Welcome to our first ever NSFW pm/nighttime feature. (and you thought we'd have a week pass without nipple exposure)
We decided if I do it it will be less sketchy, since, you know, I am a lady and a scholar. (well, one out of two is not too bad)
Anyway...
as you may or may not know...Richard Kern will be in town for Modernist society this Thursday. We posted Richard's call for models a few weeks back and we figured, since it is not very often we have a legend in our midst, and during cocktail hour, we may as well do a little preview/retrospective of his work.
For the uninitiated (what, you only look at classy photos? riiiiight) Richard Kern is a legend in his own right: First coming to prominence in the 1980s during the East Village art revolution, photographer, occasional pornographer, former-filmmaker and video director, and a man once amicably referred to as the ‘Evil Cameraman” he has shot everything and everyone from Sonic Youth videos to spreads for Hustler featuring Lydia Lunch, Kembra Pfahler, and, yes, Henry Rollins and also shoots for Vice tv.
and while he has shot some amazing editorial work:
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and some legendary record covers and heartbreakingly real celebrity portraits:
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what he is best knows/notorious for is his, well, n00dz. Which he was kind enough to forward to me in all sorts of high res formats that had me covering my screen at work all day yesterday.
Starting with the seminal New York Girls era (which, some BYT staff has admitted, was the first erotica they ever ordered when they got their own P.O. boxes in college and escaped into sensory freedom)
Cover your virgin eyes now:
and a series of books: Digital Kern, Kern Noir and Action among others (full book details here) .
As well as his new one called "Looker" from which we have extracted these gems before anyone else can see them:
so, make your way over to http://richardkern.com/index.html for more.
stop by Modernist society at Bourbon to hear his, inevitably amazing stories.
And by all means, view these photos often. As it was intended.
God loves a cheerful giver.
while these are really nice, I prefer my porn to have the stinky cologne of desperation all over it. I'll take back issues of Swank, Cheri, and Oui over this any day.
i'll be there...
someone better flash me a nipple!
Where is my Don Rickles!
i started making it and ultimately decided against it.
we will all just have to live with rickles memories.
misty water colored nipple covering memories.
Kern is awesome. Tomorrow will be amazing. And free drinks from 8 to 9? Holla.
I'm going to try and make this one. And, ultimatly end up going home early as bourbon food gives you the bubbleguts.
the top six are really superb.
their crabcakes aren't bad
even when i drank 4-5 free cranberry vodkas afterwards
skipping a free Macallan whiskey tasting for this
see you there
don't eat the Bourbon food and stay late. because we are the best DJs in town.
truthfully, they have a bourbon steak sandwich that is absolutely insanely delicious. comes with a side of baked beans. you'll be asleep long before the bubblegut feeling comes on...
On the vice TV site there is a wicked hot documentary about how he works and interviews with the chicks.
Excuse the giant link:
http://www.vbs.tv/player.php?bccl=MTY3MzM1OF9fRVRD=
I love the Rickles. We need him as a guest... before he's dead. And if you get tired of nudity while you're visiting the ol' VBS site, check out my little contribution to that world.