Includes drawing basics and construction of the hop-hop look; ways to capture the mannerisms and spirit of the young urban generation; how to draw hip-hop gear, environments, hip-hop characters (MC, DJ), break dancing, and graffiti.

This international survey looks at what's really happening in the urban graffiti scene, not in the galleries, art schools and computer labs. It features the diverse and unique styles of urban graffiti bombers and the full spectrum of graffiti.

A compendium of fun, insults and malapropism from the author's column in The Glasgow Herald . An irreverent commentary on every aspect of Scottish life, this book contains more than 1000 jokes, anecdotes, aphorisms, quotes and stories.

Newly documented collaborative pieces from renowned German graffiti artists ECB and RESO.

Resistance Art in South Africa .

This volume documents the emotionally charged street imagery of New York post-September 11th. Barry Dawson portrays the energy and humanity of the city through visual themes that surprise, intrigue and amuse.

Presents projects from art books and fabric journals and mixed-media paintings. This book showcases three popular trends in papercrafting - collage, altered fabric and journaling. It features a range of techniques for crafters at every level, including crayon transfers, funky embroidery, freestyle hand lettering and creative bookbinding.

Sometime in the 1970s, the notoriously repressive bureaucrats, who ran the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, commissioned two photographers, hired St Pauli Girl models, chose the locations, such as oil factories, worker canteens, and set about creating their own style. Was it intended as propaganda? Or a move to counter bourgeois Western values?

When word around the hood spreads about the Grrls' illegal endeavors, Gwen, Daphne and Rita are forced to go legit and get real jobs. Rita uses her artistic talent to hook-up with a local graffiti crew and finds love along the way. Meanwhile, Daphne encounters the horrors of working behind a bar at the Weird Hog and Gwen struggles and strives through the monotony of normal employment until she .

A distillation of raw graffiti creativity from the streets of Europe's major cities - taking the best from the first ten issues - plus new bonus material.

Another rare look at the guarded world of a graffiti artists' blackbook. Whether sculpted in steel, scrawled on walls or executed as sketches, graffiti is a huge and growing phenomenon.

Adventure in urban anarchy.

Since the joyriding accident, 15-year-old Matt Norris's life has been hell. His brother, Jake, is dead, and Jake's girlfriend, Joolz, has been hideously scarred. Only Matt escaped the car crash unscathed. Or so it seems. Because now Jake is back, haunting Matt's every step, appearing out of thin air dressed in outrageous costumes. What does he want? Why does Joolz remember the accident ...

Provides an introduction of the players who came up with the ideas that form the basic elements of the hip-hop culture. It describes how it all began with social upheavals in Jamaica, the Bronx, the Black Belt of Long Island and South Central LA. It is intended for DJs, B-Boys, MCs and those with an interest in the history of America.

Cute, independent, and full of attitude, Gwen, Daphne, and Rita are three girls doing what they have to do to survive in big bad Freak City. From expressing themselves through graffiti or cutting loose on the dance floor, the party is always raging- that is, until the Brotherhood of the Cracker catches wind of the good time and decides to crack down. The Brotherhood is an evil alliance that ...

This work offers a thorough introduction to the brief, yet eventful life of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) whose works of grafitti art crossed over into the gallery world.

THE PRESIDENT LIVES IN WASHINGTON D.C. BUT THE KING IS FROM MEMPHIS! For thousands of people each year, writing a message on the wall of Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion has become a tourist ritual, the American equivalent of kissing the Blarney Stone or throwing a coin in the Trevi Fountain. Now, thanks to years of work by Daniel Wright, you can read the best graffiti from Graceland's wall. ...

More hard-hitting views of American urban culture.

Introducing the streets of London, this title traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and finding hidden patterns, it intends to create a snapshot of the city. It offers us a picture of modern urban life of London.

Still a teenager Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage to a man twenty years older. Moved away from her childhood village, Nazneen is moved to London, not knowing a word of english and confined to her flat. This title exlpores the role of fate in our lives and traces the transformation of an Asian girl.