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Graffiti6. Graffiti6 is a collaboration founded in London in 2009. [ 1] Made up of Jamie Scott (songwriter and lead vocals) and Tommy "D" Danvers (producer and songwriter). [ 2] Graffiti6 are known for their "blend of characterful voice and crisp, intricate groove created from an infectious alliance of electric piano and offbeat guitar".
Cool S. The Cool S, also known as the Universal S, the Stüssy S, the Super S, the Pointy S, the Banksy S, the Surfer’s S, and the Graffiti S, is a graffiti sign in popular culture and childlore that is typically doodled on children's notebooks or graffitied on walls. The exact origin of the Cool S is unknown, [1] but it became prevalent ...
—Ariel Rosenberg, 2012 When he was young, Rosenberg was an avid record collector and reader of music magazines, he said, and "had a gross hunger for bootlegs and unofficial rare recordings by artists I worshiped; ate them all up and adopted certain criteria for what I longed for in music." He was first drawn to music through watching MTV. When his interest intensified, he was particularly ...
The George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art Archive is the work of Urban Art Mapping, a multiracial and multi-generational team of researchers based at the University of St.Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The project launched the Covid-19 Street Art database (March 16, 2020) and the George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art database (June 5, 2020).
Recorded. 2010. Genre. Indie pop, alternative rock, folk music, soul music, blues. Label. N.W. Free Music. Colours is the debut album by Graffiti6 originally released in 2010 on N.W. Free Music. It was re-released in 2012 on the label Capitol Records for wider distribution.
—Franklin Sirmans, In the Cipher: Basquiat and Hip Hop Culture In May 1978, Basquiat and Diaz began spray painting graffiti on buildings in Lower Manhattan. Working under the pseudonym SAMO, they inscribed poetic and satirical advertising slogans such as "SAMO© AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO GOD." In June 1978, Basquiat was expelled from City-As-School for pieing the principal. At 17, his father ...
In 1971, Diaz was first introduced to the burgeoning graffiti culture by his older cousin Gilberto "SIETE" Diaz when he was just 12 years old. [4] His cousin lived in Washington Heights, which was a locus of graffiti production at the time, and taught Diaz about the traditional style of writing graffiti: combining a moniker, or nickname, with a number. [6]
Born in 1981 in Barcelona, Spain, Graff started his artistic career as a graffiti writer in the early 1990s. He has since painted throughout Europe and has won some graffiti competitions, [1] including three 1st prizes in special competitions of Graffiti. KYN is a licensed Art therapist. He is the founder of a non-profit “c” [2] launched in ...