TODAY’S MISCmedia is dedicated to Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, the car customizer, model-kit designer and inventor of the printed T-shirt industry, whose Rat Fink characters will live forever among preteen boys of all ages.
AS A COUNTDOWN to the gigantic MISCmedia 15th Anniversary celebratory fete (June 2, all ages, mark your calendars now), we’ll be running some occasional glimpses of the art show that’ll be part of the festivity.
It’s a public coming-out of sorts for my new digital-photography thang. It’s not the big Seattle coffee-table book (that’s still without form or void), but a much smaller documentation project–every home yr. loyal web-corresp’n’d’t had lived in.
(Because they haven’t all been photographed yet, they’ll be presented here out of order.)
#5: 4052 Woodlawn Ave. N. My first home in Seattle. An unlicensed mother-in-law apartment on the second floor of a home owned and occupied by a sweet Italian-American couple with five sons, ages 8-16. They ran a furnace-cleaning business out of the home, and kept a small but exquisite painted-statuary shrine to Mary in their front yard. In 1976, they were the first people I knew to acquire a VCR–and a selection of hardcore porn tapes (the Swedish Erotica series).
NEXT: Some more of this.
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