Sign seen near host hotel at IML. International Mr. Leather. If some of the pups here were really pawing around for realness, they’d catch these critters in their mouths and bring them in as offerings. Don’t hold your breath, y’all. It’s mostly just all about the outfits – and sure, a bit of sex.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., iPhone, Leather, Photography, Signage, Subcultures, Travel
How nice of The Ambassador in Waikiki to provide Eco-friendly collapsible water bottles for their guests. Also, it’s a good branding opportunity, with the corporate logo decorating each one. I’ve gotta wonder, though, what the design team was thinking in selecting bright yellow as the base color. I think it’s pretty funny, so I’m kind of glad they did, but I’d have gone with light blue. I do plan to re-use them filled with a different flavor of water at our annual summer party. Select guests will appreciate that. The Ex-Texan, who agrees with me that they look like medical sample collectors, or maybe catheter bags, models them in the hotel elevator. As always, this is our opinion, only. Urine may vary…
Posted in iPhone, Photography, Subcultures, Travel
Tagged Design, Funny, Gay, Kink, packaging, Piss, swag, Travel, water boy, Yellow Hankie
Brilliant Service
From a Beautiful Big Boy
Cleveland, Ohio.
Posted in Beards, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Gryphon Van Der Hole, iPhone, Leather, Men, Ohio, Photography, Sexy Holidays, Signage, Subcultures, Travel
Tagged CLAW, Cleveland, Dapperkink, Gay, Gryphon, Kink, Leather, Service, Sex, Signage
Via pal of this site Big Gay Al. He’s not on South Park. He’s South of Market. And here. Want more Sex Dwarf? Here. No idea this pic’s pedigree. It’s “from the Internet.” Know more? Inquiring minds always appreciate provenance!
Posted in GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Leather, Men, Photography, Subcultures
Tagged Dwarf, Gay, Kink, Leather, Little People, Men, Photography, Sex
Ho! Ho! Ho! Arty hotties. From the archives of the Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago. More holiday cheer from Etienne here.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Art and Artists, Chicago, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., History, Leather, Men, Sexy Holidays
Tagged Art, BDSM, Chicago, Christmas, Culture, Etienne, Gay, Gay Gaze, Kink, Leather, Leather Archives, Reindeer, Santa, Sexy
Zeitgeist
Juried Exhibition
SOMArts Gallery
June 1 – 30, 2013
San Francisco, CA
CALL FOR ART
Zeitgeist Exhibition
Zeitgeist Market
Deadline: January 15, 2013
Contact: Zeitgeist@queerculturalcenter.org
Scholars have long maintained that each era has a unique spirit, a nature or climate that sets it apart from all other epochs. In German, such a spirit is known as “Zeitgeist,” from the German words “Zeit,” meaning “time,” and “Geist,” meaning “spirit” or “ghost.” Some writers and artists assert that the true zeitgeist of an era cannot be known until it is over, and several have declared that only artists or philosophers can adequately explain it. While we are not setting out to define a Queer Zeitgeist, the exhibition will expose and comment on manifestations of our cultural moment.
We are looking for artistic expressions that reflect or critique the intellectual, ethical and cultural climate of our queer times.
We hope to present trends in queer arts such as: queer craft, traditional as well as experimental works of painting, drawing, and sculpture, work that foregrounds emotional content and/or performance over formal aesthetics, new ways of representing the erotic, the body, gender and identity, reflections on the queer archive, ideas of domesticity, new ways of thinking about public and private space, queer time, remixed and repurposed work including collage and assemblage, eco/environmental work, the return to analog, all things digital, networked art, manifestations of social practice, relational work, collaborative work, activist art, interventions, propaganda, new approaches to film and video, audio art. International artists that offer a global perspective on queer art making are strongly encouraged to apply.
All media and artistic practices will be considered.
Zeitgeist Market
As part of our exhibition we are creating a one-day art market. If you have an idea, product, craft or performative engagement that you’d like to sell/exchange in our market please describe your product and/or exchange system. Please make it clear in your proposal that you want to be in the Zeitgeist Market.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR Work
DEADLINE: January 15, 2013
Please send the following to: Zeitgeist@queerculturalcenter.org
1. Please send visual documentation of previous work or work in progress. You may submit 2 to 5 jpegs, video links to YouTube or Vimeo or web links to images or projects. Please carefully label your images beginning with your last name and image number (example: Lastname_Image1.jpg).
2. Please include a Work Sample list describing each sample. (Title, Date, Medium)
2. If you are submitting a proposal for an installation please submit a detailed description and plan for your project including rough dimensions and any special hardware or rigging requirements.
3. For all other non-traditional media, please submit a proposal no longer that 2 pages with an appropriate work sample that will help the curators understand your idea. Please feel free to contact the exhibition coordinator if you are uncertain about what to submit. Zeitgeist@queerculturalcenter.org
4. A brief resume
5. A brief statement explaining how your work addresses the exhibition’s theme. How does your work reflect or critique the intellectual, ethical and cultural climate of our queer times.
Please send your submission via email to Zeitgeist@queerculturalcenter .org
Our Mailing Address is:
Queer Cultural Center (Qcc)
c/o African American Art and Culture Complex
762 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Note: Arrangements and expenses for shipping/delivery/retrieval are the responsibility of the artist. All non-installation must arrive/be delivered “ready to hang.” Artworks are insured by the gallery from the time they enter the gallery until they leave.
Posted in Art and Artists, DIY and Maker Culture, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Photography, San Francisco, Scholarship, Street Art, Grafitti, etc., WORLD WIDE: Gay around the Globe!
Tagged Activism, Art, Call for Art, Call for Entries, Cartoon, Culture, Exhibition, Gay, Gay Gaze, History, Kink, Leather, LGBT, NQAF, Photography, QCC, Queer, Queer Cultural Center, San Francisco, Sexy, Video, Zeitgeist
Rik Lee and Alan Guttirez at the opening of Tough Love. Show-n-Tell with artists and collectors on Sunday, September 16th. Bring something to share! Art in the background by Michael Palmer, Dennis Kennedy and Jim Leff.
Posted in Art and Artists, Collecting, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., iPhone, Leather, Men, Military, Photography, San Francisco, Subcultures, Youth
Tagged Art, Center for Sex and Culture, Dennis Kennedy, Gay, iPhone photography, Jim Leff, Kink, Leather, Michael Palmer, San Francisco, Tough Love
Multicultural Male Images for the New Millennium. Cum see this and two other great photos from Biron of SF at Tough Love…
This must be the place! Horny bone ink rules, ok? Dore Alley / Up Your Alley fair. San Francisco 2012. For a cool slide show from last years fair, click here. For human pups at play, here. Courtesy SF K-9 Unit. That would be the kinky crew, not the special tactical unit of the SFPD…
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Human Animals, iPhone, Leather, Men, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy Holidays, Subcultures, Surveillance, Youth
Tagged BDSM, Culture, Dore, Gay, Ink, iPhone photography, Kink, Leather, Pup Play, San Francisco, Tat, Tattoo, Up Your Alley
Beating the Bounds: an ancient ritual still practiced today in the British Isles. Communities traditionally reinscribed the boundaries of their parishes by walking the edges carrying sticks, pounding on the boundary marking stones. In an era before maps were common, when literacy was rare, these annual events (also called “gangdays”) were intended to impress upon everyone where community boundaries lay. Since resources were allocated according to parish, it was vital that the knowledge was passed down accurately though successive generations. It also helped keep the neighbors in line. To reinforce the lesson, the gangs would (and d0) stop occasionally to literally beat the knowledge into the boys. Sometimes, the youngsters would also be flung against the rocky stiles. All in good fun! Part of a suite of jolly old British customs that includes flogging the peg boys.
Posted in England, Europe, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., History, Leather, Photography, Spirituality, Strange Holidays, Subcultures, Youth
Tagged Beating the Bounds, Boundaries, Britain, Culture, England, Gangdays, History, Kink, Photography, Ritual, Wales, Whipping
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