Graffiti

[Faceless]

So, I've been thinking of starting this sort of graffiti thing in my locality to get the message out there. Does anyone at che-lives do this? Does anyone have pics either?

[Rastafari]

I don't, but this looks interestingUse "freethemedia" for password and username (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/nyregion/13art.html?8hpib)


here are some cats who do:
www.graffiti.org

[Danton]

Check out Banksy, he does stuff around Old Street where I live, he's quite notorious.. http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/subpages/banksy.htm

[DarkAngel]

This is some funny ass graffiti from where I use to live.

Graffiti (http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/estonia/jeremy/graffiti.htm)

[FatFreeMilk]

The original graffiti thread (http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6517&st=0) . The pictures don't work anymore, I'm not sure why. Before I used to post here I remember this was one of the first threads I looked at.

[Kurai Tsuki]

Are there any organized dissident graffiti artist groups? Like ones that would spray paint anti-U.S. government messages on walls.

[Faceless]

Thanks for the response.

I'm sure I've seen Banksy's art before. I think the use of stencils is a good method. It gets the message across and is a good tactic in this CCTV culture society. Some people think it's cheating I think it's shrewd dedication to the movement.

[shyguywannadie]

I say while in Graz, Austria someone had spray painted "capitalism kills" on a wall.

It was good to see.

[EL CHICO ROJO]

If you are on a highway in brooklyn look around thier is a building with CAPITALI$M spray-painted in huge letters with a painting of a reall skinny kids next to it.Also some one wrote capitalism = war and an anarchy is order symbol next to it on my building I might post the picture later

[commiecrusader]

Whats the best way to practice graffiti? I wanna do some but I'm sure it will be crap without practice, but I dont want to cover walls with crappy shit till I get good. Anyone got any tips?

Thanks

[ZeroPain]

Um i stick to carveing leftist saying, names, ect. on desks....

[comrade_mufasa]

find some people in your area and try and do some throw ups with them. this fourm has good stuff (http://bombingscience.com/graffitiforum/index.php?showforum=5)

[DarkAngel]

In Brooklyn im notorious for wrting Fuck Bu$h anywhere, that i sit down for more then 5minutes... im gonna try to get a scan for some of my work. The fuck bu$h piece i did was hot, so i kept doing it, over n over...till most D n 4 Trains were covered...n most desks in Dewey (school) heehehe

[Commie Rat]

nice work DArk angel

i put several H&S up but they got covered up by local Wu-Tang's very quickly

[Hiero]

People should post up there work on here, and maybe it will become a sticky if there are enough graff artist here.

[Palmares]

Personally, I prefer stencil art. I really need to get off my arse and do some.

But with graffitti, I've only tried slogans.

Do you mean to do artistic graffitti commiecrusader?

[RedAnarchist]

Perhaps Che-Lives could have a symbol you can use in graffiti? That would help advertise the site and it might help spread C-L across the world.

[son.et.lumiere]

In my city there was a sudden burst of graf. I write, MARS, but the A is the anarchy A. It's pretty sweet.

[Zingu]

Making Hammer and Sickle stencils is fairly easy; thats the only experince I've had in graffitti.

[king Royale]

I do stencils, and maybe sometime I'll post some up that you guys can use too. To see if the ones i cut out work well, I just use a piece of white poster-board to spray it on.

www.stencilrevolution.com good tutorials and gallery.

[Questionauthority]

commiecrusader- I think the best way to practice is to simply draw and sketch your designs on paper and practice like that prior to going out and putting them up.
When I went out a year or two back the three of us did our big designs and then wandered around tagging....looking back seems a bit stupid or just reflective of teenage angst! Its good fun though, the rush......wear a mask if youa re gonna do it seriously!

[commiecrusader]

I wanna do artistic stuff rather than those bullshit crappy looking towny 'tags' that are actually just crappy scrawls on the wall. They look bullshit but artistic graffiti is da bomb so to speak. Cheers for the help, anyone with examples to post of their work would be cool, inspiration can come from anywhere lol.

[CommoditiesAretheOpiumofPeople]

http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/graffiti.htm

It's a really long list of all the things the rioters in Paris 1968 spray painted on walls all over Paris and Prague. Too cool for capitalism! :D