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.
GRAFFITI JAPAN (2011); Hardcover
Remo Camerota 144 pages, New
Japan has long been a breeding ground for innovative appropriation of Western traditions, as with cinema and baseball. But the fanatical embrace with which Japanese artists have welcomed graffiti has made for a street-art scene wholly apart from its Western origins. As the first English-language book dedicated to Japanese graffiti, Graffiti Japan is an obvious choice for a hardcover edition, featuring all the same great photographs and artist interviews with KRESS, BELX2, FATE, TENGA, EMAR, SUIKO, QP, and many more. The graffiti featured in Graffiti Japan replicates the calligraphic intricacies of the Japanese language with spray paint, depicting how anime and manga characters, national pride, as well as foreign influences, are integral parts of the country's scene. From sprawling, legally sanctioned murals to illegal throw-ups hidden in alleyways, this work could not exist in any other country.
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
TIM BURTON: A Child's Garden of Nightmares (2007); Paperback
Paul A Woods 192 pages, Used
This definitive study charts the career of Tim Burton from his days as a malcontent animator at Walt Disney Productions to his current place as one of America’s most remarkable directors. It examines Burton's “monster culture” influences — from the films of Ed Wood, Jr. to Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine — that imbue his films with rich visual imagery and emotional depth. For each film, the book provides a detailed analysis, articles and interviews, and a vivid selection of stills.
FATAL VISIONS - THE WONDER YEARS (2015); Paperback
The LedaTape Organisation, 250 pages, Used (Rare)
A collection of FATAL VISIONS, Melbourne's own infamous trash film zine, has congealed into perfect bound format. Proving that dead tree technology has not entirely slipped into a coma this compilation covers the earliest and rarest entries in FVs decade-long publication history. Devoted to sleaze, violence and sexploitation in the Cinema and wherever it appears on video, TV & in print, FATAL VISIONS went to places where few other Australian publications even knew existed: bottom of the package video titles, late late night TV movies, films that played announced as drive-in supports and in hard tops where they were lucky to play for one week only. Profusely illustrated - with index! Includes: Film in Fiji - Jack Ferguson Banned Toys - MH Divine Obit - Fred Burger Wes Craven interview - Paul Harris Film Censorship in Australia 1988 - Joey Inferno Posthumous Bruce Lee films - Spike Des Mangan Interview - MH Mark Savage Interview - MH Confessions of a Porn Novelist - Kris Gilpin Deep Inside Melbourne Porn Venues - Jack Ferguson Candida Royalle Interview - MH David Nolte Interview - MH Zlatko Kasumovic Interview - MH Porn on Film manifesto - Jack Stevenson Plus hundreds of sleazy film, tv and book reviews and much much more!
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!
SAVAGE CINEMA (Hardcover) Rick Trader Witcombe (1975); Book
Books of this quality are like a drug for cinema fetishists of a certain disposition... of course it is'dated'... there are even a few morsels of arcane trivia/inaccuracies (the days when rumour held a firmer sway over the imagination) that might raise an eyebrow ... You only want it for the cover anyway, and that's fine. All the film books in this series (Ape: The Kingdom of Kong, Cut - The Unseen Cinema) are extremely sought after by the cool people, and that's all who need to know...... 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.
