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first row:madc. kent: frankfurt / crue. crew: spargelhof

second row:crue. chaos. monkey. canz31: wiesbaden

warz. rake: wiesbadenthird row:

joan. rine. bois. elton. krixl. junek: home sweet home

First of all, let’s play the police officer vs. writer game. We need the

following information for our (fancy-)files:

- Your tag? HULK ‒ VS team- Where are you from?Brussels, Belgium- For how long have you been writing graffiti? At which age did you

start?I have started when I was 14 years old, but for security reasons I

can’t say my age.- What’s your prefered surface to paint on?

Metal. Especially subways.

Why the name HULK? Was it because of the letters or have you

been that impressed by the green man?

Because I searched for a new name when I came back from a trip

to Holland a long time ago. I wanted it to have the letters H and K

included and after some brainstorming I found this one. Now it’s

forever! BUT the green man is an amazing character, too. Sweet and

furious like me ... Hahahah!

Compared to you, are there any similarities with the real television

HULK? Does your t-shirt sometimes explode from your muscles

when you get angry?Hahaha … yes especially when I get chased.

What makes you angry? Personally and graffiti-related?

Injustice. When the Belgian government spends money for shit, or

takes it for themself, and stuff like that. They prefer more to keep up

the appearances of a good state to other countries than helping Bel-

gian people who are really in need of support. I hate stupid people

with close mentality, too. A lot of stuff makes me angry.

Graffiti-related, I think it is when I do my stuff and I can’t finish it

because I get chased!

Let’s talk about the time when you started writing. Is there a special

situation you remember that brought you into the graffiti thing? How

was the situation in Belgium back then?

Holalala … In the beginning it was amazing, but also strange becau-

se only few writers painted. The yards were really easier, but in 2009

I am again in the same "adrenaline" than years ago. The yards have

changed, but not my approach to do it!

If you think of it right now, what was the best thing you remember

from the times back then, compared to these days?

It’s different now, police knows a lot about graffiti. They check the

yards a lot, ambush writers etc. back then, it was just 1% of their

occupation, now they use more time for graff stuff. It’s normal,

because more writers are in the game! But the best was when I was

doing whole cars anywhere without stress like now ...

What were the names that you have been impressed of? The names

that kept you going on until now. Are there any?

I am impressed by people who do a lot and everywhere, I don’t

understand that. But I can imagine the time they use for travelling,

checking the yard, doing the stuff you have to do etc. When you

have a normal life it’s impossible to do all that. You have to make a

choice, and mine is the normal one.

I have got some names in my head, like BANOS, TAPS, MOSES, …

actually for doing what they do, with quantity and quality. You wake

up really early!!!

Tell us a little about the graffiti scene in Belgium today. Is it still a big

movement?

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