don't drink the milk, it's spoiled

clip from Larry Clark's 16mm 1968 Tulsa film in Paris

2010-12-21T20:28:00.000-08:00

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

The Editors are not hipsters..

2010-12-21T19:33:00.000-08:00

here

Original Leon McAuliff Folk Art Painting

2010-11-21T14:26:00.000-08:00

15x20 Oil paint over photograph. $300.00 SOLD

The Flaming Lips 1992/3 Silkscreen

2010-11-21T13:51:00.000-08:00

                                                                               Rare.
                                                          KJ-103 (OKC) Birthday Bash.
                                                                 5 color (florescent)
                                                                   A massive 27x40.
                                                     Framed with acid free mat and uv glass.
                                                                          $600.00 SOLD

Joe Brainard Watercolor Nude

2010-11-21T13:12:00.000-08:00

1962 12x18 Original frame and mat. $5500.00

Joe Brainard Watercolor Nude

2010-11-21T13:09:00.000-08:00

                                                               14x20. Original frame and mat.
                             A wiley young Joe dates this piece 1961 on 1962 Tulsa World newsprint.
                                                                         $4500.00

"The editors and not hipsters.." SIlkscreen Posters

2010-11-21T12:49:00.000-08:00

$20.00 - 20x24 hand pulled silkscreen.

Lew Clark Photography Studio Limited Edition Prints

2010-11-21T12:23:00.000-08:00

Circa 1983 from the Lew Clark Photography Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A limited edition of 10 20x24 archival prints with a luster finish produced at Apetures Photo. Similar photos are currently on display at the Musée d'Art Moderne of Paris as part of Larry Clark's first retrospective Kiss the Past Hello. This portrait was photographed by Francis Clark in 1983 at the 16th and Peoria studio. This same image was used in local advertising for the Lew Clark Photography Studio that same year.
$150.00 unframed.

The editors are not hipsters..

2010-11-21T11:58:00.000-08:00

The 50th anniversary of the White Dove Review was celebrated at the Circle Cinema last Sunday night to a standing room only crowd. The event featured a display of artifacts and facsimilies from Yale University, Tulsa University and the Center for Public Secrets. Special guests were Ron Padgett and Dick Gallup. Joe Brainard's syblings were in attendance as well Jim, Becky and John. Chris Rogers, who's image appears on Vol. 1 No. 3 of the White Dove Review in a photo taken by Tulsa artist John Kennedy. She is the daughter of Bob and Barbara Bartholic. The Andy Warhol Screen Test of Brainard, Ginsberg and Padgett were shown as well.

Tulsa State Fair collaboration with the airbrush tshirt guy. .

2010-10-02T21:07:00.000-07:00

He said this was the first time he ever did a Rebel flag and a Unicorn, together.

Hell Yeah.

Dallas, Texas 10/1/10

2010-10-02T21:00:00.000-07:00

The Playboy Limited

2010-09-22T14:23:00.000-07:00

Took this pic about a year ago. Bob Wills' Flxible Clipper tour bus.

Larry Clark's 1968 16mm film "Tulsa" first screening in Paris 10/8/10

2010-09-21T17:52:00.000-07:00

Premier of the 42 year old 16mm film to be screened in Paris in two weeks. Still prints from the film appear in the book. Billy Mann appears. Audio exist as well or so I've read.
Scheduled for NYC at Luhring Augustine on January 2, 2010.

from Larry Clark's Tulsa - northside house 2010

2010-09-19T23:46:00.000-07:00

Outsiders Garage

2010-09-19T22:41:00.001-07:00

The Outsiders House 2010

2010-09-19T22:18:00.000-07:00

The greaser's crib.

Post-conspiracy boredom again.

2010-09-16T09:26:00.000-07:00

Philbrook Phantasmagoria

2010-09-15T23:27:00.001-07:00

The Playboy Limited all up in Philbrook's invite to breakfast. Looks like I won't be trolling the hotel buffets Saturday morn. before the flea market.

Northside house from Larry Clark's Tulsa.

2010-09-15T15:58:00.000-07:00

Damn.

2010-09-15T14:18:00.000-07:00

September 2010 Tulsa Oklahoma

Joe Brainard's first cover art?

2010-09-15T14:01:00.000-07:00

Found this two weeks ago at a local resale shop. It's the 1959 Central High School talent show program "Show Daze". Offset with green and metallic gold ink. Illustrated by Brainard as credited and signed "Joe". Came with a smaller 5.5x8.5 inch program for the same event with different cover art also credited and singed "Joe".

Original U.K. Promotional poster for the album.

2010-09-15T13:47:00.000-07:00

Designed by Jamie Reid. Near fine condition. Brilliant colors. Silkscreen. Large 35x59. Tulsa is one of 6 U.S. Cities the Pistols played.
Christie's Auction house sold a smaller original promotional poster for the "God Save the Queen" single for over $6000.00 usd last year.

Merle Haggard - American Masters PBS 7/21/10

2010-07-18T02:38:00.000-07:00

Since the brilliant "O' Brother, Where Art Thou" has made "hillbilly chic" I guess there is more interest in working class music.
This is the true story of one of the greatest American writers of the 20th Century. Merle Haggard's story begins as a young half orphaned son of Okies in the Central Valley of California who would sneak around Bob Wills' dances to get in on the vibe. The usual Trouble followed as he grew older - all the way to San Quentin, whereby witnessing an in-prison Johnny Cash performance, Merle made a vow to himself and to God that once released from prison he would become a singer/ songwriter.

This episode of American Masters will, no doubt, put a mighty dent in the perception that "poor white trash" are simply that.

What's the difference between a fiddle and a violin? A cotton sack.

Kaw Chief circa 1910

2010-07-03T22:24:00.000-07:00

This photo was taken in 1970 at a bar in northern Oklahoma. Photographer Gaylord Herron walked in the bar and the bartender, seeing his camera, pulled an old photo out from under the register showing it to Gaylord. He asked the bartender if he could photograph the old picture. The bartender said sure and Gaylord laid the photo on the shag carpet and shot this picture.
The story is that several men got drunk in the bar and seeing the Kaw Chief walking down the street, took him by force to be photographed. The image you see is cropped, the men are actually surrounding the Chief in the full photo. The photo had been kept behind the bar as a souviner since 1910. In the lower right corner of the original photo you can see the photographer's name and the town of his studio.
I have never seen a photo capturing the lore that some Native Americans feared being photographed because it would "steal their soul". The copyright to this photograph belongs exclusively to Gaylord Herron. It may not be reproduced in any form without written consent.

Applied Folklore and Federal Agents

2010-06-27T20:35:00.000-07:00

For anyone who has ever enjoyed anything put out by Folkways records, you have the poet and scholar Ben A. Botkin to thank. In the 1920's, his pioneering annual Folk-say began a 50 year career of documenting American folklore in a non-academic style, giving a legitimacy to common peoples interpretations of their own stories, how they tell them, and changing the very definition of "culture".
This was radical enough to cause the FBI to surveil Botkin for a near decade.
Interestingly, his path would cross with Jim Thompson at the University of Nebraska in the early 30's.
This past weekend I found an early Botkin piece. It is inscribed by Botkin to Oklahoma Poet Lena Blakenley.

Jim Thompson's second earliest work "Thieves of the field" ..

2010-04-21T14:16:00.000-07:00

Today I unearthed the second rarest published Jim Thompson piece Thieves of the Field. Published in 1929 by The Texas Monthly (no relation to Texas Monthly magazine).
Back to the mines....

The Flaming Lips to make new movie

2010-04-18T11:02:00.000-07:00

Wayne Coyne says after the 7 years it took to make "Christmas on Mars" he's ready to make a colllaborative film that's less laborious...

Terrence Malick shoots next produciton in Oklahoma

2010-04-18T10:54:00.000-07:00

Director Terrence Malick will be shooting his next production this year in Oklahoma. The romantic drama written by Malick is untitled.

"The editors are not hipsters.."

2010-04-17T14:08:00.000-07:00

The title line is from the intro to the first White Dove Review, written by Ron Padgett.
While recognizing their break from tradition and entering the into the experimental, the editors were quick to point out they were not followers of the Beats, but held some similar ideals.
Padgett was hardly, as Banksy says, being "a non-conformist just like eveybody else".
Agents in the field are currently working on organizing a showing of the Warhol Screen Test of Joe Brainard and Ron Padgett for the good people of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Photo of a young Ron Padgett by Andy Warhol.

Jim Thompson's ghost is clean and ready to work.

2010-04-15T11:20:00.000-07:00

Jim Thompson and Stanley Kubrick's third collaboration, Lunatic at Large has gone into production.
The Killing and Paths of Glory are examples of Thompson's collaboration with Kubrick.

Silkscreened shirts at Loose Leaf/Blue Dome, again.

2010-04-11T14:17:00.000-07:00

Aaron Whisner and I will be slinging the ink during the blue dome art fest next month. Printing shirts on the spot. You pick the images. We'll be incorporating typography of old signage and advertising from Route 66 in Tulsa and images from Motor City Motown artsts. Dig it.

Loose Leaf Gallery - First and Elgin.
May 14,15, and 16.

MAY 15TH
SAT EVENING
WITH DJ JON MOONEYHAM!

Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance

2010-04-04T21:27:00.000-07:00

I saw this film in 1985 or so at the Williams Center Forum on the big screen. It blew my mind. Produced by Coppola and released in 1982 it is old school, real film and camera work. Nothing virtual or digital about this. Two additonal films were made, same style and concept..

Requiem for Detroit?

2010-03-29T21:43:00.000-07:00

NOBODY
MAKES DOCUMENTARY FILM LIKE
JULIEN TEMPLE.

From the Great RocknRoll Swindle to The Future Is Unwritten, visual storytelling is at it's peak when the pixels collide. His most recent work for BBC2, Requiem for Detroit? is no exception.

Oklahoma connection- Woody Guthrie tunes float rather well over Temple's cut and paste style camera work.

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

Watch for free Requiem for Detroit?

Gordon Gekko is out.

2010-03-28T03:14:00.000-07:00

Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps , Oliver Stone's sequel to his 1987 film Wall Street is complete. Gordon Gekko has been released from prison. Let the Game begin (again).
Tulsa Connection - There is an LLC filed here in Tulsa under the name Geneva Roth Holdings . This was the name of Gekko's company in the first Wall Street movie.
Also, I have read Gekko's character was modeled after Henry Kravis, Tulsa art patron George Kravis' brother.

Jim Thompson's Oil Field Vignettes to be part of the Oklahoma Historical Society collection..

2010-03-26T10:12:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm not the only one who is excited about this Jim Thompson find.
An Oklahoma History Center's historian, Larry O'Dell (the OHS biographer on Jim Thompson and others), contacted me about this recent find, the first published work of Oklahoma author Jim Thompson. I'll be making copies for Larry and the OHS for their archive.
Great to see OHS working to expand the scope of Jim Thompson's history.

Terrence Malick's new film

2010-03-25T19:18:00.000-07:00

As a kid, I remember seeing Badlands, a Terrence Malick film based on the Charlie Starkweather and Carol Ann Fugate killing spree.
It scared the hell out of me. I still wanted to go there and see those landscapes.
The next Terrence Malick film I remember was seeing The Thin Red Line. The long shots of the waving tallgrass on the hills made me forget it was a war film.
Malick was born in Waco and grew up in Bartlesville.
He also dropped out of the film industry to France for 20 some odd years.
How's that for independent.
Tree of Life is Malick's new film.

Oil Field Vignettes - 1929 Jim Thompson's first published work?

2010-03-25T07:17:00.001-07:00

So I've been reading on Jim Thompson (b.1908 Anadarko, Oklahoma) who reminds me of a cross between Woody Guthrie and Larry Clark. He's nothing if not Okie. Knocked around by Hollywood, G-men, and his own very real demons, Thompson never gave up. Even to the point on his deathbed he gave his wife somewise advice - to keep his name on his work because "in about ten years i'll be famous".

He was dead-on. Since he died by self starvation in 1977, all of his novels are back in print and 6 films have been made, most notably the Grifters and the Getaway. Three more are in pre-production.
His most famous novel The Killer Inisde Me finished shooting in Guthrie last year. This is the second film adaptation, the first (1976) starred Stacy Keach as Sheriff Lou Ford. This go around Casey Affeck will play the monsterous sheriff.
Yesterday, at a bookstore in Dallas, I found his first published article from 1929.

Cohen Brothers to remake True Grit - in TEXAS!

2010-03-25T07:05:00.001-07:00

Oklahoma nearly scored as the location for the next Cohen Brothers film, a remake of True Grit. Apparently the 37% kickback for shooting in Ok. only applies to the first 5 million spent. Not a high enough ceiling for Joel and Ethan.

You Can't Win - movie production is postponed

2010-03-25T06:55:00.000-07:00

Robinson Devor's film adaptation of Jack Black's
infamous autobiography YOU CAN"T WIN has been put on hold.
No details.
Hope they get the show on the road down there in Guthrie.
Maybe I can get a extra bit as a cellmate...
What's in a name??

Kerouac did Tulsa?

2010-03-03T20:26:00.000-08:00

Last fall when Sonic Youth played the Cain's Ballroom, Kim Gordon took time out to mention the names of two New York poets that influenced on their band. Joe Brainard and Ron Padgett, both of them grew up here in Tulsa.
Yes, it's true. Tulsa has another major literary connection in addition to SE Hinton and Michael Wallis.

This one comes about in 1959 when Ron Padgett, a student at Central High School, began a poetry zine with his friends Joe Brainard and Dick Gallup. Padgett solicited an incredible A-list of American writers and many accepted. Jack Kerouac being one. Apparently Jack sent a few poems for submission but was pissed for years that Padgett refused at least one for being passed a deadline. In an interview with Ted Berrigan for the Paris Review, Kerouac bellows his complaint starting off with "SCREW RON PADGETT!"
Padgett, Brainard, Berrigan and Gallup all eventually would move to NYC and become major literary/art figures.
Even sitting for an Andy Warhol Screen Test.

In Sept. of 2008, I was helping Joe Andoe and crew hang his "DREAMLAND" piece at the BOK Center. He asked if I had ever heard of the White Dove Review, "you know that poetry mag that had Ginsberg and Kerouac in it?"
I knew the name Ron Padgett, he wrote a biography of his father called Oklahoma Tough - my father King of the Tulsa Bootleggers.
I knew Joe Brainard from conversations with Gaylord Herron.
I had no idea about the New York School and the Beat connection.

So I went hunting and now have this extra-ordinary copy of the White Dove Review..

1959-60 WHITE DOVE REVIEW
Numbers 1-5, n.p. In the late 1950s, Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, Dick Gallup, the members of what John Ashbery called the "Tulsa wing" of the New York School (Ted Berrigan was the fourth horseman of that group), started an magazine while they were in high school called White Dove Review. It is one of the great magazines of the period, paved the way for the mimeo explosion that followed in New York City and ushered in the Second Generation of the New York School.
Five volumes, decorated wrappers, bound together as one in black cloth over boards, gilt lettered at the spine. All original wrappers present and bound in, plain creamy yellow endpapers.
Signed on the front free endpaper by a gang of nine founders and contributors: [editor] Ron Padgett, [art editor] Joe Brainard, Paul Blackburn, Fielding Dawson, [assistant editor] Dick Gallup, Peter Orlovsky Dec. 14th 1964, Aram Saroyan, Ted Berrigan [1964]; Allen Ginsberg who has initialed here; also dedicated his poem 'My Sad Self' in vol 1 #3 : "to frank O'Hara - Allen Ginsberg NY 1964" and has added a great sketch of the Empire State building.
This document marks the begining influence of what would eventually become the St. Mark's Poetry Project which helped give a voice to Jim Carroll and Patti Smith.
A wonderful volume chock full of inspired, ground breaking material.

Vol 1,#1 contributors include: Jack Kerouac, Clarence Major, Ron Padgett, Paul Blackburn, 4 pages of art by various contributors -

Vol 1, #2 Paul Blackburn, Leroi Jones, Ted Berrigan, Fielding Dawson, John Kennedy, 4pages of art by various contributors -

Vol 1, #3, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlofsky, O.W. Crane, Carl Larsen, drawings by Johnny Larsen

Vol 2, #4 David Omer Beardon, Rozana Webb, Gilbert Sorrentino, Ron Padgett, Harold Briggs, graphics by Paul England

Vol 2 #5 Gilbert Sorrentino, Martin Edward Cochran, Robert Creeley, Ron Padgett, Dan Teis who also supplied the graphics.

Beyond rare. Signed 1st Edition.