![]() ![]() “We’re aching–just yearning–to give out these grants. “Sadly, we’ve gotten more applications for grants than we’ve had people buying stuff,” she says. Since going on-line last month, she’s sold only the Hendrix and a few T-shirts. There’s no blue book for plaster casts of penises, so Plaster Caster and Pickleman looked around on eBay and in art galleries to figure out how to price them. Graphic designer Jason Pickleman–a friend and one of the producers of Jessica Villines’s 2001 documentary, Plaster Caster–suggested the foundation last winter, and over the spring and summer the pair met with lawyers, set up a board of directors, and designed a Web site, from which to hawk their wares. And I used to fantasize about rescuing her and myself from this boring job and finding a way that would enable us to do what we were meant to do and pursue our creative projects.” “It stems,” says Plaster Caster, “from when I worked at this miserable job years ago and I had a coworker who I thought was very talented, but she didn’t realize it. If you can’t afford dick, you can still get a T-shirt ($20), an apron ($30), or a print of one of Plaster Caster’s drawings–say, George Harrison from the neck up ($600, unframed). Some casts are available individually, but Plaster Caster also offers package deals–like the Guitarists Collection, where for $2,500 you get Kramer, Hendrix, and Dan Kroha, guitarist for the Gories and the Demolition Doll Rods. Twenty-five percent of a sale goes to the model, if he or she is still living, and everything else goes into the kitty. The mission of the foundation is to raise funds for struggling musicians and artists by selling reproductions. But though she’s exhibited them once, she’d never sold any of what she refers to as her “sweet babies” until October 2, when her new Cynthia P Caster Foundation made its first $1,500 on a limited-edition plaster of paris reproduction of cast number 00004–Jimi Hendrix. Since then Plaster Caster has added about 60 more penises–and in recent years a few breasts–to her collection. He doesn’t have to prove anything to the world.” It set before he could push his dick all the way into the mold–only the head got in.” She says he wasn’t upset: “Wayne is perfectly aware of what he’s got. ![]() “He got the container that wasn’t designed to mix alginates in,” she says, “and if you mix it the wrong way it sets prematurely. The world’s second most famous groupie was still perfecting her gimmick. “Wayne quite literally got the shaft,” says Cynthia Plaster Caster, who cast the MC5 guitarist’s member, as well as that of drummer Dennis Thompson, in 1969. In the annals of rock history, Wayne Kramer will forever have a two-inch dick. Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation. ![]()
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