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| Infamy | 
 enlarge | Director: Doug Pray
Actors: Earsnot, Claw, Nm, Saber, Jase
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 10569
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 91 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: PAL2695DVD
UPC: 014381269529
EAN: 0014381269529
ASIN: B000H5U5EO
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Product Description
Take 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 Guerilla" 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.System Requirements:Running Time 90 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: R UPC: 014381269529 Manufacturer No: PAL2695DVD
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 ***A MUST HAVE*** November 23, 2008
Straight up this DVD is awesome! a handful of amazing writers from all over the US! SABER, TOOMER, CLAW, ENEM, EARSNOT, JASE and many more! it goes into detail with every writers story as to how they got introduced into the graffiti world and why they still do it to this day! amazing artwork!!! gotta add this to your collection!
 Great overview of Graff writers, thier motovations & consequences January 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Infamy is a good documentary style graff film that takes the time to really explain what graffiti writers are about. This is not just a 'piece' reel to showcase styles from different areas (Graffiti Verite'), nor is it a fictional movie with a plot (aka Bomb the System). Infamy details the motivations and ambitions of some well-known writers form around the country. All the writers interviewed are very articulate and express their thoughts and emotions clearly and are to the point, particularly Earsnot, NM, Saber, and DAZE. I found the bonus footage even more interesting than the film itself. Bonus material touches on topics ranging from the relationship of hip-hop and graff, the perception that graff writers are unsuccessful unemployed losers, and the commercialization of the graffiti subculture as it explodes into the mainstream.
Regardless of your take on graffiti and the people who produce it, watch this DVD and you'll gain insight on why they do it and what pushes them to continue. I found Anti-Graffti Nazi Joe Connely's point of view pretty valuable too. By the end of the film, we learn that he's actually doing the thing that he despises most.
"If you're going to be a writer, just shut the F up and write graffiti... and don't tell nobody"
Is good... December 21, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
By the maker of 'Scratch' I believe, Infamy sheds light on an art form that is ever present in most of our lives [living in city, or passing train tracks], and does an great job at showing more than one side of it. Multiple artists are interviewed from different cities and different styles, not to mention a graffiti removal nut in a LA suburb. Powerful.
Aerosolt December 9, 2006
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Infamy is about artists going for fame. Pure and uncut through the decades
it's all there. All the phat beats and mad stlyes are there but in the end thats it. The movie displays illegal crime activity and what happens next. Some flashbacks in the movie are pretty macabre. This is really though hardcore bombing in different cities. This is the essence of graffiti and it's a cry for props in a world of none.
Infamy is a funkin dope documentary November 3, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
How can you not like this film? It's got such a wide diverse group of writers, from Jase to Claw, Earsnot, Saber and Enem. In depth and totally deep interviews. Amazing and beautiful footage. Even features the assclown Joe Connolly - the "Graffitti Guerilla" of LA who is a big graff artist himself with his buffwork. The best graff film since Style Wars, hands down. If you're into graffitti but not tagging, this will get you into it. If you're not into graffitti, this will still get you into it. See it. Worth it for the interviews with female writer Claw and gay writer Earsnot alone.
-feelsweird
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