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Tomoaki Hata: “The Night Is Still Young”
“The Night Is Still Young” is the title of a photo book by Los Angeles-based, Japanese photographer Tomoaki Hata. The book, which was published in November 2010 and is unfortunately sold out, documents the gay scene of Osaka and especially its drag culture. Here’s a collection of the photographs, I especially like the very intimate and sexy photo series “Ichi and Mi-kun” at the bottom of this post. All pictures courtesy Miyako Yoshinaga art prospects.
Sebastian Gherrë aka GAG-Ball: “I Love You Mommy And Forgive Me But I Have A Daddy Complex”
I recently posted several pictures by a young photographer from Chile called Sebastian Gherrë, who works under the pseudonym GAG-BALL and publishes his work (which mainly consists of pictures of young male and female hookers) on his website www.gag-ball.com. Gherrë’s site works as a virtual gallery with exhibitions, his latest one is entitled “I Love You Mommy and forgive me, but I Have A Daddy Complex” and according to the accompanying text “consists of over 100 pictures showing BDSM-slave practices, young taxi-boys that for a little ammount od money are willing to practice fisting and golden shower, prostitutes with addiction problems that are capable of enjoying double dildos and bondage for getting some easy money”. Here’s my favourite piece of the show namend “The Happy Twins Shake Until Their Mom Bleeds”, for more check out www.gag-ball.com (NSFW).
Christopher Schulz: Seth
Christopher Schulz is the inventor and maker of Pinups magazine. “Seth”, his book with fictional drawings of Canadian actor Seth Rogen, whom Schulz describes as his “ideal Pinups model” in this nice interview with Future Shipwreck, was released in February. In another interview with New York Press he explained the project like this: “I wanted the book to be something entirely different [than Pinups]. By drawing again, I kind of returned to a past love from which I’d been far removed over the years… So, when I decided to give it a go with drawing, I really embraced and enjoyed working with raw materials again. It was liberating in many ways. I wanted this book to embody these feelings: I had it printed on this rough paper and I hand wrote, in pencil, the copyright info on the front and back pages. But, of course, I had it digitally scanned and reproduced for the final product”. You can buy a copy of “Seth” on the on the Pinups website. And if you have a little spare time I also recommend Schulz’s fabulously weird porn collages on his “Mopping is Stealing” tumblr.
DV8: Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men
“Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men” is a DV8 Physical Theatre piece from 1988 writen by the Australian choreographer Lloyd Newson. DV8 is a londonian theater, directed by Newson himself, and notorious for dance performances since the mid 1980s. Based on a true story, the 80 min-long performance is a somber narrative about serial killer Dennis Nilsen, the man responsible for 16 murders in London in the 80’s. I personally recommend the part 4, “I just want to be with you – Alone”, one of the most convincing scene of the show. with Nigel Charnock, Russell Maliphant, Douglas Wrigh and Lloyd Newson.
The show depicts, as the killer himself called it, a « vain search for inner peace ». It presents Nilsen’s willingness to kill as a result of a societal homophobia when, seeking for compagny, he’s only able to get ride himself of his intimate struggles in a tragical way.
In the performance, the violence is translated into a sensual dance between the 4 protagonists, a very physical choreography in which, even if gays are mainly depicted as lonely men torn between their desires and anxieties, one-night stands and murders are still presented in a strangely romantic way.
The stage production was adapted in 1989 by David Hinton for the British television: the 10 parts of the piece are filmed in black and white in dark crusing areas, SM bars and other playgrounds for games of seduction and death. With at the end, a nice song from Dusty Springfield.
DVD : DV8 Physical Theatre (“Dead dreams of monochrome men” + “Strange fish” + “Enter achilles”), 158 min, 2007, Arthaus.
Taner Ceylan: Still Life in Painting
Together 115x180cm – oil on canvas / June, 2007
Taner Ceylan is a Turkish painter. He lives in his flat in solitude outside the city center of Istanbul and invests tremendous labor in his hyperrealist works. He has a very emotional relationship to his paintings too – Sometimes he falls in love with them, sometimes he cries out of frustration when a tiny detail does not work out. In an interview with BUTT Magazine, he says he takes his inspiration from happiness and adds ‘I must enjoy my process because it takes ten hours a day, for weeks and months.’ The artist takes photographic images as a starting point and digitally enlarges these, manipulating them as he works in oil on canvas with the purpose of injecting ‘emotion’ into his work.
Awesome BUTT Photo Shoot: “Maurice And His Fan”
Photography by Daniel Trese. Check out BUTT Online for the complete shooting and background information.
Good Blogs: Bangable Dudes In History
Wanna know who the gorgeous boy on the pictures is? Well, it’s a guy called Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili better known as Joseph Stalin. The dictator is amongst the list of the hottest historical persons ever which is presented on Bangable Dudes in History, a blog which not only carefully collects all these hot dead guys (submissions welcome), but also offers pie charts showing the best reasons why aside from their historical relevance these guys should be remembered as hot as hell. So if you ever asked yourself why Nikola Tesla was sexier than Thomas Edison or why Aisin-Gioro Puyi (the last Emperor of China) was a real cutie, you’re gonna love this blog. For more background information check out this interview with Megan B who runs the site. Via omg blog. http://bangabledudesinhistory.blogspot.com
A Couple Of Photographs By Luis Pedro De Castro (Strangelfreak)
Luis Pedro de Castro is a photographer from Barcelona, who has written me a very nice email this moring to promote a retrospective he as published as a slightshow video on Vimeo. As Strangelfreak Castro documents his private live and especially portrays people that are part of the local post porn art scene. The collection of pictures posted here represents the more “private” (and male gendered) part of his pictures. Check out the Vimeo video or his his blog to get the bigger picture.
Hide & Seek: Photographer Samuel Hodge About His Work
The First Time Is The Hardest (2008) “I find that many times when I try to take a photo of someone their first reaction is to hide. I’m exactly the same way so I can understand. This image I took one morning in Berlin, 2008. It’s the first photo of my then boyfriend Florian, just shortly after we started going out. I find photography kind of exploitative in the way it deals with people so I would never try and coerce someone into doing something they were not comfortable with. And Florian on this day really wasn’t comfortable, or maybe more so he was embarrassed because I remember this moment being quite funny. This is Florian a few weeks after: Purple Crush Cute Out (2008)
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