Jay was the idea man behind this piece, he was inspired by the trains waking up the city of corvallis early in the morning.  A lot of people are angered by the morning wake up calls, however I was on Jay’s page big time.  I lived on 8th and Washington my last year of college with a balcony that I could clearly see the train from.  Everytime I heard the train I’d rush out to check out the graffiti.  It wasn’t long before I found my new neighbors doing the same thing as they were graff writers as well.  I have heard trains called “rolling art galleries”  If only everyone was on that page and painting them was not illegal but encouraged…

We got a lot of people involved in this mural.  The Alchemist sent out someone for an interview and a photographer to cover the session.  Check out the interview in this issue, and we made the cover of this issue. For an absurd amount of pictures check out Will’s flickr.