THE MILLION DOLLAR VANDAL (2023) Part 1 -NYC Graffiti Documentary-
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ค. 2023
- "DESA" is a graffiti writer from NYC. In the mid-nineties, he was prosecuted and did time in prison for graffiti-vandalism. This is his story in his words.
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Really well done. The gritty VHS footage really captures the era. Can’t wait for part 2
Some of the tape clips are from the 5 ninth Avenue project!
wheres that at?@@bfbfbfgr8
as always, really appreciating the work Jack. Much respect to DESA for doing the film.
side note - it really stuck out to me how his mother wanted to move away from Bushwick high school for fear of getting involved in heroin. As a current teacher in the building, I can really appreciate how the place has cleaned up.
Because heroin was bad *at that time*.
I drove by there a few months ago and saw like 4-6 high school girls having a fist fight out front haha
Great doc, you keep coming up with banger after banger... Much love from Portugal, thank you for documenting the culture and making it available free of charge for us all. Hope to cop merch from you soon, keep it real, cant wait for the next one!
Desa was a legend on the videograf vhs tapes hitting the tops of trains. I’m glad I grew up in era. Eventually the crew I wrote with the 203 crew got on the videograf tapes when we all moved into the city. Desa was the man when it came to ups. Y’all have fancy paint brands & caps now. We had Krylon, Rusto & few different caps. We made markers from shoe polish containers etc. y’all have it made today. The vandal squad doesn’t hunt you down. Banksy ain’t 💩 😆.
Y’all
Such a dope interview/documentary.. can’t wait for part 2 to come out.. hell Id like a part 3/4 and 5 lol.. could listen to Desa talk all day. The added pictures and videos are a dope touch too. Very well done
TAD - TOTS AINT DOWN, 👈🏼 OTB - ONLY THE BEST 👈🏼 IBM- IDOLIZED BY BILLIONS👈🏼
Incredible story I couldn’t stop watching. Man that guy was productive. Great editing everyone.
I moved my kids to L.I. so they didn’t have to grow up like I did in the 80’s & 90’s, only got to live out there for 1 1/2 years before I got divorced and eventually moved back to Astoria, my X and the kids are still out there which is fine by me because it was always for the kids. Even though things are much different now than they were when I was growing up it comforts me to know that they’re living a better life. I can relate to so much of what DESA is saying because many of us grew up the same way at the same time, a stroll through memory lane right here!
Mad funny because my parents moved from Astoria to Long Island to give me and my brothers a better life. I kinda was mad at them because I loved visited my family in queens and hanging out there. There was so much to do especially since I skateboard. Long Island was so boring, but now that I’m older I understand they did what they did.
DESA is a NYC legend like JA, GIZ, VE and so on . Thanks for the amazing work 🙏🏽
Tabe Cope rod dog the list is long
TABE & RIC had shit on lock!
Hot dog, dictip,scrotum,vagflaps….& the list goes on & on & on
Incredible work as usual, Jack!
incredible capture of graffiti and nyc history im excited for part two
Dopeness. We need more! 😂 Well worth the wait. Salute.
what an amazing interview! ive been looking up to desa for my whole graff career ive always loved his throwies
Youre Back again great to See Awesome Job Dude
you're great at making these my guy thank you
Amazing work 👏 keep em coming ❤
Weed makes you paranoid but smoking dust doesnt?
Smoking dust NEVER made me paranoid it actually did the opposite it gives you balls of Steele lol
Can’t wait for part 2!!!
Thanks for the non-lurid documentary and the insights. I am an eighties child from Europe and came into contact with graffiti/hip-hop back then..
I'm having flashbacks right now 🙏
Love your documentaries dude!
hey man. would love to see more interviews with legends like this. i know not everyone is up for it, but goddamn it's dope getting into their backgrounds. MTA is legendary.
Another really dope 😎😎 video .....best audio at that .....🎉🎉🎉
Mots talked about ❤❤❤
Great documentary. You really captured that era of graffiti with these visuals.
really informative and enjoyable doco. looking forward to seeing the second part
Can’t wait for part 2
I had a fun time watching and listening to this. Thank you.
Part 2 is coming soon!
Amazing storytelling amazing editing amazing video
Please keep these vids going they’re awesome
This was great!
Amazing documentary!
Well made doc... keep up the great work, mate =)
Great doc!.
I remember watching the opening credits of Welcome Back Kotter as a kid from my little swamp shack in Louisiana, seeing the tagged trains blow past on the elevated lines, and i felt exactly how that guy is describing @3:55. It's a universal type of excitement... like an ultimate 'alive' moment. I totally get it.
Damn fam... I havn't seen anyone show a RedBird train in forever. Where you get those clips? Beautifully done JWF. Legit History without filler in this.
Excellent work
Good Documentary ... DESA definitely got his props and respect. He put in work and got his fame in the Graffiti game.
How depressing.
@@eadweard.Toy
@@tehjamerz Me or him?
@@eadweard. Depressing" is when you don't know anything about the Graffiti World. So SaE LESS!
@@mystermysterio5348 The graffiti world is wack.
nah this shit is the realest ! big props to you jwf for this one.
Dope!!
awesome footage of old trains with some nice work on them!
Whens part 2 dropping ???? , this was dope
great vid, i always like straight painting videos but i love the human side of graff too. some really interesting people
Most talked about!!
Fucking awesome video man cant wait for the next episode!
Protect DESA AT ALL COST 💯💪🏽💪🏽
Good ass documentry 🙌🙌
What a legend this dude is. respect
Dope documentary, making this is a good deed
He's such a legendary writer.theres a desa in my city, and he's been painting around the same time nyc desa has ..
really cool. cool to see how he was saying how he seen on the trains and why he was randomly fixated on them. that was me growing up. and i always seen DESA wondering
This is fire 🔥 🙌 funny i just came from the lay up with Dek this past weekend lol...
Ok, keep name dropping so you can get clouted up or whateva
Hell Yea 🔥
THIS IS GORGEOUS. BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES... THINGS WERE SO MUCH MORE AUTHENTIC THEN. NOW IT'S A LOT OF TOYS R US SHIT NOW. THIS WAS THE "GET DOWN FOR YOURS" ERA.
💯💯💯
Badass video
Fire vid🔥 my father (Zim) would tell me story’s about the M train
He from Ridgewood he gotta know DG,Zim, almost all of AOK, NWC, ect most of them were in or involved with MTA pretty sure
thats craazy story since i grew up in Ridgewood i like this nice documentary This is before all the hippies came different times so much change
The Korean Artist TKA🔥🔥🔥
Damn this dude is a true G!
Vandal squad Mona… never hear of him. My era was Tom & Jerry
Also if anyone did damage was KEZ5
Recognize alot of the early footage from my book graffiti art which I purchased in 1985 and just about wore that book out.
It reached little old New Zealand back then.
DESA MDV - really enjoyed this one. He didn't talk much about what originally drew him to graffiti, style and outside influence - I'd like to hear that shit.
Most Talked About!!!!
Yesssssss
Nice one ☝️
Big love for the intelligence to be honest and humble but real.
How the hell weed gonna give you anxiety but pcp doesn’t 😂 Dope interview wish I could go back in time to the late 80s early 90s graff was just different back then
Bushwick legends! So much fun back then. I ran with or ran into a lot of these writers in the late 80's early 90's. Myrtle and Troutman! BLK, BMF, TNS, YKK and many other crews. RIP to those writers that have passed from drugs, accidents or murdered, so sad.
The homie CEND LSD 👊
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Crazy how the mother didn’t want her kid to go to bushwick hs but moved to East Ny…
What a crazy and interesting life he must have lived.👑👏
REE is a good dude. He was big in the 70’s, chilled out in the 80’s but still always had that passion for graff. He does a lot of legal walls now but he’s older. DESA is a legend too, more of a vandal but both paid their dues in their own ways.
dude is a criminal
@@DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWiievery writer is a criminal that’s just how it is
@@DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWiiand what are you going to do about it? 😂😂😂😂😂
@@KP-ec7mr I'm gonna own this boy half-moons and rake in the dough, thats what you get for going full vandal
HARD!
Looks like im about to smoke one and watch a desa documentary...we live in the future
ik its anti graft culture to be putting everyones work on front street lately but im loving it I really love hearing all the stories these guys are modern artists
Much respect from chitown homie.
Fuckin dope!
DESA YOU NYC LEGEND
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Ahh TKA... Went to LaGuardia HS with him. We did some boosting together. Think I still got his work in a blackbook somewhere. Damn that feels like a lifetime ago.
Wow. That’s quite a story. Man. 🤯
I remember my day's hanging out stories below the subways. Robbing train conductors for their keys. Shout out to Duro, Michelob, Mack2, Rebel, Dondi, Zephyr & Tkid. 149th St. bench where we all met to trade books and find out the best layups for the week.
Until you’ve done a train depot you don’t know what adrenaline is…🥰💥🥰💥🥰💥🥰💥
🔥🔥🔥🔥😬
Peace Desa, good to know you still good! Grover Cleveland Days.
DESA! For The Rush...
So sick but in the part2 subtitles in spanish please 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Nice, doc. Perfect descrip of, N.Y. bombing culture in the 90's.
QUEENS GET THE MONEY.
solid
respect
"big deal it's a van, it will never be nothing more "😂
Yes Im from Queens and was Bombin the Same Time as Desa I had a good deal of fame too as far as Queens cats from that Era, I was Flik MIK Flik VKS
Edit now all thse years later people still call Me that.
A lot of those old heads still do murals in the alley behind the train station. You would definitely know a lot of those guys. They told me Slash lives down here now but I don’t think he paints much anymore. Some of those guys still go bombing when they get all drunk. I think they’re out of their minds.
MIK but I never heard of you. Who put you down "Flik"?
Good stuff,,, LUE 1,,AOW
Legit
I wasn’t a tagger. I knocked around with 6 or 7 of the main artists of my city in late 80’s.
Some had witnessed the horrors of the Frank Beck situation here in UK, having been child residents of those boarding houses. My mates were out of control. Understandably. They’re all doing ok now in life. Some wrote famous records. Some wrote well known books. Some are running workshops for the next gen of artists. . It could of gone either way for a couple of those guys but I believe graff work is what kept them here. They were focused and out of trouble when working on a piece together.
I’ve recently walked past a piece that my mate did in 92. I remember it being done. We all lived around from there back then. Wonderful to see it still up 30 years later and it’s also brilliant how our councils now dedicate certain spots for graff work.
There will never be a day I don’t want to see work up. I don’t care much for vandalism but I think there’s a place or two perfect in every city for a touch of graff. I love to see it. It’s bright and colourful.
Don't you consider the bombardment of advertising wherever you look as vandalism?
Dedicated spots for graffiti, is like Lion's in a zoo. It defeats the purpose.
But you dont seem to get it.
BROOKLYN KEEPS ON TAKIN IT....
KING DESA 💣👑💪
RIP VE
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13:58 Bro in the back is having an existential crisis 😂 Hold it together Norm 🫡😵💫
Allegedly I use to paint in the 90 and 2000s.
Absolutely phenomenal
💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
do boston next graf scene been blowing up in the last few years
Anyone got the name for the beat/song in the background?
7:30
Greatly appreciated
We need a documentary on RFC and 5MH!