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San Francisco’s own Upper Playground celebrates their 10th year with an archive - a 612-page hardcover book by Gingko Press, highlighting nearly every single graphics and artist ever feature on Upper Playground’s t-shirt.  Over 2,000 designs from hundreds of artist from the last decade, including Munk One, David Choe, Estevan Oriol, Dalek, Sam Flores, Jeremy Fish, Ricky Powell, Phase 2, Marok, Revolt, David Ellis, and Mars-1, to name a few.  Upper Playground: Ten Years of T-Shirt Graphics will retail for $39.95 and releases on Thursday, November 5th, at fine art bookstores, online retailers, and Upper Playground locations.

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Join DC in celebrating legendary skate photographer Mike Blabac’s 20 years of definitive skateboarding with the release of his book, “Blabac Photo: The Art of Skateboard Photography” and his limited edition DC signature shoe, the Blabac Azure Mid.

Date: Friday, August 28th
Time: 7 – 10 PM

FTC SF
Address: 1632 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117

RSVP to: dc_pr@dcshoes.com

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On Tuesday, June 30th DC hosted an exclusive event at the powerHouse arena in Brooklyn, NY to celebrate the release of DC skate photographer, Mike Blabac’s first book, BLABAC PHOTO – The Art of Skateboarding photography. More than 150 media and industry VIPs, including DC athlete Ryan Smith, came to support Blabac and view the photo gallery exhibit showcasing 20 years of Blabac’s photography pulled from his extensive collection of work.

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Shepard Fairey (Obey) release a 20 year edition of his “Supply and Demand” Book.  It expands upon the previous version of this book and adds 100 new pages of illustrations and text to showcase Fairey’s entire body of work, a massive retrospective covering 20 colorful years.  Includes an 18″ x 24″ color poster by Shepard Fairey (Poster is not Signed), but the 446page hardcover book is !  Buy yours for $55 here.  Preview pics after the jump!

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Huf will have a Book signing at the shop in SF this Saturday and LA on Sat the 28th.  The book covers the illustrated history of skateboard footwear.

Crooks & Castles - Persona Of A Crook, a hard cover book includes new scenes featuring model Melyssa Ford. Also comes with aluminum attach mini briefcase, limited t-shirt, exclusive CD featuring “Raekwon The Chef” titled “The Appetizer… For The Listeners” From The upcoming album “Only Built For Cuban Linx 2″ CD also includes “10 Crook Commandments” featuring Raekwon.  Limited to 250 packages and available now at PersonaMagazine.

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