So Elsewhere’s Brief Wondrous Spot on the Wall
A young fan, did us a big honor; For a day in Berlin, So Elsewhere made a brief but massive entrance into the graffiti scene.
The reader, John Garcia, who is responsible for our wondrous bleep into the street art world, tells the story best. Below is the (slightly edited) email he sent So Elsewhere:
“Basically, since you can tell this whole piece was pretty big, I ended up going over a lot of people’s stuff. I guess these guys painted there yesterday, came back to check on their pieces, and freaked the f*ck out when they saw me painting the wall. They came up and tried to take all my paint (10 cans? 12?) and I think they were also planning to beat the sh*t out of me. Luckily, my mom was there. Usually this would be a bad thing, but her insane gestures added some comedy to the situation, so these guys got confused at the absurdity and fleed the crime scene.
The Lowdown:
These two thirty year old guys came up and grabbed my paint, started cussing me out in German, and walked towards my backpack to take my sh*t. Out of nowhere, my mom appears screaming. She follows her loud introduction by swan-diving onto my backpack so they couldn’t grab my pack. As soon as she landed on the bag she started begging in a combination of languages (she switched between Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese and English) for them to have mercy.
Anyways, the guys were so confused by my mom’s performance that they both left. As they were leaving one of them yelled, “I’m gonna come back and stab you!”. I finished before he came back, so I am without a stab wound to back up the sincerity of his claim.
But! the one can that he ripped from my hand.. was the red. The rest of the cans were blacks/whites/ that i didn’t need, so considering the situation, they still did considerable damage.
These guys were huge b*tches with their panties on too tight. I was painting a legal wall, so you can’t expect your sh*t to last more than ten minutes. In their case, their piece had already run a full day. By the time I finished this piece, there was already another guy there with 20 or so spray cans, waiting to paint the wall after me. The tuff guys had claimed they were really famous in Berlin. I’m assuming that they are not famous.
