Frankie goes to Hollywood
In 1983 I got a job working as 'second assistant to the Art director'  for the film "Breakin"  "I designed and painted these jackets and shirts (and graffiti wall) for the film. <- Here's me standing next to the electro dancer "Pop-n-Taco" wearing the jacket I painted. You can see this Jacket worn by "Pop-n-Taco" in the film clips from "Break'in" below. Ice T is in the second video, I remember that they had to bail Ice T out of jail that day to make the scene".   F.Q.O.
1983:  On the set of "Breakin", cassettes of Malcolm McLaren's "Duck Rock", Run DMC's first record and Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five, and Kraftwerk's "Tour de France" started circulating around our beat boxes. That was the first wave of this new sound that washed ashore. ("Breakin" Actor) Boogaloo Shrimp recommended  the Club Radiotron (in L.A.) to me and so I went  one night and stood at the edge of the  circle and watched the nylon windbreaker hooded Break  Dancers do their thing - and I had my mind blown!  "Breakin" Actor Boogaloo Shrimp in action:
The movie Breakin' was really campy, but Boogaloo Shrimp was for real, the real scene in the clubs was potent, that's what turned me on. I was just a voyeur, but it opened my mind. I went home - and the new sound  was in my blood. Photo: me back home in Hawaii practicing dancing on the patio / lanai - with the beat box - I was never really any good at breaking, but is sure was fun anyways. (I forget who took these photos now.)     To read more about "Breakin" and my intro to the world of Dancing: click here