Month: April 2010

tangier group

“peter orlovsky legs crossed mysterious-haired, w.s. burroughs with camera & hat shading mediterranean sun, myself (allen ginsberg) white pants earnest, alan ansen resolute visiting from vanish to help type new apocalyptic cut-up overflow material from naked lunch, gregory corso sunglassed & minox’d, a gambler at casino, ian sommerville assisting sound-collage electronics & stroboscope alpha-rhythm dream machine experiments with bill b. & brion gysin then in town, paul bowles squinting in bright mid-day light seated on ground, all assembled outside bill’s single room, villa muniria garden, my camera in michael portman’s hands, tangier maroc july 1961. “

(ginsberg caption) c. allen ginsberg estate. holala, attention, best of the best! by pp’

CATEGORIES: eye candy, musings

ogawa kazumasa – flowers


ogawa kazumasa is known as one of the pioneer in japanese photography. he came in the usa in 1882 when doing the trip from japan was not so common, there he learned the then new process of the dry plate as well as the collotype printing. upon his return to japan two years later, he opened the first photographic studio in tokyo and the first collotype business in japan few years later. even if he is widely known for the pictures he took as an assignment of tokyo’s 100 most attractive geishas, the flowers i discovered a week ago are to me, his one masterpiece, if you consider they were shot in the 1890’s then perhaps mapplethorpe, penn, blossfeldt and friends can consider him as their “papa”, love it! by pp’

CATEGORIES: art, musings, photography

robert longo for brooklyn surfer


“I developed the Brooklyn Surfer logo from a memory I had of being at the beach near Rockaway in Brooklyn. It was late in the day, the sun was bright, hanging low in the sky. As I looked west, down the shoreline into the setting sun, I saw in the distance the sharp silhouettes of surfers holding their boards checking out the surf. This image was burned into my brain. Rockaway is Brooklyn. Brooklyn may sound like an unlikely location for a surf spot, but in reality it is a real location with a decent break and at times some serious swells. It is a unique surfing experience. An extraordinary collision of urban and surf cultures. Not far form the beaches are the basketball black tops of city legends and the subway stations where many of the surfers arrive coming off the trains with their boards heading for the beach and the breaks.” i personally always thought that new york and surfing were kind of an absurd duo but whatever dude. by dd

CATEGORIES: art, fashion, surf-skate