Giggle Springs and other Sights seen in the Nevada High Desert
Guys in trucks and on bikes, the road to Area 51, shops and signage, life and decay, ghost towns, cacti, Tonopah home of the Stealth, oil and gas, public toilets, a saline lake. Driving north on U.S. 95 in the Nevada High Desert, returning from Smokeout.
Posted in Nevada, Road Trips, Signage, Travel
Tagged Nevada, Photography, Road Trip, Signage, US 101
Goldfield Ghost Town’s Glory Hole and More
Glory Hole Antiques, that is. An odd little junk shop with an open door, an interesting inventory, no price tags and no one in sight or within earshot. We put a few dollars in a jar for an old bottle and a small cannonball. Goldfield boomed in the early part of the century, following a 1903 bonanza strike, and was busy until 1940, after which it fell into decline. Few businesses are open or residences occupied now, with vacancy running about 90%. On U.S. Highway 95 in Nevada.
Posted in Collecting, History, Nevada, Photography, Road Trips, Signage, Travel
Tagged Collecting, Culture, Ghost Town, Goldfield, History, Nevada, Road Trip, Signage, Western
Bikers and Cigars and Bears: Sights seen at Smokeout XI Las Vegas
Bellagio Fountains, Floating Bear Conga Lines, Butkus Autographs in the Las Vegas version of a mall, Kush Fine Art. Srsly? Billboards of course. Surveillance like mad. The Arturo Fuente Cigar Lounge abuts an escalator in the Forum Shops on The Strip. Everything in Las Vegas is the Las Vegas version of…whatever, wherever. Paris and New York in plaster, Venice in Sherwin Williams. Covers the Globe in Amalgamated Capital. Or something like that.
The Las Vegas version of a run is Smokeout, an informally structured event now in its 11th year. Smokeout is billed as “an uncomplicated, fun-filled weekend in Las Vegas for Cigar Studs, Pipe Studs, Bikers, Leathermen, Bears and their friends from all over the world.” No run fee; events are on a pay/per basis and include dinners, cigar parties, bar nights, a Leather party, friendly low-stakes poker, a rollercoaster outing, a piss party, and a motorcycle ride hosted by the Desert Brotherhood M.C. Good times poolside at the Hotel Alexis Park Resort. Great times in the suites.
Posted in Las Vegas, Leather, Signage, Subcultures, Surveillance
Tagged Alexis Park, Bear, Biker, Cigar, Culture, Desert Brotherhood MC, Gay, Las Vegas, Leather, Photography, Pool, Sexy, Signage, Smokeout, Surveillance
Rough Times at the Glory Hole: Shooting a Kink Men Bound in Public Shoot
Kink Men Video produces a series called Bound in Public. One bottom bound, tormented and put to sexual use by a large group of men. The bottom and several of the Tops are paid performers. They rest of the group are a vetted gang of guys who are encouraged to roughly penetrate the bottom’s holes, verbally humiliate him and of course, take photographs. Check out the video series and look out for more shots of these shoots here.
Posted in Leather, Photography, Porn, San Francisco, Video
Tagged BDSM, Bound in Public, Culture, Gay, Kink, Kink Men, Photography, Porn, Public Sex, San Francisco, Sexy, Video
pansy is as pansy does!
I have decided that I need a pansy suit. Shouldn’t every good pansy have one…?
More to come as work continues…
Your KC ‘mo, Gryphon
Posted in Gryphon Van Der Hole
The Bottom of the Bay…
The Bottom of the Bay... a Product of Many Forces.
An old joke about our fair City by the Bay goes as follows:
There’s something in the air in San Francisco that keeps women from getting pregnant… men’s legs.
One highly scientific study has shown that the Bottoms of the Bay make up a larger percentage of the Bay Area scene than one might expect. Other research, however, has contested this claim.
Geologists have taken the matter a step further, and sought to answer the timeless question: why is this so?
Their findings are shown on the above data display: There is no simple answer. The Bottom of the Bay is a highly complex creature — a product of many forces.
-AidanAbroad (San Francisco correspondent)
Posted in Uncategorized
Sexy New Camera
Hail small biz! Scott at Woodland Hills Camera in the California Southland put together a sweet kit out of stock on hand. The big chains couldn’t do it or suggested a waiting list. He put the very versatile 18-135mm lens onto the standard Canon EOS T3i Rebel DSLR body, losing the shorter range 18-56mm lens it usually comes with. They kept the whole thing a price that could not be beaten anywhere on the Internet.
Posted in Photography, Southern California
dancing ’bout in my underwear…
It is something I am prone to do on occasion…
I thought I would share.
Enjoy! Your KC ‘mo, Gryphon.
Posted in Gryphon Van Der Hole
Redwood Lumberjack on US 101
Chainsaw art seen on US 101 in Mendocino County. They also had Shrek…
Posted in DIY and Maker Culture, Mendocino County, Photography, Road Trips, Signage
Tagged Chainsaw art, lumberjack, redwood
Homeboy Art! Hector Silva at Tom of Finland Fair in WeHo
Friend of this site Hector Silva will be showing and selling his erotic “Homeboy Art” at the Tom of Finland Foundation’s 16th annual Art Fair. The Gay Highwaymen recently had dinner with Hector and his partner Napoleon at La Casita restaurant in Bell. Of course, snaps were shot. On our next LA trip, we will make a studio visit. Hector is a remarkable artist who is beginning to get the critical attention his work deserves, and collectors should pick up his work while it is still affordable. The Fair takes place Saturday, March 26th at the West Hollywood Park at 647 N. San Vicente Blvd. West Hollywood, California. Noon until 6pm.
Posted in Collecting, Food, Hector Silva, Leather, Los Angeles, Scholarship, Southern California, Subcultures
Tagged Art, Art Fair, BDSM, Bell CA, Chicano, Culture, Gay, Hector Silva, Kink, La Casita, Latino, Leather, Los Angeles, Sexy, Tom of Finland
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