Lecture 7 - Pray - Infamy

This is a interesting film. This film journey's across a few different states showing how artist live and work with graffiti art, how it becomes their life. It was an ok film but nothing I'm going to spend alot of time talking about. P.S. This is my last blog post! It's been fun Professor Peck!!

"Why did people carve the rocks - put up mount rushmore - they got a kick out of big faces or they wanted to leave a mark - they are our founding fathers - who gave them permission to mark the mountain - why didnt they get arrested that's not their mountain." - TKO Member

The first group is out of California naked TKO. This group is not a gang but a group of people that hang out together that love graffiti. Many of these artist do end up killed due to their surrounding and friends. They are each other's support system through the tough times. What started out as a support system has grown into a Nation wide group.

The next person interviewed is Claw - she is a woman out of New Jersey who also owns a clothing line. Her family is not 100% supportive of what she does but sees her passion in it.

The Claw - Street Art

A funny individual was Joe Connoly - this man needs a new hobby or a better life! He drives around his neighbor and removes all graffiti, on his own, no pay involved. He even climbs onto billboards. The graffiti Guerrilla he calls himself, he has good intentions but he just seems a little loony to me lol!

Now we journey to Philly, I did not know there were so many different style of spray painting in Philly. There are 8-9 types of tagging and if you don't tag or throw up your work is covered. As you watch the men work fast and with meaning you can tell the things they spray paint or create are not senseless they have meaning, even if I can't read it.

Philly Tagging - What does that say? But pretty cool!!

Finally we venture to San Fran to see Saber. A child who had a tough childhood friend wise he is now a well known artist in San Fran who loves to spray paint train cars. He is also shown doing spray paint on a car - pretty cool! Saber feels that spray painting has taught him respect and work ethics.

Saber - LA Canal 

Saber - Graffiti Art

This film is different from Banksy solely because it shows the tough side of graffiti art, the part where you can easily be killed or beat up for tagging someone else's wall. This film is more of a street film not a documentary but it's great none-the-less.