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Pissing Graffiti, AKA why does it have to be this way? [MUSIC/ART]
bobsbarricades
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Hey guys. A while back I started making heavy music. I've always been into it. High School was the prog rock/death metal band. I went to college and started learning how to produce music and someone turned me onto Nine Inch Nails. I guess the rest is history. I've been dealing with cancer for a few years now and that's where Pissing Graffiti comes from.
Free Download/Stream at Bandcamp - http://music.pissinggraffiti.com/
I've always been pretty discontent with the world. The way people act, the way things are. I guess going through what I did just made me apathetic towards consequence. I've gotten some terrible reviews and some nicer ones, but they can't get past the NIN sound which, yes is hugely inspiring for me, but isn't the source of me.
I also work a lot with other artists (yay college) and love working outside of my medium. I designed the logo, album art, etc.. and would love feedback as far as that goes (facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/notsopg).
I struggle with finding it's identity in the world; the music and the purpose. On purpose. I donate 50% of all my meager profit to charity. It's small now but if I can ever make a living with this I'll be able to increase my impact. I look forward to working with kiva.org, but more importantly using tours as a means to impact the community I'm performing in. Have graffiti contests in the downtown areas. Introduce non-destructive types of street art. Work with community building programs and donate to them as well. 50%. Always.
So give me thoughts on the music, the art, the site. It's on Tumblr so feel free to follow if you're on there. The Socialize tab has all my other social places. Thinking about deleting MySpace...i mean do I really want people to go there to begin with? just more space =/
have a blessed one!
Free Download/Stream at Bandcamp - http://music.pissinggraffiti.com/
I've always been pretty discontent with the world. The way people act, the way things are. I guess going through what I did just made me apathetic towards consequence. I've gotten some terrible reviews and some nicer ones, but they can't get past the NIN sound which, yes is hugely inspiring for me, but isn't the source of me.
I also work a lot with other artists (yay college) and love working outside of my medium. I designed the logo, album art, etc.. and would love feedback as far as that goes (facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/notsopg).
I struggle with finding it's identity in the world; the music and the purpose. On purpose. I donate 50% of all my meager profit to charity. It's small now but if I can ever make a living with this I'll be able to increase my impact. I look forward to working with kiva.org, but more importantly using tours as a means to impact the community I'm performing in. Have graffiti contests in the downtown areas. Introduce non-destructive types of street art. Work with community building programs and donate to them as well. 50%. Always.
So give me thoughts on the music, the art, the site. It's on Tumblr so feel free to follow if you're on there. The Socialize tab has all my other social places. Thinking about deleting MySpace...i mean do I really want people to go there to begin with? just more space =/
have a blessed one!
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[ps, how do I embed?]
http://blog.pissinggraffiti.com/socialize
My host guys are telling me it's my problem but... =/ works on other comps in network, mobile devices, and this computer was just freshly reinstalled.
Of course, if you like NIN, this is somewhat correct, but the remix of the kid cudi/snoop song tells me theres more influence than that. (I actually really like the remix) I dont really know how to talk about music without my own personal bias, because I know nothing about the technical aspects of it, so sorry if this is of no help at all.
Art wise, the video does nothing for me. I love the album cover, but I think you went overboard on the distortion for the website banner.
If you like more ambient stuff you might like the last two tracks (don't know if you got that far). yea, I get a lot of people tell me the same reaction you had. Angry 90's =/ lol. I'm workin on it though!
You're right there are a lot more influences; from Bian Eno to Slipknot and MIA. My brother tells me I need to listen to more MIA and see how I could incorporate some of that sound too.
And the web banner 0.o agreed. I think I'm going to go back to just this - http://cl.ly/0N0X0x1d0X3q3H1X371v and change the menu buttons and background. I wanted it to be strange, and had the idea to change it all the time but... eh bad is bad and it's been bugging me.
Again, thanks for your input! It's really appreciated.
Also - on ambient, I do other stuff under my own name - which I hesitate tying together with my forum name but...I'll PM you
Do you have photoshop or illustrator? I would try and make a vector of the original handwritten pissing graffiti
And thanks for the link, I like the set they have on Soundcloud. Must buy! but the ninja shop is down!
I use Drawberry because it's free (and pixlr.com for editing) and I get by I think..not as easy as CS3. I designed the album art with my mouse in Illustrator CS3 on my friends comp so I still have the .ai and it opens in drawberry but...as a flat background and I can't do anything with it.
you sound like you have an idea
http://cl.ly/031k1o1j153M2I1g0p20
on actual site - http://cl.ly/46273t1b3T3W2k2P100Q
I think i like the black background a lot better. But that'd mean changing the tiled background...figure something out. maybe just plain black...
store - not really finished. - http://www.reverbnation.com/store/artist_470177 (don't know if I will if I can't use a custom domain =/)