::Old Article and Constant Demand::
From day one. When we started this site, there has been many requests for a JA article that was posted in Rolling Stone Magazine. Seems that this article has been a cult piece that has made it’s way into the Graff collectors library of many references.
Although to some this is old hat, it might be news to some of the young one’s up and coming. We are posting a copy of this piece due to the demand of this article, but also because of the history and vital importance of documenting this form. I also feel that the people mentioned in this article are a piece of the graffiti form that is relevant today, and many parts in the article are relevant of how writers are living today.
When children were just talking about the dream of owning a beeper and the internet was non existant, writers like JA, OD, SAST, CHINO, CHARM and TRACK 2 were killing the lines with an ideal very similar to the thoughts of CAP MPC…….. MORE!
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Enjoy the Article:
Extreme Graffiti Xanax and dust 40 feet up, inside NYC subway tunnels, and “fucking up the city”
THE FIRST TIME I meet JA, he skates up to me wearing Rollerblades, his cap played backward, on a street corner in Manhattan at around midnight. He’s white, 24 years old, with a short, muscular build and a blond crew cut. He has been writing graffiti off and on in New York for almost 10 years and is the founder of a loosely affiliated crew called XTC. His hands, arms, legs and scalp show a variety of scars from nightsticks, razor wire, fists and sharp, jagged things he has climbed up, on or over. He has been beaten by the police — a “wood shampoo,” he calls it — has been shot at, has fallen off a highway sign into moving traffic, has run naked through train yards tagging, has been chased down highways by rival writers wielding golf clubs and has risked his life innumerable times writing graffiti — bombing, getting up. JA lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment. There’s graffiti on a wall-length mirror, a weight bench, a Lava lamp to bug out on, cans of paint stacked in the corner, a large Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) sticker on the side of the refrigerator. The buzzer to his apartment lists a false name; his phone number is unlisted to avoid law-enforcement representatives as well as conflicts with other writers. While JA and one of his writing partners, JD, and I are discussing their apprehension about this story, JD, offering up a maxim from the graffiti life, tells me matter-of-factly, “You wouldn’t fuck us over, we know where you live.”
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::Trick Your Trunk – PEEL Magazine::
Artists are now going to the trunks! With the recent Trick Your Trunk contest, you can be sure that this trend will be catching on to the aspiring artist. It’s not a bad look!
::From Mambo To Hip Hop- Henry Chalflant Production::
Monday, August 7, 7:00 pm
Central Park Summer Stage
Free
(enter the park at 69th Street and Fifth Avenue or 72nd St. and Central Park
West)
FROM MAMBO TO HIP HOP: A BRONX TALE, directed by Henry Chalfant, produced by
City Lore with special live performances
A special preview screening of the PBS documentary that delves into the rich
cultural history of the South Bronx, where salsa and hip hop were nurtured.
Come early for sets by DJ Charlie Chase and Orlando Marín (the “Last Mambo
King”) plus performances by veteran Hip Hop, Salsa, and Mambo Dancers. Q & A
to follow the film with the movie’s director Henry Chalfant; coproducer and
consultant Elena Martínez; percussionist Benny Bonilla; legendary Mambo
dancer, Tony “Peanuts” Aubert; and Hip Hop dancer and historian PopMaster
Fabel.
