Just passing threw, don't mind me. (A sense of post Graffiti.)

Inspired by a video of how to do Flyposting that someone decided to show me, they know who they are. I already knew how to do Flyposting, and yet looking into the audience that was around me I realized that several of them have probably never held a spray can in thier life. These people were being handed a weapon that they already had, thier words; only know they were being told as to how to get them out into the world, by methods that predate the Greek and Roman empires. The big question was, what were they going to do with it? So I felt a need to provide some extra instructions. First, use a bottle to hold Flyposting glue, it's a lot less inconspicous and easier to get rid of if the need be; not to mention, how many times have you had a Cop ask you for a drink?

Your name is sacred, in a city people don't really get to know one another and a lot of people will just pass you by without giving you a second thought, unless you want them to. People will only know who you are if you let them know who you are; think of the name you use as like your screen name online. For example, with me you people reading this probably have no idea as to who I am, and you have no idea if I actually do graffiti. Sure, you can say, "But didn't you..." Yet all you really have are assumptions, not once have I ever said specifically that I do graffiti; all I've done have been providing you with links to Graffiti sites, and some general info; you don't know if I do, or don't, do Graffiti because I don't let you know anything that can pinpoint me as being a Graffiti writer. That is why your name is so sacred, beyond what you put up people can only make conjectures about you. You can hide in plain sight and nobody will be any the wiser. One small thing about your name choice though, just like a screen name, try and make it unique.

Get a sketchpad, before you do anything about town, get yourself a sketchpad and practice! I don't care if you say that you can't draw, just pick up a pencil and start sketching! Listen out there in the world your not going to be givin time to sit back and make mistakes, you have to be able to do something in a relitively quick fashion and than beat feet out of there. Yet, there are lots of ways to put something up, you could try stencils or you could due the whole flyposting thing like above. Just sketch, draw, and experiment as to how you can put up something.

Last one is a quick piece of advice for people who want to use spray cans, I've caught wind that there are cans that go really cheap (like $0.99 cheap). So just consider this, in the end when it's all said and done is it going to matter if you used a more expensive brand of paint?

You know what I find wierd is just walking about and looking as to how people react to the Graffiti that surrounds them. Sometimes you catch someone stopping during thier daily rutine to look at a new piece of Graffiti that they probaly didn't even realize wasn't thier yesterday when they were walking about. Some people will just tisk and walk away, never realizing that the Graffiti has acomplished it goal regardless if they know it or not. It made them stop for a moment and analyze something that they hated, and for one brief moment instead of focusing upon their mundane life, they focused upon something that might have been intended to be more than just a pretty picture. Also you get people who are enraptured with this odd culture of Graffiti, they pause and look and for a moment it's like looking at people viewing art in an art gallery; only with less sarcasm, cynicism, and the general feeling of animosity. I've seen people stop on the street and watch as a crew goes about putting their signature all over a spot in town.

This puzzles me a little bit, just what is the world's odd fascination with Graffiti? Answers seem far and wide, and not to mention very muddy as to their true reasoning. To some it's probably a question as to just why we do it, just why we gather in a small spot for a brief period of time and scatter into the winds to never be seen again. Other's have that old feeling that lurks in the art museums and halls, of people who want to draw like we do; people who have, lurking somewhere in their heart, a sense to just spend thier days drawing on everthing and anything like they see the crews do. While others just view us as a menace, another group comprised soely of punks that should have been squished a long time ago by the boot of authority; just another thing wrong with this world, just another dragon that has to be slain to keep the peace of their little village. Whatever the reason is, one thing is very clear about all Graffiti artists and that is we exists mostly as our names and monicers that we have chosen to represent us. Not as a face or as a person, but just as a name scrawled upon a wall; our faces our only known when we want them to be known, and still then we are but our names.