{"id":72898,"date":"2019-07-18T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=72898"},"modified":"2019-07-28T12:30:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T19:30:46","slug":"beyond-the-streets-hits-up-brooklyn-with-monumental-graffiti-and-street-art-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/beyond-the-streets-hits-up-brooklyn-with-monumental-graffiti-and-street-art-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond The Streets Hits Up Brooklyn with Monumental Graffiti and Street Art Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Words & photos by Jon “Porkchop” Nicholson<\/a> with photos by Glenn Joyce<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other day, at our beloved Local, I met a 55-year-old named Jimmy with a totally fucked up knee, with a history of surgery, who wanted to skate with his son so badly that he padded up and braved the elements, despite the risk of losing it all. When I say all – I mean – losing a job, losing mobility. That\u2019s a lot to lose for getting loose. When I saw the Rat Bones tattoo on his calf, he was telling me how his son did the tattoo. My lady did mine. It was one of her first. After talking to Jimmy, I had to get a tattoo selfie…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jimmy and Porkchop’s Rat Bones tattoos. Photo courtesy Porkchop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s something about the Rat Bones symbol for me and, when I got to attend the opening of the Beyond the Streets exhibit currently on show in Brooklyn, New York, for the summer, I finally got to shake the hand of creator of the Rat Bones image \u2013 C.R. Stecyk III. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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C.R. Stecyk Wall of Art featuring Rat Bones and more. Photo courtesy Beyond The Streets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I discovered the Rat Bones logo at the age of 11, and I can\u2019t remember if I first saw the “Bones Brigade Video Show”<\/em> or the Glen E. Friedman portrait of Darren Robinson aka \u201cThe Human Beatbox\u201d in my sister\u2019s copy of “Black Beat<\/em>“, but there was an instant attraction to the symbol that made me want THAT BOARD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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