Where High Gets Low.
MacNaughton’s photo diary of the London scene. (Photo by C-M.)
Hey Folks: We have another juicy giveaway courtesy of Prestel books, which has given me a copy (worth $25) of Alex MacNaughton’s London Street Art Anthology — a photographic record of several years worth of illicit installations from England’s capital.
Leave a comment and it could be yours, all yours.
xox,
C.
Pages devoted to U.K. artist Lucy McLauchlan in Beyond the Street. (Image courtesy of Gestalten.)
All right folks, we’ve got a big fat goodie for giveaway purposes: a brand-spankin’ new copy of Patrick Nguyen and Stewart Stuart Mackenzie’s Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art, a nearly 400-page tome that weighs as much as a small dog and features a bonanza of photographs and interviews with everyone from Blu to Swoon to Os Gemeos to Jonathan LeVine.
This sucker usually retails for $78 in the States, but the folks at Gestalten have been kind enough to supply me with an extra copy for the purposes of a reader giveaway. Y’all know the drill: leave a comment below and I’ll be contacting one lucky dog by the weekend.
xox,
C.
Hold this book in your hot little hands.
Okay street art aficionados, I’ve got an extra copy of Jaime Rojo and Steve Harrington’s Street Art New York to give away. Just released by Prestel, it features lots of blazing, color pics of the New York City street scene, in addition to an introduction by yours truly. You can also pick it up at Amazon. And get all the deets you’ll ever need on the book’s website.
Leave a comment below to be entered to win and this little baby could be yours. You’ve got through Friday.
xox,
C.
This spitting camelid could be yours. All yours.
If you were into those posts I did about surreal sights in Lima and scrumptious Peruvian cooking, all of that hard-earned research (and much, much more) is now available in guidebook form from Lonely Planet. (I helped co-author this puppy, so please buuuuy it!) I do have one extra copy on-hand, however, for a single lucky ceviche-muncher. Leave a comment below and all my Lima fine-dining secrets could be yours gratis.
Thanks for reading!
C.
Bad Precedent, by Aaron Johnson. (Image courtesy of NOWhere Limited.)
Hey Folks:
The folks at NOWhere Limited, an online prints shop out of Colorado, along with artist Aaron Johnson, have kindly given us a print to give away on C-Mon. Y’all know the drill. Leave a comment and it could soon be hangin’ on yer walls.
xox,
C.
In honor of Gustavo Dudamel‘s impending debut at the L.A. Phil this fall, C-Monster.net marketing specialist E-Mon has secured a few Walt Disney Concert Hall trinkets for the latest giveaway extravaganza. These include: an L.A. Phil conductor’s baton, a coupla pencils and a Walt Disney Concert Hall notepad with floaty-pen.
Normally, C-Mon sticks to the visual arts for the purposes of giveaways, but since L.A. is currently gripped by a wave of Dudamania, and ‘cuz we saw the Venezuelan cutie lead a damn fine show at the Orange County Performing Arts Center (courtesy of USC/Getty) and ‘cuz we’re suckers for anybody with big curly hair, we couldn’t resist…
Leave a comment to enter.
H is for Holy Crap. And lots of other things holy.
It’s that time again! I have a copy of illustrator Marc Johns’ newly-released book, Serious Drawings, for giveaway. Bigger bonus: The sparkling intro was written by yours truly. (Alert the Nobel committee.) Seriously though, it’s a wonderful compendium of the last few years worth of his highly whimsical illustrations. (One of my favorites here.) Leave a comment below and this baby could be yours!
Interested in buying it? Check out Marc’s blog for all the deets. And congrats to Mr. Johns for putting together a fine piece of work!
San Francisco Street Art. (Photo by C-M.)
Photographer Steve Rotman has just released a photo book devoted to all things S.F. (He’s also the author of Bay Area Graffiti.) Among the artists featured in San Francisco Street Art are perennial favorites such as Miss Van, D*Face, Doze Green, Swoon, Neckface, Ron English and Shepard Fairey — as well as some funny pieces by Thesis, Hug and Dome.
Leave a comment below to enter to win this palm-sized hardback. If you’re looking to buy, you can find it here.
Oh, baby.
I recently spent a week in Italy with San Suzie, pillaging the local gelaterias and skulking around the American Academy in Rome. (More on that later.) But if there was one thing I was absolutely determined to do while I was there, it was pick up a pair of the above shorts, which feature the full monty belonging to none other than Michelangelo’s David. (San Suzie did a story on ‘em back in September.)
Now, lucky readers, these sausagerrific 100% polyester shorts could be hugging your privates. Leave a comment below, and before you know it, you’ll be impressing the world with your perfectly chiseled dong and rock-hard derriere.
Winner takes the shorts, but not the man inside. He’s mine — all mine.
Vandal Squad, by Joseph Rivera… photographed in my kitchen. (Photo by C-M.)
Guy works for the NYC’s Vandal Squad for twenty years. Guy writes book. To promote the book, guy even does a panel in Brooklyn with a buncha graffiti writers. That is the story of Joseph Rivera, the retired Vandal Squad cop who has just issued the above tome, from powerHouse Books, about his two-decade-long career in the unit. The text chronicles his life cracking down on graffiti, but the book’s layout, ironically, resembles a celebratory graff book: page after page of burners, masterpieces and bubble tags.
If you were feeling conflicted about spending your unemployment check on a book by a cop, then here’s your chance to lay your hands on it for free. Leave a comment below and this little puppy (complete with a photo of Rivera clutching a can of spray paint inside Scrap Yard on p. 74) could be yours!