TAKI 183 talks the History of Graffiti Culture, Classic Cars and the Future of Street Art

This episode is very special to me. It’s not often I get to converse with a innovator, a pioneer or a living legend in anything let alone graffiti culture. Today’s guest on the show is TAKI 183.

Before recording a single episode of this podcast I made list of people I would love to have on the show. I threw Taki’s name on there under the dream big column. I wrote it not ever thinking it was a real possibility but here we are lol. That write it down and manifest it stuff I’ve always heard about does have a lot of merit to it, so I’m learning.

TAKI 183 was gracious enough to give me a few hours of his time to talk in-depth about his creative journey at the Auto Body Shop he owns out Yonkers. That being said, it was toward the end of the work day so we had to stop and start depending on if someone in the garage or a client needed to pull him away for a second.

I put a sound effect in between clips to give you an idea of when I had to stop the tape.

This episode was recorded in the waiting area of the garage… So just like when I’m deep in the city, it has it’s own sounds; like refrigerator humming, beeps, doors slamming, car lifts, wheels getting changed, sirens and of course, a healthy amount of welcomed disturbances from folks in the neighborhood.

I could totally edit this stuff out but to me, its all apart of the New York Said audio experience.

Enough with the intro, please enjoy.

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Website: https://www.taki183.net

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Links to the Stuff they Talked About

1. The Words: A Graffiti Glossary 
2. Stay High 149
3. Wall Writers: Graffiti in its Innocence
4. ‘Taki 183’ Spawns Pen Pals – Archived New York Times article
5. Style Wars
6. Julio 204
7. Ford Model T
8. Street Art NYC
9. The Neighborhood That Went to War Against Gentrifiers
10. The case of ‘The Butcher of Tompkins Square Park’
11. Daniel Rakowitz
12. El Marko
13. Keith Haring
14. Jean-Michel Basquiat
15. Adam Cost
16. Kaws
17. TurtleCaps
18. RISK
19. BNE
20. Street Art vs. Graffiti 
21. Philly Writer: Cornbread 
22. Flowers and Dice
23. Turk 182
24. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
25. Malcolm Gladwell
26. KAWS: Companion at the Parade
27. KAWS x Air Jordan 4
28. Dondi
29. VMAs celebrated Brooklyn with a KAWS-reimagined Moonman

This episode is sponsored by Gorilla Coffee.