Aladdin Sane/Harry Potter t-shirt

The kid was just crass... "Harry Stardust," a t-shirt from Made With Awesome. (via Bust)

• [Anonymous]

  Perhaps someone far more hip than me can explain the blob of drool(?) depicted on his collar?

  • [deckard68]

    That blob is on the original Aladdin Sane cover as well. It’s supposed to be jizz, I think.

  • [Jesse M.]

    the glob on the collar is just a reference to the original Aladdin Sane image here. According to p. 214 of this book it’s supposed to be a big teardrop pooling on his clavicle.

• [annoyingmouse]

  Surely Harry Sane?

• [Grey Devil]

  I like the idea of the design but the illustration could’ve gone further i feel. Still nice though (:

• [Anonymous]

  Ooops. Ziggy Stardust had a dot on his forehead. The lightning bolt makeup was for Aladdin Sane, not Ziggy.

  • [ZDepthCharge]

    Yeah, but Bowie described the Aladdin Sane album as “Ziggy in America”.

    • [annoyingmouse]

      I like the idea of “Harry Stardust in America”. I’m picturing a second-rate tribute act struggling to make his way across the states.

      • [David Pescovitz]

        Stardust’s lifelong dream, is to play the Lucky Slots Casino in Vegas, which, unbeknownst to him, was demolished decades ago to make way for a shopping mall.

        • [annoyingmouse]

          The Rise and Mall of Harry Stardust?

• [debcha]

  Harry Sane, for sure.

  Anon #1, here is the original Aladdin Sane cover (as well as a bit of the backstory):

  http://zedequalszee.tumblr.com/post/1155954064/claytoncubitt-brian-duffys-cover-of-david

• [David Pescovitz]

  OK, I changed my headline to Aladdin Sane. I didn’t name the t-shirt though.

• [atomicon]

  Hmmmm. Not like.

• [Anonymous]

  Daniel Radcliffe is a confirmed Bowie fan.

  I couldnt find the original article, but here is an excerpt form a Details Magazine Radcliffe/Bowie photoshoot:

  http://elaineandjosh.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/the-boy-wizard-who-fell-to-earth/

• [braininavat]

  For some reason this just makes me want to recommend Jerry Cornelius to the Harry Potter fans…

  also:
  Q: What do you call a hippy who turns ceramics?
  A:

• [HeatherB]

  The boy who jived.

• [Anonymous]

  Wow, Aladdin Sane… one of bowie’s more obscure efforts… haven’t thought of it in years…

  most of you youngfolk probably never heard of it. Panic In Detroit, now there’s a song. “He looked alot like Che Guevara, drove a diesel van, kept his gun in quiet seclusion, such a humble man…”

  memories,

• [Halloween Jack]

  This is one of the best mash-ups ever.