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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
In the American Graffiti Coloring Book, more than 45 of America's most prominent graffiti writers have provided the initial outlines - now it is up to you to give them color!
With full pages devoted to the artwork, each spread becomes its own unique full color piece of art as you go along filling out the pages, and there is plenty of room for the small details. American Graffiti Coloring Book is printed on marker friendly paper. Use your markers and color-in on both sides of the page with no risk of the ink bleeding through.
This coloring book is an excellent way to release your creativity, whether you are new to graffiti or an experienced artist. Explore the medium, be creative, make an impact and immerse yourself in the world of color, style and shapes. The American Graffiti Coloring Book offers a relaxing approach to coloring at the same time as it is an informative art collection.
Remember: The American Graffiti Coloring Book is the real thing - it's not copying a graffiti "style", it's real graffiti. All illustrations are original artworks made by experienced American graffiti artists.
Young and old all over the world love the coloring books published by Dokument Press. In the American Graffiti Coloring Book, Dokument Press teams up with The Museum of Graffiti in Miami, Florida, to create a stunning coloring book with the best graffiti art that America has to offer. From New York pioneers who helped create the art form in the 70s, to freight train kings in Florida and hall of fame spray can wizards in California- they all come together to let us study their styles and color-in their outlines.
The content is carefully curated by the influential artist and Museum of Graffiti co-founder Alan KET, and the striking cover and book design is made by none other than Noah from the legendary AOK and TFP crews.
ISBN: 9789188369581
ISBN-10: 9188369587
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 50
Dimensions (cm): 25.0 x 20.0 x 1.27
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The magazine is all about documenting the graffiti culture with camera and film.
Lots of bombing and street photos combined with documentation of the lifestyle and atmosphere around graffiti.
The zine is in full color, printed on thick quality paper.
Each issue features a number of photographers that present some of their photos combined with a short interview.
In this issue: Andreaswarhier, Anisali, Cocobongo666, Diesermatthes and Telling.
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Format: A5 Portrait 64 pages Language: English
For 15 years the northern suburb of Craigie provided a place for graffiti writers to paint without fear of prosecution or persecution. For the first time in the suburbs history an attempt to document the stories, pieces and individuals that made the Craigie Walls an important place in West Australian graffiti culture has been made. Craigie Tales is a publication about a suburb, a site and a mural arts program regulated by the painters that took ownership of three local High School tennis court walls.
With insight, narratives and images collected from the painters that made Craigie a home to a subculture, Craigie Tales offers an experience in to (sub)urban folklore and transmits moments and movements that are privy to few. Providing an essential understanding to a code of conduct that would last for over a decade Craigie Tales celebrates the act of writing and a site that would define Perth's painting culture.
A5 portrait
324 pages full colour
Matt artboard laminated cover 350gsm
Matt artpaper text and images 150gsm
Section sewn binding
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.
The spark was struck when he was very young, captivated by the vision of the first halls of fame in Milan. Rae Martini, at the age of just 12 approaches graffiti writing and a few years later, thanks to an incomparable mix of passion and attitude, she will become one of the reference figures of the entire movement not only for the city itself, but for Italy.
This is the path of the writer Rax-E, later known as Rae, to become the Artist Rae Martini, with the same determination and perseverance that made him spend sleepless nights around the city, moving only the attention from trains and walls towards something different, the canvases, maintaining the binomial creation/destruction, a constant in the world of graffiti.
'24 Carat Dirt' is a monograph that mainly collects the background of Rae Martini, the starting point, but also the evolution that has brought his production to the galleries. We therefore find ample space for the original sketches, for bombings in the street, on the platforms of the Milan metro, for burners in the hall of fame and above all for trains, to end up with a selection of the most recent works. A linear path which, despite the change of media, maintains an undeniable stylistic coherence and constant growth, where the most sought-after lettering always finds its place.
A one-of-a-kind writer, with style in his blood.
Definitive.
Measurements: 31x25cm
This volume is the second edition of the DECADES triology (Vol. 1 1990-2000 / Vol. 3 2010-2020), which presents 30 years of graffiti in Berlin. With a selection from thousands of photos, a picture of the development of the graffiti subculture in Berlin is created in a unique way. In addition, a multitude of personal texts by the writers provide an intimate insight into their experiences and perspectives. On the one hand, these texts present a very vivid picture of the Berlin graffiti scene, and on the other hand, they allow the reader to experience the Berlin of days gone by.
The second volume 2000-2010 contains portraits with many photos and personal texts on the following graffiti writers and crews:
CHIKA, CO2, DIKE, DROW, EHSONE, EXOT, FLS, GATE, HK, KAMEL43, KAZE, METRO, MR.IX, MRN, MINK, PACK, PAST2, RELAX, RINO, ROGER, SABE, SMASH, SKAR, SKEY, SPAIR, TFZ, TIER + P. BERG special with lyrics by MC BOMBER
The book also includes mixed chapters with hundreds of photos of many other graffiti writers and crews from the 00s.
328 pages.
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