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Richard Bolingbroke in Hearts and Healing: group show celebrating love and healing.

Posted on February 15, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Richard Bolingbroke in his studio

“Please join Richard Bolingbroke, Page Hodel and Gregg Cassin for the opening reception of Hearts and Healing, a group show celebrating love and healing, produced by the Queer Cultural Center and the SF LGBT Center.

Richard Bolingbroke and Gregg Cassin have been active in the San Francisco art scene for over 20 years. Richard founded the Gay and Lesbian Artist Alliance in 1989. Page is a renowned DJ who created The Box and Club Q

Page will be showing photographs of her heart installations she creates every Monday, as a tribute to her beloved partner Madalene Rodriguez whom she lost to ovarian cancer These hearts are a celebration of the power and glory of love.

Gregg will be showing mixed media works that use found images, sacred texts and vintage artifacts to create contemporary icons, with the themes of suffering, transformation and the sacredness of each individual.

Richard will be showing paintings from his Rituals and Meditations series. These watercolors celebrate the transformative powers of life, love and death using a personal iconography of myth, magic and beauty

Enjoy special Reception music by Page Hodel, yummy treats, tasty libations and the delightful company of all three artists. The show will be up until March 15, should you be unable to make the opening reception extravaganza.”

San Francisco LGBT Community Center Gallery

1800 Market Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA

Opening: Thursday, February 17 · 6:00pm – 8:00pm

For more on Richard Bolingbroke, click here.

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Hard Time Cupid gets his Valentine’s Day Happy On

Posted on February 15, 2011 by | 5 comments

Point. And. Shoot!

When we first published this, we had no idea about the provenance on this delicious vintage-looking image.

Patrick Mulcahey informs us that the model is John Pruitt, a favorite of Colt Publishing. Gerard Koskovich ids the photographer as Jim French, aka Rip Colt. Thanks, Guys!

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Styles of Masculinity in early 20th Century Photography…Sights Seen in Old Snap Shots

Posted on February 9, 2011 by | 1 comment

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Plucked from a California photo box in a Sonoma County Antique Mall: boxers, cowboys, dads, dandies, hunters, footballers, motorists, photographers, sailors, soldiers, sons, students, swimmers, tough guys, workers, writers and other interesting men and boys. Vernacular snap-shots from the first half of the twentieth century.

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tie-thulhu

Posted on February 9, 2011 by | 7 comments

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The evil of Tie-thulhu rears its thirteen-tentacled face. (I would like to note that five parts of Tie-thulhu’s evil is due to the machinations of Tommy Hilfiger and two parts, Brooks Brothers.)

reference source here.

May you embrace the consuming kiss of Tie-thukhu! *muwah*

Your KC ‘mo, Gryphon

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mundies

Posted on February 8, 2011 by | 2 comments

meme: a shortening of the word mimeme, from the Greek for ‘to imitate’ originating from mimos, ‘to mime’…

In an online photo context, let’s call it ‘monkey see, monkey do’…

(wikipedia entry)

Over at some of my other hangouts, photo memes are a means to generate quick content, interact with others and often a chance to show off the booty…

Mundies is short for Monday Undies. Allow me to demonstrate:

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I have a thing for underwear; I have a thing for no underwear. I have a thing for underwear as outerwear.

What can I say, other than, “If you wear ’em, share ’em!”

From your KC ‘mo, Gryphon

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Serving, Protecting and Looking Back: San Francisco City Cop Seen

Posted on February 7, 2011 by | Leave a comment

This guy was cruising the Mission district, looking for trouble when he looked into the eye of the camera. No flesh eye contact here ever, but the gaze persists. I see you seeing me seeing you. Do you see? An arresting stare that begins, and ends…right there.

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Chinese Lunar New Year is coming. Year of the Sexy Rabbit. Vigor! Ardor! Potency!

Posted on February 1, 2011 by | Leave a comment

This via Utopia Asia, celebrating over 17 years of providing resources for Asia’s GLBT communities. More to follow. Gung Hay Fat Choy!

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Shot in the Face! Leather Photographer Rich Trove captured by the Camera of an Other.

Posted on January 31, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Leather Shooter Shot!

Hey, Rich! What? Snap! Caught! Usually, Rich “Trove” Stadtmiller is on the other side of the lens. Over the last half decade, he has put together  a “Rich Treasure Trove” of Leather images. His archive of almost 150,000 digital photographs is available at the Rich Trove website. This was taken on the occasion of Master Morris Taylor‘s 80th birthday party at the SF Citadel, the City’s premier community dungeon. In the background are the colors of The 15 Association.

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London’s National Theatre opens “Angelheaded Hipsters” photos by Gay Beat Alan Ginsberg

Posted on January 26, 2011 by | 2 comments

Timothy Leary and Neal Cassady 1st meeting in Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters' 'Further' bus which Neal'd driven crosscountry SF to NY via Texas before Fall 1964 presidential election.

Beat. Beat Up. Beat Down. Beatitude. Beatnik. The mid-century, cold-war-era Beat movement exemplified movement – from degradation to grace and back again. And again. On the Road. Howl. Its literary and poetic icons were painful and exultant. The same productive tension appears in Angelheaded Hipsters, the new exhibit of photographs by Gay Beat Alan Ginsberg that just opened at London’s National Gallery. Caught by camera are Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey and other artists, writers and cultural figures who defined a moment. A BBC slide show of the exhibit is available here.

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Retail Sights Seen: San Francisco Shop Windows and Billboards

Posted on January 9, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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Sexy plastic mannequins show what they’re made of. Homoerotic subtexts sprout from Cerveza ads. Hung like a…rhino? Another one rides the bus. What IS that man looking at? Windows and signage seen around the City.

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