Category Archives: Art and Artists
No Real Than You Are! Weird Dutch Lego Art Man storms Florida Beach…
This guy washed ashore in Siesta Key Beach in Florida. The 8 foot tall fiberglass figure seems to be the avatar of Dutch Artist Ego Leonard. For the LA Times article, click here.
Posted in Art and Artists, Florida, Signage, Strange News, The Netherlands
Tagged Art, Culture, Dutch Art, Ego Leonard, Lego Man, No Real Than You Are, Siesta Key Florida, The Netherlands
New Jojo Mendoco Gay Cali Manga! The Rapture of Sister Merci Killing…Leather Nun!
Carried away on the shoulders of the Swiss Guard…and available to Los Angeles area collectors. Check out the silent auction at the Eagle LA on Friday October 21 at the Mr. Sister Leather contest. For more Catholic fun from JoJo Mendoco, click here. For his take on war, here. And for some S/m, here and here.
Art Crime: Naked Artists Occupy Wall Street in Ocularpation
Ocularpation is a project of New York artist Zefrey Throwell. It started in San Francisco in 2008, and has apparently found a plum context in the ongoing occupation of Wall Street. The image here is from an August iteration of the project, before the current occupation got under way. Throwell says of the neologism and the project: “Ocularpation is a new contraction. Its root comes from occupation, with the dual connotation of both a job done for money, as well as a military or strategic encampment. Ocular, or pertaining to the eye, cements the meaning of the word in a visual context. This is an act of optical guerilla office bivouac.” In short, miming office work in the buff in some of the major financial centers of the world. Of course, some of the naked artists have been arrested. Throwell bails them out. But what about the real criminals…? More Ocularpation here.
Hector Silva in the Advocate Artist Spotlight
Image: Hector Silva
Friend of this site Hector Silva has a nice write-up in The Advocate’s Artist Spotlight series. His realistically rendered drawings range from simple portraiture to explicitly kinky, very hot erotica. For the Christopher Harrity article click here, and for our dinner with Hector, click here.
Posted in Hector Silva, Leather, Los Angeles, Southern California, Subcultures
Tagged Advocate, Art, Culture, Gay, Golden Shower, Hector Silva, Hispanic Art, Kink, Leather, Masculine, Piss Play, Sexy, Yellow Hanky
The Amazing Artman! Richard Bolingbroke launches new Website…
Richard Bolingbroke. Lost. 2009. From the series "Art is a Four Letter Word"
Friend of this site Richard Bolingbroke has launched a new website. Bolingbroke says of his series Art is a Four Letter Word: “Words and images are the two main ways we communicate and understand the world around us. In these paintings I explore the interplay of words and images in an effort to understand both the innate tension that exists between these two methods of defining and recording ideas, and the bond that they can create with intellect and sensation.” His new site is live, here. Enjoy!
Posted in Collecting, Internet, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Spirituality
Tagged Art, Culture, Gay, Image/Text, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Spirituality, Watercolor
Some Very Useful Guys: David Blázquez Photographs of Human Furniture
Spanish Photographer David Blazquez has a series of anthropomorphic shelves, tables, and lamps called “Mobiliario Humano” – Human Furniture. Of course the humans are all MAN humans. The series premiered in 2009 at El Fotomata gallery in Seville, Spain.
Posted in Art and Artists, Leather, Photography, Spain, Strange News
Tagged Art, BDSM, Culture, David Blazquez, El Fotomata, Gay, Human Furniture, Kink, Mobiliario Humano, Photography, Seville, Sexy, Spain
Cool Photographer Eric Robinson gets Hotter by the Minute…
Eric Robinson. photo: Gay Highwaymen
Friend of this site Eric Robinson has been shooting us, and our friends for a couple of years now. Tintypes! Ambrotypes! Pics on metal and glass…way old school, 19th century-style. PDQ, he will be a “Master.” No, not like That! His MFA (Master of Fine Arts) show opens in August, and he is already showing all over like the worst exhibitionist ever. His ongoing Leathermen series is part of a larger archival project called Other Ways of Being. Robinson says of his work: “What I seek with my camera is the difference – visible difference – that allows us to identify or disassociate with groups, cultures or communities.” These are important cross-cultural concerns, and Robinson’s unique camera view points our brains at them. Leathermen has already shown three times nationally (Chicago, San Francisco and Vermont) and is BIG in Indonesia, where it is featured in the glossy mag, PhotoArt Contemporary. Cool. Keep watching, ’cause this fantastic old-school shutter-bug boy is going to be BIG. Well. If we have anything to do with it anyway…more here. Enjoy!
Posted in Collecting, Eric Robinson, Indonesia, Leather, Mendocino County, Photography, San Francisco, Southern Illinois
Tagged Ambrotype, Art, BDSM, California, Culture, Eric Robinson, Gay, Indonesia, Kink, Leather, Photography, Sexy, Tintype
Ahhh…Sand! Microphotographer sees a Universe of Small, Hard Beauty Underfoot
photo: Gary Greenberg
Sand…those little rocks on the beach. Sand…in the 19th century, it was just one more slang term for testicular fortitude. Because you can never have too many ways to say it! Rocks, gravel, sand, guts, nuts…he’s got some set of balls on him! But back in the day, they used to say: “He’s got sand!”
Gary Greenberg, a biomedical researcher from University College London, has recently published A Grain of Sand, a book of close-up photographs of sand. He sees the big picture in the little picture. He’s not the only one. Way back in the 18th century, proto-homosexual poet William Blake wrote:
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
More on Dr. Greenberg’s microphotography here. More on seeing the Universe in unexpected places here.
Posted in Art and Artists, England, Photography, Scholarship, Spirituality
Tagged Art, Culture, Gary Greenberg, Microscope, Nature, Photography, Sand, Science, Spirituality, William Blake
The Gay Highwaymen 