Press Release: Chicago’s Street Art Kingpin - the Viking
Posted on July 11, 2006
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Chicago “Post Graffit”-ist and avowed Morrisey fan, The Viking, got a nice write up in Time Out Chicago.
An excerpt from the interview
“up close and in person the Viking is relatively nondescript—five-nine inches tall with red hair… (and a)..DePaul honor student”
and
“The pictures often include cryptic poetic phrases (like “The victim severed his throat so the media would choke”), which The Viking describes as “honest expression of self and identity.”
check it out it’s positively artastic!
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[...] A couple weeks back I posted a tongue in cheek thing about Viking getting written up in Chicago time out. Basically, we spend a good deal of time talking shit to each other over IM and I was being a dick. So to all who may read this and be all “damn abe just dissed the viking” I was being an asshole and I want to put up a public apology. Not cuz Viking needs it but because its the right thing to do. Also one thing that was conspicuously absent from street art for a long time is beef and we don’t need to be starting any of that shit this late in the game do we? [...]