today is robert longo’s birthday and i thought the most appropriate way to celebrate was to wear one of his massive guns from his bodyhammers collection (1994, my favorite .357 magnum long barrel original size 105.1 x 66.9 inches/267 x 170c). my best birthday gift to him would be to recommend licensing and merchandising these amazing images for clothing (the t-shirt business is a multi-billion dollar industry). since making this one for the “what am i wearing today” shoot several people asked me where they could get one)—michael green—word.

As with so many people who are brilliant originalists, longo, well known for his “men in cities” series was not credited with the figures for the ipod campaign which used his “somewhere between dying and dancing”  silhouettes as reference (or exact copies however you may interpret it)—did you really think those images were originally created by apple?!

a birthday is something to celebrate….robert, here’s to another year—a year of making more beautiful, powerful and thought provoking art and to continuing to influence pop culture!

here i am wearing…a .357 magnum (long barrel) charcoal and graphite drawing from robert longo’s bodyhammer collection on a t-shirt (the t-shirt  is the only one of its kind and not available anywhere as i made it for this shoot) miss sixty leather gloves, gianfranco rossi leather jacket, 7 for all mankind jeans, laura michaels sterling silver “K” buckle, sterling silver key necklaces, paneari watch, harajuku lovers shoes.