NOST!

In your face, don't give fuck attitude and they're about to come and bomb throw-ups on your house. Nost crew is a law onto themselves. Graffiti has loose rules, and most artists follow them as a guide. Nost ignores the no go zones and constantly pioneers new spots that have never seen a spray-can. We don't know it now but Nost and Pork are the  equivalent of 70K back in the early 2000's. Pushing boundaries, getting good spots (heavens), abandoned buildings, train lines and trying many different styles. If they were arrested now they'd still have 100's of tags, throwies and pieces around Melbourne for years. They have successfully smashed the system, probably harder than any crew has ever done before.  

Recipe for good graffiti?

To produce good graffiti like the trackside example below, requires some of the listed different elements,

• Surface-high quality smooth surface.... primed concrete is premium and the brick wall is not far behind
• Audience-the spot is public and seen on a regular basis by different people 
• Accessible/Inaccessible-Accessible sites will always attract the majority of graffiti artists, a smaller minority will be encouraged to go further and "break and enter" for harder to reach spots gaining notoriety amongst graffiti artists
• Buff-Lack of buffing over years will often allow walls to naturally establish.... generally walls improve over time and you reach a climax period when the art rarely changes
• Fame-directly linked to audience and inaccessibility

Trackside graffiti near East Richmond, Melbourne

This wall demonstrates the aggressive territorial approach of KSA crew. They tend claim large areas by progressively expanding their pieces and throw-ups onto adjacent wall space. 

Rowville part 1

Was passing through Rowville the other day and stumbled across some graffiti. Another classic example of industrial walls utilised by artists. There's a significant flow on affect from one wall to another. High density graffiti locations are often painted on the way to, or on the way out. This sometimes leaves a tag trail and tells you where the artist has been.

Most of the works on the walls are from 05, 06. The works have faded quickly from their North facing position.