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Dne won´t toe the line
Dne opens a back door sneaks up some staircases and through a few corridors. then he is in, nad has saved two hundred crowns.
Kutmaster Kurt is standing at the mixer table, and Koll Keith is galumphing back and forth in front of him. some girls from audience are dancing listlessly beside him on the edge of the stage.
A handful of reckords is thrown over the audience and people struggle to get them. Dne says it is pathetic to struggle so hard for a few commerical records.
The audience start to trickle out. there is no interest in an encore. suddenly Dne is on stage, involved in a tug-of-war with Kutmaster Kurt´s manager. Dne has jumped up and plucked a reckord from the hands of Kutmaster Kurt, who was squatting on the stage.The manager tries to stop him and manages to get hold of his backpack, but Dne won´t let go. The tug-of-war contiues-if someone dosen´t let go, things will get violent. Finally, security arrives and seperates them.
Shortly afterwards, Dne arrives at the bar with a murderous glare and throbbing temples. He meets some friends, ad the anger runs off him instantly. He greets them cheerily. Dne is very physical.
His appearance is striking, and he doesn´t back out of fhigts. With his large body and baggy hip-hop clothes, he gives yhe impression of being a roughneck.
This is sometimes true, but he is also awarm and thougtful person, who is interested in politics and gathering mushrooms. ``If you dress like me, you expect to be thought of as a kind of half-gangsta,´´ he says, and describes his dress style as New Yok-inspired: khaki jacket, jeans and sneakers
- large and simple.
People like to look at your and draw their own conclusions. It´s thought of as strange that a hip-hopper shold gather mushrooms. You aren´t expected to be intilligent or know how to behave in certain circumstances. You aren´t even expected to able to read.´´
In Dne´s pieces, the cocky side of his personality in dominant. His letters are so full of attitude that they seem to be on the verge of exploding.
``There has to be attitude in the letters. Otherwise, it´s uninteresting,´´ he says. ``It should be aggressive and playful at the same time, like a poison dart frog whose colors and pattern sat: `if you eat me, you´ll die!´ ´´
Dne wants the letters to swing and be anchored in hip-hop. You should be able to feel the music. He is satisfied when there is a beat to the letters. One of the reasons for his writing graffiti is that it is a physical art in which the entire bodyis used. ``Graffiti is something fantastic. You have developed a way of writing your name on several different surfaces with style and speed, using gastubes filled with paint.´´
A few weeks after the Kool Keith session, Dne and his girlfriend have just finished a late breakfast of griled tomatoes stuffed with quorn and bean sallad. Dne says it has a pronounced 1970s feel. He offers iced tea with strawberries, and makes some fresh tea. He takes his time and shows off the boom box he got at Roskilde festival the previous year. It is large andhandsome, but doesn´t work. We make our way up a slope leading to a forest behind Dne´s house. Rutin, a writer friend hailing back to Dne´s early 199´sgraffiti debut in södertälje, huffs, sweats and moans about the uneven terrain. Dne quickly marches on, stopping occasionally to eat the wild strawberries and blueberies that grow in the sparse forest.
After a few minutes, we are up on a plateau looking over Dne´s Stockholm suburb. A mound of coal revels that this in where he goes to realax with his gilrfriend and pals. Rutin complains about ants and other creepy-crawlies, and doesn´t want to sit down. But Dne produces tea glasses, a thermos and roasted con-on-the-cob and sits by a pine tree.
though Dne paints quite a few walls, he has always mainly seen himself as a train writer. He finds it a bit hard that he is not painting many trains right now.
``Out of old habit, I still draw the line at the bottom of the paper when i make my sketches. I always preferred the commuter train. It offers a lot of action, as well as enough time to do sometthing good.
I started cutting down when my main writing partner sear quit four years ago. None of the guys i used to write with paint the commter trains any more.
Dne insists that this dosen´t mean that he has painted his last train. `` I spend a lot of my life with my woman, so i do fewer pices. When you live with someone, you can´t just think `me, me ,me´. There are other things in life you have to consider. Is itworth going to jail for? Does the woman i live with think it´s worth going to jail for?
Personally, i think it would be worth it, but it´s sick that they are talking about year-long sentences.´´
Dne was given a supended setence for graffiti, amongest other things. ``On some level, i know i have to be judged.
I joined the game kowing the risks. Sure i owe money to the bailiffs, but other people have student loans and mortgages instiead. If i wanted to pay, i could, but there are other things i want right now.
When they try to kill a thing like this, that´s when it´s needed most.
We´re commercialized up our ass. You can´t go anywhere without being encouraged to buy stuff.
Graffiti presents an alternative: to help yourself, and not having to accept the market, and all the rules and regulations. Graffiti is an important counterbalance, even if not all writers do it for that reason or with this insight.´´
Dne says that graffiti writers question given social strucktures more than others. ``Writers do´t toe the authoritry line. Graffiti has turned a lot of people into indenpendent thinks an helped them in professional careers like music, design, photography and art. It´s cool that a lot of writers live within sciety, but follow their own little track. They maybe riding a fucked-up train on that track, but at least it putters along at its own rate.
The problem is that many writers are so young that they don´t know how to channel their questioning beyond graffiti writing.´´
Nowdays, you can buy children´s clothes stores, and newspaper show rock bands posing with graffiti in the background.
``Graffitti is an opposing force, but has also become part of the commercial world. companies like the visual side of graffiti: it´s fast-paced and colorful. They borrow the feeling of danger and teboo without taking any of the risks, and without ever defending graffiti. When someone buys a shirt a graffiti design on it, a fee should be paid to sentenced writers,´´ says Dne with a smile well aware that he is hardly likely to get any money.
Dne grew up with leftwing values. solidarity was an important issue to his parents. ``I´m grateful for the fact that i´ve learned to stand up for others and see how things in society work and are ordered. I am a plitical person seeking change, but iám not active in any party. A lot of that has to do with laziness and distrust. but oe efficent way to affect things in word or mouth. When i stopped eating meat, everybody laughed, but soon most people i knew were vegetarins.Even if you can´t affect the big stuff, maybe you can affect the small stuff and get a snowball effect.You can tell i grew up with Bamse,´´ he laughs, quoting the swedish comic-book bear who is always on the side of the weak:`` Many small ones are strong´´.
Dne opens a back door sneaks up some staircases and through a few corridors. then he is in, nad has saved two hundred crowns.
Kutmaster Kurt is standing at the mixer table, and Koll Keith is galumphing back and forth in front of him. some girls from audience are dancing listlessly beside him on the edge of the stage.
A handful of reckords is thrown over the audience and people struggle to get them. Dne says it is pathetic to struggle so hard for a few commerical records.
The audience start to trickle out. there is no interest in an encore. suddenly Dne is on stage, involved in a tug-of-war with Kutmaster Kurt´s manager. Dne has jumped up and plucked a reckord from the hands of Kutmaster Kurt, who was squatting on the stage.The manager tries to stop him and manages to get hold of his backpack, but Dne won´t let go. The tug-of-war contiues-if someone dosen´t let go, things will get violent. Finally, security arrives and seperates them.
Shortly afterwards, Dne arrives at the bar with a murderous glare and throbbing temples. He meets some friends, ad the anger runs off him instantly. He greets them cheerily. Dne is very physical.
His appearance is striking, and he doesn´t back out of fhigts. With his large body and baggy hip-hop clothes, he gives yhe impression of being a roughneck.
This is sometimes true, but he is also awarm and thougtful person, who is interested in politics and gathering mushrooms. ``If you dress like me, you expect to be thought of as a kind of half-gangsta,´´ he says, and describes his dress style as New Yok-inspired: khaki jacket, jeans and sneakers
- large and simple.
People like to look at your and draw their own conclusions. It´s thought of as strange that a hip-hopper shold gather mushrooms. You aren´t expected to be intilligent or know how to behave in certain circumstances. You aren´t even expected to able to read.´´
In Dne´s pieces, the cocky side of his personality in dominant. His letters are so full of attitude that they seem to be on the verge of exploding.
``There has to be attitude in the letters. Otherwise, it´s uninteresting,´´ he says. ``It should be aggressive and playful at the same time, like a poison dart frog whose colors and pattern sat: `if you eat me, you´ll die!´ ´´
Dne wants the letters to swing and be anchored in hip-hop. You should be able to feel the music. He is satisfied when there is a beat to the letters. One of the reasons for his writing graffiti is that it is a physical art in which the entire bodyis used. ``Graffiti is something fantastic. You have developed a way of writing your name on several different surfaces with style and speed, using gastubes filled with paint.´´
A few weeks after the Kool Keith session, Dne and his girlfriend have just finished a late breakfast of griled tomatoes stuffed with quorn and bean sallad. Dne says it has a pronounced 1970s feel. He offers iced tea with strawberries, and makes some fresh tea. He takes his time and shows off the boom box he got at Roskilde festival the previous year. It is large andhandsome, but doesn´t work. We make our way up a slope leading to a forest behind Dne´s house. Rutin, a writer friend hailing back to Dne´s early 199´sgraffiti debut in södertälje, huffs, sweats and moans about the uneven terrain. Dne quickly marches on, stopping occasionally to eat the wild strawberries and blueberies that grow in the sparse forest.
After a few minutes, we are up on a plateau looking over Dne´s Stockholm suburb. A mound of coal revels that this in where he goes to realax with his gilrfriend and pals. Rutin complains about ants and other creepy-crawlies, and doesn´t want to sit down. But Dne produces tea glasses, a thermos and roasted con-on-the-cob and sits by a pine tree.
though Dne paints quite a few walls, he has always mainly seen himself as a train writer. He finds it a bit hard that he is not painting many trains right now.
``Out of old habit, I still draw the line at the bottom of the paper when i make my sketches. I always preferred the commuter train. It offers a lot of action, as well as enough time to do sometthing good.
I started cutting down when my main writing partner sear quit four years ago. None of the guys i used to write with paint the commter trains any more.
Dne insists that this dosen´t mean that he has painted his last train. `` I spend a lot of my life with my woman, so i do fewer pices. When you live with someone, you can´t just think `me, me ,me´. There are other things in life you have to consider. Is itworth going to jail for? Does the woman i live with think it´s worth going to jail for?
Personally, i think it would be worth it, but it´s sick that they are talking about year-long sentences.´´
Dne was given a supended setence for graffiti, amongest other things. ``On some level, i know i have to be judged.
I joined the game kowing the risks. Sure i owe money to the bailiffs, but other people have student loans and mortgages instiead. If i wanted to pay, i could, but there are other things i want right now.
When they try to kill a thing like this, that´s when it´s needed most.
We´re commercialized up our ass. You can´t go anywhere without being encouraged to buy stuff.
Graffiti presents an alternative: to help yourself, and not having to accept the market, and all the rules and regulations. Graffiti is an important counterbalance, even if not all writers do it for that reason or with this insight.´´
Dne says that graffiti writers question given social strucktures more than others. ``Writers do´t toe the authoritry line. Graffiti has turned a lot of people into indenpendent thinks an helped them in professional careers like music, design, photography and art. It´s cool that a lot of writers live within sciety, but follow their own little track. They maybe riding a fucked-up train on that track, but at least it putters along at its own rate.
The problem is that many writers are so young that they don´t know how to channel their questioning beyond graffiti writing.´´
Nowdays, you can buy children´s clothes stores, and newspaper show rock bands posing with graffiti in the background.
``Graffitti is an opposing force, but has also become part of the commercial world. companies like the visual side of graffiti: it´s fast-paced and colorful. They borrow the feeling of danger and teboo without taking any of the risks, and without ever defending graffiti. When someone buys a shirt a graffiti design on it, a fee should be paid to sentenced writers,´´ says Dne with a smile well aware that he is hardly likely to get any money.
Dne grew up with leftwing values. solidarity was an important issue to his parents. ``I´m grateful for the fact that i´ve learned to stand up for others and see how things in society work and are ordered. I am a plitical person seeking change, but iám not active in any party. A lot of that has to do with laziness and distrust. but oe efficent way to affect things in word or mouth. When i stopped eating meat, everybody laughed, but soon most people i knew were vegetarins.Even if you can´t affect the big stuff, maybe you can affect the small stuff and get a snowball effect.You can tell i grew up with Bamse,´´ he laughs, quoting the swedish comic-book bear who is always on the side of the weak:`` Many small ones are strong´´.
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