Favourite Graffiti Type

[REL0AD]

What is your favourite type of Graff:

Tags..?
Bombs..?
Throwies..?
Productions..?

& why?

[ZionBlack]

I think i'll have to go with bombs, but on a large scale. there easy and quick, yet they get your message and/or name across well.

[Th0r]

Although I like 'tags', I think Productions are better... Due to effort levels and such...

[ZionBlack]

Although I like 'tags', I think Productions are better... Due to effort levels and such...

Burners, pieces, or productions definitely take the most artistic merit.

[crazy white guy]

Tags..?
Bombs..?
Throwies..?
Productions..?

I like the tags that are fairly large and look like the poser "arrows everywhere" kind. The kind i like most usually takes us half of a bus stop wall. If you want an example of my favorte bombs you can go down to hastings in Vancouver. Theres this area where you can look down into this really wide alleyway that has four walls of graffiti stratching for about 400 meters on two sides and 60ish on the other two and i'd say 3 meters up. its beautiful, mostly shades of blue but also black and red.

i have no idea what throwies or productions are

[ZionBlack]

A throwie is basiclly the same thing as a bomb except with only the outline and no fill. a production is a huge very artistic mural with many mnay colors and shading and 3d effects.

[crazy white guy]

A throwie is basiclly the same thing as a bomb except with only the outline and no fill. a production is a huge very artistic mural with many mnay colors and shading and 3d effects.

then i guess the place i described in Vancouver in a production. and i don't really like throwies. but theres one person that has very good ones but i only know them as a tag. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting them

[ZionBlack]

Each different type has cons and pros.

[headcase]

As far as I'm concerned everything but "productions" is vandalism. They're ugly and make the place look dirty and rundown. They're the kind of things you see by untalented twats in lower-class estates and give people with genuine talent, application and effort a bad name. You want to know why graffiti is classed as vandalism? Because if these idiots. No one gives a shit about your nickname or your ability to do bubbly writing (which was all the rage between the girls in my class when I was 6). If I had my way then they'd be convicted fined and made to clean their shit up. With a toothbrush.

As for productions, they have their time and place. They're like the perfect opposite of tags or bombs. While those shit stains can make nice areas look like ghettos, productions can make shit looking areas brighter and more welcoming. There's a car park here that has an annual production day in its grounds, with local (talented) graffiti artists and DJs and whatnot. As such, the car park (an empty lot between hideous old factories) appears fresh and looked after. I'll get some pics when I can.

Of course, productions can be out of place too. The city centre looks great and has no need of any extra embellishments.

[ZionBlack]

As far as I'm concerned everything but "productions" is vandalism. They're ugly and make the place look dirty and rundown. They're the kind of things you see by untalented twats in lower-class estates and give people with genuine talent, application and effort a bad name. You want to know why graffiti is classed as vandalism? Because if these idiots. No one gives a shit about your nickname or your ability to do bubbly writing (which was all the rage between the girls in my class when I was 6). If I had my way then they'd be convicted fined and made to clean their shit up. With a toothbrush.

As for productions, they have their time and place. They're like the perfect opposite of tags or bombs. While those shit stains can make nice areas look like ghettos, productions can make shit looking areas brighter and more welcoming. There's a car park here that has an annual production day in its grounds, with local (talented) graffiti artists and DJs and whatnot. As such, the car park (an empty lot between hideous old factories) appears fresh and looked after. I'll get some pics when I can.

Of course, productions can be out of place too. The city centre looks great and has no need of any extra embellishments.

you dont think that this,
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/9637/graff1oz7.jpg

or this
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7329/graffiti2uy3.gifhttp://img513.imageshack.us/img513/9772/jjjiibo6.jpg
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/3888/kkkllzq2.jpg

is artistic?

[Th0r]

Where I live the productions are vandalised by groups of bored want-to-be 'Gangstas', who think they are hard by drawing on productions and ruining the time and effort someone put in to a piece of work. For example there was a really good piece of work I see when walking through a bunch of semi-deserted factories in the morning.

The picture is of a woman and is some sort of a take on the media and women... Anyway I thought it was pretty good and relatively impressive; until some twelve year old draws "I eat Cock" on the picture and another kid draws a rather poor drawing of a Penis that makes me think he hasn't actually got one...

As for your examples the one on the Truck is fairly nice, but I'm not sure on the other ones... Acquired taste? Though I respect pretty much anyone who can tag a vehicle. Preferably when it is moving, though a few years ago in the city further down South I briefly lived in, some people got inside a Bus depot and got the roofs of a single Decker bus...

[headcase]

I was thinking more along the lines of these (http://www.blogcadre.com/files/images/graffiti.preview.jpg) travesties. But even those (edit; your pics, not the link), while not bereft of talent, still look cheap and rundown. The place looks worse after than it did before. I suppose I wouldn't arrest someone for spray painting under a bridge but I'm still not a fan.

[Th0r]

The stuff you posted was complete 'Gangsta' rubbish again.

Crip?

I think not.

Headcase did you take that photo?

[headcase]

No, that was Google Images. I wouldn't waste memory space with that drivel. I'll get a few of that carpark I was on about soon, now that my exams are finished.

[Th0r]

And I'll get an Image of the good stuff in the area that was ruined...

[icharianchem]

i love a good tall- hand or the "philly tall-hand" where the line pops at the top givin it that o at the top. or wickeds

[Pimpin4Life30]

Can i get a picture of these diffrent types Tags,Bombs,Throwies,Productions?

[Th0r]

A bunch of Tags in a Urinal.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Graffiti_tags_2.JPG/800px-Graffiti_tags_2.JPG

'Bombs'...
http://images.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&q=graffiti+bomb

A Throwie
http://homepage.mac.com/contextor/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-04-24%2012.42.48%20-0700/Image-99DF0286B4F711D9.jpg

A Production.
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/12_01/17banksyES_468x606.jpg

In future use a Search Engine.

[Vein]

Nice banksy link =D

[Pimpin4Life30]

Definetly a production though i dont have a problem with any graffiti.I think its fun too look at and sometimes to get a good laugh!!!

[RoundElephant]

Ditto, productions are straight master pieces.

[Antagonist]

Why chose one? Every real writer knows you gotta do it all.

That being said, I have a lot of respect for ballsy ass writers who do big ass shit blockbusters and stuff.

TIE was fucking dope before will-dick-fuck-porter-fuck-cuntface executed him. "do some blocks!"

The artsy side is cool and shit, but no matter whether its a tag, throwie, or piece, its gotta have style and the writers style should be reflected in each of those.

Throwies are probably my least favorite just because I think so many writers have shit throwies, that being said, its dope as fuck to see a real nice throwie. I like SEENS throwie, but COPE2 has a pretty simple and played throwie. (yes 2 writers almost every toy should know)

But tags...tags are fucking beautiful. I love flares, flare tags are fun as hell and look dope too. Fat caps will never go outta style if you ask me. Marker tags are sick too, like wide-NIB markers made out of ZIG markers and shit, and mops with nice drips. Not too many drips though, thats fucking toy if you ask me.

Pieces are dope too of course, but a piece at a chill spot is nothing impressive nowadays. You gotta be like fucking, revok or augor and shit getting your pieces up on billboard, those are the shit. I'm wonderin' whats gonna happen with the whole revok shit, buket seems screwed but I think revok has too many corporate sponsors to get thrown in jail, they're just gonna milk him for a shit ton of money.

But yeah, overall, tags are my favorite because a good tag I can just stare at and visualize it into a piece, all blown up with different colors, 3d, etc.

That and it shows the writer knows what the games about, you can't do shit if you don't have your handstyle down, and don't bother trying because it WILL look like shit.

[ZionBlack]

Headcase, part of the allure and brilliance of graffiti is that there done illegally in a short amount of time and under intense pressure, one has the artistic ability to create a peice of graffiti, it takes more to put it up illegally at night in dark conditions

[Antagonist]

As far as I'm concerned everything but "productions" is vandalism. They're ugly and make the place look dirty and rundown. They're the kind of things you see by untalented twats in lower-class estates and give people with genuine talent, application and effort a bad name. You want to know why graffiti is classed as vandalism? Because if these idiots. No one gives a shit about your nickname or your ability to do bubbly writing (which was all the rage between the girls in my class when I was 6). If I had my way then they'd be convicted fined and made to clean their shit up. With a toothbrush.

As for productions, they have their time and place. They're like the perfect opposite of tags or bombs. While those shit stains can make nice areas look like ghettos, productions can make shit looking areas brighter and more welcoming. There's a car park here that has an annual production day in its grounds, with local (talented) graffiti artists and DJs and whatnot. As such, the car park (an empty lot between hideous old factories) appears fresh and looked after. I'll get some pics when I can.

Of course, productions can be out of place too. The city centre looks great and has no need of any extra embellishments.

Just because their ugly to you doesn't mean they're not 'beautiful' to a lot of other people. The problem is theres to many toys who go around and don't know what they are doing because theres no sort of program to teach them. I've had a lot of people compliment me on my "hand writing" and say they think its really cool, does it look any worse on a wall? Hell no, it looks better when its bigger, its more tangible, more real.

And to a lot of graff writers, the city looks run down itself. Theres not a whole lot of beautiful architecture, but suprisingly a lot of taggers will stray away from tagging nice, pristine buildings because the buildings themselves are a work of art. Now when you have an ugly piece of shit grey building that is just a block shape...why can't some kid play with paint on it?

Besides, it only costs "millions" of dollars because they put that value on it. Its less than a centimeter thick.

Not to mention theres a lot more BIGGER problems we need to be taking care of than putting kids in jail for painting a wall.

You should watch the documentary "BOMB IT" its targeted towards people like you who may be a little ignorant towards the subject.

Its not like every writer wants to have to plaster his tag everywhere, its just that...since its illegal then its not as easy to get up. Who wouldn't rather have 20 pieces around town, as opposed to 20 tags? People tag their pieces at the bottom anyway.

They kicked the kids out the subway, which woulda been a great medium, being that people used to CLAP when they saw nice pieces. After that...well it got ugly in the streets and that's where the bubble letters and tags came in.

Oh, 'n its kinda ironic to me that a shit ton of graff writers usually do graphic design too. So "we're" the ones who make all the ads and shit that get posted up, like posters and billboards, but of course "we" can't put our own shit up for the sake of looking good and brightening someones day. No, its gotta be for capital gain.

[VerbalGraffiti]

Verbal... ;)

[Jinx]

Since this has been resurrected (sort of) my personal favorite would be productions just because of the artistic level/talent shown in them.

[VerbalGraffiti]

Oops, I never even paid any attention to the date...doh!