The ADICT Crew

ADICT is a large crew of at least 10 guys including SPACE5 SENS(AY) ZEAL CODER2 YRON SEAKING KOFI1 CEAS ZEAL HEROW and BES(O).

Although their tags can be found around, they seem to concentrate mainly on large pieces which can be found at the pit, at BC Silver School and along all the railway overpasses thru the peninsula. They share a similar overall unifying style, but each individual has his own very distinct style. When I've met them writing they have usually been friendly, informative, and not minded me watching or shooting them while working. On a couple of occasions I've had a chance to see their books of photos of their work, which are numerous, and impressive in their quality.

Say what you might about graffiti, I think it's hard to fault the look and quality of their big pieces. They add (ADICT) to Halifax.

Apologies for the scarcity of posting - I've been on vacation and internetless.

ADICT Tagging



ADICT Pieces

Dust-up at The Pit?

Pieces go up and down regularly at the Pit - the Lower Water Street Parking Lot, which is a "Legal" Graffiti Wall. It has not been clear to me what the rules/etiquette around covering up someones work are (other than, as the Gentleman in 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' said, right before he recieved a kick in the jewels "Rules?! - NO RULES!")

Clearly when a piece starts to flake off the wall, its days are numbered, as they are when one is defaced. But what does it mean to paint on a piece just days after it went up?

This past weekend ADICT scraped the wall and put up three pieces One over a defaced ADICT piece, two ovwer older ADICT pieces), which by Thursday had been defaced. The APER piece to their right, shed some paint (?was scraped) recently. In (?)response, the ADICT pieces now have APER tagged on them, along with "pussy", "no respect" and of course "fuck you". One piece had a small "throw-up" over it.

Next? - Who knows, but I expect that the defaced pieces are now fair game to be replaced.

New ADICT Triptych at the Pit

Replacing the Easter Triptych by ADICT that had been gone over in the past few weeks - three new pieces went up Sunday at the Lower Water Street Parking Lot.

Three New Pieces in the Pit

ADICT/SENSAY's new piece at the pit was short lived (less than a month), covered up last week by a pile of maple leaves, along with two other new pieces, all just painted over the old without a new base coat.





However ADICT was busy in the pit again this weekend. More on that soon...

Every Picture Tells A Story (Don't It?)

As Rod Stewart says - every picture tells a story - and the story I see here is on about drips. ZOMBIE did his throw-up in black and white, but with alot of drips (which I have seen called 'the mark of the toy' elsewhere) - some of which may have been deliberate, some of which (the blurred borders between black and white) are perhaps sloppy. Someone (DOPE3 to judge by the shade of orange used) felt the need to give ZOMBIE some constructive feedback about the quality of his technical skills.

Is this the only possible story - Of course not, but it's the one I like best, unless the whole piece was ZOMBIE's post-modern deconstruction of drips and their role in Graffiti.