Archive for the 'History' Category
the years teach much which the days never knew
youth and spirit
Jim Morrison: Leather Pants
Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist of The Doors, reminisced in a recent radio show how he helped Jim Morrison get leather pants. Ray recalled how Jim brought the subject up. – I wanna wear leather pants. – Why, man? – Like Marlon Brando in The Fugitive Kind. – Oh, I got you, like Marlon Brando snake-skin [...]
HELMUT LANG: ‘MAKE IT HARD’ ARCHIVE SHRED
FULL INTERVIEW AT DAZED DIGITAL.
Diane Arbus: Jack Dracula
“Jack Dracula, the Marked Man, is embellished with 306 tattoos (estimated value: $6000), and although this work-in-progress conspicuously distinguishes him, he is living in seclusion and I have solemnly sworn not to reveal his whereabouts. There are 28 stars on his face as well as 4 eagles in varying postures, 6 greenish symbols shaped like [...]
Painting the Town Red, Blue, Pink…
Look at Mint: Exactly my sentiments when I was arrested.
and we celebrate ourselves by lighting up the sky
take a look at what you did
In the fields, the bodies burning, as the war machine keeps on turning.
Photo by Bruce Davis. This SCREAMS Paul Harnden Shoemakers, a poetic English label often heralded by those in the know, both here in NYC and abroad. Despite their embittered and grizzled faces, I don’t think one can help but offer up a certain romanticism for something that has long since superseded the decades that we’ve [...]