Tag Archives: graffiti
Writing on Walls on Film
I just turned in my column for next week’s Contributor, reviewing the new DVD release of the Jean Michel Basquiat film Downtown ’81. While Style Wars is often mentioned as the first hip-hop documentary, Downtown ’81 was shot a few years earlier even though it wasn’t released until 2000. The film is actually fictional, but [...]
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Tagged bbc, Downtown '81, graffiti, Jean Michel Basquiat, rap, Style Wars, Watching My Name Go By
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Urbex Art: Detroit
I lived in the City of Detroit, MI for the first decade of my life and I stayed in southern Michigan until I left for the South in the early 1990′s. Detroit has had a bad reputation for one reason or another my whole life, but I’ve always had the love for that place that [...]
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Tagged bad reputation, Detroit, graffiti, Michigan, ruin porn, skateboards, Urbex
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