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Love to everybody who came out, everyone who helped to bring everything together for the night, and to everyone that made the year possible.

Special thanks to Jene Shereton who made that insane cake. A complete surprise and the highlight of the night for me.

I don’t want to get too sentimental so I’ll just leave it at that. The pictures say it all…which by the way are taken by the homie Shaun Roberts.

Click Here or the picture above to go to the Events page where we have pictures of the night.

Matt and I stopped in at the loin today to check in with Jeff and see how the tshirts are coming along. Matt (more of his photography here) was taking photos.

One of Robert Bowen’s films marinating.

Jeff

Some of the wooden frames

Each shirt hand pulled…or in Jeff’s case hand pushed.

Jeff is usually down there by himself but today D Young V (who also submitted artwork for a shirt for us) was at the shop helping him with the David Choong Lee women’s shirts.

Coming off the dryer.

And a quick teaser of the front of the Emory Douglas shirt. This shirt turned out so dope. Jeff achieved the look and feel of the old Black Panther Newspaper perfectly.

Don’t forget to come out this Thursday to pick up these and many more shirts at our One Year Anniversary and Tshirt Line debut party. Also have to underscore that these and all subsequent tshirts will be exclusive to the Babylon Falling store. Meaning we won’t be selling them online and they won’t be popping up in other stores ever. Strictly in house.

Just a quick thanks to Karen Schechner for a story she wrote about Babylon Falling for this week’s Bookselling This Week .

Link Here.

Just read this mini piece by Luc Sante (who wrote, among other things, ‘Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York’) over at Guernica.

This was the view out my back window in New York City for more than ten years. That time (1979-1990) was the heyday of Wild Style, when graffiti truly became an artform, as is documented most vividly in Henry Chalfant’s photographs. These tags, though, are primal. You can imagine them–in chalk–festooning an alley a century ago, or even earlier. Gang tags probably go back to antiquity. Today, owing to a couple of decades of outsized police response to graffiti, much urban tagging, accomplished under great pressure, is even cruder than this primal sort.

It continues here

Just got these in to the shop today. They are all signed. Limited numbers on Novurkistan and Nov York. Grabbed a couple for myself and Nov says that they are extremely limited. The newest title, The World Screaming Nov, was published by Nov (Dumar Brown) through his company Newkirk Edituer in conjunction with Alife.

I’m not going to attempt any in depth reviews but will say that if you have any interest in New York graffiti culture and New York life in general these books will appeal to you. Literary snobs stay far…The books are written in an almost conversational tone (similar to the Fuzz One book). This style makes for quick reading and nothing at all is lost on the substance. No pretension.