"Off the Wall", the first book from Vans, tells the multi-generational story of Vans' do-it-yourself community, which encompasses boards, bikes, art and music, as well as the one shoe keeping it all together. With oral histories from Tony Alva, Joel Tudor, Neckface, Shepard Fairey, Sunny Garcia, Marc Jacobs, Steve Caballero, Stacy Peralta, Robert Williams, Oliver Peck, and others, "Off the Wall" provides an intimate, visually-stunning account of how the company changed the face of popular culture, since its founding in 1966. The book features photography by the top action-sports photographers in the world, including Bryce Kanights, Grant Brittain, Jeff Divine, and Trevor Graces, presented with an energetic design that evokes both punkzine aesthetic and California coastal cool.

http://www.amazon.de/Vans-Wall-Stories-Sole-Originals/dp/0810983753/

With the release of "Disposable - A History of Skateboard Art" in 2004, author Sean Cliver made a brilliant attempt at artfully cataloging every important skateboard deck ever released. In the process, he created a classic, but was left feeling less than whole. Ever the completist, the gaping omissions in the first book gnawed at him and drove him to envision compiling 'the' ultimate encyclopedia of Skateboard decks. While "Disposable" was beautiful, capturing the essence of the aesthetic, "Disposable II" sets out to be the Bible. The author's industry insider status (in 1989, he landed his first job as a designer at Powell-Peralta) allow him to walk the reader through the culture, the art and the mania with authority. While the boards take centre stage, fascinating vignettes and recollections by a who's who of skateboarding round out the book.

http://www.disposablethebook.com
http://www.amazon.de/Disposable-Skateboard-Bible-Collectors/dp/1584233273/

Willkommen bei CUMSHOTS dem wahrscheinlich schrillsten Grafik-Kunstbuch, das in Deutschland je zu Papier gebracht wurde!



Entdecken Sie, was sich in Videotheken hinter der Tür zum Erwachsenenbereich verbirgt: augenzwinkernd und humorvoll präsentiert CUMSHOTS die originellsten Cover des deutschen Porno- und Erotikfilms. Stilgerecht verpackt in einer VHS-Hülle ist dieses Werk nicht nur ein Orgasmus für die Lachmuskeln sondern auch ein perfektes Geschenk zum Geburtstag, Junggesellen-Abschied und natürlich für alle, die beim Sex gern Spaß haben!

http://www.cumshots-buch.de
http://www.amazon.de/Cumshots-Neue-Ergüsse-deutschen-Porno-Industrie/dp/3980531570/

Was man als das "geilste" Buch Deutschlands bezeichnete, wurde natürlich zum Bestseller. Und jetzt haben die Autoren nachgelegt - am 13.08. erscheint "Cumshots 2 - Neue Ergüsse der deutschen Porno-Industrie"!

Dabei geht es in mehr als 30 Kapiteln neben typischen Erotikthemen wie Bondage oder Brüsten diesmal auch um unser Vaterland, das Fernsehen und Bereiche des täglichen Lebens - zum Beispiel Kneipen, Geld, Politik und unsere Fitness. Lustige Kreationen wie "Bumsskandal im Nachtlokal" und "Euterei auf der Bounty" attackieren das Zwerchfell ebenso wie ein paar wertvolle Tipps zum perfekten Porno-Star: "Cumshots 2" veröffentlicht die besten Bewerbungsschreiben, die bei der einschlägigen Filmindustrie eingegangen sind.

Als Geschenk hat der erste Band zahlreiche Geburtstagsparties in Schwung gebracht. Dieser Nachfolger wird sie endgültig in ein Tollhaus verwandeln!

"Former HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST mainman Tom Gabriel Fischer and Bazillion Points Books have announced November 2009 as the publication date for "Only Death Is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost". Authored by Fischer with cooperation from HELLHAMMER/FROST partner Martin Eric Ain, the deluxe large-format 288pp hardcover will feature over 300 astonishing high-quality photos by Csaba Kézér, Martin Kyburz, and Andreas Schwarber documenting the very dawn of death metal and black metal.

Five years in the making, this extraordinary artifact sets an audacious new historical standard in heavy metal literature.

HELLHAMMER's adolescent hardships were played out in dramatic and sometimes violent episodes set in small villages around Zurich, Switzerland, during 1983 and 1984. The ultimate insider document of the earliest era of death metal and black metal, "Only Death Is Real" documents this unique and cataclysmic moment in modern music history with hundreds of never-seen vintage images, classic artwork reprinted by kind permission of HR Giger, a full visual reference to HELLHAMMER promotional material, flyers, and memorabilia documenting the birth and evolution of extreme metal—all supported by sharp-tongued oral accounts direct from Tom G. Fischer, Martin Ain, Stephen Priestly, Steve Warrior, and other survivors of the HELLHAMMER inner circle."
via Blabbermouth

http://www.bazillionpoints.com/?p=207

Die beiden Herausgeber von Korero Books selbst, haben sich dem Thema der Visualisierung von Burlesque Anlässen in diesem wunderschönen Buch angenommen. Dies geschieht durch die Plakate oder Flyers die auf die Anlässe hinweisen. Und sie sind alle hier zu finden; die schönsten, wildesten, meist hänselden Burlesque Poster. Einige präsentieren sich subtil wie ein Fantanz andere frech wie sich drehende Quasten. Dies aus der Zeit der Follies Bergere von 1880 bis in die London Neo-Burlesque Epoche von 2008. Mehr als 150 Plakatmotive auf 170 Seiten illustrieren die Geschichte des Bumping und Grinding, des Flirten und der Subversion. Alle die auf der Suche nach der Entwicklung dieser besonderen Kunstform sind, finden in diesem Buch alles Wesentliche.

http://www.klangundkleid.de/books/detail.asp?ID=25255&REF=40012

Yak El-Droubie and Ian C.Parliament
Hardcover
Sprache: Englisch
170 Seiten
Format: 25 x 28.5 x 2 cm

Design collective Büro Destruct is the pioneer and flagship of young Swiss design. Illustriously and systematically compiled, Büro Destruct III demonstrates the distinctive Büro Destruct style that the collective continues to refine, polish and develop with characteristic sophisticated vector graphics and playful use of typography.

Author: Büro Destruct
Language: English
Release: October 2009
Price: € 39,90 / $ 60,00 / £ 37,50
Format: 24 x 28 cm
Features: 224 pages, full colour, softcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-260-7

Nach dem großen Erfolg der ersten Ausgabe in 2008 geht nun der mit Spannung erwartete zweite Band von "BLICKFANG - Deutschlands beste Fotografen" an den Start und präsentiert auf 688 Seiten(!) eine hochkarätige Auswahl von mehr als 200 der besten Fotografen aus ganz Deutschland.



Neben aussagekräftigen Arbeitsbeispielen und kompakten Informationen zu den einzelnen Fotografen, kommen in dem schwergewichtigen Jahrbuch auch illustre Persönlichkeiten der Szene mit redaktionellen Beiträgen zu Wort. Die Autoren sind: Dietmar Henneka (Fotograf, ADC-Mitglied), Kristian Schuller (Fotograf) sowie Susanne Nagel (Head of Art Buying, Jung von Matt). Mehrere spannende Interviews mit Top-Fotografen, Vertretern aus Repräsentanzen und dem Art Buying runden die vielschichtigen Fotografenvorstellungen zusätzlich ab.



"BLICKFANG" bietet Orientierung und Inspiration. Für Art Buyer, Art Direktoren, Redakteure, Werbekunden und Fotografiebegeisterte.

Zu den Teilnehmern zählen:
Oliver Mark, Thomas von Salomon, Jürgen Stein, Uwe Düttmann, Kai-Uwe Gundlach, Attila Hartwig, Darius Ramazani, Christian Schmidt, Manfred Rieker, Bernd Kammerer, Thomas Balzer, Uli Heckmann, Michael Schnabel, Tim Thiel, Ralph Richter, Anke Luckmann, Lado Alexi, Erik Chmil, Anja Frers, Tom Nagy, Mats Cordt, Manu Agah, Anja Boxhammer, Martin Klimas, Thomas Strogalski, Marc Neuhaus, Iver Hansen, Mareen Fischinger, Erik Chmil, Markus Mueller, Felix Holzer, Magnus Winter, Nixenberg, Idris Kolodziej, Olaf Heine, Jannis Chavakis, Volker Wenzlawski, Frederic Streicher, Klaus Merz, Leo Krumbacher, Hans Starck, Daniel Hartz, Ali Kepenik, Rasmus Kaessmann, Peter Godry, Beate Hansen, Christiane Haid, Eberhard Sauer ... u.v.a.



Ab sofort für nur 34,90 Euro im Online-Shop erhältlich.
> mehr Produkt-Infos
> www.blickfang-dbf.de

Get hip with this celebration of all things retro, low-brow and tiki-tastic! Derek Yaniger’s colorful style is reminiscent of the Cartoon Modern style of the ’50s with a hip, contemporary twist. A contributor to low-brow journals like Atomic and Barracuda, his retro world revolves around beatniks, tiki gods, swinging ladies and cocktails. Fans of Shag and the great Jim Flora will relish this book.

WILDSVILLE: The Art of Derek Yaniger
Foreword by Stuart Sandler
Hardcover + jacket; 112 pages; (h) 228mm x (w) 272mm
ISBN: 978-0-9558336-3-2
Euro 18.99

The Hot Rod Art book: Masters of chicken scratch is the most impressive Hot Rod Art book ever published.



No hot rod art book has ever had such a long list of artists ranging from seasoned veterans to the newest up and coming artists. Not only does The Hot Rod Art Book contain over a 100 pages of beautiful hot rod art from a variety of artists, but it includes tutorials from a past Hot Wheels designer, Dwayne Vance. It includes an instructional CD that shows the complete process from sketch to rendering plus a few extras.

Artists inside book include Dwayne Vance, Brian Stupski, Randy Ricklefs, John Bell, Eric Brockmeyer, Michael Miernik, Max Grundy, Jimmy Smith, James Owens, Justin Chin, Thom Taylor, Larry Wood, Steve Stanford.

http://hotrodartbook.com

Im amerikanischen RebelRodz Magazine ist ein cooler Review zu meinem zweiten Fotobuch erschienen :)



Im amerikanischen RebelRodz Magazine ist ein cooler Review zu meinem zweiten Fotobuch erschienen :)

Hotrod Empire Inc. - Photography by Dirk Behlau
Dirk Behlau, or Pixeleye, as his known to his friends and foes alike, is arguably Germany’s foremost photographer and documentarian of the local hot rod scene. His still images of everything and anything that moves on four wheels and is frequently accompanied by beautiful creatures in short skirts speak volumes.

They are also bound in volumes; two, to be precise.Hotrod Empire Inc. is Dirk’s second picture book, and most likely not his last. We like it a lot, mainly because it has lots of rockability, but also because it doesn’t contain any pesky words and sentences to slave over; it’s all photos, and lots of them to boot. Well, there are some words, actually, but they’re at the beginning and at the end of the book. And they’re easy to read ’cause they’re in English.

As far as the visual content of the book goes, there are cars, of course, cool-looking American cars, some of which you might have seen already in RebelRodz—like Jay-Jay’s ’35 Ford that we featured in issue No. 4 (February ’08), for instance.

There are also girls in this book, girls like the beautiful Zoe Scarlett, Switzerland’s pre-eminent pinup model and seemingly Dirks perennially favorite subject, or the very sexy Maureen van Mortis. And there’s art; art must not be omitted from any book about kustom kulture. There’s Doug Dorr pinstriping a tiki head, Skratch pinstriping a
headlight, Doug Dorr again, pinstriping Zoe. And on it goes.

While all of the photography is first class, some of it is even more first class because it’s made to look like third-class snap shot art: coffee-stained, scratched up, scruffed up, seemingly out of focus, off-centered, greasesplattered pictures, all in an effort to lend age, use and authenticity to a genre that thrives on living in a greasy, rusty past.

More than anything, however, there are kars, kars, and more kars to ogle and admire, and that’s really what it should be all about, with or without explanatory words. After all, if a picture is worth a thousand words, Dirk’s slim little coffee table book is one enormous, wordy tome!

So do yourself a favor and check it out! For more info or how to order it, simply go to Dirk’s website: www.pixeleye.de. As they say in Germany: Yoo vil buy it und yoo vil like it! –J.W.

www.rebelrodz.com/rebelrodz/