Bronx Tats Cru muralists How and Nosm Perre hit Brooklyn last week with their buddy Aryz to put up a new piece on the side of a deli while stray cats wandered out from the fence next door to take a look. While BSA watched, the guys climbed up and down ladders and showed solid technique like the pros they are.

- Tats Cru. How & Nosm With Aryz. (© Jaime Rojo)
The globe trotting twins, born in seaside San Sebastion in the Basque region of Spain, grew up in Dusseldorf and fell in love with the New York style of graffiti in their teens. When they joined the Tats Cru in New York in the late nineties they had already proved their skillz as graff artists and begun to explore Street Art and muralist technique.

- Tats Cru. How & Nosm with Aryz. (© Jaime Rojo)
With Aryz visiting from Barcelona it was a perfect time to hit the streets of Williamsburg and get a piece up before the skies darkened further. “Death of an Era” appears to pay tribute to some of hiphop and graffiti culture’s early icons and surround them with a rising tide of blood. A critique of the darker powers of commercialism, it may also be homage to a romantic vision of a dirty and dysfunctional city that increasingly looks Disneyfied. While homogeneity threatens the character of some of our neighborhoods, work like this ensures an expression of individuality that keeps the streets alive.
With one eye on an impending summer storm and another on their wall, the guys busily consulted sketches and wielded their cans in a race against time.

- Tats Cru. How & Nosm with Aryz. (© Jaime Rojo)

- Tats Cru. How & Nosm with Aryz. (© Jaime Rojo)

- Tats Cru. How & Nosm with Aryz. (© Jaime Rojo)

- Tats Cru. How & Nosm with Aryz. (© Jaime Rojo)

- Tats Cru. How & Nosm with Aryz. (© Jaime Rojo)

- Tats Cru. How & Nosm with Aryz. (© Jaime Rojo)

- Tats Cru. How & Nosm with Aryz. (© Jaime Rojo)
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