This Friday, December 14, there will be a show of my Polaroid work at the Light + Glass Gallery in Jackson, Mississippi, entitled “Stereo.” Many of the pieces have never been seen before in any format and were created especially for the show. The entries below are from the catalog entries for the pieces.
¡Los Buddies!
Jackson has its fair share of great rock and roll bands. Among the best are ¡Los Buddies!, garage aficionados par excellence. I drug them in the bathroom at W.C. Don’s II and snapped these shots: and almost spelled their name wrong. There’s nothing better than a real rock and roll band.
Under fluorescent light, the warm and blurred oranges and yellows of the slow SX-70 give way to bright greens.
Polaroid SX-70 (no flash); framed: $68.
Alabama GTO.
The only real cars are made out of steel. The only real cars were made before 1980. You can still buy this Pontiac GTO down at Horace Slay’s, one of the best places in Jackson city, but it’ll run you twenty grand, plus. The Alabama flag is mine and you can’t buy it. If you squint, you can see a blue 1972 Chevelle in the glimmer of the GTO.
These two photographs sound like the Lynyrd Skynyrd record Second Helping.
Polaroid 420 Land Camera; framed: $68.
(once framed, these photographs differ slightly from the image above, and are signed).
The price list for most of the pieces in the show are:
Single Polaroids, framed: $45.
Polaroid diptychs, framed: $68.
Polaroid triptychs, framed: $97.
Quad Polaroids, framed: $132.
Polaroid portrait collages: $197.
Do you have any single music related polaroids? I might be good to go for a diptych but it’ll be tight.
Actually I thought real American cars were made of plastic like Burt Reynolds black and gold Trans Am from Smokey I or fiberglass like the king of ‘em all Shelby AC Cobra 427 blue with white hood stripes! The bastard love child of the famous 1970s Ford GT40M= from LeMans, the Ferrari ass kicker and the only car that could stay close to the greatest race car ever built: the Porsche 917!. So great that the 917/30 was legislated out of existence. Bastsards.
There’s several singles that are directly music related—most notably “Love Is A Mix Tape,” one called “See How We Are,” after the X album, one called “Tomorrow” after a Law of Nature song, and one named “What We Do Is Secret,” after the Germs song. I’ll post the entire catalog at some point.
If no one has spoken for it already, it seem appropriate I lay claim to “Love is a Mix Tape” if it is indeed for sale. What with recent blogging and my upcoming Xmas is a Mix Tape party with contest. The Germs and X ones sound intriguing as well.
I’m salivating at all the presents I’m going to have to buy. Every day this gets closer, I get more and more excited!