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.
Tag Archives: Art
Art Crime: Naked Artists Occupy Wall Street in Ocularpation
Men of the Stacks! The 2012 Hot Librarians Calendar is Out!
Hot slim word nerds in glasses, brainy bears, bubbling bibliophiles, old-school Dewey decimal dads, and more. Who? What? What?!
They say: “We are educators, programmers, project managers, entrepreneurs, program coordinators, contractors, consultants, and speakers. We are academics. We are authors, diversity officers, historians, administrators, deans, professors, and researchers. We are creatives. We are musicians, bakers, painters, and storytellers. We are athletes, yogis, gym-rats, runners, and hikers. We are passionate. We are dog-lovers, radicals, conservatives, Christians, and Buddhists. We are in our twenties. We are in our forties. We are in relationships. We are perpetual bachelors. We are privileged beings who try to use their advantages to better the lives of others.
Who are we? We are The Men of the Stacks” Get the calendar here.
Posted in Activism, Photography, Scholarship, Subcultures
Tagged 2012, Art, Calendar, Culture, Gay, Male Librarian, Men of the Stacks, Photography, Sexy
Jam the Giant Poodle meets Bigfoot
Posted in Dogs, Gardening, iPhone, Northern California, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Tagged Art, Bigfoot, Chainsaw art, Jam the Gaint Poodle, redwood, Standard Poodle
Dog Dandy Number Two
From the bar at the historic Benbow Inn in California’s Humboldt County. For Dog Dandy Number One, click here.
Posted in Collecting, Dogs, Human Animals, iPhone, Northern California
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
Dog Dandy Number One
From the bar at the historic Benbow Inn in California’s Humboldt County. For Dog Dandy Number Two, click here.
Posted in Dogs, Human Animals, iPhone, Northern California
Tagged Art, Culture, Dog, Humboldt County, painting, Portrait
Gandhi, Defaced
Seen in Wiese Alley in the Mission District of San Francisco. Not sure if the vandal doesn’t like Gamdhi, or just wanted a place to tag.
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Posted in San Francisco, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Tagged Art, defaced, Gandhi, Graffiti, murals, San Francisco, Vandalism, Wiese Alley
House of the Naked Davids! Campy LA Landmark up for Sale
Norwood Young's "House of the Naked Davids"
Nineteen naked “Davids” festoon the Hancock Park residence of Norwood Young. The huge reproductions of Michelangelo’s famous statue have not always been popular with Young’s neighbors. His decorating choices have made him the subject of several lawsuits over the years. He notes of the sale: “It’s up to the new owner to decide what to do with all the David statues.” For the LA Times article, plus a video of the strange spread, click here.
Posted in Architecture, Collecting, Gardening, Los Angeles, Strange News
Tagged architecture, Art, Camp, Culture, David, Hancock Park, House, Kitsch, Los Angeles, Michelangelo, Naked
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
Great Found Pop Art Cock Head
Cock-a-doodle-do-me! Great found still life pop art from a pal’s place down the peninsula. Snap! Shoot. For the true taste of the West Indies, click here. For the wild cocks of San Juan Bautista, here. iPhoto: GH 
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., iPhone, Northern California
Tagged Art, cock, Culture, iPhone, Photography, Pop, Pun, Satire
The Gay Highwaymen 