Nirvana Baby Works for Shepard Fairey in Echo Park
Photo shoot, which took place when he was only a few months old. Spencer downplays his brush with history with disarming charm. “I’ve done about six [interviews],” he says, looking deadpan and not the least bit deceptive. “This interview is maybe number seven.”The Photo Shoot
Twenty years ago, as Rick Elden recalls, he was attending Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where Spencer is now enrolled in the fine art program. Rick had a studio in Old Town Pasadena—located between “a pawn shop and a sex shop” at a time when "the bohemians still lived there,” he says. To pay the rent, Rick shared the space with several artists, including photographer Kirk Weddle .
As it happened, Weddle had got a contract to photograph a baby underwater—and Rick agreed to let Weddle use Spencer as a model at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center. Rick explains the infant Spencer’s apparently preternatural swimming ability thus: “Babies have a gag reflex. If you blow in their face, they hold their breath. I blew in Spencer’s face and put him in the water. Kirk was shooting 18 frames a second, so Spencer was in the water for about two seconds.
Final day to buy Backyard Brawl T-shirts
Christian County’s biggest football game of the year, the Backyard Brawl, is weeks away, and the deadline for commemorative shirt orders is even closer.
Today is the final day for proud supporters of Ozark or Nixa football to purchase a shirt—in Nixa gray or Ozark black.
A handful of shirts will be tossed into the stands between quarters at the Oct. 14 rivalry game at Eagle Stadium, but short of a lucky catch, a pre-order is the only way to secure official gear.
Orders can be made by calling the Headliner News office at (417) 581-3541. Shirts are $12 each and available in all sizes.
All proceeds of T-shirt sales benefit Newspapers in Education, a community-oriented program that puts local newspapers in area schools at no cost to teachers or districts.
Pre-ordered shirts will be available the week of the game, and customers will be notified by phone when their shirts are available.
The Headliner News and Nixa Xpress—the area’s local newspapers, which sponsor the Brawl’s coveted traveling trophy—design a limited-run T-shirt each year in support of the storied matchup and the NIE program it benefits. Shirt designs change each year to symbolize the uniqueness of each contest.
