His “concept” is as big as Texas. Heh. Houston Muscle & Power Company…nice name for a gym. For another sight seen at Jim’s home gym, click here.
Tag Archives: Culture
Houston Muscle! Cool Retro Gym Rat Poster
Posted in Art and Artists, Bodybuilding/Muscles, iPhone, Jim's Home Gym, Mendocino County, Subcultures, Texas
On the SECOND Day of X-mas: New Kinky Gay Cali Manga from JoJo Mendoco! (NSFW)
Richard Bolingbroke Paints LIVE in a Display Window in downtown San Francisco!
This photo is of Carole Moore, working in the window last week.
He’s been at it for three days, and will continue until 10pm tonight. If you are in downtown San Francisco, drop by 581 Market Street at Second to watch him work in the big window of what was once Stacey’s Books. More on Richard Bolingbroke here and here.
Posted in Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Signage
Tagged Art, Culture, Gay, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Signage
Blogger Bears at Rocco’s Cafe
Blogger Bears Jorge Vieto and Gryphon Van Der Hole. Subspecies: California Single-tail Pocket Bear and Giant Electric Midwestern Ginger. Feeding at Rocco’s Cafe in San Francisco’s South of Market District.
Posted in Beards, Gryphon Van Der Hole, Human Animals, Internet, iPhone, Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Subcultures
Tagged Bears, cafe, Culture, Dapperkink, Gay, Gryphon Van Der Hole, Internet, Jorge Vieto, San Francisco, SOMA
Meantime, in Egypt…
A wounded protester is rushed to a field hospital near Tahrir Square during clashes with Egyptian riot police in Cairo, on November 20, 2011. (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)
The people want a civilian government. The military? Not so much. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss? From the campuses of the University of California to the streets of Cairo, 2011 has been a year of teargas and blood. And the beat goes on. More photos from Tahrir Square here.
Hello, Mr. Blue…
Mr. Blue. Rodrigo Alzamora, 2011.
This mysterious man in a suit is Mr. Blue from the Shadows series from contemporary European painter Rodrigo Alzamora. Mr Blue was part of this past summer’s Blue Utopia exhibit at the Museu Municipal da Fotografia João Carpinteiro in Elvas, Portugal. Interesting color scheme…Mr. Blue, is your code showing?
Posted in Art and Artists, Leather, Photography, Portugal
Tagged Art, Code, Colors, Culture, Elvas, Leather Flag, Men in Suits, Mr. Blue, Museu, Portugal, Rodrigo Alzamora, Sexy
Queer Cultural Center and SOMArts present Social Media Workshop for Artists
Wednesday, December 14th, from 6-8ish pm, Jess Young, Director of Communications at SOMArts Cultural Center, and The Queer Cultural Center‘s Rudy Lemcke will conduct a workshop geared at social media for artists: Creating Community through Social Media. The focus of this San Francisco workshop will be to deepen artists’ understanding of Facebook personal profiles and pages, and to impart the skills necessary to begin leveraging social media.
After the workshop, there will be an informal mixer with the boards of SOMArts and The Queer Cultural Center. Bring your laptops, tablets and smart phones, and come on down. Reception to meet the QCC board: We Fund Artists! Under the freeway, behind Trader Joe’s…Big gallery in back through the urban art garden.
Posted in Art and Artists, Internet, San Francisco
Tagged Art, Culture, Facebook, Gay, Internet, Jess Young, QCC, Rudy Lemcke, San Francisco, Social Media, Somarts, Workshop
Louis! Louis! Happy 224th Birthday to French Photo Founder Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre…
Louis Daguerre
Google anything today, and you will see a Google Doodle honoring the 224th birthday of French photographic innovator Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre. Google Daguerre, and you will find the Guardian UK and others describing the Frenchman as a physicist. That’s really stretching it! Daguerre was a showman, a French P.T. Barnum, a famous theatrical illusionist and the operator of the renowned Paris Diorama, the multi-media extravaganza entertainment of its day. Far from being a respected man of science, Daguerre the showman could not even get a serious audience with the French Academy of Sciences. Nor did he invent the process which bears his name. Nicéphore Niépce, who died before the process was made public, did that. And Britain’s William Fox Talbot had been successfully experimenting with an alternative process for years. Talbot was an amateur, a gentleman scientist with little need of personal recognition, and no financial need. But Daguerre was a hustler, a businessman, and hungry for profit and recognition. He joined with the respected man of science, François Arago, who was able to present the improvements Daguerre had made to the Niépce process to the Academy. The French government provided Daguerre with a nice pension, and announced the invention of the Daguerreotype: a technological gift to the world from France, and a cultural coup in their on-going post-Napoleonic cold war with the British. Daguerre became known as the father of photography, and nothing has ever been the same since.
Posted in France, History, Photography
Tagged Birthday, Culture, Daguerre, Daguerreotype, French, Google Doodle, History, Photography
The Boy in the Gas Mask: Occupy Photo of the Day
photo: DON EMMERT / Getty Images
Posted in Activism, New York, Photography, Youth
Tagged Culture, Day of Action, Gas Mask, Headlines, New York, Occupy, OWS, Photography, Sexy
Snap, Crackle and Pop: Big Tasty Breakfast Bears!
photo: Denis Bahus
Good Morning from David and Louis from London. These two know how to start the day. Most important meal and all that. They also know how to wear the fundoshi, the traditional, very sexy Japanese loincloth-style underwear. For their video lesson on how to tie one on, click here. Photo by Denis Bahus, via Bearotic.
Posted in England, Food, Human Animals, Japan, Photography, Subcultures, Video
Tagged Art, Bara, Bear, Breakfast Bears, Culture, Denis Bahus, Food, Fundoshi, Gay, Homoerotic, Photography, Sexy
The Gay Highwaymen 