Heavy Artillery Graffiti Crew

Having never been to south east asia the area formerly known as the orient i was really looking forward to the new cultural experiences that lay in wait for me and my seventh letter bretheren.

I won’t keep you too long with the factual stuff but the city and surrounding area of Seoul is one of the largest suburban sprawls on the planet with over nine and a half million people in the central area and then the masses in each outlying suburb (Suwon for example has around a million inhabitants and is one of many city areas that fall under the Seoul umbrella). The city on the whole has more neon signs and adverstisments than any other place i have ever been it’s almost as if there is no law against them or planning permission recquired. At night it definately has a bladerunner feel to it added to by the 24 hour lifestyles that the residents choose to live by.

NOW ONTO THE PAINT SITUATION..
Please take your time to enjoy the above picture as this is the only bit of enjoyment that can be garnered from this garbage that has been pumped into a pressurised can.
Dong suh, the name is a hint to how it might behave.
Why has the hand using the paint wearing nail varnish on the logo.
please feel free to enjoy the colour range, all utilising the female cap system…. nice.
come back carplan all is forgiven.
THE PAINT THAT DID/DIDN’T ARRIVE.

Now it’s no secret that i personally consider spanish montana to be substandard sticky kids paint, but i would’ve given my left arm for a couple of boxes for the R16 events that we had to paint at.
the above picture is very misleading for the following reasons - we were supposed to be getting 600 cans, 300 arrived, 300 were stolen by our korean hosts before we got anywhere near them.
if you look closely you might be able to see that every can of the following is from the spanish ‘FLURO’ range, YELLOW, ORANGE, GREEN, PINK AND BLUE. The fluro’s made up around 50% of the 300 cans.
We had 6 cans of black and 12 cans of dark grey between 20 of us.
the remaining cans were a selection of turquiose, brown and khaki.
Then to top the event off just about perfectly the wall was corrugated with a powdery coating of white that didn’t enjoy being covered with any type of spray.
a few of the guys were able to keep their spirits up and produce work of a pretty high quality but i’m afraid i couldn’t travel that far on a plane, hardly sleep then pull out a burner with any type of paint with the scenario as it was… me a bit diva-ish? perhaps.

ONE GOOD THING.

This little dose of street meat got rocked by nearly everyone, its ingredients are a little mystifying but f*ck me it tasted amazing.
The bread was a little bit like french toast with honey spread on it, it had scrambled egg, cheese, salad and some type of pig meat i think but as a combination it was one of the best street snacks i’ve ever had the pleasure to eat.
THE BEACH WAS NICE..

The LA legend RISKY, AROE & the infamous JERSEY JOE. kick back..

GRAF FANATICS.

Now Korea is a very modern advanced country but tatoos are more or less illegal, they represent gangsters and koreans that have tatoos pretty much don’t exist. Now i’m sure JERSEY JOE didn’t invent the writing on peoples clothes phenomenon that seems to follow him wherever he goes but he can pretty much convince anyone to let him write on them. This got out of hand in Seoul, their was dudes walking around with what looked like a pages out of a blackbook scrawled all over their heads/bodies. I managed to capture this little fella for a quick snap…. mental behaviour.

R16 JAM - SUWON/SEOUL.

The obstacle facing us here was, we had used every shred of spanish paint on the corrugated debacle and we were expected to drop pieces in front of an audience at this giant bboy event. Armed with the now notorious ‘dong suh’ STEEL, NORM and myself decided to treat the wall as if it was an illegal street piece or trackside hoping that if we painted it real quick less people might see us.
To be honest i’m not entirely unhappy with the results but its not really why i travelled half way around the world.

I’m not really a complaining type of guy but if someone pays me to do graf for them i like to do something that we are both happy with, unfortunatley the paint situation kinda marred the overall event. It was abit like having a dj battle inviting 20 djs from around the world and then forgetting to organise any turntables and then expecting them to do their best with a couple of hi fi record players..

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