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Meet the legendary graffiti artists who inspired 'The Get Down’ The New York Post, August 11, 2016 12:56pm When Chris “Daze" Ellis was growing up on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, he saw a subway car parked in the Utica Avenue station that made him stop and stare. A buxom blonde had been painted on it, her hair cascading onto the car's roof, along with the lettering "Blade TC5." The year was 1975. Ellis was 13-years-old. "Seeing that really inspired me," says Ellis, now 54. "When I saw that train, I knew it wasn't really a random act. It was planned out." By the time Ellis was a student at New York's High School of Art and Design, he would meet other teenage boys whose imaginations were fired up by the faces and words spray-painted onto the battleship-gray subway cars of the 1970s. Everyday they gathered at the East 149 Street subway station to watch the trains, sketch the graffiti by older writers and develop ideas. It was there, on the bridge connecting the uptown and downtown sides, that Ellis would meet fellow artist and future business partner John "Crash" Matos, a student at Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Administration who grew up in the South Bronx. "You had to get your name around and you had to document your work, which meant spending hours on the elevated platform photographing your work (as the trains went byl." Ellis says. - The pair would go on to become two of the most prolific graffiti writers of the time, working their way into the alternative New York art scene of the 1980s and then international acclaim. Ellis chose "Daze" as his graffiti "tag" - or signature - on the visual merits of its letters; Matos, on the other hand, had already earned the nickname "Crash” due to his bad luck with the computers at school. When he was 14, Ellis did his first subway car in the 215th St. train yard, where the CC trains (now the C train) were stored. "It was wintertime, in the middle of the day," says Ellis, who cut class to get there. "I didn't realize that paint freezes, like anything else. I had four cans and I'm painting and it's becoming really drippy because it's frozen. I couldn't really do much. ended up getting chased out." Matos preferred to work in "lay-ups," the sidetracks where trains are taken out of service for maintenance and cleaning. "I liked those because access, to me, to get in and out, was paramount," says Matos, now 54. who inspired-the-get-
