On duty

Photographed at the Coney Island Sideshow by Dan Nicoletta

From Maya

Maya Ventura from Third Eye Tattoo has scanned and posted a number of beautiful photos of her and Mike, shot in 1993 by Danny Clinch.
I have put those photos in the 1993 section of this blog.

काली

Photographed by Efrain Gonzalez.

"And he's blowing / perfect smoke rings / up into the air"

Dan Nicoletta's photographs in 'Modern Primitives' were my first introduction to Mike.
This is another shot from his archive, posted with his permission :

You can find more of Dan's photographs of Mike by clicking here.

Moving on

The fantastic Efrain Gonzalez kindly sent in the following photographs and note :

"These were taken at the party
Tattoo Love Child
in NOHO on Layfitte Street"

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Click on photos to see them in full size.

You can see more of Efrain's work at Hellfirepress.com

Snite Museum of Art to exhibit a photograph of Wilson

Link to original article here.

Videos from Fredini's vaults

Fred Kahl (A.K.A. The Great Fredini) has uploaded a deal of old Coney Island-related clips on YouTube. The first one (above) is a Channel 2 news piece on John Bradshaw's Circus of World Curiosities circa 1989. Mike appears at 2:20.

The other one is from 1994.
Take a look :