Dakota Bradford

Four  Frames from a Bob Mizer Video featuring Dakota Bradford

RABBITS

David Lynch, Hollywood, California, 2002
Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring and Scott Coffey

Shooting at night on the hill behind his house in the Hollywood Hills led to complaints from neighbors.

 

 

 

 

Batman Dracula

Jack Smith and Andy Warhol, New York City, 1964
with Jack Smith, Jane Holzer, Tally Brown and Beverly Grant

From I what I read the other day, it sounds as if there are seven hours of footage for the Jack Smith/Andy Warhol collaboration, Batman Dracula, that is stored at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.  It seems that DC Comics has forever blocked interested viewers from seeing it.  Still, it needs to be said that the movie looks to be of great interest, judging by the handful of images that have been made available; and those images look more like the product of Jack’s efforts and imagination than Andy’s.

Jack Smith

 November 14, 1932 - September 25, 1989

I’m more interested in enjoying Jack Smith’s work than I am in celebrating his short time as a media celebrity, but today would have been his eighty third birthday and these photographs, by some of his friends and others of whom he was less fond, give one some sense of the circles in which he traveled and a little of what his social life was in his heyday.  It just struck me while I was selecting and preparing these pictures for this post that Jack was almost exactly the age that I am now (fifty seven and fast approaching fifty eight) when he died, which makes me appreciate all the more how much he was able to achieve in that space of time, and causes me to value the time (which I have every hope may be extensive) that I have left.