dakis joannou collection #1

yes, THE first thing you see when you walk into his home in Athens...is, well....Duchamp!

thinking about a few tatts here in Berlin...Thoughts?

ok, so Sarah thinks they suck ass for tatt's, BUT its my FAV punk band EVER! and i have continued to think of them as well as getting their tatts for over a decade...should mean SOMETHING! right?




this one above would NOT be sideways, but upright.

this one would be the old English text 'Conflict" but all in RED!
























this would be just the dagger/banner/wings and text...

DAMMIT!

so every once in a while, me and my BLOCK neighbor, Kathleen Johnson, walk around the reservoir...exercise pals....anyhow one day i noticed these signs made by Yvonne Rainer sparwled on her lawn (she lives 2 houses from Kathleen). kinda funny, and last night i was reading about Kippenberger and for some damn reason i thought why not photograph AND take the sign........when drunk i tend to steal/borrow posters/signs....anyhow here is the result of las nights adventure......:-)~

more pics...

yes that is me passed out with Dan. not sure who took that pic. the others mainly taken by bobby the night before his b-day and on his b-day. had a blast. my boohead Jason came from Virginia, as well as my London homies Pablo and David. love them!

more Ny pics

from the Whitney and the pre-performance at Deitch

sorry gang for lacking in posts...

so HOPEFULLY there are still a few of you folks still cruising my blog. BUT i can understand if not. its been far too long since i did post something. anyhow, been busy. as soon as i got back from japan, i had to finish more work for my solo at Peres Projects/Berlin (opens March 10th).

Also i was in NY for a bit (for my asian brother's solo at the Whitney). NY was INSANE! (whats new) what happens in Ny, stays there....well kinda..i got photos, but wont publish most of them...hehehe. lets just say it was INSANE! i arrived with Sarah on a monday night, thanks to javier i got to stay at the Hotel on Rivington. nice hotel. i got to see the group show i am/was in at Participant Inc. which was like 20 steps from the hotel. met Lia Gangitano, she was super nice and the show looked tight!
what else? oh, the insanity of it all. from the night i arrived, monday-thursday it was non-stop parties, after parties, openings, after after after parties...you get my drift. night one: Bruce laBruce had a gathering at a bar. night 2: Terence and Garrick's lobster dinner/party at there pad. night 3: the Gold Party at Mr. Chows. night 4: Whitney opening, then a performance at Deitch, then after party at some bar, then after after party at A.S.S....then back to the Hotel on Rivington with Blair, Dan and Javier.... but i did have friday, saturday and sunday to hang with my non art-world peeps!! it was a bit of relief i must say. Jason stopped by from Virginia for Bobby's B-Day. also i got to finally meet Joe Maida. very sweet and cool guy. he will be in Tokyo later this year for the same JUSFC residency i did.

what else? getting a book published which should be done in april. oh, and i will be living in Berlin for 2 months...kinda scared, but excited too.

well if nothing else here are some pics for you all to enjoy.

Life is NOT fair!

as i (unfortunately) suspected, of COURSE TR Knight's BF is a typically/OBVIOUSLY HOT guy...the son from the show Brothers and Sisters...what ev's!

Last day in Tokyo

shot on the last day in Tokyo....

Pig Bottom....Tokyo day care...

Taken by Jason as we walk back, uh, or stumple from the AMPM to my apartment. there is a daycare center (a loud one at that!) where they have these cartoon animal tiles on the driveway....

Grey's Anatomy...

YEAH! T.R. Knight (Dr. O'Malley) is GAY! yup just came out. AND funny enough, from the FIRST episode I ALWAYS thought he was THE cutest guy on that darn show. Not "McDreamy" or, now, "McSteamy"...YUCK. its all about Dr. George O'Malley!!!!! he, or at least his character on the show is just sooo super sweet, quirky with those puppy-dog eyes and cubby cheeks....i HOPE he doesnt do some lame ass Lance Bass bullshit and has some freakin' typical model type boyfriend!

i always wondered why no "tabloid type" TV shows, talk shows or the news NEVER focused on him, but mainly on the others....like Patrick Dempsey. enough with Dempsey already!

T.R. you are HOT!

2 days left...and

here are some images at the end of the closing reception of my exhibiton at Sora Gallery in Tokyo. it was 2 days before i had to leave...i also gave a nerve-wracking lecture with a translator, so it was a bit strange to have to speak about my work in short sentences...still thinking about wanting to live in Japan....for real! i miss ALL my peeps and just wish could live there.....someday...

a TAD of Mito, jus a bitty

AWSOME restraunts...........but a bit of a ride from Tokyo.....

DOUG

My fav/loyal collector in Japan, Shoji-san, an amazing architect, took us out for dinner at a FANTASTIC restraunt and then invited us into his home...Doug was with his trainer at Shoji's apartment. Shoji-san then invited us up to his apartment where he has a great art collection...and some amazing Prouve furniture to boot.....anyhow, it is RARE in Japan for people to invite people/"strangers" into there homes, so it was a GREAT honor. HERE is his new aquisition, Doug, named after ONE of his fav artists, Doug Aitken.....i think Doug should have been named DEAN! maybe the next one...

In Yokohama...

in Yokohama with Jason, Jeffrey and Misa.....went to the Museum, and Chinatown where we had THE BEST Chinese food!!! also visited an old Chinese temple...

Abstraction

okay, so it would take me about a half an hour or so to walk to my nearest train station.....on the way, near my last days, there was this artist who would paint overlooking the river....kinda cool i thought. i wonder now what gallery he shows with, or if he already shows. at any rate i loved his kohones to paint in Waseda let alone IN public. this was probably the closest i got to an artist "studio" throughout my stay in Japan...seriously...AND especially in Waseda! its not the most liberal/art-friendly area in Tokyo.....

FINALLY...#3

Misa, Jeffrey and Kosaku-san took me to Mito (2 hour bus ride outside of Tokyo...)...my dear friend Akira the Hustler was in a group show at the Mito Contemporary Art Center (TRY and get your hands on his book: "A Whore Diary", its AMAZING and super positive and touching..)..... along with Akira there was also work by super star painter, Hideki Kawashima (shows at Tomio Koyama), who i met at the Yokohama Museum where he had a temporary studio in the museum where he was making paintings for a solo there...VERY cool dude.

FINALLY...#2

so my gallerina hottie Sarah came on over to visit me in Tokyo, we had a great time! (we did, right Sarah?) here are images with Sarah at the Shin-Edogawa garden and at the Asakusa Temple tying her fortune to the bars, with my other hottie gallerina Elisa helping us translate our fortunes....you see there are these canisters where you shake, then you tip it over to the small opeing where a stick comes out with a number, then you go to this shelving unit where you take out your paper fortune....this was my last visit at the temple and i got the "worst" fortune (i got the "Best Fortune" on my first visit!)...there are these stations/counters in the temple where you can purchase goodluck items just in case...Elisa helped me after i FREAKED OUT! OH, also after we went to about a hundred stores to look for those Goldfish lanterns (to no avail) wanted sooooo badly we stopped for some noodles. we ended up at this small place where i could NOT stop looking at the cook! he was just so HUNKY and cute!!!! it was hard to finish my meal...i swear i was sooo wanting to take his photo. SO, again thanks to Elisa and Sarah we came up with a scenario...Elisa told him that i was a visitor and wanted to take photos of the chiefs whose quisine i really liked...the meal was decent to tell you the truth, BUTT he was so Uber Sexaaay! if you disagree, F*#k off...hehehe....okay not the BEST angle...still freakin hot

FINALLY ....

so after a month plus...i FINALLY developed 4 rolls of film, some from Japan....here area few...and i SWEAR i have lost a roll or 2...anyhow lets start out with the HOTTIE Nakata taking photos! :-)~~ A man after my own heart!

I LOVE NAKATA!!!

So as many of my Japanese friends know, Hidetoshi Nakata retired from pro soccer (pro soccer right?) AND is buying a penthouse in NY designed by Tadao Ando. He's also a VERY stylish dude....he loves his fashion (i have a pic of him with the Stephen Sprouse/LV bag, which, the only other dude i know that has one is gay). in Tokyo, during the World Cup, there would be articles on him and what designers he was wearing (well, okay the Japanese are pretty obsessed with fashion and style). Now, as you can see by my last entry, i seem to have very bad gaydar...BUT...i think it's just wishful thinking, BUT i did have a few of my Japanese friends who seemed that him being gay wasn't out of the question......but who cares, he's HOT!!!!! i love NAKATA!!! he's been photographed at A LOT of fashion shows/parties. i think its great that style.com/fashion recognizes a hottie Japanese stud. I'm just curious on how he got so super connected with the industry and is hangin' with Astrid Munoz and Anne Watanabe (well she is from Japan..)... he speaks fluent Italian, Japanese and English.....sigh

Survivor, with a twisssst...part 2: revised

DAMN! JP just got voted out...there goes my theory. hmmmm........

Survivor, with a twisssst...part 2

So all the 4 tribes were asked to drop their buffs and combine into 2 tribes, the Raro and Aitu. Brad was chosen as the first person to choose for the Raro tribe of a different race, and who does he choose FIRST....JP! yup. AND tonight, there was a shot of the the Raro tribe sleeping and a quick shot showed Brad and JP sleeping very closely next to eachother. My friend Kurt thinks that he has a feeling that Brad and JP may have and are still boyfriends...is that the twist? lets all stay tuned!

ALSO SOOOOOO glad Monique got the freakin' ANTM boot last night! hated her! AJ ROCKS!!!!

Survivor, with a twisssst...

Okay so earlier today Jeff Probst from Survivor was questioned about the different tribes in this season's Survivor, all broken up in racial groups. And there has been all this uproar about this issue in the press. BUT what he did mention is that there will be the MOST UNUSUAL romantic twissst in reality TV history!!! okay, come on. 2 dudes are gonna fall in love. i KNOW IT! okay so i think out of all of the dudes there are 4 who's "favorite flowers" are freakin orchidsssss. here are the 4 i think that may be possible, Yul and Brad from the Asian-American tribe, and JP and Ozzy from the Latin-American tribe. ALL hot too. i just think Yul is HOT, but not gay, i think just wishful thinking. but i am CERTAIN Brad is gay (he mentioned a SPECIFIC type of orchid: White phalaenopsis (what the F*CK?!?!), i know it's such a BAD stereotype but he is a fashion director AND his fav TV shows are Will and Grace, Project Runway, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and American Idol....okay maybe not so much of a "bad" sterotype, he's TOTALLY gay. and they arent focusing much right now on the African-American tribe who just lost the first immunity competition, but there are 2 dudes, and one just got the boot, and on the first night in the Caucasian tribe all the dudes where making excuses to cuddle with the girls "for warmth" and there was a lot of touching going on. anyone wanna place some bets??? MORE LATER. THOUGHTS?

SO super sorry for the delay...

i am sooooo lacking on my Blog! my homegurl, Lecia reminded me re: my blog and asked if it was over, or if i would continue. i had to think about it. now that i have DSL (as of yesterday) i think i will keep it going. thoughts, after thoughts, etc....so keep in touch ya'll let me tell you all this. i came back to "wonderful" L.A. with a threat of a litigation suit by a student loan collector. a broken cell phone. no email. no car insurance, hence couldn't/should'nt drive, no email, etc........what a WELCOME BACK!?!?! anyhow, i am slowly getting used to American/L.A. life, i sort of feel like a social retard in public. one person at a time. lunch, a dinner, then home.....i can't quite explain it yet. this week has been the FIRST time that i have time to EVEN start to absorb my 6 month stay...and believe me there is A LOT more to absorb. I'm taking my time...no offense. and i still have yet to develop at least 5 rolls of film. AND i just got DSL for the first time in LA! its kinda a big deal for me. NEVER EVER had it in LA in my life. makes a big diff. anyhow, so last night i saw the TYDE at the NME club down the street at Spaceland...they are rockin' harder than ever. ALSO as were about to leave i hear the opening notes to "COMMON PEOPLE"!!!!!!!!! yipppeeeee. so i said "fuck that, we're staying!"... i asked for another Whiskey/soda, and danced my ass off! this guy who had a sort of Jesus Christ look was very entertained by my moves...kept pointing, smiling and clapping at me. what can i say, dancing to PULP does something to me.....i know this is one of the more boring entries, BUT hey, i just want the people who did read it to keep in touch! so email me! i am back.....


mucho grande love,

Same-chan

p.s. the GoldFish lanterns (Kingyochochin) hanging in my apartment are from Yanai where every August they have a yearly Goldfish Festival (i TOTALLY forgot and realized THE night of the festival that Yanai was 5 hours away and it was about 9pm....a bit too late, esp. considering all the subways close at 11:30pm) . Long story, i have a love for fish, esp. goldfish, i grew up with about 7 aquariums in my bedroom and a LARGE tank outdoors for my Koi fish collection. anyhow EACH lantern is constructed and painted by hand and this festival and lantern making tradition goes back to the 1800's. NO ONE i talked to, who were born and raised in Japan, knew about this festival nor how i could find these lanterns (Elisa and i searched and asked ALL over Tokyo a few days to no avail). i researched online and there was a site for THE lantern makers, but it was all in Japanese, BUT my dearsest Elisa went online and helped me order them. Jeffrey kepy making fun of me for being so obssesed by these lanterns and laughed at me, but i think they are AWSOME!....

7 days and counting...

So I have 7 days left here in Tokyo. It’s been a great journey in many, many ways. As some of you know I was initially depressed (somewhat severly where I could'nt get out of bed nor eat), in fact it took a few months to get over the culture shock, obstacles, and home/friend-sickness (like I have mentioned many of times, I have NEVER been out of LA for more than 3 weeks). Now that the days are coming closer for my journey back to America, I have been looking back on my time here in Tokyo. It's strange and somewhat hard to explain, but it kind of feels like it’s the beginning of something new for me, not to get all new-agey on your asses, but though I was here mainly for art purposes AND to observe the culture, I think my life, well I know my life has changed. I am SO grateful to the International House of Japan for granting me this life changing experience. Recently everyone here has been asking me what I gained from my experience here…and I tell them, I think I could probably give a somewhat clear answer after a few months back in America. I will have A LOT to absorb and reflect upon.

I have met some of the most amazing people here and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart to you all for being so kind and generous. FAR too many to list, but THANK YOU! ALSO mucho grande thanks to my American and European friends for helping me with their encouraging words, advice and therapy via many, many,many emails and phone calls!

In the past month I have noticed a change in myself, probably due to the fact that I will be leaving so soon. I walk around with a smile now and not a frown of frustration. Sometimes I cry, but its now tears of joy and gratitude.

MUCHO-GRANDE and sincerest DOMO ARIGATO:

Jeffrey and “Mama Misa”
Elisa
Nobu
Taka
Shoji-san
The WONDERFUL staff at Taka Ishii Gallery
Shinsuke
Josh
Sato-san
Kosaku
Akira
The whole Hysteric Glamour crew
Miho
Christopher
Manami
Keiichi and Marni
Maryline
The Japan Esquire magazine crew
Tokion Magazine
Eiko
RICHARD
and to Andrea, Sarah and ESPECIALLY my boohead Jason who came from LA and Berlin to visit me!
The super GREAT and friendly people at Natural Lawson in Kayabacho

Im sure the list will grow…my memory is sooo super bad!
i HATE good-byes, as i am certian i will see you all again, so i will say "till we see eachother again..."

Yakuza scare!

okay so today started out lovely...went to Gallery Sora to work on my show: PRESS RELEASE BELOW..made some artist books, had a great lunch and had to do an interview. meanwhile, jeffrey had to leave early for some business with a collector. BUT there was a car that was blocking the gallery car that was there to pick Jeffrey up. we were a bit preturbed as the other the persons car was parked sideways and haphazardly behind the gallery SORA car. we all got all pissy and said we should write a really nasty note on how the guy parked his car and not to park there ( of course, i was like, cant we call the police or parking officials to get it towed). so we write a BIG note for the car not to park there, as its the gallery SORA's parking space. so this big note is taped with bright green masking tape and Jeffrey puts it right on the windshield of the car. Jeffrey and a Yusuke from Taka eventually SQUEEZE through and past the guys car carefully....about 20 minutes go by and the other persons car is still there. i go out for a cig and a Japanese man across the street is looking at me kinda funny yet concerned. finally he walks over to me and is speaking in Japanese so luckily Kyoko from Taka's was there at Sora with me for the interview to translate. the man across the street eventually ends up explaining to her that we should not put that note on the car, even though its parked illegally AND badly. and the man was kind and helping us out cause it ends up the car belonged to....get this..one of the heads of the Yakuza! we immediately remove the note and are FREAKED that maybe the man may have seen us put the sign up, or maybe get us beat up or something. i was FREAKED!!!! scarey-ass stuff!

Dean Sameshima
Obsession, Retribution, Appropriation, Obliteration, Depression, Distribution, Confusion, Collaboration, Isolation, Annihilation
August 3 - August 26, 2006


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Taka Ishii Gallery and gallery.sora. are pleased to announce a new project by Los Angeles based artist Dean Sameshima. Presently in Japan on a 6 month US / Japan Creative Artist Residency, Sameshima will spend his final two months working on an exhibition within the space of gallery.sora.. From Thursday, August 3, gallery.sora. will be open to the public during regular gallery hours (2-7pm) ; prior to this time, throughout the month of July, Sameshima will utilize the gallery as a space within which to create work. This working process will continue during August and visitors to the gallery may happen upon the artist at work, may find an installation in progress, or, perhaps, view a completed body of work; exhibition content will not be fixed in advance of or during the exhibition itself. There will be no opening reception; artist talk and a closing party to celebrate the conclusion of Sameshima’s residency in Tokyo as well as the close of the exhibition, on Saturday, August 26.

Dean Sameshima’s work is firmly rooted in a West Coast conceptual photographic tradition. Sameshima utilizes a conceptual vocabulary to mine intimate terrain. The artist’s structural / conceptual devices include repetition, seriality and appropriation; a selection of past photographic series includes the documentation of anonymous landscapes and architectural facades (in fact sites of covert sexual activity), the re-photography of images published in fashion magazines (objects of idealized self-identification), as well as the appropriation of “self portraits” from internet websites.

Dean Sameshima’s work has been featured in museum exhibitions including “Log Cabin”, Artists Space, New York (2005), “Will Boys be Boys?”, a traveling exhibition organized by Whitney Museum of Art curator Shamim Momim (2004-present) and “LA on My Mind : Recent Acquisitions,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2002). An artist’s monograph, “Dean Sameshima” was published in Japan by fashion label Hysteric Glamour (2002).

Saturday, 26 August : closing party 6:00-8:00pm, artist talk : 7:00pm ~

Double take...

So i was showing Jason around a few department store basements that are infamous for all the awsome and amazing food, drinks, desserts, etc....and on our way up to see the clothes on the upper floors i had to do a double-take. as we were heading up i see this lightbox of a Bottega Veneta ad, and my dear friend Liz Goldwyn was in it!! Liz is an amazing woman of many traits, jewelry designer, writer (one of the first people to write an article about my art), film maker. she was also instrumental in introducing me to some of the coolest people in Tokyo! THANKS LIZ! much love darling! im sorry but i had to take a photo with your ad, you look AMAZINGLY gorgeous!!!!


xo Dean

Jason in Tokyo!

Hurray, Jason made the trek to Tokyo!!! It was a nice "farewell" to my boo, as he heads to Virginia. It will suck to be at Akbar or Gauntlet ( Sorry i mean the EAGLE) without him, NOT the same! I'm pretty bummed but happy that he is making a big change in his life. We had a blast, unfortunately we didnt make it to the Mishima Museum, but hey we did go to the shrines in Asakusa, went to Yokohama, saw some amazing art, ate some GREAT food (will always remember the amazing Sapporo curry soup/stew!) and OF COURSE went to ni-chome a few times!

Sankai Juku in Los(t) Angeles!

so i JUST found out that the Sankai Juku Troupe is coming to LA.....okay so they arent performing till November @ UCLA, BUT i am going to BOTH nights, and i SWEAR to you you will be dumbfounded by this particular Butoh troupe! again, as stated in the archives, they are based in France BUT absolutley THE best Butoh troupe!! its the SAME performance (KAGEMI: Beyond The Metaphors of Mirror) i saw here in Tokyo and would see it again and again and again (the DVD will come out in the Fall, i'm buying ALL of them!), it's like an AMAZING concert (of movement and sound) that will blow your mind!..... if you are interested email me and i will get tickets ASAP as soon as they go on sale! YOU WON'T REGRET IT! (Erin and Lecia you are coming!)

Handsome past...#2

These photos are just SO inspiring in their simplicity, composition and scale. Just can't get enough....

Handsome past...

Met up with Josh from Bondi Books yesterday....check out his site and store if you are in Tokyo. It's in this really cool area called Kichijoji (kinda reminded me of old Silverlake...sigh), its AMAZING what he has in stock, he knows his shit, ESPECIALLY when it comes to RARE photography books! (http://www.bondibooks.com/). He took me around an area in Tokyo where there is an amazing array of used/vintage/RARE books/posters/magazine shops....i scored an AWSOME 1994 150 page Smiths Japanese catalogue/photo album (with 6 color/b/w photos too!), RARE Japanese Araki books i have NEVER seen and other Japanese photographers i never heard of, AND so inspiring!!!!! Also some Yakuza type posters for cheap! he took me to his friends store Kagerou Bunko where the owner Sato is SUPER cool! i found the following vintage photographs at his store...and got a free Daido Moriyama poster too!

Bye bye Nakata

SEXY Hidetoshi Nakata retires at the age of 29!!! DAMN! I have bought most all the mags and newspapers i could find of him crying today...so sad!

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Mumble jumble...#2

So i went out today, a bit of a gloomy day, eventually the sun did appear. anyhow, i went to Tower Records AGAIN. browsing around (they have EVERYTHING!) i stumbled upon the "Go-Renger" series on DVD. i grew up watching this show as a happy kid in the 70's...channel 56. i bought Volume #3, now watching it, it brings back fond memories of my happy childhood and JUST now realizing that it was THE first Asians i saw on TV....DUH! Though i didnt understand the language i eagerly awaited every weekend (or was it Thursdays?) to watch each and every episode. I also watched Ultra-Man, Raideen, Robocan, and when in Hawaii visiting my grandparents watched Kamen-Raider!! Also i collected ALL the die-cast and plastic figures. I awaited the once-a-month venture to Little Tokyo with my mom to buy the toys as a little boy. The stores are long gone, as are most of my toys, as my little brother and cousins destroyed ALL of them to some capacity. no monetary value left, BUT i will still hold on to what's left of the pieces and just glad i still have the remaining pieces to remember the happier days. OH, But i DO still have the Go-Renger LP and 7" and a Robocan book still intact.

to re-discover/appreciate what i somewhat forgot in my childhood past was fantastic! ALSO Kikaida/Jiro was my first crush as a boy to think about it...ahhhhhh the memories are just flooding in........

there is even a website, produced from 2 guys in Hawaii! AND the shows are now being re-aired due to its huge fan base there, mainly in there 30's like me...i REALLY do believe it was a relief/affirmation in some way for Asian-americans to see other Asians on TV other than other action shows like Batman, Superman, etc....

Ban Daisuke, who played Kikaida is still alive and has his own website! here are both the Kikaida, Ban, and Kamen Raider site:

http://www.generationkikaida.com/index.shtml

http://www.bandaisuke.com/profile/index.html

I also emailed Ban to see if i can meet him while im here in Japan. I'm sure IF it would happen i would just start to cry like a baby....stay tuned

Mumble jumble

So I have been trying to stay up and watch the tennis matches lately..they start like at 1am(ish) and ends around 4 am(ish)....I BARELY got through last nights with Agassi. BUT I did see the night before with Andy Roddick! I NEVER miss a Roddick match! HE IS HOT! AND he has a routine: after wiping the sweat off his forehead with his arm sweatband he tends to lift his shirt to wipe off the extra facial sweat AND you can see his stomach and treasure-trail! YUM! ALSO the other night he changed shirts on camera....sigh

Anyhow, so this morning I was awaken by the doorbell, it was my neighbor leaving back to the states. He kindly handed me his DVD player, a Japanese version. So needless to say, after a long day at my new studio here, I put it to the test. Now im watching Ally McBeal: Season 4. YES Ally McBeal! ALL seasons were on sale at Tower and I just happened to score the season I liked the most, Season 4 (good guess on my part): looong story, but I just relate to her. BUT the first episode of the DVD set made me cry (as it did when I first saw it YEARs ago), as I remember it well and have quoted and written it down MANY of times. In the end Ally thinks to herself after dumping a nice guy:

"Maybe I will share my life with somebody, maybe not. But the truth is, when I think of my lonliest moments, there was usually someone sitting there next to me.."


OH I also bought "Blow Up"...one my Top 5 Favorite Films! Also REALLY like how the title looked in Japanese..thinking of another tattoo! hmmmmm...........

Night of the i-D photo-shoot

So i was asked by i-D to do a shoot for an article called "We're Here We're Queer" for an upcoming issue on "Global Gay Issues" . With MANY thanks to artist "Akira The Hustler", he asked a group of his friends (a WONDERFUL and fun crew!!!) to stop by the HIV center they have created and organize. See links below. Also I met the wonderful female Drag-Queen: Madame Bonjour/ John J (pictured). who is also a performance artist. she let me see an AMAZING video of hers, she's lypsynching to "The Rose" by Bette Midler all the while blood is dripping from her mouth...pretty sick and funny! After the shoot we headed to a really fun club for a night of dancing.

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One final dream...