Is Graffiti Art or a Crime? STYLE WARS 2 of 25 The Original Hip Hop Documentary graffiti movie

Is Graffiti Art or a Crime? http://www.stylewars.com New York City 1982 - Graffiti Writing on the New York City Subway Trains is introduced to the world at large -and it's adversaries, such as Detective Bernie Jacobs who famously states, "... I'm not an art critic, but I can sure as hell tell you that's a crime." In this famous clip, most of the world is introduced to Hip Hop for the first time, in STYLE WARS - the original Hip Hop documentary.

Public Art Films is embarking on a project to restore Style Wars. The original negative was damaged during the many years it was in storage.

Style Wars Restoration Donors will receive the following Thank You gifts:
$10 - your donor name or tag included in the Donor Credit section of the disc.
$50 - Styles Wars 2-Disc Set DVD and the BluRay Disc*, a personalized document that memorializes your participation, and in the new BluRay your name will be in the final film credits.
$100 - All the above, plus a Special Limited Edition Deluxe Poster designed by a Graf Legend.
$250 - All the above, plus a special Exclusive T-shirt designed by a Graf King created solely for $250 donors, and an original signed and numbered photo of a subway masterpiece from Henry Chalfant's archive.
$1000 - All the above, plus a signed and numbered original print by a graffiti legend.

*BluRay Disc will be sent one month before the normal release date.

Public Art Films, Inc is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization dedicated to producing films and videos about grass-roots cultural expressions. All donations are tax-deductible.

We will be transferring the original 16 mm negative into full HD 1080p while cleaning and restoring the film during the process. The HD master will be better, sharper and more brilliant than the original. Style Wars was originally produced with public funding and we ask the public again to propel this historic document into the new era.

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[WritingBlind]

fuck this. i'm starting out as a graffiti ARTIST, it IS an art and always will be. Ask any actual artists, whether it be a musician like me, or visual arts, culinary arts, whatever! they'll ALL say it IS an art form and should NOT be a crime.

[PuLseDZine]

Omg he's propa gay its an art thumbs up if u agree

[will89029]

art is not a crime!

[Wfggirl61]

@ADJohnstone that maybe true bt HIPHOP culture is not about paying your bills even tho thats what the commercialization of our culture trys to present it like that. Hiphop has and always will be about telling our story, what is our story? its the craddle of civilization, and we were taken away from that threw 100s of years of colonization/slavery/and being forced to live in a monetary seystem. so we paint were we want, rap do and say what we want, wear what we want becuz western society is fake.

[clonecreater2011]

Graffiti is freedom.

[10nolo10]

I'll be buried with a 94 can in my hand

[10nolo10]

All I got is graffiti,they'll never take that from me

[flakodla]

well guess what sons of b&^%$%, those illegal bill boards all over the city are graffiti. they are selling there names

[ADJohnstone]

@keir193 I appreciate the civility. I really want an honest dialoge.

So why is it ok on some guys shop?... or anyplace you can't call "yours"?

I have been a breadwinning painter for the past 30 years and can't imagine making making my art by first making a victim. This is costing $20billion per year that we could be putting into arts education or public art. I paint big, murals and understand the passion of working large, but put it on a canvas and you have a way of paying your bills.

[keir193]

@ADJohnstone to be fair, most graff artists do not believe in tagging someones car or home, as well as schools and churches

[MakeAGameWithMe]

@ADJohnstone yes it would just be a surface just like a train is a surface like the guy said.

[ADJohnstone]

@MakeAGameWithMe Leonardo painted on HIS canvas .. not someone else's. It' all about where it is, not what it is.

Do you have a car? How would you feel if you came out one morning and YOUR car had been painted? Hey.. it's just a surface, right?