Although you can’t see it in this video too well, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth was wearing a one-off shirt designed and created by my fisting-loving pal Chris Habib. Habib’s design moniker is Visitor Design and his work has spanned the past few decades of NYC’s underground and subculture art scene. He’s worked with Richard Kern and is highly sought-after by galleries and museums world wide.

Back to the story. VD has done a few tessellations of gay orgies in the past, in fact, he did one for the Mokinox logo. Mokinox is Habib’s noise side-project which was featured in the Sonic Youth film Sensational Fix. This logo is what adorned Thurston’s shirt and caused the small controversy. When Sonic Youth was performing on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, ?uestlove tweeted the following:

“thurston moore is wearing the riskiest tshirt ive ever seen on broadcast tv….gangsta move son”

Now you see the connection. Read more about it here at Visitor Design’s Shelf Life.

I might also add that VD has done a few pieces for me. One for Milwaukee Bicycle Co. which never went to any sort of production, although now I may want a shirt, and another for my website, Prolly is Not Probably, which is still too NSFW to make it to the blog header…

He did give me two stencils of my blog logo, so maybe I’ll make some shirts.

- Prolly