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September 2009
Slava Mogutin: Food Chain
Since last week, a contemporary art space in New York named envoy enterprises is showing a new photo exhibit called “Food Chain” showing pictures by Slava Mogutin. The exhibition is particularly interesting because it shows mostly pictures of a experimental porn film project Mogutin had developed for Cazzo in summer 2006. The non-narrative film was never realized, as Mogutin explains in an interview he gave Bruce La Bruce: “In the middle of production, the producer had a nervous breakdown and left the company. Bruno Gmünder, a gay German publisher, took over the company. As soon as they saw the rough edit of Food Chain, they decided to kill the project because it was too kinky and unconventional for their taste. They told me they simply couldn’t sell it in most countries because of the piss and what could be perceived as forced sex. To make things worse, they stole my footage and told me that I had to reimburse the production costs in order to finish the movie on my own.” Sad story. But not surprising if you know Bruno Gmünder’s company. Who won’t make it to New York in the next few weeks gets an impression of the pictures shown at the exhibition on East Village Boys. You also find the complete interview there.
Puppy Love II
My personal friend Engin uploaded a bunch of videos. This one depicts his love to his dog.
(via Myspace: Lucario Caporio)
Tom Ford: Breaking New Ground
This is the trailer to Tom Ford’s first movie “A Single Man”. He directed it last year, the script about a gay British college professor in LA coping with the death of his partner is based on a novel by Christopher Isherwood . To me the trailer feels kind of inaccessible, although the cast of the movie including Colin Firth and Julian Moore is good and there seem to be a lot of nice shots in it. The reviews that already exist are also good. It’s been shown at some festivals already and it’s going to be released in winter.
Footage: CRUSH Fanzine
Crush Fanzine Issue #2
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No Disco
“July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois. Two Chicago radio DJs (Steve Dahl and Garry Meier) came up with the idea of having people bring unwanted disco records to the stadium. The spurned records would be burned between doubleheader games with the White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. Lead by the chant, “Disco Sucks!” most of the records weren’t burned, but sailed through the stands during the game – nearly inciting a riot. Some fans started their own fires and mini-riots. There was so much commotion that the ballplayers couldn’t even finish the last game of the doubleheader; the White Sox forfeited.”
Quotes via History of House Music.
Why Disco Sucked
“Disco bashing became a major preoccupation in 1977. At the moment when Saturday Night Fever and Studio 54 achieved zeitgeist status, rock rediscovered a rage it had been lacking since the ’60s, but this time the enemy was a culture with “plastic” and “mindless” (read effeminate) musical tastes. Examined in light of the ensuing political backlash, it’s clear that the slogan of this movement, “Disco Sucks!”, was the first cry of the angry white male” (Peter Braunstein) / “The ‘Disco Sucks’ campaign was a white, macho reaction against gay liberation and black pride more than a musical reaction against drum machines. In England, in the same year as the ‘Disco Sucks’ demo in America, The Young Nationalist – a British National Party publication – told its readers: ‘Disco and its melting pot pseudo-philosophy must be fought or Britain’s streets will be full of black-worshipping soul boys.”
The “Demolition Night”
Bruce La Bruce: Nice Mess
I’ve never really been a huge fan of Bruce La Bruce, that’s why until now I didn’t care about the fuzz that was made about his upcoming Zombie movie. But I must admit that the new website to the film is worth a click, not only because of its funny B-movie/ego-shooter-look, but also because you get to see a whole bunch of hunky porn stars and homo hop star DeadLee covered in blood and dirt, which is kind of amusing. I’m kind of excited about the movie now. Unfortunately the trailer to the film isn’t up yet and the gallery-section is rather boring, but it seems like they’re working on it. Here’s also a small trashy behind-the-scenes-film porn actor Wolf Hudson has recorded for his Youtube-channel. I love the way he pronounces François Sagats name.
Warped
(via Boys Keep Swinging, Come To Me Bruce Lee, Flickr: josephnessegrev, Super Underwear Perverts, Zooted)
Photography Special
CATCH FIRE has been very visually oriented from the beginning, but throughout the last few weeks I’ve really been drowning in pictures I saved on my harddisc to post them here. The reason for this overkill is not only that I got totally addicted to clicking myself through way too many tumblrs, but also that I’ve stumbled over a lot of websites of nice photographers recently. But instead of just posting my favourite pictures of their sites here I decided to force myself to share only the links to their portfolios and a small comment with you because I don’t want this blog to end up as just another useless picture collection. Let’s start this special with
Mike Brodie aka The Polaroid Kid. Brodie left his home in 2003 at the age of 18 to travel across America via the railway network and took pictures of his trip and the people he met on his journeys, most of them travellers and homeless people, too. I think his stuff is quite exciting, and although he doesn’t have his own site (as far as I know) you find a lot of his stuff by just googleing his name. I also recommend
Chicago-based Jacob Meehan, who amongst other things took pictures for the for the current issue of BUTT Magazine and who’s also the director of Lakeview’s GOLDEN gallery. He not only has a nice website but a mabye even more interesting Flickr album.
To the pictures of Ryan McGinley I’ve been introduced by Johnny Murdoc, who featured him on his blog. His recent work “Moonmilk” is shown at the Alison Jaques Gallery in London at the moment, the pictures show young skinny men posing in beautifully illuminated cave seceneries.
David Benjamin Sherry is a former Rhode Island School of Design student who has worked for magazines like Dazed, Another Man and i-D. His first ever monograph called “It’s time recently” has recently been released and as far as I can tell from his website and his references he may look forward to a bright future in his field.
Jolijn Snijders is a fashion photographerliving in Amsterdam and Paris and running a magazine called I Love Fake. Most of her pictures show skinny young guys in fancy clothes and exaggerated poses. My favourite pictures of her are part of a series were she took with model Cole Mohr.
And finally: Lovebrian is a nice website of a network of different photographers who all share a talent for inartificial and yet beautifully staged and arranged photographs of everyday life/lives.
Cute Scuffle
(I forgot the source, sorry…)
