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Summary: Up there with "Getting Up"
Review: A great addition to the scope of graff books that, so far, have concentrated on NY (too many books to mention) and Philly (a mere chapter in Espo's "Getting Over"). Yes, there was a DC scene, and it was independent of the rest of the world, so much so that the entire vibe and style there seems to have been preserved in some sort of isolation, not really a copy of any other city but a mode that was hatched from what appears to be the most stifling police presence of any graff town. Technically speaking, writing in DC was about as impossible as stealing a car from the White House lawn (at least after old-timers like Seven and Cycle set the pace).Hats off to the ideas, themes, and guys/girls in this book: a worthwhile trip.
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Summary: Up there with "Getting Up"
Review: A great addition to the scope of graff books that, so far, have concentrated on NY (too many books to mention) and Philly (a mere chapter in Espo's "Getting Over"). Yes, there was a DC scene, and it was independent of the rest of the world, so much so that the entire vibe and style there seems to have been preserved in some sort of isolation, not really a copy of any other city but a mode that was hatched from what appears to be the most stifling police presence of any graff town. Technically speaking, writing in DC was about as impossible as stealing a car from the White House lawn (at least after old-timers like Seven and Cycle set the pace). Hats off to the ideas, themes, and guys/girls in this book: a worthwhile trip.
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Summary: Write on!
Review: Gastman has compiled a truly unique collection here. Any reader will be pulled in bythe graff artists' stories, but writers themselves will cheer that they finally have some 'permanent' documentation of their own in "Free Agents." It shows that it was a labor of love.
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Summary: I want a book on local muggers!
Review: Having suffered at the visual diarrhea that these low-level criminals and thugs threw up throughout my city, I checked it out at a bookstore. Yes, you see advertisements that were merely written on (web surfers should check out the excerpt page on "Seven" who defaced an add- how bland and unoriginal and flat out borrrring!), you see beautiful buildings, offices and homes turned ugly and you see pictures of a bunch of... who could have been artists but instead were the pettiest of petty criminals. By all means buy this book if you want to glorify the meaningless of talent wasted by tag...-- me? I'm waiting on a study of muggers as "class warriors." Only the most hardened city-hating suburban fool could enjoy this. Buy a book on architecture instead and see real beauty before the dummies drew all over it.
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