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Showing posts with label ERECT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ERECT. Show all posts
Jul 26, 2008
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...
Jun 27, 2008
DRYP/Cracked Ink/Erect/F
Cracked Ink was also down from Aux over the weekend. Him and DRYP recently had an exceptional combo exhibition. Exceptional because their styles are SO symbiotic. Their characters look like they all grew up in the same...circus? planet? petri dish?
One of the things I like most about DRYP is the way he blends his pieces in with what's around him. You can just see the edge of Lore's piece above left - notice how DRYPNZ's bubbles (and colours) blend along underneath Lore's?
He's also super zen about his pieces being capped.
I noticed his infamous Lucha had been capped by Erect and when I saw Dryp in the alley, I commented on it. With not a face twitch of malice he said Yeah I know, I watched him do it ;-)
When I saw Erect later on I told him Dryp had watched as he capped him and he just shrugged his shoulders but I detected a small smile of surprise? satisfaction? amusement?
Erect has just started throwing up.
We affectionately call him The Toddler (one of his crews is the LPG - Lolly Pop Gang!). Old Man Sin gave him a bit of grief one time and we haven't seen as much of him lately. This kid's got Burning Man written all over him.
In ideal Leftie Land, wouldn't it be a shiny sparkly beautiful thing if Erect learnt from Dryp how to have no attachment to his pieces and avoid the Hater Hernia?!
Of course F, whose favourite piss stop is DRYPNZ, capped the pillar that night...
One of the things I like most about DRYP is the way he blends his pieces in with what's around him. You can just see the edge of Lore's piece above left - notice how DRYPNZ's bubbles (and colours) blend along underneath Lore's?
He's also super zen about his pieces being capped.
I noticed his infamous Lucha had been capped by Erect and when I saw Dryp in the alley, I commented on it. With not a face twitch of malice he said Yeah I know, I watched him do it ;-)
When I saw Erect later on I told him Dryp had watched as he capped him and he just shrugged his shoulders but I detected a small smile of surprise? satisfaction? amusement?
Erect has just started throwing up.
We affectionately call him The Toddler (one of his crews is the LPG - Lolly Pop Gang!). Old Man Sin gave him a bit of grief one time and we haven't seen as much of him lately. This kid's got Burning Man written all over him.
In ideal Leftie Land, wouldn't it be a shiny sparkly beautiful thing if Erect learnt from Dryp how to have no attachment to his pieces and avoid the Hater Hernia?!
Of course F, whose favourite piss stop is DRYPNZ, capped the pillar that night...