A few months ago I did a post on New York Art when Sea Levels rise and mentioned MOMA’s show Rising Currents which is now showing. Last night I was at the Museum of Modern Art and stumbled onto Rising Currents – turned out the it was near closing time but I managed to get [...]
Archive | April, 2010
Graffiti and Hip Hop Legend Fab Five Freddy Curates Youtube
On the homepage of YouTube, graffiti and hip hop legend Fab Five Freddy introduces a selection of videos, talks about graffiti, hip hop, and Banksy’s film Exit Through The Gift Shop.
Fred sent us this terrific annotation of his favorite videos currently on Youtube:
I was a part of a very cool underground public access TV show in 1979 called Glenn Obrien’s TV Party that aired weekly back then. I was a regular guest and one of the show’s cameramen. Typically, it was a groovy talk show format but this was a theme show. Bad musically, but a lotta fun. Check Jean Michel Basquiat standing there with a guitar smiling. And he wrote Mock Penis Envy on the wall visible behind Blondie’s Chris Stein, also with a guitar and shades on.
This is a mash up video of scenes from my film Wild Style. Some clever guys in Amsterdam did this and I love it.
Here’s the my scene from Downtown 81, a film done in that year that stared Jean-Michele Basquiat and is a very good look at that time on the downtown scene in New York City. Lee Quinones, the legendary graff artist, is in the scene with me painting as Jean walks up. Then we go inside and have a ‘lil fun.
2 Pac was a friend of mine and here he’s free styling during an interview I did with him for YO! in ’95.
Wu Tang Clans TV debut on YO! MTV Raps before the world would embrace there raw and clever version of hip hop music.
An encounter I had with George Bush senior a couple of years ago. The fact that he discussed our brief chat with Larry King was impressive.
Here’s a scene from the first film/documentary to showcase New York Subway graffiti. “Stations Of The Elevated” released or finished in 1981. Back then I’m sure this film was not seen by to many. I don’t recall it ever airing on TV. But these days thanks to digital tech and sites like this, we can see what it was like when nearly
every New York City subway car was touched by graffiti. I love this film!
“One Love” for Nas, off of his first album. Most of my favorite video’s had a narrative storyline. This lyrical masterpiece from Nas was like a great script and I shot this entire video in the Queens Bridge housing project where he grew up.
“Talking All That Jazz” is a clip I directed for Stetsasonic which is the first video to deal with the soon to be large issue of sampling. Also, because I grew up in a jaz loving house hold and drummer Max Roach was my godfather, I knew I’d be able to do a good job with this one.
Kool G Rap & Polo, “Road To The Riches”, one of the first video’s to illustrate the rise & fall of New York City drug dealer.
of 1988.
BLONDIE’S video for the song Rapture was like my coming out party in 1981 and introduced me to a world that really wouldn’t know me well until several years later in 1988 when YO! MTV Raps would air weekly coast to coast and in many countries around the world. Click here to view.
Wooster Collective Meetup This Weekend (Fri and Sat) at Max Fish Bar in NYC
To celebrate this weekend’s opening of Banksy’s Exit Through The Gift Shop in theaters (NYC, LA, San Fran, Berkeley, Palo Alto and San Rafael) Sara and I will be hosting an afterparty tonight and tomorrow night in New York City at the famed street art watering hole Max Fish (178 Ludlow Street) starting at 9pm. Join us… to talk about the film after you’ve seen it at the Sunshine Theater or Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.
Escif at Pictures on Walls – Street work pictures – opens Friday evening
Escif’s show opens at Pictures On Walls on Friday (16th April) evening between 6 – 9pm . Prior to the opening work from the Spanish artist has gone up on the shutters outside the pictureonwalls ground floor premises at 46-48 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LT and in the Dray Walk car park off Brick Lane.
Different Ways To Escape From The Tragedy!!
Exit Through The Gift Shop Goes On Al Jezeera
We love this. Jaimie D’Cruz, the editor and producer of “Exit Through The Gift Shop”, along with Roger Gastman, a graffiti historian and Banksy collaborator went on Al Jazeera teto talk about Exit Through The Gift Shop.
Footage From Banksy’s Los Angeles Premiere
The best thing about doing the Wooster website is that every once in a while Sara and I will wake up to find a photo (or in this case, a video) in our email box and have no idea where it came from, who did it, or why it was sent to us.
This morning was one of those mornings.
We’ve been looking at the video, shot at Banksy’s LA Premiere, all morning. In it we spotted such people as Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, our friend Roger Gastman, Pete Wentz, us!…
Email us with the names of the people you’ve spotted in the crowd.
Banksy?