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In an expanded and updated edition, photographer Eric Holubowcaptures the melancholy, haunting beauty of decaying structures across the US. Across the United States, decaying ruins of once-thriving structures lie dormant and forgotten as time and nature leave their melancholy mark. Yet through this deterioration is an undeniable and haunting beauty, which Holubowskillfully captures. In this second edition, additional photos bring new stories and stirring sights to life. Centered in the Rust Belt but spanning the entire country, this photographic journey evokes the erosion of important parts of history. Frombig cities to small towns, breathtaking images of over 100 sites recall the faded glory of factories, churches, theaters, prisons, and power plants. Arranged according to the functions these buildings served-working, living, learning, healing, playing, praying-Abandonedis a memento mori for industries, communities, and empires. Through rubble and rot, broken glass and clinging ivy, long-forgotten and forsaken corners of the country emerge as reminders of the fate that they-and everything we know-will eventually share.

A raw collection of photos and stories spotlighting the artistic process and dangerous adventures of a Chicago graffiti artist as he creates unsponsored works of art around the world<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />More than 350 photographs combine with previously untold firsthand stories to offer readers a rarely seen look into graffiti art and street culture, a subculture that has grown seemingly without boundaries. Vibrant, urgent prose takes readers into the emotions and physical experience of bringing street art into existence, capturing the moments of creation as well as the camaraderie of souls bound by these acts of expression.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Each story is a real-life mini action adventure following FLEX | KYM's trajectory from local artist to world traveler to incarcerated individual to creator with reignited passion<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Underpinning the story of the art is that of Chicago and its growth into a city internationally recognized for live-action urban painting<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- As the art ignites a path to form global networks, the journey takes readers to New York, New Jersey, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston, Vienna, Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava, Catania, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Stockholm, Bangkok, Barcelona, Istanbul, Athens, and Berlin<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Features images of art by FLEX, ARK, FACT, SKOL, DTEK, SPIN, HEAR, NYKE, and other graffiti artists from Chicago and beyond<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />This visceral look at the artistic process takes readers deep inside the world of graffiti art-a subculture that is now more celebrated than ever.

AFROFUTURISM explores the evolving and exhilarating concept of Afrofuturism, a lens used to imagine a more empowering future for the Black community through music, art, and speculative fiction. Sumptuous, beautifully designed spreads feature 100 gorgeous illustrations of objects and images that reflect Black identity, agency, creativity, and hope, including: T'Challa's suit from Black Panther, Octavia Butler's typewriter, Uhura's outfit from Star Trek, Sun Ra's space harp, costumes from Broadway's The Wiz, handwritten lyrics by Jimi Hendrix, and Janelle Monae's ArchAndroid dress. Chapters include essays from a diverse group of scholars who reflect on themes such as legacy, alienation, and activism, with profiles on influential people and objects:   Foreword & Introduction: Provides background on Afrofuturism  Chapter 1 - Space is the Place: Reflects on space and its defining connection to Afrofuturism and its African cultural legacy  Chapter 2 - Re-Animation and Re-Invention: Explores short stories, Black speculative fiction and sci-fi, comics, and Black superheroes as bastions of Afrofuturist expression Chapter 3 - Visualizing Afrofuturism: Analyzes the vast visual culture of Afrofuturism Chapter 4 - Sonic Architects: Explores Afrofuturism and music Chapter 5 - Infinite Possibilities: Investigates Afrofuturism in the present and future, and how it connects with the activist goals of Black youth culture AFROFUTURISM offers a framework of radical potential to envision Black liberation and alternatives to oppressive structures like white supremacy. Afrofuturism comes at a time of increasing visibility for the concept, both in scholarship and in pop culture, and is a compelling ode to the revolutionary power of Black imagination.

The definitive illustrated history of the exotic sports cars and supercars of McLaren Automotive.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><p>When the McLaren Formula 1 team set up McLaren Cars and launched the revolutionary, iconic F1 road car in 1992, it turned the supercar world upside down. McLaren wouldn't make another road car itself until it formed McLaren Automotive in 2010. It was set up with the vision not just to rival the established companies in the sports and supercar marketplace, but to disrupt and to constantly innovate in its pursuit of performance.</p><p>Readers will learn the following:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Upstart company McLaren Automotive applied Formula 1 engineering expertise, innovation, and radical thinking to create cars that quickly became benchmarks for performance, ride, and handling against long-established supercar manufacturers such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Porsche.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Unparalleled insight from the designers, engineers, aerodynamicists, and test drivers who create McLaren Automotive's cars, with modern, independent insight from test drives by automotive journalists and the author<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Detailed technical insight, background stories, and data to the creation, development, and manufacture of all of McLaren Automotive's sensational cars, with the text supported by comprehensive data tables and illustrated by images from a team of world-renowned automotive photographers</p><p>This book contains incredible insight and detail from access to McLaren's press archives, as well as interviews with countless key people within the company. The first and only book dedicated entirely to McLaren's incredible road cars, this is the complete history of a fascinating automotive brand that's challenged the establishment.</p>

In February 1968 and March 1976, the Who performed shows in the same venue, almost ten years apart: San Francisco's Winterland. Generally considered as two marginal years in the Who's career, they are only apparently so. These two years represent a screen grab of the band taken in its purest form: live, and harder than ever, right before and right after the huge success the Who struggled to live with in the years between. Winterland was the perfect setting to see the band live in the city that welcomed them as a second home, San Francisco. At the Who's first Winterland show in February 1968, just a few hundred hippies turn up. In March 1976, the venue is crammed to capacity-5,000 tickets are sold. Still, as theExaminernoted, "The Who could have sold eight times as many," since 43,000 requests for tickets were sent! This all-access look at those two shows is a glimpse of what it was like to see the Who at Bill Graham's legendary concert venue, and features firsthand accounts and previously unpublished photos by fans at the shows, as well as details the band behind the scenes and onstage.