KZAM GTB Interview!
Kill Pretty: What’s your earliest graffiti memory?
KZAM: I had a little marker, and I remember just drawing anarchy signs all over the neighborhood. I'd never done graffiti before that, but that's the first time that I remember doing it. I grew up in Palo Alto area and saw a lot of ORFN and stuff like that, MARVL. I actually met ORFN and he gave me a Pilot when I was tagging in the tunnel at the Palo Alto train station with a Sharpie, and he came up and he... I forget what I even wrote back then, but he came up and saw me with this little tiny Sharpie, and gave me a big Pilot, and he hit up ORFN and I was like "Oh, shit!" I'd seen him everywhere. And it was kind of cool to meet him in person. But honestly I was like 11, 12 years old.
How To Contribute To Kill Pretty
So you’ve been reading Kill Pretty for years. You spend all your hard earned cash on the print issue and you’re not really sure what the publishing schedule for the online version is but you know you like it, or at the very least you tolerate its existence. But isn’t there something missing from Kill Pretty? Aside from a more regular schedule and, I don’t know, more nudity. It’s you dum-dum! Do you write personal essays that your mom would disown you if she read them? Do you illustrate weird cartoons that would get you interred in Shutter Island? A third thing that’s also weird and fits in the format of a website? Then send it over!
An Excerpt From Our Big Ass Interview With Baer
Issue Six of Kill Pretty has a ridiculously oversized interview with the one and only graffiti god Baer. How big is this interview? It’s so dang big that we could post excerpts online for years and we would never get to the good stuff. Buy the magazine if you want to read the entire thing, or continue to read these excerpts and attempt to piece together what the interview might look like in print.
Issue Six Of Kill Pretty Is Here!
Issue 666 of Kill Pretty is here and it’s going to blow your mind. Featuring interviews and artwork by BAER, ‘80s splatter horror pioneer Brian Yuzna, and Rob Schrab, you won’t want to miss one panel of this freaked out and fabulous issue. Go on a drugged out death drive with Guy Fieri. Fall in love with the grime and slime of Richard Perkins, and go inside Dream Corp LLC - all in this jam packed issue.
Tis The Season
On days like this it’s impossible to stay inside. Just try it. Something will force you out. To confront the ball of fire that sits in the sky like a cigarette burn with hell behind it. So I go outside to go inside. I go into the tunnels under the city where it’s dark. Pitch black in fact. It’s my way to escape while also giving in. I would say that the sun feels good on my skin but that would be a lie. Not on a day like today. Today it burns. It burns in mid December because Los Angeles.
Floating Eyes Under Los Angeles
I paint graffiti. I paint graffiti but not in a way you’d expect. Instead of hitting the streets, tagging my name on walls and billboards I go underground. Many people don’t know this but Los Angeles, as well as every city, has tunnels running under it. No, these aren’t sewers carrying LA citizens precious excrement away from their toilets, these are the tunnels that take rain water from the mountains and bring it to the sea. So I go into these tunnels, underground, and I paint.
Wastedland 2 Closing Party
Come to our closing show this SATURDAY! At Supercheif Gallery!
Unlike skateboarding, rapping or video games, graffiti is, and will always be, inherently illegal. Because graffiti is so destructive by nature, it will never be fully accepted into mainstream society. It will always be shunned and because of this there will always been an underground world that the mainstream will not understand. That’s the best part: We have our own code, our own world, and as much as the street artists and Nike commercials want to get in, they will forever be left kicking rocks.
NEW YORK CRIMES - ISSUE 1
Kill Pretty went to New York for 20 days in 2016 and took over 1000 photos of graffiti. This is our non-bias report on the scene in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Somewhere around 400-500 photos included. 40 pages, all black and white. ALL GRAFFITI NO BULLSHIT.
A Day In the Life of Script
While Script ponders his life while sipping on a bud light we see him wander around the west coast leaving tags,throw ups , and pieces.
Breakfast with Clown TITS
Early morning adventures with California OG graffiti writer "Clown" from TITS crew.
CHUNEED Graffiti Interview
It seems like you really can't go anywhere in this world anymore without seeing graffiti. The pastime has snowballed to such a degree that it has become as second nature as seeing a tree or someones gross baby. It's a busy world out there and most people don't have time to think about the person behind the scrawl they see out of the corners of their eyes when they're on their way to Bed, Bath and Beyond at 9:00am. But we do! We sat down with the bay areas own CHUNEED and asked her 10 questions...
