The art of Julien Langendorff

Great work here by Paris based artist Julien Langendorff. I have picked a rather 'clean' selection of works for display incase you happen to be looking at this site at work in your lunch break. To get the top shelf stuff click through to Langendorff's website to see his art as nature intended. Or buy his book....

'Black Mirrors'

64 pages / 16.5 x 23 cm / full color offset / 2012
1000 copies / perfect bound / hard cover / 25 euros

Published by Shelter Press & Galerie du Jour agnès b.

Purchase HERE

New limited edition book by ROA - available from Stolen Space Gallery tomorrow

Artist ROA has a new hand made, limited edition book entitled 'An Introduction To Animal Representation'. It  will be available at Stolen Space Gallery (LDN) on Thursday 19th April from 6pm at the opening of his new solo show, 'Hypnagogia'.

Stolen Space write: 'Due to the number of enquiries we’ve received for the book, we felt it necessary to post the following clarification text:

We have 125 books to sell, one per person, on a first come first served basis. 

These will be available exclusively at the exhibition opening, StolenSpace, The Old Truman Brewery, E1 6QL from tomorrow at 6pm and will be priced at £175. Any un-sold books from the 125 will be put online at www.stolenspace.com Friday morning 11am (GMT).

Each book is hand made, signed and numbered from an edition of 500 with 2 screen prints enclosed and is in itself a work of art.'

LINK to Stolen Space Gallery

Upcoming items in Ashley Wood's Bambaland store

REAL STEEL AMBUSH from 3A Toys goes on sale April 17th via Bambaland store, priced at US$290, and comes with an "exclusive" 'Bot Controller'.

Also, Ashley Wood's new book titled 'Fuck It 4' goes on sale sometime this week. Check out the previews riddled with robot/woman fornication and breathtaking brushwork...nice!

Ashley writes: '$35usd, price includes shipping, amounts are limited!'

 Click to visit Bambaland store

New book by artist 'OaKoAk' - available now

Edition / Publishing :  Edition Populaire 

Languages : French, English, Spanish, Brazilian, Portuguese

16 x 19 cm, 80 pages

€15

Published by Edition Populaire, this new book showcasing the street interventions of artist OakoAk is a steal at only €15. This artist see's everyday objects in a different way to most and by adding a touch of paint, completely transforms the mundane into the magical. Check out more of his work HERE. Or to buy the book, click HERE.

Mondo's first book - released tomorrow!

This is exciting stuff indeed! Here we have a precious and rare item that any Mondo collector will long to have in their collection. At only 105 copies, you will need a fast finger to snag one - best of luck!

Mondo writes:

'If you attended the gallery show a few weeks ago, you might’ve seen or even bought our new book. We are all very excited with how they came out. I briefly talk about this in the intro of the book, but I was at a friend’s house earlier this year and noticed a book he had by Jay Ryan. It was full of posters…. actual pieces of the screenprinted posters. I thought about the giant stack of returned posters we’ve gotten over the years and figured this would be a great way to get those out as we were moving to the new space and didn’t want to transport them. 

So, we began to go through the giant stack and pick out which ones we wanted in and in what order they should go. We found a local binder and had him cut them down to size and over several weeks we hand put these books together. It was an intricate process and below you can see some of the pics of the book getting put together. (check those pics HERE)

I went to WonderCon in Anaheim, CA a few weeks ago and got some sketches done in the book and felt like sharing them. Lots of folks that got these at the gallery show got the artists in attendance to draw in theirs as well, so this works as a great sketchbook!

These books are limited to just 105 copies made TOTAL and are bound in 100% leather. They will be put up for sale on the site tomorrow and will cost $200. Follow us on Twitter for the on sale announcement.'

LINK to Mondo

Wow! Amazing animation made by String Theory for charity, Good Books International

   

'Loaded with visual references to the writing of Franz Kafka and Hunter S. Thompson this incredibly slick animation was created by String Theory for online bookseller Good Books International that donates 100% of its profits to Oxfam.'  

Writing by Colossal

A new book from Faile entitled 'Temple' is available now!

'This book presents FAILE's most complex and ambitious project to date—a large-scale, temporary installation of a temple created for Portugal Arte 10. The vanguard American urban artists masterfully translate familiar elements and themes from the contemporary prints, graphic design, and paintings for which they are best known into decorative frescoes and sculptures for a structure inspired by the ruins of a Baroque chapel.' 

'The studio edition book is signed by Faile and comes with a ceramic “Skull/Flower” patterned tile from the temples exterior.'

Faile Temple Book 
Dimensions: 9.25 x 12.25 Inches. 
128 Pages, Full Color 
Hardcover 
Signed 

Ceramic Tile in Linen Box. 

Dimensions: 5.25 x 5.25 x .75 Inches (box size) 

Ceramic, Linen Wrap and Ink

Signed on back of tile

'All orders will be shipped out March 10th, 2012.'

LINK to Purchase

John Kenn {Book}

Another new drawing from the nightmare illustrator, John Kenn. Be sure to pick up his new 80 page, Hardcover book full of his dark imagery. 

'John Kenn Mortensen’s day job is directing children’s tv, and in his spare time he takes care of his young twins. But then, when darkness falls, he forgets everything cute and cuddly, takes out his pen and post-it pad, and wonderfully scary monsters burst forth onto the pad.

We have collected some of the best monster drawings.'

Open publication - Free publishing

LINK to purchase

New limited edition book + print set by Jeff Soto entitled 'Storm Clouds' - available now

Jeff Soto – Storm Clouds Book & Print Set

1 Clam Shell Box : 11″ x 8.75″ x 1.5″

Jeff Soto Storm Clouds book : 8″ x 10″ : Signed/Numbered : Hard Cover : 154 Pages4 Archival Lithograph Prints “Water, Air, Fire, Earth,” 7″ x 9″ printed 5 color + Deboss + Signed/Numbered1 Collector Card Print Cover Sheet, 7″ x 9″1 Certificate of Authenticity.This edition is limited to a quantity of 200, $250 USD + shipping.On sale now HERE.

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'The Art of Huck Gee' - new book just released over at Presto Art

Blurb by Presto Art:

'Once upon a time I got an amazing phone call. The Baroness called me and asked if I had an interest in exploring the idea of doing a book with custom toy artist Huck Gee. For years I have collected Kidrobot Dunnys so I have been a fan of Huck's work for years. A call, an e-mail, some jpegs and we were hooked on the idea.'

 'This was one of those projects where ideas burned in my head for layouts and I couldn't wait to produce a volume of Huck's art. A year later and many untold hours and bang. We present The Art of Huck Gee!
We have packed this hard cover edition with 150 pages of Huck's greatest creations. His limited edition customs, production pieces, production art, prints, collaborations, projects that were scrapped, and every single thing in between.'

'The forward of the book is written by Kidrobot founder Paul Budnitz, who refers to Huck as "...the greatest toy customizer on the planet....". Now if that isn't a ringing endorsement I don't what is. Huck is one of the founders of this custom art toy movement. His work has been shown and is collected the world over, it even resides in the permanent collection of the MOMA. The book was a blast to design and the art is refreshing and important. This is one of the most interesting titles we have published to date and it was wonderful to work with such a talented guy.'

'The book is available now at www.prestoart.com for the amazing price of $28.00. For those who love art, toys, pop-culture and pure creativity. The Art of Huck Gee - that is how we kick off 2012.'

LINK to Buy

Police Brutality Coloring Book

'This is an art project/zine. 46 contemporary artists have contributed drawings in response to the recent wave of excessive force used by the police in U.S. cities.

It features the work of 46 artists:

Noah Becker, Tim Biskup, George Boorujy, Kevin Bourgeois, Paul Brainard, Sam Crees, Daniel Davidson, Joel Dugan, EHF, Steve Ellis, Shepard Fairey, Ryan Ford, Dawn Frasch, Brandon Friend, Eliesha Grant, Rebecca Goyette, Maya Hayuk, Liz Insogna, Aaron Johnson, Emily Noelle Lambert, LMNOP, Alfredo Martinez, Lorenzo Masnah, Jason Mitchell, Adriano Moraes, Daryll Peirce, Taylor James Pierce, Jonathan Podwil, Pork, Quel Beast, Nic Rad, Ron Richter, Christine Rucker, Michael Scoggins,Scott Sjobakken, Harley Smart, Andrew Smenos, Adam Suerte, ErlandTait, Pamela Tait, Sam Trioli, Trustocorp, Erik Volet, Chase Winkler,David Yow, and myself.

It's a 48 page old school zine and the most punk rock thing I've done
in years. I want to thank my immensely talented
friends for making this project go from dream to reality in 6 seconds'

Get yours now only $12 + $2 Shipping (U.S.)
(+ $3 Canada)
(+ $6 overseas)

LINK

Shock Value - book celebrating the brilliant but disreputable filmmakers who terrified the world in the 1970s

“In the 1960s,” Jason Zinoman writes, “going to see a horror movie was barely more respectable than visiting a porn theater. You watched scary movies in cars or in dirty rooms with sticky floors.” 'These days, the multiplexes are jammed with splatter sequels and remakes, and zombies have invaded every corner of our culture. How did we get here? That’s the story of Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror (Penguin Press, 272 pages), Mr. Zinoman’s examination of the late-’60s and ’70s movies that scared—and continue to scare—the living daylights out of us.'

MORE HERE

Book sculptures by artist Guy Laramee

"With the vanishing of cultures, some people are displaced and destroyed. We are currently told that the paper book is bound to die. The library, as a place, is finished. One might say: so what? Do we really believe that “new technologies” will change anything concerning our existential dilemma, our human condition? And even if we could change the content of all the books on earth, would this change anything in relation to the domination of analytical knowledge over intuitive knowledge? What is it in ourselves that insists on grabbing, on casting the flow of experience into concepts?

When I was younger, I was very upset with the ideologies of progress. I wanted to destroy them by showing that we are still primitives. I had the profound intuition that as a species, we had not evolved that much. Now I see that our belief in progress stems from our fascination with the content of consciousness. Despite appearances, our current obsession for changing the forms in which we access culture is but a manifestation of this fascination.

So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are."

LINK to artists website

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