graffiti

johnny b

am shooting a project on graffiti and the subculture and am lookin for good locations in dublin with a bit of character.dont have to be masterpieces, or the center of attention.

FX Meister

What kind of project is it? College or other? What type of a location are you looking for. Give me some details and I can point you in the correct direction.

SprostonGreen

On the M4 near Leixlip/Cellbridge there is a flyover with "Romans" in large letters. Though I suppose that is Kildare.

FX Meister

That Romans piece is also in an illegal spot, hard enough to get to and a crap place to shoot anything, tons of noise and stuff

heffsarmy

have a look around windmill lane and the billboards beside dockers pub on sir rogerson quays

johnny b

its a college project.black and white.already have some shots done already but need to get into it now. the location doesnt really matter.urban / rural. a bit of character about the place wouldnt go astray. the graffiti doesnt have to be big **** off monster masterpieces. also most of the photos wont be just of the graf but the surroundings aswell, so if you can view it from a slight distance it would be great. anything with a twist and a bit of originality.

johnny b

thanks heffsarmy and sprostongreen.will check it out. keep eyes open

chewy

the best bit of graffitti in dublin, for pure audacity, has to be on the side of the metrobowl on the northstrand , you can see it from connolly station/amien street and beyond... by griff ?

some punks did some stencilling graffitti on the city arts centre the other week as part of an event...

graffitti seems be hover somewhere between cool and cliche

johnny b

good stuff.will check it out.suppose i can leave the 70-300m at home!

HAS ANYONE ANY IDEA WHAT THE HELL THE TAG "UEK" IS? ITS BURSTIN MY BRAIN

heggie

wat course ye doin? sounds good

FX Meister

The UEK on the side of the Strand Bowl is by a chap called Gone, UEK means underground elements krew. Grift has two other pieces in the car park of that building. Windmill lane is probably your best bet for shooting somewhere in the city. Yoo could try the road out the back of the villiage, a couple of crews did that a while ago. There's also a place in baldoyle. Give me a pm and I can pass on the location on to you.

Milkman Dan

there's loads of graffiti on the nothside dart line, especially around howth junction/donaghmeade.
under one bridge there a fairly impressive display...

gobby

johnny b wrote:

am shooting a project on graffiti and the subculture and am lookin for good locations in dublin with a bit of character.dont have to be masterpieces, or the center of attention.

I might still have some pics of the graff from smithfield when there was a free wall announced there. I'll have a look. Had a wee accident with the oul pc there not too long ago and not sure if I still have em. Lost a lot of data...

scribs

All you have to do is jump on the Stephens Green - Sandyford Luas Line.

The whole stretch of the journey appears to have been taken over by two Graffitti artists vying for space.

"GRIFT" is one guys tag and "DROP" appears to be the other guys tag.
The other day saw one of them had done a sketch that must have been 10 foot high and just as wide. Must have taken hours to do

Its hillarious its as if these guys have nothing else to do but paint this crap
all over the place.

smois

GRAFFITI IS EVERYWHERE THERES NO STOPPIN DA UEK OR RCS OR ANY OF DA OTHER CREWS ITS a way OF LIFE

miju

smois wrote:

GRAFFITI IS EVERYWHERE THERES NO STOPPIN DA UEK OR RCS OR ANY OF DA OTHER CREWS ITS a way OF LIFE

funny guy so you are

Gonzo

ive noticed lately alot of grafitti from the centre of town out to bray on the N11... there are words like grift drop icn rcs appearing everywhere along that route and some along the blackrock road.

FX Meister

Quite a few ICN pieces in busy enough parts of town recently too.

gobby

I do still have those pics I took in Smithfield. If anyone wants them I can email em. Might have to be in a couple of weeks though. I'm very busy with college at the moment.

cecilwinthorpe

gobby could i get some of them? email them to elmozio{at}hotmail{dot}com

gobby

cecilwinthorpe wrote:

gobby could i get some of them? email them to elmozio{at}hotmail{dot}com

Hope ye have space for them. They are big enough. I can send You a gmail invite if you want...

cecilwinthorpe

well that addy has no emails in it at the mo so i should be able to get them all hopefully but if you think gmail would be better then yeah go for it

Kingsize

check out areas surrounding the train lines in the north strand/ east wall area
some nice graf pieces which in my opinion are made nicer by the grimy old redbrick walls & bridges.

cecilwinthorpe

oh my word how crazy is that graham its me lauren! your cousin!

gobby

WTF!!! :eek:

Thats just madness alltogehter! Haha!!!

How the devil are ya!?

cecilwinthorpe

i am not too bad at all! just set up the gmail thingy and its cecilwinthorpe{at}gmail{dot}com

gobby

cecilwinthorpe wrote:

i am not too bad at all! just set up the gmail thingy and its cecilwinthorpe{at}gmail{dot}com

Cool. I'll email those pics when I can. Have broadband in the house now so it should be no bother. I have a few things on today so it will be the evening before I get home. I have to hand in my logbooks today. Its the last day of my final year project! (Then I have a load of other work to do!)

PS: That was really, really strange! Tell Gar et all that I said hello!

cecilwinthorpe

thats fine whenevers cool. i will indeedy infact amy and mum are on there way to blanch at the mo cos poobrain has an interview and i think they're meetin ally there.

FX Meister

You can just find them on an old update on eiresol.com, the one with the red theme. It also has a picture of the entire wall, pretty huge.

gobby

FX Meister wrote:

You can just find them on an old update on eiresol.com, the one with the red theme. It also has a picture of the entire wall, pretty huge.

Yeah, found them. Decent site actually. Never realised that there was so much graff in Ireland. Although I think there is a lot of graff from other locations too. Still, good site...

FX Meister

It's got stuff from around Ireland but it's all Irish. There may be a few pieces from Irish writers painting abroad on it.

Rojo

Hey, you should check out the old baths in blackrock! Some of the graffiti is pretty good but the location is very cool with the sea beside it.

KOSS [TGK]

"GRIFT" "DROP" "SHOT" all the same person, in a crew called ICN, however ICN are only new, and have a link with RCS (The radicals).
UEK, is a demolition crew, wich basicly means, all they do is spraypaint every where and anywhere. Infact i caught a "UEK Crew Member" doing his infamous "FOES" tag on my area (Landsdowne/Ringsend) at the dart station, thats TGK Turf, all ringsend is basicly coverd in TGK, and are rivelling with another crew known as ESC, with "HASK" and "FLASH" smashing up their tags anywhere they can, quit annoying actualy. Ever see the tag "PNS"? Yes, that stands for "penis" basicly its a load of crap.

UEK is probly the most powerful krew in this city.
ICN would have very artistic members!
RCS is a demolition crew but do have nice burners around the place!
TGK are a gang crew, planning to do as UEK did. cover the city, look out for TGK Tags around the city centre. KOSS, ION, RAGER, FRENCHY, WING... are just some members of that crew.

Any one have any info on other crews? Even UEK, or any others?

gobby

KOSS [TGK] wrote:

"GRIFT" "DROP" "SHOT" all the same person, in a crew called ICN, however ICN are only new, and have a link with RCS (The radicals).
UEK, is a demolition crew, wich basicly means, all they do is spraypaint every where and anywhere. Infact i caught a "UEK Crew Member" doing his infamous "FOES" tag on my area (Landsdowne/Ringsend) at the dart station, thats TGK Turf, all ringsend is basicly coverd in TGK, and are rivelling with another crew known as ESC, with "HASK" and "FLASH" smashing up their tags anywhere they can, quit annoying actualy. Ever see the tag "PNS"? Yes, that stands for "penis" basicly its a load of crap.

UEK is probly the most powerful krew in this city.
ICN would have very artistic members!
RCS is a demolition crew but do have nice burners around the place!
TGK are a gang crew, planning to do as UEK did. cover the city, look out for TGK Tags around the city centre. KOSS, ION, RAGER, FRENCHY, WING... are just some members of that crew.

Any one have any info on other crews? Even UEK, or any others?

Tags are crud man. Theres no artistic value in tags. Tagging is more along the lines of vandalism. A proper piece on the other hand is art IMHO.

Down with taggers... You suck :mad:

FX Meister

What the hell is a demolition crew? As for Grift, Drop and Shot being all the same person, take a closer look at a Grift and a Drop piece and you can clearly see they are not the same person, that and the fact I know they are two different dudes. And as for TGK turf, why bring that kind of fag bs into graf? You're not in L.A. my friend.

KOSS [TGK]

Im not in L.A men... ofcaorse i know where i am. tagging is a work of art in itself, getting respect in one step to becomming a good artist. Bombing is probly the best form of graffti i do it myself ofcorse, i worked with a few mates around town a few years ago. UEK are a graffiri tag crew, but they also do bombings as you know, probly have the most famous bombing in Dublin. There realy is two kinds of tagging, 1: going around putting your name/nickname on everything, or there is going around putting your name/nickname on everything with a style.

i know where your comming from though, but i have worked on tags and bombings for a long time now, Grift and Drop are the same person my friend. trust me. But i do TGK tags around certain areas of the city, and iv done quite a few Burners in terinure, tagging is a way to get your name knowen to the city, like Grift, he has his name knowen.

Also, i would NEVER vandilise some one's property, where i do my tags is on obvious places that people can see, and dont care whats on it, because it looks bland without something on it

FX Meister

Yeah, like I'd trust you, you're full of crap jim. I doubt your pieces are burners either.

CaptSolo

Gobby, could you mail those photos to captsolo(at)gmail(dot)com?

Eiresol is a nice site. Nice graffiti photos.
But how come that the site does not allow to press any of the buttons except 'Enter'? "Previous Updates", "Contact Us" - none of these links seem to work for me. Tried both Mozilla and Explorer.

KOSS [TGK]

Who is jim? And i dont think this is "el Grifto" on this page lol, that would be absolutly stupid of him to post here. And since i cannot answer the question for Chrome, yes the stealth bombers crew are still quite active, but not around the centre, mostly apperating around bray etc. And TDA is gone, cablamo, ove actualy seen there last burner, its nice and says R.I.P beside it?

RCS, UEK, ICN, all the same crew sadly, that means no other crew is as big here.
I noticed while in Cork and drogheda that they have nice graffiti there, check out that! :-)

crazy angel

ah sweet sweet graffiti!

gobby

CaptSolo wrote:

Gobby, could you mail those photos to captsolo(at)gmail(dot)com?

Eiresol is a nice site. Nice graffiti photos.
But how come that the site does not allow to press any of the buttons except 'Enter'? "Previous Updates", "Contact Us" - none of these links seem to work for me. Tried both Mozilla and Explorer.

Sure thing. Have to wait untill tomorrow though...

gobby

Actually, those pics were still in my sent folder so I was able to forward them to ya.

FX Meister

KOSS [TGK] wrote:

Who is jim? And i dont think this is "el Grifto" on this page lol, that would be absolutly stupid of him to post here. And since i cannot answer the question for Chrome, yes the stealth bombers crew are still quite active, but not around the centre, mostly apperating around bray etc. And TDA is gone, cablamo, ove actualy seen there last burner, its nice and says R.I.P beside it?

RCS, UEK, ICN, all the same crew sadly, that means no other crew is as big here.
I noticed while in Cork and drogheda that they have nice graffiti there, check out that! :-)

You're a fool mate. SBC are not active any more, one member still paints with regularity but doesn't put up SBC anymore anyway. RCS, UEK and ICN are not all the same crew. RCS are a mainly U.K. crew with some members here, a couple of which are part of ICN. TDA are still active, they don't paint much but they still run the annual bridge of peace event in Drogheda, one of Irelands larger graff events. Try to have some idea of what you're talking about when you come on here and spout crap you think you know but obviously don't.

revolvingteeth

I am but a mere punter, a person that enjoys good graf work in an appropriate place. Was in Barcelona last summer and a lot of the work there blew me away - came back with so many photos of great stuff ranging from the purely decorative to the purely political. Not so much straight "tagging", or the old skool NYC hip-hop lettering type stuff. A lot of original style, original ideas, and original charachters. I was kind of disappointed with the local stuff in Dublin. Where's the good stuff?

ICN, depite how visible they are in Dublin at the moment, have done nothing but put ugly futile tags everywhere. e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e! Even on buildings that are most likely listed (that "KIOSK" on Leeson St. being one noteworthy place.) I wish they'd put as much time and effort into their grafs as they do travelling all over dublin. Someone on this forum has suggested that they're the most artistically telented of the crews around dublin so where can I see evidence of this? Please prove me wrong if you've got the goods!

Far more interesting recently has been some of the stencils and stickers i've seen.

Has anyone seen the "Must not sleep. Must warn others" stencil, or the stickers of small robot-figures standing on pipes, or the sticker with the stock image of a dolls face with a black rectangle covering it's eyes? Some of these have been wallpaper on my mobile for a loooonnnnng time. these are the folks I'd like to know more about. Great stuff.

CaptSolo

FX Meister wrote:

... TDA are still active, they don't paint much but they still run the annual bridge of peace event in Drogheda, one of Irelands larger graff events.

Interesting to get to know more about this event.
When does is take place?

CaptSolo

gobby wrote:

Actually, those pics were still in my sent folder so I was able to forward them to ya.

Thanks, Gobby! Gots the pics.

gobby

CaptSolo wrote:

Thanks, Gobby! Gots the pics.

No worries

garthv

Take a trip on a train. Most of the trains heading out west (blanchardstown etc), all the routes are covered in graffitti. You can find some decent spots and drive to them to shoot?

FX Meister

CaptSolo wrote:

Interesting to get to know more about this event.
When does is take place?

It's on the bank holiday weekend in August, there's always DJ's and stuff playing in the park at the bridge.

FX Meister

revolvingteeth wrote:

I am but a mere punter, a person that enjoys good graf work in an appropriate place. Was in Barcelona last summer and a lot of the work there blew me away - came back with so many photos of great stuff ranging from the purely decorative to the purely political. Not so much straight "tagging", or the old skool NYC hip-hop lettering type stuff. A lot of original style, original ideas, and original charachters. I was kind of disappointed with the local stuff in Dublin. Where's the good stuff?

ICN, depite how visible they are in Dublin at the moment, have done nothing but put ugly futile tags everywhere. e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e! Even on buildings that are most likely listed (that "KIOSK" on Leeson St. being one noteworthy place.) I wish they'd put as much time and effort into their grafs as they do travelling all over dublin. Someone on this forum has suggested that they're the most artistically telented of the crews around dublin so where can I see evidence of this? Please prove me wrong if you've got the goods!

Far more interesting recently has been some of the stencils and stickers i've seen.

Has anyone seen the "Must not sleep. Must warn others" stencil, or the stickers of small robot-figures standing on pipes, or the sticker with the stock image of a dolls face with a black rectangle covering it's eyes? Some of these have been wallpaper on my mobile for a loooonnnnng time. these are the folks I'd like to know more about. Great stuff.

Maybe part of the meaning in their work is that it is all over the city, it's hard to go somewhere and not see it. Grift's style is a pure bombing style, simple letters. But his stuff is very well painted from a technical point and is always clean and crisp. As for artistic elements in their graff, I'd rather see something crisp and original like the bat grift piece he did rather than any contrived New York style pieces as I've shown below. It's harder to make simple, curved letters actually look good but Grift pulls it off. As for the Rask piece here, he justs throughs shapes in to try and make it look complicated. To find the artistic types of graffiti you prefer you would need to go out of your way to find a legal wall, places where writers can paint without time constraints or worry about being caught. You say you like the stencils and stickers but surely a lot of that is down to where it is placed, if you saw it on a wall inside a coffee shop it wouldn't have the same impact on you as it's not outside, on a wall in the city where it shoulf lawfully be.

Grift


Grift


Rask


Kube

smois

nice pics what website u get them from.. :rolleyes: