Good Blogs
Good Blogs: 10 Tumblrs You Might Like
I haven’t done this in a while, but i’ve stumbled upon so many interesting tumblrs recently that I thought it would be nice to resurrect the “Good Blogs” section. So here are 10 tumblrs that really have my appreciation (picture above via suk.me):
Butch Queen (Fashion, divaishness, camp other crazy stuff)
Preporno (“Art theory student trying to figure out political densities in pornography and post-pornography and homoerotism”)
Epicenity (Androgyny and/in fashion)
Teledildonix (Weird and fetishy, a collaboration between bloggers behind Spectral Flesh and mnemotechnics / seething miscellanies)
A Queer Culture & Social Media Study (Video portraits of queer bloggers)
My Heart is Forever Frozen in Siberia (Moody picture collection of flowers, gay stuff, landscapes, fashion etc)
artQueer (“Art curated by a queer artist”)
bj’s gay porno-crazed ramblings (WordPress blog in tumblr style/ dedicated to vintage porn, with pictures, film descriptions and small reviews)
BROUX (Cute photo collection of cute guys with pictures from Flickr and and by the blogger)
suk.me (Animated gay hipster kitsch art)
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
Sholem Krishtalka: “LURKING”
“Lurking” is a web project by a Toronto based artist called Sholem Krishtalka. On his tumblr Krishtalka regularly publishes new works of a series of small sized drawings based on his friends’ Facebook picutures. He explains the idea behind the project like this: “The wide usage of Facebook has borne a new vernacular meaning for the verb ‘to lurk’. In this new coinage, ‘to lurk someone’ is to troll through their Facebook photos, to stalk them, to investigate their visual history. I found myself spending greater and greater amounts of time doing precisely this, and I wanted to make a record of it as a means of mapping my community, and also (perhaps less nobly) to in some way justify my Facebook procrastination.” Here are a couple of drawings from the “Lurking”-series, you find many more of them here and more information about the artists as well as works from other projects and writings on his website. Found on Colin Quinn’s tumblr (which I shamefully have forgotten when I did my list of my favourite tumblrs).
http://sholem.tumblr.com
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Good Blogs: UrFunked
UrFunked is a great source for people like me who like experimental, playful, intelligent and expressive fashion approaches. As far as I can tell from its Facebook page it is run by a guy called Abdullah Al-Awadhi who is based in Kuwait (correct me if I’m wrong here) and presents collections and accessoirs of designers that obviously perceive fashion as a kind of art and as something that is more than just an instruments for individuals to express theirselves or distinguish theirself from others. I guess it also underlines the fact that fashion can be especially interesting and entertaining if the designer who creates it has a certain sense of humour and of course doesn’t care too much about the conventions of the field he works in.
http://urfunked.blogspot.com
Posted by Hanno ON October 27, 2010 |
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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) by artist Dean Sameshima 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
Philippe Castetbon: The Condemned
The Condemnet (“Les condamnés”) is a book project by French journalist Philippe Castetbon who has contacted young gay men from countries where homosexuality is agains the law online and asked them for a self-portrait and a short personal text about their life situations. Here are some photos taken from the book and a promotional video, let me know what you think about this project. An exhibition of the pictures is currently shown at the Médiathèque Federico Fellini in Montpellier/France. By the way: “Les condamnés” in French means “The Convicted” or even just “Convicts” and not exactly “The Condemned”, as a translator points out here.
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Good Blogs: Dandy Gum / China Bu
My favourite blogs have always been the ones that work intuitively and that aren’t necessarily based on a concept but on the creativity and the open-mindedness of the people who run them (that’s also the reason why I like tumblrs so much). Nice examples of rather “intuitive blogging” are Dandy Gum and China Bu, two sites that both have a certain focus on fashion stuff without actually being “fashion blogs” in the classical sense. Dandy Gum is run by a writer called Begüm Sekendiz Boré, who in a very sophisticated way blurs the borders between “art” and “fashion”, while China Bu, run by a 19-year-old New Yorker all-round-artist called Robër Pierre, is a more hyprid, flashy and pop-culture-based. Please pay attention to the fact that both of these blogs are highly addictive.
http://dandygum.blogspot.com
http://maidenchinabu.blogspot.com
Good Blogs: 5 Promising Artists On Tumblr
Artist: Jamal Vrno, Michigan
Tumblr: vrno.tumblr.com/
Artist: George Chamoun, Stockholm
Tumblr: georgechamoun.tumblr.com
Artist: José Manuel Hortelano-Pi, Madrid
Tumblr: picasio.tumblr.com
Artists: Elijah Burgher, Chicago
No tumblr, but a blogspot page: ghostvomit.blogspot.com
Artist: Hollis Brown Thornton, Aiken
Tumblr: hollisbrownthornton.tumblr.com
Good Blogs: The Awl
I’d consider The Awl something between an unconventional news site and a blog – the blog feeling is due to the fact that most of the information delivered here is commented in a very subjective way. The page is run by Alex Balk and Choire Sicha, two editors from new York, and a bunch of contributers, who mostly write about both ongoing politicial, oeconomical or cultural topics with a slight focus on New York stuff. It’s a pretty good mixture of news, thoughtful (and often cynical) comments and the perfect dose of all sorts obscurities of everyday life. And yes, there is also gay stuff. So if you are searching for a good alternative or supplement to the regular news portals, The Awl is definately worth visiting.
www.theawl.com/
Posted by Hanno ON April 17, 2010 |
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Good Blogs: MAFIA-HUNT
MAFIA-HUNT has got a focus on fashion, photography and design. It is run by Mel Paget, an Art Student from Canada, who uses the site to document her internet findings. I really admire her good taste and her sense for all sorts of beautiful and at the same time “unperfect” things (a nice example is an awesome image blog “Them Thangs” she recomments on her site). You can also check Paget’s own artistic work on her webpage. Oh, and I guess I should also mention her two tumblrs (1, 2) and the MySpace page of her completely crazy music project Eyeball Sandwitch.
http://skelemitz.wordpress.com/
