Okinawa, Japan

[zombie303]

Yo I was in Okinawa, Japan earlier this year & they gots lots of graff, so here are the flix.. I had posted them on another forum on 12oz. but figured they might not be seen by everyone so here ya go!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1299.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1297.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1298.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1296.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1295.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1294.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1293.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1290.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1286.jpg

:burn: :burn: :burn: :burn: :burn: :burn: :burn: :yuck:
These kids are fresh!!

[zombie303]

some more for ya!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1280.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1281.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1282.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1283.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1284.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1285.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1276.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1277.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1278.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1275.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1274.jpg

[zombie303]

just a few more!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1273.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1272.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1271.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1270.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1269.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/22e0cffd.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1266.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1265.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1264.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1263.jpg

[zombie303]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1258.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1259.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1260.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1261.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1262.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1245.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1246.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1238.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1237.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1236.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1235.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1218.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1217.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1216.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1215.jpg

ok that's it for right now!!

zzzombie RTD

[.808ph8.]

great thread!
its dope to come online and be able to see stuff from japan ;)

[GraffLondon]

nice fliks, any japanese steel?

[ODS-1]

Some of it's a little blurry.

[WarpOne]

Thanks so much for the pictures!
I'm planning on going to Japan in a few months, and I've always wondered what the graff scene was like out there.

[IDrinkSprite]

Tight.Im going to japan in april for a few weeks.Ill be staying in Kobe.I cant wait.Good shit in here.

[zombie303]

Originally posted by GraffLondon@Nov 27 2004, 10:51 AM
nice fliks, any japanese steel?
Quoted post



All the subway cars & full line trains out in japan are pure clean... walls however especialy in tokyo are wrecked.
zombie rtd

[petehamburgerbrains!]

totally awesome.!!!! i wonder how the judicial system treats graf writers in japan????

[zombie303]

well if your goin' to paint on a legal wall, no problem just stay on the wall. you still might attrack attention, because you are a foriegner to the japanese. but if your bombin' stick to the major cities like tokyo, nagasaki or fukouka, they already have graffiti. the rest of Japan is pretty much clean & I mean spotless!! no graff anywhere!! it realy does depend on where you go to, this okinawa wall, absolutly shocked me when I first seen it, but then again okinawa is basicly it's own little world also. the okinawan's don't realy care to be part of main land Japan. they have thier own things goin' on. Okinawa has alot of paint & alot of different artists with alot of different foriegn influneces. american, chinese, japanese, british, irish, australian, there are people from all over the world who visit Okinawa.
Zombie

[moosepoopmat]

i like the graf,,i wanna go to japannn

[casensitive4]

Originally posted by petehamburgerbrains!@Nov 27 2004, 10:55 PM
totally awesome.!!!! i wonder how the judicial system treats graf writers in japan????
Quoted post


thats what I want to know..!!

[petehamburgerbrains!]

we need to organize a writers exchange...

[80813]

crip

[Chance Em Redy]

If youre from America and get busted painting out in Tokyu, or some other large urbanized city in Japan, most likely little will happen to you. Some dudes i knew went out there and did a couple of illegal pieces right in broad daylight in some lot. When the cops did come over they just told the cops they were American, and the cops just told them to finish and leave. Pretty dope. ;)

And yes, all the Okinawans i know get offended if you call them Japanese. I guess theres alot of history invovled.

[zombie303]

Originally posted by Chance Em Redy@Dec 20 2004, 11:33 PM
If youre from America and get busted painting out in Tokyu, or some other large urbanized city in Japan, most likely little will happen to you. Some dudes i knew went out there and did a couple of illegal pieces right in broad daylight in some lot. When the cops did come over they just told the cops they were American, and the cops just told them to finish and leave. Pretty dope. ;)

And yes, all the Okinawans i know get offended if you call them Japanese. I guess theres alot of history invovled.
Quoted post



Okinawa is dope & is a great place to visit.. your right don't call them Japanese!! they are Okinawan.
ZOMBIE

[sarifs&clips]

I lived in Okinawa for a year back in 91/92 and pieced a couple of those walls in the above flicks..Nice place. I'm sure my stuff is all long gone by now but I know it ran for years..I had a piece show up in some tourist brochure for Oki that a kid showed me one time quite a few years later. Japan/Okinawa..Two totally different places.

[isor357]

im feeling those characters and
faces. Especially the girl and the green
fella. Overal completely worthwhile.
bump japan do the damn thing

[nozaki]

Originally posted by Future Droid+Nov 27 2004, 10:10 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Future Droid - Nov 27 2004, 10:10 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>i wonder what he is saying....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC_1266.jpg
Quoted post
[/b]


<!--QuoteBegin-chumbawumba@Dec 28 2004, 07:09 PM
that faroh kid has some long legs.. looks mad tall to be 11. but then again im 14 and 6 feet tall so..
Quoted post
[/quote]


let's start a contest for "funniest caption" :yuck:

[Edika]

i dopnt like the styles, but hey.. its japan. they are far and dont have graff since a long time.

cool anyway to see some local stuff

[alure]

crazy i used to live in okinawa..that sega place..haha... isnt there a toysrus next to it or something..haha

dope flicks..

[zombie303]

Alure!!
yeah there is a sega place right there, in "american town". do you know of any good places to buy paint around there or any other dope walls like that one in okinawa?? just wonderin' it may be quite awhile before I make it back there, but I'll definately post more flix from that wall if I make it back there again!!!
ZOMBIE RTD

[alure]

nope sorry..i was alot younger..and honestly not paying attention to graffiti..

[zombie303]

tokyo< Japan 2003
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC02101.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC02105.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC02102.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC02103.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC02104.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/DSC02153.jpg

[zombie303]

tokyo-japan-2003

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/dtowntokyo10.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/dtowntokyo6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/dtowntokyo7.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/dtowntokyo8.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/dtowntokyo9.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/bttokyo1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/hardrockcafe1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/hardrockcafe3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/tokyobarrcade1.jpg

[zombie303]

more tokyo 2003
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/dtowntokyo1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/dtowntokyo2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/dtowntokyo3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/dtowntokyo4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/sintchtokyo1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/tokyozone1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/tokyozone2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/323tokyo.jpg

[zombie303]

more tokyo 2003

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/duketokyo.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/geodanatokyo.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/tokyobikes1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/WATERDRAGON4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/dragontokyo1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/tokyo1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/waterdragon1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/waterdragon2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/tokyo2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/tokyo3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/tokyo4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/tokyo5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/tokyo6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/tokyo7.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/zombie303/tokyo8.jpg

[H. Lecter]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/itwaswritten718/DSCF01662.jpg
-------------------------------
Not your ordinary stickers...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/itwaswritten718/DSCF05002.jpg

-------------------------------
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/itwaswritten718/DSCF04772.jpg

SkieNihon~

[Madvillian]

one word, fresh

[japan/man]

call me stupid but i didn't see any graff done with japanese letters...seems like they would use there own alphabet...or are the only writers down there from the english speakin countries?

[H. Lecter]

Originally posted by japan/man@Jan 10 2005, 11:42 PM
call me stupid but i didn't see any graff done with japanese letters...seems like they would use there own alphabet...or are the only writers down there from the english speakin countries?
Quoted post



Plenty of people painting in Hirigana and Katakana,

Although the majority of "Bombers" still paint in Romanji, (roman alphabet)
there are FAR more Japanese painting in native script than most other non-romanized places.

As for the ones sticking to Romanji,
what do you expect,
creativity does'nt come with citizenship...
And if they want the rest of the worlds graf scene to recognize and read there spots,
what better set of characters to use than Romanji,
much less "tag graffiti's" original set.


*Another thing to be noted,
I know that graffiti painted in Japanese is far more likely to be cleaned,
the picture I posted was a perfect example...
the buff mark in the middle was "Lect" in Hirigana,
which by the way means absolutly nothing in Japanese.
They left everything else,but buffed the Hirigana first thing in the morning.

P.S.
Why do you call your self "Japanman"
and still refer to Japanese people as "them"
to Japan as "down there"
and not know what's up with the scene enough to assume
that most writers are from western (much less "ENGLISH speaking") countries??


aho gairoku jin...

[zombie303]

the japanese learn english in school just like the usa. it is just a shame that the usa isn't learning kanji (chinese/japanese), katakana (japanese) or hirigana (japanese/english). we would all understand japan & asia a little bit more, if we were taught these things about speaking & wrinting styles in school. peace Zombie RTD

[Hank Parker]

Bosozoku status w/some Longchamp XR4's...
http://www.youatemybreakfast.com/images/japan/bosozoku/DSC00107.JPG

[ZEREOKILLER]

Thanks nice post zomb. keep up the good work!

[H. Lecter]

I've been looking so long,
at these pictures of you,
that I almost believe that they're real.

I've been living so long,
with my pictures of you,
that I almost believe that the pictures,
are all I can feel.


Remembering you,
how you usto be,
slow drowned you were angels,
so much more than everything.

Hold for the last time,
then slip away,quietly,
open my eyes,but I never see,
anything.

If I only I'd thought of the rights words,
I could've held on to your heart.

If only I'd thought of the right words,
I would'nt be breaking apart,
all my pictures of you.

[H. Lecter]

GoZiRa (Godzilla)

Lect


:china: