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Thursday, October 9

The Medium: Graffiti

xMrdutch730x
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Mr. Dutch produces videos about NYC Graffiti, highlighting graffiti artists, and some just to peep. You could learn a lot from Mr. Dutch.

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The Golden Age of Graffiti took place in New York City from about 1974 -- 1984 on the N.Y.C Subway system, then from around the mid 80's to the late 90's on the N.Y.C Streets,(Store front gates, trucks, vans, and mainly walls , roof-tops and anything that can be seen from the subway lines. It was influenced by early writers who picked a "tag" and added a number such as their street. For example, "BASS167".

During the time, New York City was the only place that was getting "hit" so much. Graffiti writers mainly expressed their talents on the subway system because the subway train could transport their name from one end of the city to the other. By mid 1972 all 6,000+ subway cars, according to The New York Times, had graffiti on them. The goal of many writers was to go "All City" or hit each subway line. However, in the 1980s, the MTA began to spend more money cleaning trains, encouraging store owners to lock up their spray paint to prevent shoplifting, protecting train yards, and with the beginning of the crack cocaine epidemic during around 1984, the movement began to fade away as violence became more common and places became more territorial to certain crews. READ MORE...


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