The first aspect of D.O.T.S.: YOURSELF I'm going to take a few minutes, of your time to write about ourselves and graffiti as a whole. These feelings will be echoed in other pamphlets: FAME and STYLE. We as a whole are standing still. Graffiti has not changed one bit. Now I'm going to really piss you off. Everybody but the first generation are biting sukr ass toys that you just crossed out, wrote over or flipped. Second generation biters, third biters (You know what? Even the first generation were biters; they just didn't bite other street writers because they were the first; they just bit someone else). But you and me, we are just biting. You know what; fuk your style and fuk his style and fuk her style and what you are writing. It's been done before; and if it hasn't, some other muthrfukr will do it soon. So let's see what we are writing. "Oh, wow, a three to four to five or even maybe a six letter word" I done this, you done this; repetitive actions graffiti rock. The spirit of a toy is so fresh; they never wrote on a wall before but, we have. We take a risk every time we go out bombing (getting arrested or shot because we might be mistaken as a burglar) but when we get to the wall we stop taking risks and we bomb the same old bullshit. Maybe in a slightly different hand style but still the same "TAG ONE CREW." Hey you're a fukn writer...now what? Have I pissed you off yet? Heehee. I know what you're saying to yourself, "What right does this asshole have to say every thing I have done is bullshit?" Well, I have never said I wasn't an asshole, I'm the biggest asshole in the world. But go beyond all that. Just imagine if you were on the streets right now and you were reading these very words. I'm serious. Just imagine if every word you read was on a wall and you were standing there reading it.................... I'll take myself away from myself for an objective point of view. I would be thinking "What right does this asshole have to say everything I have done is bullshit? Heehee." But, after that, I would bomb all over it. After a few minutes or days or weeks or even years, I would as least think to myself what balls it took to write all that on a wall ( that over opinionated asshole. WHAT A FUKN TOY.). Just think, what if writers all over the world started to write their opinions on walls. Fuk the tags. Fuk the styles. Graffiti becomes about content: "what needs to be written." It would become constructive written conversation going on in the streets. And if this was going on, graffiti could grow in leaps and bounds from what it is. Right now I will share with you a quote from the greatest muthrfukr in the world: myself. But before I do that, I will give you some context; where I was coming from. At the time I was tripn a lot (look, kids, I was cool once-I did drugs. HEY). And before I ever even dropped, I felt if I ate a tab, I would become aware of what life is really about. In other words, I would meet god. Well, that never happened but I did write this coming down one time: If god came to me it would be in the form of a spray can. And with that spray can I would write the words of the streets, because on the streets there are no false poets or prophets. It's the truest (hardest) realty there is. NO TOYS ALLOWED The broken definition of graffiti: Graffiti is art (the lowest, dirtiest shit you can do without being a thug or a punk), prolific painting, marking with ink, pencil, chalk onto a surface. Graffiti is to stick, to paste or staple: posters or stickers. Illegally, i.e. vandalism (under the law that we live with at the moment). Graffiti is to force your art onto the public. It is a public expression without being given permission to do so. The broken rules of graffiti: 1. Activity is everything. If you are not active, you are not a graffiti artist: D.O.T.S. I'll go even farther. The only time you are a graffiti artist is when you hit the tip of a spray can or slam a pen cap to a wall. After and before that moment of activity, you're just like everyone else. 2. Never cross out or write over another writer or flip them without a reason you believe is just. Don't write over just because you think his/her style is wak. (Style is a judgment. I might say that a style is dope and you'd say, "Fuck you, Broke, that style is shit.") It's all opinion. 3. You and I are not original. Graffiti never comes from nothing. A new style comes from an old one. So donÕt forget ZEPHYR, SEEN , MODE2, SPOZE, NIMBL , UPSKI, PHRESH, POEM, DREAM, TWIST and the thousands of muthr fukrs who came before us. Biting is straight out copying someone, not influence. 4. Burning is not considered crossing out or writing over someone. Burning is about competition. Competition is about doing a better style than the rest. To the one who is being burned over this might look like disrespect. It might be, too. But just look in yourself and burn that kid over. Burning creates activity and new style. I'm always more active when I'm battling than when I'm just going without check. 5. Bombing is for the streets, not homes or small businesses. There are some exceptions: any and all liquor stores and stores that have kicked you out because you looked weird or shady. 6. Never scratch bomb; that shit is ugly as fuk. Windows are meant to see through. Stop fukn up my view to the world, asshole. 7. The last rule which is the only rule: These are my rules of graffiti. We as individuals write our own rules of graffiti. I suggest that you write your rules to grab a larger sense of what you think graffiti is to you. (Yes I know I bit the shit out of upski's book: bomb the suburbs) The definition of religion from Webster's New World Dictionary (don't you love it when some idiot quotes a fukn dictionary?) Definition 2a: any specific system of belief and worship, often involving a code of ethics and philosophy. Definition 3: the state or way of life of a person in a monastery, convent, etc....(the streets). Definition 4: any object of conscientious regard and pursuit. Yes, god is a spray can. In regard to definition 2a, there is a code of ethics: It's loose as fuk but we still have one. And to philosophy we defiantly have that; we are starting to write it on the walls as we speak. Seeing as I'm writing mad shit, why should I stop. FUK THE MAGS. FUK ALL THE GRAF MAGS. Fuk your pics. A picture is a lie. You never get the true experience of the situation. You never see the details of the piece, to see the drips, over spray, or if the piece even has those faults. In other words, pics hide can control. It hides the feelings of bombing the piece. When you go to the lawn, you might have to jump a fence or wait until a security guard is asleep or whatever. Mags are a big fat lie. They don't bring any feeling to them. The reason why I buy a mag is to readÊ the interviews ( the same reason I buy Penthouse and Hustler). No, really, that's why I buy graf mags. When I see Mode 2, Dream, Twist or Phresh are being interviewed, then I buy the shit "fuck a Pic." When I want to see graffiti, I go to the lawn and see it in person. The feelings I get in the lawn or on the streets re-energizes me. To the chicken scratch bullshit to the mad styling hardcore bombing, I love it all. To all the kids out there taking pics to document graffiti for graffiti sake, I love you. But to all the assholes who just take pictures of themselves or their friends, FUCK OFF. You're a fukn toy in my eyes. Graffiti is about what's on the streets right now, not what you like. It's about the whole, even the bullshit. The bullshit makes the good shit even better (that's fukn poetry right there). Also what's bullshit or good shit becomes opinionÊ at a point and the public needs to be able to make their own opinion . In all the mags, it's like ten or maybe twenty writers-the same damn pictures. The only good thing from mags is you can see what kids are doing in other parts of the world. And sometimes you can read a good interview; that's about it. I really didn't want to write a bunch shit talking because I do love graffiti and those who partake in it. I personally see the scene standing still and because of this I get really pissed off. Kids are feeling life is joke and they don't need to see the whole picture. "Just go for self, fuck the rest. Just become a fuckin thug." Graf mags could be so much more, graffiti could be so much more and the graffiti artist could be so much more. The system in place today is just that. The system in place right now doesn't mean it should be the system in place tomorrow. Graffiti revolutionizes art (graffiti is art for art's sake, no gain in capital, no real fame). It's time to keep the revolution growing. If fame is the name of the game, then get your fame and see if you are satisfied. I bet you ten dollars you won't be. And if you are, then you weren't much of a fukn artist to began with. Fuck fame, fuck style and fuck your ego. Yes God is a Spray can. I feel people define themselves by the activities that they partake in. The reason to continue in these activities is to give purpose and meaning to their lives. Certain activities that go against the norm will skew a person's view of how capitalist society works within itself and how it projects itself onto us (writers: D.O.T.S.). God is a spray can and I am a disciple of the Spray Can. So, grab a brown paper bag and can of spray paint, hit the tip and huff the fumes and become one with god. My name is: go