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The creepy friends of Alefantis and art / musician trio Heavy Breathing of Comet Pizza and Ping Pong infamy go back many years in the D.C. art and music scene, with the three founding members having played previously in the bands Midnight Kids and The Apes.
While Amanda Kleinman, aka Majestic Ape, continues to receive scrutiny for her extremely disturbing videos and performances, (Majestic Ape / Paula Poundstone here Majestic Ape is seen smirking and shrugging adjacent to child molester Paula Poundstone from here: https://youtu.be/cTnxBwfZH0M)), what of the other members of Heavy Breathing, Erick Jackson and Jeff Schmid?
As does Kleinman, the other band members have also used costumes and stage names. Jackson goes by Jackie Magik while Schmid goes by Ronald Wolf.
Ronald Wolf
As for Schmid, we know that he works as webmaster for art gallery Transformer DC,again deeply connected to the Podesta's and Alefantis and also infamous for defending this artist:
https://youtu.be/TqohSrb_jCc (notice the infant at 21:45) SLiMG Image
How about Ronald Wolf? Where else does he show up? What's that you say, a self-published work of fiction from 2005 about a multi-generational Satanic incest cult in Portugal by Ronald Charles Wolf?
Read it here:
http://pastebin.com/m7nENxw8
Jackie Magik
Jackie has been a prolific artist outside of his musical work, and like the rest of his Heavy Breathing band mates, has secured some pretty sweet gigs, press, work and powerful political connections as an artist in the D.C. art scene.
From the Civilian Art Project, where Jackson has exhibited several times.
Links to artwork
Folks 2013
From http://civilianartprojects.com/exhibitions/folks/
According to the artist, his paintings depict “a world romanticized as one of tranquility, decay and destruction – parentless, ageless youths roam an endless playground in pursuit of a remedy to their youthful ennui [compare this to the work of known pedophile Hakim Bey and his Temporary Autonomous Zones). The locations are reccurring places that I visit in dreams. The scenes are set at dusk or night. To me, night represents the unknown, where the possibilities are endless. Things are out of focus, unclear; and everything is easier on your eyes.”
The title “Folks” is inspired by both the classic daily comic strip "Peanuts," whose original title was “Li’l Folks”, and the Chicago street gang Folk Nation. “Peanuts is a world where parental figures are not seen, and the characters look like children, yet act like grumpy old people. The gang is a very similar youth-oriented creation, living outside normal society with their own brand of language, style, rules, and images,” writes Jackson.
Pan's Pipes 2013
http://civilianartprojects.com/exhibitions/pans/details.html
Artists Ryan Hill, Erick Jackson, and George Jenne investigate the counterculture vocabulary they grew up with to create the exhibition Pan's Pipes. With the goal of creating the psychological feel of headshops and other illicit spaces where teens go to escape the realities of family and school, the artists create new works on paper, sculpture, and a unique installation. According to the artists, these kinds of spaces were a combination of sights, sounds, literature, and even smells that would stimulate feelings of the fantastic and the forbidden. Posters, comic books, slogans, drug and sexual imagery are the inspiration for their works.
The exhibition encompasses two galleries in Civilian, including a "black light" store space and a large backroom filled with dozens of images, works on paper, sculpture, and found objects. While the artists do not literally create a headshop, their work explores a visual culture that once embraced other-ness and a kind of subjectivity rejected by mainstream culture. The work is both surrealist and psychedelic, combining imagery and objects to create psychological moods, dream states and poetic thinking.
Nightscaping 2010
http://civilianartprojects.com/exhibitions/nightscaping/details.html
Nightscaping is a new series of paintings by Washington, D.C. based artist Erick Jackson influenced by Charles Schultz's Peanuts characters and the school of Romanticism. Drawing from his academic background (Rhode Island School of Design), his rock musician sensibility (Apes, Midnight Kids), and his lavish imagination, Jackson creates this new suite of paintings based on the techniques developed in his last exhibition All Night Flight, a series of 68 color pencil drawings. The paintings in Nightscaping continue this trajectory and were germinated during the blizzard of 2010, when much of the East Coast was blanketed in snow.
According to the artist, "my paintings begin in a sort of beautifully, apocalyptic land where the smoke, or in this case snow, clears and kids start poking their heads out to see what's going on." Ever inspired by the romantic notion that a gifted, perhaps misunderstood loner, creatively following the dictates of his inspiration rather than the mores of contemporary society, is to be revered and celebrated, Jackson marries his childhood memory with an imagined, other world.
The paintings are heavily influenced by Charlie Brown holiday specials, specifically The Great Pumpkin, "where kids are having a Halloween party in what looks like a bombed-out house." The paintings, according to Jackson, "are set in a pleasant world where parentless youth roam an endless playground created for their amusement. I try to imagine that I'm creating a set for an (as of yet) unmade movie. The locations are reoccurring places that I visit in dreams. All of it happens at night. Night equals the unknown where the possibilities are endless; things are out of focus, unclear and everything is easier on your eyes."
All Night Flight 2009
http://civilianartprojects.com/exhibitions/allnight/details.html
For All Night Flight, Erick Jackson has created over 60 color pencil drawings plus a large-scale drawing installation of imagery plucked from adolescence and psychic memory. From B-movies, rock music culture, and late night 1980’s cable television shows, Jackson takes us through his fecund memories and imagination, presenting an aesthetic disappearing from our contemporary vernacular.
Drawing from a freakishly strong memory, for months Jackson researched movies and television shows for visual equivalents of memories of exact moments lodged in his mind since childhood. The pungent seventies aesthetic of the occult; endless car chases; and bizarre children’s shows of a psychedelic era shaped the artist’s young mind, depositing fertile material to draw from in the present day.
According to the artist, "certain stills from these works have been etched into my psyche and reappear in my artwork and music again and again. Themes of the anti-hero, danger, paranoia and beauty have remained consistent in my mind and they have defined my likes and dislikes. These impressions are not necessarily drawn from ‘spooky’ images but they were based in fear and wonder. Certain things just freaked you out as a kid and made you want to know more. It is this longing to know that continues to enrich the mystery.”
For the exhibition, Jackson departed from his laborious painting style to the flexibility of color pencil to create an expanding body of fluid, saturated images uniquely framed and positioned on the gallery walls. From depictions of phantasms to night marauders to skateboarding and life post-apocalypse, Jackson lives up to his image-maker reputation in this ambitious exhibition.
Vlad's Crib 2007
http://civilianartprojects.com/exhibitions/saltonvlad/saltonvlad.html
Vlad's Crib
Known for his hyper-colorful, fantastical, narrative painting style, in this new series the artist presents a looking glass into the bachelor pad of a fictional, preternatural homeowner. From the drum room, to the arcade, to the sauna, this guy knows how to live.
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I recently found this about Midnight kids "Personal Interests: LITTLE THINGS, GIANT THINGS, NATURAL THINGS, ROCK THINGS, POP THINGS, SMOKING KIDS, HANGING OUT, AND THE SMELL OF THE BLACK GLOVE." http://profileengine.com/people/163305947/jesse.mccullough#/groups/profile/439503651/midnight-kids http://archive.is/tLvC1