Frank Grow

Making of documentary.

Drag racer Richard “Big Red” Friedman becomes addicted to a speed-like adrenal drug after a career ending crash and dives into a world of hallucinations and monstrosities.

Drag racer Richard “Big Red” Friedman becomes addicted to a speed-like adrenal drug after a career ending crash and dives into a world of hallucinations and monstrosities.

"Monster Fire Baby" by the Blood Pumpers Racing Club was a Hyper-Mega Supercharged monster sex performance - complete with the world's first (as far as I know) live burning-monster baby birth! Performed at WildChild Productions in downtown San Diego sometime in 1991. The all-star cast consisted of 16 performers divided into 4 teams, the team members all wore custom uniforms labelled with a number and a color. This is a short edit of the performance that was made to accompany an installation piece for lalapalooza's traveling art tent. Unfortunately it doesn't convey the intensity of the show, a longer edit and all the original footage were lost, leaving this as the only document.

An "unauthorized" sculpture built in the remnants of a low-rent apartment building in downtown San Diego that burned down after a tenant fell asleep while smoking in bed.

Manhattan, 1996. All mental hospitals must cut their patient load by a third, and LaRue (Will Keenan) is sent out onto the streets with "chronic reading syndrome". He ends up at the Love Hotel (where most of the inmates are being held), and falls in love with a mute girl who's obsessive mother dominates her life. To top it all off, LaRue is given a roommate with Tourette's syndrome and is chased by a prehistoric worm that inhabits peoples bodies and mutates them.

Manhattan, 1996. All mental hospitals must cut their patient load by a third, and LaRue (Will Keenan) is sent out onto the streets with "chronic reading syndrome". He ends up at the Love Hotel (where most of the inmates are being held), and falls in love with a mute girl who's obsessive mother dominates her life. To top it all off, LaRue is given a roommate with Tourette's syndrome and is chased by a prehistoric worm that inhabits peoples bodies and mutates them.

This is a short edit of the performance that was made to accompany an installation piece for lalapalooza's traveling art tent. Unfortunately it doesn't convey the intensity of the show, which laster for about 15 minutes, or show the bombarding of the standing room only audience of nearly 200 and including being sprayed with various colors of paint as the the monster as the monster sex ritual climaxed. A longer edit and all the original footage were lost, leaving this as the only document.

A very early installation (1986) in the iconic and abandoned Uniroyal Tire factory just south of downtown Los Angeles. Photos of the sculptures were placed into a wooden tryptic which was displayed in galleries as an altarpiece, along with the video.