This weekend-Raw Sugar and Erotic Photos

Image by Mike Butler

“Its not every day that I get the chance to share my inspiration and passion in this manner. Sensuous curves, tasty nipples & creamy delights.”-Julie K.
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Yes indeed, sensuous curves and tasty nipples, life’s simple pleasures. From munches to masochism, polyamory to play parties you really can’t get much more sex positive and simply pleasurable than the Bay Area. But after a while it’s hard not to notice that the kink rainbow is often missing a few shades, even in this sea of diverse debauchery.

This is one of the reasons that Nenna, the Oakland based director, producer and sex education activist behind Sugar in the Raw, began the annual visual art show last year.

Filed under: Art, Kink, Photos, Promotions , Alameda, Art, Erotica, Kink, Oakland, Photography

Boothism as Silverfish

Two Artists+Two Bottles of Cabernet+Silver Paint+Fish+Fan=

A few years ago, after more than a few glasses of red, me and a close friend-uber talented italian photog/artist/model Marlene Demonte- were talking art work and collabs and ways we could work together. I’d been really into the multimedia collaborations between Bill T. Jones, Tseng Kwong Chi and Keith Harring and wanted to do something similar. (See the bottom of the post for some of the inspiring shots).

So after more planning, more drinking, and a hilarious trip through Chinatown and North Beach (who knew it would be so hard to find a live squid in San Francisco?) these are some of the results. I’m digging the shoot but I think I need to work on my brooding artist face. Check em out.

Filed under: Art, Media, Photos, San Francisco

Photolicious: Rock the Bells

All was good at the Shoreline Amphitheater this past Saturday: the Bells were Rocked, although a little softer than last year, the Low End Theory was there, they wrecked shop, Pharcyde proved they are still the niggas in charge, Meth got his crowd surf on, Nas got a bit of rock star swagger and Naeem Juwan has earned a spot on my coveted Freaky Black People I Fuck Wit list.  Overall, the people were pleased.  Check the pics below and more over on the Oakbook website.

Filed under: Hip Hop, Music, Photos, Reviews , De La Soul, Hip Hop, Method man, Mos Def, Nas, Photography, Photos, Redman, Rock the Bells, Tribe Called Quest

Photolicious: Fire Arts, T-Shirts and White People

So through a quite fortunate an unexpected turn of events I’ve been charged with taking care of a very sweet lil’ digital SLR for the next month.   And since I’ve been aching to get behind the lens for a while, the next month will be big on the camera work, and hopefully big on the inspired text, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it, yeah?

1st up is the Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival.  This is their annual fund raiser for kids programs (which justifies the $50 a pop price tag, plus they offer free tix to area youth, I mean it is located in West Oakland after all).  I took these for a web feature and since they only used a few here’s the whole set (be gentle with a new photographer):

Filed under: Photos , Fire Arts Festival, Hella Love Oakland, Obama, White People

Mailer. 1923–2007. A Multimedia Tribute

One of literature’s most famous pugilist finally rests.

I never met the man and won’t claim to be the world’s greatest Mailer scholar, but I admired the hell out of his work and career.

Even if he tended to dip deep much into the art of spectacle, it was with a sheer force of personality you had to admire. Especially because the man behind the mess was full of such damned fine writing.

Like James Baldwin and Oscar Wilde, to me Mailer represents the ultimate man as artist. A champion of literature and culture-loud in life and brash in his search for truth-I admired his insistence that as writers, the work we create is necessary, even vital, in order to truly comprehend ourselves as humans.

Far better writers than I have summarized his life and death, so this will simply server as a link to some of his memorable moments-the sights, sounds and reviews. No matter if you loved or hated him, you’ve got to admit that we’ve lost one of the really important ones. We’ve got some big shoes to fill…

-kwan

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Norman Mailer Interview

The Naked and the Dead ebook

Mailer All Time Enemies List

Review of the Spooky Art

Synopsis of Mailer’s Films

Filed under: Authors, Books, Photos, Profiles , Norman Mailer, Obituary

Photos: Heavy Hitterz Street Art & Graffiti Show

Heavy Hitterz Street Art & Graffiti Show
So these Speaker Fruits cats throw a pretty damned good party. This past Friday at Age Song gallery in San Francisco, SF along with Daniel Fleres, fabric8, and Phoneticontrol brought in around 80 artists from around the world for Heavy Hitterz, one of the best graffiti/street/comic art shows I’ve been to in a minute.
Local heads like Romanowski and Mildred mixed it up with emerging artists from around the continental US, Honolulu, Hong Kong, Japan, France, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.
Brown bag 40’s were flowing, David Choong Lee blessed the spot with a live painting session and Celskiii, Deanndroid, and shredO dropped the ill soul and old school jams. Not a bad night in the city. See the pictures for more.
-kwan

More inside…

Filed under: Art, Graffiti, Photos, Reviews, San Francisco, Street Art , , Art, Daniel Fleres, David Choong Lee, fabric8, Graffiti, Heavy Hitterz, Mildred, Phoneticontrol, Romanowski, San Francisco, Speaker Fruits, Street Art

Photos: Clarion Alley Block Party

 

San Francisco’s Clarion Alley holds a legendary space among muralists. The block long alley between Mission and Valencia has been provided a home to the cities painters since the 60’s. Every year the Clarion Alley Mural Project hosts a two day mural celebration with selected artists updating the alley on Saturday and an all out party Sunday. These were taken at this years party a few weeks ago. Dig it.

-kwan

Filed under: Art, Music, Photos, San Francisco , , Art, Clarion Alley, Graffiti, Mural, San Francisco, Street Art

San Francisco Love Fest-the pics

There were good feelings oozing all over the streets of downtown SF Saturday. The 3rd annual San Francisco LoveFest was a feast of techy beats from local sound systems and the Bay’s most colorful, musical and naked party people. Check the pics and soak up some of that lovin’. -kwan

Filed under: Art, Music, Novoscene, Photos , Love Fest, Love Parade, Pictures, San Francisco

Folsom Street Fair Pics-from Novoscene

Aaah Folsom Street. The annual celebration of all things freaky and sexy. The air was full of bass and the wacks of countless paddles on countless asses as leathermen, twinks, doms, subs and all manner of kinky kinksters came out to celebrate and strut their naked stuff. -kwan

Filed under: Art, Kink, Music, Novoscene, Photos, San Francisco , BDSM, Festivals, Folsom Street Fair, Kink, Photos