came home to a pleasant surprise on my bed!

some skateboarding art and photography books that i ordered from amazon.com earlier this month. hells yeah!

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photos: pinkviolence

the books.
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book one: agents provocateurs: 100 subversive skateboard graphics, book two: maximum rad: the iconic covers of thrasher magazine and book three: fdr skatepark: a visual history.

i also did ordered summore books but they we temporary outta stock. next time perhaps... anyways, i am super stoked with these books that i ordered, can't wait to go thru' 'em. fukkin' a, hommes!

peace.

agents provocateurs: 100 subversive skateboard graphics.

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skateboard graphics took a quantum leap in offensive potential after the sport was reborn aesthetically and otherwise in the 90s. artists such as marc mckee, todd francis, mike hill, michael sieben, ed templeton, sean cliver, moish brenman, fos, ben horton, alyasha owerka-moore, eli morgan gesner, jeremy fish, brice raysseguier, johnny mojo munnerlyn, alex kramer, todd bratrud, winston tseng and others brought dark humor and politically incorrect topics to the forefront of their illustrations. these artists intended not just to decorate and sell skateboards but also to raise serious issues and skewer values, deliberately evoking reactions from viewers. agents provocateurs asks new questions of this boundary-pushing artistic genre and its place over the years. did it save skateboarding? is it still possible to address such controversial topics twenty years later? what's left once all the envelopes have been pushed? these 100 boards and the artists behind them will form a clearer picture.

peace.

p.s. i gotta get this book too! =)