Tie

[degrading]

Probably one of my favorate throwups...

[degrading]

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg318/NONERONER/493322854_7d855fe202.jpg

[iStealPics]

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http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/hifiart/murals/sfmurals/tieboat.jpg
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http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/hifiart/murals/sfmurals/hugetie.jpg
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http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/hifiart/murals/sfmurals/mqseofate.jpg
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http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/hifiart/murals/sfmurals/tiequick.jpg
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/hifiart/murals/sfmurals/tie.jpg
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/hifiart/murals/sfmurals/tiewall.jpg
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/hifiart/murals/sfmurals/tiekcw.jpg
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/hifiart/murals/sfmurals/solid_seotruck.jpg
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/hifiart/murals/josh/ice_111499.jpg

[cappinonfools]

i dont know how true it is. but i heard that fool, gena,finds and takes tie stickers and sells em.

[Oiler]

rest in peace

[Darth Vandalizer]

thats pretty fucked up if it is true!

[Lymit]

thts shit, rip tie, bumps all day for him

[lonelywriterking]

inspiration to all of us r.i.p. TIE

[ames1001]

all the TIE stickers that are in SF are made by MQ...and there is also a shirt you can buy that comes with that sticker...

[AllYourOilAreBelongToUS]

all the TIE stickers that are in SF are made by MQ...and there is also a shirt you can buy that comes with that sticker...

Link? Or not available online?

[ames1001]

Link? Or not available online?

they sell them at a store in frisco..dnt know if they are online...

[SirSkor4]

RIP King Tie...

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l234/roks84/tieone.jpg

[iStealPics]

they sell them at a store in frisco..dnt know if they are online...

what store?

[realityblaster]

they no longer sell them.

[hatetown]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3080/2313540286_c8ab1d83a9.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/2312729785_5db7c7f304.jpg?v=0

[degrading]

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb171/seusrtd/italy%20bomb/DSC02061.jpg

[fat ralphy]

RIP TIE. SEO. SESC REDS. ONE LOVE!

[TwistedAerosoleKing]

rest in paradise :crying:

[iheartchangos]

rest in peace to my lil homie sesk, always in our hearts.

[Big Pat]

R.I.P TIE,SEO....

[jore43]

peace bro get up in the heavens peace!!!!!!

[soggycereal]

TIE SHAE SEO.
10 years.
rest in power.

[DJ Ren]

R.I.P. Tie
much props

[Edward Orenthal Norton]

ten years later and still a king in everyones eyes. rest in peace.

[technoheadphones]

RIP Tie One. We all miss you.

[mistah]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2352/2352099051_d17443f5c7_o.jpg
Stolen RIP

[bighomie]

bump

is that "TIE" in action doin his thang??

[MisterSenor]

r.i.p.

[arts]

ties throws are hott...Rest In Peace dude

[MisterSenor]

a true legend rip....

[el chileno]

just to clear things up tie started writing in santa clara and san jose, ca then started crushing sf but it all started in the south bay for the true king of kings tie rest in power homie we all miss you and we'll never forget

[skemtrs]

rest in peace TIE!! true bomber keepin it reall. much respect!!!

[Disenfranchised]

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Graffiti artist who was shot 'told the world to live'
By Spie One

Editor's note: Graffiti artist Tie One (Jon Lim) was shot to death March 18 in San Francisco. The following article, a tribute to Tie One, was submitted by a friend of his, Spie One.

Tie loved graffiti. He lived graffiti. Writers will say they live graffiti or graffiti is their life, but they are lying to themselves. When hit with the question, "Would you die over graffiti?," they have to take a step back and think about it. Tie found what he lived for -- and someone killed him for doing it.

Graffiti permeated this 18-year-old's body like soy sauce soaks into rice. Tie's blood veins flowed with permanent ink, like Rustoleum paint, with pure, unrestricting self-expression. Graffiti's loud and angry reaction to the backward system in which we live sprang from every step he took.

Tie's response is seen -- on the bus, on the walls, on doors and in doorways, over "stop" signs, on billboards, on freeway overpasses and even on police paddy wagons. He cared not to be confined by authority, by categorization limitations, by the risk of another beating him in defense of his pride, by the walls of separation that the ruling class constructs in grids that attack our psyches.

Tie bounced off these walls. Hit-ups looking like horizons just altered, invading our spectrum of sight -- big with a fat cap and whipped out in seconds -- like rampaging elephants, round and bold, over windows, entrance ways, poles, what have you -- he bombed. Making a mockery of this bureaucratic world of ridiculous and humiliating laws, of this power structure and its home, Tie was that big rash the beast despised the most.

This beast battled Tie hard with paint buff squads and Good Samaritan "keepers of the state" that took it on their own initiative to shut up this one youth from ever speaking his mind. But he won. Even after the system took him out, he is up everywhere, on the streets and in our hearts.

His last piece had a message on it. It said, "The joy of life," which is something much more sane than systematized school textbooks that teach the youth to honor killers and slave masters as heroes; or a flood of policing in our communities to instill fear into us of even going out of our homes in the name of "stopping drugs and crime"; or Hollywood producers making a special race competition to exhibit the hundreds of ways to practice humiliation of another human, particularly sisters and brothers of our own family. People have been taught how to kill, but Tie told the world to live.

What was Tie doing that was so wrong? Perhaps feeling his own heart?! Responding to his gut-felt soul voice? Is this what was so dangerous? Is this what called upon a bullet to be lodged in the back of his head, triggered by 51-year-old freelance photographer William Porter, who said he felt "threatened" by a young, unarmed boy, 5 feet 5 inches tall and about 90-something pounds?

Tie chose to be a rebel. His rebelliousness made him an enemy of the state. The state made, or rather labeled him, a "graffitiist," a vandal, a criminal, a gangster...one of those "good-for-nothing youth that causes trouble." And in the eyes of the powers that be, they would rather jail or kill individuals like Tie.

A part of me died with Tie. A part of you died with Tie. So when Tie was killed, the powers celebrated with a toast; a toast to the 51-year-old "good ole' American," symbolized by setting him free without the thought to do a police investigation, without the slightest thought of ever charging the man with murder. The freelance photographer has not only shot a picture, but has now shot and killed the next generation. And with the justice system backing him and other opponents of the youth, he, along with all the other vigilantes of the state, lance on their merry way, freely ... .

Tie was not an intruder. He did not break in any person's place, nor did he have the intent to. He carried no threat and he most definitely did not deserve a .38 slug to the back of his head. He was climbing the ladder to fame -- a principle highly regarded as the "American thing to do." He was climbing to scream his presence of "I am here" and stake a claim as a free-spirited person in this jail called America.

What writer do you know that took the bus with the most stops across America to get to the graffiti Mecca, New York, just so he could bomb along the whole way? Who do you know that ever survived getting shocked by the third rail? What writer ran from cops after getting up, jumping off a building, breaking both of his legs and then covering himself in the snow to escape getting busted? What writer got the utmost respects from Queens and Kings internationally and paid his dues to writin' graff? What writer did you ever know that said "I ain't got shit to lose" and would scream at you to go out and do the same!

"BOMB, SPIE, BOMB!" he said to me with a passion of expectation as he left to carry on his journey. I thank you Jon, TIE ONE -- you taught me a lesson on living up to my full potential and I love you for that. You are forever young, and in your memory we will not ever give up the fight.

TIE ONE (Jon Lim) June 19, 1979 - March 18, 1998

This article originated in the People's Tribune (Online Edition), Vol. 25 No. 9 / September, 1998; P.O. Box 3524, Chicago, IL 60654, http://www.mcs.com/~league. For free electronic subscription, email pt-dist@noc.org with "Subscribe" in the subject line. Feel free to reproduce unless marked as copyrighted; please include this message with reproductions of the article.

god damn REST IN PEACE FOREVER AND EVER KING TIE

[WARCLOUD!!!]

seeing his shit makes my day better

[nr1f4]

http://i661.photobucket.com/albums/uu334/nr1f4/tie.jpg

[ZZAELMEJOR]

the word is moving around you

[paintaddict]

IN MEMORY OF ''TIE.ONER''..MY HE REST IN PEACE..FROM THE S.F..TO THE S.J..AND TO WHEREVER ELSE HE MAY BE..


A TRUE FUCKING KING

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s293/humalaha/DSC01069.jpg

[osrem]

It still blows my mind to think how much Tie painted, pure dedication. Rest in power

[ink718]

R.I.P TIE

[drum and bass]

i been to that spot . i think thats a tribute piece .

still though .

always fresh rip forever

[NEXTHYPE]

R.I.P

[cloudhopper45]

Tie had no reason to die, but he always had a reason to live, RIP tie.

"even though you are lost, you are always remembered and never forgotten. Your work will strive through people and never be lost."

[cloudhopper45]

RIP jon lim

[Yourdeepestnightmare]

KING TIE TIME 2 BOMB

[HEKGNAW]

http://http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac294/hekgnaw/103_0617.jpg

[HEKGNAW]

http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac294/hekgnaw/103_0617.jpg

[technoheadphones]

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o294/allthenamezaretaken/Seo.jpg

[EREKT1ERS]

Rip TIE,SEO lost but never forgotten

[EREKT1ERS]

http://i37.tinypic.com/n2dbah.jpg
Not stolen

[asthma al]

a real king.
rest in paradise

[cham]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2500/4077694888_7112576fca_b.jpg

possibly one of the only stickers of its kind still running strong

its a shame that tie/seo/shae is a name getting harder and harder to find......

rest in paradise, whether seen or not, youll always be inthe heart of san francisco

[n8galicia]

中國人！ I see Tie as one of the reasons I started graff.. anyone know if any of his rollers still up in SF?

[DESTROY & DESTROY]

true bombing master....

[GezOne]

中國人！ I see Tie as one of the reasons I started graff.. anyone know if any of his rollers still up in SF?

Yes, the one near best buy...tie and mq roller.

[Hedzo]

^^^^ yes they are large....but look closely, all cans. king.:)

[ChickHearn]

I wrote a script on based on the life of Jon Tie Lim. Hearing only positive feedback on it gonna start pitching it in the next few months

[hopelessdrugaddict]

what you talkin bout some hollywood tie movie.... get the hell up outta here mayn



RIP KING SEO

[!DULE]

it's the 18th here in the PI..
RIP king tie!!
happy go bombing day!

[5-9]

12 yrs to this day.

[n8galicia]

REST IN PIECES. YOU WON'T BE FORGOTTEN

[liquorsick.]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4061/4416132486_cff0b7a089_o.jpg

[liquorsick.]

R.I.P.

[Lacoka]

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq234/Hysteria_10/4417013710_5edf891f25_b.jpg

[BrooklynBound]

TIE was the man!!!!!Had sf destroyed the fuck up!!! did some damage in ny too, rip

[TripleSuplex]

RIP TIE

RIP SEO

RIP HIS

RIP J. LIM

SHAE SHAE

[ImChristeezy]

RIP

[HOME_SLICE 33 1/3]

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/7738/dscn3091p.jpg (http://img697.imageshack.us/i/dscn3091p.jpg/)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JON.

[POOHKID]

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!

[n8galicia]

RIP

[asstomouth]

san jose

[pedoe]

stfu and post flicks, reck in peace john
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[pedoe]

....needs no introduction...
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[Unloveable]

I don't know if this was posted on here yet. Its an original TIE tag i caught in Lilac Alley, behind the McDonalds on 24th in the Mission, still running through the partial buff 12+ years later......


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[jnibgk]

REST IN PEACE

[Butter_Milkshake]

BUMP THIS THREAD RIP TIE

[(E)]<(26)]

see a lot of tie labels in pdx

[cantiflas]

r.i.p TIE
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[$$R.A.N GET THE MONEY$$]

so Seo and Tie were the same people???

[Tuco Salamanca]

yeah

[putyouonblast]

In sunnyvale
http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww360/putyouonblast1/IMG_0030-1.jpg

[Talkofthatown919]

wow just read some crazy ish on him

traveled to new york on the bus to paint and bomb along the way and survived after gettin shocked by the third rail wow

RIP

[Talkofthatown919]

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[Talkofthatown919]

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5616/tiej.jpg

stolen

[Talkofthatown919]

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/6854/tie1.jpg

stole

[Focused On Graff]

If you have any photos on flickr of Tie or any other fallen writers could you please add them to this group... Thanks

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1610855@N22/

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[HOWHIGH?]

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[HOWHIGH?]

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[semorbutts]

Tie sounds like he was a good dude to have on your side. the story about him jumping off the two story building to get away from the cops was ballsy as fuck!!...that cruse ship looks insane!

[12ozgossip]

haven't seen this pic around. from NYC rocking since around 97/98 before his passing. RIP to one of the greatest that ever did it!

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5177/5415842344_6a4c94041f_b.jpg

[12ozgossip]

^ anyone have a flick of that newer from early 2000's or so?

[Ernie McCracken]

rip

[putyouonblast]

wow just read some crazy ish on him

traveled to new york on the bus to paint and bomb along the way and survived after gettin shocked by the third rail wow

RIP

yeah that spie interview was sick. he said he broke his legs jumping off a roof then buried himself in snow to shake the cops. i think its a little embellished but tie was savage enough to do some shit like that

[Darkeist]

that spie interview is..inspiring


r.i.p

[vintagegearaddicts]

http://nycgraff.tumblr.com/photo/1280/5799800147/1/tumblr_llpbzbycwY1qkxqw8

[Rotnessmonsta]

THAT DUDES STORY IS BULLSHIT!HOW DOES NE 1 REACH FOR A FUKEN GUN WHILE TURNED AROUND RUNNING DOWN STAIRS???HE WASNT JUST SHOT, HE WAS EXECUTED.A BIG LOSS FOR THE WORLD,I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO SEE TIES WORK ON A TRIP TO S.F ON NEW YEARS 98/99.SHORTLY AFTER HIS MURDER,DUDE HAD MAD SHIT IN EVERY ALLEY AND THIS BUILDING HE HAD PAINTED EVERY WINDO FROM TOP TO BOTTOM LIKE 15 STORIES OR MORE ON EVERY SIDE.AND A BUILDING W FATE BLASTED EVERY WINDO W BACKWARDS FILLINS,BLEW ME AWAY.AN INSPIRRATION TO THIS DAY!JUST IMAGINE HOW IT WOULDA BEEN IF WE HADNT LOST HIM...THIS WORLD ISNT BIG ENOUGH FOR A TRUE WRITER LIKE TIE/SEO R.I.P ABOVE THE CLOUDS.

[STYLEISKING]

http://i54.tinypic.com/288bh3k.jpg
found in nyc thread

[GOT-BUD]

this thread is whats up!!

[Talkofthatown919]

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stolen

[Talkofthatown919]

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stolen

[calis finest]

tko

[MmmFooD...]

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[MmmFooD...]

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[MmmFooD...]

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[Robbin Hood]

much respect to the fallen

[Boogs]

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh82/sti719_photos/SLAPS/IMG_1890.jpg

[swagmatic]

slime sellin tie printed stickers for $66+ on ebay


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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270888357346
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[Robbin Hood]

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[Talkofthatown919]

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stolen

[isthistobe]

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[Boogs]

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[LiketheSeaMen]

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