Urban Art Association

Massive thumbs up for this. Excellent concept and well executed, specially that prize ribbon!

Hey Levi, as always great idea... I think the front foot gets lost with the back feet and i think it could pop out more. other then that I cant wait to see that life size. Keep up the good work.

Cant believe no one pulled you up on this !

not only have you dogged/capped a piece by the legend of the can that is Paris (not bombed - "To bomb or hit is to paint many surfaces in an area" ) ,
but to add insult to the injury you have your gorilla spraying piss up over his work !! wtf ! .. you said it is 'almost' impossible to avoid 'bombing' paris .. well i for one think you should be ashamed of not finding a spot to claim for yourself ! you've lost your hat..

In my opinion what you have done here is way way below the line of what is 'acceptable' ..

for your reference here is the graffiti dictionary definiton of what you have done here:

going over
To "go over" a piece of graffiti simply means to paint on top of it. While most writers respect one another's artwork, to intentionally and disrespectfully paint on top of another's work is akin to a graffiti declaration of war. However (due partially to the limited amount of desirable wall-space) most graffiti writers maintain a hierarchy of sorts; a tag can legitimately be covered by a throw-up, and a throw-up by a piece, and this is commonly done without incident. If a piece has previously been slashed (or "dissed"), it is also acceptable for another writer to go over it. To violate these guidelines, or to simply paint lower-quality graffiti on top of a higher-quality artist's work will quickly characterize a writer as an annoyance, or "toy." This is thought to be dangerous as a few remarkable crews are rumored to be [edit] not very nice [end edit] to people not respecting their self-claimed rank in the hierarchy.

Genuinely think this was an error of judgement

levi, have you thought about putting a logo in the middle of the ermmm...spray

!! LMFAO !! Seriously ??

You prefer this :


Over this :

Times have changed and there are no rules on the street anymore.. anything is fair game..
Imo a talentless uncreative stencil artfag should never go over a real graff wrighter.

mrease, what im saying is i guess hes just going to dog/x out all the pieces he see, rules is rules

blimey! off in the city for a couple of days and all hell breaks loose!

Guys there was absolutely no disrespect meant towards Paris at all. I think his work is excellent and appreciate that he has not only been brigthtening up Bristol for many years, he has benefited the scene and helped to get graffiti more accepted in Bristol. So anyway NO BEEF with him

I know there is etica/rules that are most commonly applicable. I i understand being new to outdoor stuff, it looks incredibly foolish and cocky to say the least. But a great hing is happening in Stokes Croft at the moment. It's virtually 'free for all' along a prettty long stretch of busy street. There is stuff going up all the time and whats beautiful is there is the growing range of genres, mediums and techniques being displayed. Exhibited. It is 'wall art' in it's truest form.

So with thanks to Chris at PRSC things have got a lot looser in terms of 'perms' for painting over someones work. I thought this peice had been up for longer than most others. Either way a little silly given the idea. Few beers down the hatch and all that.

To the monkeys that gave the unconstructive insults. That's cool man. Please don't buy my stuff.

edit - mrease, thanks for gathering those pics, haven't seen some of those ...awesome! Not right to compare two almost entirely different art forms though.

easy tigers

painting a piece over a piece is fine ,its the dogging thing that is disrespectful. there are practice walls on stokes croft where it wouldnt be a problem , you can stick whatever you want over whatever you want there ! but even with permission walls the do's and donts still apply . Maybe it was the beers that clouded your judgement , fair enough, i am surely we have all done things when a bit pissed which we regret . If i was you i would just say , 'yep , i was pissed, i shouldnt have put that there ! sorry' . we all lives and learns .

only just noticed this one Pro. You don't make many posts, when you do opinionated bile comes out. You made this after upfest



- to insult so many artists in one post is foul. The whole point of UPFEST was to raise money for a good cause, but also give upcoming artists (or whatever you want to call them) a chance to practice and get some exposure. It is a great promoter of the industry. Next time go the event and say it to their faces, then count your teeth you offensive cock!

It's still 68p for wispa in that shop though, feckers!

mrease- given the nature of the piece, I do see your point and will endeavor to let Paris know there was no disrespect intended. Had they not gone over it so soon, I would have myself.