the home or...