![]() ![]() The movie has been sampled on various classic Hip Hop albums, including ATCQ’s Midnight Marauders, Common’s Ressurection, and the Five Mic classic, Nas’ Illmatic. However, most will recognize their appearance in the film as the catapult of their career. The players that participated and performed in the movie have made themselves legends in their own right. Over 30 years later, Wild Style is still an American pop culture icon. ![]() It also showed the poverty and despair that existed in the South Bronx, out of which the culture of Hip Hop emerged. The story is an accurate historical account of how Hip-Hop, in general, was introduced to mainstream America and, later, the rest of the world. Faze introduces Zoro to Virginia, a journalist portrayed by cultural icon Patti Astor, who later shows Zoro to art’s world stage of galleries and museums. Lee Quinones played the main character “Zoro,” the anonymous graf phenom introduced to the art world by his pal and fellow graffiti writer “Faze,” played by Fab 5 Freddy. Other notable legends included Busy Bee Starski, graf legends Dondi, Zephyr, and Revolt, who designed the Wild Style logo, and the Fantastic Freaks. This is why Afrika Bambaataa, the New York City Breakers, The Treacherous Three, or female pioneer MC Sha Rock were not seen in the film. The Furious Five could not appear alongside Flash and had to be cut from the film because of prior obligations to another more mainstream motion picture depicting the development of Hip Hop that came out later called Beat Street. The Cold Crush Brothers, Rock Steady Crew, and Grandmaster Flash were just a few of Hip-Hop’s trailblazers that debuted on Wild Style’s silver screen. With Ahearn as producer and director, the three began embarking on a journey to gather the individuals who would be the faces of this landmark film.ĭeveloping its name from an abstract letter design made famous in the graffiti world by graff king Tracy 168, Wild Style featured some of the most prolific pioneers from all aspects of Hip-Hop. Ahearn found out that Lee was the same graf king whose work he admired while filming in LES. Fab 5 Freddy brought legendary graff artist Lee Quinones to meet Ahearn to discuss further the approach of filming graffiti and introducing it as a legitimate art form. He was soon approached by Fred “Fab 5 Freddy” Braithwaite about making a movie encompassing all elements of Hip-Hop (emceeing, DJing, breakdancing, and graffiti). Unless you can do the math, that is.Visit for more informationĪ member of the collective artist group Collaborative Projects, Ahearn was initially exposed to Hip Hop in the late 70s through graffiti when he went to film the youth in the projects in Manhattan’s Lower East Side that studied martial arts. The shared aspect of all graffiti wildstyles is that they have been pushed past the border of readability into the incomprehensible - camouflaged to the point where they are far outside of their viewers' consciousness. They have a common link, in that they have deviated/developed from the basic letterforms, but stayed within the realm of readability. ![]() The basic traditional styles are those easy-to-read (with the exception of Gothic, script and some decorative) typefaces that we are all used to seeing in advertising, publishing, and other popular design. These styles and many more have been incorporated into the arsenal of the modern graffiti writer. ![]() Of course, even the bare letter at the end of that process has its own natural characteristics - whether minuscule or majuscule, serif or sans-serif, Art Deco, Victorian, Gothic, modern-influenced, or something entirely new. This means that, after the viewer has " reverse-engineered" the style of any one letter in a wildstyle graffiti piece, they may apply the same steps to the other letters of that piece and end up with the same result - a decoded letter. That is because these styles each depend on a unique set of geometric relationships and operations, including translation, rotation, glide symmetry, and scaling, to achieve their particular "look", although regional/localized styles may impose similar rules and operations on many writers in a particular area. However, once you can read one letter of a person's particular wildstyle, you should be able to decipher them all. In the vocabulary of graffiti styles, wildstyle is considered the most visually complex, and generally the hardest to read. ![]()
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