Nina and Langston
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Faggoty Attention
A music video by Francis Legge, the talent behind "I Seen Beyonce at Burger King"
"won't ask, won't tell, promise you won't go to hell"
"won't ask, won't tell, promise you won't go to hell"
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism
I just uploaded to Youtube the pared-down footage I shot at the QUIT! demo in January of this year. The protest took place in the Castro, and as you can see in the video was met by passionate Zionist counter-protestors. The video is maybe too long, and it took me all of 4 months to get around to doing it, but here you have it. I am now nervously awaiting the inevitable horrendous debate that will take place in the video page's comment section.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
SFAI
Let this video, although cheesy at times, shed some light on the firing of tenured professors as well as the salary disparities between them and the administrators at the San Francisco Art Institute. Startling.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Meet Me At The Center of the Earth
I took a trip to free day at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA, if you're nasty) to see Nick Cave's Soundsuits! Wowzers! Never have I seen such a comprehensive collection of textures historically associated with queerness in one place at the same time! Mylar, sequins, beads, doilies, buttons, crocheted rounds, Gods eyes, quilts, thrifted sweaters, psychedelic grandma afghans all fashioned into sculptural costumes for humans reminiscent of Leigh Bowery. Not only that, it was even Bear and Beaver inclusive! See below, my slyly shot picture taken from the second level of the museum as the security guy's back is turned.
Along with the costumes, the show features 8 Las Vegas thrift stores worth of sequin appliqué draq queen blouses and gowns repurposed into giant sphere and circle shapes, suspended among and flanking the walls of the exhibition space. In relation to the 20 or so costumes, the appliqué circles don't receive the adequate attention they deserve, but these pieces alone would give Leslie Hall's Gem Sweater Museum a run for its money.
After the Soundsuits, I wandered into the "Under A Full Moon: 30 Years of Perpetual Indulgence" show in the YBCA's Room For Big Ideas. That show runs concurrently with the more historical-artifact oriented exhibit at the SF Public Library, which is also more-or-less interesting (may as well see it. it's free, but soon cuz it runs 'til May 7th).
Speaking of free, after YBCA I walzed on over to the Museum of Craft and Folk Art (where every Tuesday is free!) to see the "Inside/Outside: Artist Environments" show, which mostly consists of pictures and text about some of California's quirky "outsider" art houses/spaces, their creators, and their varying states of non/existence. I have to admit I am a sucker for this type of art and always imagined that I'd live in a house, of my own creation, mosaic-ed in bottle caps, broken mirrors, and Li'l Homies figurines. I already have a pretty impressive collection of the later.
Along with the costumes, the show features 8 Las Vegas thrift stores worth of sequin appliqué draq queen blouses and gowns repurposed into giant sphere and circle shapes, suspended among and flanking the walls of the exhibition space. In relation to the 20 or so costumes, the appliqué circles don't receive the adequate attention they deserve, but these pieces alone would give Leslie Hall's Gem Sweater Museum a run for its money.
After the Soundsuits, I wandered into the "Under A Full Moon: 30 Years of Perpetual Indulgence" show in the YBCA's Room For Big Ideas. That show runs concurrently with the more historical-artifact oriented exhibit at the SF Public Library, which is also more-or-less interesting (may as well see it. it's free, but soon cuz it runs 'til May 7th).
Speaking of free, after YBCA I walzed on over to the Museum of Craft and Folk Art (where every Tuesday is free!) to see the "Inside/Outside: Artist Environments" show, which mostly consists of pictures and text about some of California's quirky "outsider" art houses/spaces, their creators, and their varying states of non/existence. I have to admit I am a sucker for this type of art and always imagined that I'd live in a house, of my own creation, mosaic-ed in bottle caps, broken mirrors, and Li'l Homies figurines. I already have a pretty impressive collection of the later.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Craft Talk
"Work through the pain, work through the pain." The latest gem sweater inspired video by original Youtube sensation Leslie Hall.
Paper Rad
Problem Solvers Episode #1211: "Give Pizza A Chance"
Trolls, psychedelia, pizza, and a message of peace...
Also, the SF Bay Guardian's issue on video art, with links. And an interview with Jacob Ciocci of Paper Rad.
Trolls, psychedelia, pizza, and a message of peace...
Also, the SF Bay Guardian's issue on video art, with links. And an interview with Jacob Ciocci of Paper Rad.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
MEN's "Off Our Backs"
music video by K8 Hardy.
Also, go hear MEN's "Credit Card Babie$ on their Myspace page, and listen for a special shout-out to yours truly.
Also, go hear MEN's "Credit Card Babie$ on their Myspace page, and listen for a special shout-out to yours truly.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Butterflies by Nicky Click
A video featuring the 2 cutest tranny pop sensations! And all shot in one of my favorite settings in the whole world, a hotel room.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Who has HBO?
I need to hang out with you on April 18th, at 8pm! Also, because of the new obscenely huge Grey Gardens billboards all across LA me and my 16 (going on 17) year old friend/niece, Becky are unable to immediately rent the original 1975 doc from any of the good local gay video stores! Damn it, another reason why Netflix does and doesn't work!! BTW, those billboards will have the unsavvy believe it's a heart-warming, cross-generational, sentimental friend flick. Good thing I was there to undo that kind of poor marketing for Beck. She might have otherwise missed a pretty great example of whiteness breaking down.
See below 1. one of the original Grey Gardens trailers 2. the new HBO trailer (starring Drew "Baby-talk" Barrymore and Jessica Lange) and 3. a relevant tip (from Onya and Courtney)...
See below 1. one of the original Grey Gardens trailers 2. the new HBO trailer (starring Drew "Baby-talk" Barrymore and Jessica Lange) and 3. a relevant tip (from Onya and Courtney)...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Usher's Love In This Club
Performed by Rock-afire Explosion on the Showbiz Pizza stage!
A trailer for The Rock-afire Explosion, a documentary about this project, :
A trailer for The Rock-afire Explosion, a documentary about this project, :
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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