SCREAM | CFG

I walked up the alley and sprung DR just finishing the CFG.
I walked back down a few hours later and SCREAM was getting this up.
Creds to SCREAM for butting up against CFG and not doing a territory dog piss over it like so many would...

Lately I heard the Graf Kitchen's been generous with dishing up double helpings of Knuckle Sandwhich, including servings of Beef on the side.
Call me old fashioned but I was happy to hear this old school establishment doesn't use knives and forks and everyone's been using their fingers ;-)

Clink...

Lots of hating going on down the alley. Is it like Hyena's who don't have much turf and fight constantly over the small amount they have?
Or is it bad apples and eggs?!

I heard today that DR is going for a Government sponsored holiday. That would explain why he's been going hard and not giving a shit in the process. He's been banned by at least one venue in town for tagging their stairwell (they had fliers with his photo spread around the place) and there was another huge tag on a hallway wall the other day.
It'll be interesting to see if much changes down Lefties with him gone but more interesting is what he'll get up to before he goes. Something tells me he won't put down his cans quietly...

DR

One of the odd phenomena I noticed when hanging pieces years ago was that sometimes a painting would be slightly muddy or scattered when viewed up close but at a distance, or when photographed, it was stunning.
As strange as it sounds, I worked out that it had something to do with the artists eyesight. When they painted up close, it looked to them like it looks to us from a distance - no different from taking off your glasses to view it from a distance and seeing something completely different.
When I suspected this, I experimented and did a huge painting without my glasses on and it confirmed my suspicions because, with my glasses on, standing way back from it, it then looked like what it looked like when I was painting it.

My reason for sharing that little insight is that that's the feeling I get with a lot of DR's pieces. I think of his style as naive but I've stopped being surprised that his pieces often look way more spectacular when I've taken an image, edited and published them.
The piece above is a classic example. Technically it's shit. As happens on many of his pieces, he used way thin paint on a dense background that was never going to be covered, but then he ends up with a surreal translucent effect.

I know DR's pieces aren't that polished but they're prolific, so through default, like his work or not, like him or not, this guy has a presence.
In his own words "I am wot I am and I do wot I do"...
I've done a first where I've featured DR today on The Street too, so you can see better examples of what I'm on about.

PS: I heard he had a 40ohzee and an armload of cans the other night so it doesn't take a psychic to guess the upshot of that combo ;-)

Progress Down The Alley...

So I found out that Erase WAS Erect as I suspected. Someone hit him up for biting them. It was such a vague connection that I put it down to Top Toy pecking order slobber where the Bitee probably felt threatened.
I mean - look up there, then look down here...these were done by the same guy exactly two months apart. That's got to be called stellar progress in anybody's toybox.



My favourite story this week was about Shiv from CFG doing fill for Erase on one of the pieces at the top. Apparently DR (also CFG) wasn't ecstatic about it and told Shiv none too eloquently, but Shiv kept doing it anyway.
Now that's what I'm talking about...
I already liked Shiv but he got a big fat 10 pointer in my blackbook for that deed. Tells me two things - he's not too big for his Vans AND he knows talent when he sees it and isn't too staunch and haterful to support it...

Where the only Vests are at the Knitting shop down the other end

You might think I'm getting a bit vague on it and repeating images but not so. The above Gomans and AK throwies are go overs. Cunning really - they get their spot then just keep going over and over their own goodies. I've seen the AK one done over at least 3 times. I've seen Gomans alien a few times around town this week too.

Had to laugh at the news this week - you might have seen this. Couldn't help but lol at the irony of the Contstables handle - bit unfortunate ;-)
I've heard rumours that he's actually quite a cool cat who recycles the rattlers in a most socially responsible and sustainable way...

Paddy

DR is one of the most prolific writers I've seen and if I could get the secret to how he keeps out of the Paddy Wagons, Lefties hit count would go apeshite.

Speaking of paddy wagons...a few nights ago when two of the boys were being (separately) chauffeured down to the Blue Lagoon to give their autographs there was quite a roll call inside the vans.
Do they have cameras inside the vans? Was it a trick to get them to write their tags?
Trick or not, on that piece of real estate, what writer worth his crew wouldn't whip out his Posca?!

And it turns out The Filth isn't an accurate name at all. In an event that would have any Obsessive Compulsive writhing with Pick Me Pick Me - one of the writers had to wash his hands 4 times before they could get his fingerprints...

Sker/DR/CFG

Unless you're still saving for Laser Eye Surgery, anytime you walk around the Cuba Street area of Wellington, you'll see tags by Sker. I was pleased to finally see his throw up in LB. DR must've literally been breathing down Sker's neck when he did this because it was capped by him in seconds...


DR's crew are CFG. Crazy Fools Graffiting. I have to say that even though they capped Flox's (Cut Collective) exquisite Owl piece (which had a record run of staying clean about three months) at least they used a similar buff colour so Flox's background compliments their throwie.


I hear the Black Power tag the fist (above) and Mongrel Mob tags YFY or Yo Fuck Yo - Is that true? Let us know with a comment below.

Update: Apparently BP do both fist and YFY and MM tag SFH (Seig Fkn Heil)

Hate, from the FKB (Fat Kap Bandits) is one of those really interesting writers (as with most of the other writers in the crew) who does everything from rampant tags and stix right up to full wall pieces.