Graffiti For Dummies

[MoNkEy]

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i think everybody should post a small article for a book we can make, call it "graffiti for dummies"

This was posted my Sika in the graffiti books thread. We should all post a paragraph or two on what were good or best at, at graffiti. This would be a good thread for all new comers to have a look in and get tips and help. It will keep the toys busy to read aswell!! :P It will sort of be a little textbook for people to look in.




Im going to speak about bombs. Firstly a bomb is a little peice with no fill just an ouline. It only has one colour and is usually kept simple. I think people only use these as you can pull them off very quikly. You could do a lot of these in an hour it would take me about 30 secs most, maybe less to do one. So think how many you could get up on the streets with 10 cans and about 1-2 hours of bombing. You could cover a whole neighbourhood. They are also very useful if you want to hit a hot place. I would say to make a good bomb it would have to be neat with no drips and so on, like every peice should be. To make them especially good they have to be done in risky places that you need to have balls to do. Luckily they are fast and quick to do so you wont be painting for ages, so people wont have time to react if they see you. A good thing to do for bombs is to make it flow, a one-liner would helps you out a load as you can do it all in one and not stop at all.



So everyone post a bit about what you like and what your good at so you can give tips. Even if its short just post it up. I know some of your are fukin brilliant at stuff so post, psyKOAZ could do anime if hes willing to, and pherz should do one on peicing as i like his work, and GESUS you should do one on handstyle or anyone can do them. Admins if you wanna close then close im bored anyway lol.

Remember post up !!!

[Alchohlics_Anonymous]

haha that pic is tight, there should be a glossary for graffiti terms in the beginning, but have it bigger than the other books have there glossaries, this would be useful if it were ever to be real.

[MoNkEy]

GLOSSARY




ALL CITY
What a writer is considered to be when he/she is "up", but this term implies more status than being just "up". Many people can be "up", but only a select few could be considered "all city". Can also refer to a crew instead of just one writer.

BACK IN THE DAY
Refers to the "old days", old school, or when a writer first started writing. Also a hip-hop/rap term.


BACKGROUND
Originated on the subways out of neccessity. Backgrounds were used to make the piece stand out from all the tags and assorted scribbling on a subway car that make the piece hard to discern; the color or design painted behind the piece to make it stand out from the wall or train.


BACK TO BACK
A wall that is pieced from end to end all the way across. Also can refer to throwups that are one after another.

BATTLE
This is done when two writers or two crews have some sort of disagreement. The battle can take two forms: skills battle or getting up - essentially quality vs. quantity. A skills battle is when two writers piece a wall within a certain time period (usually a day or a few hours) and whoever does the best piece is the winner. A getting-up battle is when the writers take a certain area of a city and whichever crew can get up the most in that area within a certain amount of time (say a week to a month), wins. For both kinds of battle, an outside crew or writer judges who is the winner. The terms of losing and winning are usually negotiated by the crews involved and can be payment in paint, pot, a sock in the jaw, the losing crew has to stop writing their name, etc., etc.

BITE
To copy another writer's style. This is considered a no-no and is looked down upon, even though writers often borrow imagery from cartoons and comics.

BLOCKBUSTER
Big, square letters, often tilted back and forth and in (usually) two colors. Mainly invented to cover over other people and to paint whole trains easily, but they are effective on smaller walls for maximum coverage. Blade and Comet claim to have invented these.

BMT
Train line in NY that had only ridgys and ding-dongs (except for the As and Cs.)

BOMB
Prolific painting or marking with ink. To cover an area with your tag, throwups, etc.

BOMBING
To go out writing.

BUBBLE LETTERS
A type of graffiti letters, usually considered to be an older (and sometimes outmoded) style. Often used for throwup letters because of their rounded shape, which allows for quick formation. Phase2 originally created this style.

BUFF
Any means employed by the transit authority to remove graffiti from trains. The more modern usage is when any graffiti is gone over or removed from any surface, not necessarily just from trains.

TO BUFF, BUFFED
to erase, erased.

BURN
To beat the competition with your style. Also refers to a really good piece, as in one that "burns".

BURNER
Originally a well-done wildstyle window-down whole car, a burner is a very good piece. Obviously, the reference to a window-down car is not applicable for pieces that are not on trains. A burner is any piece that has good bright colors, good style (often in wildstyle) and seems to "burn" off of the wall.

CAP, FAT or SKINNY (tips)
Interchangable spray-can nozzles fitted to the can to vary the width of spray. These are usually racked off of commercial products, such as K-Mart's Bug and Tar, various cleaning products or starches. Many stores and graffiti fanzines sell caps nowadays. Also referred to as "tips" (as in "flare tips" and "thin tips".) The really big fat caps are sometimes called "softballs" because of the wide and soft-looking spray they produce. Tips are sometimes referred to by a certain number of fingers, corresponding to the width of the spray (for example, a "four-finger spray" would be about as wide as your hand. The number on the front of a tip is the catalog number for that model.

CHARACTER
A cartoon figure (usually, but not necessarily) taken from comic books, TV or popular culture to add humor or emphasis to a piece. In some pieces, the character takes the place of a letter in the word.

CHINA MARKER
A type of grease pencil used by artists to mark up contact sheets of photos or the photos themselves for cropping. They come in red and blue, and were adopted by writers for tagging because of the grease base. China markers are not very big, only as big as a crayon, but will write on almost anything.

CLOUD
Stylistic form applied to pieces. The use of clouds is not as freqent now as it was in the early days of subway car painting. See "background".

COMPUTER STYLE
A certain style of wildstyle that looks digital or bitmapped, as if it came out of a computer.

CRAZY
It means crazy in the dictionary definition but can also mean "really" as in "crazy big".

CREW
A loosely organized group of writers who also tag the crew initials along with their name. Crew names are usually three letters, many times ending with "K", which stands for "kings" or "kills" in most cases. Some crew names are just two letters, some are four, it all depends.

CTA
Chicago Transit Authority.

CUTTING TIPS
A way to cut standard tips, thus modifying them into fat caps or flare tips.

CUTTING LINES
A painting technique used on inside fills of letters and characters to get thin lines, thinner than thin tips.

DIS
To insult. Comes from "disrespect". Originally it was just a hip-hop/rap term but has found its way into the culture at large. Hey, even my mom says it! See "front".

DEF
Really good, (derived from "death"). In its day it had as much use in the hip-hop scene as in the graffiti scene. Not in use as much anymore, in some circles its use is considered downright cheesy. I'm all for bringing it back.

DING-DONG
Relatively new stainless type of subway car, so named for the bell that rings just before the doors close. Ding-dongs were preferred because they were so flat. They were a quick buff so no one did any full-scale pieces on ding-dongs.

DOPE
Originally a rap/hip-hop term that means "cool".

DOWN
To be in with, part of the group or action (as in "he's down with us"). Part of your connection, if you are down with someone.

DRIPS
Stylized drips drawn onto letters to add effect. Although inept paint application causing unintentional drips is considered the mark of a toy and is wack, stylized drips drawn on letters are acceptable. This style originated early on in New York subway graffiti.

FADE
To blend/blended colors.

FAME
What a writer gets when he/she is constantly and consistently getting up. One of the goals of writers is to have fame within the subculture of writers, and some, like Chaka, aim to have fame (or at least be recognized) outside of the subculture.

FANZINE
A fan magazine devoted to a narrow interest. Often shortened to "zine" In the graff scene, fanzines would obviously be devoted to writing, featuring photos of pieces, etc. The first graffiti fanzine was "International Graffiti Times" started by Phase 2. Nowadays there are many fanzines such as Can Control, Skills, Crazy Kings, and many others.

FAN SPRAY
A newer type of stock tip on spraypaint cans (used to be only on cheaper brands but almost every company, including Krylon, now sport these on at least one line of their paint) which sprays in a fan pattern that can be adjusted from vertical to horizontal, but is useless for tagging because it looks wack. May be used for fills but the cheezy tips prevent any kind of detailed can control. The tip is not removable for insertion of fat caps.

FAT
Can refer to something being thick, as a "fat line", or can be a general term of good, like "yo, that's fat!" Often spelled "phat".

FEMALE TIPS
A new type of tip that is called "female" because the can has a "male" counterpart. Traditional cans are vice versa. These female tipped cans are no good for writers, except maybe for fills, but even that's questionable.

FILL
The solid interior color of letters on a piece or throwup.

FLAT
Older slab-sided type of subway car; the most suitable surface for painting. This term refers mainly to subways, although it could refer to certain types of freight cars as well.

FLICKS
Prints of photos of graffiti. Also "flick" (singular) and "flix" (plural).

FLY
Cool, same as "fresh". Early hip-hop term.

FRESH
New, cool, good. An early hip-hop term.

TO FRONT
To hassle someone, to want to fight. For example, "You frontin' on me?" Also a hip-hop/rap term. Probably comes from "confront".

GETTING UP
Originally, "getting up" meant to sucessfully hit a train. Now it means to hit up anything, anywhere, with any form of graffiti, from a tag all the way up to a wildstyle burner -- although the term implies the process of tagging repeatedly to spread your name. Tagging something once would be getting up, but would not make you an "up" writer.

GOING OVER
One writer covering another writer's name with his/her own. Also known as "X-ing out" or "crossing out". "Crossing out" is usually just that, painting an X over another writers tag or piece. In the early days of New York graffiti, Cap was the master of doing black and white throwups to go over people. There was even a crew called TCO (the cross outs), whose main goal was to cross everyone out. See also "blockbuster letters".

GREASE PENCIL
See "china marker".

GRIFFIN
A type of shoe dye used in homemade markers.

GROCERY STORE INK
A kind of purple ink used by grocery stores in their marking guns. Writers took this ink to put in their homemades and refillable markers. Writers from back in the day swear by it because of its permanence.

HIP HOP
The culture in the late 70s and early 80s that spawned the graffiti culture as we know it now, breakdancing and hip-hop music, which has since turned into modern rap music.

HIT
To tag up any surface with paint or ink.

HIT UP
When something is covered with tags.

HOMEMADE
A type of homemade marker made out of old deodorant containers stuffed with socks or felt chalkboard erasers and filled with ink. Homemades have been made out of many things, including (most commonly) various deodorant containers all the way up to VHS videotapes. (!) Homemades have also been called "mean streaks," although this has no relation to the paint stick made by Sanford corporation.

HOMEMADE INK
A kind of homemade ink made for your homemade marker. The basic recipe involves shredding carbon paper and mixing it with alcohol and/or lighter fluid. Said to be almost as good as grocery store ink.

ICY GRAPE
An old, discontinued Krylon color that is prized by writers when the odd can turns up.

INSIDES
Originally referred to tagging the insides of subway trains. Now refers to the insides of any mass transit vehicle. For example, "He's the king of insides" would mean he's really up on the insides.

IRT
A train line in NY that had many burners because its cars were all flats.

JUNGLE GREEN
Another old, now discontinued Krylon color that writers go crazy over.

KARAK
Same as "character".

KILL
To hit or bomb excessively. To really get up in a major way.

KING
The best with the most. Some people refer to different writers as kings of different areas. King of throwups, king of style, king of a certain line, etc.

KRYLON
A brand of spraypaint, easily recognized by the distinctive 5-spot logo. Most favored by writers because of its large color selection and cheap price.

LAYUP
Side tracks where trains are parked overnight and on weekends. Initally used to refer to subway layups, but now can refer to freight-train layups.

MAD
Crazy, lots.

MAGNUM
A type of fat marker used by writers, not refillable.

MARKS-A-LOT
Standard black magic marker with a tip about a quarter-inch wide. Had its place in the early days of writing (early to mid 70s) but has been discarded in favor of bigger, better markers and spraypaint.

MARRIED COUPLE
Two cars permanently attached, identified by their consecutive numbers. This is an older subway term from New York.

MEAN STREAK
A type of paint stick made by the Sanford corporation. Writers like it because it is opaque, waterproof, and is generally a bitch to buff because the base solvent is ethyl glycol. Comes in white, blue, red and yellow. I've never seen black or green.

MTA
Metropolitan Transit Authority. (NYC)

MURAL
A large-scale type of piecing, done top to bottom on a wall; usually a large production involving one or two pieces and usually some form of characters.

OLD SCHOOL
General term used to refer to the early days of writing, more specifically, the mid 70s to '82 or '83. Also may refer to hip-hop music of this period. Old-school writers are given respect for being there when it all started, and specific writers are remembered for creating specific styles. For example, Blade and Comet created blockbusters, Phase 2 created bubble letters, clouds, Skeme's "S", and so on.

OUTLINE
The drawing done in a piecebook in preparation for doing the actual piece. Also called a sketch. Can also refer to the outline put on the wall and then filled, or the final outline done around the piece to finish it.

PANEL PIECE
A painting below the windows and between the doors of a subway car.

PIECE
A graffiti painting, short for masterpiece. It's generally agreed that a painting must have at least three colors to be considered a piece.

TO PIECE
To paint graffiti, creating a piece, not just go out tagging.

PIECEBOOK
A writer's sketchbook where outlines and ideas to be executed are kept and worked out. Also referred to as a "black book" or a "writer's bible".

PILOT
A type of fat marker. Prized because it writes wider than a Marks-A-Lot and is made to be refilled.

PROPS
Respect, comes from "proper respect". From hip-hop/rap.

RACK
To steal, usually paints or markers. In the past, most writers stole all materials used for painting. Due to paint lockups in California and other areas, this is no longer possible, so most paint is now bought.

RIDGY
Subway car with corrugated, stainless steel sides, unsuitable for graffiti. Writers did mainly two-color throwups and some top-to-bottom throwups (one color and silver because silver was hard to buff) on these types of cars. Ridgys ran in Brooklyn.

ROLL CALL
Tagging everyone's name in a crew, or the list of people who helped create it to the side of the piece. Not done very often - tagbangers seem to like doing this.

RED DEVIL
A favorite brand of spraypaint that was quite popular back in the day, but now has wack fan spray for tips.

RUSTOLEUM
A brand of spraypaint, generally more expensive than Krylon.

SCRIBER
A tagging instrument, usually made out of a diamond drillbit, used to physically engrave one's name on buses and mass transit vehicles. Considered by some writers to be more destructive than is needed. Sandpaper is sometimes used to tag buses in the same manner--it too is considered mass destruction.

SCRUB
A certain type of throwup (usually two colors) that is filled very quickly with back-and-forth lines, rather than filled in solid.

SG-7
A type of big marker made by Sakura which is a little bigger than a Pilot, and it too is easily refillable, although it does not state that on the outside. Sakura makes a model the same size called "Pentouch" which is a huge paint marker, complete with a mixing ball inside of it.

SHOE DYE
Shoe dye kits are used sometimes for tagging, especially those that consist of a bottle with a brush/sponge device attached. They usually come in black and white. See "Griffin".

STICKERS
A form of tagging, most commonly saying "Hello, my name is". Can be anything from computer-generated, clear, generic blank stickers that have the writer's name on them to elaborate stickers with little pieces and characters. Some writers consider stickers to be for people who are "afraid" to use markers/paint, while other writers use a combination of stickers with markers and paint.

SUCKER TIPS
The stock tip that comes with a can of spraypaint. So named because only suckers would piece or tag with said tip. That said, lots of old school kings used nothing but stock tips back in the day.

TAG
The most basic form of graffiti, a writer's signature with marker or spray paint. It is the writer's logo, his/her stylized personal signature. If a tag is long it is sometimes abbreviated to the first two letters or the first and last letter of the tag. Also may be ended with the suffixes "one", "ski", "rock", "em" and "er".

TAGGING UP
The act of writing a signature with marker or spraypaint.

TAGGER
As opposed to "writer"; this term is usually used to refer to those who only do tags and throwups and who never piece. Some taggers seem to like more destructive methods such as scribers and sandpaper in addition to markers and paint. Some taggers do get interested in piecing, some don't. Taggers who never piece are sometimes called "scribblers" by more experienced, piecing writers.

THIRD RAIL
On New York subway lines, this is the extra rail that supplies the power for the trains. If you touch the 3rd rail, you will most likely die.

3D
A three-dimensional style of letters, used for added effect on basic letters, sometimes applied to wildstyle for an extra level of complexity. This style was invented by Phase 2.

THROWUP
Over time, this term has been applied to many different types of graffiti. Subway art says it is "a name painted quickly with one layer of spray paint and an outline", although some consider a throwup to be bubble letters of any sort, not necessarily filled. Throwups can be from one or two letters to a whole word or a whole roll call of names. Often times throwups incorporate an exclamation mark after the word or letter. Throwups are generally only one or two colors, no more. Throwups are either quickly done bubble letters or very simple pieces using only two colors.

TOP TO BOTTOM
A piece that extends from the top of the car to the bottom, completely covering it. Can also refer to a wall or building that has been pieced from top to bottom. The first top-to-bottom car was done in 1975 by Hondo. Dead Leg did the first top to bottom with a cloud. Others who started rocking the style, and were known for the "T2B's" were Lee, Chain, the Fab5, and later, Newave crew.

TOY
An inexperienced or incompetent writer. Someone whose writing is either wack, who uses sucker tips, or whose style is just plain cheesy. One old definition of "TOYS" is that it stands for "trouble on your system".

ULTRA-WIDE
A type of marker that is extra wide (about an inch and a half), intended for making posters, etc. It too is easily refillable. Often called "Uni-Wide", which is a brand name.

UP
Describes a writer whose work appears regularly everywhere and who is currently writing.

UPS
Refers to people's tags, for example, "So and so's crew has mad ups on main street"

ULTRA-FLAT
A paint preferred by taggers because it sticks to things better than glossy paints.

WACK
Substandard or incorrect (derived from "out of whack"). Anything that looks cheesy or weak. Badly formed letters, incompetent fills, dumb tags, etc.

WET LOOK
No, it's not Jheri Curl, it's an old-school brand of spraypaint. No longer in production to my knowledge.

WILDSTYLE
A complicated construction of interlocking letters. A hard style that consists of lots of arrows and connections. Wildstyle is considered one of the hardest styles to master and pieces done in wildstyle are often completely undecipherable to non-writers.

WINDOW DOWN
A piece done below the windows of a subway car.

WHITE TRAINS
In '83 they started running the white trains on the 6's. Writers loved these cars because they were like canvas all primed and ready to paint.

WHOLE CAR
Obviously a piece covering a whole car. See "top to bottom". This one's by Futura 2000.

WHOLE TRAIN
The masterful feat of covering a whole train with pieces. Two whole trains were done in 1976 by Caine I and two more were done by The Fabulous Five soon after.

WRITER
Practitioner of the art of graffiti.

[dcite]

give credit to whoever wrote that..

[sika_2002]

i was the one who suggested it, check for ya self. monkey i thank u for this

[oblong]

yeah ihave read that all b4
monkey u straight stole that

[MoNkEy]

lol i got it from this website then i was just loooking on art crimes and it was there, so i didnt steal it from there. lol sika thanks for the idea lol

[dcite]

sika im not talking about that, i dont care who gave him the idea. im saying someone worked hard to put together that graffiti glossary and they should be given credit

[MoNkEy]

yer they should be i know quite a lot of definitions but i was to lazy to type it lol so i copyied it from this little website. So everyone start posting tips and anything about anything on graffiti. Hoepfully it can be used by toys so they stop asking questions.

[MoNkEy]

kk im off for the nite everyone keep posting please !!

[FOEone]

Foeonerism - FO-WUN'-ERR-IZM - (noun) 1. The evident mindset of a "foe", as expressed through illegal media. 2. An unlawful or antisocial art movement originating in urban North Carolina as a reaction to below-standard and unskilled artists (see toyism)

SYNONYMS: allcity, king, stickerking, streetartist, masta of disasta, the rza, the gza, the ghostface killa

ANTONYMS: toy, wack, weak, lame, ja

[cuttingxedge]

i was the dude who asked about this in the first place! i want my royalty checks!!


:P

[cAsHmOnEyMilLiOnArEhOtBoY]

she77-most hated on BS, loved on the streets

[Tony]

Originally posted by FOEone@Oct 3 2004, 01:38 PM
Foeonerism - FO-WUN'-ERR-IZM - (noun) 1. The evident mindset of a "foe", as expressed through illegal media. 2. An unlawful or antisocial art movement originating in urban North Carolina as a reaction to below-standard and unskilled artists (see toyism)

SYNONYMS: allcity, king, stickerking, streetartist, masta of disasta, the rza, the gza, the ghostface killa

ANTONYMS: toy, wack, weak, lame, ja
:lol: :lol:

[cAsHmOnEyMilLiOnArEhOtBoY]

maniakone- your talking about a HOLLOW, not a bomb, jusdt to let you know.

[GeSuS_KRiST]

i see your a juffalo :rolleyes: god everyone of them is sell outs... now i know why u use the word bitchboy so much :rolleyes:


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theres also the toy story thread we give alot of info out in there

[cAsHmOnEyMilLiOnArEhOtBoY]

yeah you know it, i didnt know ABK was juggalo shit jsut becasue its with ICP. and when have i ever said "bitchboy"

[infer one]

i wonder if there is a "graffiti for dummies" Book

infer one Posted: Oct 3 2004, 11:57 AM


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IM SURE THERE IS, THEY HAVE MILLIONS OF THEM BOOKS, IM GONNA LOOK TODAY...

sika_2002 Posted: Oct 3 2004, 12:32 PM


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i think everybody should post a small article for a book we can make, call it "graffiti for dummies"


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they say jump, you say how high.

CaSoNe Posted: Oct 3 2004, 12:35 PM


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or not


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i dont have it all upstairs but who the fuck cares!!!!
914 Y.O. Finest

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LOL, START THE SHYT...

[FOEone]

god i hate juggalos. you really dont believe in that shit about the afterlife being a giant circus, do you?

what we NEED as an army of "juggaFOEs"

[infer one]

LMAO, ANYONE REMEMBER THIS THREAD FROM THIS MORNING?...
I ALMOST STARTED THIS SHYT, LMAO, BUT I FIGURED IT WOULD GET CLOSED LIKE ALWAYS, LETS KEEP THIS OPEN, IM FEELIN THIS, I KNO THIS THREAD WILL GO FAR... ;)

[infer one]

BY THE WAY, I GIVE THE PERSON WHO STARTED THIS THREAD SO MUCH PROPZ!!!

[infer one]

THROW UP: AKA A TRHOWIE, A SIMPLE PIECE, HAS A FILL, OUTLINE, AND SOMETIMES A 3D. DOES NOT HAVE TO HAVE COLOR.

[cAsHmOnEyMilLiOnArEhOtBoY]

toy- cocky peice of shit, car2n

[CaSoNe]

what is the world of graffiti comming to :^(

[LOST]

T&T= trip and tag

Big Shoes= a "hot head", "show boat". Full of one's self. A writer is called this because he/she is trying to fill the shoes that are too big- building one's "rep" apon talk and not skill.

-i'll add some more graff vocab later...

[purplerain]

i dunno if this has been said yet.......but if its illegal do it at night...haha.

[Alyte]

oblong, is that the silver walmart crap you can get cheaper than the other colors in your sig? i need to get some of that.

[infer one]

toy- cocky peice of shit, car2n
NICE DEF. BUT BAD EXAMPLE, I HAVE TO DISAGREE FOR CAR2NIST IS NO TOY... I HAVE SEEN HIS WORK AND IT IS ABOVE TOY STATUS, IF YOU SAW THAT BATTLE BETWEEN HIM AND SHE, YOU WILL SEE THAT SHYT THAT SHE PUT IN WHEN HE WAS PLAYIN AROUND, USE THAT 4 AN EXAMPLE, OR JUST SOME OTHER TOY SOME WHERE IN THIS WEBSITE...

[CaSoNe]

who else think this thread is retarted

[infer one]

ETCHING: FORM OF TAGGING, USING A SHARP OR POINTED UTENCIL TO DIG INTO GLASS, PLASTIC, AND OTHER THINGS.
I FIND THIS THREAD TO BE KIND OF FUN, TEACHING TOY'S IS FUNNY, LISTEN UP BITCH'Z!!! :lol:

[infer one]

CREW
A loosely organized group of writers who also tag the crew initials along with their name. Crew names are usually three letters, many times ending with "K", which stands for "kings" or "kills" in most cases. Some crew names are just two letters, some are four, it all depends.
NOT ALWAYS, FOR EXAMPLE, A2M OR AM, ARTISTIC MASTERMINDS, AND ALSO DONT HAVE TO END IN "K" LIKE RFL, WHICH HAS TWO MEANINGS, RETARDS FORMING LETTERS AND RETARDS FUCKING LESBIANS, THESE ARE KNOWN CREWS IN PROVIDENCE, RI, EVERYTHING ELSE IN FIRST DEF. IS RIGHT ;)

[CaSoNe]

u sound pretty toy urself...wanna battle me? im bored

[infer one]

SORRY CANT, NEED A SCANNER OR DIGI CAMERA, PLAN TO GET ONE THIS WEEKEND...

[-> DUMB ONE <-]

Originally posted by infer one@Oct 3 2004, 05:33 PM

toy- cocky peice of shit, car2n
NICE DEF. BUT BAD EXAMPLE, I HAVE TO DISAGREE FOR CAR2NIST IS NO TOY... I HAVE SEEN HIS WORK AND IT IS ABOVE TOY STATUS, IF YOU SAW THAT BATTLE BETWEEN HIM AND SHE, YOU WILL SEE THAT SHYT THAT SHE PUT IN WHEN HE WAS PLAYIN AROUND, USE THAT 4 AN EXAMPLE, OR JUST SOME OTHER TOY SOME WHERE IN THIS WEBSITE...
im sorry, but you are completely wrong. car2n is a complete toy, not even near out of toy status. if you think that he is good, you apparently are also a toy.

[cAsHmOnEyMilLiOnArEhOtBoY]

your right infer, she IS a toy.

[Adamo]

http://eggplant.ca/bin/worthless.JPG

[PANIC!FUP_MORE...]

^agreed

[CaSoNe]

def

this thread: FUCKING STUPID

[pane in prov]

i dont get its purpose

[das1]

i whould have to disagree with your sucker tip saying, cuz ive seen many of sick pices and they used the &#39;&#39;sucker tip&#39;&#39; as you like to call it but ya every thing else is kool.

[das1]

itz funny how you guys sit around and talk about all your lil sayings, why dont you just let them figure it out for them sleves, im sure you had to.

[MBTA]

well monkey, congratulations on making the dumbest fucking thread ever. yeah, real useful, a kid&#39;s description of "how a throwup should be done". hey, i have an idea, let&#39;s let everyone learn for themselves, and while you&#39;re at it, strap on a fucking diaper, baby.

[MoNkEy]

its jus a thread that can have all info, tips definitions and stuff for people to use they wont have to make new threads and stuff as it will all be in here.

.:edit:.

come on man loosen up its only a little thread full of info people can use, i dont care wat you say reali i was bored and made it for a laugh. I come on bs to have fun and chat to people not to fukin argue or anything like that. So say wat ya wanna.

[pSYKAOz]

Originally posted by FOEone@Oct 3 2004, 03:38 PM
Foeonerism - FO-WUN&#39;-ERR-IZM - (noun) 1. The evident mindset of a "foe", as expressed through illegal media. 2. An unlawful or antisocial art movement originating in urban North Carolina as a reaction to below-standard and unskilled artists (see toyism)

SYNONYMS: allcity, king, stickerking, streetartist, masta of disasta, the rza, the gza, the ghostface killa

ANTONYMS: toy, wack, weak, lame, ja
haha word

[MoNkEy]

lol it was gd

[cuttingxedge]

hey im a toy? what is graffiti anyway?

[MoNkEy]

i kno your jking but hey graffiti is an artistic way to write words and letters, also its illegal art on the streets. If im wrong then correct me.

[cuttingxedge]

hha ya thats pretty much the definition
this thread is pretty cool for someone trying to learn the lingo and everything like that

A Sign of Urban Decay
Today, graffiti is a sign of urban decay. It has become everyone&#39;s eyesore. Graffiti generates fear of neighborhood crime and instability. It is costly, destructive, lowers property values and sends a message that people of the community are not concerned about the appearance of their neighborhoods. It is also against the law&#33;

BahahA

i love what the 50 think about all this

[sika_2002]

wen i first stated i was only joking and never expected it to get this far. oh well. i made the book (title and 2 pages) and gave it to a school art teacher

[infer one]

itz funny how you guys sit around and talk about all your lil sayings, why dont you just let them figure it out for them sleves, im sure you had to.
i see the point in that, i had to figure this shyt out from friends and just using knowledge, and commen sense :blink: , idk y im giving out my info to a bunch of toys any way, well, idk, this is a cool thread, and i see the point in it, but im not giving out anymore info.
if you didnt know atleast 75% of those defs. then you are a straight up toy and idk how the hell you found this sight, and you should atleast learn some shyt b-4 you start tlkin in these forums...

[jurass finish first]

to buy this book would be to admit your a toy. who&#39;d do that...
if it was tips written by real kings like seen, dondi, zephyr..and wasn&#39;t called &#39;graffiti for dummies&#39; then you might be able to sell a few

[siRFis]

D :( ondis dead.

[infer one]

yo sirfis is that the nicekidnice link, that site is pretty dope

[Kayone707]

Originally posted by jurass finish first@Oct 4 2004, 03:11 PM
to buy this book would be to admit your a toy. who&#39;d do that...
if it was tips written by real kings like seen, dondi, zephyr..and wasn&#39;t called &#39;graffiti for dummies&#39; then you might be able to sell a few
i dont think they were gonna publish and sell it.... its just for fun...


it better be. <_<

[halo]

why so much controverse over people trying to HELP the toys? so then...that way....theres less toys...........duh.

[CaSoNe]

because graffiti isnt something u learn over the internet u need to go out in the streets nd learn it the real way

[halo]

true, but some toys are to lazy or to stupid to think of that in the first place, and you cant say you havnt learned anything from this forum, I no I have. But agian I learned most from the streets, but this forum is good when your in a......pickle? lol

[Kayone707]

Originally posted by halo@Oct 4 2004, 07:13 PM
why so much controverse over people trying to HELP the toys? so then...that way....theres less toys...........duh.
are you talkin to me?


all what i do is try and help tots while all you people talk shit to em.

HELP the toys? so then...that way....theres less toys...........duh.
coming from you thats funny. you just posted this in another thread

halo
Posted: Oct 4 2004, 07:51 PM

its beter than this fags trying to start...at least he tried it for himself......


nice job on helping buddy <_<

[halo]

I&#39;m just a people person, what can I say? :) other than go fuck yourself

[Kayone707]

ummm ok..sure..

[MoNkEy]

lol its jus a bit of fun

[the infamous one]

lol u sound like alan partridge or something

[MoNkEy]

lol i have herd of him but not quite sure what or who he is

[Skore_One]

JANDRO=TOY

[toon_dragon]

nice..

[BRAINE]

Originally posted by toon_dragon@Apr 4 2006, 11:59 AM
nice..
your gay quit bringing threads back from page 11

[rancid]

scince its already revived

wheatpaste- a process using a formula of white flour and water to put up printed or drawn posters on newsprint paper or standerd xerox paper, the most famous
paster is OBEY hands down with his Andre the Giant poster

pigs- common slang for the law, also see popo or street nazi

propeganda- A method used to spread ideas or movements commonly using
stencils or posters when involved with graffitti

[WAKE-1]

im gonna print out all these pages and seriously make this a book ;)


SERIOUSLY... :)

[St Mikal]

i thought bombing science was graffiti for dummies&#33;&#33;&#33;

[minor crimes]

krink: homemade ink.. paint and paint thinner... usually silver...

[shalf]

markers are usually used for tags and occasionnal small throwups markers come in a variuos range of sizes these range from bullet tips to nibs up to half an inch markers can usually be reffiled with the writers personal choice of colour markers such as sharpies and prismas are used for stickers
diffrent inks are used to mark diffrent surfaces
etch used for windows
krink general homemade ink using paint and paint thinner
the point of markers is to get up in a small place eg. letter box train window etc. without carrying paint around


-uber3

[rancid]

bombingscience-once a sacred graffitti worship area but after the flood of clueless
toys who played getting up and searched on google it is nothing but a school for
the mentally impaired

By nowforth i ban all toys from the forums&#33; not really but do yall have to make a
new thread for everything, is it so important that it deserves two threads&#33;?&#33;&#33;? Hardly

[BRAINE]

Originally posted by minor crimes@Apr 5 2006, 01:44 AM
krink: homemade ink.. paint and paint thinner... usually silver...
krink is a silver ink recipe originated by KR or KRone
GHETTO KRINK is home made silver ink using silver paint and thinner
if its not silver, its just thinned paint
also, KRINK the company now makes a black krink, so it is either silver or black, and krink only refers to the original recipe, which is not just thin paint
and rancid, you are an internet toy who may or may not have found this site by googling it after playing getting up.

[St Mikal]

its not krs one

[dark\gbk]

whats up wif all the definitions?

i think the starter wanted to explain how to do shit to toy-toys dat just started and shit not to learn how to talk

[flclnaruto1213]

dont bite.

[Tode]

A vanishing point is a point in a perspective drawing to which parallel lines seem to converge. The number and placement of the vanishing points determines which perspective technique is being used.

One-point perspective

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/a/ac/Perspective-1point.png

If the viewpoint is pointing directly into a linear object like a building or a road, one would use one vanishing point, that is the principal focus. All lines perpendicular to the painting plate would vanish in the vanishing point.

More precisely, one-point perspective exists when the painting plate (also known as the picture plane) is parallel to two axes of a rectilinear (or Cartesian) scene (see also Cartesian coordinate system) --- a scene which is composed entirely of linear elements that intersect only at right angles. Therefore, all elements are either parallel to the painting plate (either horizontally or vertically) or perpendicular to it. All elements that are parallel to the painting plate are drawn as parallel lines. All elements that are perpendicular to the painting plate converge at a single point (a vanishing point) on the horizon.

Two-point perspective

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/c/ce/Perspective-2point.png

A vanishing point exists for every set of parallel lines that are not parallel to the picture plane. (If the lines of a rectilinear scene have angles to the painting plate, they would vanish in other vanishing points. There are lot of vanishing points homologous to different angles. But all vanishing points should be located in the same horizontal line with the focus.)

A two-point (ie, two vanishing points) perspective is derived from one-point perspective by yawing (typically) the line of vision so that the line of vision will be at an angle away from the focus (the view may be pitched as well to create a two-point perspective along the vertical axis). Then the lines which used to be horizontal and parallel will now be concurrent, intersecting at the horizon. Interpreted according to projective geometry, the horizontal parallel lines of one-point perspective are actually concurrent, intersecting at the point at infinity [1:0:1]. When the head is turned by a slight angle, these lines no longer intersect at an ideal point, but at an affine point on the horizon, so they are no longer parallel.

In other words, two-point perspective exists when the painting plate is parallel to a "Cartesian scene" (a scene composed entirely of linear elements intersecting only at right angles) in one axis (usually the z-axis) but not parallel to the other two axes. If the scene being viewed consists solely of a cylinder sitting on a horizontal plane, no difference exists in the image of the cylinder between a one-point and two-point perspective.

Three-point perspective

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/5/59/Perspective-3point.png

If the lines have angles from the painting plate up or down, one would use the other kind vanishing points. Those vanishing points must located in the same vertical line with the focus. Looking at the object from above or below, the horizontal line with the focus and all other 2nd VPs would left the horizon up or down.

Three-point perspective exists when the perspective is a view of a rectilinear (Cartesian) scene (a scene composed entirely of linear elements intersecting at right angles) where the painting plate is not parallel to any of the scene&#39;s three axes. Linear elements in the scene that are parallel to one of the three axes will converge on one of three vanishing points. Each of the three vanishing points corresponds with one of the three axes of the scene.

:D

[E-Terror]

ink too runny?

jerk off into that shit

[settybomb]

^^ Skeet skeet works wonders.

[mc_mic]

how do you cut tips?

ive tried opening a stock tip spray hole and it did pretty good,

but how do i make it like a pink dot, how do i make a flare tip. amd how do i make a super skinny tip?

[Atom1er]

you can get flares with any tip
its just a matter of getting really close to the wall and then far away
really fast
but for a homemade skinny
you best bet is take a sucker cap pull out the colored dot (normally white)
and stick a cleaned out BIC ink stick from a pen in it
for a fat cap just take out the white dot center thing
and if that doesnt work just make the hole on the white dot bigger
with an exacto knife
or heat up a sewing needle or paper clip red hot and jam it in the hole
pull it out and let it cool down

[Atom1er]

thanks for that random tid bit....


new definition
POST WHORE: someone who makes pointless posts to get there number of posts up to not look like n00blet cake

[BizerkIZ]

This is how you make homemade fats/skinneys..

Skinny cap

take a stock tip... take a pin/whatever and push it into the dot hole.. rotate it untill the hole gets slightly bigger...

thats the skinny part... but, it should be too heavy for what it is.. so on the nozzle part.. (the part with the gap as you all know) you should tone down the aerosol... take some super/crazy glue and do a flat dab (not too much or it will no longer fit.. but just enough so it covers the gap... you can also melt the plastic and stick it together but thats fuck hard...

a homemade fat... theres two ways... theres the kinda easy but messy as way of taking the dot out... and its rather big.. but extremely heavy and splatters alot... just take an exacto knive and push it in the dot and pull it out... theres my favourite method... which is... (oh by the way. the smaller the hole is in the dot the fatter it usually is..) but there is another way... take your exacto knive.. and cut a cross shape into the hole like this +

that should be most of it done... then take the knive, take the bottom part (the nozzle) and in the gap, make it wider (for the amount of aerosol.. and also longer (for size)...

now it should be fatter, nice and fat :) but if you want a slow pressure fat then dont increase the wideness by much, if any atall...

if you really really want me to guys.. i'll post a step by step...

[razr291]

WILDSTYLE=an over rated style.not a specific style just an elaborate and intracate piece.most begginers confuse them with burners.

BLACKBOOK=a book to practice peices or throw ups.not a good idea to take with you tagging for one.cops could pin you for just about everything youve done and two if you lose it,wouldnt that suck.

RACK=racking is basically stealing.just felt i should mention that.

BITING=takeing or stealing someones style or 'font'.this is not a good thing.its not good to take pics of someone elses work either.

HAND STYLE=almost cursive.pretty much a signature.

HEAVEN SPOT=a hard to reach of high up spot.

[hazetheone]

i alwayse thought a heaven spot was one of those green signs on the highway

[ekimboi1]

it is, that razr dude doesnt know what a real heaven is! btw, i hope your not actually riting RAZOR ar RAZR!!

[Olick]

i alwayse thought a heaven spot was one of those green signs on the highway

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o318/mrshee/heavenspot.jpg

thats me climbin a heaven spot.

doesnt look so high up from the picture but its around 3 stories up. the picture only gets half of the tower.

[k 126]

olick going for his

[Sintakz]

I guess the meaning has been changed or something. I always thought a heaven spot was just a wicked high up spot. Guess I was wrong.

[Olick]

it is.

heaven spot is basically a spot that risks your life.

[Sintakz]

Alright lol, I thought us Florida heads were just retarded or something.

[-COMIC-KCW-]

umm...vamp is when u beat sumone down for their paint/blackbook

and ummm...yeah, a heaven spot is a super risky sopt seen by a lot of ppl(like one of those green thingys on the freeway

[Sintakz]

Rogue=Supreme God Of All Ink....

Seriously he is.

Um... Male Can= Can with a "penis" kinda thing sticking out of it.
Meanstreak= Solid paint marker
Mop...well actually idk what a mop is. Hell to me if it isn't a marker its a mop....

[letsg0skate]

haha why would you beat someone down for their blackbook? haha but yeah A green sign on the freeway could be a heaven depending on how hard it is to get to. If it is a green sign but it is pretty easy to get to with little risk of getting hurt it isn't a heaven.

And here is a dope lil guide for canracking for all you toys. http://ultimategraffitiguide.bravehost.com/stix/part3.html
Got it off 12ozprophet yo

[Olick]

if you fall.

not only will you break a leg.

youll get hit by cars,
---------------
everyone will see it.

everyone will see you do it "sometimes they have lights shining on the spot

sounds like a heaven spot to me.

[Sintakz]

Hahaha olick even though I know it wasn't intended to be funny i laughed my ass off at the top half of your post. I could picture a toy like, "Yo I'm actually doing i......." BAM!!!!!

[rave905]

i got busted 4 rackin shit from a store it was like i was walkin out n some bitch is like excuse me u have a can of paint in ur pocket cuz the top was stickin out a bit n i started 2 run n this guy in front of my grabs me n hes like im a cop

they rung up all the things i had in my pockets it was like 135 bucks wortha shit lol (n im in canada so its more now bitches)

but i got off the shoplifting charge cuz im smooth like that

[letsg0skate]

You obviously didn't talk loud enough to distract them from the cans in your pocket. You need to use the ultimate canracking guide I posted if you wanna be a real g

[rave905]

it wasnt they heard them it was onea the cans was stickin out a bit
but i had so much shit i was worried about droppin the bucket o paint under my arm or the 200 pens in my other pocket

[rave905]

man whats gonna happen the cops gonna go on like try n find clues about bombers on bombing science if they really wanted 2 they can grab my ip address n come knock on my door

same wit u budz

[unknownbomber]

fool edit ur fuckin post ur just givin mad info about urself...fuckin stpiud kid think;)

[hazetheone]

hahaha pockets are stupid for paint i have 36 inches of waist band for that shit you should have juked that cops eyes crooked then dipped like an o g

[milo]

a im a toy.i put my tag up on a bus stop. but the bus stop is on a air force base so is there anythin worse that could happen from me doin dat if i get caught? also i heard you can turn a AXE spray can into a spraypaint can. How?

[fwn2]

thers a few ways but th easiest way to turn a deodrant can into a paint can is to:

1. make sure the can is COMPLETELY empty.

2.take off the spray cap and then use a thin screwdriver to make the male part of the can a lil bit wider untill you can fit the stick from a german skinny into it.(be careful not to widen it too much otherwise the cap wont go back on)

3. insert the german skinny into the male part of the deo can and then put the skinny on the donor can (the one the paint is coming out of) and press the valve of the deo can down followed by the paint can..and u can hear the paint transfer!

4.put the axe can top /or whatever other cap it is back on the can and you're done!

do it outside..first time i tried it it got paint evrywhere
these cans are sick for carryin everywhere but to be honest u mite aswell buy a pocket can, theyre female and have more paint in

[Sintakz]

fwn, that was kinda confusing, maybe a pictorial?

[Hoki274]

ya thats an old 1

[rave905]

fwn, that was kinda confusing, maybe a pictorial?

there is already one in the stepbystep just search transfer paint

[Sintakz]

I know how to do it just figured it'd be of benefit to the people who didn't know how if he posted a pictorial but yea, they can just refer to the Step Bi Step thread.

[Enmity]

http://eggplant.ca/bin/worthless.JPG

...

[Sintakz]

Bump^^^^

[CUBANO]

This would be a better cover for the book...
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t300/stucknpodunk/Graf.jpg

[JayAyDubZed]

whats up wif all the definitions?

i think the starter wanted to explain how to do shit to toy-toys dat just started and shit not to learn how to talk

Yes. People don't need tips on how to talk... Isn't that what you're trying to disencourage?

[JayAyDubZed]

I know if I ask for tips on how to make my shit cleaner. You're all gonna say just go out and practice and paint. Which I do. practicing everyday for a long time. But just wondering if anyone can give me a small tip? Without sayin sumin stupid.

[Five Sixx Ace]

ummm, why did you revive a dead thread?

[JayAyDubZed]

ummm, why did you revive a dead thread?

Fuck, Didn't even look at the date. My bad.

[TrandomnesstwO]

Hey I just want another post.

[TrandomnesstwO]

Hey I just want another post.

[Dont Post my flix]

Thought this was funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP8JZ5axm4M

[Jake_NN_Bake]

http://eggplant.ca/bin/worthless.JPG67983

[Mildstyles]

Thanks for reviving a dead thread with something useless^^

[Jake_NN_Bake]

Oh shit. Sorry I saw it not too far down the list and assumed it was still alive. My bad.

[spher]

i know its a fucking dead thread an all but you dont like it ill cut ya so listen up ...... racking , i literrally shat my pants the first time i done it but after working a couple of stacking selve jobs i realised three things kinda tips about racking , basically go in find a spot no cameras... then whos most likely to see ya the butter the shit out of um act all nicey nice then think this your getting paid minimum wage from possiblely a multi billon company are you gona chase some dodgy looking fucker down the road for 20 dollars of merchandise and next big companise dont give a fuck .... look dodgy get in get out be smart , done

[sape]

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