Nothing Personal (2007 film)

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You’re doing a good thing. I mean making the video... Shit, we... We have all the equipment, but we couldn’t make such video of how we draw all the time... Well, so, you can make a cool video... If you will make something proper... You will make some cutting, yes? Yes, because now in general we don’t want to prove something. We don’t protest. We have developed to such an extent that we make graffiti just for ourselves. And we don’t care about any magazines any videos. You’re just an exclusuion because it is just today. A lot of people refer this to such teen’s hobby... Think that now we are young, draw this and then will get a family, a wife, a car, all these. And that’s all. Some people think that it’s very absurd... That guy in his 25 and 30 writes on walls. In most cases the city takes damage with ugly tags. This is the art of low form and low genre And there's nothing wrong with that. It just frames, where graffiti exists. And for a long time nobody invited us to graffiti festivals because people thought that we are making 'not cool things'. You need to know everybody. If you know everybody, if you drank brotherhood with everybody then everything is ok, you got the wave. People don’t drink here. It’s not a college. We are making real business here. We don’t drink. C’mon! In general. All dopes are connected with graffiti culture. Not only the alcohol. But I think you should cut it. More precisely is that graffiti is the best alternative to all other things, like drugs and all other shit. I draw because fir-trees grow. So thats why a lot of people are puzzled when they see on the street a drawing man, yeah... They don’t understand, this men on the streets, I mean... First, they don’t understand, what’s going on, Second, why anybody needs it. Unfortunately, first response is rather negative... Some people say like 'Your pictures are mad', they say like 'I feel seek of them'. If to compare Moscow with foreign cities, like with Berlin or Rome. They have total destroy. I mean... There you can understand why do people hate graffiti. We have very blank city, in this sense. And it’s not only my opinion. A lot of european guys think the same, who come and ask me: 'Zmogk, Moscow is an enormous city! A lot of artists! Why is it so clean? What’s the reason?'. And what can I answer? That not so many people draw here? Or our government is so careful... If we look on Moscow. This is really clean city. For people who say: 'We got a mess here!'... We really don’t have anything like this! We don’t have any dirt! Everything’s clean! I mean, here and there are some tags. but you can’t go away from that, yeah... your aim is to make tags everywhere, to make people see your name, that guys who draw and the girls who draw — to make them to see that you exist, that they exist, that everything changes, but... In the Internet you can be cool, you can be the king. And when people come to the city, they see everything as it is who draws and what does he draw. It will be enough to visit hall of fame or to walk around the city, just to understand, what’s going and who is who. And he started to tell me about respect and that it should be known, that we draw for a long time and now newbies come... And I say: 'And who would say that they shouldn’t do it? Because nobody pay for it or buy it...'. For example, when people got cought Everybody asks: 'Why do you do it?'... 'Give us your money! You got money for that!'. 'Somebody pays you for that! So you can draw and spoil!'. I just want to say that it is not like that at all. Nobody pays us, nobody pays us to draw on the trains to draw in the city, on fences or shops. Nobody pays. That’s the main Russian problem. Foreign artists... We talked to a lot of them — they don’t have such problem. I mean they make their works and people buy it. They don’t think about money. Here — everybody thinks about money, about how to exchange some breakfast for an extra can just to create something new. Young graffiti artists who think 'I will make money doing my favorite things'. They won’t get any money for doing their favorite things. And I can say that graffiti culture starts to be starling when it becomes self-sacrifice. Because if a person don’t sacrifice, when a person is just a consumer, he loses initially. And all in all it gives you unforgettable drive. You just have some memories, if you think about graffiti like an amusement. (speakers) Be careful, the doors are closing (speakers) Next stop 'Mayakinino'. (speakers) Platform on the right.