Reading [& seeing] about graffiti for this week made me wanna visit my cousin, PJ. He & I as I said in my previous post used to do a lot together. He'd BMX & skateboard while I bladed. He would take me to China town & hang out with his friends & do nerdy crap together like play Magic. We even tagged together.
Seeing as he is about 30 now & Im 20, our relationship has changed a bit. We bullshit about a lot of stuff... Now it's more or less about tattoos [he does them & I get them, etc] & how both of our aspirations for our art have grown. He went with permanent scarring of one's skin along with making clothing designs while I took the route of graphic novels. We both sat back, had a beer, lit up a cigarette, & just talked about it.
After talking for several hours, we got bored & hit up a few spots, thinking of the good ol' times. We just walked past a few murals & tags & just thought, "Damn... How the times have changed." The style of things, the ways they were done, & so forth. I personally loved how it all evolved. He wasnt exactly too fond of it, but he was always one for stability & lack of change. I saw the old school styles along with the new & it motivated me to take up my mask & cans & just do work.
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what's stopping you? fear? boredom? loosing something you thought was fantastic? what stopped you Rob?
What stopped me from tagging? lol. The fact there are a lot more cops nowadays & the fact I have good enough sense to not do it =P
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