[DeSent]

if it was legal.

[massgraff]

IDK I GUESS REALLY BAD DIARRHEA.

[ChickenShit]

£50,000,000 and Jennifer Aniston naked on my bed

[RUNINE]

military contracting.
if i got into a serious relationship(not fully stop just less than usual).
arrests.
If america was invaded by china/north korea/Iran.

[humanzee]

if i could find a hot chica to do it for me. and i would just order her around. preferably she would be ethnic so i wouldn't feel guilty

[ZOOINKS]

legalizing graff supportive parents friendly crews

[link1MDR]

Originally Posted by wry (View Original Post)

^If you stopped writing cause you got a job, thats just stupid....many writers have jobs, you make it sound like if you do graffiti thats all you can do..please..I got a job, i carry markers in my car, when i stop somewhere, i could catch some tags...i work a day job so i bomb at night(you see where this is going?).....and yes..at some point your gonna be arrested, but if you say "arrests" then your just being sloppy. But your not caught in action it aint shit, so that shouldnt stop you. I will say i had to lay low after an arrest, and i had snitches near, thats when you change your name, and wait it off a little bit, or find legal walls or real chill spots during the day where you dont gotta sneak out at night.

I feel this is where im at.. i know i cant be out running a muck and the homies that got me into graff have since fallen off, but i love graff. i have encountered all of the above jobs, school, law. it makes you evaluate shit in your life but if you feel it you do it. graff is a lifestyle choice not everyone can hang.

[ivanputski]

the Graffiti lifestyle means different things to different people, and changes over time. People start for different reasons, get different things out of it, and quit for different reasons. None of them right or wrong.

[DEKOR1]

honestly once you get arrested for it, it should make you do it even more, cause you already have the record so might as well say 'fuck it"

[eriatarka23]

Spent a while tagging until I had way too much on my hands. Art school studies take up a hell of a lot of time, aside from work. Not to mention I don't know entirely the streets of the Brazilian city I live in, so I don't feel like getting mugged much.
But I wouldn't say I quit it, just taking a break.
Doin' the hard work first to get some good times in the future, let's say that.

[finEyoungCamel!!!]

really good diarrhea.

[Crocodile Tears]

writer's block

[__ __ __ __]

12oz commercial on tv

[AKER29]

Originally Posted by EpiC_B2B (View Original Post)

i dont know... if i had a kid, i might stop for his/her sake because im not tryin to get bagged and not be there for my kid feel me

i have to say i strongly agree. think of the children!

[siks6siks]

winter time all the time. i hate painting in the cold.

[THEATK]

girlfriend

[2ndRodeo]

Originally Posted by siks6siks (View Original Post)

winter time all the time. i hate painting in the cold.

Werd. If a giant volcanic ash eruption happened, causing the world to irretrievably turn into an ice sphere, i'd without a doubt stop writing... even drawing.
Fuck winter.

[massgraff]

fuck you.

[JerseyViking]

Death. Or prison. I might go on hiatus for a while, but I don't think I'll ever stop completely. In fact I don't think anyone could stop totally, and would have to do graff in some capacity.

[Hullucination]

having kids

[Master Shake]

if theirs a jean claude van damme joint on telemundo

[BelRoC !OF]

Girlfriend, or kids would make some kids stop? WTF??
Had enough of this thread....
GIRLFRIEND? REALLY???? lol

[eattingsnowflakes]

No hands and eyes.

[screaming hand logo]

my nuts on the dresser getting beat with a spiked bat

[MOOGLE?]

lack of artistic competition .... it sounds corny as fuck but i dont even really bother with blackbooks or anything anymore aside from habitual letter structure and personal style tweaks on random pieces of paper around the house.

grew up without the practice of internet for graffiti learning and competition till i found 12oz in 99.. but never really used it save for the yard with ink and marker recipes. but then again i was in a big city with shit going on all the time.

it seems even as i got older the drive to push myself was fueled by other writers advancing into their own as style and skill wise.... was never much for the fame or crew aspects, just lurked and got up solo not really caring about graff politics.

but once i ended up in a smaller city with the only writers being my age at the time or older 23-30 and that being only 5-8 people with skills that even toys from my hometown would call toy... 9 years later a majority of them stopped or clung to a disjointed idea of what graffiti s about. i see them from time to time and just shake my head as the get all hyper telling me about how up they are.

like for real the only benching satisfaction comes from trains that arent even from this city. i walk around town and see bad handstyles done with calligraphy tips . the few stores that closed down riddled with half thought out hollow throws and shitty hands. underpasses with the worst blockbuster and wildstyles filled with colors that look like thrown up pizza on surfaces that shouldnt even be painted because they refuse to bother learning the basics adhesion with spraypaint and surfaces. dudes that have been doing graffiti for 9 years and then some before i knew them.

they ask me to go bombing with them..or form a crew.. once or twice ive gone on a mission but their sense of urgency ,fear,and lack of humility ruin it..like i dont give a shit who did what when in milwaukee ...i dont give a fuck about this spot or that spot..who crossed who...

i get daft stares when i shrug my shoulders at the spot and proceed to produce a bucket of paint and a roller from my backpack and begin to prime the wall then move on to outlines and background shit and fills. like how can one explain you grew up and cut your teeth in the tagbanger era...and this place is a cakewalk.. that their sense of caution and gusto is shit compared to 12 yearolds ive seen plastering well done tags with a two color streak down a 6 block stretch of main street hitting every sign mailbox rail wall window in sight at 5 in the morning.

i dont know if its the fact that life seems slower here..or im getting older. theres times i go visit people in the mill and all i can think of is why didnt i bring my fuckin woodcraft or scribe.

fuck if i know..but i do know i prolly wont ever stop in some aspects . if your in it..your in it no halfway bullshit just to suit life