TED Talk Powerpoint

TED Outline

Oral Content

Topic: Graffiti Culture

Purpose: Show that there is more to graffiti than meets the eye

Thesis Statement: Graffiti began humbly but has grown into its own as a unique artform with a thriving community behind it.

Introduction

Attention Strategy/Orienting Material:           Show opening/title slide with Berlin Wall graffiti

Body

1. History
   1. Humble Beginnings
      1. First graffiti is “Cornbread” in 1967
      2. Tagging his name to get a girl’s attention
   2. Growth of an Artform
      1. By 1970’s, others started to pick up graffiti
      2. Many, like Banksy, have ironically found mainstream fame through this underground artform
2. Graffiti as art
   1. First Exhibitions
      1. 1971 is the first graffiti art exhibition
      2. 1979, artists are starting to have exhibits in Rome
   2. Selling Out
      1. Shepard Fairey and OBEY
      2. Many, like Banksy, have ironically found mainstream fame through this underground artform
3. Graffiti as a cultural point/community
   1. Method Behind the Madness
      1. The goal is to put your name everywhere
      2. Hierarchy to what you spray, and disrespecting that hierarchy leads to a war
   2. Community
      1. Crews form between artists
      2. Some crews are famous and prolific

Conclusion

Concluding Remark – Graffiti is more than just a bunch of scribbles on a wall. It is an artform with rules, a full community, and its own unique and powerful history.

Reference Page(s)

<www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/the-history-of-american-graffiti-from-subway-car-to-gallery>

<www.widewalls.ch/graffiti-history-10-important-moments/>

<www.boweryboyshistory.com/2010/09/wild-era-of-subway-graffiti-1970-1989.html>

<www.widewalls.ch/20th-century-the-rise-of-graffiti/>

Visual Content

Opening Slide

“My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love” provides a strong example of graffiti’s potential, while surprising the audience into listening to my presentation

Slide One

Cornbread standing in front of his tag, showing the starting point of a budding artform

Slide Two
A subway train covered in graffiti highlights both how quickly graffiti picked up and how widespread it became

Slide Three 

A train exhibiting the work of Fabulous Five provides a background as I explain its beginnings in galleries (also, Fabulous Five was one of the first graffiti crews to have their work taken abroad on exhibit).

Slide Four

A print of Andre the Giant by Shepard Fairey on the wall represents OBEY, a clothing company whose work originated from Fairey’s graffiti stencils

Slide Five

Pictures of 1UP spray paintings will allow me to talk about the processes and background behind spray painting

Slide Six

The work of the FD Gang highlights the benefits of working within a crew and provides a bit of insight as to what goes into working as a crew

Here is a link to the google doc with my essay outline.

I think that it definitely needs some polishing, but there is a strong base. Additionally, going through this process has forced me to reconsider some of the decisions that I made in my speech.

This is the link to my speech outline within my google drive. I think that the outline is fairly thorough, has good potential to expand when giving the speech, and room to grow whenever the essay is written in the future.