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Scrap City: Scrapbooking for Urban Divas and Small Town Rebels
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Product Description
The face of scrapbooking is about to get a youthful, cutting-edge makeover! Despite the craft’s popularity, all the books flooding the market focus on the same images of weddings, baby showers, and Little League. So where’s a scrapbooking rebel to go? To Scrap City of course. With its edgy and artistic points of reference, it fills the gap to reach those urban hipsters, downtown secretaries, big city divas, and small-town nonconformists. Along with a basics section and scrapping tips, is the pièce de résistance: a gallery of real-life scrapbook pages from people of all stripes, from the single mom to the skate kid. These contributors celebrate their panty collection; reveal why single is fun; list their tattoos; and, yes—even redefine the baby shower.
Paul Gambino has taught screenwriting at the School of Visual Arts, was a production consultant and writer for NBC, and was Creative Director for the magazines Gener8 and Ultra. He has spent endless nights in NYC’s hottest clubs; years as a punk on London’s King’s Road; and college days with Keith Haring and Jean Michael Basquiat. Now a father, he has a special appreciation for time’s fleeting nature and how important it is to preserve memories for yourself and others.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #706188 in Books
- Published on: 2006-04-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 168 pages
Customer Reviews
If these pages don't inspire YOURS, I don't know what will!
Wild, funny, simple, strong - the 50 pages showcased in Scrap City run the gamut.
The author, Paul Gambino, puts the spin of a film industry career into this book and from organization to creation, it's a unique, interesting & delightful take
on recording our adventures along the roads of life.
The book itself is gorgeous! Thick paperstock, hardcover, nearly square, brilliant color printing. The layouts vary from strikingly simple to crazy busy, with something to be gleaned from each. Studying these pages will help develop the eye of a beginning scrapper, please & inspire those already adept.
If I could have only 4 books on the subject, from what's available RIGHT NOW, I'd pick this one, The Scrapbooker's Color Palette, The Book Book and 7gypsies in Paris.
Not your average scrapbooking book!
I loved this book because it provided a glance into lives of scrapbookers who are not the stereotypical "soccer mom" type of scrapbookers. It was truly a breath of fresh air to see scrapbooking pages from strippers, a woman in a rock band, tattoos, and a woman in a burlesque show. Another great thing about this book is that not only does it have a wide variety of scrappers showcased, but it also relies on creativity of the scrappers rather than "cutesy" embellishments and other mass produced scrapbooking products. I would definitely recommend this book because you can see layouts from "conventional" scrappers and the not-so-conventional scrappers all in one book.
It's not Becky or Heidi or . . .
Remember those really cool kids in high school? I mean the REALLY cool ones, the ones who weren't afraid to do their own thing and go their own way? Here's your chance to peek at some of their scrapbooks!
What I really like about this book is that the artists aren't concerned with being "on-trend". The lay-outs are cool and vary so much from artist to artist, it refreshes your brain after seeing the magazines where it's hard to distinuish one artist from another. The variety inspires me to do things my way and encourages me to shake things up a bit.
Bravo!
(Disclaimer: If in high school your main aim was to be exactly like everyone else, this might not be the book for you. But you should give it a try, you just might see something you like. :-)
