PDX Graffiti Like Ummm...

Peter: 20th Apr 2005 - 14:13 GMT

heh! I gotta admit, seeing really crappy graf is often as entertaining (if not moreso) than seeing really amazing (but increasingly hackneyed) wildstyles, executed by true artists. I'm sure it sucks to have to see it in your town, but its amusing to see it on here, at least :)

Justin: 21st Apr 2005 - 03:55 GMT

Re: PDX graffiti like ummm...
There are some impressive tags, but so much of that industrial area gets canvassed by white rollers that the pieces live only for a few hours, maybe a day. And yes, the crap graffiti sucks, my area is covered with the "LMV 13," this guy even tags trees, not to mention the community center.

OG PESTONER DNA: 23rd Apr 2005 - 02:45 GMT

Most of tha good graff is underground...in abandoned tunnels, in frieght yards, etc...any public graff is usually whitewalled with the quickness...even pieces where the owner of the property gave permission (buffed by the city without the owner's consent) The city just does not like graff, in fact they hate graff so much that they started going over non-graffiti public murals just so that people couldn't accuse them of singling out the graffiti stuff. But, yes, most Portland graff is wack, this new generation of ptown writers seem to be more interested in tagging and bombing instead of piecing and on top of that more concerned with getting up than with style...

skizzle: 28th Apr 2005 - 18:51 GMT

agreed. i live in NE ptown and unfortunately, lame graff in my neighborhood is not in the slightest bit appealing. one guy scratched "X3" into the front window of a new house being built. it took nearly six months for the property to sell after that. the other comments on this post are spot on. portland has become hyper-combative against any and all types of works, except for the murals approved by the city.

WrekOne: 1st May 2005 - 03:32 GMT

To find the best pieces, look for large buildings with wooded or wild areas directly beside/behind them. That is where I often find great pieces that are hard to see from the street. After "Jasper" and "Huge" got caught by the popo's, alot of people were afraid to do anything in the more densly populated areas like downtown. Much love to those still getting up like "Dazen", and much hate to those bastards with the anti-grafiti graffiti like the circles or dots over the center of a great piece. The tags like X3, XV3, etc. are all latino gang tags imported from SoCal. Watch out for those guys (gang bangers, not latinos), as they're extremely violent and short tempered. What this town needs is an ArtFiend reneisance like the old days. Peace.

ALEX FROM ESCO : 18th May 2005 - 01:24 GMT

OK I WANT TO GET THIS OFF MY CEST U ARE LOSER FOR BUTING TOSE ON TAERE THEY CALL U LOSER I THINK U HAVE JUST GOT DIS AND LOST DIGNITY

Vel: 20th May 2005 - 00:49 GMT

Cest? What's a cest? Ohhhhhhh... you mean chest? Doof.

fuzzytank: 20th May 2005 - 05:33 GMT

i was more confused by 'buting tose on taere' but i think i got it now ;)

WkC member: 21st Jun 2005 - 09:57 GMT

i know 3 official members of 13 street AKA LMV X3. you wont believe this shit. ones in 5th grade, 9th grade and 8th grade. ive been asked to be in x3 lmv or x3 sur and i said no. im just in a writing crew. and now x3 isnt even all latino. white kids are in...

i tag, i peice and i do throw ups. tagging to me is like just a rush. and yeah i know i just make the world look terrible with my tags but i mean come on. could the world get much worse? graffiti is in such young kids blood now that you wouldnt believe it. i know this kid. hes like 8 and he writes "lank" im 12 and i write too but im not gonna give you my name. im wanted.

graffiti around here is all bad. portland is shit. i feel bad becuz its my fault sort of. im good at this stuff tho. i get some people into graffiti that are straight f*cked up! thay cant do anything right and they go out and do it anyway and i tell them they suck and to stop and their like "i burn you"

sharpie tags... oh please!

Curve: 29th Jun 2005 - 20:31 GMT

ya some shits wack but lately ive been feeling some SouthEast Portland styles like Morph and Tahoe if you check those your little thoughts would change

fuzzytank: 29th Jun 2005 - 21:32 GMT

hook it up with some photos curve ;)

i cant get down there as often as i would like

Peter: 30th Jun 2005 - 14:03 GMT

yeah i gotta second that- would love to see some photos...

Jess: 9th Sep 2005 - 04:56 GMT

Movie for you: The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal - It even takes place in Portland

Chino: 14th Sep 2005 - 05:22 GMT

I love graf. I use to bomb some hot s#!t back in the day. Yes, today alot is wac. Today no one can appreciate good graff. Everyone see's the weak graff and say it's vandalism giving good graff artist a bad name. To all my fellow bombers, reall street artist, Keep up that good work. Don't run out of paint, kid!

SlangOne,AmenOne EST.90: 6th Nov 2005 - 04:14 GMT

You are correct.I have been writting in PDX and Boston...Mostly PDX for OVER 11 years now.As an "adult" and freelance artist I crack up at the nonsense and disapreciation for it.And to the guy sucking on "Jasper" and "Huge" ever heard of MOVER,WERL,DS,SLER,MASON,MING,SPOIL,The OLD CD Tunnels...etc...or were you playing blocks and lifting model paint from Safeway back then.There have been someSUPER writers here that NEVER got caught (self included) that never hit personal business,churches and so on...back when there was a Code.Which also was a superb writer...heres a list of more...
ABIS,MACH,The entire WOW crew,LIFT,Beef,Linus,Fiber,BER,Emit,FICS,TONITE,ALAS,PRESTO,GAGE,FINDME...ahhhhh
ZEDY,AJUST....it goes.
AmEnOne-SlAnGoNe-PDX-Boston...BSA,TON,SWK,ECF

knock one.: 27th Nov 2005 - 03:11 GMT

portland graff is decent. you got toys and you got some good writers and the rest are alright. the scene is here in inner se. reminds me of l.a.`i've only been here for almost three years and it seems like the graff scene here thrived in the 90's.`what happened?? i guess we grew up but i try to hit streets and trains a few times throughout the year. anyhow, the scene is cool, we could do with less toys though..

blank: 24th Dec 2005 - 08:14 GMT

i cannot stand the thirteen-streeters. ther are always crossing out my shit. ftc x3 kts... all of it. some people do some tight shit sround portland, i think this place just needs some pictures everyone should throw some up

Tails: 7th Feb 2006 - 03:59 GMT

i lived right here in ptown all my life and i used to always watch the trains roll by. i loved to see all tha graff and wonder how it was posible for people to do that. taging is a big part of my life.

so i live up in NE, right next to whittaker middle school.
its a pretty hot spot up here but today i found it all white washed and shit! what they hell man! i'm so sick of people saying that all graff is bad! no one owns the school. its abandoned. how is it hurting people? why dosn't the city put their money to cleaning up all all the litter up there instead?

rgist: 24th Feb 2006 - 23:21 GMT

how would graffiti writers think about having access to a billboard truck. would a moving wall be a cool idea or just lame?
(student.pnca.edu/~rgist)

fuzzytank: 1st Apr 2006 - 10:52 GMT

did you search for graf trux?! Im serious about not tryin to be mean but.. its not a new idea.

fuzzytank: 1st Apr 2006 - 10:56 GMT

sory all those photos are old an outdated. the first three got buffed an the belmont trash got re-routed it loked better last time i was there, but that was only for a few min.

tesio: 12th Apr 2006 - 23:38 GMT

who is the guy that paints the animal on the wall i see that around lloyd center alot and also in about 12 graffiti magazines that i have is he copycatting "originality" ummmmmhh?

the face: 21st Apr 2006 - 23:41 GMT

I like the graff trux idea! I want to see more! Ps. Fuzzy have you heard of the up factory in portland? You should check it out! Lots of good spots, and a great place for photography. Its in St. Johns google search it.
Peace,
The Face

BIG PEST ONE: 16th Jun 2006 - 21:02 GMT

yeah man it's been over a year since i posted here last and portland graff is STILL by the whole...WACK!!! there of course are a few exceptions but these kids now-a-days have no respect for tha game, tha culture, or tha 'rules' of graff...graff might not have started with HipHop but HipHop is what made it FRESH...now these skaters, punk rockers, hippies, ravers, etc. are all into graf and fucking it up! don't get me wrong, there are a FEW cats from each category that have skill and respect but for tha most part...NOPE! i visted afrika earlier this year and tha graff there was phenomenal. these kids who barely know ANYTHING about HipHop because they are so poverty stricken and neglected it is next to impossible for them to get their hands on shit they was still doin' it 1000 times better than ANY portland cat! it's a shame to say but we've lost it...

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Wicked: 20th Jun 2006 - 00:14 GMT

What up!?!? Art Fiendz are officially in the building!
What up Pest One!
Can't forget Big Bad Boogie Rack, Alarm, Amazer, Aqua, Zelly Roc, Felon, Prizer, Fear, Guess, Wave, Rage, Kove, Sane, Ready, Comic, Menace, Shep, Scene, Nese, Icon, and all the other OG Portland writers that pioneered grafitti in this city!

Shit just ain't how it used to be.

PESTY: 20th Jun 2006 - 07:15 GMT

ha ha! what up WICKED?!?! can't forget Doc-J...i just ran into that fool tha other day...he's been MIA for years lost in tha wilderness on tha otherside of tha west hills but he's back and that motherfucker has an 11 year old kid!

JELOROC: 20th Jun 2006 - 07:21 GMT

yo i just wanted to say to all you newjack graffiti writers if i ever catch you tagging on another piece of public art i'ma choke you! whoever tagged tha spinning sufi on alberta is a punk...whoever tagged tha mural on 15th and alberta is a toy...wolf you are a punk AND a toy...

SYNC MTC: 24th Jun 2006 - 20:56 GMT

fuck that PSP graffiti sony pays for.. in la and new york that shit got ragged immediately.

blinddonut: 3rd Jul 2006 - 16:06 GMT

Hey. I'm looking for a graffiti artist, or group of artists to do some stuff for a Tango Festival in portland. If you're interested or know anyone who is interested, email me at pariz@pdx.edu and we'll talk.

anon (cache-mtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com): 8th Jul 2006 - 17:28 GMT

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anon (cache-mtc-ae10.proxy.aol.com): 8th Jul 2006 - 17:28 GMT

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ERQLE: 7th Aug 2006 - 01:51 GMT

It escapes most writers but the keys to good graf is 1)the object/spot and 2) the execution, cleanliness, control etc, drunken bombing missions aside yes there is a lot of crap goin up on the walls, however every other cty has been taken over, i appreciaTE the fresh spots all over. way to say some good shiz though, thanks for stayin on the look out. ERQLE BTS JYK

havek: 17th Sep 2006 - 21:55 GMT

Skaper - Disme - AOR Crew is the shit! have you guys seen them around?

FauxReal: 2nd Oct 2006 - 10:21 GMT

I know a few graff kids that do some good stuff, but it's hard to get up when the cops are so hard on it. I've noticed a lot of nice stencils and posters in Portland over the last 2 years and some pretty nice stickers on the backs of signs. I was digging on those painted over stickers with robots on them, and the elephants were decent too.

Those silver donuts over murals and tags from what I understand were being done by some old man who eventually got busted by the cops.

I can't stand all those sloppy taggers out there though. I caught that punk kid Hustle tagging the bathroom in a bar I work at, told him I'd whoop his ass and make him eat his pens if I ever saw him again. Sometimes I wanna bitchslap those DFM kids too for tagging and etching businesses. Though I've seen a couple DFM pieces on walls that were pretty decent. They need to drop the retards from their crew.

Reeko1ne: 5th Feb 2007 - 21:47 GMT

PDX graf used to be the sh!t...problem is everybody grew up and got old.
the original Dfm crew: Resk, Cerca, Vegas, Reeko, Motevs, Bore, Cayper, Cops, OFA crew, Relik, Torch, Kable, Mach, Rune, UFR crew , Tonek, Avel, Frost, RCK crew, HOD crew, Ming, Spoil, Detr, Diz, Code, Mesk. half these cats are either somebody's parents now, married and sh!t, dead, or got real jobs. all the young coming up just ain't doing it right. can't blame them though, they don't really know any better. lack of rules, and knowledge of the game and it's past is what's fuckin up these youngins.

BLESTone: 19th Apr 2007 - 04:36 GMT

do any of you guys know what happened to jukes? i haven't seen anything new by him. . .

coppertone: 8th Jul 2007 - 22:27 GMT

portland was deaded long ago.. Can anyone bring it back to life

Mekroe: 11th Aug 2007 - 07:40 GMT

Jukes still gets up on the best spots in town. Much props to him, evak, bier, june, relo, server. Those are new kids getting up. Or at least i think. They are the ones that keep me excited.

jay: 23rd Aug 2007 - 18:08 GMT

"Let's start with some decent ones?" Your "special" art (the three at the top)... ? Thats nothing more than a big "tag", that's nothing! shit you just write your name bigger than the rest of us, all that represents is a bigger ego.

Losnah: 8th Sep 2007 - 05:11 GMT

There's tons of cool shit here, just keep lookin', cause the buff is quick... I spot dope pieces a lot. Lately: Gime, Fever, Jeab (mad throwies) Jukes, Snore (throw ups too, up High), Sherm...

Portland's a tagging and bombing city, though, there's nothing wrong with that. Every place has toys and whack shit, maybe it's a bit disproportionate here... so go over that shit with something better and catch the fuckers disrespecting the codes and the community and talk to 'em... hell, half the dope cats out there I've also seen scratched into windows of taquerias or up against a tiny church or some poor working stiff's hole in the wall business...

There's a lot of nihilistic types that think everything is shit anyway so why not make it their shit... I don't agree but I don't blame 'em. Writers should raise the bar.

ALso, I think a lot of writers are crazy young and they're out there every night, payin' dues, learnin'... so who's teachin' 'em? Hope it's somebody out there with some skill and some knowledge...

ANYBODY can write on a wall...Everybody should at least once...but Writers transform walls...

DREBSR SWK....SOCIETYS WORST KREW: 20th Nov 2007 - 23:17 GMT

ALL OF THOSE BOMBS R TOYZ......GET SOME BETTER SHIT

gHoSt - rYdiN sOLo: 2nd Jan 2008 - 22:08 GMT

I was a part of the early 90's graffiti movement in Portland, Oregon. Retired from the streets but still have love and appreciation for the dying art.

I still see some good artists running around but nothing like it was back in the day.

We all have to grow up sometime. Miss the smell of paint and meanstreaks though..

gHoSt - rYdiN sOLo: 2nd Jan 2008 - 22:11 GMT

hAvEk! is that you brandon? used to bomb wit ya back in the day.. hit me up.. ghostgoneawol at yahoo..

wow crew 92': 12th Feb 2008 - 08:35 GMT

shit i was RIVAL an original member of the WOW crew and there were some tight writers back then
yeah they were few and far between but still UP and we bombed the fucking city all of us AF OFA DK UWK CD cellec the king bomber etc... etc...
i remember when i met code who was a cool muthafucker hushing me as a saw him hitting up the back of tri-met he was one of the first writers i met, him and his cousin and fear and a few other AF guys our crews had some minor beef but i was cool with most of em, most of us knew each other had bar-b-q's drank together and shit thats how we knew about the spots
and i don't know about now but back then only other writers knew the good spots to piece like the old abandoned freeway tunnels all along the max tracks and around 205 etc...
so go underground for the good shit

polka mover rival acme desk crime decca wow crew 1992

Writing On Walls
Widespread Optical Warfare

Saiz: 29th Feb 2008 - 05:58 GMT

Ay, this goes out to all yall who say Graffiti is being ruined by young kids today.... Im 18, an I did a lotta research on graffiti, I feel like I have a good understanding of the dos and donts of the art and culture. Im not very good, but im practicing. I do agree that alot of younger kids juss dont know what its about, an they dont care really. Ima keep tryna bring graffiti in Portland back to the way it used to be, or at least what I read about how it used to be. Look out for SAIZ

Peter: 3rd Mar 2008 - 15:07 GMT

Saiz: im curious- fill us in... what are the "dos and don'ts" of graffiti culture?

Saiz: 9th Mar 2008 - 08:15 GMT

Im not sayin thers a "guide to graffiti: dos and dont's" What I meant was I see a lot of kids putting up graffiti in the city, but they dont do their research first, they dont know the history of it.

Also, what I meant was there really are some basic things that writers should know right? Like, i've seen some one tag "seen" on the side of a building all shitty- like. Its stuff like that that kinda kills it, dont u think?
I dunno, I juss thought you'd like to hear that a young writer(me) was tryna make things better..It's like what the first post of this article "Somebody that knows what they are doin needs to get there and teach by example." I feel like im one of the few kids in this city who writes that actually cares about where it all came from, how it all started. I am learning, practicing, and hopefully I can be that one who leads by example

OHNOE ONE: 16th Mar 2008 - 17:14 GMT

thelevens: 3rd Apr 2008 - 06:15 GMT

anyone remember metro, always liked his style.

MehONE : 19th Apr 2008 - 04:41 GMT

Revolution is now - Fuck the system, destruction is beauty -

Down with all gang related bull shit ( at me to that long list )
Idea, Morph , Relik, Bonus, Difer, Bore, Six, Tahoe, Severe, Sezer - Keep up.

Have faith in the youth, Someone will take the place of someone else, and so the story goes-