i work a lot with stickers, wheatpaste, paint, aerosol and whatever i can get my hands on. i recognise what i'm doing could be labelled as urban art and that's okay with me. i still consider myself a toy. hell, i'll always be one. cos as soon as i get my head thinking that i'm any good, i'm just gonna stop pushing myself. satisfaction is the death of desire, i guess. but call me whatever you want, but what i am not, is a graffiti writer. i do however recognise the importance and the history of graffiti. cos urban art would not exist without it. and that's why i love looking at the tags, the throw ups and the pieces on walls...be it legal or not. i absolutely love it. anyway, here are a couple of videos i found on my favourite site, youtube. haha.

from the fx crew from new york.



and a lil graff vocab lesson from the legendary cope2.



mad love,
s.c

first and foremost, who am i to judge what people do and what they say about themselves. heck, i shouldn't be saying anything in the first place. but there's this current trend that's been going on and it's fucking getting on my nerves.

some people are just way too liberal when it comes to the term, "urban artist". it's fine with me, you know....but fuck...you can't call yourself an urban artist if you're not doing anything on the streets. you can't say that "i've been doing graffiti since..." whenever...and then do work that is completely non related to graffiti. it's the same thing as someone calling themselves a chef but is nothing more than a waiter. not that i have anything against waiters and all, but why would you wanna call yourself something that you're obviously not.

and this just doesn't apply within our local street art community. the thing is, i'm sick and tired of how people choose to label themselves as something just because it's hip and cool. it's bullshit.

fuck the trend.

-s.c
cos only a rat can win a rat race

the first time i caught sight of an urban zombie piece was in 1998 near the old nafa in selegie road. and it was huge. and awesome. and a couple of years later, they showed up at the back streets of arab street,singapore. the thing is, they aren't a prolific bunch, but when they do their shit on the street, you can always bet that they're gonna go big.

and i got a pleasant surprise when i went down to haji lane today. the urban zombies never fail to disappoint.







fucking ace.

-s.c

haven't updated in a long ass time. been busy with school and working on my dissertation. it's been taking up all my time. can't even get some decent shit up on the streets even. which is fucked up cos all i've been doing are lil paste ups here and there which is kinda boring and i'm not exactly proud of it. but i'm still getting up, i guess...which is okay. but still...the stickers are totally fucked up. hah.

anyway, to those who have not seen the facade of the national youth council...please do yourself a favour and go see it. it's amazing. PB and ZNC did an awesome job. and i absolutely love it. clog is off the hook.

and check out evoke. the piece he did with the killer gerbil, syco03 and astro at the youth park is definately one of my faves. you can see the wall at gerbil's blog. it's dated the 11th of october.

-s.c