“...a low-ceilinged, sweaty, black box of a room is filled with people of every color, sexual-orientation, height, weight, dress-sense (or non-sense) imaginable. They all have just one thing in common: they're all a little bit... different. The Misshapes have found their box.” —Jarvis Cocker Misshapes is a collection of fashion portraits taken from 2002 to 2007. Representing a singular document of the changing face of fashion in downtown New York City. This extensive collection of portraits ranges from punk rockers to artists, downtown kids to musicians, DJs, and celebrities with each subject posed amidst downtown New York's dense and riotous environment. 288 pages with over 2,000 images. Appearances By AFI, AGYNESS DEYN, AKIKO OGAWA, ALEXANDRE HERCHCOVITCH, AMY SEDARIS, ANDREW WK, ANNIE, ANOUK LEPERE, ARCADE FIRE, ARDEN WOHL, ARMAND VAN HELDEN, ART BRUT, ASHLEE SIMPSON, ASIA ARGENTO, BEN JELEN, BENJAMIN CHO, BLACK WIRE, BLOC PARTY, BRUCE LA BRUCE, CAMILLE BIDAULT WADDINGTON, CASEY SPOONER, CASSIE, CECILIA DEAN, CHLOE SEVIGNY , CHRIS CORNER, DASH SNOW, DEBBIE HARRY, ERIC BALFOUR, EVAN RACHEL WOOD, THE EXPOLSION, FALL OUT BOY, FELIX DA HOUSECAT, FRANZ FERDINAND, GARETH PUGH, GEMMA WARD, GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY, GOOD CHARLOTTE, THE GOSSIP, HEDI SLIMANE, HILARY DUFF, THE HORRORS, HOT HOT HEAT, INTERPOL, IRINA LAZAREANU, JAMES IHA, JAMIE BELL, JANEANE GAROFALO, JARVIS COCKER, JENA MALONE, JEREMY LAING, JEREMY SCOTT, JIMMY WEBB, JUNIOR SANCHEZ, JUNIOR SENIOR, JUSTIN THEROUX, KELIS, KELLI GARNER, KELLY OSBOURNE, THE KILLERS, KIM GORDON, KLAUS BIESENBACH, KLAXONS, KT AULETA, LADY SOVEREIGN, LADYTRON, LE TIGRE, LEELEE SOBIESKI, LEO FITZPATRICK, LILY DONALDSON, LITTLANS, LIVING THINGS, M.I.A, MADONNA, MANDY MOORE, MARK HUNTER, MAX MINGHELLA, MAXIMO PARK, METRIC, MICHAEL STIPE, MICHEL GONDRY, MIRABELLE MARDEN, MSTRKRFT, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, NAN GOLDIN, NARCISO RODRIGUEZ, THE NEPTUNES, NO BRA, PATRICK WOLF, PAUL RUDD, PEACHES, PHILLIP BLOCH, THE RAPTURE, THE RAVEONETTES, RILO KILEY, ROBERT VERDI, ROBOTS IN DISGUISE, ROCK AND ROLL, RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, RYAN MCGINLEY, SAINT ETIENNE, SELFISH CUNT, SELMA BLAIR, SIENNA MILLER, SIMON REX, SIOUXSIE SIOUX, SLAVA MOGUTIN, SOPHIA LAMAR, THE SOUNDS, STEVE AOKI, STEVE MACKEY, THE STILLS, THE STROKES, STUART PRICE, TERENCE KOH, TEST ICICLES, TOM VEK, UFFIE, THE VIRGINS, VON BONDIES, WHITEY, XIU XIU, YEAH YEAH YEAHS, YOKO ONO, ZALDY

Misshapes

Arts & Photography

Geordon Nicol

Graphic Design

MTV Press

"For all y’all smart dumb cats out there." Legendary Hip Hop artist Ghostface Killah settles into one of his most popular characters, Pretty Toney, and offers readers a hilariously unique perspective on life via guides to and advice on everything from sex to gambling, family to education, even how to eat on just $5 a day, better known as "The Hustler’s Diet". A singular twist on Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People for the Hip Hop generation complete with illustrative photos. Born as a series of shorts on MTV2, Pretty Toney and his musings quickly became a channel and online hit, with fans uploading the shorts on YouTube and circulating them virally. The book will also include a CD of Ghostface reading the material, the perfect accompaniment to enjoying the book.

The World According to Pretty Toney

Ghostface Killah

Reference

“Kevin Landers may be the best artist you’ve never heard of. For 17 years, the New York photographer has been scouring the Lower East Side, locating beauty and humor in the humblest spots…” —Time Out New York In a remarkable debut from a rapidly rising photographer, Kevin Landers intimately connects us with the quotidian objects and moments that make up the topography of New York City. Jackpot is a 17-year retrospective of his candid and unvarnished encounters with entities and artifacts that capture the grittiness, incongruity, and simplicity of a metropolis that harbors relics of all proportions. “…the images function as a kind of survey of New York during an era in which downtown transformed itself from an immigrant and artist district to one with Whole Foods on major cross-streets and luxury high-rises on unlikely avenues like the Bowery. Mr.Landers ignores the new arrivals and focuses on the old guard….And while [the images] owe plenty to color photography pioneers like William Eggleston and Stephen Shore—saturated prints, lingering on the odd, quirky object—they are grounded in a locale and moment of their own.” —The New York Times “A survey of the color photographs that Landers made between 1990 and 2007 showcases a slacker sensibility too amused and blasé to be seriously cynical. Like a grungier Martin Parr or Tony Feher with a camera, Landers makes pictures of people and products that tease Pop mercilessly. Studio still-lifes of panhandlers’ cups, three-card-monte cardboard totems, and plastic bags snagged on broken branches rescue their subjects as found sculpture….Call it photography of the absurd, but nobody does it better.” —The New Yorker

Jackpot

Individual Artists

From one of the music industry’s top executives comes the ultimate guide to making the most of the internet to promote yourself and your music. Nicky Kalliongis is a veteran music industry professional who’s worked with the likes of the legendary Clive Davis and L.A. Reid, and with artists as diverse as Aretha Franklin, Avril Lavigne, OutKast, Pink, and Prince. He has been involved with hit singles and albums totaling over 653 million copies in sales. Now, he divulges proven Internet marketing strategies for the digital world, and demonstrates how any musician or band can put them to use without the benefit of a big budget, marketing team, or PR person. This step-by-step guide shows you how to: • Make the most of your MySpace page. • Utilize MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, and Squidoo in concert for maximum online presence. • Get people to visit your site and listen to your music. • Increase traffic to your site. • Write and circulate an effective press release. • Attract media, radio stations, record labels, and fans. Whether you’re tr ying to get a record contract or stay independent, MySpace Music Profit Monster gives you all the tools you need to successfully establish yourself online. You make the music. This book will do the rest. “One of the premier music executives in the country, Nicky has participated in the success of the world’s biggest acts, including Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, Aretha Franklin, Carlos Santana, and Prince. His tremendous work ethic, attention to detail, and superb musical instincts truly exemplify him as one of the top A&amp;R men in the business today.” —Monte Lipman, President, Universal Republic Records

Myspace Music Profit Monster: Easy Online Marketing Strategies to Get More Fans Fast

Kalliongis, Nicky

Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music is a tribute to the innocence and accidental sophistication that jump-started the look and sound of hardcore music. Hardcore music emerged just after the first wave of punk rock in the late 1970s. American punk kids who loved the speed and attitude of punk took hold of its spirit, got rid of the “live fast, die young” mind-set and made a brilliant revision: hardcore. The dividing line between punk and hardcore music was in the delivery: less pretense, less melody, and more aggression. This urgency seeped its way from the music into the look of hardcore. There wasn’t time to mold your liberty spikes or shine your Docs, it was jeans and T-shirts, Chuck Taylors and Vans. The skull and safety-pin punk costume was replaced by hi-tops and hooded sweatshirts. Jamie Reid’s ransom note record cover aesthetic gave way to black-and-white photographs of packed shows accompanied by bold and simple typography declaring things like: "The Kids Will Have Their Say", and "You’re Only Young Once." Radio Silence documents the ignored space between the Ramones and Nirvana through the words and images of the pre-Internet era where this community built on do-it-yourself ethics thrived. Authors Nathan Nedorostek and Anthony Pappalardo have cataloged private collections of unseen images, personal letters, original artwork, and various ephemera from the hardcore scene circa 1978-1993. Unseen photos lay next to hand-made t-shirts and original artwork brought to life by the words of their creators and fans. Radio Silence includes over 500 images of unseen photographs, illustrations, rare records, t-shirts, and fanzines presented in a manner that abandons the aesthetic clichés normally employed to depict the genre and lets the subject matter speak for itself. Contributions by Jeff Nelson, Dave Smalley, Walter Schreifels, Cynthia Connolly, Pat Dubar, Gus Peña, Rusty Moore, and Gavin Ogelsby with an essay by Mark Owens.

Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music

Pappalardo, Anthony

Nedorostek, Nathan

Music

“I’m so antisocial, I got a disastrous attitude (Something something someone—I could never work this part out) was my kinda dude! I’m proper primitive, true caveman, Neanderthal! I’ll scramble your brains for breakfast, leave paintings on your walls! I doubted I could’ve said it any better myself, what it was like to be alive and confused, so happy I could kill someone and so angry I could laugh.” Freshman summer, 1986: You think you’re looking for happiness and you’re in love with the world’s best and most obscure band. Your roommate tells you both reside in Columbus, Ohio. These aren’t the first fantasies you’ve indulged. Blind faith, after all, may be your one true religion. In the thrall of dead philosophers and mad prophets on the radio, you charge off on a group pilgrimage to Anywhere, Everywhere, Nowhere, USA. You still believe in sex, drugs, and rock and roll—but you’re not sure in what order. You’re digging in the crates for that one true thing. You know something is happening, but you don’t know what it is…. That Summertime Sound is the liner note to that perfect summer single and all its aching echoes, written with the gimlet eye of Jim Thompson, Kazuo Ishiguro’s sense of wonder, and a true believer’s ear for music. “Matthew Specktor’s That Summertime Sound isn’t so much a book as it is a door, hinged in memory, and swinging wide to every tenderhearted throb of lust and longing and precocious regret still there where you left it, at the periphery of adulthood. How does the novel perform this trick? By prose as lucid and classical as Graham Greene’s in The End of the Affair, yet saturated in detail such that if you’d never had the luck to outgrow an 80s’ teenage dream in Columbus, Ohio, you’ll feel you had after reading it.” ⎯ —Jonathan Lethem

That Summertime Sound

Mathew Specktor

Full Bleed: New York City Skateboard Photography

Photography & Video

True stories of totally undeserved suffering. Spectacularly depressing. Nobody gets their just deserts. Crushing defeats. No happy endings. Abject misery. Pointless, endless grief. No lessons of temperance or moderation. No saving grace. No divine intervention. No salvation. Sin, suffering, redemption. That's the movie, that's the front page news, that's the story of popular culture--of American culture. A ray of hope. A comeuppance. An all-for-the-best. Makes it easier to deal with the world's misery--to know that there's a reason behind it, that it'll always work out in the end, that people get what they deserve. The fact: sometimes people suffer for no reason. No sin, no redemption--just suffering, suffering, suffering. Tales of Woe compiles today's most awful narratives of human wretchedness. This is not Hollywood catharsis (someone overcomes something and the viewer is uplifted), this is the katharsis of Ancient Greece: you watch people suffer horribly, and then feel better about your own life. Tales of Woe tells stories of murder, accident, depravity, cruelty, and senseless unhappiness: and all true. The Tales: strange, unexpected, morbidly enticing. Told straight--with elegance, restraint, and simplicity. The design: a one-of-kind white text on black paper, fluidly readable, and coupled with fifty pages of full-color art.

Tales of Woe

REED, JOHN

jackass: 10 Years of Stupid

When high-school junior Ashley Salazar learned she was pregnant, she immediately started a blog to document the difficult, life-altering experience. Little did she know how life-altering it would actually be. Later, she applied online to be considered for the cast of MTV’s hit show 16 &amp; Pregnant. The show responded quickly and her story will be told as the season 2 finale in a special 90-minute episode aired in December 2010. Her memoir takes the viewer further back and further forward, and chronicles the tortured indecision she faces as she decides whether its best for her baby to give her up for adoption or take the dramatic step toward motherhood.

Bittersweet Blessing: 16 & Pregnant

Literature & Fiction

Salazar, Ashley

Dramas & Plays

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