Homie of mine writes SWIS and he likes to hit the rappel spots. I always tell him make sure he has great backup, climbing equipment, and is extremely careful. It only takes one mistake
I used to hang out with the old MSK crew on Dyckman when it was founded in the early 80’s by Made who was cousins with 2 New. Fun and dangerous times back then. Thank you for bringing back great memories!
Shout out to you you’ve been putting in work with a Videos for a while. You switched it up with more information about writers and history props to you keep it going brother . governor in the mayor should be arrested, but on the other hand, the graffiti is allowed to prosper from the pandemic then bombing the trains was insane but the government in New York drives people away. Keep it going bro props to you. !
The 70’s birthed a revolutionary art movement that could only have happened in the city because of a very unique mindset of NY’ers. This paved the way for graffiti to thrive as an art form and wouldn’t have been possible anywhere but NYC. Glam and grit are intertwined and inseparable on those streets.
I'd like to see more style progression from the new generations, feels like they are looking backwards for style rather than making their own new ones.
What?… I guess it’s not about expressing yourself but being fake af just so you can impress someone. I like this new generation of graff. I see the good in it and I embrace it.
No doubt...Styles" 💯 you definitely had to have style and have your own different signature that stood out from among the rest to prove your originality.
We were all toys. I hate that word because it intimidates new writers. Getting up is getting up. The more you do it the better you get. I don't hate on anyone or their style, after 30 years of this shit I know that wack style could become tomorrows dope shit. Embrace, follow, get inspired by the art. I have studied so many forms and mediums and I love them all but graff has kept my interest for longer than all of them. IMHO it is the only living form.
POST, DINK, KEEAZY been ripping and inspiring my constantly. NOTICE has been stomping shit with his silver and black straight letter. Homesick, FAT NICK, wombat, BAT, OLA, been frying shit as well. I got hella love for the mix bag of style here.
Great job on the mix. I’ve watched you for a few years now and immediately noticed your artistic eye and creative approaches which I appreciated right away. Being from Cali and have only been to NYC once I feel you capture the whole feel of graffiti out there with the atmospheric style you have. The smart phones made everyone a “photographer” but you’ve got the passion and natural eye. You do real work! Thanks man And my thoughts on today’s graff. It’s obvious who knows the secret language and who doesn’t. You know when you see and some don’t know their roll
I like that there are people pushing the style they like full speed. If it’s anti or propel or classic throws. NYC has active go getter hitters in all areas.
Back in the late 70's and early 80's to be a writer you had to have style and creativity. Graffiti writers who helped pave the way and modernize the art were creative artist with ideas and various styles. Artist would always come up with different ways of shaping, forming and designing letters into styles with their own touch of class and originality. Writers were full of imagination and would find many ways to express the art through styles and that made the artist stand out from among the rest. Dedication to display your skills and master the art was a definite must in graffiti. You had to bring out the best in you and take the art to a whole new level. That's why graffiti today is alive because of artist who shared their beautiful art, skills and talent by creating burners, wild style and master pieces that gave aresol spray can art its name. Today there are still very talented artist who still exists and are true master artist that do graffiti through airbrush, murals, canvas etc.
where I differ from a lot of the comments I see on this and other vids re:style is that I don't view Throws as a stalling out of graffiti's progression but rather a core genre riffed upon through time. Wildstyles are certainly technically pretty and eyecatching, but I never really get as excited for a wonky wildstyle as i do for a well executed throw, even just a really effective two letter is pretty cool to me. its like talking about guitar solos, yeah it was very impressive/proficient, but that doesn't necessarily equal a compelling song or image.
I'm not sure how it's changed but it's interesting to see. I'm from the UK so watching your videos is a great insight to the nyc graff scene. I personally really like it when you talk about the history of placer/writers and even building that have been knocked down and rebuilt. Hopefully I'll be able to do nyc one day and see it for myself.
No matter what type of style gets upped there will always be a few holding adrenaline 🕯️ candles. Refined or taggard I think the evolution of graffiti is great always has been always will be especially in NYC.
I am not from US but loved to see YORKER tags. Tag is done very pleasingly. But I am more tags and throwups person than burners guy. Keep up the GOOD work.
I feel like for writers in the Midwest we look to LA and NYC equally for inspiration. And for me personally, I see FAR more artistry and quality work coming from New York than LA. The west coast is one of the most bombed areas on the planet, but from what I've seen there are so many toys, and half the pieces out there look like the type of shit I drew in sketch pads when I was 12 or 13 and had zero knowledge of graffiti culture lol. I look at NY graffiti for inspiration and motivation, even though my area is worlds apart from the New York ethos. I rock with stickers heavy, and seeing the sticker bombed streets out there never fails to get me amped, same with the doors covered in handstyles and mop tags (the one you showed here at 12:32 is fucking gorgeous lmao). And like a couple others said, NYC has the best throwies in the world. I know a lot of locals hate on the scene, and they would know more of it than I do of course, but the graff world still sees New York as the style mecca and a major driving force for writing. Whether the city realizes it or not it's one of the only things making it look good these days. This whole era feels like the 90s again and it's cool af to see.
I remember walking to parsons jhs high-school in the early 90s seeing a trailer bin of graffiti. One noticeably one was this face that was bean shape with a smile on it and attached was the tag gas.
Being anonymous it’s the mystery of who did it for me , love the story’s of how situations can just arise from nowhere at any time ( glad it doesn’t just happen to me ) peace out Mike Manchester 🇬🇧
I’m in here looking for the political comments and I’m glad I didn’t find any because he asked for political commentary but he didn’t give any political opinions. He kind of just said there’s a lot of crazy shit going on.
I had a can of clogged silver polish to polish this silverware out in the ps 165 school yard. Next thing you know this guy comes by and next I get approached by this lady school bus driver. Im pretty sure it was a case of reverse racism due that guy that walking passed me assuming I was writing in which I wasn't. Alot of people just hateing with all that culture war appropriation politics.
Graff ain’t dead. It’s just evolving. Everyone was a toy at one point, then you either progress and do damage, or you fall off. Graff will NEVER die so long as there’s walls and humans. Another great video man! 💯✌🏻
A lot of eye sore throwies from most of these new gen of cats plaguing the city sadly Im not seeing much of any progression at all..I much rather see out of towners like uwont and others out here stomping shxt .. really out of the new cats in Nyc I rock with that I feel like I've seen doing their thing in the past few years currently are cats like Roach,Seo, Short,Fatjay,Coe.. But many thanks for TheGraffitiWanderer really going above and beyond at times to really capture all the graffiti that the city has to offer much appreciated 🙏🏼
Im in London but from what I can make out, over in NYC theres a serious amount of kids rocking the exact same style using the exact same bubble letters. I'm sure its a traditional style synonymous with NY, it jus seems a little jaded. Thankfully though, there is a healthy amount of writing up that does stand out and is unique in style which is refreshing to see. Im also a big fan of those who have the balls to rapell off a building and paint a vertical piece. That is some endeavour! It seems Graf is in a bit of an odd phase for now. Thanks for continually documenting and posting your videos. Its great insight into whats happening over there. 🤝👍
Been to London once to do a tube panel, worked out fine with no hookup, that was back in 2009, 10foot and tox had the city smashed back than. Did a lot of street tags, but I bet most of them disappeared over the years. I hope to come visit UK sometime to hit fr8s, all the best from Slovakia.
To us it's old, to others it's new. I'm happy to see people still getting into it and even if you are looking at it for 20, 30 years, there is still amazing stuff coming out.
NYC is pushing throwies stylistically like no other place in America in terms of letter structure, sizing and even mixing em with characters. In terms of pieces tho it seems like NYC is stuck on the traditional blocky styles where as the west coast has a variety of blocky and organic and whatever else u can think of. The rappelling ahit is awesome tho. Seems like alot of old heads can’t let the blocky style go or evolve in some sort of way. Anyways that’s just my 2cents theirs convos to be had and pints to be argued
Graffiti is one of the few things where quantity can be more valuable than quality. It would be hard to decide between ich and Does; ich has very basic styles, but made a legendary name in the culture, Does is skilled and cultered, but with a different purpose. Both are up there with my top writters, but Does definitely makes more techinical work than ich. As for the new generation, there are many differences in each city, especially in politics. The consequences also vary, and not many people outside of the culture take graffiti serious. Adults are definitely laughed at when vandalizing aimlessly especially with no styles. DOPE VIDEO, GREAT COMMENTARY
Never been to USA, wonder if I'll ever get there... Seems like NYC is super unaffordable, especially when you're from a east european country like me. Much love from Slovakia!
The pursuit of style/freshness is endless- beauty has no ceiling- all this garbage called anti style has an end, and that end is that what you’re putting up looks like you’re huffing your paint out of a paper bag. What a disgrace. It makes me recoil in disgust.. long live style , long live beauty , to rebel against these things is to shit on tens of thousands of years of the human aspiration to evolve, these fools are devolving and beginners are copying them. STAMP THAT SHIT!
I don’t know about the state of NYC graffiti, but I’ve been doing pieces w/my son since the summer of 2019, & though we’re nowhere near all city that, the time we’ve spent together creating/painting could never be quantified into how much we’ve bonded over our love of this art form *shouts 2 DZEL who got a couple ups @the end of video* 💯💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽🔥🔥🔥
I feel like there’s a lot more toys and everything is bitten so badly, nobody’s got style, it’s all just a rip off of someone else. It’s gotten really bad. But on the flip there’s a lot of good writers that do stand out, a lots of cats are crushing big things. You got guys hanging off of buildings now taking that to a whole other level. Some people are really killing it with style. It’s a weird time.
I think that writers who do repelling spots should write important messages instead of their names. I’ve seen enough Dzel, Ramsey… I wanna to see creative stuff
I think graffiti actually came from art class and its reflected on how well you did or how good was your art department. They probably had the best art teachers in the 70s.
I think it’s pretty interesting seeing graffiti almost “meet the same fate” as skateboarding kinda. Like it’s pretty much for everyone now and yea there’s a lot more wack shit but there’s actually just generally MORE graff then ever before. Obviously it’s a lot more excepted in some cities more than others but to say it’s not the most popular art form of this century or whatever would be an understatement. I know a lot of cats that are in there 40’s and still are mad active. Pretty cool to see in my opinion. It’s a craving/passion and there’s nothing wrong in my eyes with having something in your life that you care about that much about. Some ppl will never understand. And that’s fine with me. You do you
Its very hit and miss. Old school 80s new york funk ia the best in the world name a hall of fame that can compete with harlem. However I think they go over the top with throw ups i understand Ny is very densily populated but i have seen chill spots whacked with throw ups. But ultimatly if it aint broke dont fix it
New York City has pioneered a lot in graffiti but has been shamefully losing out to innovators on the West Coast. It's harder in New York because the police are so omnipresent but it does get tiring seeing the same ugly throwies
The giant Krink fire extinguisher tags are always trash. I love graf and have never said ‘nice’ when I see a pissed on name. Props to Krink for doing it first as a statement but that movement brings shame to the game.
i feel like the trend for writers now is instead of going all city, they try to do that with multiple cities at once. Like, i fuck with that if u can pull it off, but i also feel like its messing with the individuality of each city. but theres still a huge section of writers who just focus on the city
Current graff scene is lacking the vibe from the older times. The “anti” style shit is ass and it just seems like real graff is dying slowly as the old heads fall off. There are some exceptions but it’s over.
100% agree. There should be a mass gathering of a group of writers that gets together to orchestrate something similar on the East Coast. I think NYC writers could easily take back the subway trains also if they wanted to, although I get why it's not a focal point nowadays. It would still be a massive W for the culture.
I want to see some younger writers start to develop their skills as piecers. I feel like there should be some progression and you should evolve after years. Just writing the same throwie over and over again without progressing of your own personal style is something I would like to see change
Oh yeah I Left a comment a while back on millions of people having the same tag. I mentioned I used have a tag Seo then one of your subscribers starts schooling me on that tag being retired. I mean give me a break. Thats like saying what is your name joe smith, my name is joe smith.
I can't stand the term "anti-style". Its just a cute reolacement phrase for, "whack, toy, trash, no style". Blows my mind seeing people praising it. Its just plain awful and should be dissed out as much as possible
I feel that. Crazy how straight letters just went out the window for some of these guys. A bunch of spaghetti letters instead of a nice clean straight.
Alot of ill shit, but also too much trash. Clearly many people of the culture have time on their hands; like even a half hour a few times a week, pen in notebook, would show greatly in quality. Ok so someone is "up" everywhere, cats shit everywhere as well, it adds no value to the instances. Alot of weak names amongst that mix also. Overall not enough focus on handstyles, the forgotten basis. Politics... nvmd they watchin'.
I miss to the train days, way too many toys making neighborhoods look ugly. Love the burners, blockbusters, characters/mural stuff. But it’s still not the Mass transit days , Moving Pieces of Art.
The only good graffiti in nyc are all out of towners, guys like obese and muk aren’t from around there and maybe some legends still doing it with style, the young guys that are really active, it’s hard to look at, no idea how they derived at some of their letters, and looks like they are throwing up there first try over and over. Guys like maxr, uno, chopo… need to improve, but don’t seem interested.
Imagine a NEXT Generation Graffiti Game where you Can SCAN In Your Own TAGS n Pieces to be DOWNLOADED into The GAME 🎮 for Online Purposes. Players get Placed Into the MAP of different cities FREE roam N Designes like GTA but More DETAILED oriented interactives Like Climbing Ladders, Ropes, Dangling, Crawling esc. Each player gets a Limited amount of Tags, Throws n Pieces That is equiped that are WORTH points Depending on the Caliber Of the Design. all DESIGNES is RATED Based Off GRAFFITI AI To rate it Fairly for points. Then you get like 1 Hour to PAINT the City to ACHIEVE the MOST REP. You get CHASED n Harrased By Cops n Citizens like any other interactive GAME while other players can FIGHT you And Steal your Paint. Other people can also RAG your TAG to make you Lost Points. Plus the Better, Harder, More AUDACIOUS SPOTS get more Points. Even Have CREWS go head to Head TO Paint the City up. SINGLE player repping or CREW reppin on the GAME. HIGH TECH GRAFFITI gta Game with YOUR own Graffiti Within the GAME... DRAW, Scan, N get Your REP up In the GAME in different Cities...TRAINS, Highways, Trucks, tunnels ANYTHING to get a Rep and RESPECT on the GAME...
NYC is stilling using 3D, drop shadows, sparkles, and bubbles in their fill-ins 25 years later...NYC graffiti has NEVER evolved....mostly toys inhabit NYC these days.
Does that mean it isn’t evolving, or is that just essential graff techniques? U walk around the city and u see fills just like how they’ve been done for the past however many years now, but u also see these crazy drop down pieces, some w some crazy detailed characters or style right above them. Graff is still evolving but fundamentals r fundamentals.
This is a good topic....too many new jacks stealing styles and names, they will switch one letter and think they are being original. That sh!t needs to stop. When we came up in early 2000s u had to stay on paper and develop style before hitting walls but now fools going straight to the walls putting up garbage and taking up space. I apprecaite the guys with clean str8 letters, thats the stuff which is gonna inspire the youth not tue super wild style. When the kids can read the graff it reaches them more at least thats my personal experience. R.I.P WILD BA Crew one the first i saw crushing my hood
The propelling off the building’s is insane. They are changing the game with that. DZEL RAMS NOTICE XSM WERDS. Salute
‘rappelling’
Homie of mine writes SWIS and he likes to hit the rappel spots. I always tell him make sure he has great backup, climbing equipment, and is extremely careful. It only takes one mistake
I’m honestly surprised on the amount of OG’s jumping in on that atm. It’s bonkers!
Jas7 is keeping it alive my dude is everywhere
Totally agree, this guy's name is even flashy as hell.
I used to hang out with the old MSK crew on Dyckman when it was founded in the early 80’s by Made who was cousins with 2 New. Fun and dangerous times back then. Thank you for bringing back great memories!
Vayne stays killing it all around the states !!! Respect !! LYNkSERONE rip kodak27 free LIER DTC !! R.O.P
Thanks for doing these bro. Its actually a really cool thing to provide to all graf fans internationally and will always be a historic record.
Shout out to you you’ve been putting in work with a Videos for a while. You switched it up with more information about writers and history props to you keep it going brother . governor in the mayor should be arrested, but on the other hand, the graffiti is allowed to prosper from the pandemic then bombing the trains was insane but the government in New York drives people away. Keep it going bro props to you.
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The 70’s birthed a revolutionary art movement that could only have happened in the city because of a very unique mindset of NY’ers. This paved the way for graffiti to thrive as an art form and wouldn’t have been possible anywhere but NYC. Glam and grit are intertwined and inseparable on those streets.
Cliff159 from 1972 would have been amazed to see kids still rocking his style in Europe in 2024
I'd like to see more style progression from the new generations, feels like they are looking backwards for style rather than making their own new ones.
Facts. Lame throws and generic slaps everywhere.
What?… I guess it’s not about expressing yourself but being fake af just so you can impress someone. I like this new generation of graff. I see the good in it and I embrace it.
No doubt...Styles" 💯 you definitely had to have style and have your own different signature that stood out from among the rest to prove your originality.
@@jaylee8142 How is impressing someone with quality of your style fake af?
Very real
We were all toys. I hate that word because it intimidates new writers. Getting up is getting up. The more you do it the better you get. I don't hate on anyone or their style, after 30 years of this shit I know that wack style could become tomorrows dope shit. Embrace, follow, get inspired by the art. I have studied so many forms and mediums and I love them all but graff has kept my interest for longer than all of them. IMHO it is the only living form.
Some heavy hitters on this flick KEEP on Lurkin
POST, DINK, KEEAZY been ripping and inspiring my constantly. NOTICE has been stomping shit with his silver and black straight letter. Homesick, FAT NICK, wombat, BAT, OLA, been frying shit as well. I got hella love for the mix bag of style here.
Great job on the mix. I’ve watched you for a few years now and immediately noticed your artistic eye and creative approaches which I appreciated right away. Being from Cali and have only been to NYC once I feel you capture the whole feel of graffiti out there with the atmospheric style you have.
The smart phones made everyone a “photographer” but you’ve got the passion and natural eye. You do real work!
Thanks man
And my thoughts on today’s graff. It’s obvious who knows the secret language and who doesn’t. You know when you see and some don’t know their roll
I like that there are people pushing the style they like full speed. If it’s anti or propel or classic throws. NYC has active go getter hitters in all areas.
Back in the late 70's and early 80's to be a writer you had to have style and creativity. Graffiti writers who helped pave the way and modernize the art were creative artist with ideas and various styles. Artist would always come up with different ways of shaping, forming and designing letters into styles with their own touch of class and originality. Writers were full of imagination and would find many ways to express the art through styles and that made the artist stand out from among the rest. Dedication to display your skills and master the art was a definite must in graffiti. You had to bring out the best in you and take the art to a whole new level. That's why graffiti today is alive because of artist who shared their beautiful art, skills and talent by creating burners, wild style and master pieces that gave aresol spray can art its name. Today there are still very talented artist who still exists and are true master artist that do graffiti through airbrush, murals, canvas etc.
where I differ from a lot of the comments I see on this and other vids re:style is that I don't view Throws as a stalling out of graffiti's progression but rather a core genre riffed upon through time. Wildstyles are certainly technically pretty and eyecatching, but I never really get as excited for a wonky wildstyle as i do for a well executed throw, even just a really effective two letter is pretty cool to me. its like talking about guitar solos, yeah it was very impressive/proficient, but that doesn't necessarily equal a compelling song or image.
I would like to hear more about the headlock story, dope vid njce flix
Great vid. Good graf content and i like your creative shots of random scenes & shit happening 'round town💫👌
I'm not sure how it's changed but it's interesting to see.
I'm from the UK so watching your videos is a great insight to the nyc graff scene. I personally really like it when you talk about the history of placer/writers and even building that have been knocked down and rebuilt.
Hopefully I'll be able to do nyc one day and see it for myself.
Still have some dope old school style throw ups.
Love it all stickers tags throwies pieces scratch graffiti the more the better . keep em coming
The people in The Netherlands, where I live. Are seeing graffiti more as art, and less as vandalism. It has become more excepted… 🇳🇱🔥
I grew up with DARK, glad to see my boy is still alive and kicking.
The repel graff is next level. XSM ushered in a new chapter
The streets are more active than ever !!
No matter what type of style gets upped there will always be a few holding adrenaline 🕯️ candles. Refined or taggard I think the evolution of graffiti is great always has been always will be especially in NYC.
I am not from US but loved to see YORKER tags. Tag is done very pleasingly. But I am more tags and throwups person than burners guy. Keep up the GOOD work.
50 years ago teenagers from NY created it... and still do, thanks for sharing!)
I feel like for writers in the Midwest we look to LA and NYC equally for inspiration. And for me personally, I see FAR more artistry and quality work coming from New York than LA.
The west coast is one of the most bombed areas on the planet, but from what I've seen there are so many toys, and half the pieces out there look like the type of shit I drew in sketch pads when I was 12 or 13 and had zero knowledge of graffiti culture lol. I look at NY graffiti for inspiration and motivation, even though my area is worlds apart from the New York ethos. I rock with stickers heavy, and seeing the sticker bombed streets out there never fails to get me amped, same with the doors covered in handstyles and mop tags (the one you showed here at 12:32 is fucking gorgeous lmao). And like a couple others said, NYC has the best throwies in the world.
I know a lot of locals hate on the scene, and they would know more of it than I do of course, but the graff world still sees New York as the style mecca and a major driving force for writing. Whether the city realizes it or not it's one of the only things making it look good these days. This whole era feels like the 90s again and it's cool af to see.
I remember walking to parsons jhs high-school in the early 90s seeing a trailer bin of graffiti. One noticeably one was this face that was bean shape with a smile on it and attached was the tag gas.
NYC Streets are beautiful!!!
im not from u.s but im loving this era.
Graffiti is alive and thriving
Being anonymous it’s the mystery of who did it for me , love the story’s of how situations can just arise from nowhere at any time ( glad it doesn’t just happen to me ) peace out Mike Manchester 🇬🇧
Shoutouts to Homesick! Grew up w him in BK!
a video of all your confrontations/karens would be funny
The best graffiti wtiters are the ones who were really good in art class. Some did not even go to art class.
Interesting story with the hasidic ones!
I’m in here looking for the political comments and I’m glad I didn’t find any because he asked for political commentary but he didn’t give any political opinions. He kind of just said there’s a lot of crazy shit going on.
I had a can of clogged silver polish to polish this silverware out in the ps 165 school yard. Next thing you know this guy comes by and next I get approached by this lady school bus driver. Im pretty sure it was a case of reverse racism due that guy that walking passed me assuming I was writing in which I wasn't. Alot of people just hateing with all that culture war appropriation politics.
Wow yes Snake I WC188 nice still see CHINO BYI ..stickers he’s lower east side oldie…I love the nice floaters..very different..
I couldn’t do what you do, honestly. I’ve been wanting to be a graffiti photographer in NYC, but I’m literally scared of going to these seedy spots.
It ain’t for u then
Graff ain’t dead. It’s just evolving. Everyone was a toy at one point, then you either progress and do damage, or you fall off. Graff will NEVER die so long as there’s walls and humans. Another great video man! 💯✌🏻
A lot of eye sore throwies from most of these new gen of cats plaguing the city sadly Im not seeing much of any progression at all..I much rather see out of towners like uwont and others out here stomping shxt .. really out of the new cats in Nyc I rock with that I feel like I've seen doing their thing in the past few years currently are cats like Roach,Seo, Short,Fatjay,Coe.. But many thanks for TheGraffitiWanderer really going above and beyond at times to really capture all the graffiti that the city has to offer much appreciated 🙏🏼
Im in London but from what I can make out, over in NYC theres a serious amount of kids rocking the exact same style using the exact same bubble letters. I'm sure its a traditional style synonymous with NY, it jus seems a little jaded.
Thankfully though, there is a healthy amount of writing up that does stand out and is unique in style which is refreshing to see. Im also a big fan of those who have the balls to rapell off a building and paint a vertical piece. That is some endeavour! It seems Graf is in a bit of an odd phase for now.
Thanks for continually documenting and posting your videos. Its great insight into whats happening over there. 🤝👍
Been to London once to do a tube panel, worked out fine with no hookup, that was back in 2009, 10foot and tox had the city smashed back than. Did a lot of street tags, but I bet most of them disappeared over the years. I hope to come visit UK sometime to hit fr8s, all the best from Slovakia.
To us it's old, to others it's new. I'm happy to see people still getting into it and even if you are looking at it for 20, 30 years, there is still amazing stuff coming out.
NYC is pushing throwies stylistically like no other place in America in terms of letter structure, sizing and even mixing em with characters. In terms of pieces tho it seems like NYC is stuck on the traditional blocky styles where as the west coast has a variety of blocky and organic and whatever else u can think of. The rappelling ahit is awesome tho. Seems like alot of old heads can’t let the blocky style go or evolve in some sort of way. Anyways that’s just my 2cents theirs convos to be had and pints to be argued
Nice bro!
As long we don’t see glare it’s all good
Love from the dot Canada
Graffiti is one of the few things where quantity can be more valuable than quality. It would be hard to decide between ich and Does; ich has very basic styles, but made a legendary name in the culture, Does is skilled and cultered, but with a different purpose. Both are up there with my top writters, but Does definitely makes more techinical work than ich.
As for the new generation, there are many differences in each city, especially in politics. The consequences also vary, and not many people outside of the culture take graffiti serious. Adults are definitely laughed at when vandalizing aimlessly especially with no styles.
DOPE VIDEO, GREAT COMMENTARY
Never been to USA, wonder if I'll ever get there... Seems like NYC is super unaffordable, especially when you're from a east european country like me. Much love from Slovakia!
The pursuit of style/freshness is endless- beauty has no ceiling- all this garbage called anti style has an end, and that end is that what you’re putting up looks like you’re huffing your paint out of a paper bag. What a disgrace. It makes me recoil in disgust.. long live style , long live beauty , to rebel against these things is to shit on tens of thousands of years of the human aspiration to evolve, these fools are devolving and beginners are copying them. STAMP THAT SHIT!
stay safe out there
I don’t know about the state of NYC graffiti, but I’ve been doing pieces w/my son since the summer of 2019, & though we’re nowhere near all city that, the time we’ve spent together creating/painting could never be quantified into how much we’ve bonded over our love of this art form *shouts 2 DZEL who got a couple ups @the end of video* 💯💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽🔥🔥🔥
💎💎💎
I feel like there’s a lot more toys and everything is bitten so badly, nobody’s got style, it’s all just a rip off of someone else. It’s gotten really bad. But on the flip there’s a lot of good writers that do stand out, a lots of cats are crushing big things. You got guys hanging off of buildings now taking that to a whole other level. Some people are really killing it with style. It’s a weird time.
I paint houses too, same with the clothes bro.
I think that writers who do repelling spots should write important messages instead of their names. I’ve seen enough Dzel, Ramsey… I wanna to see creative stuff
I think graffiti actually came from art class and its reflected on how well you did or how good was your art department. They probably had the best art teachers in the 70s.
I think it’s pretty interesting seeing graffiti almost “meet the same fate” as skateboarding kinda. Like it’s pretty much for everyone now and yea there’s a lot more wack shit but there’s actually just generally MORE graff then ever before. Obviously it’s a lot more excepted in some cities more than others but to say it’s not the most popular art form of this century or whatever would be an understatement. I know a lot of cats that are in there 40’s and still are mad active. Pretty cool to see in my opinion. It’s a craving/passion and there’s nothing wrong in my eyes with having something in your life that you care about that much about. Some ppl will never understand. And that’s fine with me. You do you
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The LA graffiti towers = the mountain dew of graffiti 🤣
the pandemic gave birth to a new gen of writers, who i think are fuckin killing it rn
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Its very hit and miss. Old school 80s new york funk ia the best in the world name a hall of fame that can compete with harlem. However I think they go over the top with throw ups i understand Ny is very densily populated but i have seen chill spots whacked with throw ups. But ultimatly if it aint broke dont fix it
There’s too many people taking style off the Internet and not developing their own
i'm with you on this one...
New York City has pioneered a lot in graffiti but has been shamefully losing out to innovators on the West Coast. It's harder in New York because the police are so omnipresent but it does get tiring seeing the same ugly throwies
The giant Krink fire extinguisher tags are always trash. I love graf and have never said ‘nice’ when I see a pissed on name. Props to Krink for doing it first as a statement but that movement brings shame to the game.
Most of it is floaties or bubble letters
i feel like the trend for writers now is instead of going all city, they try to do that with multiple cities at once. Like, i fuck with that if u can pull it off, but i also feel like its messing with the individuality of each city. but theres still a huge section of writers who just focus on the city
Current graff scene is lacking the vibe from the older times. The “anti” style shit is ass and it just seems like real graff is dying slowly as the old heads fall off. There are some exceptions but it’s over.
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NYC needs some graffiti towers like LA.
100% agree. There should be a mass gathering of a group of writers that gets together to orchestrate something similar on the East Coast. I think NYC writers could easily take back the subway trains also if they wanted to, although I get why it's not a focal point nowadays. It would still be a massive W for the culture.
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I want to see some younger writers start to develop their skills as piecers. I feel like there should be some progression and you should evolve after years. Just writing the same throwie over and over again without progressing of your own personal style is something I would like to see change
Unpopular opinion fuck all the anti style trash out there it spits in the face of the are and how hard the past gens worked on pushing it forward
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Half of these people dissing New York style got no ups😂
Your start to see a decline in the 90s on graffiti in fundamentals.
Oh yeah I Left a comment a while back on millions of people having the same tag. I mentioned I used have a tag Seo then one of your subscribers starts schooling me on that tag being retired. I mean give me a break. Thats like saying what is your name joe smith, my name is joe smith.
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I can't stand the term "anti-style". Its just a cute reolacement phrase for, "whack, toy, trash, no style". Blows my mind seeing people praising it. Its just plain awful and should be dissed out as much as possible
I feel that. Crazy how straight letters just went out the window for some of these guys. A bunch of spaghetti letters instead of a nice clean straight.
New York work is clean in certain places brother…
Alot of ill shit, but also too much trash. Clearly many people of the culture have time on their hands; like even a half hour a few times a week, pen in notebook, would show greatly in quality. Ok so someone is "up" everywhere, cats shit everywhere as well, it adds no value to the instances. Alot of weak names amongst that mix also. Overall not enough focus on handstyles, the forgotten basis. Politics... nvmd they watchin'.
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There some good graff but there to many toys that think there the shit because they outside every nite.
I think my comment got removed which is some sucker shit.
I don’t remove comments… maybe your internet connection is slow and it never went through.
I miss to the train days, way too many toys making neighborhoods look ugly. Love the burners, blockbusters, characters/mural stuff. But it’s still not the Mass transit days , Moving Pieces of Art.
The only good graffiti in nyc are all out of towners, guys like obese and muk aren’t from around there and maybe some legends still doing it with style, the young guys that are really active, it’s hard to look at, no idea how they derived at some of their letters, and looks like they are throwing up there first try over and over. Guys like maxr, uno, chopo… need to improve, but don’t seem interested.
I painted with obese back in 2010 ish in upstate NY. Cool group of dudes. I think he's the only one still going in. small world I guess
NYC is toy, only out of towners keep that shit running
Out of towners coming to bomb in the city with their toy styles is a fact but some of the best writers EVER are literally right there in the city
NY don't have shit on Philly in any of those categories
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Graffiti is dead as far as being something that unites it divides which is stupidity.
Imagine a NEXT Generation Graffiti Game where you Can SCAN In Your Own TAGS n Pieces to be DOWNLOADED into The GAME 🎮 for Online Purposes. Players get Placed Into the MAP of different cities FREE roam N Designes like GTA but More DETAILED oriented interactives Like Climbing Ladders, Ropes, Dangling, Crawling esc. Each player gets a Limited amount of Tags, Throws n Pieces That is equiped that are WORTH points Depending on the Caliber Of the Design. all DESIGNES is RATED Based Off GRAFFITI AI To rate it Fairly for points. Then you get like 1 Hour to PAINT the City to ACHIEVE the MOST REP. You get CHASED n Harrased By Cops n Citizens like any other interactive GAME while other players can FIGHT you And Steal your Paint. Other people can also RAG your TAG to make you Lost Points. Plus the Better, Harder, More AUDACIOUS SPOTS get more Points. Even Have CREWS go head to Head TO Paint the City up. SINGLE player repping or CREW reppin on the GAME. HIGH TECH GRAFFITI gta Game with YOUR own Graffiti Within the GAME... DRAW, Scan, N get Your REP up In the GAME in different Cities...TRAINS, Highways, Trucks, tunnels ANYTHING to get a Rep and RESPECT on the GAME...
NYC is stilling using 3D, drop shadows, sparkles, and bubbles in their fill-ins 25 years later...NYC graffiti has NEVER evolved....mostly toys inhabit NYC these days.
It doesn't need to evolve graffiti should look like graffiti not graphics or calligraphy you can't fake the funk
Does that mean it isn’t evolving, or is that just essential graff techniques? U walk around the city and u see fills just like how they’ve been done for the past however many years now, but u also see these crazy drop down pieces, some w some crazy detailed characters or style right above them. Graff is still evolving but fundamentals r fundamentals.
Rappeling is lame and I hate it.
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it's decent here in waterloo ontario. we never had a whole lot of serious writers in the first place. i see maybe 5 guys that i see up consistently
This is a good topic....too many new jacks stealing styles and names, they will switch one letter and think they are being original. That sh!t needs to stop. When we came up in early 2000s u had to stay on paper and develop style before hitting walls but now fools going straight to the walls putting up garbage and taking up space. I apprecaite the guys with clean str8 letters, thats the stuff which is gonna inspire the youth not tue super wild style. When the kids can read the graff it reaches them more at least thats my personal experience. R.I.P WILD BA Crew one the first i saw crushing my hood