I knew Lux, and although I had not spoken with him in many years, my world will have a giant empty hole in it. Goodbye Lux, I miss you already.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
ONE OF THE GREATS IS DEAD - LUX INTERIOR DIES AT AGE 60
I knew Lux, and although I had not spoken with him in many years, my world will have a giant empty hole in it. Goodbye Lux, I miss you already.
Friday, January 9, 2009
FRENCH GAS MASK MALITIA
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Seriously---Click on each picture to see a much better quality image of either one. The bottom pic is truly exceptional.
BABY DOLL ISSUE #2
I can not find out anything online about or any other issues of this awesome looking Men's Mag. 
If you have any info, please let me know!
If you have any info, please let me know!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
SUBMISSION AND COFFEE - BDSM PODCAST
Ultra cool BDSM podcast, Submission and Coffee, is coming to an end after 2 years and 184 hour long episodes including actual recordings of bondage sessions and interesting conversations with a 24/7 lifestyle couple and the occasional threesome. They have uploaded torrents of all the episodes, so you can check it out.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEX CHILTON
The man who wrote "The Letter" with The Box Tops, produced The Cramps first album, Gravest Hits (released 1979, recorded 1977) starred in super group Big Star and popularized skinny white boy R&B to 80s indie-hipsters, was born today in 1950.
Friday, December 26, 2008
JOHN O'REILLY
"There's an element of gay culture that only wants to look at and glorify beautiful men, but I'm much more interested in presenting a realistic image of the male body."--JOHN O'REILLY
Using razor blades, paper clips and an old Polaroid camera, O'Reilly has spent the past several decades constructing visual passion plays and elaborate fantasy scenarios in which he mingles with such esteemed company as Goya and Caravaggio. O'Reilly also has appropriated photos of queer icons such as Walt Whitman, Benjamin Britten and Jean Genet, transforming them into droll self-portraits by pasting his own bespectacled mug onto their bodies, or by paper-clipping their famous faces to his refreshingly pale, scrawny torso.
"The self-portraits try to establish both a self-identity and a social identity. I attempt to counter the sense of imprisonment, the feelings of marginalization, by insisting that my private world exists as an integral part of the larger social context."--JOHN O'REILLY
As a bemused gate-crasher through the annals of art history, O'Reilly has produced an aesthetically dazzling, thematically rich body of work that addresses issues of sexuality, creativity and self-definition. For many years O'Reilly conducted his artistic exploration in private. Such is his career-shunning modesty that for several decades the Massachusetts-based artist-now nearing seventy-only showed his work to close friends. Not until his celebrated inclusion in the 1995 Whitney Biennial did O'Reilly achieve belated "overnight success" as a pioneer of elegant, witty, often erotic gay imagery.
Using razor blades, paper clips and an old Polaroid camera, O'Reilly has spent the past several decades constructing visual passion plays and elaborate fantasy scenarios in which he mingles with such esteemed company as Goya and Caravaggio. O'Reilly also has appropriated photos of queer icons such as Walt Whitman, Benjamin Britten and Jean Genet, transforming them into droll self-portraits by pasting his own bespectacled mug onto their bodies, or by paper-clipping their famous faces to his refreshingly pale, scrawny torso.
"The self-portraits try to establish both a self-identity and a social identity. I attempt to counter the sense of imprisonment, the feelings of marginalization, by insisting that my private world exists as an integral part of the larger social context."--JOHN O'REILLY
As a bemused gate-crasher through the annals of art history, O'Reilly has produced an aesthetically dazzling, thematically rich body of work that addresses issues of sexuality, creativity and self-definition. For many years O'Reilly conducted his artistic exploration in private. Such is his career-shunning modesty that for several decades the Massachusetts-based artist-now nearing seventy-only showed his work to close friends. Not until his celebrated inclusion in the 1995 Whitney Biennial did O'Reilly achieve belated "overnight success" as a pioneer of elegant, witty, often erotic gay imagery.
JASPER JOHNS & ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG - THE ART OF CODE
From: The Art of Code -Jonathan Katz
Almost from the very beginning of their relationship, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg were linked together, usually by people who had little or no idea of what they really meant to each other. Early critics tagged them both with the same facile labels--neo-Dada, assemblage, junk art--and viewed and reviewed them as a pair. They showed together, were discussed together, even discovered together by their dealer. Still later, they would be declared Pop, or more subtly, proto-Pop, and credited with the development of the first American style that led away from Abstract Expressionism. Artistic movements generally involve more than two artists: theirs was confined to them alone.
All the more remarkable then that the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg is so completely distinct; one could simply never mistake one artist's hand for the other's. It seems that the fact that Johns and Rauschenberg were involved together determined to some extent how they were understood. And yet, paradoxically, while their partnership was widely acknowledged, few comprehended what it really meant, and fewer still knew that it transcended simple friendship. John and Rauschenberg are in the curious position of being understood as a pair, but not a couple. Yet they were a couple; and the rather obvious silences, ellipses, and omissions that permeate the usual accounts of their history make no sense unless arrayed against an insistent and damaging homophobia that has led both artists to actually deny the substance of what they had together. LINK: The Art of Code Essay
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HENRY MILLER
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.*****
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
*****
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
*****
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
*****
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
*****
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
*****
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
*****
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
*****
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
*****
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
*****
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
*****
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
*****
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
*****
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
*****
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
*****
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAO TSE-TUNG!
THE DOUBLE NINTH
-To the Tune of Tsai Sang Tzu
(October - 1929 - 36 Years Old)
(October - 1929 - 36 Years Old)
Man ages all too easily, not Nature:
Year by year the Double Ninth returns.
On this Double Ninth,
The yellow blooms on the battlefield smell sweeter.
Each year the autumn wind blows fierce,
Unlike spring's splendour,
Yet surpassing spring's splendour,
See the endless expanse of frosty sky and water.
-Máo Zédōng (Mao Tse-tung)
Thursday, December 25, 2008
A WINTER THANK YOU
Merry Winter to all our readers.
Thank you for the kind notes and well-wishings.
Thank you for the kind notes and well-wishings.
GOODBYE ANN SAVAGE!
Ann Savage died on Christmas morning. She was the over-smoked twist in Detour and Guy Maddin's mother in My Winnipeg. Goodbye, Ann!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
EARTHA KITT DIED TODAY AT AGE 81
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
RUTH WALLIS DIED 1 YEAR AGO TODAY
Ruth Wallis, infamous risqué cabaret singer well known for her self penned satirical songs, died 1 year ago today.
LINK: Ruth Wallis - Psycho Mambo
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
OLIVIER MESSIAEN - 100 YEARS ON DEC. 10
Olivier Messiaen often went out into the wild to transcribe bird songs and then incorporated the sounds into his music. A detailed look at the score of Quartet for the End of Time reveals palindrome layered rhythms with a clarinet bird call floating above the hundreds of harmonies interlaced in mathematical intricacy. His students included Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, George Benjamin, Iannis Xenakis and McCoy Tyner.Wednesday, November 26, 2008
DANIEL GOLDSTEIN - THE ICARIAN SERIES
These skins have literally recorded it all, and they speak to us with
quiet eloquence about beauty and vanity, exertion and exhaustion,
vitality and mortality. It is through the gradual destruction of the
skins that we eventually perceive our own image: our hopes and
passions and follies. It is in their preservation under glass that we
confront the amazing transformation that has taken place within
them, and ourselves. Artist:DANIEL GOLDSTEIN
Sunday, November 23, 2008
CLIENT - ONE DAY AT A TIME
Seriously, I can not stop listening to this song. I have played it on repeat for 10 hours straight. For days on end. Amounting to weeks on end. Some one stop me, please.
LINK: Client - One Day at a Time
Friday, November 21, 2008
HERMANN NITSCH - DES ORGIEN MYSTERIEN THEATER
Notorious Vienna Actionist, Hermann Nitsch, creates carefully choreographed performance art frequently involving cacophonous noise, buckets of blood, group action, animal dismemberment and gory excesses of ritualistic spectacle.
Nitsch's Des Orgien Mysterien Theaters founded in 1959,
can be divided into three sections:
1) The philosophical- (the restoration of the relationship between mankind and existence)
2) the artistic- aesthetic operation (the complete work out of the ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ principles) 3) the psychotherapeutic- (an ultimate catharsis will take place when participants become aware of the tension between life and death in order to obtain a unique insight of existence).
Nitsch's Des Orgien Mysterien Theaters founded in 1959,
can be divided into three sections:
1) The philosophical- (the restoration of the relationship between mankind and existence)
2) the artistic- aesthetic operation (the complete work out of the ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ principles) 3) the psychotherapeutic- (an ultimate catharsis will take place when participants become aware of the tension between life and death in order to obtain a unique insight of existence).
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