A Boardwalk Snap

From the Journal of Bison Jack

Maya & Mike, Coney Island

Photographed by Danny Clinch.
Some of these shots were featured in Tattoo Ink magazine.

Extra special thanks to Maya Ventura !

No Age, New York (1993)

No Age, New York is a documentary about NYC underground filmmakers (Alyce Wittenstein, Beth B., Chris Krauss, Nick Zedd and Richard Kern, with additional commentary from Henry Rollins and Lydia Lunch) and their work circa 1978-1992.
It features interviews and film clips and Mike appears in a non-speaking role, undressing and displaying his tattoos.

Co-director Nick Abrahams said in an interview:
"We met Michael Wilson, the tattooed man, at a party with Beth B, and he said he'd like to be in our little film (a lovely, shy man, he died in 1996, at the age of 44)."


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-You can watch No Age, New York for free at the LUX website
-Visit the Nick Abrahams Website

Here's a few screen shots of Mike from the film:

Outlaw Art Show in New York

Mike Wilson took part in this show.
Does anyone have any photographs from the show, were any of you there, do you know what sort of work/s he submitted to the exhibition ?


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The picture of the original exhibition invitation +  information from Clayton Patterson's website.

Film : War Is Menstrual Envy

The film, directed by Nick Zedd was released in 1992.
It consists of short segments, Mike appears in one of those.
The film can be viewed at Ubuweb in its' entity.
It does contain footage that is not suitable for everyone, so for those looking only to see Mike, skip to about 30:00 in the video.

 Here's a short gif animation I made, as a preview :

The link to the film is HERE.

With Robert Sherman

Photographed by Len Price.

Through Bern Boyle's eyes

Bern Boyle (1951-1992) took these three pictures, but I can't seem to find a precise date.

From what I know, these two are from 1988 :

and this one from 1989 :

They do look like they were taken on the same sitting but who knows?
Great shots.

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Photographs from The Body : Visual AIDS Web Gallery

Photograph by Chris Wroblewski

Photo scanned from a tattoo book that I once borrowed from a teacher.
The caption ran something along the lines of :
Michael Wilson - Coney Island, New York
1989

Mike with Carmel, at Pink Tarantula

Mike photographed with Carmel at her Pink Tarantula salon in San Francisco by Dan Nicoletta

Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel of Love video

Meiert Avis directed the video and it features a number of sideshow performers, but sadly only in all-too-short flashes.
You can watch the entire video over here.

Homage to Diane Arbus' portrait of Jack Dracula

March 19, 1987
Photographed by Dan Nicoletta

Jack Dracula, The Marked Man, 1961
Photographed by Diane Arbus

Silver bangles

Circa 1976, San Francisco CA

Photographed by  Dan Nicoletta