Ostile Isuue #3

JANUARY 2014 ISSUE #3 YEAR 2

LDK CREW / 360 CREW / SART / TRAIN / WALL

Ostile issue #3 Here we are again with the third issue of Ostile, full of interviews, trains and walls that you sent us. In every issue we try to offer you the best with new succulent unpublished works.

In this issue you’re gonna meet the LDK CREW from Naples, 360 CREW from the Greece and Sart, a young writer from Catanzaro. Enjoy the new Ostile and send us new pics.

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CREW HOW AND WHEN WAS YOUR CREW BORN AND WHO ARE ITS MEMBERS? The crew was born at the end of the ‘90s, along the Domitian Coast, basically as a duo rap. The art pieces of those years were very few and orthodox. The art of graffiti gained the upper hand thanks to Tres, Foko, Tape, Pelo and Puma only on 2002. Anyway, until 2004 the group regularly painted walls, long line and some trains but personal vicissitudes drifted apart first Pelo and then Tape from graffiti. In those years, however, two young writers, Nedo and Smec, approached the crew. Those are the same years in which we were very active painting constantly in Naples and Caserta and which allowed us to come closer and to tie a strong link with two historical crews of the place to whom (writers as well as persons) we are very affectionate: the DIAS and the CTA. Later on, FreshLove, Yelena Drinky and Myxo became part of our family, a fundamental part of our present team of writers.

HOW IS YOUR WALL IDEATED? IS THERE ANY STARTING CONCEPT OR IS IT MORE ABOUT COORDINATION AND IMPROVISATION ON THE WALL BASED ON MUTUAL HARMONY DERIVED FROM YEARS OF PAINTING TOGETHER? The great majority of walls were ideated just chit-chatting out of a bar. We’re not lazy bums: starting from the young age Smec served with honor in all the bars of the area, and we have always followed him. Our ideas take form on paper bags that are usually used for hot brioches for breakfast. Today, just like yesterday, our walls are ideated from the sickest idea of the moment: stories, things or people that inspire us or simply mean something that we believe to be worth to be reproduced on the walls. Anyway, we also improvise our graffiti just with the colors we have in hand.

HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE IDEA OF PAINTING? ARE THE REASONS THAT PUSHED YOU “YESTERDAY” THE SAME THAT KEEP PUSHING YOU “TODAY”?

TRES: Ever since I was a teenager I felt the need for finding my own identity together with the sense of belonging to something and the compulsory need for

leaving an indelible mark of me (despite coming from one of the multitude of cities in the terrible suburbs of the area of Caserta). It was the graffiti, to whom I bumped in some years later hanging around in the streets of Naples, who chose me. It was just what I was looking for, it was love at first sight!

NEDO: I had the first impact on graffiti looking at Tres painting on the historical “Wall-of-fame” in Mondragone, aka ex-Cirio. Starting from that point I began writing the first letterings and then I moved to puppets.

SMEC: Hanging around for the streets of Mondrayork (Mondragone for the ones that do not know the city) I saw the first graffiti of the word NUKE3 (it was Tres).

At the beginning I spent some time trying to figure out who could it be, just to see him in action, but then I met him and after some years we started to paint together. Now he’s a brother to me.

MYXO: My very first approach to graffiti was at the second edition of “Noia di Noia” (an event in Teano) and then at the “CSOA Tempo Rosso” I saw the Capras (another crew) paint.

Anyway, I completely lost my mind when I saw Elettrografite in Caserta,

and I was like WOOOOW! YELE: II can just say that I dont’ feel like being just a writer. I came in touch with graffiti for love…of communication.

FRESH: I believe that the reasons that pushed us together at the beginning ar the same that keep us together today: the wish to compete with others, to break the rules and to support the hiphop!

WHAT’S THE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT IN YOUR GRAFFITO? THE DYNAMISM OF LETTERS, THEIR SHAPE, THE COLORS, THE ACCURACY… TRES: First of all letters: the concept, the planning and the simplicity. Then puppet and background. For me it is more valuable a simple monochromatic graffito with beautiful letters and a precise outline than an entire wall!

MYXO: I’ve nothing more to add to what Tres just said, I completely agree.

SMEC: I’m a lil bit more exigent, I prefer a graffito per month that comprises a puppet and the background.

NEDO: I believe that the most important

thing is to have an instinctive stroke.

YELE: The fundamental thing for graffiti is to be fat ahaha.

FRESH: Without a good evolution of the letters the graffito sucks.

You can use all the colors you want and all the tricks you like, but still, without a good letter it means nothing.

YOU WERE ONE OF THE CREW WHO TOOK PART TO THE W4G. YOU ENDED UP 1ST IN EUROPE. THIS IMPLIES, APART FROM YOUR UNDENIABLE ARTISTIC TALENT, ALSO A DEEP COHESION AND FRIENDSHIP. WHAT’S YOUR SECRET? We’re used to work as a team, everyone acknowledges the contribution that can give, thus the rest follows. There’s a lot of respect among us, we’re a family.

WHAT IS THE ASPECT YOU PREFER OF WRITING? AND THE ONE THAT YOU DON’T? We prefer moments of aggregations and creation, thus we try to avoid fights and useless polemics that go along with the environment.

DO YOU BELIEVE IT’S FAIR TO TAKE THE CUE FROM OR TO DRAW ON OTHER CREWS? DO “ORIGINAL” CREATIONS STILL EXIST, OR IS THERE NOTHING LEFT TO DO? We have always seen the good productions of others as an incentive to do better, to increase the real issue at stake, never as a path to follow.

Originality still exists, you just need to be fool sometimes and break the rules but, probably, it doesn’t attract the majority anymore. Today lots of writers prefer to “look like” someone else in order to paint.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE ITALIAN SCENARIO? It keeps on growing, there are a bunch of worthy writers, a lot of valuable contributes.

ANY OTHER HOBBY APART FROM WRITING? IF ANY, WHICH ONE? TRES: when I don’t draw I devour books.

SMEC: during the recent years I approached photography

YELE: Lcommunication field.

MYXO: design and screen painting.

NEDO e FOKO: damn nothing!

GREETINGS We want to greet our bros Diasuht-Cta, long-lived examples above every trend or fashion; our friends of the CSOA Tempo Rosso and all the people that fight to protect their territory from the environmental and social destruction.

And also all the writers of the Neapolitan scenario that count a lot in this period: Wildboys – Bagnoli Kings – Capras Nsis, Gonuts, Psa, Ads and the new developing realities.

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crew WE ARE THE 360 CREW! Our crew is composed by Biz, Bos, Ner, Vazte, Vine, Srk, Rite and many others who paint or just tag walls. We’ve been together since 2009 although we began painting separately earlier. We come from Greece, and we’re active not only in one city but basically all over the country, and, even if we’re more present in some places than others our most important target is reaching all the places we can! Tagging, bombing, steel, walls and all the kinds of street arts are all in our agenda, so keep on following us!

Cheers from Greece, yo Naples!

sart

sart Hi, I write Sart on the walls and I represent the Hard Style crew and the Subway Family.

TELL U SHOW YOU APPROACHED THE WORLD OF GRAFFITI When I was a kid I lived in a residential neighborhood, and just behind the building in which I lived there was an illegal Hall of Fame. I’ve always thought that, once grown up, I would paint too…

RE THERE ANY WRITERS, PEOPLE THAT INSPIRED YOUR PATH IN SOME WAY? Of course there are writers and others that influence your path, somebody in a positive way and somebody not. Then, there are some that, no matter how they affect your style, you have necessarily to push them away. Well, I guess that I’ve met kinda all of them.

WHAT’S THE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT IN YOUR GRAFFITO? LETTERS, COLORS, EFFECTS… I believe that graffiti are on the top of everything about letters, and so I think that in my works it’s letters that count the most, how they’re shaped and linked together. Colors and effects are of course important too, but without a good outline they’re not of much use.

DESCRIBE THE HIP HOP SCENARIO OF YOUR TOWN. LMy town is particular. In Catanzaro there are a bunch of writers compared with the poor number of the population, but lately the greatest part of them is not very active and just during the recent years they realized that there’s the need for improving the quality of the scenario.For what concerns the music, there are few leading figures that made history and a lot of young MCs and DJs. As I see it, graffiti are a bit detached from the rest of the underground scenario, as they are following their own way, with or without the hip hop supporting them.

That’s one of the reasons why I don’t see much breakers, even though there are some. There are few jams, and everyone furthers one’s own cause.

QUANTITY OR QUALITY? Qualitative quantity, quality in quantity.

Even if it’s about simple works but well done. I don’t like wasting colors for things in which I don’t believe.

GRAFFITI AND THE INTERNET. WHAT’S POSITIVE AND WHAT’S NEGATIVE. Well, we’re on a web-zine so of course I’m in favor of graffiti on the internet. The possibility of uploading online your works and, consequently, to see for free the ones of the other writers is good but at the same time you are forced to look at something which is poor in quality but thanks to the “likes” and “favs” are passed off as valuable works.

Today’s logic is “the more friends you have, the stronger you are”.

ANY OTHER HOBBY APART FROM GRAFFITI? Painting on canvas, going to gym and surfing on the internet, together with graffiti, are the thing that distract me the most from my duties…

GREETINGS I’d like to greet the members of my crew: Fase, Matz, Punch, Coer, Pelo, Opne and Pong.

Thanks Ostili!

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STRA - OMG / HIPNOS - HS’Z

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LOST - CAT CREW

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