Zine Culture
Good Blogs: Cruise Or Be Cruised
I have a new favourite tumblr called Cruised Or Be Cruised. The blog (which I’m pretty sure is run by a German) is only a few days old, but even at this early point the collection of pages you can click yourself through so far offer a pretty entertaining journey through the history of gay subculture, starting with John Rechy book covers and Hanky Code guides over works of contemporary artists to zine covers like the one on top of this post (it’s from a zine called “GSM” [gay skinhead movement] from 1991). The tumblr looks like the attempt to make a private collection of these kinds of artefacts accessible online, so if you have a tumblr yourself or don’t mind putting tumblrs into your blog reader this could be a good chance to take part in something nice.
http://cruiseorbecruised.tumblr.com
Straight To Hell #67 Launch Party @ Exile, Berlin
Yesterday BUTT magazine announced that Billy Miller, the editor and publisher of the legendary Straight To Hell magazine will throw a little launch party in Berlin tonight (July 31st) for the release of the zine’s 67th (!) issue. The evening with will take place from 7 to 10pm at Exile, an art space in Kreuzberg, 4 Alexandrinenstraße, for which Miller has also curated two exhibitions called Head Shop and Lost Horizon which are still shown there and I guess can also be visited during the event.
Straight To Hell was started in 1973 by columnist and journalist Boyd McDonald and since then has maintained its original concept, which basically consists of an entertaining combination of sex reports written by the zine’s readers and a bunch of raunchy pictures and illustrations. For more background information about the history of STH I recommend Bernard Welt’s essay on the magazine which is published a while ago on Dennis Cooper’s blog.
Posted By Hanson ON July 31, 2010 |
CATEGORY: Berlin |
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Garçons #4: A Small Preview
Garçons is a post-porn pin-up-magazine from Chile. Click here for the current issue.
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Cineastic Pleasures: LITTLE JOE Magazine
I’m completely amazed by Little Joe, a new biannual queer film magazine from London that arrived in my mailbox yesterday. The zine is run by a guy called Sam Ashby, who in the introduction describes it as “a direct move away from the traditional method of reviewing all current and future releases towards a more selective and eclectic focus on films that inspire alternative discourse”. Amongst a lot of other stuff the first issue features two interviews with Tom Kalin (“Swoon”) and Jack Hazan (“A Bigger Splash”), an introduction to the work of Fred Halsted, an experimental porn film maker from the seventies (L.A. Plays Itself”) written by artist William E Jones, a longer essay about the relationship between the early eighties movies “Amercan Gigolo” and “Cruising“, and a series of photographs of child star Noah Hathaway presented by Stuard Sandford. And a beautiful layout. You can order the magazine here, I highly recommend it.
Posted By Hanson ON June 19, 2010 |
CATEGORY: Film |
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Out Now: Le Supi #7
Although I must admit that due to my very limited French skills I’ve never really been able to read it, I kindly recommend to you to have a look at the Belgian zine “Le Supi” on its new website (in case you speak French of course). On the page you can preview and read all issues that have been released so far, including the new issue #7. I really really should start with my French lessons.
http://lesupi.tumblr.com
Posted By Hanson ON June 10, 2010 |
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Dapper Dan: Style Means Substance
Although its main focus lies on questions of fashion, it doesn’t really make sense to call Dapper Dan a “fashion magazine”. It’s rather a magazine that according to its publishers was created for an unconventional and bohemian type of man, for guys that don’t really care for the latest trends and instead search for things with “substance”. And although (especially as someone who lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg) I believe that this way of thinking is itself part of a bigger trend, Dapper Dan is one of the most beautifully designed and exciting magazines you can get at train station kiosks at the moment. The first issue SS2010 came out around two months ago and it features, amongst other stuff, interviews with Damir Doma, Lucas Ossendrijver and Jürgen Teller. I just hope these guys don’t run out of money before they are able to print the second issue. Check out Dapper Dan’s website or the nice blog of editor and photographer Vassilis Karidis for a little preview of issue #1. I also posted three of Karidis’ pictures of his Damir Doma shoot for the magazine below.
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Out Now: Ticketohell #3
The spring issue of Ticketohell features a photo series of Slava Mogutin, an interview with photographer Stuart Sandford and some other nice stuff. And it’s still for free!
http://www.ticketohell.com/
Online Now: DIS Magazine
Sometimes it’s better to let the creator of a project talk about his work himself instead of trying to explain what you see. Especially in a case like DIS magazine, a new web zine where fashion meets art in a quite satirical way. Here is the beautiful statement by the group that started the site: “DIS is a dissection of fashion, art and commerce which seeks to dissolve conventions, distort realities, disturb ideologies, dismember the establishment, and disrupt the dismal dissemination of fashion discourse that’s been distinctly distributed in order to display the disenfranchised as disposable. All is open to discussion. There is no final word. DIS is a collaborative project amongst artists, designers, stylists, writers and friends. We are Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Patrik Sandberg, David Toro, Marco Roso, S. Adrian Massey III and Nicholas Scholl.”
http://dismagazine.com/
The Queerest Vice Magazine You’ve Ever Seen
This month’s Vice Fashion Issue has got a couple of interesting features to offer that made me really rethink my relationship to this magazine. Or did I miss something here? The most illustrious contribution to the current issue is definately a pretty long interview Bruce LaBruce did with Karl Lagerfeld (click here). It’s not the kind of interview that actually offers a completely new perspective on Lagerfeld, but it’s funny to see how well these two divas get along and on how many things like the gay-marriage they seem to have similar perspectives. Another interesting interview comes from Ryan McGinley who has met photography legend Gilles Larrain to talk to him about his “Idols”-series (click here). And if you’re too lazy right now to read longer texts there two photo shootings by Terry Richardson: The first one features Michael Kenneth Williams (you may know as Omar from THE WIRE) dressed up in Shakespeare costumes (click here), the second one shows a bunch of bears trying on Viking costumes (click here). More stuff here. Thanks, Riku.
Good Blogs: The K48 Bullet
The K48 Bullet is a blog run by Scott Hug, an artist and curator from New York who is not only of the people responsible for the Straight To Hell zine, but also publishes an art magazine called K48 and is the founder of a the loose artist collective with the same name. The blog is one of these ones you can’t stop scrolling yourself through once you’ve started, it’s a pretty cool mixture of all sorts of web findings, exhibition views, pictures of fashion items and works of contemporary artists and it also features some interviews with different artists here and then. The whole thing starts here.
Sissy Mag #5 Out Now
Click here for the website and a pdf version. More about the mag (which unfortunately is completely in German language) here.
Posted By Hanson ON February 24, 2010 |
CATEGORY: Film |
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“Queer Print”: The Complete Interviews
My blog neighbour Johnny Murdoc has recently published an essay called “Queer Print: Keep The Counterculture Coming“. For his text which introduces the reader to the flourishing gay/queer zine culture he has interviewed three guys running their own zines: Christopher Schulz (Pinups Magazine), Darren Ankenbaur (Handbook) and Amos Mac (Original Plumbing). These interviews will be published in the following days in their complete length on Johnny Mordocs blog. The feature with Christopher Schulz (the guy on the picture above) is already online, check it out here. Thanks, Johnny!
UPDATE: Click here for the interview with Darren Ankenbauer.
UPDATE II: Amos Mac here.
Posted By Hanson ON February 16, 2010 |
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