WILD STYLE (1983) Hip-Hop; DVD
Graffiti/Breakdance/Hip Hop/Four Elements/Old School DVD, New
Before Beat Street, Krush Groove and Breakin there was Wild Style, THE first Hip Hop movie. The film was made by Charlie Ahearn and Fab 5 Freddy and captures the early days of rap music and culture. The story loosely follows a graffiti artist named Zoro who runs around the subway yards in the Bronx at night tagging the trains. That’s really secondary however. The real stars are the music, the art, the mood, and the times Wild Style captures. Right at the start there’s all kinds of real New York graffiti featured both on walls, on subways, and in books. The stuff looks amazing. There’s also a stark contrast between all the color the graffiti brought to the neighborhood compared to the empty buildings and lots and general destruction that had hit the Bronx by this time. Then there’s the music. Even the background music is banging, which was made just for the film by Grandmaster Caz and Chris Stein of Blondie. Some of the artists featured are Busy Bee Starski, Rodney Cee, the Cold Crush Brothers, the Fantastic Freaks, Double Trouble, and Grandmaster Flash. They’re captured in the club, on the stoop, and in one of the most iconic scenes on the basketball court. This was before all the flash and glamor and money hit the rap scene. If you want to hear rap in its most rawest and organic form this is it. Plus there’s pop-locking, break dancing and more.
STENSOUL The art of Peat 'EYEZ' Wollaeger; DVD + Stickers
Graffiti/Street Art/Design/Stencil Art DVD, New (With a bunch of stickers) RARE as shit!
A stenSOUL artist known globally for colorful stencil portraits, large scale murals and his signature Eyez waking up in-animate objects on the Street. Peat incorporates his stencils and art in various short Time-lapsed Films helping his audience understand the stencil process, and his creative passion to wake up this world. The the Eyez are the window to your SOUL…Open Yours! (Image is not of product)
ROCKET SCIENCE (Thrasher); DVD
Skateboard/Thrasher Magazine/Skate/Documentary DVD, Used
Bottom line: skating is not rocket science... it is harder. This is learning on the streets.
A TIME TO SHINE Transworld Skateboarding (2006); DVD
Skate/Skateboarding/Documentary/Transworld DVD, Used
This is a must have for any skate video collection. 'What Better name than "Time to Shine" for this Transworld DVD. This installment of Transworld skateboarding features ripping footage from your favorites: Mike Taylor Paul Rodriguez, Jereme Rogers, Dylan Rieder, Chad Tim Tim, Ronson Lambert Chris Roberts and many more....Transworld presents video no. 18 in their collection. A Time to Shine is definitely one of the best skateboarding DVDs of the mid 2000's.
WHAT IF? Blind Skateboards; DVD
Skate/Blind/Skateboarding/Documentary/Sport DVD, Used
What If? Fucking classic skateboard video blockbuster from Blind, featuring Ronnie Creager, KrisMarkovich, James Craig, Corey Sheppard, Jake Brown, Aaron Artis, EvanSchiefelbine, Jake Duncombe, Grant Patterson & Carlos Ruiz.
PIGMY SPY MUSIC (Overkill Edition) 2008; DVD
Renegade/Independent/Experimental DVD, Used
Pigmy Spy Music is presented in an all-new Overkill Edition packed with over 1-1/2 hours of extra material. Shot over a one month period by a group of renegade Orange County guerrilla filmmakers. Pigmy Spy Music is the allegorical tale of Mister X, who may, or may not, be pursued by evil pig creatures as he searches for the mysterious Professor Richmann. Shot in and around Orange County & Long Beach, CA.
MACHINE HEAD (2005); DVD
B-grade/Horror/Comedy/Trash DVD, Used
Max works at his fathers funeral home and also attends high school, where he is bullied constantly and ignored by the teachers. He doesn't mind though, as he knows he's going to win the school science project. How? Well he can bring dead people and animals back to life that's how. He creates 'Machine Head' by stealing a corpse from his fathers mortuary, wiring it up to the computer and strapping a lawnmower engine to the side of the unfortunate corpse's head. Things start to go terribly wrong when 'Machine Head' starts to become very protective of Max.
DUMPLINGS (Gaau Ji) Fruit Chan; DVD
Japanese/Horror/Weird/Cult DVD, New
Great movies are sometimes movies that make you disbelieve that there could be a movie about that..... but there is! This film is about a woman who says she found the cure for aging....and her cure for aging is aborted babies made it to dumplings. It's a weird recipe and tricky to get hold of all the ingredients, but worth a go......
CRUMB (Documentary) 2006; DVD
Art/Comics/Underground/Documentary/Crumb DVD, Used - Rare
Crumb is a look into the dysfunctional world of the Crumb family, with an emphasis on Robert. As the two sisters declined to be interviwed for the documentary we only get to meet brothers Max, Charles and Robert. Who have extraordinary artistic talents. As if to balance this out, they each also have disturbing tendancies and a very dark view of the modern world. Charles, who rarely leaves the house, and lives with his mother, sadly committed suicide after this film was completed, but spoke of two previous attempts on his own life during his interview. He concentrated on pencil and crayon artwork in his younger years, but lacked self-motivation to get back into artwork. Max, a self-confessed woman molestor(!!!) had many phsychiatric issues of his own. Robert, the most famous of the three brothers is a prolific pen-and-ink artist capable of truly outstanding work, underpinned by deep feelings of suppression and sexual hangups, which manifest themselves within his artwork. It's a well made film, which makes for dark viewing at times and left me feeling somewhat 'grubby' for watching it. Crumb fans will appreciate the artwork, together with Robert's unbending will to not 'sell-out' to commercialism, by giving out autographs or allowing more of his work to be animated. The thought of a 'Mr Natural' movie disgusted him. If you are looking for no-nonsense honest look at a comic book artist at his best, I can think of no finer work.
GREEN PORNO Isabella Rossellini; DVD
Short Films/Collection/Ducumentary/Art/Series DVD; New
Deep down in the ocean, strange things happen, acts of love that are unfamiliar to the human eye: anchovies mate in large orgies; shrimp strip down to get in the mood; starfish can do it two different ways; whales fight to make love. A series of humorous short films created by Isabella Rossellini, Green Porno offers a visually arresting and scientifically accurate look at the sex lives of marine animals, bugs and other creatures. Contains seasons 1-3
CHLORINE A pool skating documentary (2005); DVD
Skate/Skateboarding/Old School/Pool Skating/Alva/Documentary DVD; New
...for anyone who skates or has skated, or just likes the idea of skating. All the guys in this movie are legendary, ground-breakers who would rather find an abandoned (or not so) backyard pool than a huge commercial ramp or concrete skatepark to ride in. For something that was discovered/invented in the mid-70's, pool skating seems as strong as it's ever been.
Girl / Chocolate - Pretty Sweet (Skateboard) DVD + BLU RAY
Skate/Skateboard/Documentary DVD
Great footage and some amazing skaters. The Marc Johnson part is ridiculous. The guy can do it all barely needs to lift his hands above his waist...SMOOTH! This copy of Pretty Sweet offers both a DVD and Blu-ray copy. The one hour and 10 minute skate video includes ground-breaking parts by the Girl and Chocolate teams and 60 minutes of bonus footage is also included.
