#Graffiti Rock

[medullam]

Graffiti Rock, dir. Michael Holman [NYC, 1984]

[morffyne]

@debimazar Ready to DANCE? Young me.. from #graffitirock 1st hip hop tv show! 1984!

[c-40]

A-T-4 135 Graffiti Rock

The seminal graffiti documentary Style Wars and Charlie Ahearn's hip hop movie Wild Style had both been released in 1983. 1984 Brough with it another two landmark movies Beat Street and Breakin' which was the surprise hit of the year (Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo is rushed out before the end of the year). Breakdancing was appearing in mainstream American tv shows like The Cosby's (okay this is 1985), news, documentary segments, and advertising, so why not give hip hop culture it's own show?

Graffiti Rock aires on US tv 28th June 1984. It's essentially Soul Train (the formats are very similar) but all hip hop. The show was conceived as being a series but only one episode was ever made, which is our loss. The same year Video Music Box first aires on public television in New York which had a completely new format and is still going to this day. Yo! MTV Raps is much later first launching on MTV Europe in 1987 and the following year in the US

The show's host is Michael Holman, guests Kool Moe Dee and Special K from The Treacherous do links, there is break dancing from the NYC Breakers, Shannon performs the freestyle classic Give Me Tonight, but the centrepiece has to be Run DMC who perform Sucker MCs. They are the freshest, word!

[dadaonice]

Siouxsie Sioux graffiti in Bogotá, Colombia.

[sollndn]

💥 bomb rush cyberdisco 💥

[tygerland]

John Lydon London 1977, by Dennis Morris.

[daxnorman]

Cockeyed Workout

[littlepawz]

“This was the hardest thing I’ve ever painted. I was literally beat up by the waves and rising tide and forced to stop before it was finished. I could have done better, but between the blowing sand and wind, splashing waves, burning hot sun and the fact I’ve never painted a shark before or painted on a 3 dimensional surface like a rock…. I think it turned out OK”

~Jimmy Swift, graffiti artist~

[psykopaths]

[djghoulz]

highkey

[southpawstylist]

KON-002

Invented by an up-and-coming Robotics major, Kinnik O'Donnell, Graffiti Man is an adaptive arts robot tasked with spray-painting official murals.

[medullam]

Graffiti Rock, dir. Michael Holman [NYC, 1984]

[twixnmix]

Keith Haring photographed by Janette Beckman in his studio for the Daily News Magazine, 1985.  

[garretschuelke]

Bathroom graffiti at Turnstiles.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

August 2024

[greasyfilms]

[another-little-hippie]

hey ya’ll! just a friendly reminder if you guys ever feel that you can't go on and your will's sinkin' low, just believe, and you can't go wrong. in the light you will find the road. you will find the road. oh, did you ever believe that I could leave you standing out in the cold? i know how it feels 'cause I have slipped through to the very depths of my soul. oh baby, I just want to show you what a clear view it is from every bend in the road. now listen to me… oh, whoa-whoa, as I was, and really would be for you, too, honey, as you would for me. oh, I would share your load. let me share your load, oh let me share, share your load 😌🫶