Thursday, September 27, 2007 Dyse One Bio DyseOne.com - The Collection!
In 1986 hitting the streets to go bombing meant freedom for Dyse. He did'nt try to escape poverty, he reinvented it to the sound of Swap Meet mix tapes bumpin' battles between MC Shan and Boogie Down Production. Just a year later Dyse was sitting in the back of a SDPD patrol car for his part in bombing a San Diego City truck yard. Back then, hip-hop and graffiti
were an East Coast phenomenon adopted by West Coast kids, but all that was soon to change.
Not Long after the NWA and the Posse dropped, Dyse moved to a crossroads where a number of Chicano, Black, and Asian gangs all violently collided on a daily basis. In the days of some of the worst gang warfare in Southern California, Dyse and his crew found places to paint and were even commissioned to by store owners as an alternative to placazos left by neighborhood cholos.
Dyse found little interest in high school art classes, but perfected his personal style to a point that surpassed most of his peers. While still at Montgomery high School in South San Diego, Dyse began working for a number of clothing companies, including Tribal Street Wear. This led to a job with Fox Television where he won an Emmy Award for creative advertising at the young age of 16. While his classmates were worried about who was dating who, Dyse was on magazine covers, appearing on television, and designing clothes.
The next few years brought a variety of jobs and opportunities, but he quickly learned that earning a living as an artist was very difficult. Dyse went to work in a number of Southern California shipyards where he began designing tattoos for co-workers. That was the genesis of the very distinct West Coast style associated with Dyse today. Good artistry speaks volumes, and since people were willing to wear his artwork on their bodies forever, he adapted the style to t-shirts and the music industry.
Before long Dyse was working with people he never expected. Dyse recently painted Tito Ortiz's gym with O.G. Abel. To this day he still works in the clothing industry with a number of companies, including his own label DyseOne Clothing. As more opportunities aries and Dyse's style gets more attention, he constantly works to improve and expand the possibilities of his artistry.
