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The Worst of While You Were Sleeping Online LNamX (Mobile book) The Worst of While You Were Sleeping Online [LNamX.ebook] The Worst of While You Were Sleeping Pdf Free Roger Gastman ePub | *DOC | audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #1618310 in Books Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 2012-06-28Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 11.00 x 1.00 x 9.10l, 3.75 #File Name: 0764342029496 pages | File size: 33.Mb Roger Gastman : The Worst of While You Were Sleeping before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised The Worst of While You Were Sleeping: 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy CustomerAwesome!!!!!! A++++++++++0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Vanity book for creator of WYWSBy Doctor.GenerosityWhile You Were Sleeping was an amateurish, crude, brutally direct zine published in the 90's. Most people probably ran across it in the magazine corner of the very edgy Tower Records, a genuine and unique cultural resource of 90's urban America. WYWS was an artifact of a certain moment of late 20th century street life focussed on graffiti, inappropriate sex, and 20-something stupidity. The very upfront interviews with porn stars and midgets, the low grade photographs, the images of kids puking on street corners, had a gritty honesty not to be found anywhere else - or at least not published anywhere else. The founder, Roger Gastman, believed graffiti was the most important art form of the day, and he made a living selling the Krylon bottles and spray tips. And where else could you buy a T shirt which read "I f-ked your daughter?"Gastman is still - believe it or not - earning a living from graffiti. This coffee-table retrospective is mainly a vanity exercise. Although the magazine was exceedingly rough and uneven, it had an immediacy that the book doesn't capture. It focusses too much on Gastman's personal reminiscences of starting the magazine, leaves out the pieces I remember best, and has way too many graffiti pix. Graffiti is perishable, like whipped cream or yesterday's weather report, and does not hold up well when reviewed decades later. Nevertheless, one must stand in awe that Gastman has turned all this into a career for himself; he is now the curator of pop culture at an LA museum and - so he says on his website "a trusted mediator between the underground art scenes and mainstream culture." Only in America!1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. More Fun Than I ExpectedBy Pop BopIf you know about "While You Were Sleeping", or are knowledgeable about the graff scene, or have followed Roger Gastman's career, then you really don't need much of a review for this book apart from the observation that it's probably pretty heavy in its non-Kindle form and if thrown on the floor could probably hold a door open against a heavy draft. If you don't know anything about any of these things, then here are a few possibly helpful comments. This compilation does an admirable job of catching a brief moment/mindset/movement in time. Everybody does the 50's and 60's, but this is a later, more personal, time and place. Graff was edgy and fringe. Places like Bethesda were fringe. Cool artsy high school nerds were fringe. Before every self-promoter had his/her own reality show, people like Gary Coleman and Ron Jeremy and porn stars were fringe. It was all just sketchy and fun and weird and irresponsible and pre-slacker. Well, this book catches a bit of a taste of all that. It is entertaining, but it also has just a hint of being an authentic historical document. It was all fiction, but now it's real. So, if you were there, this is a nice memory piece. If you weren't there, then this is another reminder of all the cool things you were too young for or too old for or just plain missed. (Like Woodstock, Altamont, Warhol's parties and the '68 Democratic Convention.) Oh well, just ask yourself - "Would you punch an alien?" Please note that I received a free electronic copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a frank review. This is a 496-page compilation of The Worst of While You Were Sleeping magazine. With over 900 images of the graffiti crazed, boozed-up partiers, and scantily clad ladies that were WYWS, this magazine content pushed the envelop of morality, sanity, and maturity.While You Were Sleeping was a graffiti and pop culture magazine started by graffiti supply business owner Roger Gastman when he was 19. Here are some of the greatest stories the magazine ever published-and many that are not so good. From stories on admirable serial killers and interviews with child stars to photos of graffiti and people s naked sisters, this book takes you into the dirty minds of Gastman and his team of juvenile delinquents. You ve been warned. Roger Gastman started writing graffiti as a teenager in Bethesda, Maryland, and parlayed his love for it into a legitimate career, becoming a trusted mediator between the underground art scenes and mainstream culture. He founded and published two respected pop-culture magazines While You Were Sleeping and Swindle (co-publisher) as well as more than 30 highly sought-after art books. He is the founder and creative director of R. Rock Enterprises, and has nurtured the careers of internationally recognized artists. Gastman was the supervising producer and creative consultant for the feature-length graffiti documentary Infamy, and served as consulting producer for BANKSY's Exit Through the Gift Shop, which earned an Academy Award nomination for best documentary. Most recently, HarperCollins released Gastman's The History of American Graffiti the definitive story behind the most influential art form in the last 100 years and Jeffrey Deitch asked him to co-curate Art in the Streets at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which is the first comprehensive U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art. [LNamX.ebook] The Worst of While You Were Sleeping By Roger Gastman PDF [LNamX.ebook] The Worst of While You Were Sleeping By Roger Gastman Epub [LNamX.ebook] The Worst of While You Were Sleeping By Roger Gastman Ebook [LNamX.ebook] The Worst of While You Were Sleeping By Roger Gastman Rar [LNamX.ebook] The Worst of While You Were Sleeping By Roger Gastman Zip [LNamX.ebook] The Worst of While You Were Sleeping By Roger Gastman Read Online.
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