Me & Lisa Baumgardner, 1981

In 1981, my friend Lisa Baumgardner (RIP) did me a wonderful favor, and posed with me for still photos for my porn portfolio. The photos were shot by Fred O'Brien at his Color Pro Labs in Manhattan. Lisa was a very talented conceptual artist, bondage model, and dominatrix. As a conceptual artist, she was associated with Club 57 in New York's East Village. As a bondage model, she modeled for Carter Stevens, and was featured in his publication titled Chained. She worked as a dominatrix at prestigious bondage parlors in Manhattan. Here are some of the shots. Unfortunately, most are blurry because of the extent to which I had to blow them up.

The Rialto Report's Deleted 2013 Report on Alan Adrian

Much to my chagrin, Ashley West removed Alan Adrian's Party Life Album from The Rialto Report. Fortunately, it was preserved on archives.org. Please find the link to the archived page below, if you are interested in seeing it:

Alan Adrian with Sharon Mitchell and Tigr, Pussycat Theatre, NYC, 1982

The entire deleted The Rialto Report page is here: Alan Adrian's Party Life Album. Thank you Brewster Kahle, for preserving this page as it should be.

About Me

During the first two decades of my adult life, I went full circle from being frequently in front of cameras, to being behind a camera, to being in front of cameras again.

In March 1978, my fancy Bachelor of Science degree in Printing Technology and Management from Rochester Institute of Technology brought me to New York City. I had decided on a career in publication production management. However, being in New York City during the late 1970s through the 1980s provided lots of exciting outlets for miscellaneous debauchery, which cried out to be prioritized over ordinary jobs in the publishing and graphic arts field, because of my hedonistic tendencies. I ended up in front of cameras as adult movie actor Alan Adrian a.k.a. Spike, during the latter part of an era of the adult entertainment industry that is now known as the golden age of porn. My filmography is here and here, and some additional information is here. My involvement with the adult entertainment industry opened up a much more interesting social world than could have ever resulted from getting my degree.

I owe a lot to the late bondage model and conceptual artist Lisa Baumgardner, whom I met on a photo shoot for a fetish magazine, soon after my arrival in New York City. She introduced me to a social world consisting of New York's coolest underground creative people, including musicians, artists, performance artists, photographers, authors, poets, small press publishers, independent record producers, night club managers, and more. She let me know when to "be there or be square", inviting me to book parties, poetry readings, night club events, and cool private parties. Many of the people whom I met through Lisa are friends to this day. They are people you will likely find on the public web because of their creative works.

Starting in the mid 1980s, I merged my long standing interest in comic books, my expertise in print production, and my involvement with the adult entertainment industry, by publishing Weird Smut Comics, under the label JAM Press. Publishing Weird Smut Comics opened up opportunities to hobnob with my favorite underground cartoonists, lowbrow artists, and underground comics publishers and distributors. It didn't have a very good business model, but that didn't matter. As a labor of love, publishing Weird Smut Comics enriched my life in much more important ways than making a profit could have.

Up to and throughout the first half of the 1980s decade, I wasn't shooting very many photos myself to capture my life. When I did so, it was only with a cheap Kodak Instamatic camera. Finally, in November 1985, I got my first 35mm film camera, a Nikon One Touch. I started photographing my social world, primarily in New York City. As of late 1989, I was primarily based in Los Angeles, trying to be bicoastal. I continued photographing my social world, at that point in both New York City and Los Angeles. I am now working on remastering my 1980s-90s photos for my documentary oriented SmugMug website. If you haven't seen them yet, please start with the home page here, and explore the hierarchy of sets within collections, and individual photos within the sets.

Meanwhile, I wanted to be naked, and I was not satisfied with being naked among nudists. In fact, I found nudist communities to be relatively boring. I wanted the best of both worlds, being naked, while socializing among interesting people of my choice. During the mid 1990s in Los Angeles, I found a subculture of creative people that enabled me to accomplish this goal. I was able to feel integrated as the only naked person among these clothed creative friends, primarily at private parties. I became known as Naked John. I decided it was better not to be separated from everyone by a camera, and therefore I usually left my camera at home. A couple of photographers conceptualized projects to photograph me as Naked John. It was time for me to be primarily in front of cameras again. A few photos of myself as Naked John in 1990s Los Angeles, shot with my camera, are here.

This blog is focused on the period that I was behind a camera during the first two decades of my adult life, from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s. It is intended to be a documentary oriented presentation of my world during that period, with associated ephemera to help document time and places when possible.

John A. Mozzer a.k.a. Alan Adrian a.k.a. Naked John

March 2017