#theres a spraycan!

[ask-liam-p]

Do you see anyone?

[darkvioletwonderland]

𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒍 Headcanons - ᴅᴀᴛᴇꜱ <3

Because I enjoyed doing these the first time, so second times the charm!

Ezreal

Before even going out on a date, he makes sure the place he's taking you has excellent reviews.

Always takes you out to places where the two of you can take pictures and have a good time. Be it restaurants with spectacular interior design or places with amazing views.

Throughout the date, he will comment on how amazing you look and how it means to him that you came along.

At the end, he will always lets you be the one to review the place. Because to him, being with you is a 5 star experience.

Kayn

He enjoys taking you to places you've never been before, even if those places are sometimes behind warning signs.

He often likes to have dates where you two can have fun. Usually those are picking up spraycans and making fun graffiti.

With these dates also comes with eating gas station snacks and just talking about whatever the two of you enjoy listening to recently.

In the end, he walks home with you. Enjoying the stars by your side.

K'sante

When it comes to dates, he absolutely goes all out for you.

He makes sure to tidy up the place enough so you two can spend a nice evening home. Spending most of the time in the kitchen cooking. (He makes note of all your favorite meals)

He's a gift giver. So while you enjoy your meal, he presents you with a gift.

After the nice dinner, you two enjoy a movie. But the movie always goes unseen as the amazing food makes the two of you take a nap every time.

Aphelios

Dates are not his strongest suit, but he does take attention to detail seriously.

He likes being close to you while you two are on a date, latching arms together or hand holding with you. Even if its to walk through the city and get a cup of coffee.

When you two cross an arcade machine with a prize, he does everything in his power to win the prize for you.

And by doing everything in his power, he means googling cheatcodes to the machine and getting the prize in the end.

Sett

Dates are surprisingly pretty casual for him. He doesn't need much if all that needs to happen is for you to be there with him.

He loves having picnics with you at the local park, eating whatever his mom packed for the two of you. (He does tell his mother all your favorite snacks)

He enjoys listening to you read a book to him or just talking to him while he rests his head on your lap.

On the walk home, he scurries off to pick up flowers to bring to you. And by the time you get home, you have an entire bouquet.

Yone

When it comes to dates, he likes having plans to a degree. Always leaving space for change of plans if there are any.

Most times, taking you to beautiful high end restaurants. Spoiling you a little bit all the while.

He drives you around the city when he knows theres lightshows across town, all for you to be able to see.

He likes to end the night along with you sitting on a roof top looking at the stars.

[dailyoyo]

you know . fascinated by the trajectory of og jsr like "the supernatural is not real the demon recodr does NOT work" and then in jsrf there is like. some minor straight up magic shit going on.

like. even whatever the hell the tower had going on aside (which could just be really nonspecific advanced techno-nonsense. even if it feels magic-flavored) theres ingame dialogue that takes gameplay mechanics literally. like spraypaint is the Soul Of The Streets as in There Are Spraycans Spawning For Unknown (Spiritual??) Reasons. this is without even taking into account spraypaint in future beig able to DEFEAT ANYTHING bc that is definitely gameplay/story separation but what EVER maybe you can defeat cops by wielding naturally occurring cans of concentrated urban soul. which is both really silly but also fucking rules

and what the fuck is a graffiti soul. like theyre just vague collectibles in og jsr but in future clutch STEALS THEM so they are some kind of Real Physical Metaphysical Object that you can take WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY. i know it's not that deep but its hilarious to think about to me. Magic is real but only for rudies.

[smoke-ea-graffiti-blog]

“Samara Graffiti Mural”

[sianlwhitfield-blog]

Carlisle born and bred street artist talks tiles, truths and tatty spraycan cats.

Sitting in a gem of a Carlisle café, I wait for the mysterious ‘PAZ’. It dawns on me that, as I found him and got in touch online, I have no idea what he looks like, nor him me. By the time he comes through the door, I have awkwardly smiled at about three different people before they sit down with their coffees – quite a few tables away – leaving me looking like a melon. When he does comes in (and thank god its him this time), wearing a talking heads t-shirt (so at least he’s good taste in music), he comes across a little shy, but once we get talking, that all dissipates. Talking about his work, his wife, his life in general he becomes ever more animated, giving away how passionate he is about all of it, including his tiles.

In my first year of university, exploring a new city, trying to ‘adult’ and figure out exactly why anyone ever moves away from the comforts of home, I came across one of these tiles stuck to a bridge on my walk home. A small, black and white image of a building, with the letters P. A. Z. hand written underneath.  I hadn’t noticed it before on any of my many trudges through the rain from tescos back to my home-from-home of the student halls I was staying in. I snapped a quick photo, and posted it to Instagram; Found this today, anybody know anything about it?. Evidently, nobody did, as my question went unanswered (and to this day, that insta only has 2 likes. 2.).  However, wandering around the city, I started to notice them elsewhere; corners of windows, stuck to street signs, hidden in back lanes. It drove me mad. How was it possible that they were everywhere, yet nobody seemed to know anything about them? I asked people who’d lived in Carlisle all their lives (what tiles?) and looked incessantly online. Eventually it was through Instagram and by happy accident I found the account @paz1971, and met PAZ. I’d already decided I wanted to do a project on the tiles, and messaged the account to ask about it.

Part time street artist and full time chef, ‘PAZ’ is just an alias. “As far as ‘PAZ’ goes, I like to keep it anon.” I ask about the local radio station, who recently launched a small scale hunt to find the man behind the tiles. Why say no to them but be happy to meet with me? “I didn’t want to be part of all that  - the ‘carlisle gossip mill’ – nothings going to come from that. It’ll have the neighbours talking, a bit of slagging off, nothing else. What would it do? This project, it could lead to something. It sounded interesting.”

I ask him about how, or maybe why he started his tiles. He laughs. “Well, that depends! Er, I guess, how in depth do you want me to go?” They started with a love of photography; “Landscape photography. That’s my area, that’s what I love. In another life, that’s what I’d do.” But by losing his camera and equipment in the floods that devastated Carlisle in 2015, landscape photography, or at least to the quality he aspired, was suddenly out of reach. “it took me about three years to get anything back. It started again with the launch of the iphone, believe it or not!”.  It also stemmed from the need for a distraction, or an escape; “I was an alcoholic. It came with the trade I’m afraid. It happens a lot in my line of work. I could have had half a bottle of vodka, right now, and you wouldn’t even tell. Over the past ten years, it’s been a lot about finding myself again. I have found I have a very addictive personality, so decided I just had to find something else to replace the alcohol.” Talking about the secrecy of his alcoholism, I draw a similarity between that and the need to keep PAZ so secret. “Er, maybe. I don’t know. It’s a lot of things really. There’s a lot of reasons for why I do it. I’ve got to do something – I can’t still be doing this [working as a chef] in ten years time – I’ll be knackered!”

Curious as to how he makes his tiles, his process, I ask him and he turns bashful – “I’m going to have to tell you, or my Mrs will kill me. She made these coasters as a present for my sister for her birthday; we got these pictures off of facebook and she turned them into coasters by sticking them to tiles and glazing them. I thought, actually that’s really clever, and kind of stole it! I have her to thank!” speaking of family, of his work and how he does it, he has found an eclectic method to fund it. Mortgages have to be paid, and bills can’t be ignored, so funding for his work can’t affect his family life financially in any way. “I started collecting 20 pence pieces. Just saving them up – you don’t notice saving 20p away. I have about £150 saved so far, for the next lot  of tiles – hopefully they’ll be up soon!”  But up where? “When I first started doing them, I was kind of stupid. I was putting them up in in really obvious places. Right in your face. They would either get taken down straight away, or someone would come along and nick them – I only used to use a little dot of glue to fix them up, so they would be easy to just pop off. I used to take pictures of a place and stick them smack bang in the middle of the same place. I’ve learned; I’ve gotten more subtle since then.” How subtle can you really be though, sticking tiles up in very public places? “I’ve not been caught – yet. There was one outside of café nero – its gone now, I stuck it right on the doorway – I’d managed to get the resin on the back and got it on the wall, and was leaning against it, having a fag trying to get it to stick. Theres this group of kids hanging about, and I just knew they were going to bloody ask me for one. I’m trying to act all nonchalant, but every time I move, the tile moves a little bit. It’s a strong resin, but it takes a while to set, and every time it moves I think ‘I’m going to end up stuck to this wall. The resins going to stick to my jacket,! But no, I got away with that. Somehow! There was one down on The Pools [leisure centre] too, I’d just done that one, and had wandered back up the road. I could hear sirens in the distance, and started panicking a bit. They were getting closer and closer, I was trying to act casual, but this bloody police car came screeching right round the corner! I just thought, bloody hell, I didn’t think they were that mad about it! They jumped out the car – and walked straight past me. Some kids were messing around in an abandoned building, that was what they were after. I was shaking.”  

Find PAZ’s tiles all over Carlisle, and on Instagram at @paz1971