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  • 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…

  • Southwest of Salem : The Story of The San Antonio Four

    Southwest of Salem : The Story of The San Antonio Four

    This is one of those hard-to-believe it’s true stories that never really grabbed the attention of the media so when you come to it ignorance and it unfolds on the screen and you hear the horrifying incredulous details, you cannot fail to be stunned into a combination of shock and anger.  The latter particularly if you…

  • 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…