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Graffiti on Buildings/Subway

posted 10 years ago by agracier-574-436194
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A small point maybe, but I loved the atmosphere that was created with the abundant graffiti and tags and spraying on derelict buildings and especially in the subway. Quite amazing that is was so prevalent back then, especially the subway cars.

Old industrial buildings full of graffiti and stuff make for a sort of colorful ruin.

I wonder how much of the graffiti the movie crew actually had to make themselves or if all of it was shot on locations with modern graffiti?

[–] jobla 10 years ago

A small response, but was there that much graffiti, circa 1981? There wasn't out here on the west coast, at that time.

[–] Jeromagnus 10 years ago

In every movies of that era you can see that there was that much graffiti. It seemed to be very normal at the time. In fact, I thought it was still the case since I didn't go there since a long time.

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[–] kenny-164 10 years ago

Some who loved grafitti for its appearance ignore that their views were not shared by all, and most recognized it as a form of vandalism, altering the appearance of public spaces and property. It was aggressive and gave most people a sense that public order was out of control.

[–] TheHungryAndAngryShow 10 years ago

During the late 70's to early 80's there was a massive amount of graffiti in NYC. The style of it was not exactly the same as it was back then, and I specifically noticed that there was a very bright orange color of spray paint that was not around during the time. Of course I don't expect anyone else to notice that kind of stuff. If you want to check out the way graffiti looked in the 70s and 80s, check out some of the older films about hip hop culture and graffiti. Beat This! and Bombin' are two great films, as is Style Wars. Wild Style also has a lot of original graffiti work in it.

[–] repo136 10 years ago

I noted that Bill Blast was the on-set artist recruited to bomb the backgrounds. He did a great job even if some of the graf was a little modern-looking.

Here's a few screencaps I took:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AHAWw0Icpkk/VXOUqyHN5nI/AAAAAAAAKaw/9hEsW4TX3kE/s1600/vlcsnap-2015-06-07-01h42m00s85.png

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-072XvDMhwYM/VXOUmj23DhI/AAAAAAAAKag/SqYTq4qY-ns/s1600/vlcsnap-2015-06-07-01h43m07s251.png

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZfQo4XgxU5Y/VXOUs4vXBVI/AAAAAAAAKa4/nThtQifSVHs/s1600/vlcsnap-2015-06-07-01h44m09s58.png

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-epyb0KY7KUQ/VXOVvDZrngI/AAAAAAAAKbA/0xBCuVDSCRg/s1600/vlcsnap-2015-06-07-01h45m10s185.png (check the top-to-bottom!)

Two for flinching!