Books
Blek le Rat: Getting through the walls - Sybille Prou, King Adz (Thames and Hudson)
Trace the origins of the ubiquitous stencilled figures pasted across your city’s walls, and you’ll stumble across a man called Blek le Rat.
Some Kinda Vocation - Cheryl Dunn (Picturebox)
It takes a gifted mind to stare normality in the face and see something more.
Bunker Spreckels: Surfing’s Divine Prince of Decadence - Art Brewer and C.R. Stecyk III (Taschen)
When Californian Adolph ‘Bunker’ Spreckels came into a massive inheritance, he went on a wild and infamous binge of surfing, skateboarding, travelling and hedonism before his death in 1976.
The Norwegian Way - Jorn Tomter (Generation Yacht)
The displaced artist often captures his homeland with sharper eyes than those stuck in the province.
September - Michael Fordham (September Project)
“I’m extremely interested in finding a new way to live and I think that surfing could possibly be the answer.“ Uttered by Andy Warhol during a visit to La Jolla in 1968, this is the opening line of September, a totally original collection of photos, paintings and musings edited by magazine veteran and print-word magician Michael Fordham.
Bonfire of the brands - Neil Boorman (Canongate)
What would you do if you woke up one day and thought, ‘I literally have no idea who I am?’ For Neil Boorman, the answer seemed simple: light a bonfire and burn the entire contents of your life.
