I went to a Ricky Powell slideshow event last month at the silent movie theatre in Hollywood that was put on by Altamont. It was one of the funniest things I’ve been to in a while. Ricky is a very entertaining MC and his documentation of the 80′s and 90′s NY street scene is great. He is no Glen Friedman, but his photos have a very real “street photographer” point of view. Anyway, Ricky was quite lit for the evening, and interrupted the slideshow on multiple occasions demanding weed. Interspersed between his grab-bag (and I mean that literally…he pulled his slides out of a plastic shopping bag) of early era NYC hip-hop, art and street scene documentation were numerous slides of one Joe “Willie” Namath, shot from the tv – 70′s era broadcasts on ESPN Sports Classics. Joe is one of Ricky’s idols, and as I just bought a print from Ricky (of 2 of my idols – Basquiat and Warhol), I decided to do a quick illustration for Ricky. Here it is.