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Graffiti Grapher 

• know for its hip-hop culture, but also a part of mathematics 
• use geometric concepts
• considered one of the four elements of hip hop, along with emceeing (rapping), DJing, and b-boying (break dancing)
• easily misunderstood because its often done illegally 
• long and proud history: existed for several decades and is still going strong 
• artists call themselves passionate, skilled, community-oriented and socially conscious in ways that contradict the way they've been portrayed as criminals or vandals
• born on subway trains 
• Taki 183 traveled throughout the city and wrote his name everywhere he went 
• kids competed against each other to get famous and graffiti on trains exploded 
• tried to outdo each other in terms of style 
• art and science of graffiti grew in leaps and bounds 
• most graffiti is not gang related, but often used to mark territory 
• dealt with police controlling the trains, artwork being washed of cars, barbed wire fencing, guard dogs and concerned parents who didn't understand it 
• used to express themselves 
• contribution to city 
• subway graffiti slowed down in the 80's do to height in  security 
• subway graffiti is not completely dead 
• done by writers from all ethnicities 
• important and powerful art forms from all decades (past, present and future)  
• use shadow effects and perspectives
• use folded grid