Freight train graffiti

Title: Freight train graffiti

Author: Roger Gastman et al.

Isbn: 0810992493

2006

  Here's the cover looking so devoured by a blanket called blur.

iPod photo not such a great idea.  Who gives a who lu lu . . . Freight graff is evil, the evilest graffiti writer's do this shit, it is a fetus frying fraternity with evil secret society shit where you die on the tracks to find oneself emblazoned in a reincarnation amongst a legion of artistic inaugurated eschatology slowly priming the world for the pre-apocalyptic apogee that will devour all quarks in the known unknown motha fucking  universe and conversely return us all to the beginning as fossilized amino acids, get chased by voracious bums with ninja stars made of cardboard hardened with feces, ford a river of pigeons both dead and alive, plagued by locusts, attacked by alligators and subsequently returned to god for further consideration.  

Sike!  I'm just playing...... I ain't gonna lie though:  FG is hella hella addictive, a constant test of one's will to find out what hell can really be.  Getting rolled up on by crack heads and cops is not fun, according to the book.

Graffiti Women

title:  Graffiti Women

author:  Nicholas Ganz

isbn:  0810957477

2006

Women graffiti writer's what can I say.  I swear there was a submissions listing on art crimes years ago for this book.

Notables: Lady Tribe - how is she not infamous? Besides going all city, being a girl dj and showing the vag--- in pics she is one of of the most infamous LA street writer's of 'that' era. Ahem, props.

Many overlooked but the whole world can't be conquered now I say.

Mad C is so got dang ill!  She is a total production piecer and not a bomber but I just got to give it up because she definitely has some demons on her side.  How does one become so ill?  Not everyone who enters production piecing is so talented, male or female.

((I tore my sleeve from the front cover while doing this argh))

Careless

LOST (ha! sorta like that one bboy crew!)

title:  LOST


volume 10


author:   Eyeone (Luna's brother, she a skilled lady on the wall...)

2003

no isbn #

Part of a series on graffiti.  This series was made possible through an inside hook up, it was done independently sans any type of publishing company whatsoever.  In a walnut shell it is basically some LA graff writers making the best with what they got and the people they roll with.

I can say one thing.  It has made for one hell of a bad ass publication, truly authentic - authors and perspective.

=)  Very lucky to have secured my own copy!  (=

Check it!  Spiral bound + stencil cover = sweet style yeah!

2003 so I would like to think this is a trend setter.

Throw ups black and white print, left page
Chaka getting down, right page
Legendary.

West Coast graff is on the block.

AUTOGRAF New York City's Graffiti Writers

title:  AUTOGRAF New York City's Graffiti Writers

author & text:  Peter Sutherland, REVS

isbn: 1576872033

*printed and bound in Italy (omg I love Italians they make the best of everything, just peep my little sports car and year supply of hazelnut chocolate).

first edition, 2004

I fucking love this book; for not glamorizing graffiti, graffiti writers, keeping them in their natural habitat- not in a fucking gallery but on the street (how would the web generation immerse themselves into their genuine physical realm), failing to fully disguise them, revealing just enough but then too much.  Expressions captured may run on a continuum of pre-sorted emotional candor specifically adjusted for this monograph but none the less I must say there is an abundance of truth to that ethereal sullenness that feels so normal as a graff writer.  

.................this soundz so intense, nigguh pleaze! :)

Images of graffiti itself play a miniscule role in this book.

Female graffiti writer's are incredibly rare.  Few years back I saw this girls stuff on blocks out in Manhattan. Props due although I'm sure I got down way harder than her.  

You can tell me about Jesus any day.  God I love this image.

Graffiti Coloring Book

Title:  Graffiti Coloring Book

Editor (who the f@@k did this??): Uzi

isbn: 9789185639083

2008

2nd run in print

Scandinavian fockers put together an outline of graff pieces for you to color.  Crayons are safer than spray cans.  Great, not that it's an issue of safety or application method.  

The legend amid legends is in here (not me) Bates!  Cool fresh crazy ill and oyster sauce with canned pineapple.  For your inner toy hmmm? Or hide it if you got an ego to stroke.

10 points for cuteness. Roll my eyes.

This pulp puppy was picked up at LACMA.

Certainly it can be found elsewhere.

Broken Windows Graffiti NYC

Title:  Broken Windows Graffiti NYC 

Author:  James Murray and Karla Murray

isbn:  1584230789

2002

Cover of the first run print of this monograph on contemporary graffiti in the NYC.  It's a paperback and I believe there is a more recent release from 2009 that is in hard cover.  The graffiti writer's covered in this book are all heavy weight / career piecers representing from the big manzana.  

Production pieces are front and center all through out this book, not a whole lot of street rockers aka graffiti writers that bomb..... sall good though we all gotta grow up at some point and make something of the best we got right? Riiight!


FX was a personal favorite of mine for a while there..... way back when..... yep.  Hard core piecers check the hallucinogenic retinal carnage in a google search.

This may be the first graffiti book I purchased