Mercy: Ephemera

Liz Cohen: Transformational Art By Florencia Varela …In many ways, I’m a one woman band. Close Hood - “Bodywork” - Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris Hood - “Bodywork” - Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris Previous View Gallery Next Liz Cohen is converting an East German Trabant car into a low-riding American El Camino. Cohen is a visual artist based in Phoenix, AZ. The project involves not only the car’s transformation, but Cohen’s as well: from photographer to the model posing with the vehicle. Here, Cohen talks about sticking with ideas and multi-tasking to push them forward. Cohen developed credibility and financial support from the ground up. As she explains it, “Once I had the idea to transform one car into another kind of car, I applied for grants and artist residencies [for the] resources to get started. I figured since I was early in my career I wouldn’t have the credibility to raise all of the funds and create all of the partnerships I would need to complete the project. If I got started I believed I could build enough momentum to [recruit partners] as the project advanced.” When asked about the reasons behind her project, Cohen turns to the questions that first inspired her work. “What defines the limits of who’s in and who’s out of a group or subculture, and how can those limits be pushed while remaining meaningful? People can demonstrate an incredible amount of creativity and tenacity when they’re trying to fit in. I want to know something about how a person conserves a sense of self, history and dignity during and after that adaptation process.” (via Liz Cohen: Transformational Art from Behance Magazine

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whateverlolawants:

Um. Holy fuck.

(I’ve missed you lately, puthiminpumps.)

Yup. Holy fuck. Calvin Klein gone did good this time.

I love this pose, and the play of light along the subject’s body. Men can be so beautiful.

The other galleries are well worth taking a look at, and prints are available for all of them.  I can think of a number of people, besides myself, who would love to have something like this hanging on their walls.

From Dylan Ricci’s artist’s statement:

The unadorned body of man, a powerful vehicle for the exploration of light and form, is saturated with associations – eroticism, power, religion, masculinity, sensuality, sexuality, history and the long tradition of the male nude in western art; from the ancient masters such as Michelangelo, Donatello or Caravaggio through to the more recent renderings by photographers such as Mapplethorpe or Herb Ritts. Although these powerful cultural relationships and the inspiration of the painters, sculptors and photographers who have gone before me have all influenced my exploration of the nude male as an object of art, it is the dynamic play of light on form that is my ultimate passion.

My interest in partial views and extreme or unusual poses was born from the realization that the power of the face, with its countless associations and expressions, often betrays the pure aesthetic and sculptural qualities of the human body.

I have become regarded as a photographer of the male nude, although it is not the male nude per se that interests me. What excites and fascinates me and motivates my explorations of the innate aesthetic beauty of the male body are the very same elements of image-making that have obsessed western artists for centuries: the interplay of light and form.

Image via The Art of Beautiful Men, Dylan Ricci Photography

Site itself found via a post in Mrs. Candy’s blog.

whateverlolawants:

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Gorgeous.

Let your fingers do the walking.

This is one of my favorite methods of foreplay

Artist Miyavi. Loving the androgynous look.

via 雅- 素晴らしきかな、この世界 « Shopping Cart Disco

I really, really love sexual paraphernalia.

The Fucking Chair is an Alderwood ladderback chair of medium height. Naturally, the seat is modified with an oblong slot for action on either hole of the occupant. Every wood part is carefully hand sanded, the unit is assembled, and then gets four or five coats of Tung oil… a water-resistant, durable finish. The base Fucking Chair includes a high performance sex machine, and has a custom steel undercarriage capable of positioning this machine for anal or vaginal use — across a wide range of angles, on a person of any size. The basic setup also includes a mount to use this machine off the chair.