Sunday, January 9, 2011

Ang Chien Wen - Interview file (Information of the graffiti artists' profile)

Interview the 10 graffiti artist through the facebook done by Tan Paik Ling (Pinky).
After read all the interview answers of the 10 graffiti artists, to avoid the audiences lazy to read the thousand words, i had made them in point form to get the readers/audiences easy to read and understand.

5 information will be putting inside the profile of each graffiti artists:
  1. Graffiti Artist
  2. About Him/Her
  3. Title of Graffiti
  4. Style and Description
  5. Link


Profile of each graffiti artist:

1
Gaffiti Artist: SNOZZE
About Him: 
 >Graffiti artist
 >Love Graffiti because can see a future of Graffiti.
Title of Graffiti: "Gajah in da house"
Style and Description: 
 >Wildstyle
 >About his style, "MINANG KAU KAU BAU" is introducing himself as Snozze. 
   As Malay of Minang descent, "Minangkabau" is his root where he comes from.
   "Kaw Kaw" (Gao, Kaw, Gaw and Kao) means thick in hokkein lauguage. 
   The term is often said by the people to the coffee in Malaysia Kopitiam.
   "Bau" is the Malay word, means smell.
   "Gajah" for him means "Graffiti Artist in South East Asian", they are big and powerful.
 >"So the title of the this wall painting "Gajah in da house" means we are exist in our society." said by SNOOZE
Link: Website 
          http://www.flickr.com/photos/snozze
          http://www.myspace.com/snozze
          Email
          jepuniese@yahoo.com
          snozze_crime@live.com.my

2
Graffiti Artist: Chern 67
About Him:
 >Many writers in KL played letters, but he played characters.
 >Graffiti is cool, fun and challenging.
 >Love carrying paints, marker, stickers around, just like hit and run.
Title of Graffiti: Characters in mafia suit (do not give a proper name)
Style and Description:
 >"The style I used is character with twin Iris eye. 
    I wanted to make people easily recognize my characters' characteristic
    and I found out that eyes is always the best focus point among facial features
    Just like when talking to people, you see their eyes instead. 
    My characters' eyes are inspired from the chinese word "?". 
    It means it is huge and powerful and i hope my characters is like that." said by Chern 67
Link: Website
           http://twitter.com/Chern67
           Facebook
           http://facebook.com/chern91

3
Graffiti Artist: Acit/Abdulrashade
About Him: 
 >One of the Eightyfourcube collective members.
 >Graphic designer, painter and graffiti artist.
 >2003, started in digital art (vector art especially) on 2003 and begin doing graffiti on 2007 and painting on 2008.
 >his graffiti is not about vandal, it is about beauty in legal and illegal.
Title of Graffiti: "My concrete jungle"
Style and Description:  Acit was try to develop his own style, to avoid the influences of the overseas graffiti styles. 
                                       He is doing the graffiti with mixing the asian style, like floral, batik, nusantara and curving and wavy stroke etc...
Link: Website
           http://www.facebook.com/pages/abdulrashade
           http://www.spacemaggot.deviantart.com
           http://abdulrashade.tumblr.com/
           http://www.eightyfourcube.com
           Email
           buzz@abdulrashade.com
           Facebook
           facebook.com/abdulrashade

4
Graffiti Artist: Khairy Ishak
About Him: 
 >Myow From SG been writing since 2001.
 >Hated dogs.
 >Graffiti is yoga to him.
 >Sky the limit.
 >Liked to doodle.
Title of Graffiti: "WYOW" (as in meow)
Style and Description: 
 >Wildstyle
Link: -

5
Graffiti Artist: Reyna
About Her: 
 >A writer from Brunei.
 >Graffiti, like any visual arts is a form of expression and a way to deliver a message whether it may be something personal or social.
 >Love graffiti because it makes her feel free.
 >Not confined to canvases or art galleries; her art is meant for everybody whether they like it or not.
Title of Graffiti: - ("The traditional fundementals of graffiti is basically to write your name everywhere and make yourself known." said by Reyna)
Style and Description: 
 > She did not really have a set theme for her piece but bright colours and geometrical shapes have always been quite her trademark.
Link: Facebook
           facebook.com/mzaharaa

6
Graffiti Artist: Muhammad Aqmal b Tapsir (Critic Zerosix)
About Him: 
 >From Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia.
 >Just finished Diploma in Culinary Art at Unirazak (Unitar).
 >Graffiti is his hobby and passion. He can express anything by doing graffiti, about love, hate, peace...
 >Sometime he used word or character to describe his graffiti and 
   different types of color to describe the message that he want to send to the community.
Title of Graffiti: "Critic 06" (his tagname)
Style and Description: 
 >Before he started to do graffiti, a lot of people talent in doing graffiti criticized on him. 
   The word of "Critic" inspired him to produce a better and quality graffiti.
   "06" is the year he started to do graffiti.
 >Wildstyle.
 >Used bright color to show Kuala Lumpur as the fun and excitement place of writing graffiti on the wall.
Link: Website
           http://www.critic06.blogspot.com
           http://www.myspace.com/critic_06

7
Graffiti Artist: Cz Chooi
About Him: 
 >A Malacca based graphic designer and graffiti artist. 
 >Wrote for a crew called PhiberWryte Connects (PWC).
 >Graffiti is his hobby. The more he painted, he get more idea.
 >Ideas make him excited to explore more about graffiti and sharpen up his skill.
Title of Graffiti: "D-O-M-E-R"
Style and Description: 
 >Does not have any specific meaning. 
 >He picked 5 letters out of 26 alphabet randomly. It is a basic lettering. 
   He focused on the letter/alphabet structure and the color combination is completely freestyle. 
 >For him, graffiti is about typography, created the composition, flow, negative space, balance etc. 
   So his style is to create a positive and artistic piece instead of the negativity things.
Link: Facebook
           facebook.com/Domerpwc

8/9. Escape and Syam is partner for doing graffiti.
Graffiti Artist: Mohd Zaki b. Nordin (Escape)
About Him: 
 > A Malaysian visual artist and a graphic designer who started his career in street art.
 >What is "Escape"?
   Escape had been rebranded since January 9, 2010 from the former tagname, "Erkz". Since then, he had carry this name in street art and furthering "Escape" as the brand name for his product. The key factor of his art has been cycling around numerous sides of design from street art, installations, graphic design, custom products and digitalization into many kinds of medium without the stick boundaries of limitation. "Escape" is an orientation that characterises the thinking of a person, which defined same as an ideology to the artist's thought.
 >For him, graffiti is related to his tagname, which is an escape for me.
Link: Email
          escape_art@live.com
          Facebook
          facebook.com/escapeart

Graffiti Artist: Syam
About Him: 
 >21 years old, Software Engineering student.
 >Originated from Ipoh, and also known as "Schizo"
 >Graffiti is expression of an individual in a form of art, done on the wall.
Link:  Email
            syam_278@hotmail.com

Title of Graffiti: - (2minutes discussion and straight away to do the graffiti.)
Style and Description: 
 >For Escape, he loves doing faces expression and conception art such as 3 dimensional graffiti.
   He paints creepy and aggressive stuff.
 >For Syam, the graffiti letter he painted is semi-wildstyle.

10
Graffiti Artist: Kenji Chai
About Him: 
 >Freelance artist
 >Illustrator
 >Designer
 >Graffiti artist
 >Street artist
 >Toy designer
 >Black Fryday (Art director)
Title of Graffiti:
Style and description:
Link: Email
           black.fryday@gmail.com

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Ang Chien Wen - Research and interview to the graffiti artists in facebook

According to the graffiti that painted on the Sungai Klang, long river bank Pasar Seni, we will going to provide the information of the graffiti and its artist in our website.
Interview questions that provide to the graffiti artist:

  1. Can you try introduce your yourself?
  2. What is graffiti about you?
  3. What makes you in love with graffiti?
  4. Since you've done graffiti works here. Would you continue to use your talent to enhance more graffiti works in KL? Why?
  5. The name/title of your graffiti, and can you describe the style and the meaning of your graffiti?


Graffiti artists (who had paint at Sungai Klang, long river bank Pasar Seni) that found in facebook:

  1. Snozze
  2. They
  3. Bibichun
  4. Escape
  5. Nama Anokayer
  6. Bone Alfie
  7. Chern Six Seven (Chern 臣)
  8. Acit Raman Abdullah
  9. John Carpet
  10. Katun Abdullah
  11. Kenji Chai
  12. Syam
  13. Khairy Ishak
  14. Mariah Zaharaa Abdullah (Reyna)
  15. Critic Zerosix
  16. Cz Chooi


Graffiti artists we get to interview:
  1. Snozze
  2. Chern Six Seven (Chern 臣)
  3. Acit Raman Abdullah
  4. Khairy Ishak
  5. Mariah Zaharaa Abdullah (Reyna
  6. Critic Zerosix
  7. Cz Chooi
  8. Kenji Chai
  9. Escape
  10. Syam

Ang Chien Wen - Layout of storyboard

Layout of storyboard
  1. 4 main pages in our website (Home page - About Us page, KL de Graffiti page, Art Street page, Contact Us page).
  2. The website is guiding with 3 girls which are 3 of us (Michelle Lim, Ang Chien Wen, Tan Paik Ling(Pinky)).
  • Michelle Lim - guiding the audiences to the "About Us" page.
  • Ang Chien Wen - guiding the audiences to the "KL de Graffiti" page.
  • Tan Paik Ling (Pinky) - guiding the audiences to the "Art Street" page.
  • 3 of us - guiding the audiences to the "Contact Us" page.
Figure 1: Layout of storyboard
Description:
  1. Home page - KL de Graffiti (title of website) and telephone image are graffiti on the wall, 3 girls and stand are standing behind the graffiti wall.
  2. Rollover the 3 girls and telephone, it will displayed what do they represented. "Michelle Lim" (About us), "Ang Chien Wen" (KL de Graffiti), "Tan Paik Ling" (Art Street) and "telephone" (Contact us).
  3. "Michelle Lim" is standing straight behind the graffiti wall.
  4. "Michelle Lim" dance hip hop and spray out the paint.
  5. "Michelle Lim" spray out the information of "About us". A "cross spray" at the corner to click back to the home page.
  6. "Ang Chien Wen" is standing straight with the stand behind the graffiti wall.
  7. "Ang Chien Wen" is climbing up by using the stand.
  8. "Ang Chien Wen" spray out the information of "KL de Graffiti". A "cross spray" at the corner to click back to the home page.
  9. "Pinky" is holding a spray and standing behind the graffiti wall with a roll of photography graffiti artworks. The roll of graffiti artworks can rolling automatically.
  10. "Pinky" will spray face to the audiences when they click on one of the photography graffiti artwork.
  11. Profile of the graffiti artwork is displayed in front of the spray paint. A "cross spray" at the corner to click back to the home page.
  12. "Telephone" - information of contact us is displayed in front of the spray paint on the graffiti wall. A "cross spray" at the corner to click back to the home page.

Ang Chien Wen - Direction of our project in "Graffiti"

"Graffiti is the subject matter we chosen in our project."
Our direction to our website,
Figure 1: Hip hop style, cool and a bit warm, and wildstyle.
  1. Tour guide: Michelle Lim, Ang Chien Wen, Tan Paik Ling
  2. Name of website: KL de Graffiti
  3. Subject matter: Graffiti
  4. Location: Sungai Klang, long river bank in Pasar Seni
  5. Style: Hip hop style, cool and a bit warm, and wildstyle
  6. Target audience: Adult (passion/interested in art and design

Friday, December 31, 2010

Michelle - Graffiti event

   

Significant graffiti event of the year 2010 (in Asia)


Would like to introduce ''MOS'' & ''KUL sign festival'' BIGGEST event of the year.
What are they and what are the differences.
A little intro about ''MOS'' first...

  • Meeting of Styles (MOS) - International Art Festival Mural ( Graffiti ), which is derived from the German festival Wall Street MeetingThe main idea behind the event is to show graffiti as one of the emerging fields of art, but also to enable young people to express their talents.



The trip that we went to photograph on graffiti works (which was posted earlier). They are the ones that are painted by lots of graffiti artists during this '' MOS'' event. 
And found out that ''MOS'' and ''KUL sign festival'' are the same event. Had interview a graffiti artist (and a writter) about this event.
Below is the reason he explained both event are the same...

  • ''Actually..This event are call 'meeting of style MOS'..and this event is a worldwide event u can check at www.meetingofstyles.com..and malaysia hv been chosen as one of their venue..but to get permission from government..which is DBKL the organizer from malaysia which is super sunday concept store hv do a talking with dbkl..n dbkl want this event to change a name to 'KUL sign fesival' just to get a permission to doing this event at sg klang..so the organizer hv agree to use that name n not 'Meeting of style 2010' just to get a permission to bomb at sg klang..actually this event hv been prepare last year..but last minute the organizer need to change the date n the event name..just to please the government..the actual date is on 27/28 november..not at 4/5 december..this event MOS is the first on asian stage...at oversea this event is like a anual year event for them..so hopefully next year there will be no problem like this..that why u search about MOS there is nothng much abt it..because the event have change name to 'KUL sign'..only writer who know the story from the begining call and know this event as 'MOS' n not 'KUl sign'. ''


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''KUL Sign Festival''

Venue: Pasar Seni LRT Station
Date & Time: 8.00 am, 4th – 5th December 2010
More Info: www.kulsign2010.com
http://www.malaysia.com/galleries-kul-sign-4.html








Ealier(above) was a view from a graffiti artist. Here is another view from the outsiders-NEWS...


CITY HALL PAYS ATTENTION TO YOUNG GENERATION
Date: 4 DECEMBER 2010




 
   City Hall of Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) through Culture, Arts, Tourism and Sport Department in its effort to approach the young generation especially Graffiti activists had organized KUL Sign Festival near LRT Station at Central Market last December 2010. 
    According to The Honourable Datuk Seri Ahmad Fuad Ismail, The Mayor of Kuala Lumpur, the festival is hoped to bridge relationship between CHKL and Graffiti activists in Kuala Lumpur. It is also hoped to reduce vandalisme and promote care on public property
Among the activities were graffiti art competition, X-Treme Sport competition, lucky draw and performance from local entertainers. Also presence was Yang Berhormat Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, Deputy Minister of Higher Education.







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Events that took place on 4-5 Dec 2010


There were 100 participants during the 2 days ''KUL sign festival'


The CITY COUNCIL was preparing for the 1st ''KUL sign festival''

Graffiti crews are working on thier art pieces. Crews were limited to a total of 4 and each pice was limited to a section of 2 meters by 5 meters long


The organizerz provided free spray cans for all participants

A graffiti artist gets inspiration for his piece from a magazine.
The theme of this festival: KUL green

Using the spray paint leads to severely stained fingers. Thats why many artist prefer to work with rubber gloves


A DBKL van drops by for a quick check.
Many participants were very appreciative of the authorities' effort in recognizing the art form


A break dance performance at the festical dedicated to street art

The city's mayor (Dato' seri ahmad fuad ismail) visits the festival.
The mayor has plans to elevate graffiti as an artform and help graffiti artist gain recognition through such events

''Terima kasih''. One of the artist expresses his thanks to KL and the festival


Even late at night, some of the artists were putting finishing touches on thier pieces

The river bank is forever transfored. What was formerly a bleak area is now a colorful collage of creative art

       

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In short, below is a short clip of the event on that day:

 


 ** Events held on that day ** 
  • Graffiti - art & culture
  • BMX - street & flatland
  • Breakdance
  • Skateboard & ps3
  • Invitation for overseas to join
  • Concert




~* Coming up next: Some sketches done in progress *~