- Name: THE CREW
- Creation: At the end of a hot and sultry summer of 1997 in Rome, Italy.
- Original members: Trota, Vela, Dale, Puer, Fox.
- Actual members: Trota, Anek, Panda, Vela, Haker, Runa, Puer, Bero, Starz, Min, Chob, Fish, Gec, Leon, Sport, Kripoe, Babbo, Acie, Kegr, Thek, Magne, Also, Kers y Agurk.
- Tradition: group dinners, every week we organize a dinner at Starz's house where we take turns cooking like real professional chefs.
- Philosophy: Travel is our passion. We love traveling by train in every sense! But the best trips we made were with a full car from every point of view.
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The ML’s, also known as the Murder Lines collective, are a crew from Northern Italy who specialize in high-quality productions on the emblematic turquoise trains that circulate the region. Having caught the première of their latest video on 
How often does the crew paint steel? Obviously, in 20 years many things have changed and “normal life” takes over good ol’ habits but most of us managed to find a balance between the different aspects of life, which allows the crew to stay up. There’s no “business plan”, no goals to set, no standard to meet. If we want to talk numbers, independently from the age of the crew mate, some paint three times a week, others twice a month, everyone gives what he can to the team. What’s important is that all of us still want to keep this collective name up and alive. What are the other important train crews of your region? In our region the graffiti scene has always been very "lively", despite various waves of repression by the authorities over the years: as everywhere, some produce not so much but focus on style, others bomb without paying much attention to the study of letters, few are able to combine both. We won’t mention writers or crews in particular, because we like to do our stuff without looking at what others are doing. We have always been perceived as loners, painting with a very selected circle of close friends. Over the years this thing has further amplified, especially due the generation gap making relationships even more difficult. But fortunately we’re not the only “dinosaurs” surviving, some other crews as old as ours are still very active making us feel less old! 
Some of the locations appear idyllic as the pieces run through the countryside. Has the crew developed more an appreciation for rural Italy through painting missions? Italy is a small and quite overcrowded country, and in the last 40 years has been heavily and messily urbanized. Still, after leaving urban centers, it is easy to find a wheat field between a city and another, eventually in some polluted outskirt, that can work as a nice background for trainspotters. Also, in our group no one is based in big cities, so these have always been our scenarios. 
There are plenty of shots of the trains in traffic. How long can painted trains circulate for? It depends a lot on the line you paint; let’s say the average train runs around a week, that means some lines and some models keep running painted for two weeks or even a month while others disappear the next day. Finding logic in things, in Italy, is always a challenge, let alone in railways’ organization, and the buff schedule doesn’t represent an exception. Sometimes trains run so much that you get tired of seeing them, others get cleaned right after the first run, other times only codes, windows or other unpredictable parts get erased! Older models such as the "pannellato" or the dear and old "littorine" always run for longer, because soon they will be scrapped and replaced by new and less attractive models. Check the Murder Lines - Graffiti in Italy video in full below courtesy of Drips.
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2ple, Toy, Esto, Rvet are some of the noms de guerre utilized by this enigmatic graffiti writer with a refined approach to the construction of letters, choice of colors and characters. He introduces himself as Estoy87. His style is characterized by thick, solid shapes, applied with the minimum of fuss and a retrained balance of funk and elegance, often complimented by vintage cartoon characters. But this is only the visible face of this Eastern European writer, whose history and creative talent goes far beyond what you could imagine. MTN World caught up with the mysterious figure to find out about his history, adventures and how he constructs his self-taught work on canvas.
We’ve seen you write Est, Toy, Rvet and B.Ls, sometimes incorporating Cyrillic letters, so it’s a bit difficult to understand which your crews are and what your real tag is. Could you provide some clarity on the matter? I’m a graff bomber with a lot of names. Yes, I’ve painted Estoy87 over the last two years, but before I did other names and in the future I think there will be more. So “name” in this sense doesn’t mean anything to me. My crews are DNRS, BLS, TMBS, AC and VLS.
Do you think your style can be associated with a particular scene? What is it that characterizes your pieces? I can’t say specifically, but the internet opened a huge window in my graffiti world. I like graffiti from Europe, because it started much earlier than in the post-USSR so it has more quality. I began to take graffiti more seriously; I began to try in every possible way to develop my work. I don’t have a defined style, because if you try to develop constantly, then changes and transformations are inevitable. What do you consider important stylistically in a piece of graffiti? That’s another question that I cannot answer specifically. In fact, everything counts. Because style consists of little things. Sometimes I notice my handwriting in construction elements of my font. Letters can be divided into written and drawn. Perhaps that’s why we all see the same letters, each in their own way. 
What role do characters play in your graffiti? I started to paint characters for my development. I painted them before, but usually on some chill walls in Spain. I was living in Barcelona for two years. It’s a chill city, friendly people, good weather. It was paradise for me. I met Bored. I liked his view on this matter. We started doing street productions with characters with stinky paint that I found in the street dumps. I loved Barcelona for finding free latex paint. In my country we don’t have this option. I saw panels by 
Does the piece dictate the colors or do the colors define the piece? Do you plan the color schemes beforehand or do you make them up based on the materials you have at hand? Usually colour of surface dictates the colours of piece. But I definitely sometimes paint with what I have. You paint from rural locations as well as subway tunnels. What do you like about these contrasting places to paint? I love painting surfaces with features, like windows or doors, with cables if it’s a tunnel. It’s looks more aggressive. Why don't you publish trains on Instagram? I prefer to stay lowkey. There’s a lot of stuff on the internet without mine. I love the classic way to publish pieces - magazines. 
