KIND REGRETS | Ep. 4 - TILT - Never Ending Story

http://tilt.thegrifters.org/ ⬆️ Links The conversation between Tilt and Boris covers the origins of his work, how he started, what a throw-up actually is and why it matters, how that practice became the foundation of a serious gallery career, and why it took until now to put it all in a book. - Timestamp Index: 0:00 Legal lazy - how the throw-up gives you permission to repeat yourself forever 0:57 Who is Tilt? 3:55 Toulouse, 1989 - how it started 14:44 Why the letters became round - the birth of the throw-up 17:12 Night vs day - the freedom only a throw-up gives you 22:09 Repeat the shape but the shape changes 28:05 New York 1994 - the moment everything clicked 31:32 365 throw-ups in a year - when the obsession takes over 33:41 Grandma and the birds 42:50 From the street to the studio - how the throw-up became the painting 46:10 Can graffiti and gallery work coexist honestly? 50:00 Staying honest with yourself - what Tilt refuses to do 57:06 Where Tilt draws the line between graffiti and contemporary art 1:00:07 Henry Chalfant - the man who documented where all of this began 1:10:44 The book that took 35 years to earn 1:13:10 I paint. You buff. I paint. You buff. - how the count began 1:19:23 Birth, death, rebirth - how the book is structured 1:21:20 The confession 1:37:49 Caius 1:39:47 Never Ending Story - Standard, Collector and Archive editions - tilt.thegrifters.org