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Shriiimp - Interview 2007/2008

We found Shriiimp from endless hours of work dedicated to us from our Entertainment correspondent Tim Carter. How he found them, only the Devil knows. He has his sources and we don’t ask. If you knew half of what Tim knows you would have already killed yourself or been killed. What I do know is that Shriiimp is a website that showcases graffiti art in a form that every man can enjoy. Naked chicks meet graffiti, graffiti meet naked chicks. Check out this interview as our own Tim Carter rubs elbows with the Shriiimp kids:

CTCM- Tell us a little bit about yourself and where you grew up.

iii - My name is Curt and I am the founder of Shriiimp. I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, about an hour outside of Denver. I moved to Boston when I was 18. At that time in my life I was a rave promoter, and did fine art on the side. I went to college in Vermont at this super hippie school called Goddard. Trust me if you want to go to college stay the fuck out of Vermont. That shit was wack as fuck. I got my love of graffiti from my boss at the first nightclub I helped run called the Asylum in Springfield, Massachusetts. He use to write Gil-T and he was more like a father figure then a boss. After I got back from college, and was 100% burnt out on fine art. I linked up with a crew in Boston called Rekloos, from that I meet Mise and then later my 3 business partners at Shriiimp. From their I have traveled most of the Untied States doing graffiti and "Shriiimp’ing" girls. Now I paint most weekends, with my boys from BLT and I roll with one of the illest crews in the West.

CTCM - What does Shriiimp mean?

iii - We get this question all the time. If you asked my boys in Montreal they would say it was just something funny. So it’s not about anything. It’s just an inside joke with the French members.

CTCM - Who and what are some of your inspirations?

iii - I have to say my biggest inspiration in Graff has to be Smith NYC. That fool is 100% my hero and when my mind thinks about how big to get up, he is my standard.

CTCM - Well I have to ask this because it is the most obvious question that comes to my mind. What made you choose the medium that you do? We see a lot of walls, canvas, and freights, you use gorgeous women. How did you come up with this idea?

iii - Well from me, I use to fuck off in school and it still shocks me that I passed high school with as much fucking around as I did. Shriiimp’ing came from free block. All the girls in my class wanted to be bad ass bitches, and asked me to draw on them with pen and build them tattoos. So when my boys from Montreal hit me up and I saw them bombing girls it was like going back to that point in my life when I was young and it become second nature.

CTCM - Why do you think so many people look at Graffitti as crime and not a form of art? I know there are toys out there that make the best graff cats look bad. Whats up with all the haters?

iii - Well graffiti by nature is a crime. I mean in Eqypt it was the way they kept track of culutre, like a history book and a bible. But our society feels the need to own everything. Nothing is free, everything has an owner. You turn over a rock and someone has a name on it. It's wrong for people to feel that culutre is not important. I see a world where graffiti can be the voice of a people more then a newspaper. And that fear of freedom is only open in Europe it seems. Like of the free and home of the censored.

CTCM - Have you ever fucked Paris Hilton?

iii - (laughing) Shit, oh about the girlfriend thing, I was with a girl for about a year, but we just split up a few months ago, so I am single - famous - sweet like a pitbull.

CTCM - Out of any city you’ve worked in, which city has the best looking models?

iii - To be real with the girls question, I have seen West coast girls and painted a ton and painted a life time worth of East coast girls. But we are fucked, the girls in Brazil are the best.

CTCM - Who has been your favorite artist to work with?

iii - I do a lot of work with a girl from New York City that writes Exotic. She is one of my down ass girls, and I love to Shriiimp with her, when it comes to walls and Graff my boy Abuse is a top dog. CTCM - Have you had any famous people sign up to model and be used in any show?

iii - Our LA showcase was full of famous girls, like one of the girls that runs BET TV came to get painted.

CTCM - What is the craziest thing you have ever seen or done at an event? When we first started talking about the interview I believe you said, "I’ve been around the block like a dirty hooker."

iii - After our CT me and my Boston crew DBM went to a nightclub, the guy I paint with is NUTS. We got wild and drank way to much and they kicked us out, but he refused to go so the bouncer stun gunned him 3 times. Any normal person would have pissed their pants and been done, but he looked the guard in the face and told him he was too small and he refused to fight till he had a fair fight. Blew my mind.

CTCM - Tell me about August 10th and HBO. Has it aired? If not, tell our readers when they can catch it. iii - Not 100% sure, my boy in NYC was getting HBO to do a thing on him, and he was doing Shriiimp so we just mixed both groups up. It was odd as fuck to be chilling with Fereo from the Sopranos. He was the guy doing the documentary.

CTCM - Has Shriiimp.com worked with any legendary graffiti writers? Can you list a few? Have any ghosts written under a different name for Shriiimp.com?

iii - Haha, I hate to blow up spots on my boys. Wayne from NYC has got down on girls with us, and we are working on things with Seen UA, and Zone WST. We have rocked girls with Atlas and Natoe from the CBS crew, and on the site have had millions of fools get up on girls. You will just have to hit the site and look hard, but I can say about 80% of writers have got down on Shriiimp.

CTCM - Tattooing and painting the skin, both male and female, is a concept that has existed for thousands of years. How does shriiimp.com add something new to this age-old concept?

iii - I get body painting fools each week that come at me like "you’re not doing anything new", but its not about body painting its about pulling down the wall on graffiti. The mainstream world has little to no respect for graffiti, and we build a live showcase that puts graffiti writers face to face with the mainstream. It’s our spot to blow up graffiti for the art that it is. This is the first time I have seen writers come at you face to face with paint.

CTCM - Can you let us know where the next major events are going to be held and how one can reach you Curt? If they want to put the sauce in saucy at their next event?

iii - We are going to be in Boston again on November 23rd and then in Orlando in February. I am sure we will see other dates pop up in there, but it's just a matter of the promoters opening up the wallet to sell out their venue. The best way to get at me is Curtis@Shriiimp.com

Courtesy-- Tim Carter & Shriiimp