Painting another writers name on a clean train in full color is quite the hat tip. Berst does Bates the favor.

A simple piece with simple colors. Courtesy of graffiti style master, Bates, painted last year.

If you started painting in 1984 and continued until now, you would hopefully be rocking a super tough, stylized outline like this.  Then again, your not style master Bates, so maybe not.

Years of practice go into perfecting a solid handstyle, one that truly stands out and Bates has a variety up his sleeve.  The following are some sample hands.

We saw this short film, SUHA, on Bates' blog, and the film follows a female graffiti artist in Montreal, Canada, and it becomes a self-narration of her life in various sub-cultures. Director Robby Reis is currently working on a full-length.

Graffiti giant, BATES, has a new solo show up at Hanna G in Malmo, Sweden. We go to BATES' blog on 120zProphet all the time because he is really good at keeping it updated. The show itself, with all new works, got a lot of good press from the Malmo press, as well. More after the jump . . .