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

    in Brick Slayers

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    Rusto is great for your basic staple colors but saying rusto is the only paint worth using is pretty small-minded...

     

    If you don't care about precision or color range then yeah, Rusto is all you'll ever need but if you piece and want to use an orange or bright red that actually covers opaque in 1 shot for a line, you'd have to go outside of the Rusto family to get that..

     

    I love Rusto. I own stock in the parent company. But I'll use whatever gets the job done, whether it's Belton, Montana or shit brands like Plastikote or Valspar...

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

    in Brick Slayers

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    ehh not to salt anyone's paint game but some of that Sabotaz shit kinda sucks...got some of it at the MOS in Montreal and that shit would just clog for no reason, even on like mega fat caps...and also shift colors for no reason even after you shook the shit out of it...i'd cop the spanish mtn off demer though over that sabotaz shit...

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

    in Brick Slayers

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    actually..being a writer in that 25 - 30 year old age range, i don't really think things were all that different back in the mid 90s...

     

    when i came up...there was no "scene" in central jersey really...you had a couple cats doing tags but in central jersey it was pretty much nace and jamz holding down the trainline spots in 93/94..then like xide and the rts kids in like 96, along with rime, kemos, chip...that was like pretty much a total of 10 writers, plus like lil and aezer and them...

     

    we'd go to spots that never been painted before and it was pretty much always cool...i mean yeah sometimes we'd run aezer or hantos or desh out of a spot but it wasn't like we were on patrol looking to vamp kids...not all of us were racking paint back then either (i had crazy hookups and the sears scam was the shit)

     

    i think the main difference from back then was the graffiti you saw was better...you were looking at writers with years of experience and knowledge and when you saw a dope ass piece it kicked your ass and you were like "damn"...i remember going to a spot for the first time in like 95 that was basically a TWK hall of fame and seeing this Snow production with a dragon that was fucking insane...or like a POSES TWK piece or like a ALOE piece and being like "damn"..because those dudes were fuckin dope...and that was the bar to try to reach..

     

    Plus...NYC was way more of an influence and in the mid 90s the streets were crushed with DOPE shit..fly straight letters...pieced up lots...piecing factories in hipster infested areas pre hipster infestation..there was a lot more stylistic influence back then...since the Guilliani era and the buff of tons of graf history in NY...it seems like the quality of what gets painted has dropped...

     

    Honestly..i think the internet pretty much ruined graffiti for a number of reasons...

    1. it gives people who haven't paid dues a voice (not like paying dues makes your opinion matter but still)

    2. it gives toys a forum to jerk each other off and give each other props so any asshole who can sorta do a straight letter gets bigged up by other assholes who can kinda do a straight letter...

    3. it gives you access to TOO much shit and has basically killed any notion of regional style..kids trying to do MSK style pieces with BMT influenced throwups and attempted philly tags...

     

    i mean there are other reasons...but still...

    everything is way more authentic when "you" did it..like you have subway writers who dis freights like "ahh it's not like how it was in my day"...even if their day was when there were no fences at the yards and the worst you'd get would be a JV Card and a slap on the wrist..graf these days is pretty much watered down but so is everything else. Hip Hop is a joke compared to what it was. Indie rock fags ain't shit compared to NY/NJ Hardcore bands from the late 80s / early 90s...even clothing...back when you had to know how to flip shit to look fresh...i mean Tommy Hill and LO weren't exactly "streetwear" but you had to rock it right...now you have "streetwear" that is basically selling style in a just-add-money package....everything gets watered down if you were old enough to live it, and if you're coming up in it...you don't know the difference....it's just a generation thing...can't do shit about it since no one wants to listen anyway...

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

    in Brick Slayers

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    you guys are buggin out..haha..

     

    also...the whole "yeah his style sucks but he gets up" thing is sort of retarded. the whole goal is to get up WITH style. that's the problem today. kids jump right into painting before developing and either

    a: spend a couple months doing wack shit, get popped and quit

    b: bite, then eventually get a little better, then quit

    c. paint like 10 pieces and then post on 12oz like their opinion matters...

     

    honestly these days like 80% of the spots i see, would look better clean...that's sad..

    there's a difference between being smart enough to get up, and dumb enough to get up...

     

    if style didn't count then that cat No Parking would be the king of NY...

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

    in Brick Slayers

    Posted

    just in general, if you're biggin up MHS and shouting out NACE in the same sentence, you really should just shut your mouth...especially with all the line steps that toy emo's pulled with nace shit after nace passed away (writing in the mayhem blockbuster, going over chip with a nace "tribute" even though he never met nace..etc)

     

    emo's girl does give a decent lapdance though and likes a little finger in the butt action...

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