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Howie Green is a Boston-based painter and artist whose colorful artwork has been featured in over 40 group and solo shows and has adorned over 30 public and private murals. Howie uses a pop-fauvist color palette to portray imagery of popular culture with an upbeat approach. He says people always tell him they love "his colors". Howie responds: "My colors? They don't belong to me. Colors are out there floating around. I just happen to use them all!" Howie's album cover paintings won first prize in the Absolut Vodka 25th Anniversary art competition, and one of his portraits was selected for the cover of the Biggie Smalls tribute album. He continues to live by the mantra "It's never too late to have a happy childhood." The Teddy Troops had been around in the streets for a while before they also turned into a 3D vinyl toy in 2004. First of all Flying Förtress started in 2002 to get up with his chrome Trooper icon. Trying to use an easier readable illustrative symbol instead of doing the classic coded graffiti letters and tags that he had been doing before since 1989. Together with the chrome pieces there have stickers also been seen around in the streets since 2002. Handpainted or silkscreend ones with a hand-drawn finish on "free" post stickers and series of offset printed stickers.