Cold Crush

I rarely post but I saw this and thought I'd let you know my experience- I've rented from airbnb maybe 10 time now, also in France, and I highly recommend it. I stayed in an amazing place in Paris for about a week at a price you couldn't beat, and it was extremely clean and the person I stayed with was super helpful. Additionally, if you have any issues airbnb customer support is incredible. They will find you a new reservation and refund your money etc. if there are any major issues without bombarding you with questions or giving you attitude. I recommend it to al my friends, and none of them have ever had anything but positive reviews. I've stayed in Paris, Lyon, Rome, London, Barcelona, Madrid, New York, LA, and New Orleans. You should just make sure to read the reviews and ratings for the renters you want. Also- most of the people that rent rooms/apartments go the extra mile. Almost all of them give you extra amenities like food, beer, wine etc. One guy supplied a harddrive of ripped DVDS for me to transfer to my computer. Anyway, I would give them a try. It is by far better than any hotel I've ever stayed in and almost always comparable in price.

Herpes from a whore.

"We already come from a different direction. As Graphic Surgery we never were typical graffiti writers. We are simply abstract painters. It seems more like many (post) graffiti writers move closer towards an abstract way of working. Probably as i said before, a logical step, cause things evolve. Though who knows, even they will eventually even drop the idea of holding on to type or letters?" I have no problem with this, but isn't this essentially the difference between "Graffiti" in the NY-Bronx, "Hip-Hop" sense of the word, and street art? what differentiates this as "Graffiti-futurism" vs. "Street-art" or "Muralism?" Is the medium of spray-paint enough to make the distinction? Just some thoughts.

I really do like it when people push the boundaries and take things a step further than where people are comfortable. Even if you look back through the timeline of popular graffiti you catch glimpses of someone pushing the limits of what letters can be, and then there becomes a paradigm shift. I give props to a lot of the writers in this thread for doing shit that I'm sure everyone around them thought was weird at first and their crews were probably like, "Come on dog, you're falling off, shit is wack.." But they kept at it and created major innovation. However, some of these people think they are being MUCH more creative and innovative than they are. Guys, go take one look at cubism, then Mondrian, then early ab-ex painting, and then tell me this shit is new and creative? I echo the calls that too many writers lost the vocabulary of letterforms, because really what makes the innovators innovative is operating inside of the structures of letters. It's easy to just paint lines and colors and make it look intriguing and interesting, but it is NOT fresh, exciting or new. What makes it exciting is to blend the forms of graffiti with abstraction, or as it's been labeled "futurism" (thanks Futura!). Too many of the writers in this thread are just using corny overused graphic design cliches and translating them into spray-paint. Too many people are doing poorly contemplated geometric abstractions in CMYK and think they are taking shit "to the next level." Yeah, we all know CMYK looks good, cool, very flat basic colors, very aesthetically pleasing, your making my rods and cones vibrate... But it isn't innovative. I applaud everyone who takes more than three seconds to come up with new and astounding color combinations, those that continue to bend the forms of letters into something amazing but yet grounded in the culture that we all are so invested in. Anyway, here's my little dissertation. Hope you like it. Haha.

All stolen.

Ewok MSK HM Interview: http://teens.walkerart.org/2009/04/21/regulator/

Cosigned

Here's some shit I posted right before the crash. New Ewok MSK HM AWR 7th Letter interview. http://teens.walkerart.org/2009/04/21/regulator/

Me estrano mucho mi ciudad... quiero regresar y pintar. No mames, los mexicanos se destuyan a todo. I'm going to come down and crush soon.