C'mon Really?

A lot of this 'new breed' of street artists, the ones who popped up post Exit Through the Gift Shop, many seem to have a different idea of the role graffiti plays on the streets. They seem to think that all graffiti does is add some flavor to the background, and they just go ahead and cap graffiti willy nilly.

But graffiti laid the groundwork for street art, and in the world of graffiti when you cap someone, you are delivering a personal insult, starting a battle, and running the risk of getting capped by the other writer "fo'evah'.

Artists are free to place stuff where they want, but sloppy placement like this is just ridiculous. In two separate pieces, Casio Dusty manages to cap 7 graffiti tags including some big names like CBS, Decep One, Pike, Serf, TCF, and more. We don't know for sure how this is going to play out, but we can guess what is going to happen, and Casio's pieces probably won't last for long.

And we dig these digital watch pieces from Casio. It would be cool to see them ride. And much of the time he has really good placement. But stuff like this capping graffiti tags with one big paster is happening way too much and it needs to be called out. The graffiti and street art scenes generally have a lot of respect for each other in Los Angeles, and it would suck to see LA become like New York where there is constant beef between the two.

Get up, stay up, and respect the others getting up.