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I'm only an eighth korean, but here's my advice.
Step one: Forget about your past. Start over. As of today, you are a new person. Dress nice, wear nice shoes, be a nice person. Don't be a poser, be a genuinely nice guy who wants to learn from people. This gets you far in any circle worth being in, especially with heads. Get a job. Paint and style are expensive.
Step two: Try to find some writers in your area, and begin to take in your area's style. Learn good can control, study a bit of art, learn color theory/light theory, etc. http://www.12ozprophet.com/
Step three: DO NOT LET YOUR PARENTS FIND OUT YOU WRITE IF YOU BEGIN TO WRITE. Really, it's not good to let anyone at all know, except for people in the scene - and even then, only when they're dope and wanna write with you (or vice versa - but usually, when some random kid comes up to you and is like "man you're dope we should write", unless they have sick letters or are a known name, usually it's not that cool). Keeping what you write secret is good when you're starting out. After you get arrested a couple of times (it WILL happen), it's more acceptable to let your name out, but until then, keep it on the down-low.
Step four: Get a pair of dope shoes.
Step five: Practice. Find a crew. Get your name out there. Graffiti is a lifestyle, not a hobby. If you don't have the time and dedication, both you and graffiti will be better off without each other.
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On February 13 2007 17:13 x_woof_x wrote:
god., thank you for understanding, but of course im [strike]not[/strike] gona work at kfc all my life, im planing on a career in art.
Fixed.
You should plan on an acting career. At least then you'll make a little more money from tips.
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On February 14 2007 04:19 pr0n wrote:Show nested quote +On February 13 2007 17:13 x_woof_x wrote:
god., thank you for understanding, but of course im [strike]not[/strike] gona work at kfc all my life, im planing on a career in art.
Fixed. You should plan on an acting career. At least then you'll make a little more money from tips.
do you even have an inkling as to how difficult it is to be in acting? there are so many different factors at play - you have to meet the right people, the right setting, the right environment, then after all the administrative business, then maybe you'll get a contract. acting is so much more difficult, than say, studies.
so many people want to go into acting without realizing the true reality of what it means to act.
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Thats why he said it because making profit with art is just as difficult.
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Well, welcome to the sad fact of life for 99 percent of Americans: we aren't free, we don't actively decide how we live, we are all mostly the same, and to resist that is to go against the whole of society. In short, it is very difficult to change.
But I commend you for having an interest in trying... and trying to think outside the box.
On the other hand, and this is based around my personal views and tastes, it strikes me that you seem to care a lot about fashion and building an identity through symbols such as various kinds of fashion, and various cliques/subcultures. That is a disease that plagues the modern typical consumer robot.
Still, you are on the right track! If studying isn't getting it for you... don't do it! You don't need highschool and you certainly don't need college... not unless you are addicted to the idea of a consumer lifestyle that they try to force feed us through bullshit media and... well, everything else.
Drop out of school and get a GED. Search for interesting groups/people through the internet. Work if you like, but a valuable skill... if you don't want to play the game, is learning how to not buy anything that you do not need. Learn to give up attachments to objects, such as cars, "entertainment", and so forth.
Well, maybe that is a start. Probably I am building up my own way more than anything... but perhaps it is encouraging to hear that other people don't care to play the game either, and they stop trying. The lifestyle I advocate is particularly great for artists. Working 9 - 5 and doing 5 years of college... probably not so great. Here I am, about to finish my degree, and I honestly think that if I had it to do over again, I wouldn't have started.
Well, good luck.
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An introverted, self-described geek asking for advice on how to change his life on TL.net is like an alcoholic trying to figure out how to quit drinking by getting wasted.
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"I just want to live life."
Well, you are living life. Just not the one you want. Understandable.
As for specifying all this image stuff you are into... man, you can't buy satisfaction. You can't buy a meaningful existence. Not with money and not with symbols (such as x shoes and y pants and z car).
Again, kudos on the art, and kudos on wanting to do your own thing. Don't worry about getting there all at once. Just take the steps. You are only 16 (not being condescending here)... just actively take the baby steps to get where you need to be, and try not to feel like there is any huge rush.
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On February 13 2007 22:31 Last Romantic wrote:
buy puma shoes and puma clothes.
then you can be awesome
AND be a KTF fan
AT THE SAME TIME. o_oi
alrdy have those, except im not a KTF fan ^_^
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lol why do ppl think im a geek, do i describe myself that way? maaybe im too harsh in describing myself
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Write songs and pick up instrument.
Happy songs.
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On February 14 2007 21:47 x_woof_x wrote:
lol why do ppl think im a geek, do i describe myself that way? maaybe im too harsh in describing myself
This sentence right here implies that you are none of the things in the latter category, and the first is like about as close to a geek alarm as you can get  .
unfashionable person/no job / plays starcraft all day/ -->
----> dresses nice,especially nice shoes, / have a good job to buy clothes that i cant afford/ know how to do graffiti art/ immerse myself into the community which i would love to be in which are the bboys the sneakerheads, clothe designers.
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Don't be so materialistic? Seems like your goals are to change your outward appearance to other people, but to not actually change anything on the inside.
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