User talk:Peter Walden III

United Kingdom graffiti artists Category

Hello Peter Walden III,

Thank you for contributing to the "United Kingdom graffiti artists Category" however I have deleted your text because it is posted in the incorrect location: A "United Kingdom graffiti" article should be written to contain your content. The United Kingdom graffiti artists Category is only intended to present a list of UK graffiti artists whom have articles present on Wikipedia, not as a history of UK graffiti. Lerner

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Graffiti arrived on the shores of the United Kingdom in the early 1980s, when New York City's most established purveyor of expensive "collectable" toys, Futura 2000, painted a wall in Westbourne Park. Rumour has it that he worked as a conciérge in nearby eyesore Trellick Tower for a short period in 1983, allegedly spending the entire duration of his time in the job filing his long black nails, for which he is famous. During his final lunchbreak he found the perfect wall under the Westway and history was made. Understandably he recieved his P45 soon after this and was thrown in the Tower Of London, where he still resides and can be found selling toys to Japanese tourists most weekdays.

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To the large population of perrenially moody black teenagers in this depressing West London berg, graffiti was like a US Marine Corps flamethrower to their humble Vietnamese village, and when the graffito craze really took off the local 'steamers' were to be found robbing dreadful English spraypaint from other kids as well as their usual haul of rubbish trainers and brick-like Walkmans. Some of their children are pictured below.

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The graffiti scene in London was comprised of uneducated yobs, who operated under a strict 'spray first, ask questions later' policy, and soon the graffito writers branched off into seperate factions, what with them being so primitive and everything. Those that daubed random walls with their unintelligible scrawled tags called themselves 'Jets', while the earnest, albeit stupid, middle class writers adopted the name 'Sharks'. In 1987 a war broke out on the walls of the capital as each side vied for control of space. The situation reached a savage climax when the writer Don broke into the Eastenders set in Ealing and tagged a wall. There was uproar in the media.

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