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    The Jimmy Hoffa's end zone cemetery...superthread

    in Brick Slayers

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    i like it when people try to be different and end up being the same...

     

    how are adhd "outside of graf"?

     

    they're painting names on things, that's pretty inside graf as you can get...

    i mean..right now...tight jeans are pretty much the "all-over print hoodies" of last winter..

    and unrefined loose graffiti has kind of become the trend in the current state of graffiti because there's so many new people painting that they haven't mastered the basics of their craft...or are looking at other writers when they come up who also aren't masters of their craft and being infuenced by that...

     

    it's a generation thing...to some cats who are a little older and remember how bad people looked in the 80s, all this pat benetar, bad haircut, tight jean shit ain't the move but if you're a child of the 90s and haven't seen it in pop culture like that, i guess it's new and adaptable...everything new is old and vice versa, it's just a matter of where your point of reference starts...

     

    and as far as like retro goofy styles in general i think a lot of that stems from reas and the aok/ris guys in the mid 90s who were doing that to break away from what was being done in that era when graf started getting really technical...that and when people started getting more access to european graffiti where you have 8 minutes to do a backjump you're gonna do something as loose but solid as you can...but what you have now is kids with no desire to master the basics and take it to the next level before they start bringing it down a notch...where as dudes like reas were masters of their styles and traditional styles in the 80s...and understood everything they were doing when they did it as opposed to just going out and shitting on a wall or a freight or whatever...

     

    some flicks just to illustrate my point...

     

    Reas 1986

    wifqn_reas_86.jpg

     

    Reas mid 90s

    rZ4Rp_freshreas2.jpg

    BLADE tc5

    in Brick Slayers

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    from Mascots & Mugs:

    Where did you get the inspiration to draw some of those characters you were drawing?

     

    Purple micro dots. Three dollars. I would buy them on Jerome Ave between Fordham and Kingsbridge. My characters came from inside, but for whatever reason when I would do mesc I would get this real incredible high for about five to seven hours.

     

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    haha..that's real talk

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