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  • Flamboyant Pete Burns dies aged 57

    Flamboyant Pete Burns dies aged 57

    Pete Burns the Brit pop-singer who became a Reality TV personality, died suddenly yesterday  after a massive cardiac arrest.  He was 57 years old.  Boy George mourning his passing, described Burns as ‘one of our great true eccentrics‘.  Burns found fame as a member of a proto-goth group originally called Nightmares in Wax before they…

  • Don Whitman’s 1950’s Beefcake Photographs

    Don Whitman’s 1950’s Beefcake Photographs

    Don Whitman was one of the leading exponents of male physique photography back in the days when censorship and society in general expected the models to keep a modicum of decency in their poses. When he left the Navy after WW2 in 1947 he started the Western Photography Guild which remained active for the next…

  • Carmen Herrera : 101 Years Old and still making Art.

    Carmen Herrera : 101 Years Old and still making Art.

    One of the current Exhibitions on at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in NY is Carmen Herrera : Lines of Sight. The fact that you may not have heard of this Cuban-American minimalist abstract artist is not because she is a new kid on the block,  but just the fact that for most of her…

  • Making The World’s First Male Sex Doll.

    Making The World’s First Male Sex Doll.

    If you have a spare $14000 then there is a company that could possibly make you a perfect boyfriend who will never ever get a ‘headache’ whenever you want to make out with him.  Nor will he ever give you a hard time when you want to go out on a shopping spree,  or stay…