Tagging in: How the iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and Instagram built a career from graffitiA self-proclaimed "Apple nerd" talks about turning sketches into dollars with the Apple Pencil.
Arturo "Duro the Third" Parada is confident. He's a big guy with a shaggy salt-and-pepper beard and shaved head who leans in when he talks because he's very excited. That demeanor, he admits, can be intimidating to some who don't know him — though in the Toronto art scene, most people know him — but Duro, as he prefers to be called, has been an Apple fan since his childhood.
"I'm a hardcore Apple nerd," he tells me as we sit across from one another in an empty lounge inside an airy studio space in Toronto's Liberty Village, a former industrial area that, in recent years, has become one of the city's most vibrant creative hubs. A few years ago, a sketch of the late Steve Jobs went viral, which caught the attention of artists and entrepreneurs, both local and abroad.
Duro's work is in high demand in this neighborhood because he has redirected his once-rebellious graffiti out...
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Tagging in: How the iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and Instagram built a career from graffiti
