Tuesday's Underground Lowdown

Dope footage from the classic Styles Wars.  Short video of the outtakes featuring SEEN and DONDI, two legends in the gam.  

No rating needed... just dope

Freight Friday

This weeks Freight Friday is an oldy.  Much respect to any piece that is able to last this long on the rails.  This one appears to date back to 1999 and is outlasted an all out buff and toys as well as being gone over all together.  It did suffer some injury being stamped but most of it remains.  You can still make out most of the color.  This piece dates back to when "graffiti paint" was just an idea so you can be safe to assume this paint was Krylon and Rustoleum brands.

It seems that the Golden West Service flat panel boxcars allowed a lot of writers to run for a long time.  We find it impressive for any piece to run longer than 5 years these days.  To see one go for over 15 years is very impressive and deserves its props.

Tuesday's Underground Lowdown

Did you know we've been around since 2001?  We've been reviewing underground graffiti movies for over a decade.  This week, we're starting with a European movie called, Dirty Handz.

I was not expecting such a sick video to come out of Europe, but I seriously underestimated the European creativity and style. This dude narrates as he goes to most major European cities and destroys passenger trains after passenger trains! The narrator and the artists he meets up with puts most U.S. writers to shame especially when they travel to New York City and destroy the subway cars there and even do 4 whole cars! This video was really well put together and organized and I will watch this video again and again. Along with their graffiti Euro styles, the soundtrack in this video has European style too it, but that should be a given and is definitely not a minus.
(8 out of 10)

Robbo V Banksy

  You can find any kind of graffiti documentary these days.  Graffiti documentaries go as far back as the early 80's when the classic 'Style Wars' was released.  Style Wars has laid the foundation for generations of videos to come out for decades to come.  It is a must watch for any new beginning graffiti artist and even to revisit for veterans.  Hidden in the depths of the internet is a BBC documentary titled, 'Robbo vs Banksy- Graffiti Wars'.  Many people have seen the popular 'Exit Through the Gift Shop" which has added to Banksy's fame and mysterious image.  However, not many people are familiar with who Robbo is.  This in depth documentary is compelling with real interviews from Robbo himself.  Interviews are also given from other prolific graffiti artists regarding the feud between Robbo and Banksy explaining why this feud continues.

Many graffiti artists and street artists fight this kind of a battle every time they discuss what is "real graffiti art".  This is a well done documentary and helps to walk you through the steps one by one on how this graffiti drama unfolded.  The climatic ending is a twist that you won't see coming and leave you with more questions than answers.  One important question you will have to answer is, are you Team Robbo or Team Banksy?