How Did You Get Into Graf

[Special_K]

mah bad. :P

infact as an apology use this name i was thinking about.
KARMA its and original name and it has some deep meaning to me and i would use it but since im known for "SPK" and Special K i'll stick w/ it.

[Feliks]

I wanted to start graff when I was 5...I didn't know waht it was called then...but I wanted to do it.
We used to pass the tech wall a lot on our way for ban mi.
I loved every inch of it.
Now i"m doing it.

[SALVO]

Why the fuck do you keep calling yourself white?...that doesn't have anything to do with this. You got to have the right motives. You got to understand that you can't just beat up cops when you get rolled on painting. You get fined, sent to jail, community service and such.

[WhiteToy]

Again, it's all cool.

Yeah, no shit. I'm not that dumb. If I want to ever put my tags up, then shit, I gotta watch out for cops. They are not gonna let me just walk away if I drop my shit and hold my hands up in surrender. I'll be treated like any other criminal. Cuffed, thrown into the back seat, and gone, all the way to the station, then to prison or jail, whatever I get stuck with. That's the life. To quote Trane from that game "If they catch you, it's a rap. If they don't, then be ready to run, forever, and ever and ever and ever and ever"

Reason I keep saying white. Just to say, that white people are not the wisest mother fuckers on the planet. That, and I just say it. Maybe as a way to excuse myself for being so dumb about graffiti

[WhiteToy]

Originally posted by Special_K@Jun 22 2006, 12:29 AM
mah bad. :P

infact as an apology use this name i was thinking about.
KARMA its and original name and it has some deep meaning to me and i would use it but since im known for "SPK" and Special K i'll stick w/ it.
Special K. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'll go right to work on praticing the tag, then show you whatever I can turn out in around a week.

[Special_K]

please dont ruin it though. take ur time and get a style ur proud of.

[SALVO]

Its important to have the right motives, do graffiti for yourself and don't worry if you get "dripz" the first few times you use paint. Your "street cred meter" won't activate until you enter the cheat codes.

And another thing, don't disgrace the race. Its ok to be white, we're have smart people and we have dumb people in every race.

[NOMX]

the way i got into graff was kind of weird, i just turned to my friend 1 day and said "wanna do graffiti?" he says "sure. i dont give a fuck" and two writers were born that day

[mad ethics]

I started a little over a year ago because I picked up this underground hip hop magazine and saw some dope graf flicks and thought to my self, "I need a hobby, this is amazing shit"

So the next day at school during lunch I went to my friend asked him if he wanted to do graffiti and he was like "actually, I've been thinking about".

We then proceeded to do some really toy throwups in the school bathroom with a green sharpie. we thought we were hot shit :rolleyes:

[waster12.....]

that was what... yesterday?

[mad ethics]

yeah.... <_<

[brm08r6]

i like to draw and that was how i got in to it

[graffer that tags]

i only started like 8 months ago and i already sort of forget how i started, Well back then i was super into video games so when mark eckos game was coming out i wanted to play it so that kind of got me interested in it, then i saw this thing on the news that had a story about this kid in britan that said he had been doing a lot of graffiti, so then he got arrested and put on house arrest (or whatever its called) but he kept doing it anyways and got in alot of shit. But i think he didnt care. After seing that, i wanted to do graffiti. Also after getting addicted to graffiti, i dont really play video games anymore. so i guess graffiti stopped my other addictions.

[EaZy 1]

they just gave me a can said start writin

MOSTLY was because of FRIENDS

[EaZy 1]

they just gave me a can said start writin

MOSTLY was because of FRIENDS

[anarchy]

bye friends he means his pals TRANE, COPE2, and KRY-1. haha

[FIKS]

I started black bookin when i was like 8 cuz my baby sitter wrote and showed me his book and i thought it was dope,and the rest is history.FIKS

[DeapBfk]

i started a little under a year cause on of my friend got me into just tagging feces and dume shit like that then i started 2 get serious with it

[TAGurIT]

idk i always luvd it

[SaneKid]

I remember I use to drive down the main street of my town and look at all the graffiti, trying to read the names. Eventually I had discovered the art of tagging and always looked up to the dope handstyles around my town. Now I&#39;m writing with those guys :D

[Jo&Si]

i just wanted to paint my shirts.....and i looked for pictures on graff webs....
thats exciting , but i&#39;ve never dared to did so....

[Big TL Springs]

ive always been a big artist,,,,always drawed,,,created characters and surreal settings,,, my pot head friends always wondered what i could be able to do if my mind had some shrooms on me,, cuz i would come up with sick stuff,,,,it finally came in my senior year of High School, Always thought about getting up,,, but never liked to be always alone,, well on trip to a art contest at a college where a bunch of the best from each skoolz competed,,, me and my other dudes had some chalk just drawing on stuff,,,and we all looked at each other and said,,, yo we should go out and bomb some time my 3 dudes that i go with,, who call them selves Loki, Saint, (first 2 are thinking of a name change, Drix, and me the Mighty Mighty "Big T.L. Springs" . I didnt get into it just to tag my name,,,,I wanted to creat elaborat shit,,, and i hated how everyones tag was always the same style,,, and always had somethan like blah 0ne or any name with 1 or 2 at the end,,, not to say i got beef or dont like it,, i just wanted to differ my self and stand out,,,, my name which has a meaning behind it,, ended up kinda long for a name and i wanted to throw the best quality shit not just tagg you name and leave but i wanted to hit country underpasses by the turnpike and tunnels,, not just the streets and burbs but the rural too.

i want to create,,,,,,,by the way, i think my next graff piece is going to be from a previous project,, check it out.

[Big TL Springs]

whoops heres my next idea for a piece i did in art class

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/33281661/

[SoDamnFresh]

Got into Hip-hop music...my friend got me into graffiti... He bullshitted me into thinking he was this big writer from around our way called &#39;FINK&#39;. To prove it to me we went out on a mission on the tracks near my house and did a fink dub. Been doin it ever since...

[zeepaintor]

i was 8 , i looked down a long alleyway and saw what i thought was a nicely painted mural , i walked further down and saw the back area of this surf shop had like 4 burners and a full scale octopuss with orange goo dripping out its eyes entire backdrop was black with crazy space patterns and things , needless to say i was spellbound , for the next 5 or so years as years passed i started to notice some nice looking tags but mostly that one day when i saw the pieces and stuff thats what blew me away.
:P :blink: :)

[BoWnS4]

in a graffiti magazine that i saw an say,look your city like open book and read it

[clone20]

ART&#33;&#33; is how i got started ;)

[freeskier1292]

When i was really little, my favorite thing was to color in the coloring books with like disney pictures on them. From there i started drawing with crayons and shit and since then always had an interest in drawing.

at some point i started noticing the graffiti on all the overpass walls while driving on the highway. I thought it was really cool and I started remembering the names and got really good at able to read wildstyles and handstyles.

in elementry school i got into painting but everyone thought it was stupid and for girls.


eventually sometime in middle school i decided i was gunna write my name in cool letters and i made a fade with colored pencils similar to the fades you can have in word art. I wrote my name more and more and people told me it had a graffiti style and they thought it was cool. So i came upon this site, created my name and started my life as a graff artist.

[OpaK<<---]

Started out geekin around with Anime, haha thanks to my friend Paul...

Then my friend tim started showin me his Writers Bible...and i was hooked from then on, now im tryin to mix anime into my pieces. :lol:

[ENIGMA]

whats a writers bible.........

[gotmiak]

I saw graf on the streets when i was little, bought a pilot when i looked old enough and the voila

[OpaK<<---]

ENIGMA Posted on Sep 4 2006, 12:37 PM
whats a writers bible.........


Same thing as a black book, only a lot smaller.

like how you see those people all heavy into their relgion carryin around "pocket sized" bibles...Writers bibles fit in your back pocket no problem...^,^ Haha

[:ozone:]

Well i hit one spot randomly, my first time on a train. I had markers and an old spray can i stole from my shed. Then i just did what i could, and well i liked it and now im hitting planned spots randomly (no pattern)... i think i liked being a step ahead the police to be honest.

[TiMe.T.a.R]

Personally i was in Europe and i went a trains and always when I would pull in a station i would see all the good graffiti and then i inspired lol to do it and that the story <_<

[aerotagger]

Hah I didn&#39;t really care about graffiti or even really notice it much around town until I got Getting Up for ps2... I realized how interesting the graff life is.. so I started looking up things on the internet and then I got deep into it... yea :D

[Hektik-J]

Hah I didn&#39;t really care about graffiti or even really notice it much around town until I got Getting Up for ps2... I realized how interesting the graff life is.. so I started looking up things on the internet and then I got deep into it... yea :D

leave...now...fast&#33;&#33;...... run forrest ruuun&#33;&#33;&#33;.....






fuckwit <_<

[WolfBurrns]

Fuck.. I hate being part of the "Getting Up" generation. I think we&#39;ll always be looked down upon becuase of that stupid fucking game. Anway, I kinda just slid into it. I always drew and was always considered "artistic" by friends and family. Then I just moved from pictures to letters. I was just doing my real name then friends and it got to a point where I wanted to do more. I started noticing graff on my trips to Philly and started reading up on it. Decided on a name and never looked back.

[SIAH]

hmmm...a good friend of mine from school tagged and we had art class together and i have always been an artistic person and i got a peek at his blackbook one day and have been hooked ever since...

[TitsMcGee]

Just fell into the biz...

[Style Hommie]

All for the fame baby&#33; lol
I started when i was 12 my 1st (bombing) on a door at school and i got caught lol now im 13 but i stoped and restarted like 2 months ago...If enyone wants to give me tips it would be very apriciated (pm me)

[elcs]

I just saw freights and tags around town. I live by tracks and would always look outside to watch the trains go by. The art on it blew me away. Putting quarters on the tracks was always fun too...

[+HyBriD+]

friends that dont do it yrs ago got me into it+ seeing sum good stuff everywere in denver jus got me interested

[choke<3]

Met this writer, started dating him. I always liked graff, but he just started taking me around town and showing me everything. Then he started teaching me stuff, and he painted me this canvas that i loved. From then on i&#39;ve been loving it more and more. Now he&#39;s telling me that if i get up anywhere he will cap everything i do. He keeps threatening me and shit....well fuck you. I&#39;m getting up when and where i want. Do you really think you scare me?

"you created me, and i will be your destroyer"

[UMBlE]

cute story "choke<3" :P lol

me its friends that got me into the "game"

[Bruce_1nR]

Fuck Marc Eckos getting up...the streets are not for sale....in fact, fuck every marc ecko piece of anything that has graffiti on it.....

[DaseONE]

Walking to school way way back in the day in about grade 5 i would walk down this one ally that was literally raped everynight i would walk down that ally and see all the big writers in my city just get up and i kept watching for a few years then just decided to try, Theres not much to it?..

[KAL]

shiiiiit....it started way back 4 me..eversince i was little taking train trips to new york i always saw it on the side of the tracks and the colors fasinated me. also i always loved drawing and coloring and people always thought i was good at art. but wut reallly did it was seeing flix of some ill pieces in the back of the source magazine...and since then ive been in love....but im in desperate need of supplies.

[CANADIANA]

used to go to Halifax away back when fatso was still killing it, a few years afterwards i started writing

[Malicious artist]

my friend really got me into it, but id walk along the streets and see graff and say to myslef, ya i wanna do that stuff, and i thought it was real cool.

[G - Wahl]

Saw some shit around town, seemd intresting, got pencil + paper.

[Nibs]

My friend Davey.

[Sentile]

when me and my friend were both massive toys hes like "lets tagg our skool" so we did (thats was the first time i had tagged) went to some chicks house after got some action. went to skool on monday, got interigated by the Princeable, didint get caught tho :P :rolleyes: :ph34r: :lol:

[Think281]

Me and a good friend of mine have been into it since Middle School. We would go skateboard all over the place and always see it but never actually tried it. Then recently we got into it and found out that many of the people we used to skate with were writers.

["voice"]

i got into graffiti after i started hangin out with these bomb ass writers that i lived by as a little kid. i have always been into art but after i realized that u could switch out caps and actually control the paint that came outta the can it was on. all it took was a whole lottle fucked up looking tags and mad support from the older writers and the rest was history. now im not gonna say im good, but 2 me "good" is appreciating the fact that u just risked gettin swooped on by the fuzz 2 put up a personal expression of urself, fuck wat err body else thinks&#33;&#33;&#33; ne AKron writers holr back and lets show AK wat paint REALLY looks like

"voice"

[Gloo?]

I got the All city tag book and it went from there.

i tried copying alot of bombs and shit in there.and started making my own,came up with my own name and started bombin shit up.

[NoneOfThisIsReal]

First post after lurking for a while, woo&#33;

Anyways, I used to skate with a few of my friends every day for hours on end. It was ridiculous, we&#39;d skate for 10 or 12 hours a day on summer break, but it was a great experience (and taught me how to stretch my money out as long as possible :-P). We&#39;d always stare in awe at the huge pieces that artists had put up that we could see through the windows of the not-quite-underground subways on our way to a different part of the city. We even met an aging writer on the train once (he must have been 40 or 50), he did a quick tag on the seat in paint sharpie but he had a clean, consistent handstyle. I wish I could remember his name.

One of my skating friends was in a nonspecific gang (I don&#39;t like beef so I won&#39;t say which one) and was into graff. He got my best friend into tagging (and then later throw ups, and most recently after being busted for doing a throw up in broad daylight next to a busy road he&#39;s been buying blank skate decks and doing (good) stencil designs on them and selling them to all the little next-generation skater kids). After watching my best friend tag and do throw ups, and after going out with him and 1-2 other people and watching them tag/throw-ups in the dead of night, I got curious about it, made up a name, was bad at it, then decided not to pursue it.

Recently I traveled to Australia, and noticed the amazing stuff they have over there. Serious art, like landscapes on the sides of buildings and huge (6-8ft) characters in alleyways in the shopping districts. I got curious again, and decided to pursue it and not give up. I still suck, but I&#39;m working. For the past few weeks I&#39;ve been working on single letters and 2-letter combinations in a notebook, and I&#39;ve noticed I&#39;ve been getting better for once. :)

I&#39;m iffy on even buying paint until I get a decent sketch down - I want to have something laid out that I can transfer to plywood or something, and start practicing my can control with and all that good stuff. And even then, I&#39;m only going public with stuff I really like. I don&#39;t want to be that jackass that gets every little thing crossed out -- you know who I&#39;m talking about. Laugh if you guys want, but whatever.

[ONLY]

id been drawing up graff for a while but tagging a concrete storage thing with my dads leftover paint kinda amped me to like do it again ;)

[gcrolla]

in like 4th grade having my bus come to my school with a normel throwup on it. then like 2 months ago i started trying it.

[KrYlOnKiD]

i got into it thanks to some ex-homies i would kick it with them and shit then they were doin it i tried it became a toy kept it up and for that they hate me but i say FUCK THE HATERS&#33;&#33;&#33;

[case3]

my friend got me into it

[elshameo]

a hate for rules, and a deep passion for vandalism

[R.I.P.kost]

my brother is a few years older and when we were kids
the rents used to taKE USout on road trips to like cali and mexico and shit
saw all the ups on highways and shit in LA
then got home and noticed a wall in northvancouver by lonsdale cald esplenade
thats were virus,dedo,zlok and krewz used tosmash on a regular basis
then all a sudden my bro was rockin scetches with abuddy and it turned out to be dedoses brother and then he was getting down with kayos and icon and acrow
inschool most people dont know it but we all went to the same school even kids like kaput cameo and ranks all went there this befor those guys had established them selves as writers and since i was 3 years behind my bro i just always got down
my first freight was 97 i could never forget it&#33;
i met cosoe in the yard with my brother he told us the bull rolls in around 4
and we should bounce in the next half hour&#33;
and danm neAR 10 YEARS LATER
IM STILL KILLIN IT
HARDER AND BETTER THAN EVER BEFOR~

[DARK_ONE]

my cuzin long time a go........... :)

[757]

a can of paint i found in the grass by advanced auto parts.

[CaineDoc]

my dad wrote, my mom wrote, my uncles wrote, my aunt wrote, my cuzins write shit it just runs in the family

[sadis]

I&#39;ve always been into drawing shit. when I was 8 or 9 my brother told me to put up his skate crew with him and his friends...just tagging. I stopped after a neighbor saw me tag someones car and called the cops. I always noticed graff, but never understood it after that....then around age 15 my friend Idle showed me his first sketch &#39;cause he met a writer in art class. I figured what the hell, I&#39;d give it a try. I didn&#39;t think it would become such a big part of my life though.

[neza]

i saw a killer pecie one day when i was like 11 and was like wow i wanna do that picked up a pen and paper but never got that good but im still trying im now 19

[Chainsaw Gutsfuck.]

dunno really.. er.. suppose my mate got me into it.. then he stopped for bloody ages then i started.. :blink: and got caught. and when that blew over my mates started again.. :D :ph34r:

[Nitro_99]

a guy painted nice peices up ma local skatepark

a thot am gonna try tht

went home and started drawin then ma other friend started too

were still toys though haha

[seek861]

i noticed it on walls and though it was cool and now the love of the art and the rush i get

[ShIfTeD]

growin up in chicago seeing it everywhere....me always artistic...sein that shit inspired me to want to make shit like that if not better

dont live in chicago no more...but lived there till i was 15...been doin this street art shit for a good 5-6 years

[tesk]

MY FRINDS GOT ME INTO GRAF.

[DC_Crane]

Originally posted by ShIfTeD@Oct 19 2006, 04:21 PM
growin up in chicago seeing it everywhere....me always artistic...sein that shit inspired me to want to make shit like that if not better

dont live in chicago no more...but lived there till i was 15...been doin this street art shit for a good 5-6 years
I lived in Chicago until I was 18...what part did you live in?

[kila]

i was 7 and went to the diner with thw hole family and saw my cuzin carving shit in the seat next to me. then he did my name and ever since then it was on.

[kila]

i was 7 and went to the diner with thw hole family and saw my cuzin carving shit in the seat next to me. then he did my name and ever since then it was on. :D

[thegreatfrenchpoptart]

its sorto long but eh......

One day me and my friend were hangin out sleepin over and stuff at his house and i noticed he had loads of spraypaint in his garage which was his dads and i said lets paint our boards because we skate and all well he wasnt to into but i always loved the idea of it and all and next thing ya know next day he prints out stencils and went on here and got a blackbook and prismas and became obbsessed and i wasnt as much but now i am we got other people and a crew and we all sketch and have fun soo yea

[epikstyles]

one day i puked all over my face, and smeard it all over the wall. and my freind startd laughing. i took this as a compliment to what i had created. the ultimate form of art. and then it began

[Nitro_99]

what the fuck ^^^^^^^^^^

[stewa_sk8]

Originally posted by Dr. Coffee@Nov 30 2005, 03:28 PM
I lost a bet
:P :P

...
i can&#39;t remember ...
I saw some graff in capital city ... so I was like : "why doesen&#39;t my town have any of those ... " so , first graff was painted , and second one was just behind ... so here I am ...
I think thats the story ...
...

[taxus]

Marc Echo game. You can do mad graff tags innit...

[MARZ]

word, i remember i started graff in grade..ughht..10. I had two dumbass in my class that had failed grade 10 math like 3 times (they were much older then me) and i started hanging around them and one day in class buddy pulls out his blackbook and starts workin on a piece and i was facinated.. He showed me how to form letters and shit and i have been working and dropping bombs ever since. I have come hella long way from where they started me, but they were hardcore in throws and tags so i became hella good at my handstyles

[-GEKS-]

from the looks of ur sketch battle entry, u havent come 2 far...

[capo93]

Originally posted by taxus@Oct 26 2006, 05:15 AM
Marc Echo game. You can do mad graff tags innit...
wow im slightly dissapointed :P

[KoOl-AiD]

Originally posted by &#045;GEKS&#045;@Oct 28 2006, 02:25 PM
from the looks of ur sketch battle entry, u havent come 2 far...
BUHHH-ZINGGG&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;1&#33;&#33;

[SHOCK707]

just goin to underground concerts seein the magazines and thn looking around town finding graff all over the place ive decided to start

[TalibKweli]

you should decide to stop

[Juststreet]

i got in to graff cuz i used to just make a mess on busses like "YO KID DRAW "I LOVE JIM" ON THA BUS SEAT" kind a think and i already liked graff cuz of the letters and characters ........anyway i did a lot of These and i started to and some style to dem and from that i got a name and the story goes on anyway thats how i got into graff..

[shifty_ruc]

My bro was hella in to street art but I didn&#39;t really pay attention to it until I was like 13, than I was like "Holy Shit, This shit is tight". All it took was a sharpie, can of flat black speed enamle from the local ace and a mailla folder turned stencil.

damn was I a toy :huh:

[Bazer]

i got into to cuz i was walkin down the street one day and i saw this one ddude doin a legal peice so i asked him isn&#39;t that illegal (i was 10) and he was like no. sometime u get paid to do this. yeah. but i didn&#39;t really get seriouse about it till a few years but then i stopped and got seriouse again this year cuz i was into skateboarding most of the time

[The Black Sheep]

I First started getting interested in gaff when my brother pointed out ha-ha &#39;s ned kelly stencil and he explained about who it repressents and crap. but never knew how to do it, till this year when i saw the documentary Rash and got into stenciling more and started doing it.. till now that i am getting into writting after just trying to figure out a cool way to sign my stuff and looking at more of others

[[[-->FLiK<--]]]

ii GOT iNTO GRAFF CUSZ MY NEXT-D00R NEiGHB0RS MADE ME LiSTEN 2 SO MUCH RAP && OLD SKOO. SO ii STARTED EXPRESSiN MASELF THROUGH THE USE OF ART. MY BEST FRiEND WAS iNTO GRAFF ALSO SO WE BECAME PARTNERS EVER SiNCE. ii MAKE THE OUTLiNES && HE DOES MY FiLL iNS. iM WORKiN ON iNK SOON&#33; MY BEST FRiEND GOT ME MY 1ST BLACKBOOK. iVE STARTED GRAFF WHEN ii WAS 14.

["KASPER"]

When I was in 8th grade my friend went to visit his sister in Barcelona and he brung a shit load of graffiti photos. In art class thats all we would practice. Good Times

[[NESTER]]

i started graff when i was in like grade 7 and been painting and writing since...pretty much my buddies and just seeing dope graph on the block inspired me

[crac]

back in like 97 i took a trip into toronto and me my brother and my pops where on a subway and we came out of one of the tunnels and there was this huge wizard looking charactor overtop of some pieces i think and it was the crazyest fuckign thing i had ever seen then in my hometown small town i spent alot of my childhood growing up in before i moved to a city there was a jet bomb on an old gas station and i would see it almost everday and between the two thats what inspired me to start writing..

[triketra]

I made friends with these kids from a different school, and their basement is all painted by them. They showed me their blackbooks and I was like shhiit that&#39;s cool. So I came up with a name and a shitty tag, and I&#39;ve been into it ever since.

This other girl got into it because of the same kids, and we became friends and started a girls crew, and we&#39;ve been recruiting more girls into the graff scene.

[alcaholic]

juvy lot of time on my hands

[badxtc]

I got into graff cuz i hated this one kid and he wrote some ugly toy shit everywere and wrote ***** and fuck god on churches and shit and would get props for it by the kids he hung out with so i would just go around lineing him and eventually made a shit ass tag and whent from there

[gypsy rose]

when i first got into it, it was because of my uncle. he&#39;s only like 5 years older than me and one year he came down to visit for christmas and he was really into his graf and like he had a sketchbook full of all these pieces and stuff...this was when i was like 11 and i&#39;d try to write...and it didn&#39;t work... so i stoped. but like everywhere i went when i&#39;d see a piece i&#39;d have to absorbe it.. then like last spring i meet this guy who was really into graf. and he&#39;d take me painting and stuff...and i haven&#39;t stopped ever since.

[Syn_one]

Believe it or not, my 6th grade teacher.

[speak_to_spawn]

I am not a &#39;&#39;writer&#39;&#39; thats writes everywere, and do not like wake up at 3 0&#39;clock, for bombing. but I do somes and it was my friend(he is a bomber) that gave me the idea, but he doesn&#39;t like wath I do (I juste found myself writing, and I am not a super artist liks all of you&#33;&#33;)

[Gome-tron]

my friends brother..


He wrote Estro Around newengland

[oblivios]

just through seeing it all over the city and loving it...i skethced it for a while being an artist of all sorts...and than after chilling with my bomber friends began to understand the culture and how everything worked..than i eventually started painting and tagging and im luving it

[reivax]

a friend of mine got me into it.

[oblivios]

i hate kids who admit that they did it just cuz their friends did not becuz they wanted to and they saw their friends...but literally say that they are just following tools&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;............

[reivax]

I&#39;m not saying I&#39;m following a tool.

[oblivios]

lmao lol no worries..i just randomly say shit that pops into my head...u said "your friends GOT U into it" not "U got into it BECAUSE of ur friends"
c the difference...

[faime]

mah homies :D

[faime]

mah homies :D

[oblivios]

how the fuck do double posts like that happen??

[NosE2]

i just remember seeing this handstyle all over town, the kid was all city at the time, eventually it encrouraged me to start and i am now friends with this person i go bombing with him frequently

[crates]

aimlessly wandering down queen west & stumbling into graffiti alley, that place is crazyy.

[oblivios]

lmao niceeee....but how did stumbling in make you start?? ma bro just started bombing last month....he used to only be a flix man, took shots of all ma shit but know hees painting to :S hees progressin pretty fukin fast...i hope he never gets better than me, won&#39;t be that hard though ;)

[jez]

I was raised in south philly.. Seeing that shit ever since i was a lil baby.. always been in love. I was always drawing and shit when i was lil, But then i kinda forgot bout it... but i started gettin up when i was 12 or 13... then i took a hiatus, and came back when i was 15.

mhm.. got some good girlfriends into this shit too.

[oblivios]

thats good...fuck this site showed me that theirs alot more fukin girls into graff den i though there was...lmao gettin up at 12...u mean tags and bombs ryyyt?? cuz i dono anybody who was truely piecing till 15 at least.....

[jez]

mhm. throwing up dumb shit, I didnt get into actually TRYING to piece till i was 15.

[oblivios]

thats cool...same about trying got ma first good shit down when i was almost 16 though...lmao that throwup in ma thread be from 2 days after ma 12th bday...i remember it sooo well

[''HAZE'' *88*]

this stupid kid.. user name.. ILL :P got me partialy into it and his partner in crime LATE always talked about it.. so im like im doing it... :ph34r:

[''HAZE'' *88*]

snakes looks like hes 7

[hit em up]

I met ren in an art class he was teaching and he got me into it wen i was in like grade 7 or 8.

[AT AT]

i liked it in sf when i was a lad . cause i live in sj i go up alot and seeing other shit got me in

[-]|HaK|[-Backslash]

Originally posted by AT AT@Dec 24 2006, 05:05 PM
i liked it in sf when i was a lad . cause i live in sj i go up alot and seeing other shit got me in
i have always been into crazy stuff, but never specifically graf. but yea, my friend wanted to do it one time, so we went to town, now, im hooked


btw where do you mean by sj

[AT AT]

san jose california . bout an hour drive

[Nemz]

When i met the leader of the biggest crew in peterborough in england i been writing bout 2 years now so it all good

[speak_to_spawn]

My friend used to teach me the bad things(hihihihi), He is a awsome bomber, to my opinion, Then he got to graffiti, but he dosent want me to start cause he says: it destroys family, it destroys lifes and so on... I am not a so call bomber, i am more like a guy thatwrites on his stuff at school.

[east_van_tagger]

i started when i had the cops called on me for being load at a rec center and they said i would never amount to anything and that pissed me off so i thought il show u what i can do so i fukin hit up the whole rec center and then i saw it the next day and i thought that looks so bad so i set out to prove to my self that i can do better so i started sketching my nickname (twitch) and since then i changed my name a couple times (mak and some other shit) then i changed it permently to apex1 and thats my storie so far

[N-It]

A innate fascination about graffiti and a ride on the "Gatwick Express"

[C-money fresh!]

the art of storytelling and wanting to learn how to draw my name pretty

[PinZ]

I used to follow the train tracks and I bumped into a writer. He said "Don&#39;t start." Since then my life has changed. It&#39;s an addiction. I think its a mix of adrenaline and Xylene.

[revolt92]

Mark eckos getting up, seriously.

[SoldAsFreedom]

A real long time ago my friend showed me some graffiti he did and got some of us into it. Then I saw Style Wars. The rest is history.

[stewa_sk8]

Originally posted by C&#045;money fresh&#33;@Jan 20 2007, 09:14 PM
the art of storytelling and wanting to learn how to draw my name pretty
and , did you make it ??? :P :P :P

[letsg0skate]

I was just messin around on youtube lookin at my friends favorite videos and one was a throwup I dont know whos and I thought it was really cool so I watched more and then lol found bombing science Ive been lurking here forever just never decided to post until two days ago.

[Jroc1993]

Originally posted by revolt92@Jan 21 2007, 07:48 AM
Mark eckos getting up, seriously.
ya man i know i was interested in it but i didnt start till after i played that game



i think they are rite when ppl say that games give u ideas.&#33; :lol: :huh: :angry:

[bluntsthatarefat]

the wariors video game

it was just a thing to do then but i take it seriosly now

[TalibKweli]

Originally posted by SleepATK?@Jan 20 2007, 07:46 PM
i got into it cuz my boyfriend&#39;s into it. :wub:
graff whore
back to the kitchen ya go

[[breakout]-azer]

Originally posted by bluntsthatarefat@Jan 31 2007, 09:27 PM
the wariors video game

it was just a thing to do then but i take it seriosly now
well good cool way to get into it. i got into it by watching other people do it and wonting to get into it my self so i did.

[BIGel]

when i moved to the bay in high school. impossible not to be into it with
revok, norm, fate, vyal, else, ha crew stuff. all the good shit.

[wickedmainframe]

i&#39;ve always liked graffiti like since i was 11 years old i would always admire the burners i saw from the car just going places i usta think to myself "thats amazing how someone can make somthing look so good with just a can of sparypaint"

i remember asking in like 5th grade "can i go to the bathroom?" lol just going in there and bombing the shit outta it lol

[murdok]

half life 2(little things here in there in it). then i started noticing it around town, then i found spray paint in the garage.

[shoewon 305]

my uncle but mostly just whatching frieghts passing by ^_^

[sketch13]

maaan..... i remember when i was young i knew this guy who wrote for GFC a cru in toronto for those of you who didnt know and i saw him doing some shit on some cardboard box and i&#39;m like wtf is he doing but when i saw what he had threw down i was like holy...cuz this mans got skill... shit from that point on i awlays told my self i can do that and i will do that and this was back when i was styll a kid i&#39;m in grade 11 now i didnt really start writting till i was in about grade 8 i think it was anyways thats my story -peace-

[React!]

kinda wa he went thru ^ i seen this guy spraying on a wall with a mask on and my curious ass asked him wa was he doin he said graffiti i watched him untill he finished i was fascinated... lol

[Jason Voorhies]

i saw some shit on tv when this kid got popped and right then i knew i wanted that to be me.

[React!]

lmfao your a dumbass Jason...

[TylerDurden]

I was gettin blown by this baaaaaaad hoe who had graff on her hat.

there she was, slobbin my knob, and I said to myself

DAMN THOSE FILLS ARE NICE&#33;

rest is history.

[Stim]

Seeing pieces everywhere I went made me want to start.

[yoda]

well it all started when i was 3 i picked up a crayon and started writing on walls and from there on i developed skill and creativity..by the age of 13 i was hitting up at heights higher than you average rooftop..now i feel im to old for this shitt and as of the "toys" you mothafuggas are NOT worthy untill you&#39;ve proven, SKILL&#33;

[Darkeist]

accidently hit internet, but it was mainly from like..these friends that just do paper and they arent great but i thought they were at the time then i just drew on paper, then i met ekers.two.two online and he got me really into it

[Dalte]

Well in 7th grade I knew this kid that wrote and he rlly inspired me to start
He wasn that good but at that time to me he was he wrote Talnk
And that how i got into it and a year later i herd he killed himself .... R.I.P
Rlly sad but ya there u go

[that dude]

the streets, and seeing real illegal graffiti.

[capitol]

My brother mostly. And when i think it was last year i watched my brother and a couple of other guys do a freewall. It looked like something fun to do.

[meatsnacks]

my babysitter was a writer and an artist. that and most my family lives in the hood areas of the city so i noticed it alot when i was a lil tike, on the same streets of THAT DUDE. and i used to love watching trains never really connected it with graff until i did it tho.

[The OnE aND OnLY NeS]

my uncle nozey bear from YK

[Chulo]

i actually first saw tha movie" The Graffiti Artist", i thought the stuff in that was cool, then after that i saw " Bomb the System" then i started doin tags an thought i was tha shit til i got treated, on here an round my house.then i watched some movies of actual artists an read some boks an started from square one......

[daSkaM]

my friend wanted me to start since im good in art and now i am better than him :P well thats because he stopped:(

[ILuvHoodRats]

damn , i always wanted to do graffiti since im 11 years old .. naw i just met 2 writers in my class and they were always talking about bombing and shit , and i asked them advices and shit , found myself a name and started doing progress .. been 3-4 months naw?

[Excalibur]

Originally posted by Kustom@Jan 15 2006, 01:10 AM
My college teacher got me into it

one day were sitting in class and hes like "hey want to go do some graffiti" and i was like ummm sure

and thats how it started
oh Shit&#33; I need to go to college...what was the name of your school again?&#33; :D

[JEDI-MASTER]

I got in2 graff, for the release, to get away from the bitchin nd complaing at home it just like a natural high for me

[14nick]

my friend and his bro were doin it alot and my friend kept telling me storys of all this shit and i was like wow sounds dope. :)

and then they got caught :blink: if he even touched paint hes fucked.

but a couple days later he came over and we bombed :D

but i was super toy and i never did it on paper. so thats how i got into it :)

just like last month.

[MYND1]

my buddy emblems got me into it , n now my frenz are getting into it:P

[MESN[905]]

A kid in my english class got me into it.

[<SMK>]

One of my old friends got me to start writin, on my 9th b-day he tagged me name for me as a b-day present ever since then ive been put my shit out their...Come to think of it that was also the 1st day i smoked the ganji...wat a cawinsadence <_<

[devusdevil]

just pretty much loved it since i started realizing what it was then i started when i was about 13. my sisters ex was big into it and him and my bro used to go do it when we visited and id be mad cause i couldnt go. then i started sketchin then say la v

[Degausserr x]

Just seeing it everywhere I have always wanted to be able to, but never really tried. Then recently my friends started hittin&#39; walls and what not so I joined in on the fun.

[bonafied]

i&#39;ve always thought it was cool (like every kid who sees in on mtv shows and shit) but last summer i was at some pre-college course thing thats not really for smart people, but for minorities and the study skills course thing was based around "hip hop" which was really the middle aged white teacher showing documentaries, making us make hip hop dictionaries which was the biggest load of bullshit ever and giving us folded black paper stapled together and white pens and telling us they&#39;re our "black books haha but one day we went to see a local writer paint a free wall on a coffee shop, and i got into it from there

[oni.kin]

ok, here we go, i was working out on a pearl farm, so we had fuck all to do in our free time. so i was readin this FHM magazine, for all yo&#39;ll americanz, i dunno if u got it, but its like RALPH, basically, a mens magazine, but not porno...............................anywayz, they done a piece on banksy and his shit, and i thought it was the illest shit, so i bought the book "wall and piece" and dug that. so i went to school, one of the first days of the year, and my main **** was on stencil revolution, and i was like "ya&#39;ll ****, i been reppin that shit yo", and he was like "**** please, banksy is so not mainstream, he&#39;s mainstream, this is the real shit" and showed me his black book, and it went from there. fucken glad it happened too. have a lotta fun doin it. cheerz crozzy

[anon df-mb]

ive always been into drawing cartoon caracters but then as i got older i started to meet other writers and i jus found it interesting that you can jus pic up a can and turn a blank wall into a piece of art.and i love the fact its the only art movement created by teens.

"anons"

"df-mb"

[Flash_One]

my cousin

[tame345]

My dad works next to the train tracks and i would always sit and watch the graff on the sides of the freights and wondered what it was

now i know

[LostYouth]

I just started drawing one day and got into it...
the internet was a big part of my early days though...
now that i think about it i remember i once went on a forum and asked what a toy was.....hahahaha man that shit is gold...

[toke_wdc]

I would see my brothers tags all around town and I wanted to become bigger than he did....(sibling rivalry?)

[Synaesthesia]

Watched the movie RASH, it&#39;s all about stencils. Ever since then I&#39;ve had the urge to graff.

[rise_&_fight]

i got into it on my own. as a young kid (about 10yrs old) it was the late 1990s and i just started noticing the wild funky colours and styles and i loved it. alot of the big london crews where painting my area at the time, i didnt know what it was. graff wasnt all over the net like it is now, so i got to know about the scene and whos up etc by seeing it first hand. i also started to sketch at this time and as i learnt more about the scene and went out and took flicks i started to find my own style. after a few years hard sketching my style was to a high standard and i started to paint.

the lesson is sketch, sketch and sketch some more! only then should you even consider picking up a can. and if your only in it for the image or cant be pissed to practice.....just fuck off.....we dont want you!

keep pushing the style boundaries!

[~$dead presidents$~]

i was playin ball wen i seen a few kids from mi hood tagin up dis silver hut cross from the ball court( i knew the kids) i walked over n we started talkin bout it n shit n he let me catch a few tags wit his marker den ever since i been writin wit him

[Cham]

I was young and impressionable.....and one of the big names her in SF and the west coast got me into it and completely flipped my perspective on graff

[TTO.TC]

i got into graf when i went to europe and saw all that crzy shit i got kinda inspired lol... well that was when i was 12 but some shit is soo crzy... mostly germany

[Seek139]

haha TTO i love you...much respect to those in love with Germany
Myself i got into graff when i found out my uncle used to write in the "early" days

[TTO.TC]

haha TTO i love you...much respect to those in love with Germany
Myself i got into graff when i found out my uncle used to write in the "early" days

yo man thnx :cool:

[Capable1]

i had a dream one night like 3 years ago that i seen some people doing graffiti..woke up n started looking at flicks on the net and just started sketching..i never stopped after that

[whahappen?]

fag^

[[breakout]-azer]

i got into it realy from seing lots of the kids at skool with tags on da bags. i researched it on da internet and came across bombingscience n thats were my graffiti realy started by readying the new to graf thread on the toy forum and going from there.

[Genocide]

I got myself into it really. I listen to metal and everything and barly any rap. But I seen some nice ass pieces around in the city near my place. And always had a love for art. And seeing nowadays how everything is so fuckign censored the only way for anyone to express themselfs anymore is through illegal shit. And I had an atteraction to all the hard work and practice that goes into graff.

[sketch3]

with a name like genocide you cant seriously try and tell me youd be a positive member in the graffiti or any other comunity

[bountyhunter113]

wen i was a lil one i would always look around and see some graff somewhere and i would always stand there in awe,always sayin "dam,how did they do that?"...........n i'm a real sucker for art n i got the motive and inspiration,so recently,i was jus like.........FUCK IT ALL,i wanna start writin graffiti

[session-one]

i went to new york city when i was about 10 and i saw all the graff, i made my dad take me through the city just to see all the graf, on the plane ride home i started drawing on a piece a line paper and when i got home i went outside and did this shitty as fuck toy ass tag on a stop sign, lol thats how i got in, over-exposure to urban art

[*Wing*]

Well, that's cool, I did it pretty much the same, I've been exposed to graff, some of the best in my country since 1999 or such... That time, i was 9...

[Genocide]

Fuck no im not. But I believe in that shit. Aint shit positive about what I do. But its nice to act like one of the good guys. Doesnt get you into as much shit.

[KrookONE]

i was sleeping in an alley and people started bombing on me...from then it was love

[Genocide]

Well thats one way to get into it.

[Ackrite]

i went to some wack ass boarding school and there was this kid from the bay area that wrote antik and always killed shit, he was always sketching something so over time i caught on

[tense]

:Djust seeing the art in my hood (aboveone, pope, abe, mask) after a while i started to notice it was evrwhere and everytime i go anywhere now im lookin for graff, its kinda like an obsession really lol:D

[rolling roks]

i had always wanted to do it but my city never has really had a good scene until recently its been gettin up to a few more writers
anybody in the charleston south carolina area know what i am saying?
if theres anyone here
which i doubt
but i remember when i was in like 5 th grade? prolly younger
some of my friends had some sharpies and was like dude you gotta try tagging man its so fun!
what toy wiggers we tried to be
we used our initials and the fine point sharpies....wow
but 10 years later i started learning about of this crazy shit
you know tag names hand styles
making your own inks and makers
peices bombs etc
so much fun
true that tense
its an addiction
anytime i go somewhere i gotta make sure i got my markers
and i just sit down on a bench in a park or at a picnic table
and just doodle

[RaGe2]

last year...idk how i was always sketchin some letters/words in class cuz i was bored as fuck
started to see a lot of throwies around
and i started to get into....went online looked at a few murals
started embracing it then

[simba kitten]

my friends asked me if i bombed and i didnt no wht tht ment so i said ya and we wen and got some montana black and well......

[-Sinn-]

I had a friend who did it in grade 8 he was one of the really cool guys and he got mad amounts of bitches so i started messin around found a true mentor (Wrekoner) he taught me the culture the rules now i can burn that kid from jr. high yet i get no bitches or respect im just the crazy goth kid who hits anything in sight

[nero122]

local shit n some friends n then i started searchin the culture n im good at art i think n like breakin the law n anal fukkin the system so me n graff i think kinda suit?

[KEMi 4549]

i got into it by my friend...he was writen in his book an i asked him ta teach me how (joking) but than i got into it an now im in his crew.

[shax44]

seeing it as a young kid on the wall's everywhere, and i liked it. so i began to draw it on paper, and after a year of drawing, i bought some cans and putted some of my sketches on the wall. it was damn ugly, but whatever. the design was pretty good, but it sucked with paint =p

[...uhh]

...well we were at this kegger ... and she got really drunk... and i took her into a room ... and she passed out face down ass up... and well thats how i got into sarah...
huh... OH GRAFFITI!! ... uh yeah a friend ...

lol

[rayseone]

i honestly would say i dont even know, i guess it started by moving to canada, right after i got here i met someone who was a writer but hes done now,2 years ago i started taggin then just fell off after six months or so . then around last november got into it again, ever since the its being an addiction, i do something with graff everyday wether its sketching, catching a tag, practicing paintiing in the backyard etc. its turned in to one of those things like when im walking some where if i can walk in five minutes and see no graff or walk in twenty and see lots id rather take twenty mins. its just a mixture of everything really, i cant say one day i got into it, it prolli like evolved over time

[S!4 760]

ive never seen a black book before, but saw some of that DAIM guy's work. it was incredible. And I just took it from there, taggin in tunnels and schools haha

[Soeffinblack]

I took a trip to New York when I was about 12, we were moving my sister there, the whole way there on teh highways off to the sides there was nothing but vacant buildings and graffiti, as well as vacant buldings with graffiti on them haha. I thought man this stuff really gives this place its own character. Coming from Ohio I never really saw that at all. You drive through a town and what do you know it looks just like the town I was just in a few miles back, clean cut and boring and if you didnt know where you where you probbably wouldnt be able to tell the difference one town to the next, I hate it. not even in big places like cleveland did I really see much. and if there was any it was almost ghostly because it had bee natempted to be buffed already. I know it might sound corny but that was my first inspiration was my trip to NY there was just massive amounts of it everywhere. I just didnt know where to start especially at that age, not until recently atleast. I had friends throughout highschool with blackbooks and did sweet stuff they just never went out I dont think, they where more artists than street artists. thats my story.

[Pryze$]

I just got into it naturally at roun 9 or 10 yrs old.
It jus evolved from the way I wrote normally.....
sloppy and barely readable lol. Wat sucks is that
after 3 yrs of doin it i cant really advance into
wildstyle, too much technique(lame reason rite)
Im good at throw-ups an tags......:p

[Destroyka]

had a cousin that got me into when i went to vist

[anti-anti-crime]

when i was in 7th grade i just started doodling random ass shit, then i got into letters and then i got into graf cause i likes writing on other ppls property more

[pocket change]

bout a year and half ago went to northen cali for a snowboard contest. flew outa boston, saw a shit load, stayed in sacramento saw some. went to san fransico for a day and saw some more, and the last night i was there i walked down to like stapled or some bullshit that was open at 12 in the morning and got markers and a note book and all i did was draw for 5 and half hours home then the 2 hour car ride. now i barley snowboard and have been arrested three times and faced 2 felony charges for two different cities. now im still sketching. not painting now cause i live no where near a city and plus i have 218 hours community service and probabtion. so it pretty much took my life, pretty much gave up one of the three things i love which would be snowboarding for graff. yay. the end. im bored. good bye.

[-Saiko-]

Well, mainly seeing kids around my town tag and bomb, it got me influenced so now i wanna do the same and am, so far its turnin out good, but I dont bomb alot, only once a week, but i think of it like 8956253589 times a day and it sucks that im only 15 and i cant go out all the time, i know alot of other homies out there feel the same, can't wait till i get my drivers license :D

[-Saiko-]

bout a year and half ago went to northen cali for a snowboard contest. flew outa boston, saw a shit load, stayed in sacramento saw some. went to san fransico for a day and saw some more, and the last night i was there i walked down to like stapled or some bullshit that was open at 12 in the morning and got markers and a note book and all i did was draw for 5 and half hours home then the 2 hour car ride. now i barley snowboard and have been arrested three times and faced 2 felony charges for two different cities. now im still sketching. not painting now cause i live no where near a city and plus i have 218 hours community service and probabtion. so it pretty much took my life, pretty much gave up one of the three things i love which would be snowboarding for graff. yay. the end. im bored. good bye.

wow man... that seriously sucks.... my advice to the rest of you...





























































DON'T GET CAUGHT LIKE THIS GUY AND TAG RESPONISBLEY :D!!

[pocket change]

you dont understand kid, it wasnt my fault. one of my friends ratted me out. told them EVERY spot. even spots that he wasnt positive that were mine. o and dont park in parking garages..a cop pulled up right behind me right when i was bout to go home. had paint on my hands, bingo dabber filled with ink(he thought it was a pipe bomb..dumbass) and bout 6 cans of paint on my passenger side floor. but i told him it was for canvases and stenciling my skatboard. and guess what. he belived it. till my buddy ran his mouth...and i have been best friends with him since kindergarden. so dont trust anyone. i learned the hard way. o and i covered his ass on plenty of shit, he knew that too, but yet he still did it. i guess its just pay back for fucking his bitch bout a year ago..ha now i dont feel bad at all.

[sketch3]

thats a blessin in disguise, now u can fuck her twice

[pocket change]

nah not really shes an anorex whore. and plus i have a much better girl of my own now. that isnt a slut. been with one guy which was over a year ago. left her boyfriend to be with me. wanted me before then i turned her down cause i had some girl that was a peice of shit but then i got rid of her and the girl still liked me, left her new boyfriend that has already graduated highschool, smart, preppy. but she left him for the me, the kid that praticilly fails all classes, gets arrested, on probabtion..now thats a blessing..

[kog_throwie]

my brother got me into it...at his work there was a big shopping kart filled with krylon sparypaint so he took some and did some shit ass donkey raped graffiti...

[pyroguy]

long story short always loved tattoos had a friend that loved them he showed me the similarities between the 2 and me and graffiti fell in love and we popped out a couple kids, uh i mean bombs and im still goin

[killtheugly]

i felt like it

[Panda Jerk]

in sixth grade my friend got me into it

[shax44]

i saw graffiti at a legal wall once, and i took pictures of everything. then i started to sketch. done that for a couple of years, then i needed something illegal to do and started doing graffiti.

[INDEPENDENT]

i always seen graff, always loved it so i started beggining of highschool, i got myself into it basically.

[R.S.A]

Grew up around tons of shit and liked it but then my boy got into and i picked it up

[Brian Peppers]

I liked driving down the highway and looking at the art on the walls since i was little. That's the only thing that motivated me.

[drapes1125]

Just some locals.Seeing that got me into it i was intrested then and still am.

[saucy]

honestly, i had to write a controversial topic essay in my sophmore year english class.... and i chose graffiti, just cuz i barely really started noticing it then and had always liked art.... i guess i did a little too much research for my own good

[PDN4L1F3]

Like nr. 1..
My brother has always listen' to hiphop, and i think thats how i startet.. but he showed me a movie(BOMB THE SYSTEM).. and i just knew.. Thats so much me! So, since that day i have been(bin)? bombing and tagging .

Sry 'bout my English, dont hate me for spelling wrong. :)

- PDN

[stay(KooL)92]

i went on vacation to new york and i saw all this Graff and i loved it then i came back to Wisconsin and started sketching

[...Syerf]

freights man...i jus saw them when i was younger and thought...whoa, wish i could do that...started drawin and all of a sudden years later iv totally takin off in it...

[Kimo13]

One of my homies EVOKE was paintin the side of a liquor store. I was out all night skatin & saw him doin it, thought it was pretty dope & started a blackbook!

[repsSDN]

My mates started taggin so i tryed it and it evolved from there.

[youngprophecy]

these people got payed to do this lilltle garge thing in my town. and my and my friend was at a concert so we decide to go look at it and we walked there and scaled a fence and thats how i started

[KREPT]

I got into graffiti, about 7 years ago and never thought of being a artist until like about two years ago when i was in Russia with my sister and seen a giant wall of nothing but graf work and then the rest was history, went by a few names i was toy as hell, Ive improved alot now...under a new anme and fresh start..so here i am....2007

[wolsley]

I got into graffiti because I have always loved writing and letter forms and I have always loved graffiti and calligraphy. I remember back in my GCSEs I tried to do my exam on graffiti. Damn that shit was embarrassing I regret that so much it was a complete fucking mess. I don't think I realized at the time that graffiti was not as easy as it looks. Anyway a year later I did a bit of basic writing. Stoped when I got in a relationship and another year and a half later I got back into it in the form of stencils after seeing a few banksy pieces in Bristol.

I got fed up of stencils so I turned back to writing. Damn in the last 6months iv improved so much but I still have a VERY long way to go! Still dedication is the way forward!

[F.R.A.T.]

to be honest i loved vidoe games, and one day i saw a game called getting up, i kinda thought it was cool before but, after seeing what graffiti could atually look like, i was like dman i need to get on this shit, laugh if u wont but thats my story

[tripone]

ha ha! a video game changed your life?:confused:

[##sable##]

i got into graff cuza my brothers. they taught me everything i kno.

[PRMIKA825]

i got into it becuz me and my bro used to walk around the city
looking at graffiti, on day a few years later i took a walk to go see some new writing, and amazingly every bit of writing was painted over with thick lime green paint, and some of the graffiti was like from the 80's so u know it was mad shit.

so i figured i start writing for myself and it just took off from there

[F.R.A.T.]

ha ha! a video game changed your life?:confused:

noooo, it spark an interest in graff

[Ascendant]

I just saw it around, decided I liked the style. I needed a good outlet, something to help me relax.

[Steel!]

i live in some small town where graff is nonexistent but every summer i go to minneapolis/ st. paul to visit family. there my cousin got me into it and i learned everything i know from the internet, graf books, and my cousins old blackbooks

[·jaikone·]

i got into it from seeing it on the streets. 905 cheyaaaa

[dreddysocks]

my buddies

[sayonelast...]

in my case.. i dont even know what put graff into my head.. i think jsut seeing graffiti every where and jsut wondering why ppl did it.. then jsut meeting ppl who did it then got into it.. it kinda jsut happened..

[Mean15]

A mate of me saw something of the movie "Kroonjuwelen" on MTV. And from then he was obsessed with it, he told me about it, and that's how it started.

[Ether]

I live in a small town and there's a derailed train that all the "hard-ass" preppy kids write their names on.

One of my best friend's friend did a bunch of absolutely sick skulls on the train and right next to it someone tagged "Bliss." After seeing that and some other sick pieces when I went into the city, I started messing around.

[Pegasus]

haha i wrote be9 on paper in year 6, then in year 7 i met hese writers whent to my school and shit got off ffrom there. I got into the music via graff.

[j21]

11 years of age ...i was makeing fun of this kid aceboy....he was tagging his name with the letter A upside down.....anyone from cali kinda knows that writers or tagbangers can be crazy and a55holeish.....................oh yeah and its been 17 years now.......11 or 12 on fr8s

[j21]

kinda rad that ive been playing here for like 8o years and im junior member

[-GuEs-]

My mate got me into it so that we are different and not like every other tom,dick and harry..

-gues-

[mas$]

a mural by dekor/mak1/faith47 and rasty near where i live really opened my eyes and a mag with 123klan doing computer graff design..i endedup meeting rasty and dekor recently and that was cool too:P
http://www.graffiti.org/sa/2_johannesburg.jpghttp://www.graffiti.org/sa/3_johannesburg.jpghttp://www.graffiti.org/sa/4_johannesburg.jpghttp://www.graffiti.org/sa/5_johannesburg.jpghttp://www.graffiti.org/sa/6_johannesburg.jpg

[geritto]

alot of ppl was getting up in my city so i liked it and started

[Slushi]

By listening to Slayer.

[sactown916trainrat]

my dad was a graffiti writer so when i was like 7 he gave me a book and taught me to do letters and crap, when i was 13 he bought me my fist 20 cans of paint to do my art, before he died he left me a box full of rusto paint and caps and all his black books. so my dad was my influance on me

[BeesKnees]

I was always really good at art and i always drew my name in bubble letters since i can remember then one day when i was 12 or so i was climbing on the roof of an abandoned factory, for those of you in toronto it was the brickworks, but that was when there was next to no graffiti in it and anyways i found a used can on the roof and my friend identified it as spraypaint so i decided i would do my bubble letter but it ran out halfway through and i had to go back and finish it, and then for the next 2 or 3 months i would go about once a week and usually paint a face around the brickworks and then soon i realised other people did graffiti to, i met artist and realised there was a community with rules, about names, tags, throwups, pieces, and then i started noticing names all around the city, i noticed EYES first, and then it just took of from there