Pretty, mainstreamed porn actress and assless American Apparel tights endorser Sasha Grey is releasing her photography book neü sex from powerHouse next month. Because her usual photo shoots leave her dangerously lacking in “aesthetic control” and the extended arm-pit shots you can only get with a self-pic. Peek below. Read more »
In a last ditch attempt to help promote their not so quick selling Vandal Squad book, indie publisher powerHouse Books has devised a PR/marketing strategy to help raise some awareness: a panel discussion on graffiti! It will include washed up police officers like “Joe Blow” Rivera, the book’s author, alongside media whoring former paint chaser Steven Mona facing off against notorious vandals and Peter Vallone Jr. political targets COPE2 and KET—we’re actually digging his justification for attending. Chalk writing street artist Ellis G. will also be on hand to offer some perspective.
Ah, midgets. So tiny. So strange. So unwilling to be used as bowling balls. You gotta love their enigmatic ways. Of course, these days it’s not enough to just be some run of the mill midget. The people want more. Midget bullfighters? Now we’re talking. Mexico-born photographer Livia Corona spent eight years hanging out with Enanitos Toreros, a tiny troupe of little people bullfighters, and powerHouse has collected her pix into a book: Enanitos Toreros. “This evening, in your town, the Enanitos Toreros have arrived with a show that will kill you. But kill you with laughter.” The powerHouse slideshow is here, and there are more images on Corona’s website. Relatedly, I’ve been on the set of three midget porn movies. But I suppose that’s a story for another time.
Here’s the cover to that powerHouse book that glorifies former NYPD Vandal Squad cop “Joe Blow” Rivera and stabs the graffiti community in the back. It’s now available on Amazon. Here’s a snippet from the book’s website description:
“The only book on graffiti told from the perspective of law enforcement, Vandal Squad takes us inside the New York Police Department. Rivera’s fast-paced tales of cat and mouse are presented alongside professional disregard within the Department. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and stories of graffiti’s infamous Top 40, Vandal Squad offers an unprecedented look at the graffiti world from the other side of the game.” S
adly, even a ‘know thy enemy’ approach can’t rationalize giving this graffiti-jocking ex-cop any money. |WhatYouWrite|
PowerHouse Books has announced it’s officially entering the magazine game this October. Slated for publication twice a year and inventively named ‘powerHouse magazine,’ this glossy will basically draw content and contributions from their current stable of artists and authors effectively creating an indie media clusterfuck of product placement for the emerging publishing house. The first issue, ‘No Sleep Till Brooklyn,” is based on a homage to hip hop (so what if it started in the South Bronx ya’ll, BK is where it’s at) exhibit they are hosting at their ‘powerHouse Arena,’ making the first issue little more then a glorified gallery guide and catalogue for their existing titles then a magazine. They lovingly dedicated a spread with a shop guide-like grid of pH books featured in the current issue and to help build PR into the launch, the pH people were even nice enough to comp full page ads to existing indie magazines, so we look forward to those blaring reviews editors! But we wish them well and can’t wait for the predictably safe street culture slant and newly regurgitated graffiti and break dancing content, and most importantly, the free drinks at the launch, even if it is in Brooklyn.
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