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• Hong Kong’s Bombing KING - The Plumber

  2011-01-05 9:00PM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
  

  

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  One of my favorites of all time : the plumber king.

  I grew up seeing his stuff every where. I mean EVERY WHERE !

  Every district, every street and every corner.

  Even tho he’s not really a graffiti writer, he still has that “Get up”

  mentality that every writer should have so mad respect for him.

  Check out his recent interview with CNN after the jump.

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  CNNGo: How long have you been a plumber?
  Kui Wong: I’ve been doing this for half a century.
  I snuck across the border from China when I was young.
  There used to be a lot of factories that needed plumbing work done.

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  CNNGo: Why did you start painting advertisements everywhere?
  Wong: In the beginning I posted my advertisements in newspaper classifieds.
  Then I thought, what can I do to make more of an impact? So I made stickers.
  That was really common in the past. I used to put them inside lifts,
  but people don’t appreciate that anymore.
  That’s when I realized I could paint on the walls in different parts of town.

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  CNNGo: When was that?
  Wong: Oh, it was ages ago. I’ve been painting for a very long time.

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  CNNGo: Your ads are in all sorts of unusual places.
  How do you decide where to paint them?
  Wong: I drive a motorcycle all over the place.
  If I see somewhere interesting, I can just pull over and paint there.

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  CNNGo: Do you know who the King of Kowloon is?
  Wong: (Laughs) I used to see the King of Kowloon walking around
  with his bucket of paint. But he’s dead now. A lot of radio advertising
  people have asked me if I want to advertise on the radio, but I rejected
  their offer because I don’t want to put myself out there too much.
  My line of work is not very desirable. I just want to earn enough to
  be comfortable. I don’t want to be famous.
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  Original link: HERE