…well the rich are gettin' richer
and the poor are gettin' drunk
in a black and white picture
there's a lot of grey bunk…
“Asking Me Lies”
The Replacements
Found this historic photo at the surplus store the other-other day (see price tag) The official title on the tag on the back is “small labor history photo mounted on foam board” and you can scan the QR code
Schlepped it home in my giant backpack. Then after a few beers added a little something to it, taking a swipe at the DANK BAGS in black paint. It came out really half ass in a disappointing glass half empty way. Screening onto a slippery slick unforgiving undular concave foam core surface kinda sucks. It’s a little iffy, but the cost-benefit analysis worked out. 24 hours later I took another swing at it with some white paint and it panned out in a drop shadow way, like a sequence of fortunate events, as if I planned it all along. Sorta like that Seurat painting. Are you my Bucky?
I like to think of this shot as the DANK bags sweatshop figuratively tucked away at various discrete locations here in Seattle years before they moved their operation down to Rip City. 97% of the laborers pausing momentarily to look up at the photographer thinking “there goes Nikki, fucking shit up, again”
A work in progress or maybe it’s all done. Could be an early birthday gift for one of those guys down at DANK bags or just another whack artifact on the wall here at HQ.
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