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dl4on3 wrote @
Hi CHAIN, thanks for feedback, fair comment, i’ve got a text up from Caleb Neelon explaining all that here.
Anyway the most common term that people use is graffiti, even @149st the TMT is under “Documenting New York City Graffiti”, also on Art Crime,(graffiti.org) they describe the content as graffiti art worldwide.
It’s not that people don’t know their history, i think it’s much more an internet thing, a search engine thing, like earlier when you searched “chain 3 graffiti artist”.
Personaly i like “graff” better, being french it’s the term used there, and graffeur or graffer instead of graffiti artist.
Feell free to leave feedback on the “writing tutorial”, any help on how to improve it would be great.
Mad Props to TMT
Peace
DLA
Chain 3 tmt wrote @
That is fair …But I had to stress that point because people love the street level aspect of that word and I refuse to focus my art on a word someone else made. Of course like many
i was sucked in, but after research and “Style Tracking I found out what this what the true nature of this art is called…
On the outside world society guides you to believe that Graffiti is tied into true train art but not so…Graffiti is true destruction that means we are tied into: Gang markings, church vandalism, ego posters, and street chalk markings. That is not what we do even though we started as street vandals. The style is in the letters not the characters…lesson #2
Characters are great for back ground only!
your style is your fingerprint….1
dl4on3 wrote @
I’ve read that in the early 70’s RIFF (Reading Is Fundamental) did a top to bottom portrait kinda afro style that introduced the BBOY style type of characters, with no letters.
He opened the door to evolution and creativity..
There is so much style in some characters (from old school DOZE’s muggsy faces to more recently RIME’s dog and many more…)
imo the style is in the writer.
i’ve seen that on rime’s blog talking about you
“I am the creator of the Forcefield, The Drop clips (bits), The cobblestones (interior designs) that curve around the inside of letters, and the Splash behind a piece!”
is that right?
i feel silly now, i guess just got lesson 3, about Modesty and humility…
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Is this for real…the first lesson to know is that
our art isn’t called “Graffiti!” that is a word made up by some one in the New York Times
Writing, Tagging, Bombing, Hitting, and Aerosol art, Mechanical letters…etc
A true Writer may disguise the word in the lingo but he would never say that in the outside
public it is a curse to our culture and delivered a black eye on what we do. Yes we were Vandals but we turned this into an art the world loves….lesson one…peace