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The conversation between Tilt and Boris covers the origins of his work, how he started, what a throw-up actually is and why it matters, how that practice became the foundation of a serious gallery career, and why it took until now to put it all in a book.
Timestamp Index:
0:00 Legal lazy - how the throw-up gives you permission to repeat yourself forever
0:57 Who is Tilt?
3:55 Toulouse, 1989 - how it started
14:44 Why the letters became round - the birth of the throw-up
17:12 Night vs day - the freedom only a throw-up gives you
22:09 Repeat the shape but the shape changes
28:05 New York 1994 - the moment everything clicked
31:32 365 throw-ups in a year - when the obsession takes over
33:41 Grandma and the birds
42:50 From the street to the studio - how the throw-up became the painting
46:10 Can graffiti and gallery work coexist honestly?
50:00 Staying honest with yourself - what Tilt refuses to do
57:06 Where Tilt draws the line between graffiti and contemporary art
1:00:07 Henry Chalfant - the man who documented where all of this began
1:10:44 The book that took 35 years to earn
1:13:10 I paint. You buff. I paint. You buff. - how the count began
1:19:23 Birth, death, rebirth - how the book is structured
1:21:20 The confession
1:37:49 Caius
1:39:47 Never Ending Story - Standard, Collector and Archive editions - tilt.thegrifters.org
