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5.23.13 -



Presented by Micki Pellerano. Envoy this Sunday.







5.16.13 -



women of strength, the telephone saved my life, mischievous men, rainbows for ears, tea party promises

For Daniel. xxx





4.14.13 -


I'm thrilled to have work from three differnt Polaroid series featured in Mary-Kay Lombino's beautiful book,

The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation.

Also featuring works by Lucas Samaras, Andy Warhol, Ansel Adams, Robert Mapplethorpe, Walker Evans, David Hockney, Chuck Close, and Catherine Opie... !!!.





4.9.13 -

Ease on down the road. Thank you for everything Daniel. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx





4.9.13 -


I'm very excited to have work included in “The Polaroid Years” which opens this weekend at Vassar. In addition to some personal work, they will be showing collaborations I made with Mark Spalding and Micki Pellerano. Road trip!





4.2.13 -

I made a series of portraits to celebrate Mirror Mirror's new single “Nowhere.” Their music video premiered today on The Fader. View the photos in the POLAROID department. Mirror Mirror's single “Nowhere” is out in May and available on Weyrd Son Records.





3.29.13 -

Hey good Friday,

Here comes Spring, and Tumblr gave me a holiday show! It's a Best of four years of “Easter Glamour Portrait Studio.” If you need more, you can see the full series from each year in the Polaroid department.

Here's to play and transformation,

xxHappy Easter Glamourxx


“Easter Glamour Portrait Studio” is a renegade, makeover portrait project celebrating transformation and Spring. Each Easter Sunday from 2009 to 2012, a vacant studio in Brooklyn, NY was borrowed for one night only. An immersive environment of backdrops, costumes, makeup, and props was installed in the empty loft space. A group of friends and collaborators were invited for the evening to play in Spring's closet and be documented with Polaroid film. In every corner a revelation, but not all transformations can be photographed.

“Easter Glamour Portrait Studio” was part of j. morrison's migratory performance/event series “Space is the Place.” The project could not have been done without generous creative support from Andy Jordan, Alexander Kargaltsev, Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, Destiny Pierce, Stina Puotinen, David Riley, and Nick Schiarizzi.





1.7.13 -

I updated the EDITING PROJECTS page with some of my favorite editing adventures from 2012. Put me to WORK!






12.21.12 -

As the light fades and the new year begins, I'm doing a little solstice cleaning. I posted “Google Therapy” in the HANDS AND FEET department. Click on one of the eight individual entries below, or you can view the entire series as a single pdf.

Should you ever you find yourself in need of a guidance counselor, or without a trained emotional therapist, Google is always only a Wi-Fi away. “Google Therapy” was created over the course of the year in 2011. Screen captures were taken of the results of entering fifty questions into Google's search field. When you're feeling low, no question you ask yourself or Google is too embarrassing. Sometimes slapping yourself with a cold hand of melodrama is all the prescription you need, or at least a step toward the light at the end of the tunnel.



11 of 50 - When am I going to get my life back and feel better?
26 of 50 - She told me my trauma is a gift. Should she be fired?
27 of 50 - It's impossible to listen to my own advice which is why I've come to you.
28 of 50 - I can't catch up. Should I be a prostitute?
31 of 50 - If I'm working my hardest is this my best?
36 of 50 - Is this pit of despair because of real life or all the drugs?
38 of 50 - Would you rather believe you are hated or untalented?
49 of 50 - If I'm out of time, am I Cured?

View complete series





11.27.12 -

Multitasking. If you need an Apocalypse present for a loved one and to send some monetary aid to Tibet, you've come to the right place.

I donated a Polaroid to Art For Tibet. “There Are So Many Things That We Care About” is part of the series “Chinalmost,” created during the summer of 2009. On a trip a China to celebrate my thirtieth birthday and my Saturn's return, I was quarantined for seven days in Beijing completely healthy and against my will. That summer, the planets, my head, and my heart conspired to teach me new lessons and pose the kind of questions I'll work at the rest of my life. SPEND(BURN) YOUR MONEY!!! FREE TIBET!!!






11.13.12 -

My New York theater debut is finally here!

"FCKNLZ on Broadway"
Saturday, November 17th
8-10pm
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
New York City

Limited tickets available: HERE

Written and Directed by FCKNLZ

Starring: Max Bernstein, Alberto Cortes, Ciara Rose Griffin, Bryce Henry, Olen Holm,
Molly Kimzey, Emily Lowinger, Rebecca Mimiaga, and Gerry Visco

Celebrity Guest Judges: ASTRO ERLE and SOPHIA LAMAR
Memories and Gossip by JAMES ST. JAMES
Vintage Costume Pieces by ERNIE GLAM and LolliPOP
Vintage Memorabilia courtesy LINDA SIMPSON
Photo Booth with LEIGH BOWERY

Also featuring: Debbie Attias, Jordan Fox, Jon Grenon, Leo Gugu, Piggy Huggums, Andrew Jordan as Mystical Genitals, Alexander Kargaltsev, Ivan Durbak as Dorrito Malandrino, Stina Puotinen as Bananagramma, Nick Schiarizzi, Ricky TheJones, and Adam VanBuren as Couture Chameleon.


Watch the Club FCKNLZ Commercial below


Portrait of FCKNLZ at the Museum of Arts and Design by Ben Pier





10.15.12 -

Today marks the kickoff of Club Kid Herstory Month, celebrated October 15th - November 15th worldwide.

Watch “Screen Tests” which was filmed at the Museum of Arts and Desgin during auditons for FCKNLZ's orginal club kid theatrical experiment “FCKNLZ on Broadway.”



Rehearsals begin this Saturday, October 20th at Noon. All rehearsals are open to the public with museum admission. Please click HERE to purchase tickets to the live, one night only performance:

“FCKNLZ on Broadway”
8pm, November 17th
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle, New York City

For rehearsal schedule and more information about the project, check out FCKNLZ's website!





9.30.12 -

In one week, FCKNLZ's celebration of Club Kid Herstory Month begins. Audtions take place at the Museum of Arts and Design on October 7th from 12-6pm. Be prepared for screen tests and other quizzes! Click on the Kabuki skyline below for more information.

Click HERE to view our official call for auditions
Click HERE to practice your monologue






9.26.12 -

Here's a new Polaroid series I made in August called “A Conifer is the Sea” Please visit the POLAROID department and have a look. Here are some words about the series:

We ache for these rare moments when you crack through a crust. I've been cleaning for years but somehow just now made it into this corner; there lying dormant in the cobwebs of my mind waiting for its switch to flip. It might whisper softly, but engages like the snap of a lead pipe to the bridge of your nose, or was it more like the warm drape of a giant quilt? There you go, you're moving. How could such a tiny edge of the puzzle feel so big?

John Muir wrote “When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” Does the structure of every fragment indeed hold the key to the structure as a whole? Is the crop a decapitation of essence? Without that pretty head do you still radiate? With my microscope in one hand and a magnifying glass in the other, if I look from way back here these glasses that I wear frame the world in one single silhouette. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, but you don't have to tell the mind things it already knows.






9.22.12 -

The new issue of Wonderland Magazine is out and it features an article about FCKNLZ's project at the Museaum of Arts and Design.

The celebration of Club Kid Herstory Month begins October 7th at the museum. More about that real soon. In the meantime, click on the image below to read the article from Wonderland.






9.18.12 -

I updated the Airlines section in the POLAROID department. Let's take a trip together.

More new Polaroids coming soon!






9.6.12 -

Look! I feel like a real photographer.

I made a series for a new photography publication called Dispose. The project's assignment was to shoot with a disposable camera taking a minimum of one photo each hour over a 24 hour period. The experience was suprisingly challenging and inspiring. Thank you Bruno Levy and Arpana Rayamajhi for inviting me to work on this project.






8.7.12 -

I have work featured in this month's issue of Culturehall. Curation and Text by Legacy Russell.






8.1.12 -

I edited a behind the scenes video for Sarah Silver and Blackbook.






7.23.12 -

MAD_LIB [RARY] is tomorrow at Independent Curators International, and is presented by LTO.

I made an edition called “Google Therapy.” Also featured will be editions by Scott Hug and j. Morrison! YES!






7.13.12 -

CHERYL on the waterfront Sunday!

I don't mean to brag, but this is my ninth CHERYL video appearance. Clearly I have addiction issues.





7.04.12 -

Opening tomorrow at Andrew Edlin, B-OUT features work by myself and FCKNLZ.






6.18.12 -

It's here. It's a disaster. Let's hope it never ends. “Easter Glamour Portrait Studio 4 - Apocalypse Forever” is in the POLAROID department.

This is the fourth year Easter Glamour Portrait Studio has taken place. On Easter Sunday, we borrow an empty studio in Brooklyn and install a world of backdrops, costumes, and props. Friends and collaborators are invited to come, play, get a makeover, and have their portrait made. This year I received a huge amount of help from Hunter Cressman, Kelsey Hall, Alexander Kargaltsev, Destiny Pierce, Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, Stina Puotinen, and David Riley. I couldn't have done the project without them.

Easter Glamour is presented by j. morrison as part of his ongoing series “Space is the Place.”





6.15.12 -

We updated the FCKNLZ site with our last few performances. Liquid Dreams. Party Favors. Carma Wash Deluxe.





6.4.12 -

“Portrait of a Generation” opens Thursday at The Hole. The show consists of 100 artists making portraits of each other. Scott Hug and I traded Polaroid portraits! You can preview my portrait of Scott now, in the POLAROID department.






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