Always wanted to ask this..

[SOOF]

Ok people, i dont care if you think im stupid, but if you think about it its true

Where does graffiti take you in life, i mean think about it, graffiti does nothing for you, the only thing it does for you is get you better at art , and maybe give you some graffic oppurtunitys,Or sometimes inpress the chicks,but theres thousands of other ways we can impress them, But really does it do anything else except put you in a correctional facility ? Come on now, i mean i cant resist it either, i love graf more then anything, But it doesnt do anything for you except fuck you over in most situations,Its all a big game if you think about it, I dont kno what to do.

What do you think

[Beautiful_Crime]

graffiti has tooken away my focus and perspective i see it from one angle and thats the graffiti writer i dont give a fuck about you or him but if you write nikkuh i love you (smash smash smash smash smash everything) fuck everyone else

[sketch3]

well its sumthing to kill the time,
pluss if ur goood u can get jobs

[SEZ]

gets me through life i guess, graffiti was there for me when i needed it most so i guess ive become dependent on it no matter the consequences or how 'bad a life style it is'.
i just do it....and fuck anyone who judges us and disagrees...

[RUDE_Bwoy]

graff gives my life a new perspective.ever since i started graff i see things different

[Slushi]

What? Where does anything take you? Why do people go bunjee jumping?
Why do people drink alcahol? Why do poeple masturbate?

It doesn't matter where graffiti takes you. Don't worry about tommorow, because today is a blessing.

[G - Wahl]

if you think its too time consuming or w/e you said than dont paint
simple as that..

[HoodRichSucka]

What? Where does anything take you? Why do people go bunjee jumping?
Why do people drink alcahol? Why do poeple masturbate?

It doesn't matter where graffiti takes you. Don't worry about tommorow, because today is a blessing.

what he said^^^ Especially the 2nd part.

[Vagrant]

wtf?
I smell bacon... must be the po-po

Most people are into graff because they see it as art, and not just pointless vandalism. If you want to "go somewhere in life" then go join the mindless robots and assimilate into society like a good little consumer.
I think you need to wake up and realize that mother-culture is reaching its little tentacles into your brain and trying to get you to fall back in line.
Slap that bitch in the face. Go steal something. Go destroy property that "isn't yours"
Resist.

[-=AgA=-TrAnCe]

dont hurt others physically, its not their point they have joined the "rat race"
sure everyone wants to be rich
but if you want to write on their rich
yeaaa...

[SEIZE [reppin yo hood]]

people dont do graffiti because they think i will make them rich or take them places.
people turn to graffiti for many reasons. some do i for recognition that they are unable to achieve elsewhere, and others do it for the pure adrenaline rush you get from bombing. theres no real explanation for why people do graff.

personally, i do it for a few reasons. the first being the high i get from being out at night crushing shit without anyone knowing. the world is a different place at night that most people done get to experience. and everyone loves going to school, work, a friends house, or whatever the next day and seeing their shit. the second reason i do it is because its an art form i enjoy. i dont give a fuck what people think of my shit. i dont care if its good or bad. im gonna enjoy it no matter what.

[C-SONE]

Graffiti is my life, Since I started writing I have grown so much as a person.

[Vagrant]

;921496']
personally, i do it for a few reasons. the first being the high i get from being out at night crushing shit without anyone knowing. the world is a different place at night that most people done get to experience. and everyone loves going to school, work, a friends house, or whatever the next day and seeing their shit. the second reason i do it is because its an art form i enjoy. i dont give a fuck what people think of my shit. i dont care if its good or bad. im gonna enjoy it no matter what.

word

[SALVO]

Graffiti saved me from becoming a yuppie piece of shit.
But at the same time it sort of ruined everything I had going for me.

[Kayone707]

i always wanted to ask this.
is it true, if you don't use it you lose it?
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/56/40yearoldvirginjt8.jpg

[Teez-EmM!!!]

because of graffiti i have more balls to say shit i wouldnt normaly to my parents or to cops. im less nervous in a bad situation. and its keept me away from pot dont know if thats good or bad?

[Kayone707]

because if graffiti i have more balls to say shit i wouldnt normaly to my parents

for real dude, talking back to your parents is always cool

[Vagrant]

for real dude, talking back to your parents is always cool

not standing up for yourself, letting people walk all over you, and not voicing your side of the matter is much cooler

[Kayone707]

theres a difference between standing up to yourself and talking back to your parents.

look at my post. i never said its cool to let people walk all over you

[Slushi]

Vagrant, I've always thought of of you as a toolbox. Your posts in this thread aren't doin' much for you either.

[C-SONE]

It's because he is a fly fetishist.

[SALVO]

Parents just don't understand
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c133/Salvo131/jazzy3.jpg

[Kayone707]

http://smiliesftw.com/x/laugh2.gif

[littlejohni]

I dont write worrying about being caught, or getting locked up. the same reason i blaze without worrying about going to jail, or someone speeding worries about other and their safty. is most situations that are illegal theres a reason why we write. I know that i write cause i worry about shit all the f'n time, high anxiety all day long. Then i go write, i drink some beers, smoke some tre , and as soon as i cap up my can and hear that aerosal my worries are gone, its like effing bliss, and i feel that thats what alot of others feel when they write too. So maybe the legality of it is far outweighed by the fact that it feels good for them. As far as where it takes you, i dunno where its gonna take me in the long run, but i do know that for right now its doing everything it needs to do for me in my current state, and thats clearing my head.

12oz's of freedom!

[SKriBL*666]

What? Where does anything take you? Why do people go bunjee jumping?
Why do people drink alcahol? Why do poeple masturbate?

It doesn't matter where graffiti takes you. Don't worry about tommorow, because today is a blessing.

I really like how Slush put this.

[AMansNotACamel]

Destroying stuff is fun, something to do. Not so much now but when I was younger I remember first encountering city night life when my friends and I would bus it up to the city and trail around the streets all night (before the times of the knifebridge curfews). I got exposed to a totally different culture than what I had been brought up to believe was there and it was such a buzz to know that I was one of the few cats from my suburban area that had stumbled upon something so, I guess, exciting.
For some reason I was drawn to the 'underground' aspect of city life (probably cas I was underage and everything 'anti' appealed to me at the time) and because of the homlessness, violence and drug use I saw it made me feel like I would always have a place in the world (the city) where I was accepted, because I had never done anything as bad as the homeless or drug users and even if I did, I figured, like them, I would still be accepted.
Graffiti was just something I did to pass the time, it will never be art to me, or mean as much to me as those heads that say they love the shit, but it will be, when (if) I grow up and eventually mature a kind of link to my childhood I guess, where I learnt many lessons that have have made me who I am today.
So overall I do not do graffiti to get me anywhere in life but the culture where I discovered graffiti has, through various times of shit going down, provided me with a sense of 'street smarts' which may help me when I'm older, or not. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[-EgoDeath-]

Writing keeps me sane.

When everything else in my life is just going to shit, graff is still there.

You don't really think about anything else when you go out. You're focused on your surroundings and your paint... nothing else in your life really matters then.

Clears my head for awhile.

[toxus]

Another one of these threads.

"Word man, without graff, there'd be a big hole in my life."

"Ya, it's a good way to express ma self, but the addiction ain't good dude."

[Skitz]

i do it cuz im bored and like to play games with people

[terrorize]

graff is fun as fuck.
driving past one of your tags/throwies/pieces is awesome.
like "yup, thats me! and everyone sees it."

[ODonthesetrees]

its a hobby, what does any hobby do for you?...depends on how good you are at it, but for most it doesnt do anything...

[Chaserwon]

I enjoy it so much I'd almost say I love it. Enough said. I don't do anything that I don't want to do in my life. I lookout for number one and do what makes me happy. If tomorrow i decide to lay in bed all day long and make some stickers I will. Make yourself happy man. Do what you love to do, becuase tomorrow might not come.

[whahappen?]

so you can feel youre actually there
it gives you a type of validation that you can actually do something

[anekilishous]

'Where does graffiti take you in life'
it takes me the most amazing places
standing on top of an abandoned hotel in the middle of bristol at 2 in the morning
its the most beautiful thing
there are so many things i would never have expirienced without graffiti
it takes you the most amazing places

[beltonuk]

graffiti can do wonderful things for you but it can also destroy you
it can build confidence and self esteem
it can push people to do things they'd never dream of if they didnt do graff
it can take you places you never even thought existed
its ALOT more than just putting your name on a wall with abit of paint

[BosoeHNT]

QUESTIONS END WITH A QUESTION MARK.

and that's underlined...

[Animal]

who cares what graffiti does for you, as long as you enjoy it, thats all that matters.

[Set17]

haha people pay graffiti artists to bomb there stores to make it look good so like it could turn out good in some situations

[kripto_asc]

Ok people, i dont care if you think im stupid, but if you think about it its true

Where does graffiti take you in life, i mean think about it, graffiti does nothing for you, the only thing it does for you is get you better at art , and maybe give you some graffic oppurtunitys,Or sometimes inpress the chicks,but theres thousands of other ways we can impress them, But really does it do anything else except put you in a correctional facility ? Come on now, i mean i cant resist it either, i love graf more then anything, But it doesnt do anything for you except fuck you over in most situations,Its all a big game if you think about it, I dont kno what to do.

What do you think
for me its something like a drug i have to do,sometimes when i do one i feel like that is not enough. i got caught tagging once in this place after i tag most the walls,the sad part of it is the owner paint the walls again.
i know it doesnt take me any were but its just for fun, like a hoby.

[PulseWithLife]

Its as simple as seein it up and bombing my local area so people know where im from. I dont go on missions just to graff on the other side of town any more. Unless im already there

[SALVO]

Epic necro bump.
Reading shit I wrote 4 years ago is scary.

[PulseWithLife]

Graffiti saved me from becoming a yuppie piece of shit.
But at the same time it sort of ruined everything I had going for me.

I can see what ya mean.

[2mor]

because of graffiti i have more balls to say shit i wouldnt normaly to my parents or to cops. im less nervous in a bad situation. and its keept me away from pot dont know if thats good or bad?



talkin shit to cops is just fuckin stupid man, i hate em as much as anyone, but all it does for ya is make them cuntish towards ya i always do my polite upstanding citizen when i get searched or whatever, i got a mate who got his car searched and kicked off big time , now he gets pulled over all the time, so it only really fucks you up

[atisicATF]

i guess for me i love graffiti it took me many places like hittin up bridges either in the afternoon or 3am but graffiti can ruin you depending on how you use it and if you get caught- my 2cents

[lakim shabazz]

my connection to the higher self always try to do something different its spontaneous creative expression from the spiritual realm
it also introduced to me other forms of art and realized its the same thing just different mediums
P.E.A.C.E

[dom_crew]

it all depends on how you look at it man, i sell my art to people who live around me and a lot of other artist sell there graffiti online.

[AKnR]

Graff has taken me places nothin else has. I have gained respect i would of not have, made true homies, had the time of my life......my best memories will always be graff related. Plus it elevated my art game too my canvas shit has gotten way better and ive made a profit from the canvas work too!

[GuyGuyer of Guyland]

jail

[GuyGuyer of Guyland]

but ive matured through graffiti, but then again, these years are just years that maturity happens. i learned to embrace fear, thats a good one. realize that everythign is trivial in the grand scheme of things.

[Tony]

where does graffiti take you in life? I don't get it... did you expect it to take you somewhere? shower you with love, and buy you a fancy house?



graffiti is just writing on the wall..... where do you take yourself?

[GuyGuyer of Guyland]

graffiti bro, like totally... taught me things, ya know? like... things i didnt know before graffiti bro...

and it did get me a house bro... like a big, happy house... in my heart, ya know?.. and the doors like... totally open to the world bro

[Idealeyez]

mear one is a graffiti artist out in cali however he has transition off and starting having his work display in art gallery for people to purchase

[NARKLOPS13]

It's just art. It will only take you places if you're good, if not, then it's still an expression of feelings, or some shit.

[MindWright]

Gaffiti to me is Freedom. If i got a dope piece in my book or head and I just want to blow motherf**kers away, I might put it right in front of thousands of people. I DO IT FOR ME! It's for other artistic minded people too. P.S Art is my life...

[dreisus]

Graffiti takes you to all the best places in life, like I would never have met those shroom dealers if I didn't graph. You might even get the chance to meet some famous crims in the lock ups u go to. Also if u make a big even scene wit the cops you could be a star on tv on shows like COPS! haha I love graffiti