In the graffiti underground, Piece Books—or sketch books—have been a secret weapon for the mysterious artists who pioneered the culture back in 1970s New York. Reebok explores this history through the eyes of graffiti legends like Cope 2, Erni “Paze” Vales, West, SP.One, Wane COD, Rime MSK, Chino BYI, Ewok 5MH, PEZ, How and Nosm.
Photos Courtesy of Henry Chalfant, How and Nosm, Erni Vales, WANE, Ellen Wattson Foto 156, David Villorente / Chino BYI, Greg Lamarche SP.ONE, Ven AOK, and James SEXER Rodriguez.
We spread the word on the World Piecebook… project last week, and now we’re letting you know about the launch event for the book this Friday here in NYC. Sacha and Chino have enlisted the help of DJ Treats and the legendary Prince Paul to set things off.
Check out the details below…
Come celebrate the release of Sacha Jenkins SHR and David “Chino” Villorente’s World Piecebook: Global Graffiti Drawings – the third book inside their critically-acclaimed Piecebook series. Copies will be available for purchase, FREE limited edition World Piecebook t-shirt with the first 100 books sold. The night begins with a discussion on the history and importance of black books featuring noted artists Doves FC, Kr.One and Mr.Kaves.
Treats and the legendary and mighty Prince Paul will be on the wheels of steel playing the best possible music on the planet.
Reception:
Friday – July 22, 2011
7:00pm – 11:00pm
At: The Redbull Space
15 Watts St
New York, N.Y 10013
We ran into a good friend, David ‘Chino’ Villorente, a few weeks back and he let us know about his new project with writing partner Sacha Jenkins, World Piecebook: Global Graffiti Drawings. The book is the third in a series detailing the work of the greatest graffiti artists. This chapter shifts the focus to the world on the whole, including features on artists representing everywhere from Sweden to Puerto Rico.
Check out some details of the book below…
“World PieceBook: The Secret Drawings of Graffiti Writers” is the third incarnation of the seminal and wildly original and popular graffiti books “PieceBook” and “PieceBook Reloaded: The Secret Drawings of Graffiti Writers” by veteran graffiti scholars and practitioners Sacha Jenkins and David Villorente.
Published by Prestel and SHR Airlines, Jenkin’s imprint, the books gave insight into some of the practices of some of the world’s most well known graffiti artists via the black book, the sounding board for graffiti pieces. Included in the series were PINK, Lee Quinones, KEO, Blade & ESPO amongst dozens of writers your moms complained about while riding the IRT in the ’70s and ’80s.
This time round, however, Villorente and Jenkins take the show on the road by tapping writers around the world including graffiti artists from Korea, South Africa, Japan, Croatia, Israel and Greece, to list a few of the countries represented in the book. Many of the writers are also women and include MOTEL 7, KLOR and MAD C.
DJ Derek is who you could consider as a pioneer for white deejays in reggae. His career started back in the late 50′s, early 60′s when he fell in love with music from the islands. Well before your Major Lazers or Federation Sound, he was at the forefront of ska and reggae when it came to England… so much so that he even picked up patois.
With 2010 World Cup just 99 days away, ESPN has reopened an old topic about Joe Gaetjens the hero during the US victory over England in the 1950 World Cup. The article tries into kill all the misconceptions that were portrayed about Joe Gaetjens and show him as he truly was. In the movie “Game of Their Lives”, he was portrayed as a voodoo fanatic when he was actually Catholic. There are mangled facts about Gaetjens family origins and the English media trying to call his goal a fluke as well as his mysterious demise.
Joe Gaetjens was not Belgian. And his father wasn’t, either.
His name sounded Flemish. The Flemings are the Dutch-speaking half of Belgium. Considering the tidal wave of Flemish immigrants that washed over North America in the 19th century, the assumption that Gaetjens was of Belgian descent held credence. But Gaetjens, in spite of the ‘-jens’ suffix, is not a common name in Flanders.
Genealogic research shows that Joe’s great-grandfather, Thomas, migrated to Haiti from Bremen, in northern Germany, where the Gaetjens name is rather common. (A close variation on Gaetjens — Gätjens — is also oft-heard just north of there, over the Danish border.) Thomas arrived in Haiti shortly after 1825 (when France officially recognized Haiti’s independence) and married Leonie Dejoie, whose father was a general and had played a part in Haiti’s self-determination. That connection opened a path to prosperity for the Gaetjens family…
Joe Gaetjens did not practice voodoo.
“Absolutely not!” shouts his indignant younger sister, Mireille, reached in Puerto Rico.
“The Game of Their Lives,” the 2005 movie about the historic upset, had been ludicrously inaccurate. The film made light-skinned Gaetjens, played by dark-skinned Jimmy Jean-Louis, out to be some sort of voodoo nut.
The Gaetjens family was appalled. In real life, Gaetjens was Catholic, like most Haitians, and went to church every Sunday…
After the U.S.-England game, a barrage of excuses was blasted from the England camp. It had been too hot. Travel had been strenuous. But this one would stick: Gaetjens’ goal had been a lucky one.
All Americans and most English present on the scene dispute that.
You wouldn’t realise it, but some of the first exposure you have to art and photography is through music, and the album covers that present it. That said, I just came across this link, with some of the best artwork in reggae music to this point. Check out the info below…
In this post, we’re taking a look at the cover designs of 42 album cover designs from reggae and related genres. See how Scientist rid the World of the evil curse of the Vampires, say hello to Uglyman, and learn why the colours red, gold and green are so central in reggae and Rastafari culture.
It’s an unfortunate fact that for most, being of African descent in the Caribbean, Americas, UK, etc… also means that you likely don’t know your family’s whole history. Until recently, this was the story for British celebrity chef Ainsley Harriot who was the latest to take part in the BBC’s program Who Do You Think You Are?. On the show, they trace the genealogy of a celebrity subject, sometimes with surprising results. Check out the description of Ainsley’s journey below…
Ainsley Harriott travelled to the West Indies to uncover his roots and soon discovered that Caribbean history isn’t quite as ‘black and white’ as he’d imagined.
Ainsley thought he already knew a lot about his father’s side of the family. He’d been told that his great-grandparents, on the maternal line, had come to Jamaica as indentured labourers from India. But when he began his research, he was shocked to find himself heading down a very different path in his family’s history….
Check out part 1 of the episode below, and the rest after the jump…
