Post on 16-Mar-2016
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first row:madc. kent: frankfurt / crue. crew: spargelhof
second row:crue. chaos. monkey. canz31: wiesbaden
warz. rake: wiesbadenthird row:
joan. rine. bois. elton. krixl. junek: home sweet home
First of all, let’s play the police officer vs. writer game. We need the
following information for our (fancy-)files:
- Your tag? HULK ‒ VS team- Where are you from?Brussels, Belgium- For how long have you been writing graffiti? At which age did you
start?I have started when I was 14 years old, but for security reasons I
can’t say my age.- What’s your prefered surface to paint on?
Metal. Especially subways.
Why the name HULK? Was it because of the letters or have you
been that impressed by the green man?
Because I searched for a new name when I came back from a trip
to Holland a long time ago. I wanted it to have the letters H and K
included and after some brainstorming I found this one. Now it’s
forever! BUT the green man is an amazing character, too. Sweet and
furious like me ... Hahahah!
Compared to you, are there any similarities with the real television
HULK? Does your t-shirt sometimes explode from your muscles
when you get angry?Hahaha … yes especially when I get chased.
What makes you angry? Personally and graffiti-related?
Injustice. When the Belgian government spends money for shit, or
takes it for themself, and stuff like that. They prefer more to keep up
the appearances of a good state to other countries than helping Bel-
gian people who are really in need of support. I hate stupid people
with close mentality, too. A lot of stuff makes me angry.
Graffiti-related, I think it is when I do my stuff and I can’t finish it
because I get chased!
Let’s talk about the time when you started writing. Is there a special
situation you remember that brought you into the graffiti thing? How
was the situation in Belgium back then?
Holalala … In the beginning it was amazing, but also strange becau-
se only few writers painted. The yards were really easier, but in 2009
I am again in the same "adrenaline" than years ago. The yards have
changed, but not my approach to do it!
If you think of it right now, what was the best thing you remember
from the times back then, compared to these days?
It’s different now, police knows a lot about graffiti. They check the
yards a lot, ambush writers etc. back then, it was just 1% of their
occupation, now they use more time for graff stuff. It’s normal,
because more writers are in the game! But the best was when I was
doing whole cars anywhere without stress like now ...
What were the names that you have been impressed of? The names
that kept you going on until now. Are there any?
I am impressed by people who do a lot and everywhere, I don’t
understand that. But I can imagine the time they use for travelling,
checking the yard, doing the stuff you have to do etc. When you
have a normal life it’s impossible to do all that. You have to make a
choice, and mine is the normal one.
I have got some names in my head, like BANOS, TAPS, MOSES, …
actually for doing what they do, with quantity and quality. You wake
up really early!!!
Tell us a little about the graffiti scene in Belgium today. Is it still a big
movement?
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