2 events found.
Event
-
-
Trente-Cinq — Three Letters from Namur
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceAn MC warms up a crowd, somewhere in Namur, some year in the nineties: three letters, a group you don't need introducing, NBS, make some noise. That tape still exists, and so does the crew. Namur Break Sensation have been at it for thirty-five years, which in b-boy terms is closer to a geological era […]
-
-
Philadelphia Graffiti Handstyles — Street Penmanship, from Gangster Prints to Wickeds
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FrancePhiladelphia has never had the mainstream aura of New York, and its writing has stayed largely off the record. Yet few cities have produced a scriptural texture of their own — a shared way of shaping letters that goes beyond the individual signature. Some local writers call this American metropolis "Whip City": in the sense […]