always π
always π
Akhnaten at LA Opera with my dear friend and artist idol Johanna Went today πππ
with the fab William Wei, MD and art collector at his art week reception last night in Los Angeles. psyched to be in his college and love this neon psychic cross from Gen π
RICK CASTRO: PSYOPS & PHOTO OPS
Photographic group exhibition
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@laluzdejesus.bsky.social
opening reception- March 6th
7-11pm
La Luz de Jesus
4633 Hollywood Blvd
Los Feliz. 90027
On exhibition thru March 29th, 2026
Always missing the late great Wanda Coleman πππ
I run my mouth in this! π€π€π€
Do it!
RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson π
I saved this photo from the 1999 defiance of Clinton - piking up a POW and conducting a prayer circle with Milosevic π
www.thecrimson.com/article/1999...
I did enjoy interviewing him twice when I was still on the journalist train, on the release of Lord of Illusions, at his home for Details, and later for a show of paintings at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in LA, for Honcho (1997 or thereabouts) π
Tonights watch!!! Manly P. Hall's When You Were Born starring Anna May Wong 1938, I was looking for it for years, bless YouTube π
More deets on the Fakir Musafar film and the exhibition at the ONE. Photo of Fakir and I was taken days before he died in Menlo Park, California. He gifted me a series of prints including the 4th image with vise clamps ;) π
Join us at the ONE institute for the screening of the Fakir Musafar doc film, A Body to Live In, with director Angelo Madsen, myself and curator Quetzal ArΓ©valo. I'm talking head in the flick and honored to be part of this discussion event and exhibition at the ONE π
New hed shotz by @l-m-k-studio.bsky.social π©΅π©΅π©΅
I visited this Mausoleum in Oslo and couldn't believe the acoustics. psyched Diamanda did a concert there in 2012. If youre in Oslo visit, only open on Sunday afternoons.
Excited that Carmina Escobar and The Industry Opera at REDCAT is on Feb. 20-22, and including the Death Valley Amargosa Opera House video we shot a few weeks ago! Get tickets via REDCAT!
www.redcat.org/events/2026/...
thick thighs save lives πΉπΉ
I just got more drone footage from our Automatic Writing session from October 2025 in Athens, Greece. Working on more Darkness Visible locations, for this 10 day immersive workshop. This space, once Communitism, now Plex, is hard to match, we produced 45 performances for our finals night!
bless this fam π« π« π«
ruffled perineum ππΉ
Had the great pleasure of working on a Carmina Escobar produced video this week at Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley, with the fabulous singer Astrid Hadad! Love this older video that booms through who costume art! Our other component was the movement performer Oguri. Incredible experience π
I need a cash prize, thank you!
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Thereβs a GoFundMe for Jonathan Rossβs legal expenses for murdering Renee Good.
This violates GoFundMeβs Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.
A thread on how to do that π§΅
unreal this escalation π missing you!
A few years ago we were staying in Oracle Arizona for the winter hold and visited the Rancho Linda Vista, location of Warholβs 1968 film Lonesome Cowboys
NYE 1985, at my friend Brad Lapin's party, 41 years ago ;)
James Magee and The Hill, (1945-2024) I had the pleasure of spending an unplanned day with him in El Paso just before his death, still had the art making boner! π
my personal fave non profit gallery JOAN Los Angeles benefit a few weeks ago, I'm host committee in case you couldn't tell ;)
Coming very soon to New Discretions Gallery in NYC, psyched to be in this lineup, art favorites living and dead. I've made 3 new photographic collages from Judas Cradle and autoFF images on the Egerton MS backdrop (medieval books of blood), sized for frames that John Cage scores were in! π₯π₯