The Wall!

Life at CKP's great fun! Then there's also all the fun outside college like side projects if I may call them that! Got the chance to do some art work for a film (Lucky Bastards) and I was all up for it when I came to know that what we had to do was Graffiti!!!!! Yup, total excitement and all!! The place turned out to be a garage at Hebbal, no... Kodigehalli, no... Sahakarnagar! Yes that was it!!!! 10 people were required but only 3 of us friends ended up doing the work! Why do people back out?! Tsk, Tsk...!!!!

The rain was pouring everytime we had to travel and I ended up wet all the time. Ginelle and Dhvani, my partners in crime were better off :P!
The first day we went to check out the place... you know... understand the route and all! Once we got there we were asked to give the wall a "Druggie Adda Look". Anyway, the first day the three of us finished the basic pencil work of the headline text "Herb Shop"! The director asked us to give it a splattered look.

The second day, we completed the paint work and "Herb Shop" was ready! Yippee- ka - Yay!!!! Dhvani couldn't make it that day. So Ginelle and I had to split the work amongst ourselves. The paint job was great fun. At college we aren't yet allowed to use paint and here we were, Painting on a Wall (Asian Paints that too)!!!!!! That was something! I was slow as usual while Ginelle finished letter after letter real easy! She did panic a lot though when the paint dripped! LOL!!!

Then came the best part!

There was this switchboard bang in the middle of the wall and we were asked to use it in the concept! Ginelle came up with the idea of a skull, but one with a switchboard for brains! LOL!!! I know it sounds crazy, but once it was finished, we were told it was cool! Hell, ok... it did look cool! We added some cracks and wires popping out and out of the mouth came a cigarette that blew smoke eventually forming the "O" of "Herb Shop". Again, we just finished the pencil work of the skull.

Then the trio made its return on the third and final day to complete the entire wall. The paint went in. This time we were all real fast! We did end up messing up the smoke but after some turpentine finish it looked smokey! We were to add extra text too, 'Pro- Drug Use' one liners and stuff. The director wasn't sure about what text could go up there and so he asked us to come up with our own stuff... anything that stuck with the concept. So I came up with one- liners such as 'Take that Pill, Smoke the Weed', 'High, But Still Not There', 'Junkhead', 'Up For It Punk?', 'Them Veins All Loaded', 'Dope Fiend', etc. Dhvani came up with the cool idea of a fist with the index finger pointing at the veiwer, over which she added the word 'Rebel'. She followed it up with the other text giving them the punk look. Ginelle experimented with different fonts on 'Wicked', 'Creep' and the earlier mentioned 'T.V.A.L'. After the text-paint job, our work was done and the snaps taken!

It was a great experience and the fact that I had my friends for company was cool.


PS:- So who you gonna call?