Showing posts with label trains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trains. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
NYC: New book and signing: June 1, 2012 - Classic Hits: New York's Pioneering Subway Graffiti Writers
BOOK PRESENTATION & SIGNING at Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, New York
Classic Hits: New York's Pioneering Subway Graffiti Writerspublished by Dokument Press
Authors Alan Fleisher (Ale 1) and Paul Iovino (Skay) will talk briefly about their experiences and host a signing with writers featured in the book, including Blade 1 and Taki 183, to a custom-made soundtrack of 1970s hits!
You don't want to miss this event!
Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, New York 11217
greenlightbookstore.com
dokument.org
Title: Classic Hits - New York’s Pioneering Subway Graffiti Writers
Author: Alan Fleisher and Paul Iovino
ISBN: 978-91-85639-50-2
Language: English
Pages: 144
Dimensions: 25 x 20 cm
Binding: Hard cover
RRP: €29,90, £25,99, US$39.95
Release date: May 2012
Book trailer: http://vimeo.com/34886709
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Saturday, March 31, 2012
New Book: Kaos - Vandals in Motion
Kaos - Vandals in Motion
by Torkel Sjöstrand25 years of Swedish graffiti through the eyes of the Swedish writer Kaos!
Just as Stockholm graffiti is hotly debated, Dokument Press is releasing a new book about one of Sweden’s most famous graffiti writers. Regardless of zero tolerance or legal walls, Kaos has been active on the Swedish graffiti scene for more than 25 years.
“Writing graffiti is like an obstacle course, where you constantly have to think about how to get through. Circumstances change constantly, and you have to adapt to the prevailing ones,” says Kaos in the foreword.
In the book Kaos – Vandals In Motion, we follow Kaos from the mid-80s in Uppsala, to the much larger Stockholm.
Here is the story of the huge police descent on the Uppsala graffiti festival in 1992, on Transit Authority ticket controllers who took it on themselves to arrest graffiti writers, on almost getting killed while traveling through the tunnels of Stockholm on the roof of a subway car, on the specially-trained Falck Security guards and local police pinpointing writers. The aesthetics of graffiti are also discussed, exhibiting in galleries, the battle to get your name up more and better than anyone on the train cars of Stockholm, and his love for a derided art form. Kaos – Vandals In Motion is a book full of well-kept graffiti secrets.
Through tales of Kaos and other famous graffiti writers, Swedish history is depicted, accompanied by an impressive collection of pictures, articles and fliers. The book is a unique, warts-and-all depiction of the inside of the Stockholm graffiti scene. “I want to write. The cost to society is their choice. It’s when they clean it up that the costs arise,” says Kaos. “My time and paint are free and I don’t want them to remove the graffiti. For me, writing is not a crime, but colour and shape that you add to your environment.”
Kaos has lived with graffiti and been important for the development of Swedish graffiti in general and Stockholm’s in particular. As a part of international graffiti groups like VIM, MOA, ALL and MSN, he is also a bridge to the European graffiti world, and has participated in several international collaborations.
Today, Kaos is an established artist. HIs painting spans illicitly painted walls and trains to gallery exhibitions, commissioned artwork, fashion design and murals for large companies.
Kaos – Vandals In Motion is one of the most comprehensive books on a Swedish graffiti writer so far, and is written by Torkel Sjöstrand.
Title: Kaos - Vandals In Motion
Author: Torkel Sjöstrand
ISBN: 978-91-85639-44-1
Language: English
Pages: 176
Format: 24x25 cm
Binding: Hard cover
Illustrations: 200
Publication date: March, 2011
Price: 39,90 EUR, 29,99 GBP, 49,95 USD
Friday, March 30, 2012
New Book: New York City Graffiti: The Destiny Children
If you only buy one book in 2012, this is it:
NYC Graffiti, The Destiny Children is a retrospective of TDC crew from 1985 to 2000. Very few collections of 1980s graffiti have been published so far, so this adds very important material for NYC writers' historical timeline.
This true story and retrospective documents the life and times of members of The Destiny Children (TDC) graffiti crew from 1985 to 2000. From Long Island, New York, The Destiny Children/Unlimited Styled Artists commemorate the 25-year history of the crew and their impact on the New York City subway graffiti era.
This large collector's book is loaded with 500 color images of original art ranging from burners on hand ball courts to pieces on tractor trailers to works throughout the New York City subway system. Works by many established NYC graffiti artists are featured, including founding members DC3 and SHO. Other original members featured are SHOROZ, BEAVER, LAE, LAC2, ROE, DOOJ, SHIM, and ONE2. Works by affiliated writers, ZEUS TDC, CEOS, ROZ One, SHARE 37, POKE IBM, EPIC, RECK, SKETCH, KARL TCM, DEON, BOM 5 MW, SACE RIP, MIRAGE RIP, and others are documented.
Alongside the visual accounts of these artistic exploits are dozens of true stories and recollections that uncover the reality of painting in yards, lay ups, racking spray paint, fights, graffiti beefs, and police raids. See what made TDC take extraordinary risks so their street art could be seen by the public in their never-ending quest for fame. An ideal history for artists, art historians, street art enthusiasts, anthropologists, and urban dwellers.Shifferbooks.com has a few more graffiti books from the NYC golden years, so check those out too.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
New book: "Cause I Am" by Duro.CIA.TOP
What started as a youth rebellion and political unrest in the streets of New York City has become a worldwide phenomenon, which has encouraged hundreds of thousands of young artists across the globe. Notwithstanding the criticism of their community and their family’s scrutiny; although in this publication Duro has covered the years 1957 to 1985, he intends to write the second publication of the same title ”CAUSE I AM” that cover the years 1986 to 2012, revealing a few subjects that not only will entertain you, but also state the facts about his life.
Unlike many books of this subject that deals with statements or quotes from different individuals, Duro conceived, wrote and has published his book himself. This achievement is a passionate undertaking considering that Duro has a learning disorder, little education, and no editorial experience. Duro with the help of today's technology is able to convey his desire to communicate to the public, that anything is possible when you are committed to following your dreams.
History manifests itself by past events, and outcomes that are remembered by civilizations and individuals, and once it is written down, it is not changeable, it is what it is, and very few of us, actually get to participate or be one of the subjects of history. Our dreams are connections of our self-consciousness. It is our desire to reach the unreachable; to dare you to overcome your limitations and boundaries, which is only attainable if you do not give up on yourself. “CAUSE I AM” who I say I am. The News Breaker Himself.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Germany, Berlin: May 6, 2011: MOAS
06. Mai 2011 - Berlin
20 Years MOAS Crew Anniversary
Book Release Party & Exhibition
DJ Quincy Million (QMS Crew)
DJ Dejoe (Born2Roll)
7pm - open end
Common Ground Gallery / Prenzlauer Berg
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
New film: Unlike U -Trainwriting in Berlin
German train writers are hard core pros. This looks great. - Susan
Website: http://www.unlike-u.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Unlike-U-trainwriting-in-berlin/160128850681335 Produktion: HISKICK productions
Mit: ABIS , ACID, AZUR , BAS2, BURN, COZ CREW, ESHOK, FINO, FOTO SVEN, GLOK, HARALD P., INKA, LYTE, MICRO, ONE UP CREW, ESD, PHERS, POET, REW, ROY, RÜDIGER GLATZ, SKIM, THE CITY FAMOUS, TRON, TRUS, WESP, ZEKER81, ZOE
UNLIKE U beleuchtet vier Generationen von Sprühern in Berlin, wovon die ältesten der Hardcore-Artisten mittlerweile schon 40 Jahre alt sind und die Jüngsten um die siebzehn. Alle Protagonisten aber haben eines gemeinsam. Jeder von ihnen hat in seinem Leben schon unzählige Züge bemalt und einige von ihnen sogar um die 1000.
Mit intensiven Interviews versuchen die Filmemacher Henrik Regel und Björn Birg den Beweggründen der Sprüher auf die Spur zu kommen und herauszuarbeiten, was genau der Kick an einer Sache ist, die in der Öffentlichkeit keine Anerkennung bekommen kann. Denn schließlich handelt es sich nach offizieller Lesart um besonders schwere Sachbeschädigung und besprühte Züge, werden so schnell wie möglich aus dem Verkehr gezogen. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit also, dass ein Sprüher sein Werk in Vollendung, sprich als fahrende Leinwand zu sehen bekommt ist äußerst gering. Worin also besteht der Wert dieser Aktionen? Worin besteht die Selbstbestätigung? Was treibt diese Menschen an?
Die Filmemacher tauchten tief ein in den Kosmos der Trainwriter. Neben erstklassigen Interviews wurde ihnen auch Material zugespielt, das so noch nie zu sehen war. Der Film zeigt Hintergründe zu bestimmten Aktionen und geschichtsträchtiges Material vom legendären Corner an der Friedrichstraße, dem Treffpunkt der Berliner Sprüher in den 90er Jahren. Dem Ort also, an dem der Mythos der Berliner Writerkultur ihren Anfang nahm.
In diesem Sinne ist UNLIKE U auch kein normales Graffitivideo, in dem Action auf Action und Zug nach Zug gezeigt wird, sondern das einfühlsame Portrait einer Szene, die so noch nicht zu sehen war. Dieser Film schreibt und beinhaltet die faszinierende Geschichte einer Kultur, die ansonsten im Verborgenen bleibt und trotzdem alle Eigenschaften einer eigenständigen Kunstrichtung besitzt mit einem ganz eigenen räumlichen, zeitlichen und inhaltlichem Bezug.
From the Google translation:
UNLIKE U lit four generations of writers in Berlin, of which the oldest of hardcore artists now already 40 years old and the youngest of them seventeen. All characters have one thing in common. Each of them has painted in his life countless trains and 1000 some of them even.
Intensive interviews with the filmmakers try to rule and Henrik Bjorn Birg the motives of the sprayer to get on the track and work out what is exactly the kick of a thing that can get no recognition among the public. After all, it concerns according to the official version very serious damage to property and sprayed coatings, as quickly as possible taken out of circulation. So the probability that a sprayer gets his work to perfection, that is seen as a mobile screen is very small. So what is the value of these actions? What is the self-affirmation? What drives these people?
The filmmakers plunged deep into the cosmos of Train Writer. Besides first-class interviews, they were also leaked material that was not shown before. The film shows the reasons behind the actions and history material from the corner at the legendary Friedrichstraße, the meeting place of the Berlin sprayer in the '90s where the Berlin Writer culture began.
In this sense, UNLIKE U is not a normal graffiti video. The action is shown on the train, but it's a sympathetic portrait of a scene that had none. This film includes the fascinating story of a culture that otherwise remains hidden and yet it has all the features and art direction with its own spatial, temporal and thematic links.
Friday, January 7, 2011
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