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Parker posing with some her her photos displayed at Space Gallery for a Fuzz.com show.
More than likely you’ve seen her name on the corner of a flier. Or in the corner of a club mingling in her little party dress as she gingerly holds her camera up in the air. That camera that clearly captures all those blurry little moments and remembers them for you.
But today San Francisco omnipotent party girl with the camera, Parker Day, is retiring from the nightlife business, at the ripe old age of 25. Tonight’s Wigwam at Triple Crown will be her final act.
The love affair started when Parker’s mother gave her a plastic blue, yellow, and red Fischer Price camera. She would snap the shutter and a clown would pop out of the flash. Soon she was gathering together her dolls and teddies, posing them, and taking pictures with disposable cameras.
Then little Parker grew up and did the same thing in real life – pulled together The City’s pretty people for her parties like Wigwam, Tits, Vanity Affair, Cream, Hold It. and her favorite brainchild Stiletto, a monthly themed party.
“I wanted to actually create something,” says Parker. “Not just a place for people to get drunk at.“
One month zombies stumbled amongst partygoers, the next mobsters and drunken hipsters posed for their mug shots. Button down cardigan preps faced off against cat-eyed greasers on a mini runway and last month black-eyed, flannel clad drunks posed in front of American flags with Twinkies and giant EPT tests at the white trash Stiletto.
“Stiletto was my own personal geek fest,” says Parker. It featured whatever theme she wanted often derived from her favorite movies like The Warriors, Space Invaders, Warhol Superstar, Beyond the and Valley of the Dolls.
Parker said her favorite Stiletto was last April when a limo filled with Red Bull and Grey Goose vodka pulled up to AsiaSF and a gaggle of drunk twenty-somethings in prom dresses and Dumb and Dumber colored tuxedos spilled out for Stiletto Prom Nite. Complete with a cheesy star background for couples to take pictures in front of and the crowning of the prom king and queen, DJ Mario Muse with his side part and local singer and songwriter Rykarda Parasol.
San Francisco’s lushes and electro connoisseurs will miss posing in front of Miss Day’s themed backdrops every month but the economy is really hitting us, she says. Not as many people dress up, then they get on the list and bring in their pint of Ancient Age.
“Electro is hearing its death rattle come through the speakers,” says Parker. All electro is starting to sound the same. That’s what happens when Kid Cuddy’s Day ‘N’ Night is literally played all day and night, like a teeny bopper with Britney Spears on repeat.
“I expect something grittier than the artificial sheen of electro to come next,” she speculates, “Like punk rising from poverty and frustration. This depression will bring out the arts.”
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Careful she shoots. With her Canon EOS 40D Digital SLR Camera, of course.
Sign: Aries Animal: Sloth
Neighborhood: The Mish Music: Tom Waits/Velvet Underground
Color: Purple Drink: Ancient Age
For now Parker is getting back to her roots in photography, as well as tying herself up in the creation of her own jewelry line, rich in chains, feathers, and painted leather. She wears a peacock feather dangling out from under her bleached bob and gold chains swooping from one ear to the other like a necklace.
Eventually Parker would love to see her photos of models in awkwardly angled poses and bright primary colors fill the pages of V or W magazine. Unfortunately, that would require her to migrate to New York from the Bay where she was born and raised.
“San Francisco can be stagnating,” she says. “Just last week I was at Dolores Park drinking a beer on a Wednesday. And I looked around and a hundred other people were doing the same thing,” she pauses. “On a Wednesday!”
Who is going to take Parker’s promoting place? “I could tell you how to throw a party in less than a page,” she laughs. She says she wants someone to fill her shoes with something fresh and new. “Don’t let anyone get you down on yourself. You have to sell it with confidence.
And of course drive a hard deal,” she adds.
So will the lovely and talented Parker Day be making a JayZ disappearing reappearing act? She makes that teethy grin we know and love as she throws her head back and laughs that familiar laugh. The expression is usually accompanied by a drink in one hand and a camera in the other and says, “No it’s time to move on.”
Join her in her Wigwam retirement party tonight at Triple Crown 1760 Market at Octavia. And keep up with Parker’s future photography at Nazi Paparazi.
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