in my city, it seems the places i find have almost always been found by an artist first. i feel that sometimes a piece can greatly ad to a location. i love coming across a great piece from a local artist. i will agree that there is a lot of childishness that can come with graffiti, like dicks and FUCK written all over the place but most spots worth getting to, wont be filled with these.
95% of my experiences have been positive.

Posted by Intrinsic I'll leave this here for y'all. http://www.livelea...w?i=e71_1422121329 http://www.livelea...w?i=b91_1395695516

That is just so completely wrong. In so many ways.

Posted by frrlk That is just so completely wrong. In so many ways.

Both took place in Brazil where human rights aren't exactly a priority.

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I was exploring an old furniture store/maker with a female friend of mine who is not an explorer but wanted me to shower her some stuff, I took her there because the location is already very well known and its pretty blown out.

We're walking through the place and I hear voices coming from the entrance, I told her to hide. She hid in a back room and I walked towards the voices. It was 3 guys with paint and masks. I raised my hand palm out and said "I'm a photographer" they just said "We're painting" I said okay, and I chatted them up a bit and they seemed like alright guys so I went into the room and got the girl out. When they saw her they realized that I had "interviewed" them before letting them know she was with me. I didn't want to get jumped and her get, well..you know.

We watched them work and I took a bunch of pictures, with the same rules as you - No face shots.

Here is a picture from that warehouse, I'll try to find a picture of the guys painting.