» Droppin Pieces in the Yard.
After finishing the wall from the previous day Gary and Odisie and I got picked up by the others (apart from Aroe) who was out with Revok, Sever was driving the whip, and the whip was driving us crazy. The car just isn’t big enough for what we need when the crew are all split up, and causes a lot of problems and today was one of them again, with the rest of the crew having to wait for Aroe and then wait for us, and I decided that the only way was to get a car of my own. I had figured that riding with them all would actually help, and get better shots, document the whole trip but its clearly not working out like that, its nobodys fault but 2 cars is the way forward. Sever took us thru Inglewood to a crazy yard at Back In The Day, out back they have loadsa walls, plus loads of old Lincolns it was a strange spot to paint in but definitely a memorable one, and also definitely a part of the LA scene.
Gary got to paint a blinding wall with Sever and Alert painted some of a truck panel. But the most important part of the day was when Joe told us that Sunday we should come back as they were painting on girls. At about the same time the hottest latino girl bopped in wearing the shortest pair of cotton hot pants and some fresh American Apparel knee high socks, for the first time in the whole trip no-one said a word as some moments are not meant to be spoilt.
Driving in LA is great the roads are wide, you can overtake on any side, you don’t need to indicate, the cars all have cruise control and its best practise to make a break for your freeway exit just after the last possible moment- kinda suits how I like to roll, but driving the rush hour seems to run from 8am till 1pm and 1.15pm till 8pm, its hella busy and stupid slow. So if you have to get across town you sit next to all the other Suvs bought on credit that no-one can actually afford and you crawl through the city, by the time I got to Aroe and Revok the sun was setting over the city. An amazing site and killer backdrop but bloody useless for button pressing. I got some okay shots but none that do justice to the job that the two of them pulled on the billboard. Looming over the 101, which heads downtown, on a walkway less than a foot wide, with a helluva big drop onto the ground below. Plus if you do fall you have to make the split second choice of whether you want to land on the razor wire or the little crack tent that was full of needles and broken glass. But the cappo is a big man in many ways and powered thru, dropping a filthy MSK piece complete with gold chains and Bboy characters. Theres power moves in Graff and there is killing it in LA on the Freeway, it’s a weird feeling to be in one of the worlds most iconic backdrops and busiest freeways and see Uzi toting characters from Brighton Kinging the Road. I don’t like to be in awe of someone but damn what can top that?
