How Did You Get Into Graf

[coser1]

i got into it cause one my friends asked me to come with him when he used to do it i saw it once and have been doing it since

[Craze-07-]

i got into graph from a friend i have all ways liked art but graph was so much more of a buzz.

[Skeggi]

I got into it through hip-hop. Writer's Block, shit like that. And that dope movie Style Wars.

[2facedkillah]

my buddy got me into graff

[Reinone]

started alone, when i left Canada to Belgium two years ago, knew some people who were writing so i get in.

[CRN-one]

I should spend a rainy day skimming this thread looking for the one guy who said "I played Mark Ecko's Getting Up, and it inspired me to write."

that would be sweet.

edit: whoops, found it.


Hah I didn'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

It was the kids first and last post. Poor kid. They probably lynched him.

[thats me]

my brother got me into graffiti.

[casual]

I should spend a rainy day skimming this thread looking for the one guy who said "I played Mark Ecko's Getting Up, and it inspired me to write."

that would be sweet.

edit: whoops, found it.



It was the kids first and last post. Poor kid. They probably lynched him.

No it was just a piss take obviously, you gullable fucker.

[mmmburgers]

my friend got me in it

[SKriBL*666]

Uncle.

Great 80's writer.

[Set17]

i found a can of spray paint in a janitors room for buffing graffiti and i took it and used it but i was so bad i wanted to get better

[NEKEL1]

my cousin asked me to go bombing when i was like 12 so i went out with him and loved the thrill we got chased as well from there i got a bit shook but as i got older is started sketchin and then got into graff on the streets wen i was comfident in my graff

then i found out my uncle rote nookei so i started ritin nook for short
he rote elie 87 in 87 too

...

[Blam!]

One day some one said the words Graffiti, then weeks to come, i started see it every where and starting to become so into graffiti.

[Magerloke5]

I got into graff because I've always have had an obsession with markers....then I saw ma homeboy get down wit my markers so I wanted to be sicc like him turns out im better den he was:)

[PANZEROTTO]

one of my good friends got me into it and he let me borrow style wars and i got really inspired

[EoP]

just seein all the writing on walls and stores(San Francisco) sorta gave me somthin to do like try and copy some of their stuff......and then from there and age i started do my own...

[thatkidyouknew]

my brother in law. he was from philly and he moved to where i lived and showed me his black book this was about in 97? so i asked him to take me out to paint and we went out later that night he gave me a magum 44 haha and told me be wise with it and ever since then its been my thing and my drug

[NoN]

Some crackhead at my school in, what, 6th grade was into some hardcore bombing, so why not give it a try?

[Rots takes your Daughters]

I'm not into graf.

[pabospray]

i grew up in with GTB crew, TMF, TDK, RK, and even painted with TMS crew from germany. i only lived 20 some miles from frisco, and we were all a bunch of punk ass stoners who listed to scum fuck rock and roll and underground hip-hop. we hated the system, so we resisted the only way we could think of..... by bombing the shit out of anything and everything we could get our hands on. Do i regret it? FUCK NO. Painting has kept me sober from drugs (save mary jane) and i've met many many cool writers and hip hop artists in the process, not to mention all the games of cat and mouse we played with the cops, and all the experiences we talk about now. I really cant imagine where i would be if it wasn't for graf.... everyone should paint at least once in their life to see the rush we get from it, and not just hate because it's "vandalism". 20 bucks worth of paint, removed with 5 bucks worth of brake cleaner.... it actually seems less cost effective to buff..... but whatever.

stay up, keep writing, long live the SF Bay Area!


-Koal

[mar611]

I got in 2 graff through my cuz he was always drawing shit and showing me all kinds of graff I was like wtf that's crazy I like that his graff skillz always been great since we was kids he learn from his pops he use to do heavy graff back then
I learn everything from him he told me a lot bout the graff scene.

[AVID1]

I always loved the art form.. as a kid I would love watching the graff scene even though I never knew anything about it.. I knew one day I was going to be one of the 'Mysterious graffiti people'
soo then I started copping immortal techinque on his bio it said he used to be down with graff when he was younger.. then I picked up a magazine at my camp.. I found it around somewhere.. like ona a picnic bench, so I just checked out the pieces started doing my own pieces.. but I've always loved vandalising shit I remember when I was like 12 I would write 'CZUP' on the busses and shit and then getting chased for it and hopping out the fire emergency exit.. it's just something I've always loved and I decided to pursue it..

[jawsy]

oops.. i voted for friends but i though about it more and..
i saw a handstyle on the back of a chair at my school.. it said "mass attack" i bit all the letters and progressed from there and .. yeah

[Skitz]

school sux you get bored, see it around town so ya start sketchin b4 you know it your rackin cans chillin on rooftops

[YaDigg46]

my homeboy...

[S!KE]

my 1st time was hitting up a freeway.. after that i was hooked!

[bloom]

Once i moved into the mile high city, my brother met a new friend a school and invited him to come over. He would draw burners and throw-ups on this binder we didn't use. Once i saw what he drew, graffiti had me by the balls..

[INDO1SNMK]

me i used to see ppl around my neighbor hood tagging all the time i never understood it i liked artwork though when i was 10 i started seeing murals and shit when i was 11 homeboy blazed me up for my first time and took me bombing for the first time since then i been dedicated

[Sunk]

i got into graff cuz going through the city and seeing all the throwies and tags n shit
got me interested at a pretty young age

[SIAH]

let's see...about 6 years ago in school on eof my friends in art class would draw pieces and shit,kinda showed me the ropes,before ya know it we was out @ 1am bags fulla cans,bombin everything...

[foi oi oi]

I got into graff, because I lived in redneck city, OH. It was just an expression of self to say "I'm not you". It was also a mixture of that good ole teenage rebellion, friends who felt the same as me, and most importantly... ART.

[Breakfaces]

When these guys in my city did blockbusters 5 stories up over the windows of this abandoned factory by my school.
It was rocking for a while.

[The_NaMEz_BaNKz]

got my name from the title of a lloyd banks song..i was just writing it on papers not even thinkin bout graff...then i jus staryted writing it outside..still with out graff on my mind..

then i played marc ekkos gettin up...and i said to myself i should do graff cuz i already have tags up..then i found out my friend from grade school did graff..and ffrom..im destroying the city !

[Never Stop Bombing]

i got into graffiti just chillin around the scene now im running a crew at my high school but i was always into drawing and i just started painting and its my life now

[SAID]

i needed something to fulfill my satisfaction.

[The_NaMEz_BaNKz]

^^ LMAO..thats from that fuckin techno song called satisfaction..lol

[pretentious asshole]

Actually, I invented graffiti.....

One day, while I was finding a cure for the bubonic plague while simultaneously slicing a piece of bread for the first time in recorded history, jesus came to me in a vision (i.e. - showed me his image in the macaroni of my kids cuisine). The image began to speak, it said that I must stop being so hot and sexy all of the time and start doing graff, that crazy bastard! The image then proceeded to fade away and I consumed the anointed pasta. I felt a jolt of holy energy run through my spine and quickly took to the streets and began to paint. I started out painting daffodils with ak47's, but I figured that might be too offensive in light of recent flower-based tragedies involving weaponry across America, so I thought that letters would be more appropriate. Anyone else who does graffiti is copying me.

[IlikePie]

I think that might have been the best short story written in the history of written language. Can I touch you?

[unreal180]

i had grown up wid a shit hot piece under a bridge 2 mins away
i just wanted to be like that

[atlok7]

i first got the idea to do it when i was in 6th grade in spanish class and i was drawing my spanish name "pablo" in some bubble type letters and the kid next to me told me it looked like graffiti and then it just took off. i dreww some shitty bubble shit for like a year then i didnt really do it at all for another 2 years then ive been doin it erry day since

[MessTonic]

I started at like 6 years old, because we had a dry erase board at my house and i would try to do wildstyle stuff.. Idk what made me start doing that but ive done it ever since

[pdxmith]

seeing my brothers blackbook he was fuckin awsome but he got caught fucked up his life

[ca$hville]

i had to hold a spraycan for 2 minutes while i get jumped by 5 dudes then i had to kill someone by suffocation to get in the krew im in today.

[anti-anti-crime]

we wanna no wat got u into it, not wat u do while ur doing it.

[ca$hville]

oh sorry . i wanted to build a alter ego and be able to express my way through doing it and because of friends,and just hiphop culture word up!

[Jase]

I got into graff, cause a writer joined my school in year 8. and him i always saw him sketching and shit. And we became friends and i would catch the train with him and shit and he would hit the insides while i watched out. after this for 3 months i started on paper for 3 months then hit train insides every arvo that was it though. But it escalated, me and him and mad beef now

FUCK YOU CLAW YOU ARROGANT TOYYYYYYYYY

[BaSiC222]

I actually go into it by going by an amazing piece on south street in philadelphia and then I started looking at other stuff that was up and low and behold I started my first blackbook and now I just started my third

[baseone250]

ive been seeing it all of my life and always loved it so one day in spanish i was bored as hell and decided to give it a shot and that was in 9th grade and now im in tenth and ive gotten serious about it

[Olick]

it seduced me

[Abeone]

few years back, on a trip to montreal, all i could see was SAKE SAKE SAKE SAKE SAKE like a fucking rally down a block. it amazed me, and i think it was the first time i ever took graffiti seriously. that and the intro to fresh prince of course. and then like 2 years ago, at still a young age, i started drawing my own little letters, and i never tied it to graffiti at all. then one day, all this media coverage started going around my city about the huge graffiti "crisis", and it hit me that i really wanted to do it. so...2 years later, im a developing toy. ahahha, like everybody who starts i guess.

[SprayBomb]

i just got into graff well, i always remember seeing at on trains, under overpasses, on buildings stuff like that and always thought it looked cool. never really new how to do it though or tried. and one day started browsing the internet for graff. found bombing science and well now im here.

[j-f]

seeing it everyday in my neighbourhood
then seeing alfa everywhere
tried comin up wid some stuff

[The_NaMEz_BaNKz]

Actually, I invented graffiti.....

One day, while I was finding a cure for the bubonic plague while simultaneously slicing a piece of bread for the first time in recorded history, jesus came to me in a vision (i.e. - showed me his image in the macaroni of my kids cuisine). The image began to speak, it said that I must stop being so hot and sexy all of the time and start doing graff, that crazy bastard! The image then proceeded to fade away and I consumed the anointed pasta. I felt a jolt of holy energy run through my spine and quickly took to the streets and began to paint. I started out painting daffodils with ak47's, but I figured that might be too offensive in light of recent flower-based tragedies involving weaponry across America, so I thought that letters would be more appropriate. Anyone else who does graffiti is copying me.



^^ LMFAO..GOoDD SHiT

[pretentious asshole]

I think that might have been the best short story written in the history of written language. Can I touch you?

I may let you touch me if I feel you are worthy.

[wrekstyle]

used to see it in boston on the highways and always liked it but never but never figured out how to do it untill a friend from florida taught me....and the rest is history

[Scheme*119]

my boy cope 2 and i were hanging out awhile ago and hes said to me "HEY, I HEARD OF DIS NEW TING CAWLD GWAFFITIS, LETS BE KINGS, ROFLAMINGO"


and the rest is history...

[COBALT]

my home boy and i were all into art and shit and just decide to explore graff and now we cant stop...been to jail for that hit love it and will do it till the day i die

[PeeInTheShower]

this could be a risky post, considering it's pretty specific... ahhh fuck it..

me and my friend got stopped by police one night... and it was a dickhead ass bitch cop who was eggin' us on to talk shit, by saying "why you driving like such a dickhead?" and my friend says "fuck you guy".. lights go off, it was a DT who had a rather large ego... he had claimed my friend was going to jail for a couple years because of some shake that was nonexistent on the floor in his car... and he said "you can redeem yourself ya know... i see you have a king size sharpie... you taggin?" my friend says "i have before, but i've tagged stupid shit like "**** loves ******" and the cop says "we have pics of that, come into the station to make a statement and you'll be free to go" and so he gets to the station to say "well sir, you're under arrest". me and my boy didn't even tag back then, i swear to fucking god. then i thought "holy shit, i wanna kill people. but it's pretty easy to get caught killing people, so i might as well do graffiti as much as humanly possible".

[gunsofbrooklyn]

seeing bombs on trains when i used to go to soccer practice when i was a kid really got me liking graff
as i got older i decided to actually try it

[Scheme*119]

Jet set radio

[CANADIANA]

going into halifax to see my relatives, it used to be pretty killed back then...
that was a long time ago...

[dior]

me myself and i started myself in graff

[MiDnightSnitch]

was walkin down the tracks downtown next to ma boys place and i heard a train comin and the lil rail road arm things dropped so i stopped and waited. the train was goin pretty dam slow so i got a good look at everything. this dude had crushed i mean destroyed a 4 car piece that ran over all 4 cars.. black with teal outline gradient black to blue to white in the middle for a fill. most rediculous shit ive ever seen in my life. rememba that shit every day.

[rakecity]

i was takin a mega piss right. drunk as fugg and high as a madre fucker.
so i look down...and whata you fuckin know im pissin flat black.
so i hit the whole stall and it's been on ever since.
as long as im pissin, im paintin.

[Pickton's Pigpen]

5th grade, some kids bombed the shit outta my school.
coppied the throwups on desks hahahah
did my grade 8 yearbook in graff hahahah

[CheapShot]

well 2 of my friends did graff but they mainly tagged, one was great at pretty much all areas of art and the other sucked, and they came to school with all kinds of markers that they racked all the time, and i thought they were just fags thinking they were badass,

our town is small and has like 3 artists, who usually tag alleys, but one day some "gang" of loser kids climbed up a wall in our school in a dark lobby that no one goes in much and made a huge throwup in pencil between classes..

so my 2 buddies wanted to go over it, so they told me to come up with a name, i cant even remember what it was but the next day with some woodcraft markers and mops with shitty ink we completely filled the whole room (it was dark and people dont go there in the morning) with tags, the lineoleum floors, the walls, the ceiling tiles, a window etc.. then they got called down to the office, and for some reason they defended my ass and wouldnt say who I was, they got kicked out for 5 days, community service, restitution w/e, not much trouble in town since they werent up much.

i wanted to be better than them, instead of just tags i wanted to go bigger. i knew id be more careful than them i mean they brought paint to school, tagged theyre clothes, shoes backpacks, notebooks,

so i changed my name to cheapshot, sounds cool and as graffiti artists we constantly "cheapshot" people so it fits. and i learned more about graff online, etc, and i wanted to be better than the guys here, and the fact that its a small town means more fame, but its winter now so im stocking up, sketching, reading up on techniques and w/e, but id like to see some more talent in this town, inspire some new artists, its my goal to be responsible for starting graff in this town,

so basically im tired of looking at the same shades of gray, i wish there was color around every corner like the cities

[vaginajuice]

^^^^
damn, thats a beast ass story

[foamer]

I went on a two holidays to barcelona and berlin in the space of a year, just got hooked by looking at stuff then found this site and it all kinda took off from there.

[JayAyDubZed]

I hated all the tagers at my school. Cause they were fags and all sucked. So I went out and put line through all of their stuff and got up way more than they did (Too bad I sucked at the time). Then eventually me and my mate made a crew to battle those cunts from my school. Then yeh. I just didn't stop and made a new crew and got more "Professional" in a way.

[compost]

i went to atlanta with my family and the graffiti jene came out of can of red montana that i found in a alley and told me that i shoud write....and i said sure why not

[KASE2]

well i actually got into graff by knocking on the door, thank god the bouncer let me in!

[SilverEra]

Some dudes bombed the shit outta my elementary when i was in like the 3rd grade.
Every since i been all up on it like a fat kid on a mcgriddle.

[KASE2]

Some dudes bombed the shit outta my elementary when i was in like the 3rd grade.
Every since i been all up on it like a fat kid on a mcgriddle.
fat kids can't make it to mcdonalds erly enough for a mcgriddle

[KidReny!]

I remember it was when i was in new york wen i was 4 i got on the train wit my dad and i some cats bombin a wall i saw some shit they did befre and ill never forget the colors i saw it made my eyes pop i just looked at graffiti then id spend hours looking at it i loved it all peices, throwies, handstyles, burners everything yo , i started writin bout a year ago when i was havin bitch problems i thought lemme try this so i got a marker and started writin i remember the feeling i got it was like a drug i didnt think i just let my hand talk you know, when i first bombed i was s ared as fuck but real talk it wasnt till then when i truely learned the true meaning of freedom of expression

[me_is_are_of_yu]

iv went to amsterdam to stay at my cousin's place for awhile and i saw graffities on the walls there.it impressed me and i asked my cousin what were they and he said graffiti.
so thats how i got interested in graffiti.

[PeeInTheShower]

well actually the police got me into graff for arresting me for graffiti i didn't do, and i had to go to court and spend money for this shit. but what really blew it up for me is when my newfound friends were painting trains listening to dubstep on the way there. i thought they went hand in hand.

kid reny... you started writing graffiti because you broke up with some bitch?

also, what are you doing moving from new york to arizona.
your life sucks.

[..LAZRS...]

I was mad young like 10 or 11 and saw this mtv show downtown that had these writers in it, and about the same time there was this guy "mook" writing in pittsburgh doing some crazy spots. Like dude would climb the top of bridges and shit, but it peaked my interest quite a bit.

So I started gettin paint anyway I could and just hitting stuff in my area, got caught with a couple buddies. We quit for a couple years, I got back into it oin and off for a while, then a year or so ago I just got back into it again.

[JustChillin]

I had just moved into LA from florida. Didnt even know what the hell tagging was. Untill one day I was with 2 of my friends whom I had just met about a month ago, walking back to one of thier houses in an alley way. They were talking about this mop marker they had bought off of bombingscience.com (XD) but i didnt really pay attention and then one of my freinds pulled out a marker and did a tag on a dumpster and they were al paranoid about people seeing them and I was all confused like "WTF who gives a shit if someone see you writing on a dumpster its not like its illegal or anything"


Then they told me about how things were in cali and I was like fuck this and the next day I took one of those crayola washable marker and tagged on a sign (TOY AS HELL) infront of all these cars at a stop light (Because I didnt think tagging was really bad and that people called the cops on you for it) and my 2 friends are like "WTF your crazy"

None of it really appealed to me until they told me about the half of a mile long piece that MTA did in LA. Now that shit amazed me and got me into it for real. Then all of a sudden I found out a bunch of my other friends tagged too and i was like "WTF again never relized this was such a huge thing"

1 Friend- Was actually really good but got busted for tagging up school so doesnt write anymore
2 Friend- still writes and i thought he was actually really good when i was first starting but NOW i relize that he is toy as hell
Me- I end up getting more into this then they do

[Loki X Sho]

Since I was little I loved to watch the trains. I used to go to work with my dad at 5 am everyday when I was young. On lunch we would walk the tracks. Some kid painted a huge sunset on the wall behind his wrk, and his superior called and told him it had to go because everything needed to look clean. I helped him roll over this wall and I was so sad..I just looked at this art in amazement before we covered the whole thing. So had a BOMB ass Lionell train set and once I got homeI drew all over the carts cause I thought it was sick. Since then I loved it.

[proNYNJA]

Well i lived in LA for like 8 years now, i been into art and shit since i dont know when, when ever my mom or my dad drove on the freeway i would see bombs and pieces covering the walls and i was like amazed that they could make art outta fucking letters, then when i was in 8th grade i sat next to this writer that was in a well recognize crew around where i lived so i would see him doing sketches all day long in class, so one day was bored as fuck so i decided to try making a sketch, it came out all crappy and i guess the guy saw it and was like, you write too? and i said naw im just bored,

and then we started talking and he told me about these crews and stories and shit and i was like damn this graff shit sounds dope, so one day i found one of those white out pens and i went into a bath room and did a shitty ass tag on the wall and i got this rush or feeling of achievement and ive been tryna go hard ever since then

[Slant One]

I got into graffiti cause of crews in my old neiborhood brought me with them one time and from then on ive been in love with the life

[jaketherake94]

one night me and some friends in were in my friends garage and we noticed that he had a some cans so we started spraying on the walls and then one kid spray painted another kids back and they all pussied out of doing graffiti for their lives except me

[funhouseXcast]

ive always looked around for graffiti, cause ive alsways been into art. a couple months back i noticed how blank my town was and figured it could use a hand getting decorated

[FlippingChickens]

i saw it like crazy on every block as a kid growing up and i always thought it was the coolest thing u could do never really got into it until i was 13

[adreniline_zero]

i first had an intrest in it back in primary school when i saw what was probably a throwie on the wall outside it was probably shite but at the time i found it cool as fuck then in highschool i met my writing mate and it went from there really

[Clown705]

my buddy wanted us to make like a crew and just tag our name around for fun and it just developed from that

[MF King Royal]

I Got Sent To A Detention Center Type Place And This Kid Who Wrote "TEARS" Showed Me His Black Book And It Was On From There..

[iofaCannon]

This is how it started/..

See I've allways been an artist, ever sence I can remember art was like portal to another time relm where I could just drift away and be me, growing up in Ri and still growing theirs allot of talent around these streets, I think it was when I saw my first sloe wildstyle that I was amaizing at what could be done with a can./ it was a personal art form graffiti, but more than that a way of life see after I cought the eye for photography that took me deeper into graffiti, evertime I would drive threw providence my eyes would be candy'd in to all the style and the flares of these people who had left their marks on this city, the 1st time I had sprayed a can in an abanded building was the day graffiti captured my soul, peicers from Die Seaz Lead Gyer and all these guys still today I look up to and respect..I am not graffiti/Graffiti is me_>and I won't stop getting better_>and I won't stop period ...everywhere I go I can be found with a deco laceing my name..once I get outta school think I'm gunna go hit some throws and work on getting my lines as crisp as possible,,to all my reall artists out their keep doing watchu do and never turn down a helping hand, Trustyou

[581]

i got into graffiti in grade 8 from my friends and now im still into it

[TECKN]

i guess i just bumped into a pic of some graff and thought it looked nice

[Neek503]

I started getting into it threw the internet but didnt do much other than little sketches on scrap paper. Then I had an art class with this kid who at the time was TEKO and he showed me his black book and so I got more into it. I started showing him my sketches and he helped me in my weak areas and then he got busted and so he helped me and then I gave him a new name and we started a cru together. So I guess I got started by internet and a friend.

[staone]

I got into graff when i as about 8 but i didnt star till i was like 12 the reason why i got into it so young was cause i saw a JA throwy and i asked my dad how is it that the get so high up and hes like idk but you can get arrested for that and sense then i was curious and then when i turned 12 i went to a family dollar and stole some cheap paint

[dior]

This is how it started/..

See I've allways been an artist, ever sence I can remember art was like portal to another time relm where I could just drift away and be me, growing up in Ri and still growing theirs allot of talent around these streets, I think it was when I saw my first sloe wildstyle that I was amaizing at what could be done with a can./ it was a personal art form graffiti, but more than that a way of life see after I cought the eye for photography that took me deeper into graffiti, evertime I would drive threw providence my eyes would be candy'd in to all the style and the flares of these people who had left their marks on this city, the 1st time I had sprayed a can in an abanded building was the day graffiti captured my soul, peicers from Die Seaz Lead Gyer and all these guys still today I look up to and respect..I am not graffiti/Graffiti is me_>and I won't stop getting better_>and I won't stop period ...everywhere I go I can be found with a deco laceing my name..once I get outta school think I'm gunna go hit some throws and work on getting my lines as crisp as possible,,to all my reall artists out their keep doing watchu do and never turn down a helping hand, Trustyou

lulz sloe and seaz started me in the game to been like 4 years now

[OVERclothing]

Video's like this got me psyked:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_fo8-xBgv0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_fo8-xBgv0)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5KIKqGIQtw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBQprRtu6z8

[iselldope]

i becuz uf mArco E-ck0 hez da sheit mang he's like ultracoowl

i started drawing letters and shit and in the first yearr of highschool i started the year next to a writer and he learned me all shit,and now i'm bnetter then him lawl

[trowel]

^^ Do you think google has a translator for that?


There was a lunar eclipse and i transformed into a spray enamel breathing beast.

Actually I was a bboy for about 4 years when i was a kid, and of course with the culture I learned the elements and I was always a good artist and i loved wrecking shit...so i did what came natural.....

[M-I-R]

SHEEEEEET

I started getting up just last year! [toy to the max]
I blame my creator for not having the balls to go out earlier.... I also blame his parents for raising him in the middle of nowhere

[M-I-R]

But I have always have a blackbook even before I knew what one was!

[Saiko]

When i was a little younger, about 11/12, i would walk long distances almost every day. I'd just choose a direction and go. I'd do this for hours. One day, i was walking and saw these two guys doing a piece in this alley. when i turned the corner, they were already in starting position.
I say" Chill, guys i'm not the police."
The taller one chuckles a little and goes back to work. Then the shorter one says "What are you doing around here at this time of night, little dude?"
"Walking. I do it all the time."
He goes back to his piece and says "you don't write, do you?" I figured he meant graffiti, so i said no.
The taller one says "You should. Since you're always walking and all. Then people would know where you've been."
I thought about it... i've always liked graffiti, and had been making little tags ever since i could remember. Plus i'd just met these two great artists. I said yeah, i'll think about it.
They're like cool and continue.
A few minutes later, they finish. The tall one wrote "sensi" and the shorter one wrote "Gone"." I was amazed at their skill.
sensi says "You can talk to me whenever you want tips and shit. I'll help you out." Gane says "same here"
I thanked both of them and they went on their way.
That finally inspired me to do graffiti.

[crookedmind]

i dont know, streetart has always been part of my life

[dreisus]

mummy :)
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[rustforlife]

From the book Graffiti Underworld: Villains, Vandals, and Visionaries


Cornbread: "I got into graffiti when I was incarcerated at a Juvenile detention facility. I insisted that the head cook Mr. Swanson put cornbread on the kitchen menu. They served us white bread everyday"

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Hael TKO: "There were a lot of gang blocks on the walls of the East LA neighborhood I grew up in. That influenced me. That was the first graffiti I ever saw. It wasn't until high school that I noticed the different styles of writing. Hazard, State St., 18th St. The drifters, those were the gangs that were around at that time when I was growing up."

http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/h448/graffitiunderworld/Haelpost.jpg

Ghouls: "I was real young when I started writing on things. At first I did “civilian“ graffiti. I wrote band names or girls names with crayons or markers, whatever I could get my hands on. In junior high I was into skateboarding and punk rock and generally running a muck. Tagging seemed a natural expression of those interests. I was in high school when I saw the book Spraycan Art, and started seeking out graffiti in my home town. I started spray painting in 1992."

http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/h448/graffitiunderworld/2001-post.jpg

More stories, flicks, and audio from inteviews at Http:www.GRAFFITIUNDERWORLD.com

[MVUV4l]

I got into graff my freshman yr wen i saw my dude sketchin sum shit up in his black book ever since then i went with it n havent looked back

[snazer]

my brother.. i was only 10 he got caught many many many times and he stopped when i got to high school i started to graff again

[-NiSe-]

When i was around like 6 i went with my parents to Washington for for bs i cant remember but i kept seeing graffiti around and starred at everyone in amazement :) good time Since then its the type of art that interested me the most. But have actually tried drawing it like 2 to 4 years back... now im here. :cool:

[Burn_Oner]

i saw it around and i was always interested in it. then i saw style wars, and definitely got more into it. i was like 12 when i first started but didnt really get serious until later on. then i met other writers and was totally down. it's more of a lifestyle now than anything

[Spikey2k9]

My cousin was bored one day so he used the 'Graffiti Creator' online. He told me about over email or the phone or something. I messed around on it for a while, then joined the forum. After that, it was on! ;)

[spher]

hahaha r u my couzin ^^

[criscros18]

This one guy came to my school, and he was like insane. So from there i knew that i wanted to learn to graff. ive been teaching myself ever since.

[sadgeh]

Just saw it around on the street and as the lil boy i was i found it dope, so i wanted to do it also.

[EnZ0]

Saw a documentary or some shit, was called Kings and Toys or somethin like that. really inspired me and i got into it afterwards

[Mr. November]

I've always been interested in graffiti since I can remember. I remember driving down the highway in PHX AZ, my head would be swiveling look at all the art. Too bad a lot of it is clean now, car rides are a lot more boring when I go back to AZ.

[aaesoo]

i saw a music video that had graffiti in it. it was just a couple throws that are only seen for a few seconds, but they just looked so damn cool. i went and got a black and red sharpie, and wrote 'one blood' with drips while taking a shit in bubble letters.

lmfao thats gotta be the most boring post in this thread haha