ok. this being NYC, I recently had occasion to drop by a doctor’s office on the Lower East Side, and being such, instead of PEOPLE MAGAZINE lying around for bored waiting clients - the mag of choice was - INKED !! a tattoo chronicle.

with nothing better to do - and bored out of my mind - I flipped through and what do I see on page 30 - the Ghost of Xmas Past !!

a young Dash Snow. no mistaking the face - nor - the DAY OF THE DEAD ink.

it was used as a ’stock’ photo in an ad - for tooth cleaning utensils for hipsters !!
the good people of INKED were totally clueless as to who they had in the photo.
there was no name, there wasn’t even a photo credit. Dash must have sat for some ink photog who sold his image - I guess without permission - duh - to shill electric toothbrushes. or maybe they just lifted it off the net.
watch out - maybe your Facebook photo will be - ‘orphaned’ - next.
he is wearing a grill set - get it ?
of course the ink - is the best drawing ever seen on skin, no doubt.

but one good thing, he is face-to-face - in mag world ghost life - with a hot babe - forever.

it’s on page 30 - someone else can dig for the dirt.
it was more than - enough, to stumble upon the ghost, for me.
though if the DIA FOUNDATION ancestors actually set their high-priced lawyers on the trail - yeah - I’d like a finder’s fee. duh.
kind of like Dash’s way - of supporting the site - from afar. fat chance. but you never know - so I’m putting it in writing.
they actually asked for my archival pix - for use - for free. another stingy story. what else is new.

see: INKEDMAG.COM !!

it was just sitting there. waiting to be set free.

INKED JUNE/JULY 2009.

and, then a little further on, at the corner of BOWERY & SPRING, this new tag work - has to be for DASH.
D.S. R.I.P. 09

and, what’s that . . .

IRAK IRAK
NEW YORK NEW YORK.

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH - DEC 4, 2009
LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC.

read more about: IRAK & DASH & SNOW & DEATH/GAWKER !!
GAWKER has a bad habit - of not posting photo credits.
so, sorry no can do, as well. dudes, that’s how you end up with ‘orphaned’ pix - shilling electric toothbrushes,
down the road.
funny. how they think electric toothbrushes will go down well with ink aficionados !! must be that drill sound.

want more pix - IRAK - the website - has been co-opted, but this is still a good link.

see: ALEX SINS - Fuck what ya heard! - DASH SNOW

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR.
and, dudes. don’t eat the snow. white or yellow. bad fer ya.