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I dont think theres a graff book thread, if there is i apoligise. here are some of mine il post more later if this is successful Gates of graffiti Nasty and Slice Subway Art
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The other ink recipe threads are dying, and nobody wants to read through 10 pages to find what they want. Therefore I decided to start a new one. This thread is intended for those who don't know much about ink to start learning. I'm giving it my best shot to answer all of your questions. Now, lets take a primer in Ink 101. INK VS. PAINT There's two main things you can use as a base for your recipe: inks/dyes, or bucket paint. Ink and bucket paint do not mix with each other. If you're into getting custom colors that no one else has, get yourself some small containers of bucket paint. Two recommended brands are Rustoleum and One-Shot. While most people hav…
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So I checked all over and even posted an inquiry about whether there was a thread for this subject or not and found nothing. This is for flexing your zine collection from over the years, especially the real good stuff from back in the day(but all zines are welcome..). They really don't make zines like they used to, and they have faded in popularity quite a bit it seems. So if you have any gems, feel free to get the nostalgia going. So here it is, contributions welcome. If it's a popular thread, that's cool...if it doesn't get many post that's ok, too.
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So I've wanted to get this going for a while and finally have time. I appreciate all the knowledge and conversation of the old thread, but with all the hiccups over the years, it is a wasteland of broken links, missing pictures, and conversations out of context and order. I plan on curating and pulling quotes of knowledge from the original as I find them going back through the 200 some pages, there is some real knowledge that needs to be maintained. I hope that 12 oz can again become a place of conversation about this outside of Instagram. Long term I'd love to see multiple threads talking about different facets of this hobby. IG will on occasion…
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MARTHA COOPER has created some of the most inspiring images in hip-hop since its birth post some of your favourite or images which also suit this thread: http://www.hiphopfiles.de/pics/slide/A1817-026.jpg'> http://www.hiphopfiles.de/pics/slide/A1818-004.jpg'> http://www.hiphopfiles.de/pics/slide/A1818-014.jpg'> http://www.hiphopfiles.de/pics/slide/ABronxFire4.jpg'> http://www.hiphopfiles.de/pics/slide/AbwKidsOnFenceNeg_BIG.jpg'> http://www.hiphopfiles.de/pics/slide/BreakingA.jpg'> http://www.hiphopfiles.de/pics/slide/rA1000-023.jpg'> http://www.hiphopfiles.de/pics/slide/rA1000-040.jpg'> http://www.hiphopfiles.de/pics/slide/rA…
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My home base is in the state of Virginia. Im planning a week long road trip up the east coast. The trip is strictly just for benching as Im not trying to blow any spots up. If anyone is posted on the east coast please message me with a good bench spot.
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Anyone got an invite link to an active Discord server or Slack group for NYC writers, or even more generally?
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Been doing a lot of traveling the states over the past few years, and I've seen some writers almost everywhere I go. Just wanted to make a thread to talk about dudes or dudettes that get up on the go. Interested in what goes on living that lifestyle...and how some can pull this off. Would love to hear some stories, differences between cities, crazy people met, crazy things seen, modes of travel, etc. etc. Share any interesting tales of adventures! Who do you see all over? I've noticed these heads multiple times thousands of miles away from each other... Old Crow Read More Spring Break Fishglue Eye and Wyse D30 Nietz TAF
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show pictures of your favorite cans, caps, markers, respirators, etc.
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what things can i use to do ground tags? I want a marker that I can do ground tags with. I'm also open to other ideas for ground tags. Also how do i do dust/dirt tags on most walls? I see some dust tags but i go up and rub my finger on that wall and it does not leave a mark, how do they do it? help! thanks guys
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yo wutsup? im looking if anyone on here has a copy of,or knows where i could find the article on SANE SMITH the guy who got sued by the city and commited suicide. if thats not the right name,sorry i know its sane smith or something. help me out please.thanks you could either send it to my email or post it here.thanks
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INTRODUCTION In this day and age, more than ever, police are using tactics that two years ago would be unthought of. Whether it is being done to repress political activity, stop general crime in communities or simply catch kids doing pen tags on the street it is insane what they can get away with, and what methods they are currently using. This thread is not supposed to get you paranoid, just alert. PHYSICAL CONDITION Undercover cops are cops who have been assigned to undercover work. Ask yourself if the suspect looks like he could be hired as a cop. Is he tall enough to be a cop? Does he seem to be in good enough physical condition to have …
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Some of ya'll need this. Not mine and not associated, just came across it. Might be good for the kids and stuff. Featuring Emit, Jive, BirdCap, Mike Graves Download: http://thedfcrew.com/PleaseStayHome.pdf
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2019/jul/15/banksy-brits-favourite-painter-all-time-status-deserved-secretive-stenciller-high-art-alienates https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9507075/banksy-britains-favourite-painter-poll/
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just wanted to bring this thread back, always a good one.... whose new on your block or scene and gots a dope name??????? i saw one today that i thought was really cool: AFEND (offend) hella tight... teaser:D
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K i know there have been lots of threds on here about making your own markers but what about modifying markers. I got the Jumbo Pilot permanant marker http://www.pilotpen.com/PilotPen/images/sc6600.gif'> and its cool and all but is there any ways you have modified it. I could experiment but i would probably fuk it up and that would be the end of it. I was thinkin it would be cool to put in paint some thinner and a mixing ball but i dont know if that would work well. i thought of getting the gold and silver paints out of the smaller pilot markers and putting them both in the jumbo but the small ones need to be pushed down for the paint to come out and this can…
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graff writers must see some of the wierdest shit when theyre bombing... everyones got stories of gnarly shit theyve seen while creepin late night. as andre nickatina put it : "when youre up all night, you see things you shouldnt have saw... beacause the night gets raw." lets hear some grimey shit or some stories... one of the scariest things thats happened to me was getting chased at 3am by a car full of nortenos.
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i'm just curious if i'm the only person who thought "bomb the system" was the biggest piece of shit movie. i thought it was bubble gum bullshit, and the whole MTV quality was fucking annoying. i rented the movie, with high expectations, but was let the fuck down big time. then i was reading a thread, and people were saying they loved it. how? it was so fucking gay, it made richard simmons look like conan the barbarian. the acting was pathetic, the fucking script was pathetic. the fucking ending --fucking gayer than butt sex. who the fuck is going to paint the brooklyn bridge in the rain --i don't care who just got killed. did anyone tell the director that painting in the …
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Tell all your most interesting Bombing stories here
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A TV series about how graffiti spread from New York to the rest of the world. 1st season is 10 episodes covering New York, Amsterdam, London and several German cities, and features prolific graffiti artists like LEE, FUTURA2000, CHARLIE AHEARN, FAB5FREDDY, the TATS CRU, SKEME, SHOE, MODE2, BANDO, CANTWO, JBK, PRIDE, 3D, NEON as well as the role and influence of gallerist Yaki Kornblit. Free streaming worldwide on the ARTE TV website: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/RC-015348/the-rise-of-graffiti-writing/ There is also a blogpost here with all 10 episodes embedded straight for your viewing pleasure: http://www.mtn-world.com/en/blog/2018/01/16/the-rise-of-graf…
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Old Cans Of Paint, Serios Collectors Well lets see whats on your shelf? Just like to see some various cans, or unique colors, and lets stay away from the obvious, I mean well all have seen jungle green. Here is a bite off of a old rusto speedy dry http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/slyle133/allentowngray-5.jpg'>
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aight so this is gonna sound mega toy like i just walked out of toys r us. but i think philly handstyle is da shit. I wanna learn it but im in chicago. so anyone wanna show me how to write vadar in philly style. a pic would be greatly appreciated.:)
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So, I'm fairly new to painting and I only have a few ups. I came to ask you guys for an honest opinion. I live in this small town with nothing, surrounded by larger cities where I can paint with the shit smell in the air, dirt, and constant construction. I came to a conclusion that I wanted to give up letters and move on to something that I feel represents me and has a meaning (not that yours don't mean anything) and thought that I believe in. I wanted to do trees, go around posting apple trees, etc (maybe even plant a few seeds around here and nurture them). That being said, a few days ago I found out there was a painter that goes by "PLANTREES," who is from the same sta…
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Winner of the Sydney Film Festival Documentary Audience Award, Martha: A Picture Story is Australian filmmaker Selina Miles’s illuminating look at a remarkable figure: intrepid American photojournalist Martha Cooper, known for her trailblazing documentation of street art and graffiti culture. With disarming curiosity and a razor-sharp eye, Cooper became a champion of the underground. As a lone female intern at National Geographic, staff photographer at the New York Post in the 1970s and in her freelance work, she captured renegade street art, Japanese tattoos, ancient Mayan culture and American gentrification. The New York Times dubbed her 1984 Subway Art book the…
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im new too graffiti and i just wanted to understand what are good and popular tools to use to carve tags on mirrors sinks etc. Iv been using regular rocks but sometimes its kinda hard to write since its all deformed. one thing i noticed is that rocks wont carve into sinks and barely into soap dipensers so i wanted to know good alternatives for that. last thing if you guys post tools please put what stores i can get them if they are in stores. thanks guys :p
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Been into mr choes work for a while now, but only recently got into creating with the sprays. There's a cool video with him quickly painting RZA's portrait where he sketches with spray paint to start off. How does he sketches like that? Is it can control? a certain cap? low pressure can? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBFsP8X35AM What do you guys think of his art anyways? Like it? Hate it?
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Ok. I know a lot of you will think this post is silly, but no one is making you reply. I'm almost 21.. and yes, I live at home. It's a problem I will have to confront head on someday.. ANYWAYS.. This morning I awoke to an odd letter on the table. I took my toothpaste with me to my girls the other day and when I came home, I left my bag out. So this morning, my moms goes diggin thru my bag lookin for the toothpaste and finds my mask, tips and paint. Oops. My mom is a pretty hip lady. I told her the truth (that I paint a lot of legal and semi-legal (read: wallofames) spots.. I also told her that was ALL I do (a lil white lie). I don't think she'd be as cool t…
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Decent read over on GQ all about Kaws: https://www.gq.com/story/kaws-profile-brian-donnelly-short-circuited-art-world I'm still gutted I didn't take a Kaws poster alteration I saw in London all those years ago. I'd be rich if I sold it now!
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This is advice for writers ranging from chill spots, to markers, to how to avoid the police please no hate to beginners like me, still leArnig
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