Gotta say that Martinez is very arrogant, Graffiti in the UK does not exist!!! Read that last night on the tube and it made my blood boil

Thought that was quite an interesting interview.
The guy's got an opinion and isn't afraid to express it, which isn't a bad thing.

The more I read by this bloke the more pompous and self officiating he becomes. Really comes across as one of those old music magazine hacks who was first on the real scene and how everything else since is not as cool as the scene I helped to found.

Poor interviewer, really should have stuck it to the man, challenged his belief systems.

I remember graffiti in the 70's in the UK. There was one guy who wrote 'Cats like plain crisps' all over Richmond.
I was there at the very start so as monochrome says so poignantly F**k off back to NY!

I got arrested in 1979 for being drunk and disorderly and criminal damage, staggering home drunk after my first couple of pints, found a big bucket of gloss paint outside the DHSS office, (unemployment office for those in the USA).. and for want of a brush, we proceeded to stick our hands in the tin, scooping out handfulls of paint, with our bare hands, we wrote "C*nts" across the facade of the building in metre high letters, as well as several dozen beautifully rendered handprints ;D.. I'll never forget the vision of my good friend Rich (R.I.P) trying (unsuccessfully) to escape from the police by crawling as quickly as he could through the tipped over bucket of paint and down the road with the copper legging it after him. There were little white handprints down the highstreet for years afterwards.
We got a right slapping in the cell for seriously messing up the interior of the police car and ended up in court number 2 at Leeds Juvenile court where we were sentenced to 40 hours of community service, cleaning up an old graveyard.

We were 13 years old. ( The skull football story is for another time maybe)

1970's Graffiti, UK styleee !

The only 'graffiti' I did in the 70's was write "Mr Stewart is Merde" on the blackboard just before our French teacher came and started the lesson. Maybe it was corny and all too clever but it certainly had passion but that didn't make it art. The funny thing was that someone else got into trouble for it because I'd spelt Stewart wrong, the same mistake this other kid made regularly.

i checked it out. bloody good book. didn't stay long so can't be certain he escaped intact but something tells me he can handle himself.. to be honest i've heard the same nyc centric line from alot of the original ny writers.. i once saw lee q do a talk where he told a room full of young writers that graffiti was dead. and i quote "how many fuckin times can you write your name man".

i don't think they mean to piss young writers off i think it's just a matter of perspective. if you'd been around painting trains with dondi and the like what you get on the london underground now must seem a bit well, not as good... to put it politely.

Freeing up some wall space and stacking some loot for an OG acquisition. I'll most likely be listing my Kant Complain along with a few other bangers, but for the moment I'm selling my TLP canvas. It's signed by Chaz and dated 07. Classic TLP LADS action here, 18"x24".

In general I prefer to include an asking price, but due to the fact that, as D*Face might say, these are as rare as hens teeth in rocking-horse ish, I'm leaving this one open to offers. Gonna go on the 'bay if it doesn't go here, but I of course wanted to offer it up to the team first. Holler.

Sweet !!

The figure on the right is rather phalic!

There was a very similar one on Ebay a few months ago - listed by a fellow forum member - that in 'the end' sold for around 1K pounds...a cash + trade deal was negotiated and the auction was ended (correct me if I'm wrong if you two are reading this). I'm honestly looking for top dollar, as I do not want to sell this piece...it's up for sale because I have another TLP canvas, and I'm trying to hang an artist that hasn't graced my walls yet. Due to it's uniqueness, precise execution, and the fact that my collection is somewhat minimal, it was the obvious choice to sell. Great value...there are very few TLP works out there...this is an OG canvas, and while there are others like it, no two are the same, yada yada yada. But seriously, have you ever seen circles drawn so sickly? Crispy, clean and refreshing...these LADS are in my kitchen and go quite well with my morning coffee. It's gonna be sad to see them go...

I have one of these and the circles arnt free hand, at the right angle you can see the outline from the circle stencil they use. But these are great pieces and look a beast framed and on the wall

Ace, TLP listen to Helmet! Nice!

im not slating them, just passing judgement on the piece thats in front of me
TLP are dope and well worth the year it took me to get a reply from them