I remember my first "professional" attempts(if it ain't blasphemous calling them that) at writing anything dangerously close to that fine line between sanity and the other, darker side was when i was in college. Back then, I had it all; a personal collection of all the blackboard graffitiing essentials. A quantity of chalk pieces that can run the primary education in India for half a decade, two and a half dusters(would have had 3, had the dumb thing not got stuck in a door), and a near impeccable sense of timing required to finish a board-full of graffiti between the time everybody has left after the last lecture of the day and the time the security person comes to lock the classroom. I've had lots of justmadeits i tell ya!
I used to leave a signature for my graffiti too, like all lunatics, criminals and superheroes(not that they write graffiti;i meant the signature here). Well, that leaves us with the obvious question of which category do i belong to, the discussion of which we will leave for lazy Monday morning 9ams.
Coming back to the graffiti thing, boy, it was real fun...Not just the writing part, but also the part where i saw people's feelings metamorphosize from "Hey, who wrote that? that's funny!" to "Hmmm OK, its kinda good.Now if only he cares to clean up the next day morning..." to "This is getting irritating...Who does he think he is, P.G.Wodehouse?" to "Man, this is too much. This guy sucks. He needs to get a life, some sense and without doubt, a few kicks on his rear!". Sure. First thing in the morning if i were the person asked by my Prof to clean a blackboard full of what is some jerk's bad idea of a supposedly "creative" orgy, i wouldn't have had too many affectionate feelings myself. And i didn't even get started about what I'd be feeling for that Proffie here!
Anyways, that was my college life.....4 years of vulgar fun and a handful of people who wanted my blood on their hands. It was good while it lasted, i swear!
Once out of college, there were no blackboards and not much of an audience either. So the urge for such moronic writings gradually weaned off...
p.s: This blogger is known for over-dramatising situations. The reason why this point is mentioned only as a post-script is obvious!
I used to leave a signature for my graffiti too, like all lunatics, criminals and superheroes(not that they write graffiti;i meant the signature here). Well, that leaves us with the obvious question of which category do i belong to, the discussion of which we will leave for lazy Monday morning 9ams.
Coming back to the graffiti thing, boy, it was real fun...Not just the writing part, but also the part where i saw people's feelings metamorphosize from "Hey, who wrote that? that's funny!" to "Hmmm OK, its kinda good.Now if only he cares to clean up the next day morning..." to "This is getting irritating...Who does he think he is, P.G.Wodehouse?" to "Man, this is too much. This guy sucks. He needs to get a life, some sense and without doubt, a few kicks on his rear!". Sure. First thing in the morning if i were the person asked by my Prof to clean a blackboard full of what is some jerk's bad idea of a supposedly "creative" orgy, i wouldn't have had too many affectionate feelings myself. And i didn't even get started about what I'd be feeling for that Proffie here!
Anyways, that was my college life.....4 years of vulgar fun and a handful of people who wanted my blood on their hands. It was good while it lasted, i swear!
Once out of college, there were no blackboards and not much of an audience either. So the urge for such moronic writings gradually weaned off...
p.s: This blogger is known for over-dramatising situations. The reason why this point is mentioned only as a post-script is obvious!
3 comments:
Get a cape and an Eastman Color Underwear and we have our own Graffitiman :)
Welcome to blogosphere and heres to hoping that you use all those bitti bytes and bits for the betterment of humanity .
Yamen :)
Hey I hate to admit but I am a great fan of all your graffiti..It takes a lot of courage to write graffiti on the black board..remember some specimens we had( oops sorry lecturers)..
Hail PFC, PGC and PMC!!
( full forms are best left to ur imagination)..
schumi the great, starting ur blog is the best thing u've done this year! I used to always wonder "why the hell this creative guy is not into blogging"!!!! Am sure u will go a long way with this....all the best man!
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