1 year ago

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Spek talk to Adam about his rise, the art, the graffiti lifestyle, doing time, getting raided, and more!

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00:00 Intro
0:05 Adam on knowing Spek for 22 years and seeing his graffiti on a trainyard throughout New Hampshire
4:04 Spek on how he got started into graffiti at a really young age
5:15 Spek on trolling Adam into thinking he was in a local hardcore band when first meeting
7:45 Spek talks about getting arrested bombing freights and subway trains and how he would rack up on paint from Home Depot
14:50 Adam talks about the times he went racking up spray paint from mom and pop art shops
15:30 Adam asks Spek about the magazine era of graffiti being the best way to get your art seen
17:00 Adam asks if the internet is good or bad for graffiti and how it's a double edged sword
20:50 Ichabod talks about anti-graffiti (graffiti done bad on purpose) and Banksy's style of graffiti getting a lot of hate
22:00 Adam asks what is the difference between graffiti vs. street art, and painting on a wall vs. a train
24:00 Spek on getting arrested and investigated and another writer possibly snitching on him
27:40 Spek talks about his house getting raided while he was at work, cops showing up to his work, and turning himself in then getting 6 months
29:50 Adam asks Spek how it was doing time and not being able to get a job with a felony charge
32:10 Spek talks about him and Adam tagging the snowy woods and getting away from the cops
33:50 Spek on getting back to doing graffiti since his arrest and having the urge to paint on his last week on parole
34:50 Spek's process on getting back into graffiti and if he wanted to change his name
36:00 Adam asks how it feels to do graffiti as you get older and tracking every train they've ever bombed
42:30 Adam asks how it feels running into locals in new spots and how to communicate to people that they are writers
44:40 Ichabod on how it feels to do legal walls and hired jobs since getting to an older age
45:50 Adam asks what is the legacy you leave behind as a graffiti writer once you get old
47:15 Perspective changes on graffiti since getting older, like bombing a church or a mom and pop store
49:20 Adam asks Spek and Ichabod how they like California graffiti and how C*VID brought a lot of graffiti writers back to life
51:45 Adam asks if there is an end goal to graffiti, and doing graffiti until they’re 80
54:30 YouTubers having walls in their backyards and painting on that to not get caught