Henry Chalfant interview

Nice Henry Chalfant interview part 1, here at The Phila Flava T.R.O.Y. blog.

Skeme flashback

I was checking out some old photos today and decided to post a few. Skeme TMT stole alot of spotlight in Stylewars, so here is a few flicks of his stuff, plus the video from the 20th anniversary edition of Stylewars with the man that didn't start writing to go to Paris...

Kool Keith interview

Fresh little animation/audio interview with cool Keith Haring here.

NYC Photo Kings

Photo Kings was a crew in New York City that documented the last years of graffiti on the subway system, around 1987 to 1989. Check out a little interview with Nic One from the crew and see a bunch of his really dope flicks.

Danish graffiti history

This is probaly the best thing I ever blogged. Since the previous story here at ILG about the first train in Copenhagen, it was a great joy to find the following clip online.
A few years ago, Danish national television DR had a theme program about the birth and history of hiphop in Denmark. Not only did they broadcast some of the classic international hiphop documentaries, they had also dug up old archive footage and found alot of the original people from hiphops first generation here.
In Copenhagen graffiti, there where to main writers in the beginning, Kyle aka Peyk who painted the first train ever and Freez aka Lund that went on to do the first wholecar ever. Here is their true story about that time, told by themselves and garnished with their own, lovely, old, unseen photos from the mid 80s. This is true graffiti history in one amazing 7 minute clip...

All 8 clips can be seen here, featuring rapping, breaking, DJ'ing and graffiti.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8

Real British oldschool

You know this one is gonna be all over the UK graffiti blogs soon, but check out it out here first, real British oldschool writers and DJs in this brandnew BBC videoclip.

First train in Copenhagen

Back in 1984, Nikolaj Peyk walked into the Dybbølsbro yard behind Central Station and painted the first train piece in Copenhagen and Danish history. He did his own last name, a dedication to his mom and a shootout to Bruce.

After being a big part of early Copenhagen graffiti history with his crew Whap Gang, Nikolaj went on to write major danish rap history also. Nuff respect to Peyk!

Bad Meaning Good

Classic oldschool footage from the days of the 1-letter throwup and masteroutlines, here is the graffiti segment from the 1987 BBC Open Space documentary 'Bad Meaning Good'. Interviews with London Transport Authority and Pride of The Chrome Angelz.

Graffiti auction

London eventguide TimeOut has an article on graffiti vandalism turned into a pressumed big moneymaker at an upcoming auction at Bonhams auctionhouse in London February 5th. As a cool bonus feature, at the bottom of the article there is a step-by-step photoseries of The Chrome Angelz and The Bomb Squad painting in 1987, so oldschool that the photos are black and white!

Old timers re-union in NYC

Last weekend, Crane TMT organised the oldtimers re-union in NYC, consisting of true oldschool writers from graffiti's infancy, like Comet, Part, Chain 3 and Tracy 168. More info and flicks at Ket's blog on 12oz.