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Interview with BTM/3A co-founder SEEDER

Posted by Sergeant D on Mar 18, 2010 in War 42 | 0 comments

Hi, I’m new here- thanks to the War Four crew for having me! Here’s an interview I did a little bit ago with a guy I went to high school with, who you all may know as SEEDER of the infamous BTM/3A crews. He talked about how BTM and 3A started, the 90s graff scene in Seattle, his fine art, and some other random shit:

Tell me about BTM vs 3A. Obviously they share a lot of members and it’s still you and Travis, but they’re also different. What’s the story with all that?
What happened is that we had beef in BTM with some of the US guys. A few of us didn’t like them, but a few of them were cool, so BTM split for a while and it was BTM versus NCS or whatever. One time there was this big “battle,” [laughs] and we just followed around the NCSers, dissed all their tags, then we got in a little fight with them. Then BTM wasn’t really around anymore for 5 years or so, but these new kids wanted to write it. We were like, “Shit, you remember BTM?!” but those new kids are what brought it back to life. BTM was broken up for a while, got back together, really organic. People form relationships, break up, you know…

Wac – SF Moves to Buff Delivery Trucks/Vehicles

Posted by Lonely D on Feb 20, 2010 in Graffiti, War 42 | 0 comments

San Francisco, a city once a mecca for graffiti writers worldwide has seen a vibrant scene mutilated in recent
years with an increase in city-wide initiatives and laws to curb graffiti.

The latest move by the City is targeting delivery trucks and other vehicles bombed with graffiti.

Wait, what…hold on, since when does Public Works go after vehicles? Bullshit!

Yes, it is. Thanks to the The ?Clean and Green Trucks? program funded by the City Administrator?s Community Challenge Grant Program you’ll have less and less cool art to look at when you make a trip into SF.

Instead, feast your eyes on tacky neighborhood murals and corporate advertising. If you’re not paying to have something running as apart of the official system, you’re as good as out of the game.

I think there is something deeply depressing about any major urban center that buffs graffiti relentlessly. They see it as a war on blight and broken windows. I see it as a muzzle clamped on the very resonance of a metropolis’ under culture, the class of people that grease the gears of a city, give it real life and buzz.

This initiative’s obnoxiousness is amplified by the “Clean and Green” labal affixed to it. To me, green means life and activity. I see that on a rolling truck covered top to bottom in either tags, throws or burners. I see a plain buffed vehicle chugging along, I see death, a hunk of shit, greed.

Good job SF Public Works, you’ve given me more of a reason to move to Los Angeles.

The City That Law Forgot

Posted by Camo Bikini on Apr 6, 2009 in War 42 | 4 comments

A pretty recent opinion piece written by SF Chronicle opinion man C.W. Nevius lays out what most of us already knew: San Francisco IS a great place to get up in. Whoops.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/28/BAGL16O8RT.DTL&hw=graffiti&sn=002&sc=941

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Below, he goes on speculating as to what kind of measures need to be taken up to put a total halt on writers operating in the city. Mandatory jail time anyone? Predictable.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/19/BA9316IUMQ.DTL&hw=graffiti&sn=002&sc=906

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Share your opinion with him if you have time: cwnevius@sfchronicle.com

Don’t forget to scroll all the way down to the bottom and check out the reader comments.
Read how all the wannabe William Porters out there feel. Whackos.