I believe "Do not spray on community buildings" is one, if its for elderly or homeless. Its usually the first step to get said building removed and those people onto the streets if it is getting tagged.
100% agree with this. I also will not touch something historical. Just a personal preference. Most historical buildings where I am are owned by just regular ass people who have nothing to do with the government.
@@cowoljarwoffThere's a toy here that keeps spray painting 1300 year old graffiti. He's the biggest [redacted] I've ever heard of in the "scene" but I think someone caught him because he's been quiet for a while.
Well, these are hard. Some shelters 'n'stuff benefits from a bit of colour, but it has to be timeless and tasteful. If you can make it indistinguishable from local community art projects, or within that vibe, you might get away with it.
1:25 "Don't Write On Houses" It super sucks when people don't respect that one, especially since you don't know what the family is already going through. A few years ago, my next-door neighbour's baby passed away. Like a day later, someone sprayed a big, ugly tag on her garage. It was a real dick move, forcing the family to have to deal with the expense and effort of cleaning that up in an already horrible time.
Some kids tagged allll over the storefront windows of a small family run IT store I interned at And I mean for one it looked more like intentional destruction of property than art, and the other things like there's no way we can afford to get that cleaned so the whole family got called in and we spend a Saturday just scrubbing Thats just such a trashy move and it's so sad because people already don't like and understand graffiti and those bozos aren't making it better
My favorite job I had was unloading rail cars. The graffiti that covered the trains were amazing. Some of my favorite were from the artist DIF with the bones, Ratek who drew the Homer Simpson piece, Freight Bandit just to name a few. I uploaded a video of working there showing a lot of their pieces in it. Keep doing your thing artists. Not everyone appreciates it but I do.
I've been interested in getting that job for a while now and I never even considered all the cool graffiti I'd get to see before! Thanks for giving me another reason to want that job ^^
As a train enthusiast I can't stand graffiti, everybody I know hates it, and it causes a crap ton of stress for some people who work with trains, as they are the ones who have to spend gruelling hours scrubbing the "art" of some teenager, where it becomes extremely disrespectful is when they paint over windows. I wish graffiti artists could just learn to paint, or carve or something, that way their work would be less harmful, and they would earn respect from normal people.
@@oddsidian1691 that's the point of graffiti tho - to bring art where it otherwise would not be, to become visible to everyone anywhere. regardless of what you think, it is art, and it is not the only type of art that could be seen as controversial or disruptive. not all art is meant to be pretty and be looked at, some of it is to bring attention, emotions (good OR bad), or to make the viewer uncomfortable. the nature of graffiti lets it do both of those things simultaneously to whatever degree the artist chooses. what does it REALLY hurt, other than aesthetic? i agree with windows being painted being disrespectful since it actually does negatively impact people to some extent, but the actual train cars themselves are what....bland, boring slates? what's it hurt to give them a little color?
@@terriblecacti I speak from experience with Croatian trains, as Zagreb city has an enormous graffiti problem. Much of what is done to locomotives there is not out of some grander “statement” or integrity but just as a way to mark territory. it crosses into vandalism much of the time, I can assure you these artists do not do what they do out of benevolence. Whether or not the art is appealing, it is illegal, involves trespassing, and it is far more effort to clean it than to spray it 90% of the time. And it does hurt: The owners of the rail yard who have to clean the thing, passengers who expected a view, the police spending their time chasing can-wielding teens where their time could be better spent, and me (a bit) who appreciates those bland boring slates for some reason. (I love the aesthetic of the vintage locomotives still in use, seeing them vandalised makes me feel like they’re slowly being forgotten and disrespected) I agree, graffiti isn’t always a negative, the aesthetic and colours can be really cool, and Zagreb has hundreds of beautiful murals which I love, but seeing tags scrawled all over an otherwise nice train just breaks my heart. (They also always spray over the serial number, which obviously means nothing to them, but I find very interesting)
I work for the railroad, thank you all for your beautiful graffiti art on our trains and for not covering our trains important transport information written on the side, which would get your art erased if covered. I truly love most of the work I see out there!
MY FAVORITE THING ABOUT ROAD TRIPS IS SEEING THE TRAIN CAR GRAFFITI!!! im so happy to hear some train operators and workers also enjoy it and the artists are respectful
I've always lived near train tracks, so have spent a bunch of time waiting at a road crossing. I've enjoyed the artful graffiti on the cars for as long as I can remember. 😁
its crazy how grafitti in brazil works in a totally different way, people's houses are not off limits at all and disrespect is way to common. wish we had a little bit more of this perspective, but sometimes it's what makes the scene so strong here.
2:20 this one pretty much saved my friends garage door. It kept being vandalised by someone, so they paid an experienced graffiti-artist to make a big artwork over it. After that, it was left alone and still looks really pretty
I like the big "commissioned" art pieces or when it is in dedicated areas, like in the town I grew up in, we had some pedestrian underpasses at the train stations. But if it is everywhere, especially houses and shops, it's just vandalism. Damn hammer and sickel and Antifa sprayed everywhere.
This popped up on my home page and I clicked out of curiosity. I never realized there was such a rich culture and ruleset around graffiti. Interesting video!
On my route to uni. There are theese noise reduction walls and while the graffiti on them arent the best imo i still Think its cool. It takes away the dull Grey and gives it art :)
Thanks for sharing this! I’m a muralist and have had a couple of my pieced tagged. Frustrating but it is what it is. I would add to the list: “Don’t tag/mark up murals” I work really hard on my pieces too :)
For context, I’m a mural painter. But graffiti is all about putting your name up illegally. Illegal goes over legal. Graff writers use legal walls as backdrops. That said tho, if a mural is religious, an rip peace, or done better, you don’t go over it. The rules still apply.
One thing I would like to add related to trains: Please do not cover windows. When people have to ride a train/subway for longer distances they sometimes can not chose where to sit and then they can not look outside the window and will start to HATE the whole graffity scene. Doing cargo is fine - might even prevent some rusting :D
Don't cover the windows, excuse me what??! 😂😂 It's an unspoken rule that train graffiti must reach the windows or higher, like do you know how much respect you get in the graffiti scene for pulling off a top to bottom whole car
I am in no way related to the graffiti scene, but got this video recommended randomly to me. Not disappointed, this was a great watch, genuinely made me want to dive deeper into the culture 👀 Thanks for spreading the word to us normies 🤣👍
An unspoken and really basic rule is not to use someone’s missing cans, if someone has like a half empty can lying around on the scene then leave it there coz it’s usually there for unfinished peace’s
99.9% would take the free cans. They were probably ditched if they had to bail from a spot. Noone would EVER leave cans in a spot trusting others not to touch them. EVER. Writers are the dodgiest criminals that will take ANYTHING if the opportunity presents itself.
As someone who grew up with Grafitti artists in the family (Father, Cousins, Etc.) It's real nice to see someone talk about the fact that graffiti artists aren't just what they're perceived as (Vandals) - It's a culture that many people use as a way to express themselves and create art or messages.
The majority of graffiti artists are vandals though, they are knowingly marking up and defacing another’s property without permission. Even if it’s something that looks good to the public it doesn’t really matter since it was done on someone’s property and they are ultimately who decides wether it is art that they want or not.
Huh... Watching this as someone who has always grown up being strictly taught that grafitti is bad, was an experience for sure. I think I get why some do it, but I don't think this changes the times nice-looking places get ruined by lots of tags that are barely readable... I can respect the core thoughts of it though
Plain old piss-stained walls are boring, and graffiti gives life to it. Graffiti, after all, is art. As OP has said, putting art on top of another piece of art is disrespectful- so your assessment is still valid as hell
Honestly, seeing a place tagged wall-to-wall with graffiti is really comforting and makes the place feel a lot safer-it's an extension of the soul, and that area clearly belongs to the people
The don't write in houses is a good rule. I love street art, grafitti, tagging, everything. But when i was thirteen i literally woke up in my room, choking because of the smell of the paint (have athsma) and got terrified because a guy had climbed my window (second floor) and was tagging above it. Never got so frightened before on my life. I used to never close that window, and thank god I closed it in that day before going to sleep. For someone that was born a girl, that shit make me fear for my fucking life. Now I know this does not represent street art and street artists but in Brazil this is way more common then I would like to admit.
I would add that legal graff is also part of the culture. Trading around slaps, getting down in blackbooks, and making canvases is also important to graff culture. It is a dynamic artform that belongs in personal collections too. I know this is a video about getting up, but I just wanted to bring up a part of the culture that is overlooked a lot of the time.
I am curious, obviously people condone this illegal act, which I still find wrong as its illegal, even if graffiti looks cool. But how could it be legal? Serious question.
@@kingoffire105 I listed three examples of "legal graffiti." 1. Passing around slaps to other people: which are typically hand drawn stickers, sometimes printed. Post office stickers are a common base for slaps. 2. Getting down in blackbooks: Blackbooks are artbooks that a graff writer will pass around to other people in their community to build a collection of graffiti put down on paper. 3. Making canvases: self explanatory, putting graffiti on canvas for the purpose of a personal canvas collection and trades with other graff artists and other artists. Hope that helps. I find all graff to be important, regardless of legality.
@@TinyGhosty Understood, and thank you for the info, and while graffiti is cool, breaking the law is not. But I won't be a Strickler about it, because at least they have standards, which is nice.
I live in a small city in North Carolina and we have a graffiti park downtown with a bunch of big boards up for people to write on. The rules are pretty open too: no hate speech, no gang references, no inciting violence, no profanity, but otherwise, fair game. I've seen everything from scrawled sharpie and grease pencil to throwups to suns and stick figures drawn by little kids to anti-government murals, and it all stayed there until someone painted over it naturally. There's also a big retaining wall at the bottom of the highway ramp and for years there's been a huge graffiti mural there welcoming you to town. My city is actually really chill about graffiti as long as you're not being a dick about it
i wanna say something important to not tag mailboxes cause there was a 9 year old kid that went around with some cheap paint markers and put their toy tag on almost every mailbox someone called the cops on him and he got caught he got charged with a week of community service and a 4000$ fine i say its a bit too much with the fact on how much it cost but was still very disrespectful.
That sounds like something that happened in my neighborhood growing up. The kid did that with a paint marker on mailboxes, then went around to cars and tagged them up and stuck parking violation stickers on them - the really annoying ones that are almost impossible to get off. I'm not sure sort of trouble the kid got in but his family had to go around scrubbing off what they could they were so embarrassed.
my favourite thing in the entire world is to go on graffittis and write like ''jimmy did it'' and then i imagine the hypothetical beefs i might have started and i sleep peacefully
Oh man this takes me back to when I was like 12 and my mates and I went through a phase of graffiti. We "tagged" up this laneway that was just outside their houses, putting shit like "FTS" f the system in this ugly bubble scribble lmao. Our parents found out and we got an ear full and one of their dads had to powerwash it off. I even used to bring my mother down to the local skateshop that sold paint because he wouldn't sell it to me because I was so young and she gave the okay promising I wouldn't be spraying on things I shouldn't. We thought we were the hardest kids ever walking around with our pockets buldging out with massive sop markers and grog unbuffable ink just scribbling our toy tags on everything, even going into clothing shops changing rooms and tagging them up. Got caught once by the police in an abandoned building that we climbed over a fence and up in to, which we were standing in broad daylight on the roof tagging infront of passing traffic, we left all our paint inside and said we were just exploring, they took our names and sent us home and one of our friends older mates climbed in the next day and took all our leftover cans, which they were a lot of, all alien and montana gold. Anyway sorry for the drunk ramble, wow ring white or whatever you said at the end lmao.
I have never been into Graffiti outside of the beautiful style and this video alone has really opened my eyes to what it is to be a Graffiti artist. There's so much talent, respect, chivalry, history and it's all so amazing. There's probably people who have been doing it for a year and people who have been doing it for 10 years.
in one of the backstreets of my downtown theres this wall that the changing building owners always commissioned graffiti artists to spray a giant piece for,, when i was little it was of a giant robotic praying mantis. i wish i remembered the artist’s tag ( the coverup burners were never better ), but it kept me fascinated about graffiti and the idea of art for and by the community. thank you for this video!
As you're someone quite experienced with tagging, I have a really specific question to ask you. As a New Yorker, mainly around NYC, I always see an absurd amount of graffiti of a little gingerbread man. I have no clue if this has any meaning, like some underground artist's tag/signature piece, but I see gingerbread men all over New York randomly. If anyone has any info on this, please inform me about it, since I couldn't find anything on Google, and I'm super curious about who it is that makes all these gingerbread men!!
ooooOo that sounds interesting! - there is someone in melbourne here where i live and all they do is paint banana peels, like no name, no nothing, it’s awesome and very mysterious
in my city i see this tag with a distinct simplified type cat around and usually "CAT" with it too and its always very distinctly written with a brush too and similarly i cant find anything about it online which is a shame ive already seen one of them get removed at the bus stop by where i live
@@youfosignhere we have something like this around here too- it's a little cartoon sheep type thing, kinda like xiyangyang from an old chinese cartoon, and the thing about this tag is that the artist always puts a line of them across the bottom of their work- you'll see like eight of these tiny things just dancing along below a big bubbly word. I think it's adorable
As someone who has friends that do graffiti (and has the joy of watching some walls in my neighborhood get updated with their new art every now and then), thanks for this video!
I don't think I'd ever get into graffiti myself but I've always appreciated seeing all the creative colourful works when walking down by the railway. Much better than plain concrete. I love seeing stories unfold over brick walls and concrete slabs. Rivalries, beefs but also memorials to lost friends, expressions of creativity and wicked collaborations. It's modern day cave painting, keep our cities and suburbs colourful
Near where I live, there's a memorial for a girl. Her name was Linn, and she was the average kind girl. She had a toxic boyfriend that was super controlling, never let her do anything. One of the few things she could freely do was graffiti, and she loved doing it. She was respectful with her graffiti, made some beautiful pieces, and only did it in places where it wouldn't need to be removed. She had this one signature, that always stood out from the rest of the names on every known graffiti wall. However, one night Linn got into a nasty fight with her boyfriend. He ended up stabbing her in the arm, but she managed to get out of the house and drive away in her car. He drove after her and crashed her straight into the wall of a building. She died in the crash. Linn's friends, despite not being too into graffiti, made a beautiful tribute to her with the words "For Linn!" beside it. It's been there for years now, and occasionally people will leave a quick "R.I.P" beside the tribute. Well, then comes this tough guy a couple years back. He claimed he was a "Bad boy" and tried to be cool. Well, he decided it would be a great idea to paint a huge detailed penis over the middle of the tribute and wrote "Linn's boyfriend was in the right. Women are bitches." Then one day when he came to school again, he had a bunch of bruises and a black eye and he was wearing lots of bandaids. A group of graffiti artists had absolutely beaten him black and blue, and had targeted all his pieces wherever they could find them and painted another memorial for Linn over each of them. The bad boy tried to ruin those too, but they all got fixed again withing a week. Now there are memorials for Linn all over the city, and even some in other cities too. It's beautiful to see things like this happen.
I think the reason graffiti gets such a bad rep in society is because its a form of art we don’t try to consume naturally. Unlike traditional art in museums or music on streaming, where we consciously decide to engage with that art, graffiti can be anywhere and appear at the most mundane places. It can be off putting to see a wall you walk past every day suddenly appear full of incomprehensible tags. One person can enjoy “ugly” art if they wish to, but not if they are forced to.
Or, graffiti gets a bad rep cuz people break the rules. I grew up knowing graffiti only as vandalism because of tough guy wannabe criminals tagging houses in the neighborhood without consideration.
The ugly tags are probably what hurts the scene most tbh Ugly tags, put on homes and store fronts and churches That's probably what most people have in mind when they hear graffiti, since that's the most common form. The few good pieces my city had are now tagged over and ruined by beginners that don't know what their doing or don't care about it. Or a local sports fan club who would've most likely even gotten permission from the city, but they didn't even ask and made something okay looking but very very big very prominent in the city and that just didn't go well at all They didn't have the skill for those spots and the city knows exactly which 10ppl to go to about it It's just bad impressions like that that taint the public image of something that could be quite wonderful
how do you feel about advertising? that's way more offensive to me. I don't get a choice to see it AND these people are tryna sell me something. Such a scam man
I love the gta grafitii missions. It helped me remember the rule: never go over a gang tag in their hood or pretty much do any tag in a hood unless you are in it or are in a gang and are willing to risk it. (Because the cops are the least of your worries at that point because at least the cops won't shoot you on sight for it)
For number 3, we had a jerk toy named Smokey who would tag his crappy tag everywhere, even on pieces and murals which were wayy out of his class. We are a very small town, but have a lot of murals painted in our downtown, which he painted on. My mom's workplace has a dumpster with Smokey's tag on it. I also talked to some other people in the surrounding areas and they said they had some experiences with him tagging on their garage. To new graffiti artists and taggers: DONT BE LIKE SMOKEY!
@@elcaa2064 it's just shitty, bad image, i have a piece on the tracks half way done because i ran out of silver and also needed a stool but it's on a stairway pretty high up so I just couldn't finish it that night, also left a sketched out piece in another spot in front of that one to do it whole some other day, just be careful when and where you leave your work unfinished like OP said unless you're sure you can get back to it fast to finish it
I do not do grafiti or know anything about it, but I remember there was a really popular and common grafiti artist here for a couple of years, his signature was very common, then he drew his signature over another grafiti artist’s painting (it was a well done portrait) and ever since then his signature disapeared, even on nearby cities, thanks this video explains alot, as a fellow artist I think it was deserved
Another unwritten rule is that as a new graffiti artist you should reuse your space to improve, I think graffiti brings a sense of culture to the area. But I hate going around and seeing awful graffiti just taking up space, like as if the people just drew some lines on paper and threw it away.
I think this video made me appreciate graffiti culture more! I also didn't expect that the scene would be more close-knit than I thought, just in general a very illuminating video!
I’ve always been into the more forgotten areas, the kinda zones that city infrastructure forgets about and builds over/around. I’m into urbex and I’ve seen a lot of cool graffiti pieces that probably nobody other than the artist who painted it has seen. There’s this one block in my city that has a back alley completely cut off and inaccessible, it’s one big horse shoe shaped building capped by a long skinny building which creates a donut shape, and in the centre is this forgotten fire escape paradise filled with bricked over windows, slanted staircases leading to ancient looking doors, and huge old graffiti pieces. Only way in was to climb a gas pipe onto the roof from the side walk, then climb down one of the fire escapes into “the pit” It’s a very cool feeling to find a place like that.
Holy shit, I didn't realise how deep the graffiti lore is, now i want to learn about the famous writers in my town, all the beefs and what not. That is honestly so interesting, thank you for this video man!
Media and popular oppinion tell you graffiti is just mindless scribbling and ego chasing or gang related bullshit, in reality about 90% of us are just really passionate about it, yes it's illegal we might go to jail for it, but we know we're not harming anyone, we're giving out a message and decorating the sad world we live in right now, i think if anything graffiti is the least of problems we have right now, worldwide. After the rest is solved, clean graffiti, meaning don't let kids randomly buy spray cans, and differentiate a kid's scribble from a real writer tag, which still I undertand might not be in the right place, but it's not just random doodling. Takes years and years to develop flow and a good looking tag, years to do pieces years to understand throwies. Honestly if you like this stuff I recommend you get into it, not doing it but watching if you enjoy so, there are lots of graffiti short movies out there and lots of really good writers producing and putting out good work on the internet, if you're into the culture.
Not a a "rule", but as a rail worker, it would be cool if the numbers etc on the bottom of train cars could stay clear. if they are not readable, the train car will go out of service and your Work will be completely erased before people can see it. same applies for historic rolling stock, where graffitis usually get removed within 48 hours
great video, man! you've made everything crystal clear there is a big mural dedicated to a tragically passed musician on one of the historical streets of our city. his music has been an enormous part of our culture and, well, this place easily can be called a memorial. it's so sad to see his face slowly fading under all of the tags and just outsiders' "i've been here" stuff. so disrespectful.
get a picture from when it was fresh, the original mural i mean, try to find a writer or any artistic painter and contact him to renew it, and tell anyone who comes close to defacing it to piss off and never come back. I love graffiti i've been writing for years, I have a friend who sadly passed away on his own terms a the train tracks and I can only imagine how I would feel if I saw his unique and now limited work be disrespected like that, as well as any memorial for anyone that passed away, unless it's some nazi scum i guess
As someone writing a character that does some graffiti, this is very useful! Really interesting to hear about all the rules of going over someone else's work, I'll keep that in mind
It seems that nobody in my country follows these rules... There's ugly, ilegible, scribbles everywhere in our main city. Churches, houses, statues, the sides of bridges, everywhere. I can't say that there aren't good works out there, but most of those are also covered with brain-dead calligraphy. There's also a graffiti that pops up everywhere you go here, no matter the province lol. It reads: "no tan rico chemita" or something.
Pieces go over burners, burners go over throwies, and throwies go over tags. Now there’s straight letters. I’d go over a straight letter with a burner.
As a traditional and digital artist, it's so interesting to see the different cultural standards and norms in this community. Obviously in other art forms it's rude to draw over someone else's art, but it's completely different in graffiti, the digital art version of a throw up going over a tag would be probably be considered art fixing, one upping, or in traditional art, painting over. At the least it would be considered mean, and at most incredibly disrespectful to the other artist and be seen as trying to humiliate the other person using your skills. I also find it interesting how graffiti isn't permanent (mostly) and that graffiti artists aren't afraid of that, and work with it anyway. I'd be terrified to try So convering up or working over somebody else's work is socially acceptable in the graffiti community, but leaving parts of the graffiti underneath yours showing or tagging over a throwup is considered starting beef or being disrespectful, doing the OPPOSITE in traditional and digital communities is what's considered disrespectful, as it's seen as theft if you don't give credit, I find that really neat Also, wow, ring light!
Understand the local culture. Someone moved to my hometown for work last year and tagged the salmon mural. The salmon mural has a bunch salmon swimming in the local river with an apple tree in the foreground. People were pissed. Graffiti isn’t really a big deal where I live, but no one has touched the salmon mural since it was painted by the class of 2000. That’s because salmon and apples are held in VERY high regards where I live. We have a week long celebration when the apple trees bloom, and year round apple related activities, because apples are a main source of income in my town. When the salmon come up river to spawn the schools have a three day weekend. I was born and raised in my hometown and honestly have no idea why salmon are such a big deal. They just are. The guy came back a few nights later, and because the people in my town are crazy there was a guy staking out the mural for the soul purpose of getting a picture of the guy if he came back or the next person that wanted to tag it. Honestly surprised he wasn’t left hog tied for the police to find in the morning. He ended up getting fined, but it’s not smart to piss off the entirety of a small town, where everyone knows everyone within the first month of moving there. As for the mural, some of the people who originally painted it still lived in the area, and were able to repair it, but it’s not perfect.
I've got a bit of a love hate relationship with grafitti, as a few pieces that I've done (commissions and personal work) have been tagged in disrespectful ways (purposefully covering faces and important features of the art) I don't mind seeing tags at the bottom or in areas that aren't central to the piece, I kinda like it actually, it almost feels like a collaborative piece with a stranger, but sometimes it can feel disrespectful Sorry for the rant, super interesting video btw!
I don’t have any experience with graffiti myself but when this video got recommended to me I had to watch it- it was super awesome learning about a subculture I previously had little information on, amazing video!
This is pretty neat. I don't know much about graffiti but I've always admired graffiti artists (excluding the ones that write on private property) and love seeing all the art on the sides of trains as they go by. Honestly way more interesting then the bland logos on the cars, it's like a moving art gallery!
I’m more of a traditional artist but I absolutely love seeing graffiti art! I think it’s a lot more interesting than bland walls when people put thought into it, and it’s wild to me that it’s so criminalised 😭 This was a cool video, I’m glad UA-cam recommended it
I have a passive interest in graffiti and am fascinated with writing and its culture, but don't regularly follow it. glad this popped up in my recommended. One of the first friends I made in college was a painter who was also super into graffiti and sticker slaps (dunno if this is the right terminology but w/e) and showed me style wars. still one of my favorite documentaries of all time. fast forward two years and I'm doing an art history semester abroad program in the UK with a small group of students taught by my university's music director. turns out the music director is a personal friend of henry chalfant (5:52) and was able to get him to come speak to our class for two hours in the living room of one of the flats the school rented about making style wars, 70s-80s nyc graffiti culture, and anecdotes about the people featured in the doc. he was a super personable guy and a vivid storyteller. I was never anti-graffiti but hearing his stories really humanized the individuals passionate about their culture and solidified my respect for what they do.
Even though I don’t have any plans on actually making graffiti, I still love learning about it. Just seeing all the graffiti on trains and other things on my way to and from work is probably the best part of my day.
Thank you so immensely much for taking time out of your day to watch this video. i noticed it’s gaining traction amongs people who dont have the slightest interest in graffiti, And i’m glad many of you found it interesting & took the time to actually watch it till the end. I appreciate it heaps, thank you for being here and hope you have your self a fine day! - Youfo
You're welcome. It was a really insightful video. Although I clicked on the video out of plain curiosity, I do have fair interest in graffiti, but that's the same for a whole lot of other things.
I’ve never thought about graffiti at all. Had no idea it was such a culture, and I have much more respect for it now. This is so interesting. Great video!
As someone who doesn't do graffiti, this is great knowledge to have when doing writing for a world. Knowledge like this helps writers bring imaginary worlds to life and also it's really cool. Cool to know this stuff. Thanks mate.
I've been in the game for a while. Where I'm from the burner never goes over the piece hence the word piece, masterpiece. The piece trumps all. It might take someone an hour or two to do a burner but it takes anywhere from four to eight hours to do a piece. It should go in this order, tag, hollow throwie(toss up), fill in throwie(toss up), burner, then masterpiece. What do ya think?
Here’s my jibberish. Been really working on my handwriting and drawing since I found your channel a month ago. Your knowledge is invaluable and greatly appreciated. Will be ordering my bible today. Wow ring light
I've always admired graffiti. I love the look of the detailed and colorful designs. When I was a kid back in the early 70's I remember sitting in the car with my family driving into NYC for the first time. We all noticed the train cars and buildings with graffiti on them. To me, these were colorful and amazing works of art--nothing like the scribbles I saw on the buildings where I lived. My family was shocked, and kept saying they should catch the artists and arrest them for defacing public property. I was afraid to disagree and tell them I thought they made the ugliness of the city look better. I still feel this way, and I'm happy to see that this is still a thriving art form and that there are rules!
As a writer I can say we really appreciate people like you man. It's just what it is, believe me no one wants it to look better more than ourselves, its our piece of work, whenever anyone says "hey that's cool keep it up" or simply likes it, it always drives to paint more and improve to give out better looking productions we do this thing for fun, passion and because we like it, so if anyone else can like it aswell that's just another win. Bless my dude
Wow - I had no idea of the culture and rules surrounding this art form. I rode the train into NYC daily for years and saw some pretty amazing art. I think it's really cool that there is respect amongst the artists and that it's not just a free-for-all. Thanks for making this video!
The guy that did a throwie on the memorial had to be way down bad, keep up the great videos love them really inspired me to start tagging and designing things like sketches and stickers so its been a really big help! wow ring light 😉
In my neighborhood there are a couple of garages all next to each other. I got used to the big piece people put up there (it spanned the entirety of the building) and one garage owner changed their door to a brand new one. Took 3 days until someone closed the gap. They really thought they could keep a white garage door in a building that had one big piece all over it.
Hey man just thinking of getting into graffiti, but probably only on paper. Thanks for recommending the Bible I’ll look into it. One unwritten rule I think is to clean up after yourself. Don’t discard cans randomly.
I'm also one of the "blackbook-and-tagboard-only" crowd. I'm too old to run and in my location, writers are NOT popular, so people tend to use pew pew sticks first and ask questions later.
Heyo Youfo! I’m in art class at school currently making a clay project, and we are making a graffiti set, some trains and a skate bowl and we are going to paint it with tags and making a frog based on your character! I’ll post a video when it’s done. (BTW: This is BorneoFlow, if you remember)
There is one thing I did when I was a kid, I used to grab like four or five leaves and write M- on a wall for all of my middle school years, I knew that if you keep doing it, it will basically stay on their forever. So far no one has taken it down so major win
Next to my house is a dried up river path, in it, it's *very* common to see graffiti. It is quite literally covering every inch of the place. Anyway, one time when I was going past, I saw someone made a new work, which was very big, over a corner of the wall that was less populated and had like, beginner training doodles over it. I fell in love, that thing looked awesome!! It was a big skeleton lying down horizontally with a pair of sunglasses on. It had vines all over it and was fully shaded with a background. I was quite very angry when I saw some band of laughing teenagers painting over it to leave their nick-name (I apologize for not knowing the correct terminology). Ever since then, we never got a painting as cool as that one in my opinion. It's really a shame.
I’m getting up there but I knew them as “taggers” back in the 90’s. I knew a few ( I wasn’t one) and always admired their work and how discreet they actually were.
Next to our school is an underpassageway(?) and theres a lot of graffiti there but last year the principal had painted over EVERYTHING because he didnt like the graffiti but over the months it has all came back. I love it😂 Theres also a train platform near there too and like another commenter said, i adore the graffiti on the trains too, its really fun to look at while walking to school :D
Im my town in the uk we have a local artist who is commisioned to make art by the town. So far theyve made 3 absolutely beautiful underwater tropical reef scenes on the seafront and have really livened up the local aesthetic. Even though its not strictly graffiti ive now found a new appreciation for graffiti culture and art. Thanks for sharing this with us!
I knows nothing about graffiti culture before this, but knowing it has all this history and lingo, almost like a language of its own... Its not something I think I can join, but it leaves me with a yearning to do so.
Thank you for this video dude, I am doing a presentation on graffiti for my art class and this video helped me learn a lot about the scene you take part in, thanks a lot for doing these vids
I have always felt like artist with a social message they want the world to experience, are not taking enough advantage of the giant canvases that are open to them. It probably has something to do with monetization
Hey, you should totally do a graffiti PPE video, you should explain what to wear when going out. Another question is it worth using a 3M mask to stop the inhaling the fumes?
Where i live we have a place where yearly someone can grafity on a large AF wall (atleast 20m lenght) But its private property and u need to pay to "rent" it and for the paint that will go over it next year Its nice to have something like that and it does keep vandalism to minimum
I’m a huge fan of graffiti art, I’ve only ever thrown artwork up in my own property, and on my stuff, or from places I’ve had permission to do so. I’m not noteable at all, I’m fact I don’t post my art anywhere (on the graffiti side) anyway, I got a bit side tracked, so here’s my point. This video was well put together, and I enjoyed it as a hobbyist.
I remember that one of my favorite parts of going downtown when I was a kid with my parents was seeing the colorful graffiti around the city. I think that it reminded me of stickers. My parents would complain about it, and I didn't get why. This video has prompted me to search for information about local artists, which is quite an enjoyable rabbit hole.
"learn your history" easy to say if you live in america , it's basically impossible for me to learn anything about older(and better) artists without personally knowing them
I came up with a tag signature. Loan $hark, I don't know why, but it sounds cool to me. Two rules I personally follow are: never do slurs, and always try to hide behind the canvas.
I have a homie that passed away in 2007 and sometime before he passed he did a piece on a popular spot that taggers go to and he dated it (2007) and it's still there to this day, untouched. That's respect. R.I.P Odin, AIC
Being in the hip hop culture I am willing to explore more of it. I've never been in touch with the graffiti scene. When I was very little I thought it was a straight up bad thing, than I saw stunning pieces of art on the town park's perimeter and I was genuinely impressed. My mind struggled. "They are great, but is it right?" then I learned there is a place where to do it and now I'm even learning there's an unwritten message to the action you can do with a work of art in a public space. I'm still in an early phase tho, I'm only gonna look around, but I got intrigued on letter writing and I'm practicing on it, in fact I already made a design I digitalized and gonna put on a snapback. The visual effects you can get with just simple techniques are truly amazing.
I just really love graffiti, and started trying to get a nice tag, I'm struggling a bit, but I'm getting there. I love how graffitit is not just vandalism, it's art and expression and brings a lot of people togeter. Sadly I live in a small town and there are no serius pieces, ot's mostly some people that like to tag around or pieces on trains coming from other places, but I hope I will get where there is a full history still going on about graffiti, one day. Something funny is that I came up with a decent piece more similar to a trowie before having a good tag. Still I don't have the possibility to do something big: I just try on paper and maybe use markers for little stuff on bus stops or similar. I just realized this video is a bit older than I expected so I don't think you'll read this, but that doesn't really matter, just keep on doing what you like, guys.
It's not often that I find graffiti, but I appreciate the pieces that catch my eye, and take time to look at them because it's likely I won't see anything like it again. Don't have any interest in doing graffiti myself, but I look forward to learning more about graffiti culture from your channel when I have the time. Maybe I'll pick up on the hidden cues and history behind the local graffiti art I might find.
Rules To Graffiti Part 2:
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@@its_yekou ok
@@Editional44 ok
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Write on the Scientology buildings tho
Strongly encouraged
Bro wants all the smoke ☠️
Yes this is correct.
L. Ron will tax that ass
109%
I believe "Do not spray on community buildings" is one, if its for elderly or homeless. Its usually the first step to get said building removed and those people onto the streets if it is getting tagged.
very true
100% agree with this. I also will not touch something historical. Just a personal preference. Most historical buildings where I am are owned by just regular ass people who have nothing to do with the government.
@@cowoljarwoffThere's a toy here that keeps spray painting 1300 year old graffiti. He's the biggest [redacted] I've ever heard of in the "scene" but I think someone caught him because he's been quiet for a while.
Well, these are hard. Some shelters 'n'stuff benefits from a bit of colour, but it has to be timeless and tasteful. If you can make it indistinguishable from local community art projects, or within that vibe, you might get away with it.
@@tracklizard4018 Just so I'm clear - do you mean that he's painting on medieval buildings? Suckey, if so...
1:25 "Don't Write On Houses"
It super sucks when people don't respect that one, especially since you don't know what the family is already going through. A few years ago, my next-door neighbour's baby passed away. Like a day later, someone sprayed a big, ugly tag on her garage. It was a real dick move, forcing the family to have to deal with the expense and effort of cleaning that up in an already horrible time.
i feel you man, there is a few tags in my hometown that are on peoples personal fence, like wow man
@@youfosignhere at first i read face instead of fence, i was like wtf
Some kids tagged allll over the storefront windows of a small family run IT store I interned at
And I mean for one it looked more like intentional destruction of property than art, and the other things like there's no way we can afford to get that cleaned so the whole family got called in and we spend a Saturday just scrubbing
Thats just such a trashy move and it's so sad because people already don't like and understand graffiti and those bozos aren't making it better
@@youfosignhere I wonder, is it ok to snitch on someone who breaks rules 2 or 3? They definitely deserve it
Yeah when my dog died someone tagged up my driveway, that was not fun. Some people just need a bit more of a moral compass.
this should've been called the un-sprayed rules of graffiti
hahaha true
lol it should have
@@youfosignhere It’s never too late to change the title.
@@ZorrotheArtistit’s been a year
@@Harpy-with-Legs It’s never too late.
My favorite job I had was unloading rail cars. The graffiti that covered the trains were amazing. Some of my favorite were from the artist DIF with the bones, Ratek who drew the Homer Simpson piece, Freight Bandit just to name a few. I uploaded a video of working there showing a lot of their pieces in it. Keep doing your thing artists. Not everyone appreciates it but I do.
legend man
I've been interested in getting that job for a while now and I never even considered all the cool graffiti I'd get to see before! Thanks for giving me another reason to want that job ^^
As a train enthusiast I can't stand graffiti, everybody I know hates it, and it causes a crap ton of stress for some people who work with trains, as they are the ones who have to spend gruelling hours scrubbing the "art" of some teenager, where it becomes extremely disrespectful is when they paint over windows. I wish graffiti artists could just learn to paint, or carve or something, that way their work would be less harmful, and they would earn respect from normal people.
@@oddsidian1691 that's the point of graffiti tho - to bring art where it otherwise would not be, to become visible to everyone anywhere. regardless of what you think, it is art, and it is not the only type of art that could be seen as controversial or disruptive. not all art is meant to be pretty and be looked at, some of it is to bring attention, emotions (good OR bad), or to make the viewer uncomfortable. the nature of graffiti lets it do both of those things simultaneously to whatever degree the artist chooses. what does it REALLY hurt, other than aesthetic? i agree with windows being painted being disrespectful since it actually does negatively impact people to some extent, but the actual train cars themselves are what....bland, boring slates? what's it hurt to give them a little color?
@@terriblecacti I speak from experience with Croatian trains, as Zagreb city has an enormous graffiti problem. Much of what is done to locomotives there is not out of some grander “statement” or integrity but just as a way to mark territory. it crosses into vandalism much of the time, I can assure you these artists do not do what they do out of benevolence. Whether or not the art is appealing, it is illegal, involves trespassing, and it is far more effort to clean it than to spray it 90% of the time. And it does hurt: The owners of the rail yard who have to clean the thing, passengers who expected a view, the police spending their time chasing can-wielding teens where their time could be better spent, and me (a bit) who appreciates those bland boring slates for some reason. (I love the aesthetic of the vintage locomotives still in use, seeing them vandalised makes me feel like they’re slowly being forgotten and disrespected) I agree, graffiti isn’t always a negative, the aesthetic and colours can be really cool, and Zagreb has hundreds of beautiful murals which I love, but seeing tags scrawled all over an otherwise nice train just breaks my heart. (They also always spray over the serial number, which obviously means nothing to them, but I find very interesting)
Surprisingly accurate. I started watching this video as a goof for a laugh, but you actually pretty much hit everything dead on. Much respect
Haha well thank you for watching !
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I work for the railroad, thank you all for your beautiful graffiti art on our trains and for not covering our trains important transport information written on the side, which would get your art erased if covered. I truly love most of the work I see out there!
pleasure! and thank you for watching
MY FAVORITE THING ABOUT ROAD TRIPS IS SEEING THE TRAIN CAR GRAFFITI!!! im so happy to hear some train operators and workers also enjoy it and the artists are respectful
I've always lived near train tracks, so have spent a bunch of time waiting at a road crossing. I've enjoyed the artful graffiti on the cars for as long as I can remember. 😁
its crazy how grafitti in brazil works in a totally different way, people's houses are not off limits at all and disrespect is way to common. wish we had a little bit more of this perspective, but sometimes it's what makes the scene so strong here.
yeah ! so true
this is so true
Sao Paulo even every single building no matter apartment or church has some sort of tag or something on it
In my Los Angeles neighborhood we have no rules besides no snitching
That’s crazy that people who commit property crime don’t give a fuck about people’s property
well it's a 3rd world poop hole so why would you expect people to be polite or follow rules?
I can’t believe he wrote these unwritten rules, this is absolutely graffiti.
hahahha
@@youfosignhere I had no idea of the scale of this
the game is to be sold not told, smh why give it all away
2:20 this one pretty much saved my friends garage door.
It kept being vandalised by someone, so they paid an experienced graffiti-artist to make a big artwork over it.
After that, it was left alone and still looks really pretty
oh legit,?!
@@youfosignhere Yes, this can happen. In my home town the city did the same for a subway station.
Nice. Now all he needs to do is bump the artist off and he’ll get double protection from rules 5 AND 7.
yo they did the same with a primary school near my house
I like the big "commissioned" art pieces or when it is in dedicated areas, like in the town I grew up in, we had some pedestrian underpasses at the train stations. But if it is everywhere, especially houses and shops, it's just vandalism. Damn hammer and sickel and Antifa sprayed everywhere.
This popped up on my home page and I clicked out of curiosity. I never realized there was such a rich culture and ruleset around graffiti. Interesting video!
Thank you so much for watching! it’s crazy how much there is to this world of graff has
It’s not rich culture
I'm not a graffiti artist, but I always loved seeing huge pieces on trains and over bridges.
for sure :) it’s a worldwide thing
I always love a good throw-up piece, they make plain buildings look much better than boring architecture with no colour or feeling.
definitely trains its like a moving art gallery and is super cool to see
On my route to uni. There are theese noise reduction walls and while the graffiti on them arent the best imo i still Think its cool. It takes away the dull Grey and gives it art :)
Thanks for sharing this! I’m a muralist and have had a couple of my pieced tagged. Frustrating but it is what it is. I would add to the list: “Don’t tag/mark up murals” I work really hard on my pieces too :)
yeah i feel you man! thank you for watching
Murals are fair game.
@@bprluva not where I live you'd get stomped if someone saw you doing that
Why? You're going to put some shitty letters on somebody else's sick mural? Sounds pretty narcissistic
For context, I’m a mural painter. But graffiti is all about putting your name up illegally. Illegal goes over legal. Graff writers use legal walls as backdrops. That said tho, if a mural is religious, an rip peace, or done better, you don’t go over it. The rules still apply.
One thing I would like to add related to trains: Please do not cover windows. When people have to ride a train/subway for longer distances they sometimes can not chose where to sit and then they can not look outside the window and will start to HATE the whole graffity scene. Doing cargo is fine - might even prevent some rusting :D
indeed!
This goes with carriage/cart numbers as well, but if your hitting trains you would already know this
Don't cover the windows, excuse me what??! 😂😂 It's an unspoken rule that train graffiti must reach the windows or higher, like do you know how much respect you get in the graffiti scene for pulling off a top to bottom whole car
@MrDekasOne Is being an arrogant dick a way to get respect now?
@@MrDekasOne im a writer since the 90s AND i dont like wholecars ;). take this
I am in no way related to the graffiti scene, but got this video recommended randomly to me. Not disappointed, this was a great watch, genuinely made me want to dive deeper into the culture 👀
Thanks for spreading the word to us normies 🤣👍
man thank you so much for watching this video !
Same. First graffiti related video I've ever watched, and am now genuinely interested.
same, i’m an artist but i’ve never thought of graffiti and probably will never do it but i still greatly respect graffiti artists !!
Same here, seems this video was blessed by the algorithm gods. Most likely YT like cross-polinating well made videos across interests.
same
An unspoken and really basic rule is not to use someone’s missing cans, if someone has like a half empty can lying around on the scene then leave it there coz it’s usually there for unfinished peace’s
Yeah bro! very good tip
99.9% would take the free cans. They were probably ditched if they had to bail from a spot. Noone would EVER leave cans in a spot trusting others not to touch them. EVER. Writers are the dodgiest criminals that will take ANYTHING if the opportunity presents itself.
I guess that depends where they left it.
As someone who grew up with Grafitti artists in the family (Father, Cousins, Etc.) It's real nice to see someone talk about the fact that graffiti artists aren't just what they're perceived as (Vandals) - It's a culture that many people use as a way to express themselves and create art or messages.
I have no connection to the scene, but it's super obvious when it's art vs vandalism, and it sucks that there are vandals making the artists look bad.
But they are vandals
Did they write on something without permission? If so, then they are vandals.
The majority of graffiti artists are vandals though, they are knowingly marking up and defacing another’s property without permission. Even if it’s something that looks good to the public it doesn’t really matter since it was done on someone’s property and they are ultimately who decides wether it is art that they want or not.
"artists" 😆 😅 😂 🤣😆 😅 😂 🤣😆 😅 😂 🤣
As someone that does not know much at all about the world of graffiti, this video was very intriguing and informative! Good job man
thank you so much! glad you enjoyed it!
Huh... Watching this as someone who has always grown up being strictly taught that grafitti is bad, was an experience for sure. I think I get why some do it, but I don't think this changes the times nice-looking places get ruined by lots of tags that are barely readable... I can respect the core thoughts of it though
yeah man
Plain old piss-stained walls are boring, and graffiti gives life to it.
Graffiti, after all, is art.
As OP has said, putting art on top of another piece of art is disrespectful- so your assessment is still valid as hell
@@gabrielegenota1480 That's actually a nice way of thinking about it! Nice-looking places are art, in a way. Alright, I'm convinced
@@gabrielegenota1480 putting your name in an ugly font on buildings is not art, it's just being a jerk
@@gabrielegenota1480 a lot of graffiti artists ruin the beauty of abandoned places
Honestly, seeing a place tagged wall-to-wall with graffiti is really comforting and makes the place feel a lot safer-it's an extension of the soul, and that area clearly belongs to the people
yeah mean
yeah man
it's why I feel a lot safer in the city
Come to Baltimore where the graffiti is and let me know if you feel “safe”.
@@UhuruSasa85 I think that's because you're in the united states
The don't write in houses is a good rule. I love street art, grafitti, tagging, everything. But when i was thirteen i literally woke up in my room, choking because of the smell of the paint (have athsma) and got terrified because a guy had climbed my window (second floor) and was tagging above it. Never got so frightened before on my life. I used to never close that window, and thank god I closed it in that day before going to sleep. For someone that was born a girl, that shit make me fear for my fucking life. Now I know this does not represent street art and street artists but in Brazil this is way more common then I would like to admit.
yeah man
Brasileiro???? Nesse video??? (Ou brasileira nao sei)
@@GustavoGomes-nn5np brasileiros estão em todos os lugares kkkkkkkkk. É brasileiro mermo kjsksksksk
He’s lucky he wasn’t shot
That sounds fucking horrifying man.
I am a man and live in Mexico but I have a baseball bat beside my bed just in case; I would recommend that
I would add that legal graff is also part of the culture. Trading around slaps, getting down in blackbooks, and making canvases is also important to graff culture. It is a dynamic artform that belongs in personal collections too. I know this is a video about getting up, but I just wanted to bring up a part of the culture that is overlooked a lot of the time.
I am curious, obviously people condone this illegal act, which I still find wrong as its illegal, even if graffiti looks cool. But how could it be legal? Serious question.
@@kingoffire105 I listed three examples of "legal graffiti." 1. Passing around slaps to other people: which are typically hand drawn stickers, sometimes printed. Post office stickers are a common base for slaps. 2. Getting down in blackbooks: Blackbooks are artbooks that a graff writer will pass around to other people in their community to build a collection of graffiti put down on paper. 3. Making canvases: self explanatory, putting graffiti on canvas for the purpose of a personal canvas collection and trades with other graff artists and other artists. Hope that helps. I find all graff to be important, regardless of legality.
@@TinyGhosty Understood, and thank you for the info, and while graffiti is cool, breaking the law is not. But I won't be a Strickler about it, because at least they have standards, which is nice.
So can i paint over someones piece on a legal wall when i just wanna try it? I have no way of knowing if they're deceased either.
I live in a small city in North Carolina and we have a graffiti park downtown with a bunch of big boards up for people to write on. The rules are pretty open too: no hate speech, no gang references, no inciting violence, no profanity, but otherwise, fair game. I've seen everything from scrawled sharpie and grease pencil to throwups to suns and stick figures drawn by little kids to anti-government murals, and it all stayed there until someone painted over it naturally.
There's also a big retaining wall at the bottom of the highway ramp and for years there's been a huge graffiti mural there welcoming you to town. My city is actually really chill about graffiti as long as you're not being a dick about it
i wanna say something important to not tag mailboxes cause there was a 9 year old kid that went around with some cheap paint markers and put their toy tag on almost every mailbox someone called the cops on him and he got caught he got charged with a week of community service and a 4000$ fine i say its a bit too much with the fact on how much it cost but was still very disrespectful.
damnnnn true man, that’s a bad one
lmao sounds like my friend henry
Mailboxes are property of USPS and they don't take any sht.
mailboxes are federal property so it’s a worse charge if u get wrapped plus they get buffed in days
That sounds like something that happened in my neighborhood growing up. The kid did that with a paint marker on mailboxes, then went around to cars and tagged them up and stuck parking violation stickers on them - the really annoying ones that are almost impossible to get off. I'm not sure sort of trouble the kid got in but his family had to go around scrubbing off what they could they were so embarrassed.
my favourite thing in the entire world is to go on graffittis and write like ''jimmy did it'' and then i imagine the hypothetical beefs i might have started and i sleep peacefully
hahahaha
Oh man this takes me back to when I was like 12 and my mates and I went through a phase of graffiti. We "tagged" up this laneway that was just outside their houses, putting shit like "FTS" f the system in this ugly bubble scribble lmao. Our parents found out and we got an ear full and one of their dads had to powerwash it off. I even used to bring my mother down to the local skateshop that sold paint because he wouldn't sell it to me because I was so young and she gave the okay promising I wouldn't be spraying on things I shouldn't. We thought we were the hardest kids ever walking around with our pockets buldging out with massive sop markers and grog unbuffable ink just scribbling our toy tags on everything, even going into clothing shops changing rooms and tagging them up. Got caught once by the police in an abandoned building that we climbed over a fence and up in to, which we were standing in broad daylight on the roof tagging infront of passing traffic, we left all our paint inside and said we were just exploring, they took our names and sent us home and one of our friends older mates climbed in the next day and took all our leftover cans, which they were a lot of, all alien and montana gold.
Anyway sorry for the drunk ramble, wow ring white or whatever you said at the end lmao.
oh damn. yeah
Fucking dope comment man great story lol
Write a book about your story. I would definitely read it
Somebody should have beaten you silly for vandalising stuff! Maybe you would have learned a thing or two..
Adventurous
I have never been into Graffiti outside of the beautiful style and this video alone has really opened my eyes to what it is to be a Graffiti artist. There's so much talent, respect, chivalry, history and it's all so amazing. There's probably people who have been doing it for a year and people who have been doing it for 10 years.
Do you mean chivalry?
@@guts1258 OMW ty sincerely. That was so embarrassing I didn't know.
@@krow1551 what did it used to say
in one of the backstreets of my downtown theres this wall that the changing building owners always commissioned graffiti artists to spray a giant piece for,, when i was little it was of a giant robotic praying mantis. i wish i remembered the artist’s tag ( the coverup burners were never better ), but it kept me fascinated about graffiti and the idea of art for and by the community. thank you for this video!
oh man!
and thank you for watching it
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Basically, never do any graffiti that would cause most reasonable people to start to hate graffiti artists, and their art.
yeah
Most of these are common sense, but literally no one has that nowadays
@@lieutenanteclipse9975 exactly man! Which is why PART 2 Of This video is a must!
@@lieutenanteclipse9975 If no one has common sense anymore, wouldn't you want more people to have uncommon sense?
@ well if you put it that way…
As you're someone quite experienced with tagging, I have a really specific question to ask you. As a New Yorker, mainly around NYC, I always see an absurd amount of graffiti of a little gingerbread man. I have no clue if this has any meaning, like some underground artist's tag/signature piece, but I see gingerbread men all over New York randomly. If anyone has any info on this, please inform me about it, since I couldn't find anything on Google, and I'm super curious about who it is that makes all these gingerbread men!!
ooooOo that sounds interesting! - there is someone in melbourne here where i live and all they do is paint banana peels, like no name, no nothing, it’s awesome and very mysterious
or lions on fences
Where I used to live, it's Verkron. No info on Google either
in my city i see this tag with a distinct simplified type cat around
and usually "CAT" with it too
and its always very distinctly written with a brush too
and similarly i cant find anything about it online which is a shame
ive already seen one of them get removed at the bus stop by where i live
@@youfosignhere we have something like this around here too- it's a little cartoon sheep type thing, kinda like xiyangyang from an old chinese cartoon, and the thing about this tag is that the artist always puts a line of them across the bottom of their work- you'll see like eight of these tiny things just dancing along below a big bubbly word. I think it's adorable
As someone who has friends that do graffiti (and has the joy of watching some walls in my neighborhood get updated with their new art every now and then), thanks for this video!
That is awesome! and thank you for watching it bro!
your friends are arseholes
I don't think I'd ever get into graffiti myself but I've always appreciated seeing all the creative colourful works when walking down by the railway. Much better than plain concrete. I love seeing stories unfold over brick walls and concrete slabs. Rivalries, beefs but also memorials to lost friends, expressions of creativity and wicked collaborations. It's modern day cave painting, keep our cities and suburbs colourful
Near where I live, there's a memorial for a girl. Her name was Linn, and she was the average kind girl. She had a toxic boyfriend that was super controlling, never let her do anything. One of the few things she could freely do was graffiti, and she loved doing it. She was respectful with her graffiti, made some beautiful pieces, and only did it in places where it wouldn't need to be removed. She had this one signature, that always stood out from the rest of the names on every known graffiti wall. However, one night Linn got into a nasty fight with her boyfriend. He ended up stabbing her in the arm, but she managed to get out of the house and drive away in her car. He drove after her and crashed her straight into the wall of a building. She died in the crash. Linn's friends, despite not being too into graffiti, made a beautiful tribute to her with the words "For Linn!" beside it. It's been there for years now, and occasionally people will leave a quick "R.I.P" beside the tribute. Well, then comes this tough guy a couple years back. He claimed he was a "Bad boy" and tried to be cool. Well, he decided it would be a great idea to paint a huge detailed penis over the middle of the tribute and wrote "Linn's boyfriend was in the right. Women are bitches." Then one day when he came to school again, he had a bunch of bruises and a black eye and he was wearing lots of bandaids. A group of graffiti artists had absolutely beaten him black and blue, and had targeted all his pieces wherever they could find them and painted another memorial for Linn over each of them. The bad boy tried to ruin those too, but they all got fixed again withing a week. Now there are memorials for Linn all over the city, and even some in other cities too. It's beautiful to see things like this happen.
I think the reason graffiti gets such a bad rep in society is because its a form of art we don’t try to consume naturally. Unlike traditional art in museums or music on streaming, where we consciously decide to engage with that art, graffiti can be anywhere and appear at the most mundane places. It can be off putting to see a wall you walk past every day suddenly appear full of incomprehensible tags. One person can enjoy “ugly” art if they wish to, but not if they are forced to.
that’s a very good way of looking at it, thank you for commenting !
I never thought of graffiti in this way. You unlocked a new perspective on the matter for me.
Or, graffiti gets a bad rep cuz people break the rules.
I grew up knowing graffiti only as vandalism because of tough guy wannabe criminals tagging houses in the neighborhood without consideration.
The ugly tags are probably what hurts the scene most tbh
Ugly tags, put on homes and store fronts and churches
That's probably what most people have in mind when they hear graffiti, since that's the most common form.
The few good pieces my city had are now tagged over and ruined by beginners that don't know what their doing or don't care about it.
Or a local sports fan club who would've most likely even gotten permission from the city, but they didn't even ask and made something okay looking but very very big very prominent in the city and that just didn't go well at all
They didn't have the skill for those spots and the city knows exactly which 10ppl to go to about it
It's just bad impressions like that that taint the public image of something that could be quite wonderful
how do you feel about advertising? that's way more offensive to me. I don't get a choice to see it AND these people are tryna sell me something. Such a scam man
Please don’t tag over the bus timetables at bus stops 👍 people need them
man that is so true !
I love the gta grafitii missions. It helped me remember the rule: never go over a gang tag in their hood or pretty much do any tag in a hood unless you are in it or are in a gang and are willing to risk it. (Because the cops are the least of your worries at that point because at least the cops won't shoot you on sight for it)
idk ive seen cops do worse for just graffiti.
Ah, the memories from Los Santos
For number 3, we had a jerk toy named Smokey who would tag his crappy tag everywhere, even on pieces and murals which were wayy out of his class. We are a very small town, but have a lot of murals painted in our downtown, which he painted on. My mom's workplace has a dumpster with Smokey's tag on it. I also talked to some other people in the surrounding areas and they said they had some experiences with him tagging on their garage. To new graffiti artists and taggers: DONT BE LIKE SMOKEY!
damn it smokey!
Scp 973 vs that guy
bad smokey!
Tagging dumpsters is generally chill, it's city property. Everything else is toy as fuck tho
Another unwritten rule: Don't leave a work unfinished, unless you're sure you can get back to it fast make sure you're satisfied with the result
so true !!
may i ask why
@@elcaa2064 it's just shitty, bad image, i have a piece on the tracks half way done because i ran out of silver and also needed a stool but it's on a stairway pretty high up so I just couldn't finish it that night, also left a sketched out piece in another spot in front of that one to do it whole some other day, just be careful when and where you leave your work unfinished like OP said unless you're sure you can get back to it fast to finish it
Been watching for about a month love the vids and graff info definitely helps us 6 month beginers
thank you so much bro, i’m glad you have stuck around to watch and learning something
I do not do grafiti or know anything about it, but I remember there was a really popular and common grafiti artist here for a couple of years, his signature was very common, then he drew his signature over another grafiti artist’s painting (it was a well done portrait) and ever since then his signature disapeared, even on nearby cities, thanks this video explains alot, as a fellow artist I think it was deserved
Another unwritten rule is that as a new graffiti artist you should reuse your space to improve, I think graffiti brings a sense of culture to the area. But I hate going around and seeing awful graffiti just taking up space, like as if the people just drew some lines on paper and threw it away.
that is so true man
I think this video made me appreciate graffiti culture more! I also didn't expect that the scene would be more close-knit than I thought, just in general a very illuminating video!
i appreciate those kind words bro thank you man!
I’ve always been into the more forgotten areas, the kinda zones that city infrastructure forgets about and builds over/around. I’m into urbex and I’ve seen a lot of cool graffiti pieces that probably nobody other than the artist who painted it has seen. There’s this one block in my city that has a back alley completely cut off and inaccessible, it’s one big horse shoe shaped building capped by a long skinny building which creates a donut shape, and in the centre is this forgotten fire escape paradise filled with bricked over windows, slanted staircases leading to ancient looking doors, and huge old graffiti pieces. Only way in was to climb a gas pipe onto the roof from the side walk, then climb down one of the fire escapes into “the pit” It’s a very cool feeling to find a place like that.
Holy shit, I didn't realise how deep the graffiti lore is, now i want to learn about the famous writers in my town, all the beefs and what not. That is honestly so interesting, thank you for this video man!
oh man thank you for watching!
Media and popular oppinion tell you graffiti is just mindless scribbling and ego chasing or gang related bullshit, in reality about 90% of us are just really passionate about it, yes it's illegal we might go to jail for it, but we know we're not harming anyone, we're giving out a message and decorating the sad world we live in right now, i think if anything graffiti is the least of problems we have right now, worldwide. After the rest is solved, clean graffiti, meaning don't let kids randomly buy spray cans, and differentiate a kid's scribble from a real writer tag, which still I undertand might not be in the right place, but it's not just random doodling. Takes years and years to develop flow and a good looking tag, years to do pieces years to understand throwies. Honestly if you like this stuff I recommend you get into it, not doing it but watching if you enjoy so, there are lots of graffiti short movies out there and lots of really good writers producing and putting out good work on the internet, if you're into the culture.
Not a a "rule", but as a rail worker, it would be cool if the numbers etc on the bottom of train cars could stay clear.
if they are not readable, the train car will go out of service and your Work will be completely erased before people can see it.
same applies for historic rolling stock, where graffitis usually get removed within 48 hours
great video, man!
you've made everything crystal clear
there is a big mural dedicated to a tragically passed musician on one of the historical streets of our city. his music has been an enormous part of our culture and, well, this place easily can be called a memorial.
it's so sad to see his face slowly fading under all of the tags and just outsiders' "i've been here" stuff. so disrespectful.
thank you man! and oh :/
get a picture from when it was fresh, the original mural i mean, try to find a writer or any artistic painter and contact him to renew it, and tell anyone who comes close to defacing it to piss off and never come back. I love graffiti i've been writing for years, I have a friend who sadly passed away on his own terms a the train tracks and I can only imagine how I would feel if I saw his unique and now limited work be disrespected like that, as well as any memorial for anyone that passed away, unless it's some nazi scum i guess
As someone writing a character that does some graffiti, this is very useful! Really interesting to hear about all the rules of going over someone else's work, I'll keep that in mind
i’m really glad you took something from this video!
It seems that nobody in my country follows these rules...
There's ugly, ilegible, scribbles everywhere in our main city. Churches, houses, statues, the sides of bridges, everywhere.
I can't say that there aren't good works out there, but most of those are also covered with brain-dead calligraphy.
There's also a graffiti that pops up everywhere you go here, no matter the province lol. It reads: "no tan rico chemita" or something.
you’ll find some people just don’t wanna follow the rules :(
i wonder who chemita is and why that person is telling them not so rich now
Pieces go over burners, burners go over throwies, and throwies go over tags. Now there’s straight letters. I’d go over a straight letter with a burner.
whats the difference between pieces and burners
@@99rangepuur A burner is just a really big intricate piece usually. They take loads of effort and shit so I would go over them.
As a traditional and digital artist, it's so interesting to see the different cultural standards and norms in this community.
Obviously in other art forms it's rude to draw over someone else's art, but it's completely different in graffiti, the digital art version of a throw up going over a tag would be probably be considered art fixing, one upping, or in traditional art, painting over. At the least it would be considered mean, and at most incredibly disrespectful to the other artist and be seen as trying to humiliate the other person using your skills. I also find it interesting how graffiti isn't permanent (mostly) and that graffiti artists aren't afraid of that, and work with it anyway. I'd be terrified to try
So convering up or working over somebody else's work is socially acceptable in the graffiti community, but leaving parts of the graffiti underneath yours showing or tagging over a throwup is considered starting beef or being disrespectful, doing the OPPOSITE in traditional and digital communities is what's considered disrespectful, as it's seen as theft if you don't give credit, I find that really neat
Also, wow, ring light!
Understand the local culture. Someone moved to my hometown for work last year and tagged the salmon mural. The salmon mural has a bunch salmon swimming in the local river with an apple tree in the foreground. People were pissed. Graffiti isn’t really a big deal where I live, but no one has touched the salmon mural since it was painted by the class of 2000. That’s because salmon and apples are held in VERY high regards where I live. We have a week long celebration when the apple trees bloom, and year round apple related activities, because apples are a main source of income in my town. When the salmon come up river to spawn the schools have a three day weekend. I was born and raised in my hometown and honestly have no idea why salmon are such a big deal. They just are. The guy came back a few nights later, and because the people in my town are crazy there was a guy staking out the mural for the soul purpose of getting a picture of the guy if he came back or the next person that wanted to tag it. Honestly surprised he wasn’t left hog tied for the police to find in the morning.
He ended up getting fined, but it’s not smart to piss off the entirety of a small town, where everyone knows everyone within the first month of moving there. As for the mural, some of the people who originally painted it still lived in the area, and were able to repair it, but it’s not perfect.
Honest question- do you live in Western Washington?
@@ColoradoStreaming Are we that special?
@@thathorsegirl5088Apples plus salmon is a giveaway because Washington apples are a thing and the Pacific ocean is right there
@@KaitouKaiju Fair enough.
I've got a bit of a love hate relationship with grafitti, as a few pieces that I've done (commissions and personal work) have been tagged in disrespectful ways (purposefully covering faces and important features of the art) I don't mind seeing tags at the bottom or in areas that aren't central to the piece, I kinda like it actually, it almost feels like a collaborative piece with a stranger, but sometimes it can feel disrespectful
Sorry for the rant, super interesting video btw!
I don’t have any experience with graffiti myself but when this video got recommended to me I had to watch it- it was super awesome learning about a subculture I previously had little information on, amazing video!
so glad to hear that bro! i’m hoping other videos that i have will be just as interesting as well
i appericate you, thank you for watching!
This is pretty neat. I don't know much about graffiti but I've always admired graffiti artists (excluding the ones that write on private property) and love seeing all the art on the sides of trains as they go by. Honestly way more interesting then the bland logos on the cars, it's like a moving art gallery!
thank you for watching, i’m glad you found it interesting!
I’m more of a traditional artist but I absolutely love seeing graffiti art! I think it’s a lot more interesting than bland walls when people put thought into it, and it’s wild to me that it’s so criminalised 😭 This was a cool video, I’m glad UA-cam recommended it
that’s so good to hear! thank you for watching and commenting
If it was decriminalised, most of these people would stop doing it. It's the fact that you're being naughty that they are interested in
I have a passive interest in graffiti and am fascinated with writing and its culture, but don't regularly follow it. glad this popped up in my recommended. One of the first friends I made in college was a painter who was also super into graffiti and sticker slaps (dunno if this is the right terminology but w/e) and showed me style wars. still one of my favorite documentaries of all time. fast forward two years and I'm doing an art history semester abroad program in the UK with a small group of students taught by my university's music director. turns out the music director is a personal friend of henry chalfant (5:52) and was able to get him to come speak to our class for two hours in the living room of one of the flats the school rented about making style wars, 70s-80s nyc graffiti culture, and anecdotes about the people featured in the doc. he was a super personable guy and a vivid storyteller. I was never anti-graffiti but hearing his stories really humanized the individuals passionate about their culture and solidified my respect for what they do.
Even though I don’t have any plans on actually making graffiti, I still love learning about it. Just seeing all the graffiti on trains and other things on my way to and from work is probably the best part of my day.
Thank you so immensely much for taking time out of your day to watch this video.
i noticed it’s gaining traction amongs people who dont have the slightest interest in graffiti, And i’m glad many of you found it interesting & took the time to actually watch it till the end.
I appreciate it heaps, thank you for being here and hope you have your self a fine day!
- Youfo
It was a great video so no regrets! :)
This vid was fire bro! I can't explain it, but I loved it!
You're welcome. It was a really insightful video. Although I clicked on the video out of plain curiosity, I do have fair interest in graffiti, but that's the same for a whole lot of other things.
@@Cheeckenthank you !!
@@emmetlorenz4393thank you heaps bro!
Been watching you for a while great tips I started graffiti 5 months ago and it’s been way better with ur videos stay safe bro happy graffiti days
man thank you for watching, glad you watching!
I’ve never thought about graffiti at all. Had no idea it was such a culture, and I have much more respect for it now. This is so interesting. Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
As someone who doesn't do graffiti, this is great knowledge to have when doing writing for a world. Knowledge like this helps writers bring imaginary worlds to life and also it's really cool. Cool to know this stuff. Thanks mate.
Thanks for the heart.
I've been in the game for a while. Where I'm from the burner never goes over the piece hence the word piece, masterpiece. The piece trumps all. It might take someone an hour or two to do a burner but it takes anywhere from four to eight hours to do a piece. It should go in this order, tag, hollow throwie(toss up), fill in throwie(toss up), burner, then masterpiece. What do ya think?
yeah man i feel you, it’s sometimes difficult
I agree.
Here’s my jibberish. Been really working on my handwriting and drawing since I found your channel a month ago. Your knowledge is invaluable and greatly appreciated. Will be ordering my bible today. Wow ring light
thank you for your jibberisj that turned out to be not jibberwish at all , thank you for being here bro!
I've always admired graffiti. I love the look of the detailed and colorful designs. When I was a kid back in the early 70's I remember sitting in the car with my family driving into NYC for the first time. We all noticed the train cars and buildings with graffiti on them. To me, these were colorful and amazing works of art--nothing like the scribbles I saw on the buildings where I lived. My family was shocked, and kept saying they should catch the artists and arrest them for defacing public property. I was afraid to disagree and tell them I thought they made the ugliness of the city look better. I still feel this way, and I'm happy to see that this is still a thriving art form and that there are rules!
As a writer I can say we really appreciate people like you man. It's just what it is, believe me no one wants it to look better more than ourselves, its our piece of work, whenever anyone says "hey that's cool keep it up" or simply likes it, it always drives to paint more and improve to give out better looking productions we do this thing for fun, passion and because we like it, so if anyone else can like it aswell that's just another win. Bless my dude
Komplimenti,na jednostava i razumljiv nacin objasnio si sto ljudima nije ni postojalo a kamo li da su znali sto to prestavlja!!!HVALA!
thank you !
Wow - I had no idea of the culture and rules surrounding this art form. I rode the train into NYC daily for years and saw some pretty amazing art. I think it's really cool that there is respect amongst the artists and that it's not just a free-for-all. Thanks for making this video!
The guy that did a throwie on the memorial had to be way down bad, keep up the great videos love them really inspired me to start tagging and designing things like sketches and stickers so its been a really big help!
wow ring light 😉
you got that right bro, what a crazy man
and thank you heaps bro!
Y’all talk so strange-like.
In my neighborhood there are a couple of garages all next to each other. I got used to the big piece people put up there (it spanned the entirety of the building) and one garage owner changed their door to a brand new one. Took 3 days until someone closed the gap. They really thought they could keep a white garage door in a building that had one big piece all over it.
yeah some spots like that are just gonna get painted
You’ve made my essay on the code of ethics and habits of graffiti artists so much more easy
legend glad i could help!
Prior to watching this video I didn’t know a single thing about the graffiti culture but now I’m invested to find out more. Awesome video!!
Thank you so so much for giving it a watch!!!
Hey man just thinking of getting into graffiti, but probably only on paper. Thanks for recommending the Bible I’ll look into it. One unwritten rule I think is to clean up after yourself. Don’t discard cans randomly.
thank you man! - and yeah Just have fun with it man
I'm also one of the "blackbook-and-tagboard-only" crowd. I'm too old to run and in my location, writers are NOT popular, so people tend to use pew pew sticks first and ask questions later.
@@laowaistudieschina7470 oof
Finger prints on cans, no brainer. Also, wear gloves.
i really wanna get into Graffiti aswell, im also gonna find that book!! ❤ goodluck
Love your channel! If anybody sees this comment I hope your graffiti evolves into the best flow you could possibly put out
thank you heaps bro!
Or alternatively you could just paint on your own property. If it isn’t yours, don’t fuck with it.
yas
Heyo Youfo! I’m in art class at school currently making a clay project, and we are making a graffiti set, some trains and a skate bowl and we are going to paint it with tags and making a frog based on your character! I’ll post a video when it’s done. (BTW: This is BorneoFlow, if you remember)
nice man enjoy that, that’s creative as!
i had no idea how deep graffiti was.
really interesting stuff thanks
glad to enjoyed! thank you for watching
As somebody who will probably never do more than a sharpie on a bathroom stall. This video has been very helpful
you legend !!
There is one thing I did when I was a kid, I used to grab like four or five leaves and write M- on a wall for all of my middle school years, I knew that if you keep doing it, it will basically stay on their forever. So far no one has taken it down so major win
Next to my house is a dried up river path, in it, it's *very* common to see graffiti. It is quite literally covering every inch of the place. Anyway, one time when I was going past, I saw someone made a new work, which was very big, over a corner of the wall that was less populated and had like, beginner training doodles over it. I fell in love, that thing looked awesome!! It was a big skeleton lying down horizontally with a pair of sunglasses on. It had vines all over it and was fully shaded with a background. I was quite very angry when I saw some band of laughing teenagers painting over it to leave their nick-name (I apologize for not knowing the correct terminology). Ever since then, we never got a painting as cool as that one in my opinion. It's really a shame.
:( damn man
Teens have no respect for better artist. that or they could be day one toys (beginners) who just dont know better.
I’m getting up there but I knew them as “taggers” back in the 90’s. I knew a few ( I wasn’t one) and always admired their work and how discreet they actually were.
legend !!
Next to our school is an underpassageway(?) and theres a lot of graffiti there but last year the principal had painted over EVERYTHING because he didnt like the graffiti but over the months it has all came back. I love it😂
Theres also a train platform near there too and like another commenter said, i adore the graffiti on the trains too, its really fun to look at while walking to school :D
heheh it does LOOK fun
Im my town in the uk we have a local artist who is commisioned to make art by the town. So far theyve made 3 absolutely beautiful underwater tropical reef scenes on the seafront and have really livened up the local aesthetic. Even though its not strictly graffiti ive now found a new appreciation for graffiti culture and art. Thanks for sharing this with us!
Always loved seeing good looking pieces in “boring” parts of town. Adding life to the place. I have always hated seeing tags though.
so true
there’s a legacy piece an artist did for his last piece that’s been up since before i can remember,, never been gone over in 20 years
That’s respect right there bro!!
I knows nothing about graffiti culture before this, but knowing it has all this history and lingo, almost like a language of its own...
Its not something I think I can join, but it leaves me with a yearning to do so.
I’m glad you watched ! thank you for watching and i’m glad you took something away from it as well!
Thank you for this video dude, I am doing a presentation on graffiti for my art class and this video helped me learn a lot about the scene you take part in, thanks a lot for doing these vids
Glad I could help, thank you for watching it!
I have always felt like artist with a social message they want the world to experience, are not taking enough advantage of the giant canvases that are open to them. It probably has something to do with monetization
mmm
If it has a social message is not art
woah, i never realised graffiti was a whole scene- i thought it was just people mucking around with paint
thats pretty interesting!
thank you for watching!! you learn something new everrry day hey!
Hey, you should totally do a graffiti PPE video, you should explain what to wear when going out.
Another question is it worth using a 3M mask to stop the inhaling the fumes?
hehe good idea thank you, and yeah it’s for sure worth it
Where i live we have a place where yearly someone can grafity on a large AF wall (atleast 20m lenght)
But its private property and u need to pay to "rent" it and for the paint that will go over it next year
Its nice to have something like that and it does keep vandalism to minimum
oh yeah a legal wall
0:56 that was actually sad because the crew “wkt” who tagged there is a local crew in my city and I enjoy their pieces but this was too far..
oh true :/
I’m a huge fan of graffiti art, I’ve only ever thrown artwork up in my own property, and on my stuff, or from places I’ve had permission to do so. I’m not noteable at all, I’m fact I don’t post my art anywhere (on the graffiti side) anyway, I got a bit side tracked, so here’s my point. This video was well put together, and I enjoyed it as a hobbyist.
The cap throw up during the rule about what goes over what was pretty funny to me
hahaha
I remember that one of my favorite parts of going downtown when I was a kid with my parents was seeing the colorful graffiti around the city. I think that it reminded me of stickers. My parents would complain about it, and I didn't get why. This video has prompted me to search for information about local artists, which is quite an enjoyable rabbit hole.
"learn your history" easy to say if you live in america , it's basically impossible for me to learn anything about older(and better) artists without personally knowing them
yeah man it’s hard.
I came up with a tag signature. Loan $hark, I don't know why, but it sounds cool to me.
Two rules I personally follow are: never do slurs, and always try to hide behind the canvas.
nice man
that's so lame lmao
@@gir2005 damn
You made a pun with a symbol n I hate you for it
Nice work homie, my equivalent would be ParaFox
I showed a bunch of ur vids to my friends that are starting graffiti, they found it very helpful. Cheers man!!🎉❤
thank you heaps for doing that bro
What lettering does a beginner use to design a piece?
I have a homie that passed away in 2007 and sometime before he passed he did a piece on a popular spot that taggers go to and he dated it (2007) and it's still there to this day, untouched. That's respect. R.I.P Odin, AIC
Being in the hip hop culture I am willing to explore more of it. I've never been in touch with the graffiti scene. When I was very little I thought it was a straight up bad thing, than I saw stunning pieces of art on the town park's perimeter and I was genuinely impressed. My mind struggled. "They are great, but is it right?" then I learned there is a place where to do it and now I'm even learning there's an unwritten message to the action you can do with a work of art in a public space. I'm still in an early phase tho, I'm only gonna look around, but I got intrigued on letter writing and I'm practicing on it, in fact I already made a design I digitalized and gonna put on a snapback. The visual effects you can get with just simple techniques are truly amazing.
I just really love graffiti, and started trying to get a nice tag, I'm struggling a bit, but I'm getting there. I love how graffitit is not just vandalism, it's art and expression and brings a lot of people togeter.
Sadly I live in a small town and there are no serius pieces, ot's mostly some people that like to tag around or pieces on trains coming from other places, but I hope I will get where there is a full history still going on about graffiti, one day.
Something funny is that I came up with a decent piece more similar to a trowie before having a good tag. Still I don't have the possibility to do something big: I just try on paper and maybe use markers for little stuff on bus stops or similar.
I just realized this video is a bit older than I expected so I don't think you'll read this, but that doesn't really matter, just keep on doing what you like, guys.
i see it ^_^
It's not often that I find graffiti, but I appreciate the pieces that catch my eye, and take time to look at them because it's likely I won't see anything like it again. Don't have any interest in doing graffiti myself, but I look forward to learning more about graffiti culture from your channel when I have the time. Maybe I'll pick up on the hidden cues and history behind the local graffiti art I might find.
legit ! thank you for watching !