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Get the Met: ‘How we Met’ Second Edition
An expanded and revised edition from the First.
Four Letter Press presents a sequel to the Australian design cult-classic publication, Get the Met, ‘How we Met’ Second Edition. Following on from the continued success of the first edition released in 2020, we gladly present to you a 300 page hardcover publication with four times the amount of content from the first edition. The chapters in the book include Early Periods of Melbourne Rail History, Brochures and Printed Material, train ticketing, the train models, railway branding and additional chapters such as staff uniforms and signage.
The book contains 100’s of exclusive images, some never seen by the public, now readily available for your viewing and book collection needs. Beginning the book off with classic black and white photographs of Flinders Street pre-electrification, textured film photos from ex-workshop staff member and private collector, Simon McArdle, a mix of film and crisp digital photos from a private collection of Chris McGregor and additional photographers noted from the previous edition.
The Second Edition has grown, now a generous 300mm x 300mm book size which is as big as a vinyl record cover! With a mind-blowing 300 page hardcover feature, this book is definitely going down in the ages.
The Second Edition aims to shed more light on the early periods of Melbourne rail, organisational and operational information about ‘The Met’ and revised details about the train model design descriptions. The author, Jourdan Sungkar, has spent 5 years since the first edition, researching Melbourne rail through hundreds of rail issued publications and reading material that has resulted in the culmination of this newly minted Second Edition, in what may be a life-long series of Melbourne rail history.
No book has covered such an extensive visual history of Melbourne rail. It will surely go up in price so think of it as an investment as well.
Book specifications:
300 x 300mm pages
300 page hardcover
Shrink wrapped with sticker
Comes with famous Get the Met sticker and ticket pack.
WHITEBOOK 01 – IT'S A CIRCLE by Mark Grokenberger
New York City is the birthplace of graffiti—and especially of train writing. Since the mid-1980s, writers from all over the world have been making pilgrimages to this mecca, and many of them have attempted to paint the legendary subway—just as their role models have done since the 1970s. The first volume of the WHITEBOOK series IT'S A CIRCLE documents several trips to the Big Apple by German writer and photographer Mark Grokenberger between 2019 and 2024.
"Mark Grokenberger's original intention was simply to explore New York City, following in the footsteps of graffiti legends like LEE, DONDI, and SEEN. He wanted to experience the olfactory atmosphere of the venerable tunnels, create a piece in places where numerous milestones were created—and capture a touch of the old New York, which has largely disappeared today."
— René Kästner
The 224-page hardcover volume chronologically tells the story of writer friends who initially just want to check off the subway for a moment – only to discover that the city has much more to offer for ambitious train writers. With each trip to NYC, their adventures become more professional – ultimately leading to well-thought-out end-to-ends, colorful wholecars, and even entire wholetrains. Their experiences are divided into six chapters and are accompanied by reflective texts and stories about selected adventures.
"It's more craftsmanship than graffiti art, but that's exactly what we wanted to be our trademark. Megalomaniac kids from Europe reaching for the stars in the USA. Simple, but true. [...] Painting so many large pieces was never our plan—rather, it's the result of a growing affection for the city and its subway system."
IT'S A CIRCLE is a five-year journey with impressive photographs—not only of tunnel action, yards, in traffic, and from a drone, but also of authentic New York in atmospheric street and subway photographs. Participating artists include SEKO, BQEM, YUSUF, TUKI, IRAK, EYSIR, ORG, IOC, MOPS, and many more.
"But sometimes things demand to be seen. Sometimes I have to go out and share. This is one of those moments. These are the memories, snippets, and stories of some of my best adventures – shared with incredible friends."
The first volume in the WHITEBOOK series opens with a foreword by series founder René Kästner. It is available as a signed limited edition of 250 copies, including two prints and a postcard, and as a regular edition consisting of the book alone.
ISBN: 978-3-9825457-2-1
20 x 30 cm, Hardcover, 224 pages
Paper: Book cover 135 g/m² wood-free white matt coated art print
The Crash Kid Graffiti Archive Book is something like the legacy of Massimo Colonna, who as Crash Kid shook up the Italian hip-hop scene. In the 80s he established himself as one of the best breakdancers of his time, which came to a far too early end in 1997 when he died of cancer at just 26 years old.
What is perhaps less well known is the fact that Crash Kid left behind a massive body of photographic work fully dedicated to the hip-hop world. The Crash Kid Graffiti Archive book now features unpublished photographs from his archive dedicated to graffiti.
Shot in cities such as New York, Paris, Rome, Monaco and Basel, it features the work of Bando, Mode 2, Dare, Can 2, Loomit, Napal, Stand, Pane, Rusty, Zero T, Dayaki, Eron and many others, often posing in front of their own writings.
The photographs, taken over the course of about a decade, thus offer an interesting glimpse into the worldwide graffiti and hip-hop scene of those days.
Publisher's proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit the Italian Association Against Leukemia Lymphoma and Myeloma.
POST GRAFFITI
"We're bringing graffiti to the people again" wrote Code on a delivery van in the summer of 2023, highlighting exactly the trend that he set together with Moses and Taps, Otis, Futo and Thunder. A wave of no-longer-all-yellow delivery vans that first spilled over from Hamburg to Berlin and Dortmund and then spread throughout the country.
POST GRAFFITI - SIMPLY DELIVERED illustrates the cornerstone of the exciting development of graffiti on delivery vans.
On 320 pages with photos by Edward Nightingale and Emmett Edelstein, among others, the book shows how graffiti was able to reinvent itself and still remain true to itself.
POST GRAFFITI - SIMPLY DELIVERED.
Hardcover with screen print
320 pages, 130 g Munken Lynx 1.13
24 cm x 28 cm
Text: German/English
Printed and bound in Germany, 2024
Introducing the new issue of the Stylefile Blackbook Sessions series, there is once again an update from the most diverse sketchbooks and desks in the scene. From simple studies to detailed full-pagers, whether analogue or digital, everything is included on 160 pages. For some, sketches are merely a necessity and a means to an end, while for others, they are an independent discipline in the field of graffiti. What all of them have in common, however, is that you have to deal intensively with the process of sketching in order to develop your own style. How wide the range of approaches is can be studied in this book. It provides exciting insights into the approaches of the most diverse types of writers. Insights that would remain hidden from most people even in the age of social media.
Sketches in graffiti have always existed. A white sheet of paper and a marker have been the starting point of every good style for years. In the beginning, sketches were only done with normal pens, but soon professional layout markers were part of the writer‘s basic equipment. This was then the measure of all things for decades, but in recent years, new possibilities have helped this genre take another relevant leap: With acrylic markers, it is now finally possible to work with opaque colors and no longer have to use only white paper as a background. But the leap from analogue to digital has also been made by now in the field of sketching in graffiti: Tools like Procreate have recently formed a completely new basis for a whole generation of writers to create works of art with letters. You can notice that for many writers, sketching has established itself over the years as a discipline of its own within the field of graffiti. Due to the expanded technical possibilities, the question of when a work can still be declared a sketch and where a canvas begins can no longer be answered with a clear distinction. For another part of the scene, however, sketches are still a necessity and a means to an end: to further develop one‘s own style or to have something for the next production on the wall or train. What all of them have in common, is that you have to deal intensively with the process of sketching. How wide the range of approaches is can be studied in this book. It provides exciting insights into the approaches of the most diverse types of writers. Insights that would remain hidden to most, even in the age of social media, and that we can now show to a large audience!
Line-up:
ACUT · AEMIR · ALOE · AMIR · AMIT · AMUSE126 · AROME · MR.BAKER · CHECK · CIDE · COPSA · COSMA · CROW · DATOR · DEJOE · DISKO · DOE · DREIST · DREY · EKSIT · ERPEL · FACT · FLASH · FLOR76 · FNACK · FRED · HOKUS · INKA · JEFF · JEROO · JONES · KACAO77 · KAHN · KIEs · LOCO · MAROK · MIND · MONKEY · OSBKUR87 · PAW · PLAQUE · PLAST · RAZOR · REK · RINE · ROLEX · ROLY · RTMONE · RUSTE · SATAN · SEIN12 · SEMOR · SEW · SEWER · SHAW · SLIDER · S.KAPE289 · SOFLY · SOME · SPENDA · SUNCHES · SWET · TOWN · TRES · TRUBA · TRUN · TWIK · VENTS137 · ZAILOR
27 x 16 cm, 160 pages.
This is a replica of Akay’s first blackbook. The production of the original began in the autumn of 1986, when 16-year-old Akay glued a spray paint color sample chart onto the first page of an unassuming, standard-sized sketchbook. Through his nightly additions of sketches and photographs and newspaper clippings until the spring of 1990, the personal document of a prolific graffiti writer became this unintentional chronicle of an era of Stockholm graffiti.
There’s a brief gap in Akay’s meticulous record-keeping from just before Christmas of 1988 when his dad confiscated his original blackbook and locked it inside a bank safety deposit box. His dad threatened to throw it in the fire if Akay didn’t stop painting graffiti. A few weeks after the blackbook was taken hostage, two policemen showed up at Akay’s dad’s house with a search warrant. Akay and Weird were told to wait in the kitchen while the police searched Akay’s basement bedroom looking for evidence to build their case against him—things like photos or sketches, or even better, all that evidence conveniently glued into a book along with the dates and locations written next to the pieces. But thanks to his dad’s failed attempts at parental extortion (and no thanks to his dad’s wife who kept offering the cops coffee and refreshments), the police didn’t find anything incriminating. The only slightly suspicious thing the police could find was an artfully arranged display of 280 colorful spray cans, Akay’s most prized possession at the time—second only to the imprisoned blackbook—that brightened up his windowless room.
Now, over 30 years later, long after the contents can be used as evidence in any prosecutable crimes or for manipulative parenting tactics, the blackbook from Akay’s teenage years has been reproduced and made available for the first time. This is the second edition.
Fold outs come in a package with instructions on how to glue them in.
Measures: 34 x 25cm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 154
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