Infamy The Movie - Graffiti Documentary
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- Infamy The Movie - Graffiti Documentary
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INFAMY is an intense journey into the dangerous lives and obsessed minds of six of America's most prolific graffiti artists. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Doug Pray ("Hype!" and "Scratch") who teamed up with writer, publisher, and graffiti guru Roger Gastman, the movie takes you deep into the world of street legends SABER, TOOMER, JASE, CLAW, EARSNOT, and ENEM.
With brutal honesty, humor and charisma, these artists reveal why they are so willing to risk everything to spray paint their cities with "tags," "throwups," and full-color murals. You'll also meet Joe "THE GRAFFITI GUERRILLA" Connolly, a notorious "buffer" who paints out graffiti on his neighborhood's walls with a vengeance matched only by those who vandalized them. From the streets of the South Bronx to the solitude of a San Francisco tunnel, from high atop a Hollywood billboard to North Philadelphia for a lesson in "Philly-style tags," from the Mexican border to a Cleveland train yard, INFAMY doesn't analyze or glorify graffiti... it takes you there and brings it to life.
Little known fact about train graffiti: I work at a train yard, and we're told to let the graffiti artists go, as the paint keeps the metal from rusting. It's also probably one of the top ten topics of conversation on the yard.
That's common knowledge and unless you work security it's not your job. That's why. I'm guessing the rust thing is a joke that went over your head
@@jessee7334 In layman's terms, we just ran out of fucks too give.
Trains in my area only run through the day. How do I found where they are at night?
Really? I heard the opposite complete horror stories but maybe that was about security and taggers having run ins.
@@mintymintygogo Jump on a late one...
that old man goes around cleaning up graffiti but he has the same mentality. he wants every one to know who he is lol hes the same as them.
+EM KREW truueee hahaha
+EM KREW I like him though hehe.. he's a fuckin rebel
+EM KREW shit dude you just blew my fucking mind all over the room!
Get a job you punks and stop spraying graffiti on my cars !!
Anyone remember those stencils ?
Hahaha what a fuckin clown.
Fuck that buff dude
what i like about this documentary: There is practically no narrator, only writes who explain the writers life. Only people who know whats up and no stupid assumption or so calles "experts". Big thumbs up
that old guy who cleans up the graffiti is just as addicted as the graffiti artist at making marks on walls lol
It was pathetic when he was talking to his daughter
Also he prob fucking up the police investigation by cleaning it or buffing it before troll can get a picture so they can analyze it. Troll takes pictures and analyze it n my city lol
I do appreciate how he said that one intricate ass bomb mural is gorgeous and beautiful I respect him for that n only that everything else he can go fuck himself he can use his cleaning products as lube n fuck himself
We have a dude like that in my city. Even the cops hate his goof ass. Dude spends his own time and money to bust kids and in that amount of time 4-5 new writers pop up.
Your never going to beat it. Hahahahaha. You will always lose because we WILL always crush.
Weather they no it or not , he’s part of the buff squad .
Most importantly this documentary really shows that Joe Connolly is just the world's worst graffiti artist.
he is the worst that it's actually great
RIP Dream. Had the pleasure of him hitting my blackbook when i was a kid in Cleveland right before he passed.
"I don't think you could really breath in that much"
"Nah, I don't think you understand."
💀💀💀
32:15 xDD
Graffiti is the epitome of originality, and is, without question, some of the greatest artwork that has ever been.
+fiLthy really? i think it looks like shit.
+fiLthy
90% of it is shit though
+AKN Concept Like 90% percent of art??????
Matt Mazreku
modern art sure, theres too many kids in my area spraying garbage on the walls, it really lowers the rep of the art form in general
+fiLthy I agree.
"Go in heaven catch some spots" - tomor a real fucking legend 😂😂😂
Dedication not Medication. 👌😸
RIP to NORM, was blessed to meet dude and get a tattoo from him before he left. One of a kind dude for sure
Dude "cleans up" graffiti then leaves a tag to claim it as his spot. Lmfao
Legendary
Do ya think HE realized, in himself, what he was doing?
All these years later and Miss 17 is still at it. Probably the most consistent woman in the game. Wish they would have included her over Claw.
she did a throwie right across the street from my house a few weeks ago crazy to see her still getting up
When you think about it,Joe is a graffiti artist too! He is tagging over other artists! He is a minimalist painter really! He even talks like them
To this day, one of the greatest documentaries ever made on any subject.
Check out STYLE WARS
one of the most underrated docs
the graffiti gorrilla joe doesnt realize that hes goin out bombing too hes just a grey buff mark how is that any different?
fr
he get's paid
I hate Joe already for snitching 💀💀
Old Joe is an art pioneer,
of 'meta-graffiti' 👌🤣
The biggest hypocrite and opp😂
That old dude is just refreshing the wall to put something fresh up
Joe gets the same excitement and satisfaction as any graf artist. Joe..YOURE A GRAFFITI ARTIST BUB!!
Damn straight, he feels the addiction
Especially in that one spot where he buffed over mad graffiti then wrote his own note "No more graffiti here, get a day job" blah blah with the date and his name. Like bro, who wants to see that? Might as well have left the graffiti LMFAO
@@ATrashStudio haha exactly. He got the rush
@@ATrashStudio lmaoooooo
Yeah!
Old Joe is an art pioneer,
of 'meta-graffiti' 👌🤣
WE SHOULD ALL CELEBRATE HIM!
jai's mom is so wholesome "I hope one day he sends me a message across a train"
Can tell she's a very sweet person and caring mom honestly.
this doc was what i watched everyday in high school lol 2005 im 33 now and randomly i go out at night.....shhhhhhhh
This documentary impacted so many stay up, get up💯
I don’t do graffiti and I’m not artistic at all, but I watched this a teenager and now I’m watching it again at 30. 👍
I only think it’s like 9 years old
@@chancejackson2817 It was released in 2005. 16 years.
It’s cool that you seem to appreciate it for what it is, unlike so many others who have to crap on everything that they don’t relate to, and I’m not just talking about this particular video, CZcams (and the world in general) is crawling with miserable morons who are keyboard commandos that feel the need to let the rest of us know how miserable they are, hearing your comment is very refreshing.
@@BLAZENYCBLACKOPS To me, it just seems more and more that people have a narrow world view and can’t begin to fathom that other cultures, hobbies, and people in general exist. Add social media like CZcams to that, and the anonymity of being behind a screen, and you get people that just spew hatred. That’s no way to live. I’m not the happiest, most positive person, but I still question how the keyboard warriors can be so negative all the time. Like they don’t know what happiness is anymore and try to drag everyone down to that level.
26 now remember watching this alongside so many other things related to this culture as teenager man good times 😁 definitely opened my eyes up to a lot of things I enjoy to this day
haha the buff guy was the guy who never fit in as a teen and probably never found himself either.
@@Stoney-Jacksman hes talking about the guy thats buffing the graffiti, Joe, 19:00
@@vldnsp1606 ah my bad. Thanks bro.
Crazy how it’s 2021 and you still see “17” tag everywhere in Nyc especially in Brooklyn
I still see a “17” throw up here in there around downtown L.A. from time to time
Taggs are the best
Graff was a rush back in the day. Getting up was priority number 1. My thing was climbing at night where nobody else was attempting and hearing the community ask "who is that?" lol. As an adult it's not worth it anymore but I still have an appreciation for that fact that it's never going to stop, everywhere too.
Found this doc when I was 13 and was just starting to get a little better at graffiti, I started doing it in the 4th grade after seeing my Dad do it growing up, I'm 23 now and I'm still coming back to this doc and still writing, crazy!
As a female who started writing back in 1989. Comment, I'm proud of sound brick layer in this movement period LOL. I've always kept my name on the low come. I've never been out all city, but I've always been consistent, and well respected by most. Lifestyle of a broadthatmobbs
I love how the dude who covers Graff has the same mentality as the graff artists. Two sides of the same spectrum I guess
Old Joe is an art pioneer,
of 'meta-graffiti' 👌🤣
WE SHOULD CELEBRATE HIM!
I grew up in Baltimore. Biggest ups were SHE and JASE. When I was little, I saw those tags literally everywhere... every sign, mailbox, playground, school, train car, overpass... Every. Where. I thought that was so mystifying and cool.
imagine if earsnots dad let him play the flute
😂😂😂😂
There would probably be a lot more prestos or bics on shelves 😂
A lil' weed in the mouth...
ha!
...htoum eht ni deew 'lil A
My grandsons started at the age of 8yr I took him out on his first spray paint tag he 10yr now he has improved a lot I was back out with him a few days ago my age 71yr old he as good as most adults old Alec from Scotland
This was the most inspirational graffiti documentary I watched as a preteen that got me deep into the culture
Me too bro
same i found this in highschool after that it was crew life and bombing for 3 years lol
Yes bro I used to watch this after a night out on the town.
@@paydn202 man said crew life yanaaa
This is just a few years before cellphone cameras really began to get better in quality and people for the most part minded their own business, now every other person walking down the street thinks that they’re some kind of authority figure and 9/10 people think they’re a cameraman so broad daylight is a lot more difficult, even if just catching a tag.
Whats up everyone, so i haven't uploaded much in the past 3 yrs, i'm back uploading and from now on i will be uploading HipHop Documentaries, HipHop Movies and full HipHop albums, mainly from the USA, UK, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Brasil, Angola, Mozambique, and the odd Album from the other countries.
Hope you guys enjoy the new material, and discover something new from everything ill be uploading, got close to 5000 Albums to upload and a few Hundreds of Documentaries/Movies too, bare with me as some will be deleted after uploading due to copyright but ill try to get at least 1 album a day and hopefully a few documentaries a month.
bro i used to watch this every day in highschool from like 2006 to 2007
it inspired the fuck outta me.
Exit through the gift shop ! Lol ya me too
As an an artist I don’t see graffiti, I see talent.
I may consider hiring JOE CONNELY to buff a guy that's always crossing my shit !!
Love this movie, watched it plenty of times never gets old. Really gets that feeling across.
Its funny they think he got rid of the crime because he buffed graffiti. Even funnier he thinks he brought the housing market up that drastically
He puts up his tag after which is the most ironic shit lol
Old Joe is an art pioneer,
of 'meta-graffiti' 👌🤣
- O.G. master of a fresh side of the craft! JOE! \😂/
Dude who removes Graff is crazy. He's legit crazy.. I can see it in his eyes... Eyes????
You sound crazy yourself. Lol
@@salvadorreyes1337 ya. But you gotta be a bit crazy to roam around LA out in the open daylight like that.
@@jessemontano762 I kinda understand what he's doing. For every action there's a reaction. Then he destroyed his credibility when he proceeded to tag "AMB" on top of buffed out tags. He has issues.
Heyyy now, that Old Joe is an art pioneer!
of 'Meta-Graffiti' 👌🤣
WE SHOULD ALL CELEBRATE HIM!
Phillies definitely got their own type of hand style...Never seen it like that anywhere else
Wickeds are a Philly staple.. 215 love my city..
Word, I ain’t know money makin Mitch was NM
He said “here’s a little bitch tag”😂😂😂
Joe Connoly covering up graffiti with his own graffiti. The buff. Never understood why people think that looks good or even better.
I want everyone watching to know. I see you, and I see all your beautiful art.
Ear saying he would never pay for a goretex jacket living in my head rent free
Same bro. For yearsssssss! 🤣
All the people in the comments dissing the writers like they’ll ever be better than them. Toys toys toys 💀
you contribute to your city looking like a slum. way to go fukkhed
The world will never be clear of those carping from the sidelines......Never let it stop ya! \😎/
Been watching this documentary since I was a kid growing up painting. Love this one.
Facts I was like 17 watching this haha im 31 now still a dope Documentary
This doco gives me flashbacks to when I was a little juvenile that used to tag, break and enter, and really had no regard for anyone but myself. I was introduced to a huge graffiti writer in the area through a friend of mine and he gave me this documentary on DVD and pretty much coached me through life for the next 3-4 years in the place of my father who I never had. Nostalgia right here.
One doesn't shoplift paint, one 'racks' paint innit. I've been up on walls since '84. I'm 50 this year. Graff never get boring, never gets old and experience has shown me its just as spiritual as any religion.
The real translation of sin is' to miss the point'. Christianity tells us the point is everlasting life(after we die) It's not. Life is everlasting when you are right in the moment. Graff gets you 'right in the moment' so technically it's Tai Chi Chuan/Kung Fu/Qi Qong/Meditation.
So...
Get Out. Get Up. Get It.
Sounds like facts to me
sorry, but breaking the laws of society just for the sake of it is "missing the mark" and any Eastern wisdom tradition would certainly tell you that. Is it fun and exciting? Yep. Is is spiritually righteous? Not by a long shot bud
@@smitty121981 There is no definitive yard-stick for these things.
@@zetetick395 there's no serious religion anywhere in the world that promotes lawlessness as a spiritual path. Feel free to correct me with an actual example if you disagree
Just got back into it a week ago and I’m already finding myself under freeways and shit. It really is addicting
imma find out what blt is
and I know it ain't no bacon lettuce and tomato
Graf Gorilla Joe was really powertrippin. Really zoned in on his ego, same as the writers.
Its funny that Joe doesnt really buff the graffiti to get rid of it, he kinda do it to annoy/scare graffiti writers... and he write too. That is funny :D
Old Joe is an art pioneer,
of 'meta-graffiti' 👌🤣
WE SHOULD ALL CELEBRATE HIM! \😂/
"I was after the fashion of humanity, in love with name, and, as young educated people commonly do, I wrote it Everywhere"
(Goethe, Poetry and Truth) 1811
Miss those days when i was 14-16 walking around my neighbor hood and riding my bike around the city with 100 stickers in my pocket and a montana paint marker. fuck I was fearless. good times.
What changed?
@@infinitelyconciousness military. And as I got into HS I just slowly stopped
@@ReanuBeeves what does mean HS? Im from Germany.
@@infinitelyconciousness High School. Also cool story. I was in Germany this year and went to Berlin and saw the 1up crew around it was a cool thing to see in person
@@ReanuBeeves yeah i live in Berlin....cool! You should Go Up again.
Yo a lot of people are like oh I love graffiti I just don’t like vandalism. Like that’s the fun
These comments are hilarious. So many graff groupies that have never been out in the street actually getting up. Social media graffiti is a joke
Joe is literally tagging and beefing w everyone but doing the same shit
its never over, graffiti making a big comeback, not that it ever left, but just know it’ll always be poppin
ENEM is awesome it's pretty cool how he has a huge variety of tagging styles which are all unique and mirror stuff like heart's
Watched this doco multiple times, Still don’t know how Earsnot managed to rack a whole shoe store.
slow n steady wins the race lol all progression plus it was the right time to make profit, these days shits mad different most ppl born poor aint got a chance in todays world
A lil weed in da mouth
I love this movie I’ve been coming back to this video for years lmfao
Joe sees a throwie and paints over it in the same shape with a different color of the wall. So it’s like he just did a throwie lol
Just missing the outline
59:10 anti-graff dude literally throws up a tag, what a hypocrite 😂 following the same rush of hitting up different spots
this documentary was a major influence on me as a youngin
Lil weed in the mouf. Never gets old hahah xx
Such a great documentary, I love how all their art made it to either a museum, their own store, clothing, etc. True passion I hope I can carry on the older I get
I'm 50 n I started writing in the 7th grade n still can't stop with city tags in the day time, it's still dope as fk
I know right!! its an addiction
this makes me so happy
mad respect yo stay up
To me, these people are the greatest artists of the century. The skill dedication and risk is unmatched. The greatest thing about graffiti is that it cannot be held it cannot be kept. Graffiti can never make the rich richer.
There is definitely a spectrum. That marker thief's tags were a mess and probably devalues the neighborhood.
Let's just pay respect all these artists risking their lives for
putting up beautiful pieces of
art! ✌🤘
I used to watch this on re peat in 7th grade I was obsessed with writing
Word!
claudia's family and the way they act, show me why she does graff.
Old school juice. Very strict
This shit meant and means something to me as a kid and still now mark eco getting up was the most amazing game ever
Fax
I stumbled across this interesting documentary today for the first time while doing a little homework for a graffiti documentary that I recently started shooting for a very talented artist out of Lubbock Texas called Joey Martinez A.K.A. "Wise One" and the Documentary will be titled: "If The Walls Could Speak" and probably won't get released until mid 2023. This film brought back a lot of memories for me because I grew up the 80's right in the middle of the Hip-Hop/graffiti culture and it's rise to fame. I was born and raised in NY plus I have also lived in California for 13 years. Watching this documentary reminded me very much of the "Bomb It" graffiti documentary except "Infamy" only followed US writers and didn't go overseas. Personally, I thought "Bomb It" was a little too long and they seemed like they tried to one up "Infamy" by covering too many obscure people in different countries speaking different languages, but that's just my personal opinion. Also, just for trivia, at least three people in this documentary were also in "Bomb It" including CLAW, TOOMER and Joe but "Infamy" originally come out in 2005 and then Bomb It came out later in 2007. Anyway, graffiti will never die, people were tagging deep inside caves back in the stone ages and people will be tagging right up until the last minute of the apocalypse, it's just human nature.
I love this quote here by Bansky, really kinda sums up a graffiti artist's state of mind in one sentence.
“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
― Banksy
I hope to see this
Dope.. I'm from Texas also. San Antonio. Keep us posted on the video. Best of luck.
Subscribed to your channel incase your documentary come out.
59:05 JOE TAGS OVER THE GRAFFITI HE BUFFS?!? JOE, YOU ARE A GRAFFITI ARTIST LMAO
I enjoyed this. All of the artists had unique perspectives. I stopped writing a few years back, streets is calling me again. I'm Gonna go check out my fave old spot tomorrow
I dropped it for years too and recently picked it up like a month ago, been dropping mad throwies everywhere lol you just take vacays but you never really leave this game
I've recently gotten back into it after like 4 years out. New name, New icons, new towns. I'm excited!
😁 man I hope you guys stay safe out there unfortunately seems like too many people want you folks gone for good I respect the art y'all have my blessings
Anyone else has the sudden urge to graffiti Joe Connolly's house? Anyone!?
nope donald trumps house in realy big letters on the wall DICKFACE!!
The White House -- "Traitor"
Yes.
Lol
funny that you didnt say "to bomb"
So this Connely character buffs graff and puts his own graff up?
I was noticing that. Plus its ugly with no style at all. Its ironic.
2023 still watching this again to remember my golden years of getting up
Hell yeah, it’s always a classic. Stay up bro, 41 and working on a comeback
Love to hear it 🎉 if you need any whack music in the background I might have you covered
Fr remember watching this at 12, 13. Now I'm 25 just showing my 6 year old daughter cause she wanting to see how I draw lettering lol
anyone else got the feeling that the graffiti guerilla is a graffiti dude to, painting over another tag and signing it with your own name:P
This man Earsnot reminds me of my late uncle Fever🖤 miss my guy, this is dope🤟
“That ain’t the only body out here trust me” the best line in the whole documentary. 💨👑
Joe Connolly mad he never garnered any handstyle
I'm so jealous of the people watching this for the first time.
get a job
@@Illumirage get some graff bitches
This movie made me get back into bombing!, shoutout to all the writers worldwide!
Graff life for life
Same here been goin ham again for 3 years straight
Ive been on a 7 year pugorty ride away from graffiti...I plan on getting back into it
I always thought of graffiti as an admirable form of artwork. And I'm a white dude from the Deep South...
Haters gonna hate.
+JaySeeKay doesn't matter bruh, If you take time to appreciate our art, then You're cool, You're a graf writer without doin' graf.
+JaySeeKay What's so special about being a white dude from the Deep South and liking Graffiti? (serious Question) +TheCondorjc No he isn't a Writer just because he likes Graff, even my Grandma would be a Writer then. You are a Writer if you go outside and do Graffiti, not just look at it and appreciate it. With that logic I would be a musician too, because I listen to music.
Well, the Deep South ain't exactly know for its Graffiti. And I really don't have anything else to say on the matter. I just really appreciate art of all kinds. Legal or not.
Duck Donald not literally if you knew what I was sayin', Im talkin' about the way of thinking
One of the dopest! Documentary’s ever!!! The expression of these artists are real!!! 💪🔥
Style Wars, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Bomb it, Alive In The Concrete, Sheffield Graffiti Kingdom, Watching My Name Go By, or My Public Space.
people still think you have to be a criminal to paint some stylized letters letters on the wall.
I remember being 15 watching this to motivate me to go back out n do shit I need this on dvd💯👍🏻
Who remembers that gkae and saber on the 710 fwy back in the day man legendary
RIP NORM :(
j de 😢😢😢
one of the best graffiti documentaries out there
when joe said the guy was selling his house for 1.4 million I died laughing... he thinks hes raising the property value or something
and when he said "Ill leave it like that cause you cant tell who wrote it"... sounds like hes just jealous lol, if he cared about having no graffiti he would've taken it down all the way.
the joe connolly paradox; he is a graffiti artist too
Throwing up grey squares all over the city
P.s. All you legendary Taggers from Nyc and Philly and Pitt.. I was a kid growing up in a sister city of Philly and Pitt and the trains make there way here after they hit yall and Ive gottan the pleasure all my life to skate downtown to watch the new pieces and the new tags go by and get new inspiration for new shit I was doing.. Looked up to yall since the beginning and hope to see this thing we love go on til the end of time... Shout out to all the legends killing the game your hard work deff dont go unnoticed we see you!!! Keep these fuckers on they toes stay switching up, stay one step ahead of the game and we cant be beat!!!
Thanks -have not seen this documentary in forever!
Your life belongs to you, do what makes you happy.....But be prepared it may cost you one day.
enem got a dope vibe a good aura very energetic
100 I wanna learn more about Philly style!!!!
He’s a good person word! He’s done a lot for graff!