The original artworks depicted here, which have been the inspiration and guide for thousands of youthful artists around the world, were never able to endure for long before the city cleaned the cars, or the artists’ enemies crossed them out. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. “We look for cheating tells,” says Derk. New York’s legendary kings of graffiti own a special place in the hip hop pantheon. “Everything the dealers do was put in place for a reason,” Sal says. 165 watched 87 wanted: 35. (iStock) “Believe it or not, we don’t spend a whole lot of time on poker at all,” says Derk. It’s common knowledge that just about every game you’ll find in a casino is tilted in the house’s favor. All rights reserved. “They’re trying to make one strong hand — which, believe me, happens,” he says. Style Wars In The Cutting Room: In the summer of ’83 a camera crew visited Valkhn Films, an editing house where Style Wars was being painstakingly sliced together. That means no windows and no clocks. If a dealer is stealing, Sal says there are many different ways security will handle it, depending on where the casino is. From the railway station in the distance came the sound of shunting trains, ringing and rumbling, softened almost into melody by the distance. The project culminates in student-written and performed play: History on Stage! He was a funny man that enjoyed telling jokes and spending time with family and friends. But you’re going to lose a lot more than you’re going to win in those games.”, Sal has particular disdain for Double Exposure Blackjack, which he considers a particular ripoff, thanks to strict rules on when you can double down and the fact that if you tie with the dealer without a blackjack, the dealer wins. One could not escape from them. We were told that once we made the transfer, we could restore the film digitally, frame by frame, but that the cost would be astronomical. “We have a database of bad guys that are out there and what kind of scams they pull, so we’re gonna check for that,” Derk says. “If a guy’s tipping, you don’t want him to lose,” he says. The private South African school, exclusively for boys, trains young students from level 8 (equivalent to eighth grade) to level 12 (equivalent to 12th grade) in art, in theater and music courses, sculpture and painting. In 1987 Chalfant co-authored the book Spraycan Art with James Prigoff, documenting the global expansion of graffiti. Chalfant’s patience and determination in hunting down and capturing these masterpieces with his camera has left the world with a representative cross section of some of the best work by the most talented young artists who painted New York City’s subway cars in the seventies and eighties, the golden age of graffiti. They pay attention to it better than anybody.”, It’s a basic bit of casino etiquette, but tip your dealers. Music had troubled him many times. that exploded into the world from a city in crisis. Coming home, a party of excursionists from Chertsey or Isleworth passed us singing and playing music. Lisa Citron, wife of the late Tony Silver, is a board member of Public Art Films, Inc. and founder/director of (Out)Laws & Justice, a middle and high school project-based curriculum about the conquest of Western America. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, The film was shown at the New York Film Festival. He co-authored the book Subway Art (1984) with Martha Cooper and he co-produced the film Style Wars (1983) with the film’s director Tony Silver. “If somebody is cheating a slot machine, invariably, they’ll sit at it and they don’t really have to look at the machine because they know what they’re going to cause it to do,” says Derk. I remember sitting with his older brother years ago as well and watching this series on TV. The mother and son constitute one of the most deeply human encounters I know of on film.”, “Groundbreaking and nearly perfect, a heady slice of Americana. “Maybe they can see the hole card, maybe they’re card counting, maybe they’re tracking a clump of cards. STYLE WARS captured the look and feel of New York’s ramshackle subway system as graffiti writers’ public playground, battleground and spectacular artistic canvas. Say a guy wins $100,000 on a blackjack game. He is also founder and principal of Los Angeles based digital communications and strategy agency Deep + Wide. They’re waiting for a certain condition to arrive in the game, so they’re going to play minimally until that change happens and once that happens they’ll hit.” Derk says that’s a major red flag. “Dealers make minimum wage or in some places might make a little bit more than minimum wage,” says Sal. To Chalfant’s credit are three of the most influential documentations of aerosol art. Reveals hip hop in its purest state, capturing it before it was part of pop culture and a source of revenue for major corporate entities. In 2000, Jenkins was awarded a fellowship to the graduate school of journalism at Columbia University (The National Arts Journalism Program); it was Jenkins’ rich knowledge of the history of New York subway graffiti that would deliver him to the ivy league. Black Soil Film Festival (Rotterdam) 2003 7.7. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. After seeing Style Wars, one can’t help but long for a bit of the chaos and creativity of the graffiti years.”, “Talk about groundbreaking films: Style Wars, a documentary about graffiti artists, was first broadcast by PBS. 5.7. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. “We want people to win money or else they won’t play.”, Gambling and cheating. Derk says in that instance, security will do a player evaluation: They will review his/her play on video for signs of cheating or card counting. New York’s kings of graffiti and b-boys own a special place in the hip hop pantheon. The best hip hop culture study ever made.”, “Visually the movie is as stunning as the film’s subjects are fascinating. So Yahoo Travel talked to Sal and other casino experts with decades of experience in the industry to get some dirty little secrets of casinos. “A dealer’s salary is all tips.”, Sal’s wife and business partner, Dee — a former casino dealer herself — agrees. (iStock), Anyone who’s spent time in a casino knows they are designed to make sure you’ll lose track of the time (and of the money you’re probably losing). ... Music (Song) - Thoroughly Modern Millie in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" Music and Lyrics by James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn. The way casinos have turned the act of separating us from our money into such a marvel of precision and ingenuity is every bit as awe-inspiring as the Egyptian pyramids. Style Wars: The Outtakes Project Fun stories about food, relationships, the great outdoors and more. Meanwhile MCs, DJs and B-boys rocked the city with new sounds and new moves and street corner breakdance battles evolved into performance art. When autistic children (and adults) have interests, we will often engage with them in a way that is influenced by our autism. How clear, and vivid, and cruel! Seemingly innocuous behaviours, such as the use of cameras in public places, travel beyond well-established tourist attractions or casual interactions with Iranian friends, may be misinterpreted and may lead to investigation. “They’re not going to know it, of course. Then they’ll check out the player. Words! Chalfant also directed with Rita Fecher a documentary on South Bronx gangs, Flyin’ Cut Sleeves (1994) and he directed From Mambo to Hip Hop (2006) portraying two generations of Latino youth growing up in the South Bronx. That’s what we call 'rubber-necking.’ That’s a big tell for us because [normal] slot players don’t do that — they play their machine and they don’t want to be bothered. See editor Sam Pollard, director Tony Silver, supervising editor Victor Kanefsky, and more, make history in this unusual and candid short. --“Rubber-necking” — A dead giveaway of a slot machine saboteur. It’s the kids themselves who speak most eloquently to their work.”, STYLE WARS | THE ORIGINAL HOP HOP DOCUMENTARY | ©2014. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Feel around. A handful of Chalfant’s photos have been featured in such books as Subway Art and films like Style Wars. Unforgettable. Barcelona In-Edit Music Film Festival (Audience Award) 2003 Walker Art Center, Siskel Film Center, International House of Philadelphia 2003 Bergen (Norway) International Film Festival 2003 Find your way. His photographs record hundreds of ephemeral art works that have long since vanished. A former magazine editor, Cepeda has written extensively about identity, race, Latino issues, hip-hop culture and music, and travel for The New York Times, The Village Voice, CNN.com, and many others publications. “When someone is winning a lot of money, they’re always going to get checked by us,” Derk says. A person loves trains because they love trains. Official Selection, Toronto and Sydney International Film Festivals. In 1987 Chalfant co-authored the book Spraycan Art with James Prigoff, documenting the global expansion of graffiti. Lisa and I are very grateful to the Public Art Films board members, Carlos, Raquel, Sacha and Brian, for the bottomless well of their support for this project. Directed by Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine. It keeps the guys at the table.”. Directed by Tony Silver and produced by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant, it was awarded the Grand Prize for Documentaries at the 1983 Sundance Film Festival. Style Wars emanates joy from both sides of the camera. Site coming soon! It is the story of meeting via eating. To our great disappointment, we discovered that the negative had been badly damaged by moisture during the two decades it had been in storage. “As long as it’s legitimate, we’re okay and we move on,” Derk says. What’s the most common case of casino malfeasance Sal has dealt with? His photographs record hundreds of ephemeral art works that have long since vanished. Card counters and cheaters have tells, too, and security is on the lookout for all of them. —Nathan Rabin, The Onion, Grand Prize for Documentaries, Sundance Film Festival 1984 The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. It is a love-story and a love-letter at the same time to Mumbai, to the trains that go click-clack over long distances, to Dabbawala (lunchboxes) and rain, to love and life, sugar and spice, the despair and the hope that mark every heart. “They’ll actually handcuff and walk you right out so everybody gets to see you. But music was not articulate. In the years since, His widow, Lisa Citron, and I were able to raise the money for the film’s restoration, almost entirely through fan-based donations. Best DVD of the Year.” And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! Sculptor/Painter/New Media Producer who has been a Graffiti Style Writer since 1976. So if you look around like that, that’s going to get out attention and we’ll stop to figure out why. Victor and Philippe have put together that footage to make a 21 minute film about the editing of Style Wars. “Let’s be realistic; they’re in it to make money.” But even though we know the score, that doesn’t take away from how much fun casinos are. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. “But most of us want to bet it because you have chance of doubling your money.”, When someone loses their shirt, you can expect some silent pity, but not much else. Scott, The New York Times, “The best hip hop film ever made. It's a far cry from the years of education required in most western European countries and others around the world. “That’s a game where there are strategies you can study,” he says. (iStock). Tribeca Film Festival, New York 2003 Sadly, we we put the idea on the shelf. Yes, both the film and the extras have closed captioning, What languages is the Blu-Ray available in? Now for the first time, the entire collection will be made available, released serially over the next year until all 800 trains have been published. “It doesn’t guarantee you’re going to win, but it gives you a much better chance. “People come there to have a good time,” says Dee. “They have stripper poles, they have party pits,” Sal says. “It’s not my job. So somewhere in the casino, in a locked, high-tech room, a security guard you’ll never see might be telling you to “hit.”, You can bet on it: if you hit a big jackpot, or get on a major hot streak, security has its eyes on you. New York’s legendary kings of graffiti and b-boys own a special place in the hip hop pantheon. Brian currently serves as Director of Digital Marketing for Luumena at WME, and was previously an Account Director with global PR firm Weber Shandwick. 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