Deadly Buda
Joel Bevacqua is an American rave DJ, promoter, and writer[1] known as DJ Deadly Buda. He is also known as the graffiti artist “Buda”. He is a recognized pioneer in both graffiti and rave culture. Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he is credited by Roger Gastman as being "Pittsburgh’s first graffiti superstar" and inventor of the “monster rock style” of graffiti lettering.[2] He is also recognized for instigating Pittsburgh's rave scene in 1991.[3] In 2005 part of his techno dance music collection was a notable acquisition of the US Library of Congress: Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.[4]
Graffiti
In 1985, Bevacqua chose the tag name “Buda” while doing a book report on Buddhism for a junior high school social studies class.[5][6] He would frequently travel to New York City where he would meet and learn from graffiti artists at Henry Chalfant’s Soho studio at 64 Grand Street, like Tracy 168 and T Kid 170. Wanting to be better than anyone in New York,[7] Buda developed a new lettering style he called “Monster Rock.” Most New York graffiti lettering styles were drawn in such a way as to give the illusion of 3-dimensionality. However the “3-D” as the graffiti writers called this illusion, usually only went in one direction, so that the letters looked like a cohesive block coming from a singular direction even when they were complex wildstyle letters. “Monster Rock” differed in that the “3-D” twisted and deformed in such a way as to make it appear that the letters were coming from different directions, as if it were a moving, organic form. The first appearance of the Monster Rock style was executed in Millvale, PA, and appeared in the book “Spraycan Art” by Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff.[8] The style was influential to graffiti writers.[9] Twisting “3-D” is now a common stylistic element of modern graffiti art.
References
- ^ Matos, Michaelangelo (2015). The Underground is Massive : How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America. New York, NY: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-06-227178-5.
- ^ Gastman, Roger; Neelon, Caleb (2010). The History of American Graffiti. New York: Harper Design. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-06-169878-1.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Matos, Michaelangelo (2015). The Underground is Massive : How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America. New York, NY: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-06-227178-5.
- ^ "Deadly Buda Collection in US Library of Congress". Music Library Association. Music Library Association. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
- ^ Fringeli, Christoph (October 1997). "Interview with Deadly Buda". Datacide. 1 (3). Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ^ Fringeli, Christoph. "Interview with Deadly Buda". Datacide. Praxis. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ^ Newton, Matthew (November 24, 2005). "Writers' Bloc". Pittsburgh City Paper. Steel City Media. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ^ Chalfant, Henry; Prigoff, James (1987). Spraycan Art. New York, N.Y: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-27469-9.
- ^ Newton, Matthew. "Writers' Bloc". Matthew Newton. Retrieved 23 November 2015.