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Writer--Someone who writes Graffiti

It's UNCLEAR how graffiti came about but surely it has been around for quite some time.

Gangs for insistance in the 1950's setup territorries and self promotion through graffiti.

A sudden spark was set in about 1969. Graffiti expanded beyond childish vandalism and gang linked events. Graffiti had became the main aspect to hundreds of New York City teenagers with its own codes of idenity, sub rosa hang outs, and slangs. It's unknown 2 who started it. Although... with much respect, there is one man that stands out, the one who made it famous-- Taki 183.

The mans real name is Demetrius and from Greece he came 2 New York. At age 15 he was enlighten with knowledge of gangs from the 50's. "They had an initiation where they would hang a new member by his ankles off the side of a bridge," said Dememtrius, "While hanging upside down the guy would paint his name on a pillar. I never saw it done, but that idea interested me."

Also in the 60's, the Magic Maker was invented bringing graffiti to a higher level, much like spray paint the magic marker would leave a impendable aftermark almost any where. As of around 1967, Demetrius caught the attention of the name "Julio 204" which was written around the area where he lived. Julio who did not live 2 far away, was writing his name and street number everywhere he went. Dememtrius nick name was Taki and he lived on 183rd Street. Therefore he startd writing Taki 183. In the summer of 1970, he first "tagged" on an Ice Cream truck. "I did it to pass time," he said later, "My name got notice because it was wider than everyone else's. But even more important, I was writing in a different area than most people."

By March of 1971, Sly II and Lee 163d appeared on 167rd springing off the fad. Lee gain much appraised for his unqiue tag which consisted of stacked and connecting letters.

In october, Lonny Wood, Lee's cousin started writing. "The previous year we'd given this party, " said Lonny. "We were getting ready to give another one and I said, 'We'll call this one Phase Two.' I don't know why, but I was stuck on the name. It had meaning for me. I started writing 'Phase 2.'"

The graffiti code, by this time, was quite already maintained. Writers supposely were mysterious figures who never let themselves be known to others (most importantly--parents.) They had to be prepared to take on dare devil stunts, and be quick handed enough to swipe markers and spray paint, and be tuff enough to "run the train tracks."

"We were like moles," said Tracy 168, one of the first writers to appear in the Bronx. "If anyone chased us, we ran into the nearest subway station and we'd be gone. Nobody would follow us down there." It took considerable nerve to jump off a subway platform and take off running down a dark, forbidding tunnel. The third rail, pulsing with 625 deadly volts, was just a stumble away. Somewhere behind the writer, moving at 40 miles an hour, was a subway train, while perhaps a thousand feet in front was an abandoned station or lay-up track, where the writer could leave a tag, like a flag driven into a moutain peak. It was criminall, dangerous behavior, but the trill was undeniable.

At DeWitt Clinton High School Phase 2 joined a big number of writers. It wasn't indifferent for Phase and the other writers to go in the Transit Authority storage yard across the street marking up trains. After school the writers would get together in a coffee shop. Whenever a came around and pulled up outside, dozens of writers came pouring out of the coffee shop waving markers. As soon as the bus took off, it would of have been marked with freshly scribbled signatures.

While in the beginning there was only a couple of writers in each neighborhood, and so it didn't matter what a tag looked like. But after dozens and dozens of writers appeared on the scene, it was a necessarity to distinguish and touch up the tags to make them stand out. Two female writers, Barbara and Eva 62, enlarged their signatures and made them more colorful. Cay 161 drew a crown over his tag. Stay High 149 drew a stick figure with a halo.

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