KING Of Key West

Japaniti [corner of White & Catherine]

Mike Mongo — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:08:16 +0000

Mark Bongo

Mike Mongo — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:29:57 +0000

Welcome to Key West, “Mark Bongo”. I won’t “forget your name” because you forgot to have one.

BTW FYI I’m not the king of Key West

I’m KING. Of Key West.

geezus

Mike Mongo — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:33:19 +0000

Mystery Artist

Mike Mongo — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:48:12 +0000

This is one of three pieces I have seen of this artist. Deep and intriguing.

Love is KING power pole

Mike Mongo — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:39:25 +0000

It was a hoot coming upon this on US1/Stock Island. The arrows-to-exclamation points allows me to date it easily: ’05

Nice Letter Roll Call

Mike Mongo — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:35:21 +0000

SMART Crew was here*

Mike Mongo — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:51:00 +0000

Duval Street | “Cliff the Weaver”

Zero Duval | CVS

*One thing. As everyone knows, I feel die-cut and mass-produced stickers are totally weak. Worthless, really. Where’s the art? It’s just marketing. Like I can imagine SMART being a clothing line, because that’s where some crews go and its a good name, but other than that sticker-tosses are for kids at the skate park.

Anyhow, I was really disappointed when I realized that the only thing SMART crew member DCEVER et al did while was here was sticker die-cut stickers. The DCEVER stuff I saw photos of really turned me on. When I learned this cat was here, I was excited to see some art. But talented artist DCEVER came to Key West, and all the Island got was a bunch of stickers. Even the sweet hand-style sticker up above, mass-produced.
DCEVER and I spoke for a brief second before I learned what went down, but this could have been really cultural. Instead it was merely vacation. As it is, all the stickers are already down. (Didn’t they notice that there are no corporate stickers up on the Island? I bet they thought they landed in unclaimed territory.) But I’ll leave the photos up—proof of what could have been. And I hope DCEVER comes back and does art one day. Stay tuned.

ZOFONE

Mike Mongo — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:34:20 +0000

Stenciled Wallfaces

Mike Mongo — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:20:58 +0000

SOME and mystery writer

Mike Mongo — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:58:08 +0000

This is one of my all-time favorite tags in KW: SOME. And the juxtaposition with that throw-up by one of KW’s all-time greatest mystery writers is choice.