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BASS167 IN HIGH QUALITY MIX...
Mrdutch730
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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. Also, spray paint was required to be
locked up in stores under a new law
established in 1985. The original painted
silver canvases on trains became red which
was undesirable to write on and older cars
were replaced with new stainless steel cars
which could be cleaned easily to perfection.
Cleaning or "buffing" was also becoming more
common on the subways. By 1989 the subway
system was clean. Basicly ALL Writers Started
hitting the streets heavily. Anything around
the subway lines that can be seen from the
subway platform or the subway tracks where
the train passes was covered with Graffiti.
After that "Street Bombing" became like an
epidemic as writers began throwing there
names up in the streets.
By the 1990's the streets still had a lot of
graffiti though, but after the late '90s alot
of it was cleaned up. New York has never been
"bombed" with as much graffiti as it used to
since then and probably never ever will be.
However, by the time the graffiti movement
pretty much died out in New York City it had
already spread to the rest of the world!!!!
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Graffiti is the name for images or lettering
scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any
manner on property.
Between the years of 1969-1974 the
"pioneering era" took place. During this time
graffiti underwent a change in styles and
popularity. The city produced one of the
first graffiti artists to gain media
attention in New York, TAKI 183. TAKI 183 was
a youth from Washington Heights, Manhattan
who worked as a foot messenger. His tag is a
mixture of his name Demetrius (Demetraki),
TAKI, and his street number, 183rd. Being a
foot messenger, he was constantly on the
subway and began to put up his tags along his
travels. This spawned a 1971 article in the
New York Times titled "'Taki 183' Spawns Pen
Pals". Julio 204 is also credited as the
first writer, but didn't get the fame that
Taki received. TAKI 183 was the first artist
to be recognised outside of the graffiti
subculture, but wasn't the first artist.
Other notable names from that time are: Stay
High 149, Hondo 1, Phase 2, Stitch 1,
SEEN,Bosik 1, Bolst 1, Kinks 2, Septik 1, Joe
182, Junior 161 and Cay 161. Barbara 62 and
Eva 62 were also important early graffiti
artists in New York, and are the first known
females to write graffiti.
Also taking place during this era was the
movement from outside on the city streets to
the subways. Graffiti also saw its first
seeds of competition around this time. The
goal of most artists at this point was called
"getting up" and involved having as many tags
and bombs in as many places as possible.
Artists began to break into subway yards in
order to hit as many trains as they could
with a lower risk, often creating larger
elaborate pieces of art along the subway car
sides. This is when the act of bombing was
said to be officially established.
Clean Train Movement era
The current era in graffiti is characterized
by a majority of graffiti artists moving from
subway or train cars to "street galleries."
The Clean Train Movement started in May,
1989, when New York attempted to remove all
of the subway cars found with graffiti on
them out of the transit system. Because of
this, Much controversy arose among the
streets, graffiti should be considered an
actual form of art.
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