phill

back round

• Born in oakland ca 1980
• Listend/listens to mostly rap and hip hop
• Discovered graffiti in 1992
• Took special interest in chemical engineering 

context

• Oakland crews:ftl,lords,tdk,bsk were at their height
• Crack epidemic was sweeping the nation
• Groups like heiro,the roots and souls of mischief were out
• Felix mitchell dies
• Tech had a great engineering academy

event one

• Getting first job
• Worked at the airport
• Worked at ups
• Had to learn to signal planes

context

• The airport averaged over 15 million planes annually
• They combined oakland and alameda ports
• Ranked as the fourth busiest container port in the country 

Event two

• Moving out of fathers house
• He finally had freedom
• Had to support self for first time
• Had many more responsibilities

Event three

• Having first daughter 2001
• Having second daughter 2003
• New focuses in life
• Main priorities

context

• 9/11 happened 
• War with iraq began
• The quality of oakland graff started going down

thank you