Then, by Arbus...and Now, Superstar

Then.
Now.

Appeciation of Photography 101

Then and Now.

Scary Motherfuckin' Shit...as seen on Juxtapoz.

This is the work of the demonically twisted Kansas City photographer, Joshua Hoffine. These are NOT Photoshopped images but actual photographs using sets, costumes and extensive make-up effects and props. Check out his website at:

http://joshuahoffine.com/splash.html

Best. Website. Ever.

I typed in "Gay Ken Doll" in Google image to find a picture of the actual Gay Ken Doll that I own to show to a friend of mine, (it's really Earring Magic Ken, but it's still really, really fucking gay...) and I discovered an image from this website: http://www.ultrasparky.org/poseablethumbs/main.html

Why didn't I think of that? Really well done and strangely erotic...

UPDATE: Duh, this guy had his art on the cover of the Stranger last fall!!

Zexy but not Explicit!

But, what's up with those feet? Are they just dirty, or does this dude have a fungus?

And, 2Xist underwear is so 2002....

Another Beautiful DeKalb Morning by B.C. Maceachran

A serenely beautiful picture from Fecal Face.

http://www.fecalface.com/SF/

LegoLand

I saw this on Gawker, (http://gawker.com/376105/when-legos-walked-the-earth)

Some guy with a lot of time on his hands, recreated famous photos using Legos.

Above, a recreation of Jeff Widener's 1989 "The Unknown Rebel", aka, the Tiananmen Square tank guy.


Eddie Adams iconic and horrific 1968 photo "General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon"
The smiley faces on the toys make it even creepier...


Charles Ebbets 1932 "Lunch atop a skyscraper"

Jonas Valtiysson

Jónas Valtýsson is a photographer and graphic designer living, studying, and working in Reykjavík, Iceland. His hyper-realistic photos often invoke a simultaneous sense of horror and awe. Horror due to the subject matter with clear references to murder, solitude, and death; awe because the photos are so darn clear and realistic, you feel as if you’re right there in the frame.

from Juxtapoz

I'm not a huge photography fan for the simple reason that there's so little truly great/interesting stuff out there; this guy's stuff kicks ass; it's got this great clarity to it, a razor sharp edge in the way he uses the light...and the crazy zombie darkness of his stuff sends it over the edge for me but at the same time, it doesn't lose it's sense of humor while it explores all that nastyness...

And what's up with the Icelanders? It's a tiny ass country but it's teeming with great artists of all disciplines; is it 'cause it's cold and there's nothing else to do? is it socialism? the booze? the hot springs and geysers? or is it just the Icelandic state of mind? i'd like to find out; Iceland is one of those odd little places that is pretty high on the list of places I wanna go to before I get too old to totter around the globe...In the meanwhile, check out Jonas's website...just don't do it late at night...

http://jonasval.com/

This picture isn't 'dirty' but it sure is HOT!

I got it off Joe Gage's blog but he didn't have credits for it...

I love this picture sooooooo much!

I wish I knew who took it to give them proper credit...I found it on some random site. (If anyone knows who took this, let me know). It's funny I've never run across it before; it really is a great picture. Divine looks so....confident and sassy and ready to eat Mick. And we're so used to seeing Jagger looking cocky in pictures and video that it's pretty funny to see him looking so....wary and unsure of the situation he's in.

Vintage Castro Street Pix

I found a link to a very amateurish but interesting website called, Uncle Donald's Castro Street, (the url is: http://thecastro.net/index.html#index ). It has some wonderful vintage pictures of 1970's and 80's era San Francisco at the height of the Gay rights movement. I think there's going to be a huge surge of interest for this era of gay history once the new Gus Van Sant bio/pic of Harvey Milk is completed and released. They're starting to shoot this film this week, and it has a great cast: Sean Penn as Milk, and Josh Brolin as his killer, White. This is one of those films that SHOULD be good given the level of talent involved; if it's not, it'll be a sad disappointment to a lot of people. Here's a couple pictures from the Castro site.

Scenic Boys: tender, young beefcake...

awwww....aren't they cute? The ScenicBoys are Garet and Dusty, this adorable couple who have nekkid and non-nekkid adventures in wilderness areas where they photgraph and video their hijinks. They were going to be in my Beefcake Babylon show and I wanted to showcase their pictures. You can check out their website at http://scenicboys.typepad.com/ And yes, they are LEGAL...I know they look underage but they are both over 18...I'd never intentionally post underage nudes...(Yuck)
YMAC types really aren't my thing, but these boys are cute as pie.