Fighting fire with fire.

I remember seeing this awhile back, and really liked it but, but I was in a hurry, blah blah...anyways, while sitting in the nasty humid, dank, moist armpit that is downtown NYC , I really wanted to toss one of these through the sun, and Ofilhobastardo did an excellent job of romantically reapproaching the all mighty Molotov Cocktail:


Check out his other work, he's up to yes good.

-WKJ

If I....

..owned a motorcycle, (like the one I posted yesterday) I would most certainly want this helmet from Borsalino:

It's almost futuristic vintage...

-WKJ

Yes please...

RRL is releasing these sometime next month to the tune of around $700+ in about 24-26 pairs. Bench made to perfection:



Via ACL.

-WKJ

BLANK DOGS

Blank Dogs - "Setting Fire to your House"


Via BB

-WKJ

Brooks Brothers Black Fleece

Cant really front, this is amazing, and its on sale down from $2100 to $840.

Get it HERE!

Thanks Goldtoof.

-WKJ

Dead Weather.

Im really not sure about this whole thing...


I mean I would let Alison Mosshart fuck my ear drums all day long, and even though Jack White is a ego filled stale twinkie, he is also a amazing guitarist... But I'm up for the challenge.

-WKJ

*Update: After 20+ watches, shits quite brilliant. Makes you want to scream all your insecurities out during make up sex...

The best thing seen all day.

Spotted in South Williamsburg today, so so nice.

-WKJ

The secret agent...

...always has a hidden message:


(Spotted at a party in Philly.)

-WKJ

This is Jeff.

I met Jeff in Philly this past weekend. Jeff lived in NYC during the downtown '81 art scene. He had some very interesting stories, but the one that stands out is this:

He said he used to wake up some mornings, and leave his house in the LES, and every so often he would have "SAMO":

tagged on his front door, and could never figure out what the hell was going on, until one night during who knows what, he meets a up and coming artist who is getting known for his work of tagging sayings around town with certain words crossed out, and is working on a show for Mary Boone's gallery. That artist being Jean-Michel Basquiat. They became friends, and talked about how they had already known each other, but not really.

His face really lit up when we talked about downtown, and he had so many stories about the arts, and parties, and the way the city was just a giant canvas for all who dared to create.

I like these kind of conversations the most, they inspire you to have stories of your own, and to live your life to the fullest in the moment.

-WKJ

She said "Meet me in an alley some where secret.."

-WKJ

Not exactly sure...

...if this is overkill, or right on the money:


-WKJ

Cortizone.

"I've got 100 empty tubes of cortizone, filling up my room,
to cure itches from years of pointless self doubt,
there might be a place in this auditorium for one of my many voices,
there might be a place in this night sky,
to point out to you,
and show you what planet I am coming from.

I left the palace of Dionysus, after I went blind,
because we all draw lines that separate fact and fiction,
but somehow we cross lines with effortless breath.

She lay silent on the floor,
with a piece of flow blue china stuck in her arm,
and a note from god saying "The world has changed and left you behind."

I will run till my heart explodes,
and I will beg for you to leave the key under the mat."

-WKJ

Take care children of the night...

I have many friends that knew Dash Snow, personally and professionally, and I have seen him either here or there. I always thought of his scene as "Unapologetic anarchy done by over articulate Cherubs." There is a brilliance to such a scene to where either you learn the balance of your chaos, and your limits. Some figure it out, and unfortunately fade away, and some go out in a blaze of misunderstood glory. Its tough, and peoples lives, and the art scene loses heroes at a unparalleled pace.
I pretend not to understand it. Just know that your time, and those of your friends, loved ones, and peers, is very short, choose wisely, as there are no right answers here.

Here are all the paintings for the Green Day project!

some gems in here;





ok
adam5100

Oh I almost forgot; sometimes its the small stuff thats tasty

sardinesociety

Websters word of the day: Dirndl

Dirndl; a full skirted dress with a gathered waistband; and the female equivalent to lederhosen
who knew, other than Germans, I think words like this will come in handy once my time machine (see 2nd pic) is finished



Welcome to the future, or nice to see you again to the past, which brings up my MJ question; if you could go back, who would you save from death, MJ or John Lenon; lets argue in the comments, feel free to save anybody else as well this conversation is not exclusive..



I'll be back later today, with all the progress on artwork for my upcoming show in Tampa Bay @ Red Letter One on the 15th of August, Im showing down there with an incredible artist named Seth Armstrong He painted this doozie;



please chime in and tell me if your reading this and love it or hate it, Im not a writer so I will only learn through criticism
thanks
with love-
adam5100

Get your Glutt on....

Always good things over at the Gluttony


-WKJ

She said "You're so much hotter without glasses and your shirt.."

Fact or fiction, who knows.

-WKJ

NYC tonight.

Get to it.

-WKJ

She said "Florida awaits me, Florida awaits you.."

-WKJ

A.ot.D.

Richard Prince:

"Richard Prince, (born 1949 in the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, now part of Republic of Panama) is an American painter and photographer. His works have often been the subject of debates within the art world. Trained as a figure painter, Prince began creating collages containing photographs in 1975. His image, ‘Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotograph constructed from cigarette advertisements, was the first ‘photograph’ to raise more than $1 million at auction when it was sold at Christie's New York in 2005, despite violating numerous copyright laws.

Starting in 1977, Prince created controversy by re-photographing four photographs which previously appeared in the New York Times. Within the art world, this became part of a major discussion concerning authorship and authenticity of photographic images, as well as photographic copyright issues. This continued into 1983, when his work Spiritual America featured Garry Gross's photo of Brooke Shields at the age of 10, standing in a bathtub, as an allusion to precocious sexuality and to the Alfred Stieglitz photograph by the same name. The display of this image led to lawsuits by Shields' mother and the original photographer, and led to further discussion within the art community, concerning the role of voyeurism within photography. His Jokes series (beginning 1986) concerns the sexual fantasies and sexual frustrations of middle-class America, using stand-up comedy and burlesque humour.

After living in New York City for 25 years, Prince moved to upstate New York. His minimuseum, Second House, was owned by the Guggenheim Museum, but was hit by lightning and burned down after being up for only six years from 2001 to 2007.[1]"
Via Wikipedia.

I have always had such a thing for his work, it's inspired me to do a certain format, which is conflicting, because you never want to mimic a certain style, perhaps a medium, but never a certain looks, which is hard to focus on adapting your ideas too. It's a battle for every artist who is inspired by another. But I always like that he is described as "Borrowing from others people art, to recreate his opinion". But some of these layouts and witty sayings and colorwash usage are my absolute favorite:






Joke Paintings

Prince has continued with his appropriation through his entire career. However, next rather than extract inspiration from the photography of others, he moved into the realm of text, with great attention given to jokes. In the mid-80’s, Prince began to search out comedic lines that had been used so often by different comedians and films that he considered them to be overplayed, overused. These jokes had been used by such an array of individuals, that their originators were no longer attached to them at all, nor were they recognizable as any one person’s joke. Prince again uses his joke works to explore the extent of ownership and its significance in life and more so in art. He is testing the limits of right to possession by helping these jokes to continue further on their journey, away from their authors. He is widening the gap between the creator and the user.

Prince’s first joke piece came about in 1985, in New York, when he was living in the back room of the 303 Gallery, located on Park Avenue South. His first “Joke” was about psychiatrists, a subject he later worked with often. Prince described the discovery of the idea for the Jokes beginning when he posted up a small 11 x 14 inch handwritten joke on paper. He realized that if he had walked into a gallery and had seen it hanging from the wall, he would have been envious. Prince’s Jokes come in several forms. His first Jokes were hand written, taken from joke books. His jokes grew into more substantial works as he began to incorporate them with images, often pairing jokes with images that had no relevance with one another, creating an obscure relationship. An example of one of these peculiar combinations can be seen in his 1991 Good Revolution, a piece that depicted black and white images of a male torso in boxing shorts set amongst doodles of a kitchen stove. These were set above the text “Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman that will give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong home, that’s what it means.” In the late 80’s/early 90’s Prince, like his contemporaries Lorna Simpson and Barbara Kruger, was one of the first to play with image and text, a style that was becoming increasingly popular. Prince would often put jokes amongst cartoons, often from the New Yorker, that’d he’d copy by hand. Prince described his early discovery of jokes and his sense of humor, as “I never really started telling, I started telling them over. Back in 1985, 
in Venice, California, I was drawing my favorite cartoons in pencil on paper. 
After this I dropped the illustration or image part of the cartoon and 
concentrated on the punch line” (Modern Painter’s Special American Issue, Autumn 2002”) Prince’s jokes were primarily “one-liners”. They were very satirical, poking fun at topics such as religion, the relationship between husband and wife, his relations with women, and so on. The jokes are all quite simple and straight to the point, often relying on a punch line; “I took my wife to a wife-swapping party, I had to throw in some cash” or “I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my names”. Prince commonly repeats his jokes over and over in one piece, immediately after the first finishes, the same one starts up again. This repetition works to fuel the continual break down of the joke’s originality and significance. He is aiding in the destruction of these, sometimes tasteless, textual parodies.

Prince has stated that he does not censor his choice of jokes. There are no limitations, although he has made it clear that the only boundary that he will never cross is “Why did the Nazi cross the road?” Jokes became the complete subject of his prints, set atop monochromatic backgrounds red, orange, blue, yellow, etc. These works range in size from 56 x 48 inches as seen in his 1994 Untitled, to 112 x 203.5 inches, as seen in his 2000 work Nuts. His early jokes were modestly sized, but as they caught on he began executing larger pieces. These Monochromatic Jokes question the importance of the unique, in high art. What is it that set these jokes apart from one another, the background color, the color of the text, the jokes themselves? If you look at any of the artists working around the same time period as Prince, even the other appropriation artists, we see a distinct quality between works and series. Works are distinguishable from one another or identifiable as a particular artist, but with Prince’s Monochromatic Jokes, we are presented with yellow text upon a blue background a seen in his 1989 Are You Kidding? If you were to look at the works of Jeff Koons, another appropriation artist, and what he was creating in the late 80’s in the same environment and time period as Prince, there’d be a striking difference. Not only between the technique and style, but also the significance given to making the artwork identifiable. An example of this can be seen if we look at what each artist created in the same year. For example, in 1988 Koons was working with porcelain sculptures like his Michael Jackson and Bubbles and Pink Panther. These are two works produced in this year that are both identifiable from one another. In the same year, 1988, we can look at Prince’s Fireman and the Drunk and his Untitled (Joke). What sets these two works apart? The subject of the jokes, the burnt orange background in the one and the lime green in the other?

Prince used his Jokes to disturb the balance that had governed the art world, as well as incorporate painting into his career. Jokes provided Prince with the means to demonstrate his talent with paint. This is seen in the increasingly diverse backgrounds of his jokes. In a 2000 interview with Julie L. Belcove, Prince called the joke paintings “what I wanted to become known for.” When asked of the artistic genre of his jokes Prince once responded “The Joke paintings are abstract. Especially in Europe, if you can’t speak English.” (Artforum International Magazine, March 1, 2003). Since Prince’s emergence as an appropriation artist, he has taken the technique into the realm of a multitude of mediums. We look at the recently discussed series as his most significant because they set the groundwork for a career of appropriation. Yet following the rephotopraphs, Gangs, and the Jokes, we see more. Prince continues to keep up his theme of the trialing of authorship and the questioning of reality and its presence in the materialist infused media culture. Other notable series have been his Celebrities, Car Hoods, Check Paintings, and Nurse Paintings."


He's got so many other styles and contributions...

-WKJ

It's rare...

...but every so often I will grab a vintage piece, and not 10 minutes off the plane, I get a text from a friend, that found these vintage Ferragamo's in my size, and if you know me, you know I have a deep passion for vintage wingtips and variations of such...these are so butter.


I love having friends who are stylist.....they know just what I like.

Thanks K.

-WKJ

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing....

I think that's spelled wrong....


..and that's just fucked up....

-WKJ

Strange clouds coming in....

Everyone must have been thinking the same thing, because it seems that I have seen this on a few other sites, and everyone says the same thing, "No photoshop here jack.."



It was strange dusk...


-WKJ

21 GUN SALUTE....

This guy.....

...has now left the building, on his way to the next chapter. The end of an era for San Francisco, but the start of another elsewhere. It was good to catch up in SF before he left. Now on the other hand, his daughter, "lil" Joey, will be extra stoked to have him around, BTW. my glasses only look good on me:


Strange how that looks like a alt. universe pic from the Brady bunch.
(That's the last time I ever eat at Cha Cha Cha, I swear it.)

Safe travels, and hope to see you again, may it be here in NYC, or in your new home of the LBC.

-WKJ

Some thing about the sky being overcast

There is something about the sky being overcast, and having intense dreams that will put me in my head all day,
I don't usually bore people with long winded descriptions of dreams, but today is different, last night was a super crazy one;
I was at a concert where Stevie Nicks, Annie Lennox, Cesaria Evora, and Lori Anderson were performing "is it just my imagination"
It was so good, the down fall to the dream was being chased around and not being able to watch,
I woke up, and shit was shuffled all around the apartment, the computer had been moved across the room, empty glasses that were on the table were now on the floor by the door,,,,,, I don't freekin know, I do remember half way moving stuff,
so in honor of last night here are some of the songs of the sirens of my dream...

Ron Mueck: If you don't know his stuff, you should do some checking in on him

-adam5100

Tools of my trade:

I'll cut your face: After years and years of cutting paper my used blade bottles are getting heavy,


Love,
Adam5100

I hate to repost something I saw on another blog: BUT!

What a web page; www.gasmasklexikon.com/

The Mickey Mouse Gas Mask was produced as part of the war production program. The Sun Rubber Company produced approximately 1,000 Mickey Mouse gas masks and earned an Army-Navy ‘E’ for excellence in wartime production in 1944. Overall, production of the Noncombatant Gas Masks (and in fact, all gas masks) was one of the most successful production programs of the war. In fact, production had to be curtailed early due to the vast quantity produced.



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There you go more to come later today,,
adam5100

And the winner is....

These people from Pulp68, for the best tribute tee for MJ.


You can buy it HERE.

-WKJ

Don't act like you're mad...

Gotta love Brooklyn
-WKJ

Alexander McQueen...

Is killing it with these:


Should be out soon, and their going straight into my closet.

-WKJ

1st documentary Sat...Why, would you like a liberty torch my dear?

I have been doing some pretty hard thinking about my own art work lately, and how/where does it fit in with the other segments of the art world. and the greater world at large, this had me start thinking about the age and time in which my life has taken place and what was before that led up too. So research ensued, along the way good old sigmund freud came to mind. Am i making objects which are trying to appeal to peoples visceral sub unconscious wants? or am i trying to dialog with the other half the analytical front of the people who view my paintings. I believe the later,,, just to chime in on the artwork and gallery practices of some of our contemporaries, I believe the former
I thought I would post this documentary about sigmunds nephew, the man who convinced women they should smoke, the man who changed the word propaganda, to public relations, the man who thought to use his uncle freud's psychoanalysis to sell us cheap shit we don't need.....just to note: the film can offend if you don't take an objective stand point, because subjectively there are a lot of touchy subjects in there.....
if you have time; watch this, and relish in the many many many examples and direct correlation's to our modern society, I.E. Fox News, modern media, Wal-mart stampedes, to credit bubble, to Bush, to Obama, to oh god what-ever just watch and see
as always tons of love on a personal level
adam5100

p.s. swayzee I know you'll like this shit

The King of Pop...

Man I really have no words to say...

Here are some pretty good ones from Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/thinking-about-michael.html

Let the music speak for itself:

DJ Ayres (The Rub) - Michael Jackson Mix for Brooklyn Radio (zShare)

R.I.P.

-swayzee

She said "Do you want the inside or the outside?"

We live in strange times, get out and get busy livin' and get busy dying.

-WKJ

The first ever Moonwalk

They said the torch had been passed from Fred Astair to MJ....

Craze.

-WKJ

Who's the fastest...

I can already smell the tread on the sneakers of kids running to their desk, to start cooking up some bullshit tshirt with Michael Jackson on it. I give it 3 days.

Anyone wanna take bets?

$1000 bucks to anyone who makes a tee with Michael being held by a paramedic going "Michael are you okay, are you okay Michael?'

(Sorry I had too)

-WKJ

You moon walked all over my heart Mr. Jackson

Fucking Legend.....no matter how weird you got, you were a straight up smooth criminal.

Take care.

-William KillJoy

BLINDERS ON TO THE WORLD

Give me a vintage convertible and a mid day buzz...and Im all over these Mia Farrow glasses from the Spring/Summer range


-WKJ

She said.."We can probably hang, just not alone."

-WKJ

AND....

I really don't care about either, the Black Eyes Peas, nor do I give 2 shits about Perez Hilton. However, it brings up a very interesting subject...

Ironic that what sets the events into motion is that an openly gay male, calls a straight male a "Faggot". And then the straight male attacks the gay male. This is fucking role/situation reversal. Remember the sayings that says "Words cut deeper" well, here are my unimportant thoughts on the matter. If you are allowed to sit back and cast stones from a glass house, prepare to have a few windows broken. While I agree that violence isn't the answer, people should know that verbally you can incite people to violence. PH said W.i.A. told him to respect him, blah blah, and got in his face. And then said, he felt like he wasn't going to be bullied, so he called him a faggot. Come on, what did you expect, I like how you think you can twist the system of socially acceptable verbal attacks...

You know what, you're a guy who made a living off of stalking people who were either more talented/ better looking, or hustled more than you. And you get mad when someone doesn't take your fake journalistic approach to shit in the world that doesn't matter, poorly?

Whatever, this is the beginning of the end of all that I think. Fuck PH and who really cares about the Black eyed Peas.

-WKJ

I need an assistant....

I don't understand the world we live in, mostly because I don't control it, my interests aren't things I barter with other countries for, I don't have a religious agenda, and I feel as if everyone should have a say in everything, not because we have grown to this, but more because we are all a part in this. I don't know, its all so exhausting and sad and confusing, and terrifying, and just bewildering. Neda Soltani, I just can't even understand. Iran, and Tehran right now are just a boiling point...and it's any bodies guess what will happen next. North Korea...not that I even understand what the beef is...but to to straight up say "We will wipe the US off the face of the Earth" is such a statement. What scares me the most, is that we are at the point in society, in an economic downturn, wars everywhere, and just unrest are pushing some radicals to think, "IF we do wage a joint war on the US, on their soil, and do as much damage as possible, they will crumble worse then 9/11 economically, and we might have the chance to send the power balance back to their side." In reality, if that happened, not only would Obama be the first president to have to take on such a large job with repairing this country, but also the 2ND to wage a nuclear strike on another country. In doing that, I have to say this world would hit a breaking point. Things then would start to change, but do we really have to get to that point. I have no idea. Drastic change never comes easily. I hope we make it through. But I honestly have no idea if we will, safely.

Ill be back in a bit.

-WKJ

With humidity comes irritability

One word: Allergies...

Shit is horrible, and this weather here in NYC is killing me. I never had allergies as a kid, but when I had first moved to San Francisco, that changed, I learned how to deal with it. Eat right, lots of water, no coffee, (which Ive given up anyways) fragrance free products, (duh) and the right clothing detergent. Well since this is my first full summer in the apple, and the humidity, is, how shall i say this...fucking thick....I can wipe it in the air...and its only June. So now I have to step up my game, which means drinking less booze, (dehydration) possibly some type of BS Claritan (sp) and getting a place with AC. My place now, has one, but its not enough to fill the space...

Anyways, lets looks at some other things:

The Node Power Outlet, gives the middle finger to power strips...

Smart...

But not as crazy as this, which I secretly like better, cause the pattern is fun, the possibilities are endless...:


The New York Times, had a recent article, that I thought was very well thought out, and makes a lot of sense, perhaps in ways you don't normally look at how fashion trends evolve, and are shaped, and when they come full circle...

"The All American, back from Japan":

AS you have surely noticed, all- American preppy style has come back for another goround. There is madras everything, button-downs everywhere. Nantucket reds — washed-out pink pants — are the new khakis; Sperry Top-Siders are more common on roof decks than top decks; and the Polo pony and the Lacoste crocodile are now but two of the critters in a zoo of polo shirt insignia.

Lately the trend has taken on a new dimension, via the Internet, with a resurgence of interest in once obscure American brands. Alongside the familiar L. L. Bean duck boots, Brooks Brothers shirts and Ray-Ban Wayfarers, there are Filson duffel bags, Gokey boots, Alden dress shoes, Gitman oxford shirts, Quoddy Trail moccasins, Wm. J. Mills canvas totes — to name but a few. Moribund brands like Southwick and Woolrich are being revived with new designs. And the old-school look has been furthered by popular American fashion labels — small houses like Thom Browne, Band of Outsiders and Benjamin Bixby along with megabrands like J. Crew and Ralph Lauren.

As fashion moments go, this is as all-American as it gets, right?

Actually, no. What makes today’s prepidemic so fascinating is how it is, surprisingly enough, so Japanese. The look has its roots in the United States, to be sure. But the spirit, rigor and execution of today’s prep moment is as Japanese as Sony. One need only flip through the intriguing Japanese book “Take Ivy,” a collection of photographs taken in 1965 by Teruyoshi Hayashida on Eastern college campuses, to get the drift.

“Take Ivy” has always been extremely rare in the United States, a treasure of fashion insiders that can fetch more than $1,000 on eBay and in vintage-book stores. But scanned images from the book have been turning up online in recent months. Ricocheting around the network of sartorially obsessed Web sites and blogs (like acontinuouslean.com and thetrad .blogspot.com), it has aroused renewed interest for its apparent prescience of preppy style. (In the United States, the word preppy came into popular use only in 1970, thanks to the best-selling book and top-grossing movie “Love Story”; and the full flowering of preppy style would not arrive until 1980 with the best-selling “Official Preppy Handbook.”)

But “Take Ivy” was not prescient; it was totally timely, having been commissioned by Kensuke Ishizu, who was the founder of Van Jacket, an Ivy Leagueobsessed clothing line that was a sensation among Japanese teenagers and young men in the early 1960s. Mr. Ishizu was a kind of Ralph Lauren avant la lettre.

“You could have called it a Van look,” recalled Daiki Suzuki, the designer and founder of Engineered Garments (channeling vintage workwear) and the designer of the revamped Woolrich Woolen Mills line (channeling 1950s New England). He remembers “Take Ivy” from his childhood in Japan and how the Ivy look, as it is generally called there, became basic in the ’70s and ’80s, as the craze for American things like Levi’s and Red Wing boots accelerated. In 1989, Mr. Suzuki moved to the United States to work for a large Japanese store scouting for new American designers and obscure brands to import, like White’s Boots from Washington, Russell Moccasin from Wisconsin and Duluth Pack backpacks from Minnesota.

“It’s funny — this authentic Americana, people in the States didn’t care about it at all,” Mr. Suzuki said. “But I would take it back, and everybody would say, ‘Wow, this is really great, what is this?’ Now it’s different. People here like it now.”

HE would know. In 1999, once the Internet began eroding the specialness of his small “Made in the USA” finds, he founded Engineered Garments with the idea of updating vintage American pieces for modern tastes, and for five years he sold the line only in Japan. In the last couple of years Americans have come around, and now the line is a hot seller at Barneys New York.

As curious as this American-export style of business sounds, it is not unusual. Post Overalls, a Japanese- owned line based (and made) in America since 1993, started selling here only this spring. J. Press, the venerable Ivy League clothier founded in New Haven in 1902 and bought by the Japanese fashion giant Kashiyama in 1986, has four modest stores in this country — in Cambridge, Mass.; New Haven; New York; and Washington — but sells roughly six times as much as American made J. Press merchandise in Japan at department stores like Isetan."

Read the rest HERE!

And I'm out.

-WKJ