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Business is consistently apathetic in January, says Adam Brown. He's begin his niche, affairs aerosol paint, BMX bikes and custom skateboards – none of which are in hot appeal this time of year.
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"So this year I assuredly had to booty a additional job, alive at Eckō at the outlets in Merrimack," said Brown. "Which is cool, because I've been cutting Eckō accessory for years anyway."
Brown isn't daunted. Between accouterment at the Merrimack Premium Outlets he shows up every day to his shop, Streetwise Graffiti Bike and Paint, 147 Temple St., bent to accumulate it activity for as continued as he can – as abundant to accumulate the commodity accessible locally as for the 64-foot-long graffiti bank alfresco the shop, the alone "legal" graffiti bank in New Hampshire.
"It would be absolutely black if I had to close. For one thing, I don't appetite to accept to drive to Beverly [Mass.] again," said Brown.
He explains that for graffiti artists who appetite to appearance off their skills, the chargeless bank in Beverly is like graffiti heaven. It's the alone added acknowledged advantage in New England – alike accustomed by Beverly, Mass., Police, as a acceptable another to "tagging" or "throwing up" actionable assignment on walls, bridges, and accessible buildings.
Brown, 26, who grew up in Nashua, admits he's been there and done that in his adolescent days. But now, he commendations actionable graffiti as vandalism. That's why he acclimatized on the area of his shop, off the baffled aisle of Main Street.
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"The burghal said it would be OK to accept a acknowledged wall, as continued as it wasn't on Main Street. This abode was perfect," said Brown, of the tiny boutique featuring two affectation cases, a appropriate alternative of BMX bicycles and custom corrective skateboards, a few T-shirt racks and a stool, area he sits, abaft the counter.
And lots and lots of aerosol paint.
"Most bodies don't get a adventitious to see graffiti as art in a abode like Nashua, because all they see is the vandalism. There are consistently kids who will ruin it for anybody – on the cast side, you affectionate of accept to apprentice it on the streets. That's why I like accepting the graffiti wall. I like assuming kids how to paint," Brown said.
He gets casual commissioned accessible and clandestine work, like the bright mural he afresh adapted on the ancillary of Chicken 'n Chips on West Hollis Street. He additionally did assignment for Granite Skate calm skate park, which bankrupt aftermost year, Twist Tattoo and Inner Burghal Materials. He additionally has corrective murals at people's homes.
For appropriate now, at least, he's active the dream – Brown adored all the money he could alive 40 hours a anniversary at Anton's Cleaners acute pants, until he had abundant to accessible the baby acrylic abundance about 16 months ago.
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"This was the everyman hire I could find, and the best area for a acknowledged wall," Brown says.
He shares accommodation with a cardinal of added businesses, which are alteration from automated to commercial, including his new neighbor, Ellis Martial Arts Center.
Streetwise carries alien aerosol acrylic in endless, active colors, and custom nozzles to change the admeasurement of the spray.
"The acrylic you buy at Home Depot wouldn't assignment for graffiti – all this acrylic is alien from added countries, like Germany, Spain, Canada, China. They don't accomplish it actuality anymore. This has aerial opacity, and low pressure," he says, assuming off one of the cans, advised to attending like a assignment of art, as well.
He'd like added bodies to stop by and shop. He'd absolutely like added bodies to stop by and paint.
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"People should booty advantage of this bank – there's never been annihilation like it, and apparently never will again," Brown said.
He additionally thinks Nashua, like Beverly, should actualize a accessible art amplitude for graffiti.
"I'm not abiding the burghal is accessible for that, but the Exit 6 alternation arch should be a acknowledged wall," Brown said.
BONUS: Watch a time-lapse YouTube video of an Alice In Wonderland themed acrylic affair at the Streetwise Graffiti Wall, uploaded beneath the photo gallery.
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Originally appear Jan 22, 2013.
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