Punk Turns 30

It's almost here! We are counting down to Friday's Get Hip Get Art Punk Rock Day of the Dead shindig. Check out what Pittsburgh's Pop Filter has to say about it: We will be showing images that have never been exhibited before! Come see and celebrate our recently departed punk rock icons Lou Reed, Mick Karn (below, of Japan), and many more. I recently restored all the frames from the single 24-exposure roll of film I shot when I saw Japan at the Starwood in Los Angeles, 1978. Born Andonis Michaelides to Greek Cypriot parents, in Nicosia in 1958, Mick Karn's family relocated to England when he was 3 years old.  He and David Sylvian, Richard Barbieri and Rob Dean formed the glam-influenced band Japan in 1974. Karn remained active in music until the end.  In 2010, he was diagnosed with late stage cancer, to which he succumbed in January 2011. Mick Karn, 24 July 1958 – 4 January 2011 RIP

So - to help me bring this fab art show to Get Hip Get Art, I created an Indiegogo fundraising campaign , to help me frame the scores of photos I'm showing and to make some souvenirs for you to take home. Visit my Indiegogo campaign here: http://igg.me/at/punkrock-theresak/x/4354335 Its a short-duration fund raising campaign and I'm trying to raise $1,500, all of which will go to framing and book-producing. If you can't donate, can you help spread the word? If you DO donate, the perks are photos worth well more than the amount of contribution you give. Here's a slide show of some of the images that will be hanging and that can be your perk! Just because we are celebrating the Day of the Dead, it doesn't mean we aren't celebrating the living as well...I am always reminded of James Joyce's "The Dead," and its last line...one could substitute "music" for "snow" in the passage. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow...