September 13, 2006
Sane’s Tagged Textbook
What a surprise! Half of the crazy graffiti painting duo, Smith and Sane, probably most known for painting the side of the Brooklyn Bridge, also doodled in his textbook. Old school graff writers, they’re just like us! They get bored with math too! One student at Hunter College High School received Sane’s math book from the 1985 school year and scanned some of the better pages. Mikeazorin writes:
I attend the school of the late great Sane, brother of Smith, together known as the legendary “Sane Smith”. Sane’s status is well-known in my school amongst graffiti writers and those interested in graffiti. Although his death is somewhat of a mystery, he is an undisputed king. Starting school this year, I received my textbooks. I opened my math textbook and saw a Sane tag. At first I thought it was just some kid copying Sane’s tag, but it was everywhere in the book. The name “David Smith” was logged in the list of names exactly in Sane’s handstyle. I knew now that I was holding an artifact of graffiti history. Sane’s very own math textbook, used in my school from years 1985 and 1986.
Check out the rest of the images for more Sane tags, a Futura tag, and drawings of ponies.
September 13th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
[…] One lucky kid at Hunter College High School (yes, the castle) has unearthed one of graffiti’s instant gems! I must say, if I ever got my hands on graffiti-legend Sane’s textbook, I would totally steal it and gladly pay the fine for a replacement. Not that NYC public schools are very big on the stolen textbook thing anyway because 1) kids have better things to steal these days; 2) even if you stole the textbook, it is very likely that nobody will even know or notice. I should know, my shelf at home has its own good share of “stolen” (rather, forgot-to-return) textbooks. Feel free to come over and learn. Here’s the Sane Smith textbook Flickr set. […]
September 14th, 2006 at 10:55 am
Doodo Head: Way to spam their comments section just to re-hash their story. Jesus, get a new scoop and then post. You’ve added nothing to the piece. You might as well have just said: First!
February 12th, 2007 at 10:14 am
RIP sane al time legend and always will be. i would pay soo much for that book man
March 10th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
hey buddie if anyones going to buy that book its going to be me lol R.I.P SANE
April 30th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Hah!!! I went to elementary school with Paula Friedlander before she went to Hunter for J.High (and subsequently High) School!!!