Photo finish (NSFW!)

Oh, if only Joey and Dee Dee could have lived long enough to see this buxom beauty standing at their favorite street corner...

Our old friend, the insanely prolific photographer and curator John E. Coli Nikolai has established himself by now as one of he premiere portraitists around, with a catholic range of subjects ranging from punk rock legends to revolutionary thinkers to, well, Norm from Cheers.

Heretofore, his prurient side has been confined primarily to photos of giraffes having sex with zebras.

Lately, however, Nikolai has been getting a bit racier. His photos of “devastatingly beautiful women” straddle the line between pulchritude and attitude, and his models, clearly, are willing to do whatever he tells them — even if it means losing a lucky foot to a giant rabbit with a saw.

Unluckily for us, just when the clothes were coming off, John decided to hang it up.

His latest exhibit at ZuZu, ASK YOUR MOM HOW MUCH I ROCK, will be "the last solo art show I'm doing in the Boston area if not forever than for years and years and years,” he reports.

Booooo!!!

At the very least, he’s going out with a bang, with reasonably priced photos of the Sex Pistols, Joe Strummer, Iggy Pop, the Misfits, and much, much more.

And the old punks won’t just be on the wall, they’ll be there in the flesh, with guitars in their hands, as the world-renowned Unnatural Axe bash out "Three Chord Rock" and "They Saved Hitler's Brain" at the show’s opening reception — Monday, August 6th, at 8:30 pm — to help John celebrate his 37th birthday.