William Francis Welch

Styles

2012-01-26T22:05:00.003-05:00

Eastside Walk It Out

2012-01-26T21:53:00.002-05:00

Two Times

2012-01-26T21:49:00.001-05:00

EDGES ARE REAL

2012-01-08T00:31:00.002-05:00

Young

2011-12-05T22:49:00.001-05:00

iPhontos Vol. #4 (Watch the Throne Edition)

2011-11-29T19:14:00.002-05:00

iPhontos Vol. #3 (Survivors Edition)

2011-11-21T16:08:00.008-05:00

Pond.

2011-11-17T10:35:00.000-05:00

Tubes

2011-11-17T10:32:00.001-05:00

iPhontos Vol. #2

2011-11-17T10:21:00.001-05:00

How My Mind Felt

2011-09-23T21:07:00.002-04:00

Damn, Ma—That's One Fat Daddy

2011-09-23T21:04:00.002-04:00

Boom!

2011-09-23T20:58:00.001-04:00

Good Morning

2011-09-23T20:57:00.002-04:00

Thanks Evans

2011-08-29T12:34:00.003-04:00

Ice Cold O.K.

2011-08-10T14:30:00.001-04:00

Raising Cain

2011-08-10T14:25:00.001-04:00

Focus.

2011-08-10T10:42:00.000-04:00

Cross-Sound

2011-08-10T10:32:00.001-04:00

Queen Mary

2011-08-10T10:25:00.000-04:00

’MERICA!

2011-08-09T19:01:00.003-04:00

Yall: We can click photos to make em bigger.

Tauk.

2011-07-11T13:28:00.001-04:00

Nuptials!

2011-07-11T13:16:00.006-04:00

Congrats, Malcolm (Click for more)

The Chicken and The Egg

2011-07-11T13:11:00.000-04:00

Bend That Note in Two

2011-07-11T13:10:00.000-04:00

Here On Earth

2011-06-20T10:59:00.001-04:00

Canopies

2011-06-20T10:55:00.002-04:00

June 19th, 2011

2011-06-20T10:35:00.004-04:00

(photo via @bigboi)

Fuckin Alsum

2011-06-19T16:56:00.002-04:00

The Weekend

2011-05-31T17:59:00.001-04:00

Sucker Punch

2011-05-31T17:58:00.000-04:00

Oh Man Oh My Oh Me

2011-05-19T11:51:00.003-04:00

Now I am older
Than my mother and father
When they had their daughter
Now what does that say about me?

Stank Me Later

2011-05-19T11:50:00.001-04:00

Surfaces and Knots

2011-05-19T11:49:00.001-04:00

Somewhere Just Past the Bottleneck And Just Before 'Ship It'

2011-05-10T20:31:00.003-04:00

My People's People

2011-05-10T20:22:00.001-04:00

That Tree Ain't Native to Kentucky

2011-05-10T20:20:00.001-04:00

Woodstock

2011-05-10T20:08:00.001-04:00

Autobiography of a Wildman

2011-04-27T10:39:00.003-04:00

Palmettos

2011-04-18T11:56:00.001-04:00

Magnolia Lane

2011-04-18T11:38:00.006-04:00

One time for Billy Payne. Two times for Hootie Johnson.

Elizabeth

2011-04-14T12:14:00.004-04:00

I MISS THE OLD TERRY

When You Coming Home?

2011-04-14T10:42:00.001-04:00

iPhontos Vol. #1

2011-04-14T01:32:00.004-04:00

Vons 2

2011-04-13T12:47:00.001-04:00

Vons 1

2011-04-13T12:43:00.001-04:00

Los Lowlifes

2011-04-04T14:41:00.001-04:00

Los Strokes

2011-04-04T14:37:00.003-04:00

Shark Bar

2011-04-04T14:31:00.002-04:00

YMCMB

2011-04-04T14:30:00.002-04:00

Clap

2011-03-30T10:57:00.003-04:00

What's Poppin' Slime?

2011-03-29T11:04:00.002-04:00

Off Azilia

2011-03-29T10:29:00.000-04:00

Live Oak

2011-03-29T10:25:00.003-04:00

The Heavy Jams

2011-03-29T10:17:00.000-04:00

What Am I Afraid Of?

2011-03-29T10:15:00.002-04:00

Hot Bird

2011-03-21T17:52:00.001-04:00

Empties!

2011-03-21T17:49:00.000-04:00

Stems

2011-03-21T17:47:00.002-04:00

At the Arcade

2011-03-02T16:05:00.002-05:00

Wellness

2011-03-02T15:59:00.000-05:00

Animalia

2011-03-02T15:52:00.003-05:00

Embraces!

2011-02-01T11:28:00.004-05:00

Both Personal and Collective

2011-02-01T11:26:00.000-05:00

On Block

2011-02-01T11:24:00.001-05:00

Kill Them All

2011-01-21T01:00:00.003-05:00

Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you.

Yes, in those palmy, distant days, the very summit of impeccable, unmatchable, glacial suavity was represented by a pack of filterless Kools, opened from the bottom, accompanied by Ohio Blue Tip matches, the original kind you could strike on the wall, on your shoe, or on your stubble.

He wanted all his subjects to be pleased with his photographs, whether it was an S&M guy shoving nails in his dick or a glamorous socialite.

2011-01-21T00:34:00.005-05:00

The heavy hotness of the day, which had begun to drain from the streets, was redoubled in the thickly crowded club. Some had come all innocently in shorts, and on the floor a trio of black boys had already removed their singlets, which swung, like waiters' towels, from the loops of their jeans. I propelled Phil to the bar for the sharp, gassy lager, not in itself pleasant, which was the economy fuel of the place. We leant together at the counter, his arms bulgingly crossed, and I splurged my tongue up his jaw and into his ear—he turned to me with a grin and gave me, too close to be in focus, a look of the tenderest trust.

Lugo whipped the taxi in a four-block square: Ludlow to Stanton, to Essex, to Houston, creeping left onto Ludlow again, just past Katz's, only to come abreast of a parked car full of slouched-down plainclothes from Borough Narcotics, the driver eyeballing them out of there: This is our fishing hole.

"I tried to jump into the La Brea Tar Pits when I was three, whatever that means. They caught me just in time. I was so intrigued by those bubbles going bmp bmp. I thought I would find a dinosaur down there."

I have the sandals. And I gave them to a shoemaker from New Jersey called Mr. Maxwell and asked him to copy them. He’d never seen anything like them. So I told him the story of where I’d copied them from—the pornographic museum at Pompeii, which had originally only been open to men. Those were the days of boat trips on the Mediterranean, and these old maids would save up their money for years, get themselves men’s suits, and get into the museum, where they’d holler and yell and scream and be found epileptic on the floor. It was unbelievable. The police would be brought in, these old maids would be carried out on stretchers, and eventually the museum had to be closed down entirely.
Through a friend in the Mussolini government, I was able to get in. “Nothing could be easier to arrange,” he said.
So I saw...In Pompeii, everything that can happen in life was captured in the minute and a half a volcanic eruption takes. Women are having babies, dogs scratching their backs...held forever in eternity. And in the museum I saw a woman having an affair with her slave who was wearing...
I was telling all this to Mr. Maxwell, who, naturally, was absolutely horrified. He was the most charming, gentle soul—reeked of the nicest Englewood, New Jersey, characteristics—but he’d never heard a woman discuss such things. But I went on...
The slave was wearing link slave bracelets, which I recognized immediately, because everyone had worn slave bracelets exactly like them in the twenties. But then...instead of the very elaborate sandals of a grand seigneur or a warrior, or the sandals of a gentleman of the town or a tradesmen, he wore the simplest sandal in the world. It had just one thong which went between the big toe and the one next it, and one strap around the ankle attached to the heel.
You ask why he was making love wearing sandals? He probably wasn’t given the time. She probably jumped him and he didn’t have a chance to get those sandals off; and then, of course, Vesuvius knocked them both on the floor. This was the design I took to Capri, where they made the sandals up for me from my description.
Eventually, Mr. Maxwell got over his shock. He copied the sandals. But no one could wear them. Apparently, there was something in the health regulations of New York City that said no one could try on shoes unless she was wearing stockings. Obviously, the thong couldn’t go over a stocking and between the toes, and of course that was the whole point. Somehow or other, the law was changed. Don’t ask me how—I’ve never concerned myself with that sort of thing. But from then on there was a very nice business for Mr. Maxwell.
That was the Birth of the Thonged Sandal.

Bros Before Bros

2011-01-21T00:07:00.001-05:00

New Work

2011-01-17T15:50:00.005-05:00

Congrats Jason

Caveman Got Photos!

2011-01-14T11:11:00.003-05:00

Ara Dymond and Jason Nocito
January 14 - February 19, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, January 14, 6-8 PM
Taxter & Spengemann 459 W. 18th St.

Pioneering

2011-01-12T23:29:00.000-05:00

INRI

2011-01-12T17:32:00.003-05:00

All Things Are Passing; God Never Changes

2011-01-12T17:27:00.003-05:00

Preach, Paul

2011-01-12T16:33:00.006-05:00

Still waiting on confirmation from CBS, but early reports suggest that the audience for the episode of the "Late Show" featuring Jut and Quad City topped out at around one BRAZILIAN viewers.

Return of Quad City Knocks

2011-01-12T16:17:00.005-05:00

Vermonting

2011-01-12T15:00:00.000-05:00

Stinkin

2011-01-12T14:03:00.000-05:00

Wizardry

2010-12-22T02:00:00.006-05:00

Photo by Michael Nagle for the New York Times

The Life

2010-12-22T00:45:00.001-05:00

The Holiday Blur

2010-12-17T14:53:00.001-05:00

Fish at 21

2010-12-16T11:30:00.001-05:00

Kisses for the Holidaze

2010-12-16T11:28:00.003-05:00

Dork Out!!!!

2010-12-16T11:23:00.003-05:00

Earl ain't scared: iPad AND Beats By Dre together at the same time

Atta Boy, Billiam!

2010-12-16T11:21:00.001-05:00

Mix y Master

2010-12-16T11:05:00.001-05:00

Kuosephine Baker!!!

2010-12-10T17:43:00.002-05:00

Peach Schnapps and Ginger Ale

2010-12-10T15:50:00.003-05:00

Let the Tree Choose You

2010-12-10T15:40:00.003-05:00

December's Very Own

2010-12-08T17:57:00.002-05:00

Shoutout to Oliver

A Place On Earth

2010-12-08T15:16:00.003-05:00

Big Night At The 5 Spot

2010-12-08T15:08:00.005-05:00

Dan Auerbach played all classic soul, much of it from Muscle Shoals... respeck

Alien Space Van

2010-12-08T15:05:00.002-05:00

Home of the 400 Unit

Lunch in America

2010-12-03T17:36:00.003-05:00

Roots

2010-12-03T17:33:00.001-05:00

Aviation

2010-12-03T17:30:00.001-05:00

Damn Yeezy Yeezy

2010-12-02T21:01:00.003-05:00

Bowery Ballroom 11/23/10

JTE At Billy Reid

2010-11-19T23:02:00.007-05:00

I got a pocket full of money, shoppin I wanna do, I got my sights set on a pair of white buck shoes

Tell Me About It

2010-11-18T16:43:00.003-05:00

Thanks Nico!

2010-11-16T12:14:00.001-05:00

Accutane Killed My Baby

2010-11-15T13:32:00.002-05:00