This is a great book documenting the Sao Paulo 'Pixacao' graffiti tagging phenomenon. I don't know any industrial noise heads that share my personal interest in the more hardcore reductionist undercurrents in graffiti writing but this book should appeal to anyone who appreciates the legacy of industrial music and new developments in primitive noise.
This book documents the truest, rawest, visual body assault on the global metropolis in modern times.
Brief look through link below, hosted on the authors own Issuu account. The books been out since 2007 so it's not 'news' but I wouldn't have thought it had been discussed here before. Worth a look.
http://issuu.com/fc75/docs/pixacao-extracts (http://issuu.com/fc75/docs/pixacao-extracts)
Yeah, this is good stuff. Been meaning to get this book for years. Sao Paulo graff scene is insane..
There is doc out on these guys called Pixadores. I haven't seen yet but have heard good stuff about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m-dDNkq0jg H
Quote from: gasskammer on May 04, 2015, 12:22:20 PM
Yeah, this is good stuff. Been meaning to get this book for years. Sao Paulo graff scene is insane..
Yeah its really worth getting hold of. The Pixo's are pretty militant about their place in the wider social structure of Brazil but the essays at the back of the book are not about that at all. They only focus on the movement of the body in physical space and handmade inscriptions.
And I didn't realise there was a graffiti thread here on the forum. I'll have to have a look through that.