EVERFRESH: BLACKBOOK: The Studio & Streets: 2004 - 2010
256 PAGES (2010), Used
Everfresh Studio is one of Australia’s most influential street art collectives. Based in Melbourne, Everfresh Studio's members include some of the most respected, innovative, and widely recognized underground artists in Australia: Makatron, Meggs, Phibs, Prism, Reka, Rone, Sync, and Wonderlust. Illustrated with striking and candid photography, this collection provides a rare and exclusive insight into Everfresh Studio’s street art culture. Showcasing the artwork of some of Australia’s best-known street artists, the process is laid out, from initial sketch to finished product. Written by the artists themselves, this account also reveals the tools, materials, and adrenaline-fuelled nature of the most public of art forms—graffiti.
PUNK '77: an Inside Look at the San Francisco Rock 'N' Roll Scene, 1977 by James Stark, Paperback
1999 James Stark 95 pages, Used
PUNK 77 covers the beginnings of the San Francisco Punk Rock scene through the Sex Pistols concert at Winterland in January, 1978, in interviews and photographs by James Stark. James was among the many artists involved in the early punk scene. His photos were published in New York Rocker, Search & Destroy and Slash, among others. His posters for Crime are classics and highly prized collectors items. Contains over 100 photos, including many behind-the-scenes looks at the bands who made things happen: Nuns, Avengers, Crime, Screamers, Negative Trend, Dils, Germs, UXA, etc. Interviews with the bands and people on the scene give intimate, often darkly humorous glimpses of events in a Please Kill Me (Legs McNeil) style. (Incredibly Rare book)
ATLANTA: Hip Hop and the South (2010); Hardcover
Michael Schmelling 224 pages, Hardcover
Since the late 1990s, Atlanta has become a dominant center of hip-hophome to mega-selling artists like OutKast, T-Pain, and T.I., and host to an electric mix of superstars, aspiring young rappers, and inspired fans. In Atlanta, photographer Michael Schmelling documents the artists, the fans, and the musical vitality of a city that is always redefining hip-hop. Featuring more than 160 photos, from up-and-coming rappers to club kids to multiplatinum artists, Atlanta also includes essays on the city's hip hop culture by writer Kelefa Sanneh, interviews with key Atlanta figures like Gucci Mane, Andr 3000, Big Boi, Shawty Lo, Ludacris, and The-Dream, and a download mixtape of unreleased tracks.
USUGROW: Love and Hate from JP (Upper Playground), Hardcover
96 pages, 2007, Hardcover
Love Hate from JP Japanese artist Usugrow creates his own fresh, distinctive takes on classic subjects such as skulls and horror characters with bold lines and meticulous detail inspired by everything from tattoo flash, skateboarding, and gang graffiti to Japanese caligraphy, watercolor painting, and corporate logos, with skillful use of black and white, and a stunningly beautiful, unique, lettering style. Imagine Hokusai raised in the Barrio. Love Hate From JP collects Usugrows paintings and works on paper, as well as personal photographs taken throughout his career.
MA'CLAIM: Finest Photorealistic Graffiti (2006); Paperback
Akut 153 pages, Used
Ma'claim is a German crew known the world over for spraying some of the finest photorealistic graffiti to come out a can. The Ma'Claim crew consists of four people who formed the team in 2001: Akut, Case, Rusk and Tasso. Their signature is their photo realistic graffitis and how their fresh ideas combine with traditional designs. Not many graffiti crews can claim to have worked their way up to the top of a world-wide movement like these guys.....
STREET LOGOS (2004); Paperback
Tristan Manco 128 pages, Used
Graffiti art is constantly changing. Fresh coats of paint and newly pasted posters appear overnight in cities across the world. New artists, new ideas, and new tactics displace faded images in a perpetual process of renewal and metamorphosis. From Los Angeles to Barcelona, Stockholm to Tokyo, Melbourne to Milan, wall spaces are a breeding ground for graphic and typographic forms as artists unleash their daily creations. Current graffiti art is reflective of the world around it. Using new materials and techniques, its innovators are creating a language of forms and images infused with contemporary graphic design and illustration. Fluent in branding and graphic imagery, they have been replacing tags with more personal logos and shifting from typographic to iconographic forms of communication. Street Logos is a worldwide celebration of these new developments in twenty-first-century graffiti, an essential sourcebook for all art and design professionals, and a delight to everyone excited by the vitality of the street.
SCIENCE FICTION POSTER ART (2003); Paperback
192 pages, Used
With its unique ability to bring our wildest fantasies to life, the cinema has done more than any other medium to popularize science fiction worldwide. From Metropolis to Godzilla, and from Invaders from Mars to Star Trek, science fiction films have peopled our universe, and others, with some of the studios’ most amazing creations. Considering the richness of the subject matter, it’s no wonder that generations of the most talented illustrators, painters, art directors, and designers have signed on to produce posters for these films. Their creations not only provide us with a record of how they and their contemporaries saw the future, they also serve as a visual running commentary on all that has happened in graphic design since Lumière invented motion pictures. The images in this book, representing the crème de la crème of science fiction posters from artists around the world, vividly show what has been luring audiences to the movie theaters for decades. Tony Nourmand is co-owner of the Reel Poster Gallery in London and a poster consultant to Christie’s; Graham Marsh is a designer and art director. Together, they have also produced the companion to this volume, Horror Poster Art, as well as collections of 20th-century film posters by decade.
DR WHO SPECIAL EFFECTS (1986); Paperback
Matt Irvine 96 pages, Used
Dr Who - Special Effects by Mat Irvine who has worked behind the scenes for many years- you'll learn howthe spectacular battles and exploding planets are filmed, how a mobile computer shaped like a dog became K-9 and the inside secrets of the special effects world. This book is a great supplement to the Restoration Team website because it covers the spcial effects from the show in the 70s and early 80s. There are many pictures and whole chapters about Daleks, K-9, and the TARDIS. 96 pp. 1986, Beaver Books, paperback
FLESH AND BLOOD Volume 2 (2011); Paperback
Harvey Fenton 96 pages, Used
The widely acclaimed journal of cinema and video for adults returns with this uncompromising collection of cutting-edge features and interviews. Flesh And Blood is the Cult Movie Journal from FAB Press, lovingly crafted for everyone who is interested in sex, death & movies!
"... a slick package ... be prepared to be shocked and delighted in equal measure!" (Five Stars) -- Film Review
DEATHTRIPPING: The Cinema of Transgression, Jack Sargeant (1999); Paperback
1999 reprint, Creation Cinema Collection 272 pages, Used
Deathtripping is an illustrated history, account and critique of the "Cinema Of Transgression", providing a long-overdue and comprehensive documentation of this essential modern sub-cultural movement and its roots in the New York art/rock and underground film scenes. Excellent and thoroughly detailed book on cinema of transgression. A must read for fans of Nick Zedd, Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, etc. Brilliant resource for fans of the genre. Rare!
BLOOD DUSTER - THE SHAPE OF DEATH TO COME (2005); DVD
Mucic/Live/Grindcore/Australian DVD (with bonus poster!)
This is a fairly hefty DVD, split into two sections. One section contains a feature length mix of live gigs dating back to the early 90's intersperced with the lads crazy touring antics...serious antics. Eating spew off the ground, throwing piss at one another, and consuming copius amounts of drugs are only the beginning. Considering much of the live music footage in this section is bootlegged, the quality of vision and sound is excelent. Also the choice of songs that have been included is a good cross-section of the Blood Duster era's.
The second section of the DVD is a full concert recorded at the Ding-Dong in Melbourne. This innitially might be a dissapointment to those who like their crisp, clear sounding live DVD's but once you can accept the sound this gig is pretty fucking great! It's also a good representation of what Blood Duster shows were like. I have also included with this, an original 1997 'Straight outta Northcote' LP promo poster!! Oh yeah.........
GRINDSTONE REDUX: The story of the 1980's US underground music network (2009); DVD
Music/Art/Culture/Documentary DVD
GRINDSTONE REDUX is the story of the underground music network of the 1980s?and how it transformed the music business. In response to an industry with a narrow spectrum of work being released and promoted, artists decided to self-publish and distribute before the internet made it commonplace. The advent of affordable recording equipment, synthesizers and photocopiers made it possible for musicians and bands to form a network by producing home recordings and exchanging them through the mail. For the first time, musicians were able to produce and distribute their work without a major record company. They formed their own record labels, produced independent magazines and began the first generation of radio shows devoted to independently-released music. The network was supported by small, independent record stores (which have all but disappeared) where musicians could place their work for sale, as well as discover other like-minded artists and 'zines.
