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SHELFLIFE #29A: THEY GROW UP FAST - STUDENT #2 / BOY ( NEON SCULPTURE )

visitordesign — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:23:04 +0000

This is the sibling sculpture to the female sex-traffic victim neon. Surprisingly—or maybe not—abducted boys who aren’t trafficked into rough-trade are generally indoctrinated into militias, armies or guerilla groups as child soldiers. I guess the pragmatism of that enterprise seemed to me a more shocking reality to illustrate than some easy homopedotableaux. That children are [...]

SHELFLIFE #28B: CARFIRE

visitordesign — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:20:28 +0000

THIS VEHICLE HAS BEEN SCHEDULED FOR REMOVAL. Looking over this book for the first time in a few years just now, I’m realizing that the cover has a replica of a sticker from the NYC Department of Sanitation Derelict Vehicle Removal Program adhered to an offset-printed detail of what looks to be a fried, black, [...]

SHELFLIFE#28A: M.D., F.A.C.S. HAIKU ZINE VOL. 1

visitordesign — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:35:43 +0000

I don’t have the attention span for creative blocks. I procrastinate my way around them by inventing newer/quicker projects to cough-up with Heimlich-like thrust. The first of what’ll be a two to four-issue stretch of M.D, F.A.C.S. Poetry Zine was my most recent heave of creative bulimia. I was born on the Upper East Side [...]

SHELFLIFE #27B: X-GIRL CATALOG 1995

visitordesign — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:58:58 +0000

I promised more of these catalogs. Here’s another. Dorien, Carisa, Pumpkin and Chloe look incredible. Memories retrieved by leafing thru this look-book: drawing a tattoo for Dorien and taking her to get it inked before tattooing was legalized in NYC; having Chloe recklessly wheel me around Rita and Susan’s roof in a shopping cart while [...]

SHELFLIFE #26B: MY FIRST NOISE RECORDS

visitordesign — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:08:52 +0000

I have every record anyone’s ever given me–EVERY RECORD. In fact–I rarely buy records, so nearly every record I own is an object of sentimentality. Santa brought me these three noise ragers on my third Christmas. They were tucked into a Sesame Street 7″ case and were part of a suite of gifts that included [...]