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I always enjoyed creating. Since I was a young buck I had an imagination. It was forced on me by my mother who wouldn't ever let me sit in front of the television, and with the guidance of my older brother, Michael "Halo" Schwartz, I sat as a 7 year old boy looking over his shoulder trying to draw everything I saw him draw. I received my first black book shortly after that and I stayed sketching until about 13. This is about the time I started doing graffiti. Again, copying Halo who had been painting since 18 years old. I really loved to do graffiti. Paint with a spray can was such a free form of art where I found I could be most creative. Graffiti letters where so much fun to do because there where so many ways and styles they could be done in. Since then I have been painting for 14 years and I love it. It is a great outlet to relieve stress and escape from normal boring day to day nonsense. I hope you enjoy my work just as much as I enjoy creating it. Thank you for the love 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.