Iggy Pop - I wanna be your dog

Iggy Pop - I wanna be your dog - 1979 - live Old Grey Whistle Test. Glen Matlock on Bass.





I wanna be your dog collar.

Ryuichi Sakamoto Trio 1996 - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Ryuichi Sakamoto Trio 1996 - 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence'.



'Behind The Mask' - Ryuichi Sakamoto & Tetsuya Komuro.



Ryuichi Sakamoto with Iggy Pop -' Risky'

Malcolm McLaren Supreme Vans-V-79

In 2009 the former manager of the Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren, teamed up with Supreme for an interesting footwear collection with Vans, creating three colorways of their V-79 model. The shoes, used imagery from McLaren's groundbreaking 'Duck Rock' album, a record which mixed hip hop, appalachian mountain music and South African sounds way before anyone had even thought of Vampire Weekend.

The style was produced in 3 color ways: orange, pink, and yellow. Each pair carried a white toebox and midsole, while having the 'Duck Rock' print and logo atop a black tongue. To finish it all off, these styles have a vulcanized outsole, a signature feature on Vans models.

Sex & Wigs & Rock n Roll

Photo: Peter Gray 2011

New City Street Art

Photos: Keanan Duffty 30th December 2011.

Happy Birthday Patti Smith

Patti Smith "Because the Night"



Patti Smith - "Horses" & "Hey Joe"



Patti Smith sings to her cat.



Patti Smith - Letterman 1996.

'Rehab' - The Jolly Boys ( Modern Mento version of Amy Winehouse's hit).

'Rehab' - The Jolly Boys ( Modern Mento version of Amy Winehouse's hit).



'The Passenger' (Iggy Pop).



'I Fought the Law' (The Clash).

The Jolly Boys is a mento band from Port Antonio, Jamaica. It was formed in 1955 and had great commercial success in the late 1980s and 1990s among reggae and world music fans. They released a new album in 2010 (Great Expectation) and are currently the house band at GeeJam, a hotel in Port Antonio.

The Jolly Boys grew out of a group called the Navy Island Swamp Boys that formed in the late 1940s or early 1950s and often played at Errol Flynn’s parties. This group included Moses Deans on banjo and guitar, Noel Lynch on Guitar and “Papa” Brown on rumba box. After this group split in 1955, Deans and Brown formed The Jolly Boys (a name Errol Flynn is said to have coined) with Derrick “Johnny” Henry on maracas and drum, Martell Brown on guitar, and David “Sonny” Martin on guitar. One of the group’s regular substitutes in this period was percussionist Allan Swymmer, who joined the group as a full member in the 1960s. This group was very popular throughout Port Antonio and earned the reputation of being the finest mento band in the parish.

Although its core group has remained fairly stable over the past sixty years, a full list of the Jolly Boys members would include a large number of official but transient members. Today, the "original" group consists of Albert Minott (lead vocals), Joseph “Powda” Bennett (vocals, maracas), Derrick “Johnny” Henry (rumba box), Allan Swymmer (percussion), and Egbert Watson (banjo). The current touring band mixes three of the original members (Minott, Bennett and Henry) with three younger members (Dale Dizzle Virgo on drums & percussions; Lenford “Brutus” Richards on banjo; and Harold Dawkins "Jah T" on guitar).

The quality of their performances–and particularly the strength and charisma of lead singer Albert Minott–led GeeJam’s co-owner Jon Baker to co-produce an album of rock covers done in a "modern" mento style. These included songs by Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Rolling Stnoes and The Clash, with in-house studio engineer Dale Dizzle Virgo. In November 2009, ethnomusicologist Daniel Neely was brought to play banjo and act as the project's music director. The album, called Great Expectation was released in late 2010, and yielded an international tour representing a new stage in Jolly Boys history.


http://www.jollyboysmusic.com/

Vinyl set to make radio comeback for one day only.

BBC Radio 6 Music is to play only vinyl on New Year's Day Vinyl is to make a comeback on the radio, but for only one day.
BBC Radio 6 Music has announced it will be playing only vinyl on New Year's Day. Most BBC stations phased out vinyl in favour of CDs in the 1990s and the majority now use digital versions of songs. Presenters Jarvis Cocker and Guy Garvey will be among those dusting off their turntables and Don Letts will be bringing his own seven-inch singles.

But 6 Music bosses have turned the clock back with an "All Vinyl" day to round off a month-long celebration of vinyl. Station editor Paul Rodgers said: "In a world dominated by digital music, vinyl is a format still close to the hearts of many music lovers and increased sales demonstrate its enduring appeal."

A spokeswoman for the station said: "Listeners can expect rare gems, insights and a few crackles and pops when digital goes analogue for one day only." Singer-songwriter Richard Hawley will host a show talking to prominent acts such as Arctic Monkeys and Radiohead about the joys and the pitfalls of vinyl.

Dance DJ and producer Andrew Weatherall and singer Cerys Matthews will be joining the vinylfest in their shows.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16330702

The Filth and The Fury of Grant Morrison

Grant Morrison is the creator some of the world's greatest comic books. Since the 1970's he has ssembled a body of work which includes original works like The Invisibles, We3 and The Filth as well as fresh, innovative reworkings of familiar characters including Batman, Superman and the X-Men.



In July 2011, SUPERGODS, his first major mainstream book was published by Random House exploring the history of superheroes through the lens of his own experiences as a successful comic book writer.

Morrison was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1960. His first published works were Gideon Stargrave strips for Near Myths in 1978 (when he was about 17), one of the first British alternative comics. His work appeared in four of the five issues of Near Myths and he was suitably encouraged to find more comic work. This included a weekly comic strip Captain Clyde, an unemployed superhero based in Glasgow, for The Govan Press, a local newspaper, plus various issues of DC Thomson's Starblazer, a science fiction version of that company's Commando title.

In 1982 he submitted a proposal involving the Justice League of America and Jack Kirby's New Gods entitled Second Coming to DC Comics, but it was not commissioned. After writing The Liberators for Dez Skinn's Warrior in 1985, he started work for Marvel UK the following year. There he wrote a number of comic strips for Doctor Who Magazine, his final one a collaboration with a then-teenage Bryan Hitch, as well as a run on the Zoids strip in Spider-Man and Zoids. 1986 also saw publication of Morrison's first of several two- or three-page Future Shocks for 2000AD.

Starting in November 2005, DC published All-Star Superman, a twelve-issue story arc by Morrison and Frank Quitely. Not so much a revamp or reboot of Superman, the series presents an out-of-continuity "iconic" Superman for new readers. All-Star Superman won the Eisner Award for Best New Series in 2006, the Best Continuing Series Eisner Award in 2007 and several Eagle Awards in the UK. It also won 3 Harvey Awards in 2008 and the Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series in 2009.

Keanan Duffty collection available at Patricia Field NYC.

Keanan Duffty collection available at Patricia Field.

http://www.patriciafield.com/

Watch David Bowie's Unearthed 1973 Performance of 'Jean Genie'

From : http://www.spin.com

A David Bowie television performance that no one has seen in three decades, and that Americans have never seen at all, hit the web today. As the story goes, Bowie as his red-haired Aladdin Sane persona visited U.K.'s long-running music program Top of the Pops on January 3, 1973 to showcase his then-new single "Jean Genie." The performance aired only once, and the tapes from that TOTP episode were placed in the BBC vaults… where they were ultimately erased so the network could reuse the tapes, the BBC admits.


It was believed that this "Jean Genie" was lost forever, but recently, a cameraman named John Henshall revealed that he made a an additional copy of the performance for himself. That copy is what you're watching here, a slightly extended version of the Aladdin Sane cut backed by the Spiders From Mars. This rendition debuted earlier today on the BBC's Top of the Pops Christmas Special, but thanks to the YouTube, we can all now share this unearthed Thin White Duke clip, which marks the second significant Bowie find in 2011.


http://www.spin.com/articles/watch-david-bowies-unearthed-1973-performance-jean-genie

5 Minutes With Lee Jenkins

As a teenager Lee Jenkins discovered photography by making pictures of his surfer and skateboarding friends. From there he spent several years studying fine art and photography completing them with a masters at Royal college of Art in London the late 80’s.

Having first cut his teeth and passion for fashion with the “Face” magazine in the early 90’s Lee’s rich, dramatic and often colourful photo images often depict and reveal an intense sometimes magical world that transcends the norms of fashion photography. He draws inspiration from many sources out side the world of fashion from the worlds of Cinema, dance an the arts often capturing and encapsulating a lighter more optimistic euphoric side of life.

Lee spends most of his time now travelling between foreign assignments…. London, Paris, New York and his organic farm in Norfolk, working on personal work and travelling wherever his commercial work may take him.

Q1. What was the first record you bought and what effect did it have on you?

Lee Jenkins: I was very young...went with my uncle and bought “God save the Queen”........the Rest is History!!!!



Q2. When did you first pick up a camera and what inspired you to start taking photographs?

LJ: I first picked up a camera and got into the water with all my friends surfing in Wales........the next obvious stage was to go with a mate and surf our way around the west coast of California and making skateboard images in places like the original Upland skatepark and swimming pools across California & Mexico when I was a teenager

Q3. There is an innate positivity to your photographs. How do you maintain that aesthetic given the current state of the world?

LJ: I try to rflect how I feel.........Quite simple happiness comes from within me.......it is not dependant what goes in in the world.....to be honest I'm not really sure what the current state of the world is?

Q4. Having started early in your career with The Face in the early 90’s, do you feel that the editorial world is becoming more 'online centric?' Do you miss magazines like The Face?

Yes yes yes!!! I miss it so much.....Great editors....art directors........ there were only really a handful of magazines at the time know I guess there are more magazines than sense it wouldn't surprise to read a statistic that there is one magazine for every hundred people on the planet

Q5. Can you tell me a bit about your organic farm in Norfolk? What drew you to farming?

The farm is a big project we are incorporating permaculture principles into a whole eco system we are co creating with nature, producing a self sustaining closed system where people can come help, we are also making it an educational centre.......where people can learn/study how to work with the earth, yoga/meditaion workshops...learn raw food skills...art/photography.......herbal remedies/medicine...and so on.....

http://www.leejenkins.co.uk/

Bowie Ball 2011 - Le Poisson Rouge NYC: Saturday 17th December

Tonight-A Crash Course For The Ravers:
Bowie Ball 2011 - Le Poisson Rouge NYC
Saturday 17th December, 11pm-4am

http://www.bowieballnyc.com/


Keanan Duffty. Photo: Maro Hagopian


Keanan Duffty. Photo:Nancy Garcia


Deryck Todd. Photo:Nancy Garcia


Photo:Nancy Garcia


Nancy Garcia. Photo: Keanan Duffty


Keanan Duffty & Matt Katz Bohen. Photo:Nancy Garcia

Iggy Pop - Lust For Life

Lust For Life.

The song's lyrics contain a number of references to William S. Burroughs' experimental novel The Ticket That Exploded, most notably mentions of "Johnny Yen" (described by Burroughs as "The Boy-Girl Other Half strip tease God of sexual frustration") and "hypnotizing chickens".

Co-written by Iggy Pop and David Bowie, Bowie providing the music (written on a ukulele), and Pop the lyrics, the song is known for its opening drumbeat (played by Hunt Sales). Sales's use of the drumbeat was not original, as it was itself derived from "You Can't Hurry Love", released in July 1966 by The Supremes, and "I'm Ready For Love", released in October 1966 by Martha and the Vandellas.

In 1977, the song reached number 3 in the Dutch Top 40. Its success was ignited by a legendary performance in the Dutch pop TV show Toppop, where Iggy Pop, shirtless, wrecked part of the stage set (which consisted of a couple of potted plants and some cardboard scenery).Although many viewers and newspapers complained about the apparent damage, the director of Toppop later admitted that they knew beforehand what Iggy was going to do and that the damage was minimal.

Here comes Johnny Yen again
With the liquor and drugs
And the flesh machine
He's gonna do another strip tease.
Hey man, where'd ya get that lotion?
I've been hurting since I've bought the gimmick
about something called love
Yeah, something called love.
Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens.
Well, I'm just a modern guy
Of course, I've had it in the ear before.
I have a lust for life
'Cause of a lust for life.
I'm worth a million in prizes
With my torture film
Drive a GTO
Wear a uniform all on a government loan.
I'm worth a million in prizes
Yeah, I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk
No more beating my brains
No more beating my brains
With liquor and drugs
With liquor and drugs.
Well, I'm just a modern guy
Of course, I've had it in my ear before
Well, I've a lust for life (lust for life)
'Cause of a lust for life (lust for life, oooo)
I got a lust for life (oooo)
Got a lust for life (oooo)
Oh, a lust for life (oooo)
Oh, a lust for life (oooo)
A lust for life (oooo)
I got a lust for life (oooo)
Got a lust for life.
Well, I'm just a modern guy Of course,
I've had it in my ear before
Well, I've a lust for life
'Cause I've a lust for life.
Here comes Johnny Yen again
With the liquor and drugs
And the flesh machine I know He's gonna do another strip tease.
Hey man, where'd ya get that lotion?
Your skin starts itching once you buy the gimmick about something called love
Love, love, love
Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens.
Well, I'm just a modern guy
Of course, I've had it in the ear before
And I've a lust for life (lust for life)
'Cause I've a lust for life (lust for life)
Got a lust for life Yeah,
a lust for life
I got a lust for life
A lust for life
Got a lust for life
Yeah a lust for life
I got a lust for life
Lust for life
Lust for life
Lust for life
Lust for life
Lust for life

5 Minutes With Francesco Bonami.

Francesco Bonami is also the artistic director of The Fondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo per l’Arte in Turin, Fondazione Pitti Discovery in Florence, ENEL CONTEMPORANEA and of the contemporary art program of the city of Milan. He was the co-curator of the 2010 Whitney Biennial, the director of the 50th Biennale di Venezia of Visual Arts in 2003 and Biennial at SITE Santa Fe (1997). He is a regular contributor to Artforum , Parkett, the Italian daily La Stampa, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Donna Moderna, Rolling Stone, Uomo Vogue and Vanity Fair Italia.

Q1. When you were starting out did you see your future in the art world as being a curator?

I saw no future, just living day by day which is basically what i am still doing.

Q2. In your opening remarks to the 2010 Whitney Biennial you confessed you had approached the selection process in an open-minded way. As a curator are you therefore an evolutionist or a revolutionist?

Involutionist or convolutionist.


"Strange Attractors" by Aki Sasamoto.Whitney Biennial 2010.

Q3. The art world has been the subject of a couple of reality television shows; "ArtStar" and 'Bravo's "Work Of Art". Did you watch either show, if so what did you think of them and does reality television have a place in contemporary art?

No place . But I am wrong most of the times. I haven't seen those shows.



Human Game by Francesco Bonami, Stefano Tonchi and edited by Maria Luisa Frisa.

Q4. Do you think that today's emerging artists are into it more for a career or for the art?

For a career most of the time, nothing wrong with that.


Q5. Please give a really crazy anecdote/story about one of the artists you have worked with.

Once, when I was curating the first Torino Triennial with the now Director of Documenta Carolyn Christoph Bargajev, we invited a Russian artist-but then we found out we had invited the father of the artist who was an artist himself. Eventually we had to invite both of them and it was nice since they didn't see each other for a long time .

5 Minutes With Johnny Diamandis of J Panther Luggage

J. Panther Luggage Co.™ was founded upon our passion for innovation, design classics and products that are built to last a lifetime and beyond. After design and extensive testing here in New York our bags and accessories are hand-crafted and finished by New England artisans who've been making high-end luggage for generations. Our products draw upon the exacting standards and construction methods of the pre-1960s U.S., yet are very much designed for how we live now.

Johnny Diamandis, J Panther founder and designer.

Innovative functionality and detailing — both inside and out — make them particularly suitable for folk who like to cycle, walk or travel frequently, as well as those who simply wish to make a stylish statement and lifetime investment in their luggage. Be sure to check out our ingredients page to see the care and attention to detail that goes into every item. We hope you enjoy our luggage: it's built for life just like you, and will continue to look better with age. We hope you do too...

Q1. What was the first record you bought and what effect did it have on you?

Johnny Diamandis: My first music was acquired by taping stuff with cassettes off the radio at a very young age. Two huge ones for me were Grandmaster Flash-The Message and Ian Dury & The Blockheads- Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick. I sat in my room and wrote down all the lyrics of both using the archaic pause/record function on my Hitachi cassette deck. I was obsessive about music then and still am. My first bit of vinyl though was The Specials first eponymous album. It was a massive influence to me as at the time growing up in the UK music and fashion were inextricably linked in a way that they are no longer. I followed the Specialʼs fashion style and was influenced also by their lyrics which were very political; anti racist and anti the Thatcherite status quo of the UK at the time. Everything about them resonated with my experience growing up in a small town close to London in the eighties, particularly and epic track called ʻGhost Town”.

Q2. What's the story of J Panther Luggage? Where does the name come from and what is the brand ethos?

JD: I am hugely inspired by the golden era of manufacture (clothing/luggage) in the USA pre 1950ʼs. I wanted to design and build high end/ premium items that you buy once and keep for ever with a business model that had a low ecological impact and was a redress to the throw-away fast fashion that is dominating the market today which claims to be “luxury” but really is not. We have had our business model looked at by enviro-tech consultants to challenge it (rather than making our own bold claims to be “green”) and particularly the fact we use leather. The feedback so far is that the right thing to do as a brand and indeed as a customer is to aspire to products that last and if they wear out or you break them then you get them repaired. These items should never end up in a landfill basically. Our logo was based on my love of wild cats and of animals as logoʼs, Iʼm certainly not the first. JPLC are an ongoing contributor to a fabulous charity called Panthera, leaders in wild cat conservation, as a way of paying back the creature whose image we use.

Q3. How did you get into fashion design?

JD: Really through music. In the UK growing up in the 80ʼs music and fashion went hand in hand. I donʼt think I had the confidence for music or a career in music, playing an instrument and so on but fashion was the next best thing it kept me connected to music and youth culture. I always knew I was going to have a career in the arts in some capacity. When I used to see people commuting into the city to regular white collar jobs I just didnʼt get it. They all looked so miserable, their lives looked so dull. I felt that really they wanted to be in music, fashion or the arts in some capacity.

Q4. Is it tough to get men to buy accessories?

JD: Itʼs tough to get American men to buy accessories especially expensive accessories but fortunately I didnʼt set my business up to try and conquer the USA market or to solely sell to men. I export my products all over the globe thanks to the internet and many of my customers are women. I design my product to have international appeal and not to be too localized in their aesthetic. We are launching in China in 2012.

Q5. Do you think that e-commerce is the future for retail?

JD: I think it has added another excellent layer and created an accessibility that did not previously exist. We have noticed that a lot of our items go to locations far far away from major cites. Whatʼs interesting now is how some new brick/mortar stores are cropping up after the owners had founded their businesses online. A good a example being one of our New York stockistʼs CʼHʼCʼM.

http://store.jplc.com/