“DEAR LEADER”

To close out the year, the “Musee des lettres et Manuscrits”(the museum of letters and manuscripts) is having a exhibition called “parlez-moi d’amour”(speak to me about love), a show about love letters.
An appropriate way to close out and begin the new year. Sorry, it’s all in French but here’s a link to a […]

I’m thinking Olympic event.

and of course, straight from the set of “Idiocraty”, kabuki nuts.

Walton Ford is one of my favorite contemporary artists. Taschen has just come out with a book I can’t afford but thankfully his work is readily available on the web, albeit a little small for my taste. I have not had the pleasure of seeing his painting up close but I am sure I won’t […]

It stands to reason to finish out the year with images of Iapetus. Discovered by Giovanni Cassini in 1671 it is Saturn’s third largest moon.
These images were taken by the Cassini-Huygens space craft and to my mind represents all that is great about humankind. Discovery, creativity, wonder, love, intelligence, curiosity, generosity…..Let’s just hope that the […]

Unlike most people, I actually like to read my spam from time to time, at least the stuff that makes it past the filters. Call it a kind of divine random selection, like prehensile tails or nipples on men.
Like the rest of you I get my fair share of spam, but sometimes, something so fabulous […]

In 2008 I will be posting photo stories I won’t be doing, but which, if they have not already been done, you may “Artfully” shoot for yourself. Remember, you can shoot almost anything, and depending on how you package it, you can make a name for yourself. If you persevere and produce “a body of […]

Back from four days in LA. Southwest to Burbank, lunch with Maren and Shushi for Christmas with Adrienne. Best part of Christmas is not thinking that virgin’s birth. Murakami, Thai massages, farmers market and Third street, Griffith’s observatory, Venice to see skanks, tar pits to Japantown, looked up Adrienne’s skirts, fro yo and Pinkberry’s; all […]

Me and the old lady are off to LA tomorrow, in the “Ante Meridiem”. Time for a little R and R and some of that good ole mock procreation. We’ll be back next week to continue this miraculous time suck.
So, in the meantime, have yourself a nice little bit of consumption, don’t forget to […]

It seems that everyone is compiling lists fit to educate the coming year. Classically trained, and not one to be culturally outdone, I have also compiled a short list of French Classics, save one: “The Golden Ass”.
I plan on re-reading them all in 2008. They are all available in French and in English […]

Yesterday, while searching You-tube for root canals, I aimlessly, inadvertently and serendipitously wandered; what else could I do. Like a long strand of DNA, YouTube seams to work that way, randomly leading you astray; from bikini wax to Brazilians to root canals. Root canals are not that interesting but I just happen to be very […]

I have been looking for Tahoe vacation rentals for my older brother Frédéric, and consequently, he is foremost in my mind. He lives in Paris, France and has become one of the world’s best orthopedic surgeons. That alone should make me extremely proud of him and make it a simple and easy matter to post […]

What have we done to deserve this? First they put a fucking idiot in office, procreate like bush rabbits… and now this….. Enough already! and the fucking thing lights up too, aaargh!
Yo, Kincade, where is that IED when you really it, I mean, really…. Thomas, next year, I promise, I am signing you up […]

What if, and if only, the intromittent sexual organ wasn’t just, a spongiform, but a muscle, prone to serve the same functions, as to produce both frequent and infrequent, voluntary and involuntary, autonomic obfuscations?
And furthermore, I am to presume that he is just simply trying to pop off the Stick and Stay, and indicate […]

Image: Perkin Lovely.
Julian Richards is a “top tier” artist representative in New York City. After a mutual acquaintance introduced us, I thought it instructive to follow in MDM’s footsteps, and start running “Dear Leader” interviews. I was not disappointed by his responses but rather felt that I, should have worked a little harder on the […]

Once again I find myself on Market and 16th, browsing Books Inc. As frequent readers of this electronic entity know, I am a male hetero living “In the Ghaytto”, in San Francisco. My sources tell me that the Castro is being gentrified my breeders, as older gay men leave, sadly, to relocate to less expensive […]

I am currently developing a line of photography based video games with Atari. This up coming video gaming library will be available for purchase on this site in Q3.
The franchise’s titles we are currently developing and market testing are being quickly expanded to satisfy the needs of the gaming and discerning visual creator’s library.
Titles available […]

After re-viewing that “I was a sex god in Soviet Estonia”, I was reminded of David Hamilton’s work. David Hamilton has been doing his part to piss off the religious right for the better part of the last century; and when I was a kid in France, in the seventies, his work was all the […]

Quick, before this blog gets dreary. This one is for you Gabriela. Gabriela runs a blog in Tartu, Estonia and I visit it from time to time. She has a good eye and is always exploring it, but what I love most about her work is that it gives you a good sense of the […]

Robert Wright has recently been writing eloquently about editorial photography on his blog. I wrote and thought so much about this shit, way back in the nineties, that doing it again would render me haplessly apathetic. I’ll leave it to him to articulate it in these here teens. A fine job of it, if you […]

My friend Richard emailed me this Newsweek article this morning and it set my blood a boiling. You’ll need to read Peter Plagens cretinous musings and come back to me but if you should feel unwilling to budge from this august blogging, I shall furnish you with an excerpt, which more or less sums it: […]

Since I already know, why don’t “You” tell me…..