Aberdeen 2007

Play and Dosha

Aberdeen 2006

Slept by Play

Edinburgh 2006

Play

Korea, Laik, Renos, Duel, Play and Azby

Dundee 1995

All by Mark W (still waiting on those other pics mate!)

1996

Voigt Blackness, Dundee

Blackness, Dundee

Glasgow 2006

Vomet - Rouken Glen, Glasgow

Dundee 1988

Poison

Drogheda Bridge of Piece 2007

Lyken

MisterVera

Full wall

Lyken and MisterVera were invited over to the annual Bridge of Peace jam in Drogheda Ireland this year. Here is a connector of the wall - almost finished. There are still a few bits of the wall needed completed on this flick. Once i have a completed version i will repost this.

dundee 2005

MdMa and NWSK (2005 i think!)

MDMA 2006

Aberdeen 2007

Perth 2007

The person who submitted this flick thinks that it was taken in Perth. I hope so, as all the other stuff that is up on this site originates from Dundee, Edinburgh or Glasgow. There must be some stuff out there in other places like Aberdeen for example. I cant believe that these 3 cities are the only places in the whole of Scotland where there is some sort of graff scene. C'mon send in your flix and represent your area!

Inca 2007

Jim Morrison - just off Argyle Street Glasgow

Castle wall Glasgow

Harpo Marx

Castle wall Glasgow

Interview - Krime

Krime, NWSK, ESTM Madrid 2007

• Give me your name, crew(s), and how long have you been painting?
KRIME, MDMA, VK and the MAS, been writing for 5 years this winter.

• What was it that made you get into graffiti, what was it that made you go, fuck I want to do that?
in a nutshell it was my boy ANTE who introduced me to graff in 2002 but i have always noticed it. i remember the old factory in dundee on the perth road (now the DCA) which was filled wee graff and i loved the atmosphere that the pieces created. what was wierd was i never thought of doing it myself. as i got older i hung around the old hawkhill factory which was loaded with pieces and it still never dawned on me to take it up but the respect was there for the people behind the artwork. i have always been keen on drawing and design and studied it at the skale. once i left i had nowhere really to channel my artistic abillities untill ANTE (a school chum) chapped my door a few yers later and said hed been doin graff and thought i may be intrested in it. still to this day he has never been more right hahaha. the MDMA was formed......... with just the 2 of us.

• Who were your early influences and who/what influences you now?
Hailing from dundee and the time we started we were quite deprived of any up to date resorces so our early suff was just what we interpreted graff to be. other than the memories from the old school graff haunts in dundee we were noticing tags and dubz from the likes of EYED and ARSE (DBS) which had a real nice style. i think most of the inspiration came from ROULE (ER) who at the time was producing some of the best pieces dundee has seen. BIG SHOUTS BY THE WAY. painting with ROULE opened up a lot of doors for me and educated me into the origins of graff. it was a mad time i like to call it creative overload. other influences include subay art and spray can art. what can i say. i love the old school flavour. my main influences at the moment are the people who i paint with, you ken wha ya are.


• Whilst people out there are chasing after the realistic 3D type of style, your style has a real old school New York style feel to it. Is this just a coincidence or was it a deliberate move?
its a deliberate move defo. i have an idea in my head of what graff should look like based on the way a piece looks and the atmoshere it creates. i try to stick to this rule whilst pushing myself further with every sketch i do. i do like the 3D stuff tho but i dont think its for me. i would like to give it a go but my heart is set on the old school and probably always will be. i think that the old school new york era certainly gives me influence i need to produce stuff i like to see.

• Bombing or a production? What's your preferred choice and why?
i like both of them for very simple reasons. boming provides a rush that you cant get anywhere else especially when you smack some steel. i love the zone you get in when out bombing. as soon as the paint hits the surface its pure instant euphoria. i have tried to pursue this plearure in many forms and none come close. productions are probably my favourite as it uses more of an artistic skill and im always challenging myself to do better. when doing productions its more relaxed than bombing and you can work to a pace that gives you the chance to have a blether with other writers face to face. prods also give you a chance to meet new people and be inspired in different ways.



• There is an attitude within graffiti that if someone is not taking the risks going out bombin etc then they are not really doing graffiti. What's your thoughts on this?
i think graff is a gift to a select minority who stick to it and these internal squabbles should be put to the side and forgot about. i like doin both but put most of my energy into piecing. some people have responsibilities that dont faciliitate the life of a bomber but allow them to go and do a piece. in my opinion they are still doing graff even if it doesnt involve all the aspects. i love gettin pished and goin bombing tho. dutch courage. ha

• What's your opinion on the current Scottish Graff scene?
fuckin brilliant. shouts to everyone who i have met. there is no hate between cities. everyone who i have painted with from glasgow and edinburgh have provided a great days painting and happy vibes as well as some real tasty work.

• Whats your favourite piece and why?
this one at the vapour trail jam dundee 07. i used a different technique with this one which i enjoy doing. cutting back your outlines and 3D with the fill, it creates a good effect.. i like this one because i love using greens, the overall shape of the piece and the sence of depth between layers. it is not as flat as some of my other stuff. plus i wasnt wasted so my lines are not as wonky.

KRIME - Vapour Trails jam Dundee 2007

• Every writer has a story that they like to tell whether it's the time they met and painted with someone, some beef or a chase story. What's yours?
i dont know, i have had a lot of chases and close encounters but i think the best one which was quite comical was during a bombing mission. i was in a tunnel with a few folk and it was quite risky, near a main road. we heard noises from above and decided to chill back for a while till the noises stoped. it sounded like footsteps on the bridge. we sat in some bushes for about an hour telling jokes. fuckin freezin tae. anyways the paiting continued and i was on lookout a car come past and i shouted get down and it was a false alarm. then suddenly a motor on the bridge above was fucking booting it and we smelt the rubber from the tyres in the tunnel. this car come ripping past us so we hit the deck to hide. what followed the car was a whole squad of different police vehicles sirens and lights too. we fuckin shit ourselves coz there was a high chance that one of they cunts saw us. however all was well and we can laugh about how shady it was. i dont think i have shat myself since.

• Getting wasted or Graff
graff for sure but i always end up cunted at jams.

Conzo Inca GC Production 2006

Graffiti Planet by Ket

Some more proof that Scottish graff is finally beginning to get the exposure and credit that it deserves and is being recognised on the international stage.

OE crew Edinburgh 2007

OHKS

UGSO

Be a good lad and read your bible

Subway Art - http://www.mediafire.com/?3xzmjyujyqw
Spraycan Art - http://www.mediafire.com/?anlhwmxnbnt

Enjoy.

Welcome to Glasgow Central

VK Killers - Dundee 2006

Very by Vera, Lyken and Sync

MSC - Edinburgh 1996

Mie One, Elph, Ego, Bern

MSC - Drylaw Edinburgh

Scotlands first all city writer ?

I had a thought when i was driving back from work last night. Back in 1980 (dont ask how i know the year but its something to do with Adam and the Ants!!!) i was only 8 years old and I used to hang out with a guy who had the nickname Joe 90. We lived in a housing scheme which had hundreds of blocks of flats and some multi storey buildings. Each of these had lovely smooth walls which we would run from one to the other tagging, although at that time we never knew that was what we were actually doing and im not going to pretend that we did - it was just us "getting a menchy". We would cover these walls with lovely mini and jumbo Pentel markers that we had "aquired" from various trips into town .

Anyhow, Joe 90 used to get the number 11 or 12 bus across town to see relatives. As anyone from Dundee can tell you, this bus goes through almost every single part of the city. On his trips to his relatives house he would leave a few Joe 90 scrawls on the bus. On his way back he would do the same.

The point of this? Does this mean that we can assume that Joe 90 was an "all city" bomber, and if so, was he the first in Scotland?

Comments?

Livingston 1994

Bip and Ase

This was painted at the Livingston Jam which featured Mode 2, Vulcan etc. More flix from that jam to follow as soon as i dig em out.

Dundee 1986

Beat This - Bip and Ase

Little Devils - Bip and Ase

Prime

Bits

Apologies for the terrible picture quality of the Prime and Bits pieces.

SRE107 graff vid channel over at youtube

Compilation of pics from the site put together by SRE107.

Check out his youtube page over at http://www.youtube.com/user/SRE107 for some more scottish graff vids. Some nice stuff.

ESTM - interview

• Give me your name, crew(s), and how long have you been painting?

ESTM. ER and AS crews.. I've been painting for nearly seven years now.


• What was it that made you get into graffiti, what was it that made you go, fuck I want to do that?

One day we were taking the piss out of some guy when i was about 13 and we decided it would be funny to spray paint his name everywhere. That progressed into tag names and running around the streets at night, tagging up, climbing scaffolding and smoking joints with my mates. It wasn't too long before I caught the graffiti 'bug' and couldn't get enough of it.

• Who were your early influences and who/what influences you now?

I used to stay near the hall of fame at kelvinbridge, so seeing the productions there day in day out blew me away. Seeing ER crew all around Glasgow was definitely inspiring too. Being able to read whole streets of tag names was fascinating. The idea of a graf writer was probably the coolest thing possible I could think about at that age.

These days I get influences from everything, all kinds of art, my friends graf, nature, travelling, aphex twin, dubstep, abstract thinking, illegal parties, surrealism, shroom and lsd experiences. All the mental shit in life really that frustrates me, from the depriving structures of societies, the illuminati, organised religion, organisations and institutions that try and kill any individual thinking, any kind of 'establishment'. Makes me realise that music and art are the way forward on to higher platforms of living.

• Estm, how did the name come about?

To be honest at first I was just messing about with what letters I liked style wise, and I did an estm piece and it totally worked. Since then though it's progressed into my own word. I feel it's kinda unique and hard to understand, like my style. I was reading a lot of mental stuff about language, and words, and how we won't progress until our language does, so I guess this is just me making a start with my own. I've flirted with writing estym for a while, dunno if I could be arsed with 5 letters though.

• You have a quite unusual style which is sometime referred to as “ghost” in appearance. Was this the result of some mind altering painting session or something that you were out there trying achieve?

Nah it was a bit of an accident. We were at the newcastle graf jam in 2006 and I was going to do a solid 3d piece but I only had soft caps, and it had a mental effect on the black background. So I just rolled with it, and now it's added another dimension to my painting I guess. I'm just waiting on another one of those pay off fuck ups. These days though I do the ghost pieces with normal caps, I've sort of schooled myself on that style.

• Bombing or a production? What’s your preferred choice and why?

Hah, emm I don't really think you can have one without the other. If you're doing one or the other really hard, I think you gotta pay visit to the opposite to maintain your balance with graf art. I mean what got me into graf was it was illegal and looked dope as fuck, and those are the main things on either side of bombing and productions. I love the unlimited ideas you can get on productions, but I'm gonna push myself for more bombing, more travelling, more POW POW haha.

• Whats your favourite painting and what is it about that piece that you like so much?

Probably the one I done in that Newcastle jam. Bit of an accident, and totally changed the direction I was painting in. I like the organic greens in it, makes me think of murky woods and folk with pointed ears smoking batons. I think if that piece had a soundtrack, it would be something from warp records haha.

ESTM - Newcastle Jam 2006

• Do you see yourself still painting in 10 years time?

Without a doubt. Still trying to push things forward hopefully. It's mad how much you can progress in a year, nevermind ten, so I'm pretty intregued to see what I'll be painting by that stage, what kinds of flix I'll have built up, what kinds of stories to tell. I won't even be that old to be honest.

• Every writer has a story that they like to tell whether it’s the time they met and painted with someone, some beef or a chase story. What’s yours?

Erm well due to the nature of the Scottish scene you can never really chat about specifics on the net. A lot of mad chase stories and what not. I guess just seeing random pedestrians who stumble upon illegal graff getting done and you can tell it's just fucking their head up, and when you can tell they're down with it and feeding off the buzz it's even better. We need more people like that. Also one time I had to take a dump in a train yard, haha.

• Getting wasted or Graff?

Graff definitely. I've developed some kind of rep in the scottish scene as a bit of a waster but that's due to all you guys hosting your jams early on saturdays. Most of the time I can't ignore the party on the previous friday night, so in order not to sleep in I gotta stay up. That's dedication, and when you pull off a sweet piece too on no sleep, it feels good. I'm gonna give the partying a bit of a kick though, fuel more energy into graf.

Dundee 2007

AOS - linked from http://www.fotolog.com/relodethebitch

edinburgh 2007

Dotse

OE crew - Edinburgh 2007