mista planet should visit berlin
there's plenty of grafs and street art goin on here .... some japanese guy doin crazy typos, and a crew called 1up bombing the whole city, u see their (always nice) pieces all around
check that link:
http://flickr.com/photos/search/tags:streetart%2Cberlin/tagmode:all/i think that graffitti was too much of a drawer "labeled hiphop" ... nowadays it has more freedom again and is able to be more creative again .... several techniques are "politically correct" again ... while the spraycan was the only tool supposed to be used for a while ...
anyway, i think graffitti has existed before the spraycan, through the latino's murals, through the "tagging" of russian soldiers when arriving in berlin at the reichstag, or just the several messages on walls you'll find all around the globe!
back in the 70ies/80ies, it was only a few creative heads freakin out with colours and havin some crazy thoughts and philosophies behind their thing ... and it was something rare and unique ...
then in between u had tagging which took the artform to a form of vandalism .... plus tons of people following trends and thinking graffitti will make them hiphop.
and i think that now something really interesting can come out of all this.
especially street art with all those messages will bring a new importance to the content.
back then it was all about decrypting names .....now u have lots of funny messages that u can laugh about, serious thoughts and ideas to pick up, even intersting news or beautifull pictures ..... all this on the walls around the block ....
hey D, i like to live in the old world too ... but the vibe of the new worlds rebels is hot!
i see kids havin their own little store with 20. i see exhibitions every month ...
if there is any graf heads reading, check out the following website and get in touch with adrian. he's one of the main figures in the berlin/german-graf-scene and organising this exhibition every year and more ...
http://backjumps.org/