My homeboy Spate hooked me up this link to Nightcrawla, a site dedicated to Philadelphia graffiti with emphasis on hardcore street bombing and Philly wickeds. Basically, some next level shit — menacing tags turning handstyles into wildstyles, even many writers find Philly tags illegible due to their complex letterforms, huge flares, tags that sometimes reach several metres high as well as smoking spliffs and brandishing butterfly knives. Heat. These cats rock can control in their tags that toys don’t even achieve in their pieces. Check it out at Nightcrawla Philadelphia Graffiti. The navigation is a bit frustrating but there is some primo shit if you can be bothered to lurk through it.

Philly’s Rasan from the late 80s and DaSaR from the mid 90s | Photos by Nightcrawla

Espo, photo by adnauseum on Flickr

Philadelphia Graffiti Handstyles

Dope Youtube video giving some insight into the Philly style plus more importantly,
hardcore street bombing action footage. Peep it!

Sydney Graffiti: Spate

The man Spate is also a fucking yob. One of the dopest bombing styles in Sydney no doubt.

Baby baby baby — It’s the fantastic romantic RETALI8!

You can call me RETALI8 for short. This is my personal blog, dedicated to whatever the fuck I feel like writing about – Which will be mostly music: both my own and shit that I like, graffiti, fashion photography, art, film, food & drink, and which models I have a crush on.

I run an experimental electronic record label called Zerohour Doom & Glamour — the first releases are on the way for 010, including the long awaited Doom & Glamour CD compilation and 2 split 7″s from Jackie Ransom + Luster & Beta Evers (featuring some absolutely stunning artwork by my girl Caitlin Shearer) and Frank Alpine + Sean Cooper.

I also write about electro funk old school rap music and graffiti for Cold Crush — Sydney’s only electro funk, Miami bass and old school hip hop club.
So on this blog you will mostly only hear about other styles of music that don’t really fit the Cold Crush sound – from minimal wave, ebm and new wave to electro to hip hop, rock and classical. As you will discover I have a pretty broad and usually obscure taste in music.