NyseOne's Storytime

Back from retirement. Again. NYSE, 2012.
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...
Nyser , 1993 - Sketches and Fragments

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

4th Grade Study Abroad Program - Forced Segregation in the late 1970's
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...
A Sad Truth: Hemp & Cannabis Research and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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. The beginning of the Ozone years
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...
WYWS Issue #11 - Tribute
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...
Nyse Home, Nyse Piece
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...
My 1964 Ford Falcon Sedan Delivery
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" 1994 Mission Beach, Ca
“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...
NyseOne Music, The Early Years 1988-1997
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...
One Skateboard, Two Journeys
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...