Tag Archives: Photography
Happy Birthday boy!
To our KC ‘Mo Gryphon Van Der Hole. These pics were taken in Kansas City in 2010. Gryphon is a talented artist. Seldom SFW! For pics of his wonderful Cock Blocks series of gilded penii on black leather, click here. For a visit to his opening at the Slap & Tickle Gallery by the boys of Homo Genii, click here. For a lot more of Gryphon, check out Dapperkink, on the sideline. Happy Birthday, boy!
Posted in DIY and Maker Culture, Gryphon Van Der Hole, Kansas City, Leather, Photography
Tagged Art, Culture, Gay, Gryphon, Happy Birthday, Kansas City, Kink, Leather, Photography, Sexy
Hot Maundy Thursday on Folsom
Maundy Thursday is the movable feast that commemorates the last supper of Jesus Christ. Folsom Street Events is well known for its controversial posters – among other things. They topped themselves in 2007 with their depiction of a Last Supper attended entirely by perverts. Leathermen, queens, doggie-boys and bootblacks. A scandal ensued, natch. The Catholic League in particular was perturbed. No link to them: don’t need those particular pingbacks! For surprisingly sexy Palm Sunday processionals, click here.
Posted in Drag, History, Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy Holidays, Spirituality, Subcultures
Tagged Art, BDSM, Culture, Folsom, Gay, History, Last Supper, Leather, Maundy Thursday, Photography, Poster, San Francisco, Sexy
Men Kissing…sexy slide show.
Facebook, that gleaming bastion of Internet freedom, is purportedly zapping pics of same-sex kisses. FB users have responded with Kissing is Cool, a virtual public event and discussion. More on that here. For revolutionary Egyptian kisses, click here and here.
Posted in Internet, Photography
Tagged censorship, Culture, Facebook, Gay, kiss, Kissing is Cool, Leather, Men, Photography, same-sex, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Sexy
Another Giant Lumberjack on US 101
Icons often outlast their inspirations. Lumber and fishing long since gave way to wine and weed in California’s Mendocino County. This restaurant mascot lumberjack walks roadside forever in Willits. And he’s not the only giant lumberjack on the 101: here is another.
Posted in Mendocino County, Northern California, Signage, Timbersports
Tagged Culture, Gay, lumberjack, Mascot, Mendocino County, Photography, Statue, Timbersports, US 101, Willits
Eric Robinson’s Leathermen
Friend of this site Eric Robinson recently participated in Variations, a photography exhibit curated by Tommy Reyes of Las Manos Gallery in Chicago. Robinson is an antique process photographer. He works in wet plate collodion processes, producing one of a kind plates on glass, as well as tintypes and other antique photo technologies. In the summer of 2010, he visited San Francisco and Northern California where he produced Leathermen, the series that premiered in Chicago.
P. Raleigh of The Chicago Reader reviewed the exhibit: “Eric is able to present a quality of tenderness and everyday specialness not commonly attributed to such sexual “deviancy” by the mainstream audience. Eric will be a photographer to watch out for in the future…”
Robinson will be returning to California during the summer of 2011. More on him here, here and here. And more soon.
Posted in Eric Robinson, Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Subcultures
Tagged Art, Eric Robinson, Gay, Las Manos Gallery, Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Variations, Wet Plate
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
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
Homotextual Slide Show: Obey Milk Now, Christian Underpants, and…
…other sights and signs seen in the Castro District and other assorted San Francisco City sites. For more homotexuality, click here and here.
Posted in Photography, San Francisco, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Tagged Art, Castro District, Culture, Gay, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Living on a Fault Line: SF Shibari Relief – Kinky Artists to benefit Quaked Japan
Last year, Chile. Last month, New Zealand. Last week, Japan and now its aftermath, ongoing. What next? Who knows. What now? Do what we each can. In that spirit, a loose group of kinky artists in San Francisco are presenting Shibari Relief: “We know what it’s like to live on a fault line.”
From their website: “Mark I Chester and Patti Beadles are organizing Shibari Relief. There will be a silent auction/sale and raffle of BDSM art, sexual art and other related items. There is no door fee, but a suggested $20+ donation can be given at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. 100% of the proceeds will go to the American Red Cross earmarked for disaster relief in Japan.
As a special added bonus, anyone making a donation at the door will get a ticket to get two free digital pix taken by San Francisco gay radical sex photographer, Mark I Chester at his studio at 1229 Folsom St., just 1/2 block from Wicked Grounds, from 3-5pm during the fundraiser.”
Shibari Relief takes place in San Francisco at the kink-oriented Wicked Grounds Cafe at 289 8th St. on Sunday, March 27, 2011 from 2 – 5 pm.This is an all orientations and genders event. Artists who may be of particular interest to readers of this site include Mark I. Chester, Charles Gatewood and Michael Rosen.
Artists interested in contributing to the relief effort can contact Mark I. Chester through his website.
Posted in Collecting, Japan, Leather, San Francisco
Tagged Art, BDSM, Culture, Earthquake, Fundraiser, Gay, Kink, Leather, LGBT, Mark I. Chester, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy, Shibari Relief, Tsunami, Wicked Grounds
The Gay Highwaymen 