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June 25, 2007 |
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Punk Abrasion
FOUND by Heidi Weispfenning
in San Francisco, California
Found on a rainy sidewalk circa 1983.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
What a beautiful girl! Awesome find.
That would make a great album cover.
What an amazing find! Like a piece of artwork - I would so buy it and hang it on my wall.
You seriously need to enter that into a photo contest.
This is sooo cool , I would make a poster of it , frame it , and hang it in the rec room !
it kind of looks like the girl's fighting those scratches. like, you know when it's raining really hard? kinda like that :] i like this find so much. it just screams radness and oozes awesomeosity :]
GIA???
Reminds me of a William Gibson novel. Ultra cool find!
Although this picture is very cool, it's not as interesting as Heidi's Amazon.com wish list. Buffy anyone?
It seems like there's probably a story behind this photo. I wonder if she remembers it, wherever she is now (if she is at all anymore).
She looks like she could have been a cast member in the movie "Suburbia" (the real one from 1984, not that 90s nonsense).
Wow she's very preetty, although I think she didn't want her photo taken...
Forget her amazon wishlist, check out her webpage....http://www.eskimo.com/~sonata/index.html
It's pretty neat that only the red lipstick isn't scratched. I agree with Jello, this would make a great album cover.
Oh, Lika. That web page is so many years out of date it's pathetic. I don't think there's content there fresher than June 2000.
Heidi, I liked you better as a punk rocker. Now, we just don't talk like we used to : )
Flargy, I have had the pleasure of getting a mohawk from Joe Schmoe. He was playing in a band called Crash Kills Four circa 1995. My claim to Suburbia fame.
And I still dig this picture.
Turbo, I'm still a punk at heart, like any good punk :-) Just that I'm a depressive punk, so some times I'm more of a goth than others. Not to mention the old bones just can't handle the pit like they used to ;-)
Heidi;
Old or not, it's still interesting! :o)
She is on my naughty list...verrry naughty list.
This photo rocks. It would make a great album cover or party poster.
It so definitive of the period. If someone asked me what the 80's and early 90's were like - I would show them this picture.
The lipstick is perfect for her complexion - beautiful.
The girl is beautiful. This has to be the coolest, most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Its very mysterious.
I've decided, this is my future wife, I will find and seduce her. Starting now!
Wow, Turbo, that's pretty cool. My only connection to the movie is that when I was 12 and had my first mohawk, I looked a little bit like Ethan (Evan's little brother).
Oh! Goths! Suburbia! Mohawks! Early HTML webpages!
It takes me back to those couple of years in between high school and college when i was a complete fucking loser. Man, I am so glad i got on with my life.
Maybe its just me, but i dont get it. It's a scratched up pic of a pretty girl. The 80's weren't good to anyone, not to music, fashion, human rights, movies, anything. Let 'em go.
I love this picture, it makes me think of "Hard Rain" (the original movie) and also Hamlet's "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." She looks like for now she is resisting, but in a minute or two she will start "opposing" and ultimately "end them." There is such energy and strength in this photo. Yes, a great album cover, or theatre poster.
on this picture, when I first saw it this morning. I agree with Mona Lisa, it's just a scratched & beat up pic. I would never spend the time or money to frame this pathetic picture.
P.s. Akashi Rocks & Lives on.............
Mona Lisa - Fashion was great in the 80's. It was intense, it broke rules and barriers. It was more experimental than the 70's and more individual than any other time. Dior exploded and Marc Jacobs got a job. And who can't love New Wave music?
Get your head out of the hole and look around.
I too love this picture!!! I think she is gorgous!
I am in agreement with Red, the 80's were intense and I still love New wave music!
What a lovely girl. Like others said, album cover was my first thought.
"We are young. Heartache to heartache we stand..."
The 80's were good primarily for republicans and coke heads.
Although, I like, totally loved the 80's ya know? It was like totally awesome! Like, Oh Ma Gawwd, like, when the Go-Go's came out with like, ya know, "We Got The Beat"? It was so rad! Totally ground breaking ya know?
Ok, I'm over it.
Btw, Maria - Akashi Rocks! (or Akashi Rock, or even Rock Akashi) would be a great name for a band and this picture could be the album cover. :D
the best thing about the 80s was finding retro stuff at the thrift stores and not getting charged extra because it was just old, not retro like it is now.
Hm. Looking at how much people like this, I'm going to go talk to some people and see what my legal status would be regarding copyright.
Obviously you folks know where to find me if you're interested in updates on the situation.
I just recently got the last of the gel out of my hair, and combed it down to where it doesn't look like its afraid to be attached to my head. The shoulder pads, i have to admit, made it easier to take naps on the bus. And, yes, ahhh, yes, the music. Who could ever forget such haunting lyrics as karma, karma,karma, karma, karma, chameleon.... sigh... i think i need some methadone, now.... please, just shoot me.
I love that cropped hair and single dangling cross from her ear... and I disagree about her not wanting the photo taken. I think she's sitting down on the sidewalk by a garage having fashion portraits done. Could be headshots for modeling agencies, the portfolio of a training makeup artist/fashion designer/art student, far away love interest, etc.
The history of modern pop culture is a history of class struggle. it's about the bohemians (hippies, punks, beats, whatever) versus the bourgeoisie.
the 50's were the bourgeois heyday. all about conformity- best expressed in government propaganda films.
in the 60's the bohemian's revolted, mass uprising- best expressed in the SDS rallys, and woodstock.
the 70's were when the bohemians took control but lost it. the equivalent of The Terror in post-revolutionary France. All about dark violent decadance- best expressed in charlie manson and Jodorowsky's films.
the 80's were when capitalism co-opted the revolution and institutionalized the decadence- best expressed in ronald reagan and Tom Wolf.
the 90's were an explosion of the formula, revolutionary bohemians were co-opted almost immediately- best expressed in Kurt Cobain's shotgun.
now we have a historic opportunity, a kind of clean slate. we're all grasping at retro styles, combining them, finding new forms, and possibly building something far more mass, more sustainable, and more powerful than the 60's. That's the way i'd like to see it happen anyway.
Rex, I have to disagree. The 80's were best expressed in "Teen Wolf". A typo on your part?
shes rad!
This picture is great. It reminds me of those posters in the late 80's, early 90's, that were drawings of women in blacks, grays, whites and reds... I can't think of the artist because I did too many drugs during the 80's... but those posters rocked. As does this picture.
I remember one time, just at the end of the disco era, I was in 7th Grade. This guy in my science class would always don his best Saturday Nigh Fever outfit most days to school. I secretly had a crush on him for that reason alone. Then one day, he came to class decked out in leather and chains and proclaimed, "DISCO'S DEAD! LET'S BREAK LEAD!" I was so distraught! I shot back, "DISCO'S NOT DEAD! YOU TAKE THAT BACK!" But he didn't and alas, it was true. <sigh> I miss the Bee-Gees.
I agree, this expresses something about the 80s and it's kind of cool.
If you thought a decade was horrible than either you were a complete dweeb during that decade or didn't actually live through it.
It's easy to name boatloads of annoying crap from every decade. The ratio of 90% crap hasn't changed, it's just that you think it's cool right now, so give it 10 years.
Janet Sever: I believe the artist you're thinking of is Nagel.
Tia, i instantly thought of William Gibson too.
there's somethin cyberpunk about it...
Does anyone remember how there was a print/pattern that was very popular in the 80's that was either paint splatters or paint splatters and/or random slash marks. That's what the abrasions remind me of on this picture which (if they weren't done intentionally) make this picture uber cool.
Oh, and I am ashamed to admit that I was like a total valley girl in the '80's. So much so that I still (in my mid 30's) struggle not to use the word like, like all the time. UGH!