Documentation images of an attempt at recreating the cover photo of Darkthrone's seminal black metal album A Blaze in the Northern Sky (released February 26, 1992, which is also the day I was born), utilizing a leather motorcycle jacket treated with a high visibility automotive paint.

Ivar Enger was the rhythm guitarist of Darkthrone, and the subject of the original photograph. He left the band, and allegedly Norwegian society as a whole, in the mid 90s, though his reasons for leaving remain disputed: he left because he became misanthropic, or because his alcoholism led to a car wreck and a long hospital stay, or maybe it was due to his jealousy of the closeness of the two remaining bandmates.

Regardless, no one knows where he went.

A false floor finished in the kind of tile you find in rented out church basements and suburban VFWs; the form references the location of the final fight in the 1988 film Bloodsport, starring Jean Claude van Damme.

The film is ostensibly based on a true story told by the Canadian-American Frank Dux, who claims to have won a 1975 underground fighting competition, known as the Kumite, by way of 56 consecutive knock outs.

Rephotograph of Mickey Rourke being pulled off of Steve Powell during a 1991 boxing match. The gold shorts were tailored by Gianni Versace.