How To Start Your Own Graffiti Research Lab

Starting your own fake laboratory is easy, but we'll try to make it seem hard in these six pompous steps.

Step 1 Hackers + Graffiti Writers

Hackers and graffiti writers unite! The street and the Net are both filled with opportunities for small people to alter the course of large systems. Hackers pieced up the Internet by sharing ideas, and writers hacked a billion-dollar transportation system to move their art around town for free.

Comments

[ImMoRtAl-]

So illegal hope u get caught =]

[facilitator476]

It's art. This guy is talking about using his creativity and skill to transform a barren and forgotten strip of concrete into something amazing. I understand this isn't David or the Mona Lisa but it's a hell of a lot better than the BZ blood tags we have thrown up in my town.

[dla888]

You sound like Big Brother's spy.

[Metalman000]

Thanx so much for da inpiration!

[ipatch]

best damn instructable there is man! me and my best friend Heaton went out and took some pics with a glow stick and are work on our projection bombing! We live and a plain old town not a city but there are plenty of football fields to write our messages on Peace

[FunkNattidelic]

1. Don't say 'Peace' unless you mean it 2. Peace and Love go together, you cant have one without the other 3. A Graffiti Research Lab probably wont promote Peace and Love, considering the instructable said 'with rap music' and rap music talks about shooting people when they look at your shoes wrong.

[Cheswick32]

First off, that's extremely prejudice. True, some rap is about "shooting people when they look at your shoes wrong" but that's only the commercial stuff. If you actually would be open to new ideas, you would hear that all rap isn't just about violence. Second, when the instructable was making a reference to a video made by the Graffiti Research Lab. Don't Hate.

[lovindorks]

oh really? ALL rap music is about shooting people? thats interesting because the rap i listen to is about anti war, and everyday life. and many graffiti writers, of all sorts uh.. DO promote peace and love in different forms. if you've ever looked at graffiti a large percent of it is about exactly that. peace and love.

[NeverThere]

not 100% true. i think graffiti writers (artists) would be more attracted to underground rap and hip-hop, like Aesop Rock and El-P, who both are trying to campaign against war (although not in the same way others are, i'll give you that one.) i agree with the peace and love statement though, thats totally correct.

[ShogunD]

I bet you'd know since you studied the Graffiti Artists Uniform Handbook and policies, huh.

[gorillailla202]

I've Been writeing for a bout a yeah, and i gotta say, I love Aesop Rock. Ha

[articice]

buy a laser?? how would this help?

[Harlan Whitman]

Are you kidding its a flippin laser! What wouldn it help? :)

[Twist9]

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/projects/laser-tag/ Welcome to the future.

[bvicarious]

Where does "Get loads of funding from an art gallery; proceed to dump paint all over their building" fit into this scheme?

[ShogunD]

Pahahaha. This sounds like a plan. Lets go do it.

[randofo]

I think you do that after you have started your own Graffiti Research Lab.

[JohnJY]

Last year or so I started a FLGRL, Florida Graffiti Research Lab with some friends down here in FL, but that hasn't done anything for years, yet I still update the website...

[guy90]

Epic! Liking the imagery you've used for each page too,nice one! :)

[oligore]

"lick expensive artwork" I thought graffiti artists of all people would know what it feel like to have your art damaged.

[JohnJY]

I think what he meant was: My works better then yours!!!HAHAHA!!
But he just said licking artwork.

[Full Frontal Graphic]

It feels awesome. In the first Gulf War, I used to get the next day's paper as soon as it came out, cut it and xerox it until it was Today's Poster, then go around town putting them up. Some of the posters would be rudely torn down, and some would be carefully untaped and taken away... I'm not sure which made me happier.

[JohnJY]

Your name is fi5e, but...but...But...That's the name Evan Roth, creater of the Graffiti Research Lab and F.A.T,gave him self...are you Evan Roth,or just a fan.(*A.K.A. Impostor Getting My Hopes Up,So I Turn Into a Crying Baby(because I didn't get to communicate with Evan Roth...)
I think that's his old name though, because his website is ni9e.com.

[mastermakoko]

install linux?

[clark]

"curse in the source code" ...amazing

[Derin]

he he...

int f***=1;void setup(){Serial.begin(9600);Serial.println (f***);}void loop{}

[dardy_7]

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

[Foxtrot70]

How true...as soon as computers become self-aware we ARE in trouble. The Terminator movie series is a forbearer of things that could possibly come to pass.

[Parahnus]

Awesome But I Have Trouble With Major Advertisement Billboards. I Have To Climb The Pole Thingy To Get Up There Do You Know How To Unlock The Ladder So, I Wont Have To Just Fall On My Head Half Way Down???

[rrrmanion]

try getting like a fire engine, also with that use paint in the hoses instead of water so you can graffiti on the cops cars when you're in the chase and fire up the blues and 2s and graffiti while your shooting it at the

[Grmgunner]

yea get some buddys to bring your own ladder and prop it up to the existing ladder.

[Parahnus]

Damm......................We Had To Leave It Somewhere In Hayward. But A Tecate Cervasa Billboard Is More Eye Catching Now

[hac]

This. Instructable. Rocks. (Except I don't really care for rap music.)

[camb00]

i first started of with stickers and stuck them everywhere!. we found a car that was somes who went on holiday so we kinda like stuck 124 sticker on it lol

[unspecified]

This is Dr. Pimpenstein

[Dim-1]

I'm almost done building my own GRL, thanks for the instructable.

[tOmAtE]

You should read the book "The Cocka Hola Company " by Matias Faldbakken. Its not really about this kind of art but about the view of life you need...

[Toulouse]

this is pretty funny. good ideas in here too

[FireandIcebike]

Graffiti research certainly sounds like an extremely ambiguous undertaking. Geez!

[randofo]

Awwww shucks... I've already started my own Graffiti Removal Lab. I think the big difference is in Step 5. The GRL puts rock music in our videos.