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Well... I didn`t start it but I guess I know who did.
You know who did?
First ATS5 - then DIMM began to do it more seriously I think.
There was SMOK, a girl named SYLPH, HYCKOR...
I dont`t know. That was in 1999. They started in the early 90s.
Then it started to form. NCA was born. There were people like EIK, SMOK...
At that time the DIMM somehow broke up.
I don`t remember that good...
Well... I started to write...
No. It began when I met one guy when I was 9 years old...
...who was a brother of EMS, who wrote DIR at that time I think.
Later he wrote DAR and finally EMS, and everybody from Martin knows that one.
He had cheap cans hidden in the bushes...
...and we as little boys of course came and stole them.
He was the first to show me some of his sketches...
...that was the first time I ever saw graffiti and it interested me.
And when did you smell paint for the first time?
When I was 10 years old...
...you smelled the paint?
I never did glue...
I made my first piece in 1996.
I put the date next to it...
...I remember it was 1996 when I started.
My brother influenced me.
He was also one of the first to start...
...as SCG CREW, and somehow it kept me addicted till now.
Guys went shopping to Prague from time to time.
Caps, cans, some magazines, maybe some VHS tapes...
I think we were influenced more by Prague than Bratislava.
I would say that it began here even sooner than in other bigger towns.
At first I started to write because of the adrenalin...
...but later on it was no fun because...
...I was sorry to *** up the walls in such a small city.
Everybody just *** them up, so it didn`t evolve.
I started to focus more on legal writing.
I`ll say something about trains because it is also part of graffiti.
I`ve always liked trains very much. The more they are sprayed the better.
I also tried to do some... 3 or 4 but it was totally bad...
...so I stopped doing it.
There was some good writing. There was this student train TURIEC standing there...
...Bratislava - Martin. It was there through the weekends...
Now it waits in Vrutky because you always *** it up.
You came in the morning, when there wasn`t any staff there - it was a chillout.
You waited for the right time and you did it...
...but we did the WHOLE CAR at night. That was an interesting event...
We got *** before, and later we got paranoid about the writing...
Mainly it`s about the fact that someone does some of his ***...
...writes outside and he`s free. It isn`t like the static art in galleries...
It`s free on public surfaces where it can shock everybody...
So the street is the gallery...
That`s how it is.
Mainly it`s the freedom when you write. It`s a chillout when you`re outside...
...drinking beer, smoking a cigarette, or you drink something else.
And you write for fun.
There was a problem here in Martin that we had only one poor legal wall...
...so with my pal from the crew we kept going to the mayor`s office for about two years...
...and we made the SLIMÁK bridge wall legal, did some jams there.
Mainly it was because of the area03601 web...
We were writing on an apartment building when suddenly some woman leaned out of a window...
...she started nagging and said she`d call the cops.
So I shouted that if she`s such a *** she should do it.
And the *** really came...
I ran out of cans so I went for some to my pal...
...and I ran just in front of them.
Nowadays I`m a bit lazy and I don`t write that often...
I write from time to time but it isn`t that intense...
And in these five years I can say I`ve done about 100 pieces - that really isn`t that much...
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English subtitles by Martin Petro and Andy Billingham.