Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The Sports Pages

Sooo, I got these bricks in the mail today, but before I opened the package they somehow magically turned into this awesome book. I think.  But, without a doubt this is the most comprehensive book about the history of graffiti on Euro soil that I have ever seen'd. Personally I've been recently diggn different foreign scenes lately, and this book has already taught me things I was blatantly ignorant of(euro graff terms and such), and reading it is giving me warm and fuzzys all over.
The book is big. One could kill a raccoon with this thing. It's a Large Book, sorta like having an Encyclopedia of European Graff@home. Nah Biggr then that...400 pages, about 14'x10' plus an inch and a half thick. BOOM! PEACE RACCOON!  This book is a collectors/connoisseurs publication, and hence the price ought not to deter those who are interested in purchasing it. I snagged it for less than 50$, which was awesome, but after receiving All City Writers--2 thumbs up on paying cover price. This could very well have been a 100$ book(of course that stretches it, but they could be charging more for it justifiably.
I recommend every awesome graff book I encounter, but this one is special: It costs a lot because it is worth 100% of the price.
All City Writers is not going to be in EVERY graff collectors library, so peep it out whenever you got the chance. But if you search out books like 1st ed. Faith of Graffiti or if ya buy every graff book that's released, then get this.
Everyone else just think of it this way: 2 for 1!!! graffiti book/raccoon killing device. If you need'sum like that, I recommend this book.
real yap:
5 stars I'm down. Hats off to the team who made it happen, along with Andrea Cuputo mos definite; producing this book was obviously a Labor of Love, a HUGE undertaking that must have been tremendously difficult at times, but I'm sure it was an awesome journey, and I applaud the achievement. The states have nothing compared to the way y'all extensively compiled the 411 on this book (& probably never will).
PEACE
fS
I'm damn glad them bricks was magic

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