@misteraven
Wow man. I can tell you that I 100% took this entire project for granted. I never gave a single thought to the time or money invested in making this place.
For the past 17 years I have been stranded in an artistically void black hole of shit. There is no graff scene here, there are no open mic freestyle battles, there's nothing. It's all military salute murals and beach themed arts and crafts projects for tourists.
I was really feeling shitty about this and how I had put art on the back burner for the better part of the past 15 years. So I decided I would stop by and see who the new NightOwls were or what the new wonk saggin was on the way to check out the art side of the forums. What I found reminded me of a night out with 2 of my crew from over 20 years ago.
We were out walking the city late night catching ups on everything in our way. We must have walked about 30 blocks before our mops ran dry and our paint was out. We doubled back to revel in our mayhem and noticed it was all gone. It was like the buff was a few blocks behind us the entire night. Everything we had done was gone.
It never occured to me that our shit would catch the buff that quickly, I never imagined a world where 12oz wasnt in full swing.
That being said; I stopped checking my facebook a year ago, Ive never had an IG, I could never make sense of twitter and I dabble in reddit. Also, reading a lot of the original comments in this thread I found myself to be guilty of just about every one of these social media flaws. I did catch myself in full on fuckboy mode and it was so personally embarrassing; I made the decision to unplug completely.
But I digress. Im obviously in favor of 12oz because here I am 20 years later, unpromted and excited for the next chapter.