Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Ftc
In the early 90s, San Francisco skateboarding was reigning supreme, Embarcadero was its Mecca, and FTC skateboard shop was spreading the street skating revolution worldwide, as the prophetic Del song echoed. FTC lore has reached quasi-Masonic proportions over the years, mostly passed down from one eyewitness to another through oral records. For the first time, Seb Carayol has embarked on a journey to collect these stories, along with over 400 classic and never-before-seen photographs, illustrations, and images to depict the odyssey. Sure, there are a few legendary skateshops in the world, but how many can honestly claim themselves synonymous with an entire era in skateboarding history? Just one, really, and it?s name is FTC.
Look Away
"I swear there were times we got so carried away with ourselves that we really thought we could bring down skateboarding with one terrible idea." - Julien Stranger on Todd Francis After the artist monographs WARNING: The Art of Marc McKee and I HATE: The Art of Todd Bratrud, comes the third book in the series LOOK AWAY: The Art of Todd Francis. LOOK AWAY examines the career of skateboard artist Todd Francis and his knack for provocation, pigeons, bums, eagles, grudgeful nature and more. While most people are familiar with his barrage of classic graphics for Antihero, Real, Stereo and Element, Todd Francis reveals in this book a wider palette of styles and techniques. In 96 pages and over 200 reproductions of classic and never-before-seen decks, illustrations, paintings, sketches, and even suicide-themed Christmas decorations, LOOK AWAY strolls through a 20-plus year career built upon one motto: behind the gruesome, tell a deeper story. Or, as Francis sums it up: "It might be one step too far, but it's never the easy step too far."
Rockers
Set amongst the reggae scene of late 70s Jamaica, Rockers achieved instant cult status among music and cinema fans. Director Ted Bafaloukos has received many accolades for his work on the film, but the fact that he was also a fine writer and photographer is often overlooked. In We Are Rockers, his experiences in Jamaica and New York between 1975 and 1978 are paired with an invaluable collection of photographs taken during the writing and production of the film. Beyond reggae circles, this anthology offers an unparalleled snapshot of Jamaican cool.
Agents Provocateurs
Skateboard graphics took a quantum leap in offensive potential after the sport was reborn in the '90s. Artists such as Marc McKee, Todd Francis, Johnny 'Mojo' Munnerlyn, Winston Tseng and others brought dark humour and politically incorrect topics to the forefront of their illustrations, aiming to raise serious issues and skewer values. Agents Provocateurs asks new questions of this boundary-pushing artistic genre and its place over the years. Did it save skateboarding? Are these controversial topics still relevant 20 years later?
Skateboard Video
This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities. It makes a provocative argument to consider skate video as an archive of the city from below. Here ‘below’ has a dual meaning. First, below refers to an unofficial archive, a subaltern history of urban space. Second, below refers to the angle from which skateboarders and filmers gaze upon, capture, and consume the city—from the ground up. Since taking to the streets in the early 1980s, skateboarding has been captured on film, video tape and digital memory cards, edited into consumable forms and circulated around the world. Videos are objects amenable to ethnographic analysis while also archiving exercises in urban ethnography by their creators. I advocate for taking skate video seriously as a (fragile) archive of the urban backstage, collective memory across time and space, creative urban practice, urban encounters (people-to-people and people-to-object/s), and the globalization of a subculture at once delinquent and magnificent.
Jamaica Jamaica ! : [catalogue de l'exposition présentée à la Philharmonie de Paris du 4 avril au 13 août 2017]
For more than half a century, a small Caribbean island has written its name in letters of fire on the map of world music history. With ramifications as extensive as those of jazz or blues, Jamaican music has transformed its African legacies, resulting from the sufferings of slavery, over time and contacts with the European colonizers. Deejay, sound system, remix, dub: as many daring inventions, tinkered since the 1950s in the ghettos of Kingston, which are the sources of contemporary urban music. Sacred music or secular music? Rural or urban? Militant or light? Voices of rastafarian or rude boys of the ghetto? Analyzing the cultural, historical and political context of Jamaican music, the authors of this book unveil the mechanisms that led Jamaica to produce the most popular music in the world. -- Publisher.
Skateboarding and Femininity
Skateboarding and Femininity explores and highlights the value of femininity both within skateboarding and wider culture. This book examines skateboarding’s relationship to gender politics through a consideration of the personal politics connected to individual skateboarders, the social-spatial arenas in which skateboarding takes place, and by understanding the performance of tricks and symbolic movements as part of gender-based power dynamics. Dani Abulhawa anaylses the discursive frameworks connected to skateboarding philanthropic projects and how these operate through gendered tropes. Through the author’s work with skateboarding charity SkatePal, this book offers an alternative way of recognising the value of skateboarding philanthropy projects, proposing a move toward a more open and explorative somatic practice perspective.
This Means Nothing
French photographer Le Bijoutier has roamed the boroughs of New York City documenting street art as it has developed over the past decade. Unlike graffiti writers, whose bombing campaigns mark them in the public eye as vandals, the work of street artists is celebrated as progressive. Many make their name first on the streets before hitting the gallery world - but before they make that big move, Le Bijoutier has caught them in their illegal glory.
Jamaica, Jamaica!
None
Gang Stories
Le livre issu du podcast à succès raconté par Joey Starr (plus d’un million d'écoutes sur Deezer) : l’odyssée saisissante de six gangs à travers le monde. Attention aux balles perdues ! Pablo Escobar, Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde... ça vous a plu, vous en demandez encore ? Eh bien, écoutez l’histoire du Shower Posse en Jamaïque, des Crips de Los Angeles, du gangster brésilien et marxiste William Da Silva Lima, des yakusas de Tokyo, de la redoutée « Reine du Pacifique » au Mexique ou encore du chef des Hell's Angels de Montréal. Six histoires de gangs peu ou mal connus qui vous embarquent, en textes et en images, dans les coins les plus dangereux du monde. Six destins de criminels qui parlent aussi des sociétés et des époques les ayant vu naître : un voyage inédit qui remonte aux origines du mal. Car toute société a les criminels qu’elle mérite... Six histoires hors normes de anti-héros qui racontent aussi comment la « gang culture » s’est durablement installée dans la culture populaire. Le tout préfacé par le rappeur et acteur français Joey Starr. Avec en bonus, 6 playlists pour prolonger votre lecture en musique.
