How Did You Get Into Graf

[Puffer]

Just wondering, i got into graf cuz of my bro, he lisnt to hip hop and i started to notice the music was bringing in graf, its one of the elements i found later, but then my friend got me into it, called me up one day and said you wanna go out bombing, he knew i graffed for a while so he asked me, i had no idea he did, so i guess its my bro and my friend. ive had alot more now from my friends tho

[screw_loose]

i think there is already a thread on this.

a pencil and a piece of paper?

[chas]

my brother got me into it

[badsanta170]

I was on some photoshop forums and they had a "others grahic" and i saw some graf on there and tryed it out.

[swich]

saw some guys black book at school...and from that moment it was on..

[minesweep]

i grew up with it by my neighborhood and i liked what i saw

[st3ve-ES]

sketching in like grade school after seeing other people do it.

painting after getting inspired by pics online.

[PureSole]

1 was fascination with graffiti in queens
2 was a blue can of painters touch

[Ekwol]

when you see it for long enough, you tend to do it yourself

[InvisblSkratchPiklz]

google made me do it

[stigma 2k6]

i got into it when my bros friends came over an we all got drunk then we went out 4 a walk an they were taggin an shit in i was all scared of cars an shit i was madd toyyyyyyy

[Kingz514]

didnt pay attention to graff until like.. 7th grade..
i started taggin but i sucked shit
i got rly into it when i saw crazy graffs downtown n on sites
and yeah

[artcrime99]

i saw a shit load of it then i saw people doing it and i wanted to see more so i looked for it then i started train spotting then finaly i was like whoa this is sum cool shit.

[NOX]

going down to ny every year i see a whole lot of graff even in the suburbs, and ive always liked art. i see it as self expression, and someday i might accually get good! lol, yea right..

[! PrOPeRr ! .aOk.cRu.]

i dropped an application

[Escape]

I saw peoples names on the wall, then wanted to see my own name on the wall. So i looked up stuff on the internet then eventaully went out and did it.

[DEKOR]

in france,were i lived, in class, thers always someone with a blackbook..dis guy who wrote joker showd me.. than dis guy whu wrote smekta did my sist her name, was baaad...so i started, doing my first name..haha toy toy...my first blackbook is priceless..

[mechguy]

Just wondering, i got into graf cuz of my bro, he lisnt to hip hop and i started to notice the music was bringing in graf, its one of the elements i found later, but then my friend got me into it, called me up one day and said you wanna go out bombing, he knew i graffed for a while so he asked me, i had no idea he did, so i guess its my bro and my friend. ive had alot more now from my friends tho

Yo wassup mike its me dude. Btw Im the freind who got him into graff lol

[klipa]

started drawing tats, tribal and stuff wich sort of developed into graf

[Ace_young_kid]

i got into graf because when i went to eroupe and i saw all the graf they had there it ;ike inspired me lol.......javascript:add_smilie(%22:P%22)

[Ace_young_kid]

i got into graf when i went to europe and saw all the shit they had there it like inspired me... lol

[ASEL1DBL]

my bro and my friend

[Myme]

1)Saw my cousin's toy ass shit (He bit Mr.Wiggles I Think)
2)Google'd "graffiti"
3)Artcrimes.com
4)Learned what it was about.. and then saw the pieces.. wow.. the first writers I saw were like eros, sket, skam, maze, bacon, msk/awr crew.. all those guys inspired me and graffiti just took over

[slick dick willy]

mmm...looking at gang graff, saw The Source graff section,
and liked skecthing stuff.

[v e n s r.]

seak one painted a skatepark that i used to skate at, i check out his website one day and started sketching ever since, started witth doing sketches during study hall then going to the b rooms in between classes and bombing them with my magnum 44

then i began stealing paint and better markers and hitting shit that wasnt behind closed doors

[__:Amok:_]

uhh my family lives in chicago and i live in newyork so...hard to ignore graffiti lol but yea i take the train 2 times a year to see my grandparents and would see all the trains n shit. i always would draw stuff so i decided to write my name graffiti style ever since i been painting. Got caught tho <_< been layin low fer a bit

[NiHiL]

i used to drive down the highways on the gold coast and see all the graf and one day i started to tagg stickers and then i got real good!!! :D :rolleyes: :lol:

[fannypack uprock]

seeing it around town as a kid always facinated me so it was only a matter of time before i tried it out myself. never had anyone to show me the ropes just kinda invented the ropes as i went... thats kinda how i roll anyways tho so it kinda fit in.

[DEKOR]

L'atlas, L'atlas, O'clock, O'clock..
my oldskool kings

[_SARE]

basically my bro used to draw a lot as a hobby but it wasnt graffiti. Being the younger one, u always try to imitate what ur older bro was doing. I tried drawing but i sucked ass. I still do...anyways, i always used to see graffiti around my town but it was some sucky ass toy shiz. But, it inspired be nonetheless. I suppose i wanted to try graffiti since i was a piece of crap at drawing objects and anime characters or whatever u wanted to draw like trees or whatever. Haha, guess i wanted to show my bro up. I never really did get into...i just looked at it and was like, "hey, thats cool...even though it looks funky....and it is illegal...cool." So i decided to buy the game Jet Grind Radio for dreamcast and i think the designs and that badass game is what inspired me the most. I fricken beat the game and was looking at all the designs and tried to note what was what and how it could have been done. There were many different styles so the best thing i could do at the moment was to create my own. I was a piece of crap toy in the beginning....as is everyone....but kept on practicing and practicing and praciting and..........

I was running "STEALTH" back then...and now, i have the names Craze/Sare under my belt. im not a fricken king of the streets or anything close to that but i can hold my own. at least i am out of the toy stage.

[Word Killa!]

My friend called me snowhite.Caus i was the only white guy in
the gang.so i started to write snowhite everywhere...that was my first name..
it was soooo dawn wack. but in secondary 1 i change name for a shorter
one and my style was growing fast. this is how a start.

BERGK. word Killa!

[The Kure]

i got into it when a guy at my church showed me his graff. i tried it and i got pretty good at it. i actually burn the guy and im way better than him. kinda weird but oh well, live and learn!

[Ironik]

driving to school wit my mom and looked up and noticed a huge throwup on a slanted wall. I think it was AU or U not shure then i saw their tag on the Mc Donalds by my house. and my cousine she taught me how to do bubble letters.

[neaksta]

in elematry skool my skool would juts get fuckiinnnnnn taged to shitttt and always sit by the window keep seeing new shit on it and it got me into it i thought that was really koool

[pesci]

when i lived outside of boston taking the highway into the city the walls were covered... always making my head turn, so i started trying.

[Dr. Coffee]

I lost a bet

[unknown_1]

i've been into graff all me life
it started by ridin the newcastle metro only started writin when i moved away from newcastle tho

[$NAKE$]

i got into graff by smokin weed and living beside a train yard. you sorta just think its like what you were put their to do, you know?

[inimical critic]

it was a dare

[Markz_sak_909]

wow i cant really remember, i think i started because i saw a guy doing bubble writting and some simple bombs and that inspired me to write but i didnt know how to do it but later like in 7th my cousin got me into writting and then the rest is history

[VAbomber]

my friend said, you wan't to come graffing with me tonight. i was like graffing? lol then i been into it ever since.

[neaksta]

Originally posted by inimical critic@Nov 30 2005, 11:17 PM
it was a dare
i dare you to do a tagg :ph34r: :blink: i dont know man i heard thats illigle ahaha
thats funny its wwierd tihnkin how we all started

[i luv rum]

in my area there are heaps of toys and i just though "man... i can do better than that" plus my friends have heaps of funny ass graffing stories and i love stories so i listened and got interested

[-=J=-]

myself


i saw, i copyed

[djsupreeme]

admiring it as a kid

[Detroit]

Originally posted by The Kure@Nov 28 2005, 12:06 AM
i got into it when a guy at my church showed me his graff. i tried it and i got pretty good at it. i actually burn the guy and im way better than him. kinda weird but oh well, live and learn!
How can you do anything related to illegal stuff in church? You need Jesus lol. Some of my friends steal from there church tho. IDK how people can do that.

[LadyTASK]

I got it by listening to hiphop since my sisters boyfriend is a hiphop artist, and got into its background and shit...so graffiti was the way to go...im glad i went that path.

[sicka than aidz]

i cant remember

[inker]

some cats in my school did it on the back of the room on a whole table and they called security and they made a big fucking deal cuz it was big ass fuck they didnt really care if it was a small lil tag this was a school in LA and i saw it and was like thats fucking wack complete shit it looks fucking horrible i could do better than that shit and since then ive been fucking walls up

[westsida]

ive just liked it for as long as a remember,then decided to start

[Ume]

^^ same here pretty much....except like 3 years before i started, me and my mom were driving past a whole line of boxcars that had a couple e2e's, a whole car, and a bunch of random stuff like that, so i told her while we drove by it "one day my name is gonna be like that"..she laughed and said if i ever did that shit, i'd get beaten. haha..and now she knows and is ok with it.

[Allergic]

eh i was crusing the net and came across artcrimes, then i saw it around the ciry and then the rest is history

[ACTION NEWS...]

The fabulous 5 and NYC trains.

[Klaz]

I cant remember.i think its cos i liked letterin and East london has alot alot alot of graff

[?!?]

it was lying on the ground..

[SiLeNt-BoB]

ridin' the trains..and seein all they stuff in the tunnels...

[sika_2002]

always been into it, i used to wonder about the culture and how people hit the spots they did, i started sketching, started paintin the began serious.

[Deek]

Well I got into this what I like to call lifestyle by doing alot of bad activitys which will remain unknown to strangers anyhow one bad activity leads to another and eventully I've be come a full fleged addict..Fiendin for my next spot...Wish there was some kinda methadone for Graff...Id really be alot better off...

[benz88]

Sister could do some crazy bubbler letter styles, but it wasnt cause of that, mostly my friend came and he was into than i started... fuck i sucked at first haha.

[Kustom]

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

[OGT501]

Honestly i think what first sparked my interest was the opening theme to "Fresh Prince of BelAir" after that whenever i saw my mom had a can of spray paint that was not in use anymore id steal it and write somthing stupid on a wall downtown like FUCK THE WORLD or somthing totally fucked up. the adreniline i got was too mint to pass up so it became a bigger thing to me. it died down slightly for a few years then an aquaintence of mine got busted and i found out his tag name, then i started really really noticing it around the city.

next i got huge in the markering, like washrooms and doors with a shitty tag that changed like every 2 days. once i realized im wasting my time being a vandal i learned the artistic side of graff and since then i been into it for real.

my story newayz

[dirmaster0]

Mannn i used to be into graff (back in like 7th grade when I thought Crips and gangs were related to it)--and I just was mesmerized by the shit, so I tagged up my middle school with gang shit and eventually got caught--stopped for a year--then came 9th grade when I started seeing 106 shit scratched up in the HS' bathrooms--Looked into it--it was WND 106 (why not die, writers never die--they used to get up down here back in the 90's)--anyway I immersed myself in the shit, took a trip to NYC and checked up on FE and MOO throwing up in south west/south manhatten and also in queens--n it just took off from there.

I started talking to Huez one, Bace, SUMR, RND, BNC crew from Minneapolis, tried to get into contact with WND but still nothin--Just trying to learn up since there isnt shit for writers here to pass on the history

So in other words, still getting into it and trying to get others into it, gotta keep the scene alive cause graff cant fuckin die! :)

[JETc17]

i really dont remember. it was probably at the end of the last summer when my older sister got into hip hop music.

i started listening to music then i got into it all and it was like a whole nother world. started paying attention to what was all around me, even though i never payed attention to it before. thought was pretty sweet.

i sketched random letters, and i came up with "chirip" which sounded like "trip" when you said it out loud. i wenth through MANY names before i came to the one i have now.

first time i wrote on a wall was when i found a black pilot in my dads garage. the whole school hated our principal and the mucic teacher, so i wrote "fuck ms [music teacher], and [principal] too" it got buffed the next day and the whole school was practically on lockdown.

couple months later we had "NWA" and "CRIPS" written on our school in blue, and thats when i started noticing other hip-hop groups life LFA and DOVK down here.


:)

[Grapez]

I lived in the dundas west area and it was full of graff and i looked at it and always wanted to do it but didnt know what it was about, then i found out more and started.

[The Stig]

i really got into it when i saw some of my brothers work around the house, can't find them anymore. Don't think he still writes.

[s.ense]

i used to be a sawg little toy but bout 8 months ago me and me m8s got into it and now we r getitng big artist. i cnt help me slef althouhgim getitng caught at moment what should i do if me mum and dad finds out i lvie in the uk by the way :ph34r:

[chaosrevel]

for me it was when i was 8 and my friends older brother was bombing "dtf" down to fuck or w/e. he bombed it all over my shitty little down. at the time it was the shit cuz i
always loved vandalism. but i also appreciated it for it's skill and dedication it took into making the shit look hot. as toyish as it may sound, if someone can tag better than you, they deserve your respect. that is if your a real writer and not some asshole buffer who hates. i started drawing at that time, now years later my drawing skills are tight as hell but my tagging's still a little toyish. i'll admit it. cuz it's about getting up not being down.

[SKIT.]

art teacher.

[Jugga]

hip-hop...
always had a profound love for all about it...
it was just a matter of time....

[Stonk]

i always loved looking at all the shit on the walls when i would walk with my parents downtown. haha at first i couldn't read tags and just thought that it was scribbling so in 5th grade me and my friend would just scribble little lines everywhere. THen in 8th grade i would write on the bathroom walls, but after about a month of that stoped, and am now getting back in and actually more serious about it

[aerosolhaze]

seein it in mags and around town and I was like I can do that and just started sketchin and then I found out how many people were doin it and that sum of my friends were too and then wed go bombin but I was more into the artistic pieces like other peepole in here

[ylive4death2come]

i had been drawin for a while and i have always been interested in doing bad things i dunno y so i figured this was the best way to do 2 things i love and graffiti would be the best thing in the world, if u could fuck it.

[arest]

Ive been doodlin on my papers in class since i was 5. Writin' shit like iI hate school in bubbles LOL. Then i started writin' graff around my area in high school which is now. I still got alot to learn, but I LOVE TO WRITE!!!!

[[]ASeR-ONe[]paint slinger]

this kid way back in the day in one of my classes could draw up some sick fuckin wildstyle. plus my friend carlos who i skated with started to graff and kind of got me hooked on it. although i didn't start actually writting till like 10th grade, but i drew a lot. tight kids and i fuckin miss them since i moved, i havent talked to them in forever. wonder if they still paint?

[molotow_15]

i got into by the culture where i live

[visually spoken]

Originally posted by minesweep@Nov 23 2005, 08:28 PM
i grew up with it by my neighborhood and i liked what i saw
exactly

[Back2Basics]

I bought the LIL RASCAL starter graffiti kit..

[impendingdoomNOBS]

one time i shoved a marker up my ass when i was like 13, and i farted and the ink shot out and splattered all over the wall and made a sick ass fucking piece, so ever since then thats been my technique.. all i have to thank for my artistic ability is my asshole

[dark\gbk]

sup i got into grafing case i met up wif a local bomber and i always liked his work so wen i met him instead of him kikin the fuk out of me he gav me a can and helped me out and i havent turned bak since the whole telllin people ur a bomber just meens ur lookin for attention and a good way to get caught besides if u rellli bombed u wuldnt tell ppl case real bombin is graffin in insane places, places wer the u culd caught at any moment so to all those hardarses out there that say they can graff becase they hav been on graffiti creator and hav traced der name u can all get f++ked and grow some balls

[impendingdoomNOBS]

Originally posted by dark\gbk@Jan 30 2006, 03:34 AM
sup i got into grafing case i met up wif a local bomber and i always liked his work so wen i met him instead of him kikin the fuk out of me he gav me a can and helped me out and i havent turned bak since the whole telllin people ur a bomber just meens ur lookin for attention and a good way to get caught besides if u rellli bombed u wuldnt tell ppl case real bombin is graffin in insane places, places wer the u culd caught at any moment so to all those hardarses out there that say they can graff becase they hav been on graffiti creator and hav traced der name u can all get f++ked and grow some balls
good first post.

actually it wasnt. i couldnt understand anything you just said.

[Drow]

saw some skaters taggin shit in a local sk8 shop when i was growing up. I got more into it since i like to draw and....yeah. Never gonna stop.

[b4t0g]

Got into making stencils one day. Got real serious with the stenciling, started putting them up. Then ended up really liking freehand stuff so i got into it from there.

[koper]

i fordt got into graf by seeing a guy in high school do some tags in his book.
I was just like What the hell is this? And he told me about it, i started doin some supercooltags as DjSka (i was DJ'ing back then)
Anyway 6 years and about 5 sketchbooks later, here i am.

[Cascad3]

my art class.i had to write a personal study on anything i waned. i didnt know anything about graff so thought i would learn about it, try it and write about it. and now i will keep going with it even when my essay is finished.

[Dr. Coffee]

wow thats dedication

[obseen]

i started by seeing graff in my town, i didnt really care, but when i saw this great burner i was like i have to learn this shit. that was 3 years ago and im only 13 now.
so lots of time to get better.

[Lost 0]

hahaha i started last year, because my friend made me take him to some spots, i didnt really care for it much then, but now im getting back into and starting to really llike it

[Cascad3]

Originally posted by Dr. Coffee@Mar 2 2006, 05:08 PM
wow thats dedication
[QUOTE]

are you being sarcastic by any chance? i am not very good at reading you.

[THE ARSEN ONE]

My cousin got me into it we were at his job and he had a can of black krylon and he asked me if I wanted to tag on a train and thats how I started it was in like seventh grade

[Kao.Ali]

hmm i liked the whole artistic veiw of it when i actully starrted, but when i was about 8 or 9 i saw some guy taggin a stop sign and he just waved when he saw me, and graff was around, gang graff, but i started taggin things with sharpies and shit, cuz i liked seein my name around, then i found out the whole sud-culture of it and got serious about it

[Kao.Ali]

Originally posted by Cascad3@Mar 2 2006, 04:29 PM
my art class.i had to write a personal study on anything i waned. i didnt know anything about graff so thought i would learn about it, try it and write about it. and now i will keep going with it even when my essay is finished.
so you tried it?
lets see it, i promise we wont laff
and i assume by tried it you mean on paper right?

[THINK]

Mostly my brother and a friend..i started to notice some graffiti around and started to get into it. :ph34r:

[EGO31]

grew up next to a park with graffiti all round it waited a few years searched some sits and boom i got some markers which modded and pissed off the council ever since.

[\(SIN)/]

i dont even remember how i got into it, and ive only been writing for like 6 months!!! :blink:

i think it was internet though, but sadly i cant remember...... :blink:

[PainFulOne]

i quit doing drugs so i need something illegal to do!

[\(SIN)/]

ummmmmmmm............. Graffiti???? :blink:

[PainFulOne]

yes graff!

[\(SIN)/]

o were you explaining how you got into graffiti?

[PainFulOne]

ya sorry my head is killin me!

[\(SIN)/]

o, ok, i was like: "wtf, your on a graffiti forum and your lookin for a new illegal hobbie other than drugs?"

[PainFulOne]

ya well a while ago i stop doing drugs cuz it was gettin' bad and some of these dudes i hungout with were peicein' in my dudes basement and i got hooked by the fumes that is and been bombin ever since!

[\(SIN)/]

lol, so you write becuase you like the smell of paint fumes? i feel like im doin an interview or something lol :lol:

[PainFulOne]

no that was a joke cuz i did drugs you know ha ha funny funny! i was always an artist but i never did graff so when i saw it i had to try!

[\(SIN)/]

i know, i was into art before graff too, it sucks though, i used to be able to draw stuff really good cause my parents could, and then i started graff, all i did was like draw word art and stuff, and now i suck at drawing regular stuff, i used to be able to draw a kickass dragon, and other stuff like that, but know its just like, bleah... :(

[PainFulOne]

it happen but you got to keep doing the art stuff to cuz that can inspire you for some character idea and shit like that!

[MWS]

i used to write and then i quit for about a year or 2 and now one of my buddies got me to start it up again

[Cane?]

well when i was like 8 and my parents would take me into the city center on the train , down the sides of tracks where some real great pieces and i always liked them . anyways i was hanging out with this guy in my school and he pulled out a can of paint and started spraying , i had a go and thought it was quite cool so i stuck to it got my knowledge about legends and like little code names for shit and started buying more and more paint . im still a toy because i could think of a good anme with letters im good at but i got my name now and im going to keep spraying to build up my can control and shit ( drippy fucker )

[Slick]

Back in the day I used to see Graf on tranes and walls and everything, and back in my home town, there was this train station i passed everyday, and this one wall was just amazing. I was like "damn, people did this, this shit will be here for a while, and its really damn nice". And later i found out my friend was a writer, and he saw some of my sketches and it started from there.

[r.A.n.D.o.M]

fasination with it when younger

friend gave me a can of black

practised and got hooked

[Reas]

Originally posted by Kao.Ali+Mar 2 2006, 09:24 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Kao.Ali @ Mar 2 2006, 09:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Cascad3@Mar 2 2006, 04:29 PM
my art class.i had to write a personal study on anything i waned. i didnt know anything about graff so thought i would learn about it, try it and write about it. and now i will keep going with it even when my essay is finished.
so you tried it?
lets see it, i promise we wont laff
and i assume by tried it you mean on paper right? [/b][/quote]
[QUOTE]

i am cascad3. have a look at u.k thread page 1031 to see my first piece.

[soba06]

lookin at blank walls n thinkin how good they could look n i new a frend that did it so i got sum shit n started (all this happened last month)

[Gabriel]

I've always been into Art. Even at a very young age I could draw better than most people of my age. Recently though I've hit a artist's block; I needed something to fill the gap between Manga and what comes next. After playing "Getting Up" I decided that it was Graffiti.

[dcite]

friends.

[MUSASHI]

ever since i was a kid loved art ,it's all I did in math class,probly why I'm kinda dumb in math today... but my parents used to bitch all the time about getting caught by trains at the crossings ..tehn mt brother and sister and I started noticing all the (pretty pictures) on the box cars
and we turned it into an art show ...then my parrents started getting caught by trains on purpose..weird I still do that to this day...but it never dawned on me i could do that too ,untill the first of this year..now I got stuff on trains and maybe some little kids are seeing it ...

[Sheek]

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7192/cropsheek4gs.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


saw it around and wanted to try

[Myme]

You're not a king, remove the crown dumbass

[Gman12]

i got in by pics,walls,and just walking down the street

[Brilliant2U]

went under a bridge, saw the nastiest fuckin peices and wanted to ever since.

[PANIC!FUP_MORE...]

we waz playin a videogame n iwaz lyke O SHIT ima do dat

[stabbyjoe]

when i was little i lived by train tracks and ran to see the freights every fukin day! and started to recgnise what some of that stuff said, FTL and some other stuff, then later when i was like 7 i wasnt aloud to go into this one arcade next to a high school, it was pretty rough from what i remember but i was in like elementary school, i snuk in there ine time and noticed that the screens were all scratched up, the second time i went there some kid etched the side of some machine and i was like WHAT IS THiS? :huh: i started seeing more of the same stuff around town and started a little later..

[stabbyjoe]

and by a little later i mean like 6 years.

[BigGrove]

I got started with the writing scene late..I mean i`ve always had artistic interest in life since I was a lil ***** and graffiti was always around me, so it was about ohhh..2002 I was a freshmen in High School the first writers I met were Misk1 *Pasadena California* and Hi-Lo1 *Pasadena*, I fell in love with how crazy the letters would be..so I got into it..stopped within 3 months..stayed away from for some years then I recently got back into in mid 04..laid off of it for a while..and got back into last year and I`m sticking with it..it was a love and hate situation for me but I`ve noticed my progress over the few months on the contrary of the previous years so there still hope for me in the game LOL..but yeah..those writers got me into graffiti..

[Volume_one_]

I got into Graff about a year ago
I mean i've seen it alot and i used to draw letters but i didnt have a name i didnt know any writers and i've never once writtin on anything besides papper but one night at a party i meet this one guy Name Rusty Nails *Hampton Virginia* and he was hitting up my qourter pipe with some sick letters so i started talking to him and was telling me all about his days of writing and the next day i went to wal-mart and stole probly 20 packs of sharpies and about 10 sharpie king size

he showed me this way to get big lines buy cracking the sharpies in half and slicing the ink pouch with a razor and then wipping on waht ever i was tagging
lol (thats why i grabbed so many) now i live in AZ and I've just meet this Ill old school writter named Sub and i'm hoping to learn something from this guy


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[FWBMeth]

uhh i was at a snowboarding resort and at the bottom where the lifts are i saw a train pass by with a huge as graff mural so thats my story

[NBK CrU 513]

i think i really got the graff "buG" as people like to call it....probablly just chillen on the streets always would see graffiti everywere i went....and kind of just grew on me.....and then it lead me to meet alot of writers in the cincinnati ohio area like ta cru "when,rapes all of the homies...its was a way to get heard

[*s*h*a*d*e*]

my dad got me into it he was in a crew called vapor :P

[R3ORxK1LL5]

my cousin used to write i forget what tho i saw his stuff and i was always drawing as a kid
and in grade 9 .. i went and bought paint and went to a train yard and threw up a drippppppppy throw lol

[Dondii]

hmm, i wanted to start graffin in 7th grade but non of my friends wanted to do it cuz they didnt find it interesting. A couple of years later i changed school and one day i just asked my friend if he wanted to go out graffin. He was into it and we bought some cans and went out graffin :)

[obseen]

whats up with your username though

[vman]

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[Blak-T]

....I always liked drawing and sketching as a kid...and i always saw the walls along the highway and wanted to do something like that. one day this cat named Ben seen some of my sketches and said he liked my style.....he had been doin it for years.....he showed me some techniques and the rest is history

[Wise One]

ive liked it eversince i first laid eyes on it, i joked around in kindergargen about
doing it, and one day i decided to stop joking about doing shit and actualy doing
shit. whats the point of life if you do nothing. if your gonna do something do it, its definatly helped me stop being so damn lazy.

[minor crimes]

i got into coz i loved looking at the styles of other people and allways wondered how they did that. lol i used 2 think they used bucket paint for fills LMAO :P i was like 8 then

[stealthy510]

everyday i went to school for about a whole year i saw this one piece. from there i was hooked

[Artist.]

i always saw graf on buses and on walls and shit so i thought i'd try it out, thats how i got into it

[zekeone]

i lived on a military base in sicily from age 11 to 13...there was this ''older kid''...anyone who had a skateboard skated together out in towns or on the base.....this guy who wrote take,was from san diego originally.i always saw him catching tags,on boards,poles,planter boxes,etc.he kicked me down my first shakers.and kinda helped me w/ my tag.i was take2(w/ the roman numeral).i started rippin it on paper.
then you know,lil cutty spots to do my first i guess''throwies''.then i moved back to the states,not very long went by b4 i met my second writer.marc,he didnt really write one thing,he was like a chameleon.he was really 27 but he told everyone he was 17,dude hella had us all fooled.fuck all that,this guy was an amazing writer,i mean you could drill this guy and it wouldnt faze him.he was the first person to take me out bombing,like just fukkin ''taggin'' shit..lol it was hella fun this was back in 94'.
i been solo pretty much w/ the exceptions of a few lil things i got goin w/ close friends.
thas it i guess.i say do yer own thing,follow no man.
stick w/ the truth.

[WESTFRESNO-SLENG-VORTEX!]

I'VE BEEN IN THE GAME SINCE LIKE '02 MY HOMIE GOT ME IN IT

[xXx]

i got into graff back in high school, seen it on the walks, on the tracks ect ect, started sketching on my jotters ect then just grew more and more into it

[everhull]

i started graffin becasue when i was a little kid i always saw tags about and throwups then i started drawing then my friend zock started then we both just went from there.

[What Happened to the Letters?]

i actualyl dont know what got me into it...i just satrted writing my name in bubles on desks and shit in school and naother kid i knew did it and i would draw the bubbles i had seen on that cream album aroudn my letters then i started doing acid trip shit and shrooms with my words and then characters and now im peicing and ive discovered online graff and now i paint and shit and make mops and tag and bomb and everythign...i know a few writers in my school but no one good...

[R3PTI7IAN]

I was always into art, and art class in junior high and high school. I would have to say i really got the fire when i moved to S.F, found myself homeless for like 8 months. Got into watching guys like twist, fresh out the art academy doing his thing, and others in the soma area, and mission. Those streets was the best class i ever attended. I use to live in a warehouse on the corner of sixth and natoma, on the backside of the warehouse i got to see GIANT do a beatiful bomb on or place. late night in the tunnel after the bart stopped running, throwing up on the walls of ocean beach, it was the best times. Out of all the time i was there it seemed like i never slept......Good times

[theoldguardisdead]

what if i'm not into graff? :blink:

[Same_K]

Early-life fascination with it, and watching Style Wars.

[GUNR]

volume one , u said that u met a guy named sub, do u mean tony 'sub' curanaj ? that guy is from nyc , and anyway i got in a couple months ago and i barely even got a name but ive been interested in it since i was like three and i just read graphitti world

[joker00]

graffiti buddy

[Dizzy39]

My facination with graffiti started not with the endless bombed walls you may see in big cities such as NY or LA but with huge single throwies and unoticed aerosol tags on trains that passed on the tracks by my house. Ever since Ive been taggin places.

[>x]]

i was acctually introduced when i went downtown with my elementary school to go see a play. right then i loved it :] but only recently started to write

[Seiken8769]

no one made me to get into Graf

when i saw a can of aerosol

then i start to spray it on the wall

next morning i woke up

i'm starting to made some graf in my book

when i knew the black book,

i decided to call that book is my black book

everyone reject me, they said "it was an unresponsible thing"

i don't have any close friends

my close friends are

pen, book, aerosol, stencil, and my bombing crew ;)

[vungoh]

meh grade 5, just got into this tag that someone dropped on the corner of my street. old relic. back in the day when the old shit was buffed it was kinda like my goal to reach to that skill level and drop mad shit (which hasnt been done yet kuz i dont think ive reached up to the level). Now all the good shit is buffed, sum by the city, sum by wack fuckers going over it. my cities gone pretty downhill since the oldskool left. but now in grade 9, im still sketchin n practisin, hopin to be good enuf to get sum respercted ups.

[Drips12]

one night i got all depressed, i grabbed a pen and started drawing, didn't know anything about graff but it just came out, i wrote faint in big block letters in black and white. ever since then i've never stopped. i guess it calms me down when i write, gets my mind off things

[tweaknow-tweaklater]

does fascination with nething illegal

[MR.AMS]

i always used to see my buddys older bro's bombs on my old middle skool and then on i was hooked :D

[anarchy]

New York City.

[Akshun]

its like 4 things that got me into graff..my uncle used to graff heavily, when i lived in san antonio the graff scene there was really heavy, then my guy gave me his black book to hit up thnking i graffed since my uncle did, then watching the movie sister act 2, that guy they called sketch in it his shit was dope so i started to do it after that

[G-RAF]

when i came to canada...then just started bombing rescently...woulda started earlier but my area was just dead...boonielike...no1 else did it until my boy came up to me and he knew i was doin it on paper for awhilenow...

[Mexiklan Beaner]

Quest and Sever from Atlanta.

[burn_my_soul]

i when i played hockey i went 2 nyc 4 alot of games and so yeah...

[mad ethics]

walking into the store Yellow Rat Bastard in ny, and seeing all the tags on the wall. that made me wanna do it

[mizta]

THE GAME im kidding i have never played it but i wanna just to check it out
umm art class i could't really draw shit all exept letters real toyish teacher loved it tho

[R00k1]

My friend started to in Vegas..It looked crazy..So I tried doing it.

[unknown?]

me mate was doin graff n i thought i wish i cud do that gave it ago den
i tried n it wernt that hard lol

[LuStErOcKs]

i didnt get into graffiti, graffiti got into me.
-LustOne

[Wrok]

Just seeing it locally as a small kid.

Owed, Kinker, Sinah...

Old Skool lol

[Loose Bandits]

when i was little seeing this fade very day then i figure it said NARK and i wanted 2 be like him so i started drawing

[dopplerONE]

i got into graff by always seeing it around then in like 3rd grade we had to make make valentines for our parents LMAO.

i made mine with bubble letters and my teacher called it graffiti so i started learning what that shit was slowly since then. finally i decided to take a can to a wall when was 14.

i fell out of it for a while then i was sitting next to a known writer in my city....who i didnt know wrote and he was sketching his bomb again and again then i realized ive seen that in a lot of places... got back into it and its been like 4 of my best/funnest years now

[shirrockomole]

the voices in my head told me to grab the can and hit the wall :D

[textathief]

i catch a bus to school and i noticed 1 particular piece. not n e thing fancy it was just old new york style letters. so after that i started at first i was shit but then my bro took me under his wing..

[dageotb]

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40 years old graff writer dage one otb cod from nyc
WWW.OUTTOBOMB.COM (http://www.outtobomb.com)

THE DYM CREW FROM NYC WWW.BROOKLYNGODS.COM (http://www.brooklyngods.com)

[riddleboxxmcl]

ive liked graff since i was in kinderkarden (no joke) at my elementry school there was this bidge by the "play ground" with tounds of graff all over it (it was good shit to) and my favorite i remember was this huge felix the cat charik that was 6ft tall or somethin big,, every things big when ur little so iduno. but i would always try to draw graff every time i saw it and then that shit stoped cuz i got older but i still liked it just not as much then last year i got really into it........and thats my life story :D

[_Sic_]

used to live in tenderloin SF when I was a little kid

[Germ]

i was inspried to do it from all of the sick pieces in downtown detroit.

[Flash]

everything around me my life

[Attican]

Aven got me into it.

It's such a rush...after the first time I was hooked.

[Loz emlintio]

I started jst cus i was into art, then i progressed then i tared up my small town with tags everywhere. looks more relaxed now and less rich
jst the way i'd want my home to look

[APT]

I got into it years back when I met this guy Mykro. Honestly, I looked up to the guy like a big brother... So I wanted to do the shit that he was doing. He taught me a lot about the hip-hop scene and graffiti. We used to hit up shows on a regular basis, and also hung out with a good friend who writes Metryk. A couple years back I moved away, and our friendship kinda fell apart... But I still have tons of respect for him.

[bacK-home]

lol this is gunna sound dumb, but i watched sum tv show and this guy in there that has the same name as me did graffiti so i was like ooh this must be a calling :P yea but after that i began to write, mind you i sucked, but i kept at it.

[Flamez]

i was influenced by friends, and some amazing pieces i saw downtown toronto

[prank]

Firt time i bombed was after a party and was rly drunk then my friend said wanna go bombing? i said wtf is bombing? he told me we would take some cans his bro had forgotten at his place(his brother is sniper hes got flixs in the mtl section and hes friggin dope) so off we went and i was juste hooked to IT!!!!!!

[ruse]

i used see it arond the place& thought it looked cool. but by chance i spotted a tag on a old friends bag & questioned about it. then he invited me along and it went on from then

[Keffer]

Originally posted by textathief@Apr 20 2006, 09:01 PM
i catch a bus to school and i noticed 1 particular piece...
same man... walking to school...theres this nice piece... its so simple, but i loved it

[ss_Solo]

my friends got me into it - i guess just drawing random crap like our initials and then began to actually get serious about it. now we're working up, getting better and i'm totally hooked

when ever i go to the city i just look at every one and judge it, rather amusing actually

[jez]

old friends, they introduced me to smoking ganja as well. ahaha,

[aces]

i drive around a lot so i see it in a bunch of places and that is what got me into it

[iLegaL]

It's the god who learned me

[bad english sry :ph34r: ]

no seriously Internet ... :D

[streak!]

well, it has to be my friend who first got me into it and ive been in the sketchbooks and walls ever since.

[nephe]

it was soo long ago. i started and stoped twice. but it had to do with how it looked. and being facinated on how people did stuff on freeway over passes in LA. no one person influenced me.

[AMW]

i was inspired from the stuff i saw on streets, it made me want to try it! YAAAAY lol

[_LO_ DOP CREW]

MY FRIENDS :ph34r:

[meatgrinder]

When i saw a Checker T tag in pierreofonds...
and later when i saw some of the autobot shit around mtl in like 1995 i started to tag.
Hung out with some cats from the west island of montreal smak....kacey etc hit some more spots....tagged alot more and bombed more.

some times when the mood is right i will bomb with some older cats in toronto..

this was nothing compared to the shit in mopntreal now...but hey .

i had fun

[meatgrinder]

LOLZ AT THE INTERNET OPTION!

[apex.]

i got in 2 hip hop, and got in to graf from there

[-task-]

passin by the ives dairy wall off I 95 everyday since being a kid and being so impressed by it all.

[kewlaid]

I got into graf when I was in 7th grade and this b-girl did my name for me so that I could tot it around on my binder. I was really liked the letters she did. she put a lot of love into it. it was really mad funky. so ever since then i've been writing.

[Spector727]

It's always been a big part of living down here...but there's not that many taggers or bombers and there are NO piecers..

I got into graf to change all that down here ^^

The streets need a voice and bombing is the best way for them to speak

[Cego3]

i grew up surronded by graff and from the first day i started to notice it i loved it and how it was done so precise and exact then my reputation in the city grew now if i dont paint for a week people are like "what the fuck happened to Cego3"

[IPOE]

I skate and graf is the next best way to show self expression :ph34r:

[streak!]

yeahhhhhhhhhh theres a freakin philosophizer on this forum.

[Fluffy Bunnies]

It was a sunday afternoon, about 3 months ago. There was a dim light through the shades of the curtan. It caught my eye. wondering what to do in a clutterd ball of confusion. I slowly looked up and there it was, a lil lamb.

[b4t0g]

thought stencilin was cool, so i tryed making on myself, got into stenciling, then went to the street, then moved away from stencils.

[DR FORCE]

From the day is was born i always watchd to graffitie
then i begin to wrigth my self

[epikone]

cope2 is the reason i got into it i seen his stuff when i was on travels lol i dunno there was something about his stuff that made me getinto it , so i have been writing for about 5-6 yrs now

[epikone]

cope2 is the reason i started yrs ago i seen his shit while i was on travels ,i dunno but there wqas osmething about his shyt that made me start its been like 5-6 yrs now , going strong

[Faber]

i got into it by my friend pierre cuz he listened to underground hip-hop and did pieces for me on my board that said my name

[Asshat]

Saw all the freights on long car trips, and just decided to try it on a notebook, been doin' it ever since.

[LOLRed]

my friend got into it, never actually did it but got me into the scene, he got out and I stayed in. Now Im here. End.


Lol.

[**MATEO**]

i was 12 and my cousin and his friends were over, and his friend was doing a tag on this burnt cd, i was interested ever since.

[Asshat]

Lawlz.

[Divison One]

FRIENDS

[syrup2]

i used to like drawing block letters when i was little kid and also i live in sf which has a pretty heavy graff scene

[Arsenal]

i always liked drawing and messin wit letters and then i saw some work of my friends and i became addicted

[Sli]

Bombing Science

[SeapNSR]

i was in year one at school
and some dudes broke into the big lunchroom thing and bombed the canteen roller door
i heard someone talking about graffiti
i asked what graffiti was
they told me
"its when someone writes a word as messily as possible on a wall"
i thought it was hell cool
so i held that thought and some years later i became a tagger

[ephemeral]

was messing around in my art class at boarding school one day, i was twelve. i went outside after class and was spraying stuff in the snow.
few days later i tagged the outside wall of the gym at school, and just went from there.
i'm 18 now, been doing it six years.

(first post btw)

[Zoner]

it was a accident

[SPEKIOS]

Started by my self in 2002 ...

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[Tye]

Actually how I got in to it is since I was 8 there has been a sweet throwie next to my dads work building and I thought about the culture and stuff until I was about 12 then I got into it. If i has a digi camera I would post the throwie but it is blue and orange and real swirly and the writer put his name in the middle of the swirls but it is on a roof top and I have been meaning to go up there and see the writers name but never have got around to it to bad there is no scene in my city or I proably could find him and learn some techqniqs. ;)

[mistawastah]

this really cool new game called getting up, i only wear ecko now.

[mistawastah]

btw where can i get the sweater of the guy in the game... i KNOW its for sell somewhere

[doc1]

my cuz got me into it i started to throw up SCO for sanfrancisco then i moved on to tagging then more bombing and now i piece :ph34r: shits funny like that
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/1865/14482427336126431e65ii.jpg (http://imageshack.us) THanks MAN

[doc1]

and the net helped ALOT

[RUNTY]

when i started doing bubble letter in like 5th grader and i added 3d then i just progressed. and someone was like hey nice graffiti and i was like...graffiti? lol then i realized what i was doing and it just progressed and then i got really into started tagging, and doing throws. then i wanted to see mroe graffiti so i went online downloaded style wars. and i started researching...aww the good old days

[bombingwalls420]

i was about 11 years old and i had a sharpie, and i wrote inside and outside of a porty potty. i was instantly into graff, and shit.

im almost 16 now.

["Ghost"]

i gt into it by this show on cnn and ive always been into then i started looking at it on the internet then started taging around my neighberhood with like sharpies and little shit like dat

[underground_culture]

i still think your gay^



LEAVE

4

GOOD

[Fits]

My sister was a coke dealer and one of her junkies was a writer and i just chilled with him for a few hours when i was in grade and i i went from there

[topclot]

I got into it pretty much from wanting a tag out of being bored, had no skill at drawing or anthing artistic before that, and now i'm not half bad B)

[BoRe-719-]

pretty sure i already said this but, a friend from the forums, who doesnt really post anymore, told me i had the style or whatever, for it....its my life now

[screw_loose]

Originally posted by topclot@Jun 3 2006, 01:10 AM
I got into it pretty much from wanting a tag out of being bored, had no skill at drawing or anthing artistic before that, and now i'm not half bad B)
too bad its not called tagging.


idiot.

[Xtrem_bomber]

This is kind of weird but me and m mom where driving hrough SF when I was about 14 or 15 and we stoped at a red light and I used to draw when I was in the car so I had a pad and some markers. I looked over to the side and I saw a throw up on a roll up door that I thought looked really cool so Itryed to copy it and when that came out preety good I started to tweak it a little day by day make it alittle different each time till I finally have come up with my own stlye it's vary simple but it gets the job done. I wish I could rember the name of the writer that I first tryed to copy his/her stlye cause I'd like to shake there hand.

[underground_culture]

xtrem bomber


that is probably the gayest name EVER


if your gonna spell it wrong, atleast do it right

xtremE bomber, pronounce extrem it doesnt even sound right

[EMIR]

Great artist in Chicago goes by the name of TSELONE got me into graffiti, if it wasnt for him and his great art, i may have never paid much attention to graffiti

[beantownboy]

I went to new york for the summer and I saw all of it I read what they said I saw wea they out it then I said I'm gunna try next thing u know I'm making the paper and become most hated but I love it now I started a year ago now I'm goin by maze <_<

[sdgundam]

i like breaking the law and this is the funnest way to break the law.

[Kid-1]

I live in new york city,if that sums it up.

[k1ng]

a cool artist called apok gt me into it

[Zer0]

My mate got me into it one day when we were on the train,
i saw him tag a window i tried it and from that moment on its become a passion.

[djsupreeme]

just by seeing it all the time

[flymolo]

loved it as a kid maybe 6-8 always wpuld wonder who could get a a building or a wall on a busy street and not get caught and some of it was really good...but now 11 years later its all been painted over.

[notownmonsters559]

what got me in to graff was my homboys from ntmk in fresno and also the love of art and how its your own touch no matter how you do it

[ruckus(srw)]

just always walking around seattle and seein all this stuff then my brother started to do it. so in like 7th grade i went out with my friends but the funnyest part was wachting my friends trying to hop a unlocked gate then when we got past the gate the only thing we taged was like street lol i was hella scared i was like hinding in the shadows at like 3am and all my friends where just all laid back

[_Dust_]

I got in to it because i was sittin in a car and watched a train go by and i was thinking...i could do somthing like that cause im pretty artistic and next thing you know 2 years later here i am spreading my words

[WhiteToy]

I also got interested because of "Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure"

I'm still just, a complete and total toy. I have no idea what the hell to write and I'm just losing my mind trying to figure out something oringal without nicing someone else's work or name.

[SALVO]

Originally posted by WhiteToy@Jun 21 2006, 09:01 PM
I also got interested because of "Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure"

I'm still just, a complete and total toy. I have no idea what the hell to write and I'm just losing my mind trying to figure out something oringal without nicing someone else's work or name.
Haha you're a cluck. One of the first of your kinds, and hopefully one of the last.

[Special_K]

I just go into it because i though it looked awsome and wanted to be part of it. i started noticing graff around the 4/5th grade when KATCH was doing his thing on oahu. I saw that first mural and knew i wanted to do it. This was about the same time they started pressing that graffiti is a crime brainwash BS on us. I even had to write an essay on why graffiti is a crime. Im a junior in highschool now and i still love graff as much as i ever have.

[WhiteToy]

Whatever you say dude... *smirks* Give it a few years. Maybe more like me will come along. Who knows?

[SALVO]

I'm sorry man, I just had to lash out when I read your post. I don't really have anything good to say about that video game, and a big reason why I don't want this graffiti video game to exist is because graffiti needs to stay the way it is. Tag an ecko clothing factory and watch that shit get buffed.

[Special_K]

Originally posted by WhiteToy@Jun 21 2006, 11:32 PM
Whatever you say dude... *smirks* Give it a few years. Maybe more like me will come along. Who knows?
wtf is that supposed to mean. You got into graff because you played a videogame on ps2 while real writers were out living the game.

[skateparadise]

that video game sucks. i knew this web site would draw kids who tried that video game.

[WhiteToy]

Nah it's cool. You don't really approve of how the game does it? True, no government I know is so corrupt that they would have ops set up to kill off the very people who they are supposed to protect. And you prove a good point. All this game does is show is the Ecko Unltd. rhino and maybe a few false pot shots at graffiti. I don't know much about it seeing as I've never seen it from the other side of the fence, from a real graffiti artists point of view. I'm not going to be tagging buildings for a while.

I need to just chill out and think of a name to write with. Had something, but then realized I was partly Nicing from JA. So, give me a little while. I'm gonna just work on something. Be using Sharpie fine point Permanent Marker. I work at Home Depot, so these things were really cheap. They work just fine though. I'll try and get something in within a week. Later

[WhiteToy]

Originally posted by Special_K+Jun 21 2006, 11:46 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Special_K @ Jun 21 2006, 11:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-WhiteToy@Jun 21 2006, 11:32 PM
Whatever you say dude... *smirks* Give it a few years. Maybe more like me will come along. Who knows?
wtf is that supposed to mean. You got into graff because you played a videogame on ps2 while real writers were out living the game. [/b][/quote]
Relax man. What I said meant nothing. Yeah. I'm just laying back playing a game while real graffiti writers are out there risking getting caught every time they do graffiti. I'm not exactly a star model for a graffiti artist. What's a dumb ass white boy like myself supposed to do? Lie about this shit? Tell you all it runs in the family? Nah. I told you all the truth. Don't matter now if all of you hate me. There's always a chance for anything... that's what I live by.