Chocolate City Burning: The Untold Story of "Dot-Com"
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Uploaded by thetriumphdc on Feb 4, 2009
The first 9 minutes of a documentary chronicling one of the most prominent crews to emerge from Washington DC's graffiti-boom of the 1990's, the film follows an oddly mixed group of three friends; Sime, Demon and Mega, as they gained notoriety throughout the city in the late 90's for doing enormous, elaborate, three dimensional murals. As Con, a noteworthy writer from Baltimore says: "It wasn't just another piece on a wall...the Dot-Com pieces stood off the wall, they created a whole environment." Eventually the crew would spread out to other cities, and the three founding members grew older and father apart. Demon moved to Japan for many years as a world-class industrial designer, Mega would spend the next many years in courtrooms and rehabs and Sime continues to live, paint and bomb in Washington, D.C. Now all in their 30's, their interviews and reflections on their youth make very clear that, when all was said and done, graffiti was about more than painting, it was a coming of age and a crossing of worlds. "D.C. was separated by that one fucking park, Rock Creek Park, black, white." Says Demon, "D.C. being so segregated, that really meant something, because, to put it in a term, Dot-Com crossed the park."
"Chocolate City Burning" is the first documentary by photojournalist Apoxy One.
54 Minutes.
Features interviews with: Sime, Demon 202, Mega, Ultra(.com), Ultra(kgb), Con(ba), Rei 21, Eon2, Kier, Sauce, DJ Oso Fresh, Envy 137
On display at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 17th street NW
February 11-15, 10am-5pm wed.-sun.
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Anyone know where I can find the full-length version of this?
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Jeah. I got my respect in this clip..and I give respect to the fam in DC..one..
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OG' GEL ONE SL KREW!!!
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loved demons bombn eon waz runing college park n dc remember him alwayz at kaffa house go0dtymez
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fly shit ...ORA..no trace krew
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what this is fly
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Awesome video. Good to see my folks in it.
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sime bombs for dotcom
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Yo that shit was awesome why is this the first im hearing of it i used to live right outside of dc doing graff
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does anybody know how long the documentary is?
sprayp 3 years ago
54 min
thetriumphdc 2 years ago