Lew Blum Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Maybe this has been covered already but i couldnt find anything on it. With all the new, awesome American Accents colors coming out, the changing valve systems, and success of Euro paint, i always wonder what impact graffiti writers have on the paint market, both spray and bucket, if any. I can remember back in the day when Krylon came out with that shitty painters Choice or whatever it was with the male system that people thought it was to deter people from using different caps and using it for graffiti. Years later when i first got ahold of some green apple i thought jesus, somebody at this company has to know this is gonna be a great color in a good thickness and will be perfect for writing graffiti. Think about it. When i think of the average person using spray paint, i think of somebody buying one or 2 cans of a certain color to cover up a ding on their mower or to paint some type of hobby thing. They may use half a can, and then it sits there on a shelf for years until their kid gets ahold of it and the graffiti fascination blooms. Now when i think of somebody getting paint for graf, i think of somebody going into Home Depot and buying anywhere from 5 to 20 cans of paint, or conversley racking that amount. Now multiply that by every kid doing peices on freight trains and every chill spot youve ever been to with layer upon layer of peices and think how much paint is actually being used. I feel that either for good or bad, graffiti has to be influencing sales of spraypaint, and thus the way its produced. namsayin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckfiftyexports Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Of course it is mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
15thWard Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 someone smoked a lil to much weed and has to much time on there hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horse cock Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 american accents...............................male. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HESHIANDET Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 rack4life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oushla Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 rack4life fosho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ENO ELPMIS Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 painters touch is the truth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 painters touch gloss black just went to female caps. i am NOT happy with this. i am about to go paint a freight in protest right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Orenthal Norton Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 with the new pump system you can atleast try out more houehold caps then you could before..if it wasnt for us, spraypaint wouldnt have lasted more than 10 years when it came out on the market. but euro companies are always coming up with new caps all the time. they'll probaly have a full line of caps out before the end of the year. or you can just use the ones of the Montana classic cans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 graffit does have a huge effect on paint manufactures no matter what they say.....for example...krylon claims to be "anti-graffiti"....but they know profits lie in the new colors they come out with.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 spray paint existed for 20 years before it was being used for graff, and another 25 before it hit the boom that we're experiencing now. your figures are a bit naive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skilla54 Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 pfft i dunno i a lot of paint gets stolen. who suffers the loss? the store or the manufacture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LICKERISH Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 usually the store... female caps suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some1 Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 your mom sucks... MAH BALLZ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transparent Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 do you think marc ecko racks paint when he paints 747s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ENO ELPMIS Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 hell yeah! plus he rides elephants straight into the the airport! and paints with a flashlight and headphones on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ENO ELPMIS Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 hes so dope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Wallbanger Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Yeah, I'm pretty sure that writers must account for half (or more) of american spray paint consumption. Far more when it comes to European brands. The new American Accents/ Painter's Touch colors that started coming out in the last year or two seem like they had to be an effort to appeal to a market that has largely switched to the much greater color spectrum of European paint. But what, then, is the explanation for this switch to a male valve system? Are they seriously that ignorant about the needs of (probably) their single largest market? Assuming that they aren't totally cluless, and that they realize that writers use different caps, what would make them go through with the switch? Is it an attempt to curb graffiti, or do they have a totally unrelated motivation, and hope that we will simply adapt by finding new caps to use on their products? I don't know, but shit is alarming. I just got back from Home Depot, where I was planning to use a $100 store credit to re-up on AA colors. I ended up just getting a bunch of Gloss Black and White Primer Rustos, because they had next to no American Accents, and virtually all of the Painter's Touch that they had were the new male cans (including the black). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxcarrapist Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 rackstar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishCarBombs Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 graffiti is the reason for gobal warming you darn hoodlums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hawk Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Ive just been going around to different home depots and hardware stores to get the last of the female cap american accents and painters touch. on a somewhat related topic do you think that the rustoleum company will change their regular rustoleum to a male cap system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Wallbanger Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 I don't know... I find it odd that their side brands have changed, and the Stops Rust cans have not. I fucking hope not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X22 Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 the end of "Graffiti" as we know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muze One Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Graffiti is definitly the main source for the purchase of spray paint. It's crazy when you think about how many cans are used each year and how many are produced and just tossed in the grass at your chill spot, the the paint just gets covered up by more paint, and so on. crazyyyy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_R_O_N Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 honestly its not that serious, you all will adapt or be left behind. thats how it is just deal with it and stop bitching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
count chocula Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 i thought none of us actually DID teh raffikis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ENO ELPMIS Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 you can find dope caps for male cans you just gotta look around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy McGay Gay Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 female caps on the painters touch are absolute garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchThe$nitch Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 stores pay for racked paint - not anyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isor357 Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 err... no doubt. Companies dont care about anything but their bottom line. aside from the occasional home project how many people use spray paint truth of the matter is... spray paint sucks for pretty much everything else except for what we do with it. If writers stop using the paint because the male caps suck and they see their profits shrink i want to think they will change back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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