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£19.95 USA$39.95 CAN$43.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-10-1 Beauty in Decay. Urbex and The Art of Urban Exploration Dimensions published by CarpetBombingCulture in August 2010 broke 260x260mm new ground in exploring the global phenomenan of Urban Exploration. The original book garnered critical acclaim and Pagination polarised opionion while featuring across both national and 192pp international press including a Sunday Times feature. This Format Hardback time the HDR is paired down and the spectacle ramped up. 33 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk Abandoned Planet The definitive document of cinematic abandoned photography Andre Govia

£24.95 USA$45.00 CAN$49.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-26-2 Dimensions 256x256mm Abandoned Planet is a unique document of exploring places Pagination caught in a time-warp, locations where history is frozen in time. Many of these images are downright spooky ranging 264pp from the elegant and hauntingly beautiful, to a scare factor Format Hardback that is the stuff of nightmares. Abandoned Futures A Journey to the Posthuman World Tong Lam

£19.95 USA$34.95 CAN$38.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-13-2 Abandoned Futures’ is a breathtaking global overview of the Dimensions decay and abandonment that sits in the midsts of humanities 240x240mm constant push towards an uncertain future. It’s a visual epic Pagination dedicated to the edge of our power, where human industry 192pp fails and decay takes over. These are the landscapes that give the lie to our dreams of immortality. Humanity versus 34 Format Hardback nature. It looks like we won the war. But at what cost? www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk States of Decay Urbex New York & America’s forgotten North East Daniel Barter & Daniel Marbaix

£19.95 USA$34.95 CAN$38.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-12-5 A new breed of urban adventurers take a savage ride through the invisible story of the North Eastern USA. From Dimensions NYC to the infamous Rust Belt, once home to America’s 240x240mm heavy industry, States of Decay brings you a glimpse of the broken, the doomed, the entropic dreamlands on the flipside Pagination of the silver dollar coin. This book will ask disturbing 160pp questions and inspire unexpected answers from anyone with an imagination and a heart. Format Hardback Nightwatch Painting with Light Noel Kerns

£24.95 USA$45.00 CAN$49.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-02-6 NIGHTWATCH: PAINTING WITH LIGHT is the first book from Dimensions Kerns, one of the world’s foremost practitioners of the art of 260x260mm light-painting. Join him as he ventures into the darkness of Pagination the American Southwest, exploring remote desert ghost 264pp towns under a full moon, or prowling the abandoned, seemingly post-apocalyptic structures of America’s industrial Format Hardback wastelands. 35 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk UnSanctioned The Art on New York Streets

Katherine ‘Luna Park’ Lorimer

£19.95 USA$29.95 CAN$39.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-33-0 Luna Park has spent the last ten years cataloging the art she found on NYC streets. She quickly learned that for those that Dimensions pay attention, the street can provide as much of an arts 240x196mm education as a museum. Ever since the City banished graffiti from the subway trains, it’s streets have developed into a Pagination vast playground for a complex culture, made up of distinct 192pp communities, each with their own hierarchies, values and Format Hardback sets of rules. Ron English’s Fauxlosophy

Ron English

£6.95 USA$10.95 CAN$13.95 A compelling collection of the artist's sayings accompanied ISBN by his own iconic images. 978-1908211-45-3 Ron English is one of the most prolific and recognisable Dimensions American artists alive today. Considered the Godfather of 140x140mm Street Art, he has appeared in movies such as Exit through the Gift Shop and Supersize Me and as a character of Pagination himself on the Simpsons. 196p New York-based, his work is shown in galleries and 36 Format Softback museums worldwide. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk GraffBook The Graffiti Sketchbook G Everything for the armchair graffiti artist GRAFFBOOK

£12.95 USA$19.95 CAN$21.95 Unleash your inner graffiti writer all over the walls, trains, subways and freighters in this beautiful black book. No ISBN CCTV. No cops. No rabid dogs. Just tonnes of inspirational 978-1908211-25-5 illustration for you to deface, bomb over and throw up on at will. Dimensions 297x210mm GraffBook is all about inspiring you to be the most creative you possibly can be with a nib and an imagination. Pagination 168pp • Printed on 2 distinctive paper stocks • 120 pages of uncoated art paper Format Hardback • 48 pages of matte coated art paper Burn After Reading

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£9.95 USA$16.95 CAN$18.95 Legal or illegal graffiti. It’s sometimes beautiful, sometimes ISBN ugly, but given time it can bee breathtaking in it's skill of 978-1-908211-06-4 execution. Mural graffiti, although it may be unfashionable to say so – is impressive at least in part because it's really Dimensions bloody difficult to do it well. 200x140mm Sadly these murals take too long to create for the illegal stuff Pagination to proliferate. So, until the revolution of consciousness when 256pp our leaders will simultaneously attain enlightenment and put Format Hardback up or shut up, budding muralists need to find legal walls. 37 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk Untitled. Street Art in the Counter Culture Gary Shove

£14.95 USA$29.95 CAN$32.95 I've got every darn book printed on the scene including my ISBN now much revered first edition of Faith of Graffiti by dear 978-0-9559121-0-8 dead Norman Mailer and this magnificent tome beats them all, even anything by El Banksy. Really it's a great book, part Dimensions fiction, part document, it's in a category all of it's 234x221mm own...Beautiful Crime. Pagination Not to be filed under history, photography, design or non- 196pp fiction, as it contains outright lies and outrageous subjective opinion, this book is definitely about street art. Format Hardback Untitled. II The Beautiful Renaissance Gary Shove

£14.95 USA$29.95 CAN$32.95 Could Untitled II live up to my expectations? In short, it does! ISBN I just pulled a half dozen street art books out off my shelf to 978-0-9559121-2-2 compare, and it is clear that the guys behind Untitled II have spared no expense in printing or finding the best photos.But Dimensions the truth is that pictures are only half the story with Untitled 286x246mm II. The text alone is reason to buy this book...Vandalog. Pagination 192pp 38 Format Softback www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk Untitled. III This is Street Art Gary Shove

£16.95 USA$29.95 CAN$32.95 ISBN 978-0-9559121-5-3 Dimensions Comical but quite cynical words gently probe and provoke 235x230mm the reader throughout on areas such as advertising, hype, society, urban life, rebellion, legislation and other street art Pagination related topics but it’s the quality of photography that set’s it 192pp head and shoulders above the current spate of pretenders. Format Hardback Out of Sight Urban Art in Abandoned Spaces RomanyWG

£19.95 USA$39.95 CAN$43.95 Not all art craves attention, some of it hides in the secret ISBN places. Some of it is buried treasure, out in the urban 978-0-9559121-7-7 wilderness, left scattered in empty rooms of derelict buildings like strange markings left by an unknown tribe. These works Dimensions are gifts given only to the occasional explorer, found in 260x260mm abandoned factories, warehouses, industrial sites and Pagination deconsecrated churches. This is art you have to earn by 192pp leaving the designated areas and heading out past the No Entry signs of the urban environment. Format Hardback 39 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk Quoteskine Volume 1

Lee Crutchley

£9.95 USA$16.95 CAN$18.95 ISBN 978-0-9559121-9-1 Dimensions Call it anti-illustation if you want. Lee Crutchley's Quoteskine 210x130mm project takes doodling to a whole new level. Pagination It celebrates the love of drawing and the subject matter that 144pp inspires each image. Taking in references from movies, books, music, famous figures and even some self penned Format Hardback quotes. Quoteskine is drawing for grown ups. Shitsville UK

Monty Cantsin

£9.95 USA$16.95 CAN$18.95 I used to think that the British were classy, heaven knows, ISBN they’re miserable now. There’s a new book out and it’s 978-1-908211-14-9 saying that your home town is the most awful, vile, disgusting conurbation of degenerate, thumbless, vomit-faced, genetic- Dimensions throwbacks the civilised world has ever known. 200x170mm You are outraged. Pagination 256pp You are also desperate to read exactly what it says. 40 Format Hardback This is Shitsville UK. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk The Mindless Colouring Book

Braindead Colouring for Exhausted People

£5.95 USA$9.95 CAN$13.95 ISBN 978-1908211-47-7 Dimensions 297x210mm Format Softback Finally! A grown-up colouring book for immature grown-ups. It’s a bit less Zen and bit like ‘scratching a crudely illustrated penis on your local bus stop’. Cement Eclipses Small Interventions in the Big City Isaac Cordal

£12.95 USA$16.95 CAN$18.95 Cordal’s concrete sculptures are like little magical gifts to the ISBN public that only a few lucky people will see and love but so 978-0-9559121-8-4 many more will have missed. Dimensions Left to their own devices throughout London Cordal what 214x146mm really makes these pieces magical is their placement. They bring new meaning to little corners of the urban environment. Pagination 256pp Format Hardback 41 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk SALES

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