Shit Shot interview

2021. Jul. 1. | Interviews

Shit Shot

Shit Shot an interesting color spot in the Hungarian graffiti life. His quirky character repeatedly gets involved in exciting adventures, which the artist captures in various interesting places. Every single area of life has an inspiring effect on him.

How long have you been painting?

Well, let me start from a slightly different direction! You, who will now read my lines, I wish you to have a good time for these few minutes, and if possible, laugh! ..but if your mouth is full of milk, press a button and put it out in the sun! I first came up with my current name in 2009. The earlier periods are not worth mentioning, although still approx. (for me) they weren't even under this name for 4 years. Well, you have to shake it, huh!:D

Where did the stage name come from?

Haha, approx. brought by the Danube. I walked with one of my friends over the then still Lágymányosi Bridge and I remember we went there to paint the underpass, so suddenly we needed a name, it was the old Fullgagyi. He was born when he reached the middle of the bridge. The other is Shit-Shot! and a kind of pun. In fact, there is never a perfect state in my opinion, and nothing in the world is permanent. It's a flow that seems to work. A whimsical one-man movement.

How did this style develop and what would you call it?

Haha, sometimes my Manócskás jump out of the pages of a picture book, sometimes a little beyond the world, sometimes a little beyond the solar system. Always something new and as elementary as possible, out of your own instincts. 85% improvising, processing the bouquets of feelings on the way to the wall or just those that work in me the day before or on the day of the drawing.. By no means a mass-produced item and my previous stuff is always a little destroyed, i.e. renewed... although improv is as exciting as it is binding. the hand.

It often happens that I make my stuff up to the contour and then I hold and re-draw it all to make a much, much more flattering and looser pout for me. At this time, the others either laugh or turn their faces away because they think it was good.. :DD that's how it is. Anyway, approx. this year I feel for the first time that I am putting on the wall what I really want to see there. It's been 12 years, yeah! :D

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Who or what inspires you most to create?

Wow. I don't think I'm always in control of my ideas. I believe that there is some higher-order invisible Divine Power that sometimes helps if you ask it well and "flashes" ideas. Let me tell you one such behind-the-scenes secret: The night before the roller coaster race, I raced a girl on the boulevard (she didn't knock me down, but I enjoyed speeding up). He was with an old-school four-row scooter, and I was with a bico and I just watched how beautifully and airily it glided on the concrete. Then I got home to Little Family, bed. I woke up with no idea. Humming in the morning shower, and suddenly (I don't know where) the Pressure after! I started humming the music of the movie. At the beginning of it, isn't it, Terence Hill is almost swept away by the trucker Bud Spencer.. and the whole party gets fucked. After that, on the way to the guys, the picture came together and I sketched the set in the heat.

So I don't consciously control it (it's often the subconscious that throws it up), but I'm open and I let the horses of creation into my castle, so to speak, to tame them-haha. Patience creates stuff. On a more material level, if we look at it, a trip, open air, a good conversation with friends or, for example, (more recently) pictures from antique or bygone eras and the atmosphere they can sometimes bring. But even a lousy UFO book about Kálvin for 500.

Is there a graffiti group you are a member of?

Wow! DGK Crew is the cornerstone! This is also a huge thumbs up for Truck!:)) Currently, RoughColorinG is spinning better. He is a family thoroughbred with an Italian temperament in the stud!.. and a new breeze is the Chrome Space - movement. And this is a silver-clad space cruiser. It is currently still in the troposphere, moving towards the infinity of the universe!

Illegal or legal painting?

Haa-haa.

Over the years, have you had any confrontations with the authorities?

Wow, when I was 16 years old, I was thinking of applying to the association. The target would have been a detective or crime scene investigator. ..no matter how wildly romantic the system is, it would have turned into a confrontation. 

What inspired you in the past and what still motivates you now?

The beginning was given by the generation that had already walked quite a few laps before me. Our kitchen window faced the old Barossi wall. As a child, I watched a small van-like car pull up and Base jammed with his friends from morning to sundown on the railway side, but I watched the stuff with binoculars from the balcony, and we went out to throw sips and collect caps and cans. We never screwed up the teacups, there was a little graff instructor friend who knew the etiquette from inside circles.

Then (and here I will bring up the invisible hands again) when I entered the room of one of my friends at the time (the previously mentioned junior cadet) when I was in the third grade, the sight unfolded in front of me and I got the certain atmosphere that I think is why I still do it today. In his brother's apartment, photos of trains and walls were pinned everywhere, and there were cans lined up on top of the TV. LBC - Asta. ..and those certain hands made it so that today we drive our horses together in the RCG stud! - it's funny. What still heats the iron is the fire of development. Always a little "destroyed by my former self." I look forward to the future..

Do you see graffiti as a hobby or a livelihood?

Hoobiii. If an order comes in, of course I'm happy to meet it, there have been quite a few examples of that. However, elementary motivational graphs (letters) are just a hobby. Illustrations and graphics are a different matter. For example, I have a custom-designed t-shirt collection on the horizon, only for faces with a beating heart for grafflow. Regardless of race, sex and religion.

There are quite expensive financial costs for creating a single drawing. How can you finance these?

I'm a rock star!

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Was there a part of your life that made you feel like giving up?

One day at a time, when I felt like the world was falling. As an emotional writer, it is sometimes difficult to get by! :D

What do you think about graffiti?

Well, wow. Eastern European graffiti artists unite! Out of the sandbox, down with the pear shapes, trashvonik hysterics...:D Now I'm quoting Idar and what he once asked me: "Has the light shone through the hole in your ass?" .." ..that question was a guideline then, thanks Faterz! (:

How do you see the current situation of the subculture here in Hungary?

Hajtunk-hajtunk! Össze kéne fogni a ménest mert kicsit szétszaladtak a lovak basszus. Magazint, könyvet, igényes filmeket! Alkossatok! ..na meg a “graffkódexet” letenni. Sajna vagy nem sajna azt a könyvet már becsukták. Ködös fogalmazás level 100 😀 Beszélgettünk egyszer a szcéna első úttörőivel egy borgőzös karácsonyi bulin egy közös munka után. Csak csóválták a fejüket, hogy hová fajult – manapság a legtöbb writer peaces inkább, nincsenek háborúk, mint régen. Is-is szerintem.

Most memorable blowout?

Wow, we pitched our tents opposite the standing ones and after the blow we fell out of the depot in Zagreb drunkenly laughing out loud, the Roma stood in line for us along the trash in Belgrade, then moving with them (because they stole the trains while avoiding the carts) we got to the blow. Pure NatGeo. ..but there was also the case that in a big city in France, alone in a semi-underground depot, we walked head-to-head with a rat between trains. He was running on the thick, undulating cable bundles of the retaining wall, and I was walking with a backpack in my hand to blow. Success of course. Somewhere they are all unforgettable, but the irons are the real ones and the solo parties. Or both at the same time. I also have a travel action-comedy film, 3 years' worth of material, capturing all the foreign (7 countries) so far. I might even publish it someday.

What has this subculture given you over the years?

Rain, wind, sunlight, - but the taffeta still lasts - countless full moons, starry skies, barking dogs, mother's encouragement, beers, friends, kilometers, runs, good photos, hot and cold... I think I can be grateful. That is why I would like to further develop this fucking science!

What would you say to those who are just getting to know the genre?

Break the "code" and focus on yourself. Get to know your true being and bring out your real sweaty real you! If you're not in love, leave.

Who would you like to thank?

Elsősorban Anyunak és Apunak a tinikorban átvirrasztott éjszakáikért. Pacsi ennek a már oly sokszor emlegetett kéznek, s Neked is, ki ezen soraim olvasod épp!:)) ..a többiek pedig tudják, hogy only megy a mosoly!.. Most megyek fújok egy lovat. Meghozta az interjú.. 😀

Shit Shot ikonikus karaktere sokaknak mosolyt csal az arcára mikor meglátják. Olyan, mint egy rajfilm sorozat főhőse, mindig valami új kalandba keveredik. Mindig más témába építed be. Hol szörnyek ellen harcoló hős lovag, hol éppen egy laza görkoris életét maxon élvező srác. 😀

How did you come up with the idea? 

I was moaning in bed at home with a fever of about 39 degrees, covered in blankets up to my neck and thinking that I should have my own character. It's kind of fitting, isn't it? ..and boom. I sat up and drew it. Two days later (still in a rather dilapidated state) I went out to make the first one. All this happened in 2017. I believe that the feverish-sweaty shivering opened some kind of gate where the little friend arrived! – haha.

How do you choose a location for your drawings? 

Lately, I have started to compose in such a way that the stuff is prepared together with the photo and takes its final form, and also reflects the atmosphere of the given place back to the viewer. A few years ago I noticed a kind of "error" in the system. Several of us were outside in an abandoned factory, when, after photographing my stuff, I noticed that the same small pieces of cut-off sheet metal were lying all over the ground as those that make up the elements of the background. 

As soon as I became aware of this, a memory image flashed during the making of the thing, that I glanced at those small blue plates, but did not attach any particular importance to them, I continued painting... and here my mouth pulled into a smile, saying, "Damn!" - the subconscious flow works, i.e. you "become a place" without noticing and you can translate it into your own graph language. Of course, all this in calmer conditions. ..and by all means be extravagant!

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Do you have a favorite part of drawing? 

The trance state caused by focusing! Totally higher vibration level. That's my favorite part haha!

Do you prefer to blow alone or in a group?

I really like to create together with my friends, but also alone just as much. The most spontaneous lucky situations or great discoveries happen at this time...that is, alone. Of course, I have that partner with whom I can feel as if I were alone. It is also a very lucky state.

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