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[xtrablak674]

Make Mine Apple

Let's be clear I never had a computer growing up in any of the homes I resided in, whether my mom's apartment, my god-grandma's house or my paternal grandparents home. Computers weren't a thing even considered or even a forethought. But I have been fascinated with computers since I was a child and more widely technology. I wouldn't be as bold to say I was a futurist, but I loved the idea of a future where humans used technology in smart ways. This is a philosophy that I still hold on to today.

Apple Macintosh SE

My first computer was an Macintosh SE, sold by Apple from nineteen eighty-seven to nineteen ninety. I got one used from my friend Ricardo 'Campi' Guzman. I can't recall how much I paid him for this very classic Mac but I never regretted it once. It traveled with me on my four month European tour and was a staple in the publishing of my early nineties zine Fashion Fag Magazine. Based on this that would mean I got it from him sometime around ninety-four when I signed the lease for my first apartment, and I gave it back to him as payment for removing the carpets in my current apartment in ninety-seven. The three best years of my life with my first Apple computer, which for all intensive purposes was a portable computer albeit it nearly weighed twenty pounds. I remember when we traveled on tour I always insisted to the flight attendants that I always board with my computer and my Apple Stylewriter printer that was also in the bag I got from Campi.

Apple Powerbook 5300

Part of the goal of my ninety-six European tour was to save up for a laptop and I had my eye on the 5300 released in nineteen ninety-five. I didn't realize at the time that this was not only the first of Apple's Powerbook series but also the one with the most manufacturing problems that lead Apple to replacing mine with an Apple Powerbook 1400c

Albeit this being a black mark on Apple it was very exciting for me as a customer and a fan to have purchased one Apple laptop and then a few months later get a brand spanking new Apple laptop for at no additional cost.

Apple Powerbook 1400c

This Powerbook was sold from ninety-six to ninety eight and as I said replaced my fifty-three hundred. I still have this laptop today and it still works. I briefly lent it to my grandmother who used it as a word processor for her church projects. At nearly seven pounds it was half the weight of my SE and it found itself a lot of the time traveling around with me in the hard-plastic German children's backpack that I had acquired during my European tour.

If I recall correctly this fourteen hundred was the very laptop I was pretending to work on when my supervisor at Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners extended my temp assignment indefinitely having learned that not only did I know how to use Quark, Photoshop and Illustrator but was quite technologically savvy with all of the Microsoft Office applications also. I want to be clear I deliberately did this in an effort to illustrate my value beyond someone who can just set up food for a meeting which is why I initially was recruited.

On this laptop I would produce my last issues of Fashion Fag Magazine and also create The Streetwalker a newsletter for the New York Peer AIDS Coalition the non-for profit that I volunteered at after leaving GMHC over creative differences. It was a golden time for me with the burgeoning of the internet I would soon need to upgrade to something for a more modern time. America Online was cute, but the beginning of the end of dial-up internet was coming.

Apple iMac G3

This all-in-one desktop computer was sold from nineteen ninety-eight to two thousand and three, I acquired the tangy orange one and used this quite powerful and underrated model to launch my design firm specializing in websites, branding and product design. It also was my partner in my fledging fine art photography career being the first of my computers in which I started to archive and edit my photos with the very adult applications like Lightroom.

Before I lent this computer to my late brother and his wife, where it would meet its demise, it was present as I first started exhibiting my work publicly transforming from a graphic artist to a fine artist. This computer was present for my first and last long term relationship and my exploration of high speed internet with DSL and consequently Cable. Those previous laptops had been all about that dial-up life, something I had now left behind me for the faster speeds of Internet 1.0.

Apple Macbook Pro

Introduced two-thousand six I acquired mine in early 2008 a fifteen inch I remember it cost around three thousand dollars this was not just a computer but an investment and one that paid off for me in triplicate.

Wow, this laptop was with me through my return to corporate America now as a freelancer, my various art exhibitions including my New York Times reviewed show, presenting my work nationally, internationally and at museums. It came along with me for my trips to India and Africa, it entertained my nephew during his visits, edited my fledging dabbles in video, and my first short film.

I have Adobe's Creative Suite on here Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash and Lightroom, Microsoft Office, Excel, Adobe Acrobat and of course Apple's own iMovie, I never did learn Adobe Premier just never having the opportunity. I felt like I could do anything with this computer and I did. I stepped up my pussy game creating the most impressive proposals for my art, letterhead for my fine art career, impressive graphics, promotional materials, and the highest resolution for the birth of my art into the real world.

This would also be my last proper computer. After this baby I wouldn't need as much power and would move my computing to the iPad (3rd Generation) then my first iPad Pro 10.5" and now my iPad Pro 11" which I am writing this missive on with my Apple Magic Keyboard, which has seen better days.

Unlike a nibling of mine who must own stock in Apple and owns, the Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Macbook Air and AirPods I have always found its best to limit myself to my technology especially if I can find everything in one device I don't need the redundancy. I stopped wearing a watch years ago, I have been adamant I never want a cellphone, as I just said my days of heavy lifting are over so no more need for a laptop and I have never liked things in my ears. Besides my iPad Pro can make phone calls and tell the time, I don't need it tracking my biometrics.

I also think I am from a generation who actually enjoys mono-use appliances. I own a turntable and a set of Yamaha studio speakers for my return to vinyl. I ditched my microwave for an induction cooker, and utilize a humidifier every winter and sometimes a space heater. There are no smart devices in my home, which is why I was annoyed when the landlord recently moved our intercom system to an app, when the analog version worked fine for decades.

As a person who loves technology I still like to be smart with what I use and what I don't use. I am not the person to run out and get something just because its trendy like Fitbits which had their moment like Tomagotchi's in the nineties. You won't find a landfill with a bunch of electronics that come out of my house yearly. It took me nearly twenty years before I gave up my flatbed scanner, and my Canon color printer I sold on eBay after I didn't need such a powerful printer anymore. Oh and I have never owned a television my entire adult life.

Up until the last few years I still was hangin on to that free PC by Compaq I got nearly twenty years ago even though I had discarded the monitor and keyboard a while ago. If there's one thing even as just a asterisk that I would like to be remembered for its my technological savvy and design aesthetic. Personally they were both creative aspects of my personality, and as everyone knows the best brand for creative folks is Apple, and we've been friends since I got out of college.

[Photos by Brown Estate]

[thefashionlover]

Carrie is back!

Bonjour #fashionlovers 🫶

Check out these first sneak peeks of “And Just Like That” season 3. 

Our style icon Carrie is back in a pastel dream: a layered pink skirt, a teal blouse with a bow and pearl necklace, her signature matching heels, and the Jackie 1961 Gucci bag with crystal details, revamped by new creative director Sabato de Sarno and spotted at the Milan fashion show in September

Stylists: Danny Santiago  and Molly Rogers

Yes or no?

[sedr84]

[magdalunatica]

[davidemusitano]

Nero e bianco. +-+

[ghostwritinglab]

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[lassiie]

Girly pop when are you going to release the fics on your pinned board??? Like approximately....

Cause I Love your stylewriting/themes/storybuilding LIKE CRAZYYYY

BTW POWER PLAY WAS.... DAMN.... STOP EVERYTHING AND DO ONLY THAT ONE

- 🦄

LMAOOO I just love when people boss me around~ 😩💅

I’m such a switch, it’s honestly hilarious...

Okay, first things first:

✨ I always post my headcanons board for an upcoming release before the fic drops! It's to hype y’all up and give you little mood-snippets so you can vibe with the feel of the story. (Just a heads-up though: not every detail from the headcanons will end up in the actual fic, so treat it like a teaser, not a spoiler!)

Next up!

HUNTED, TRAPPED, & CHAINED all belong to the same AU! 🖤

It’s my obsessed stepbro Enhypen universe, where the same reader gets into... situations 👀 with different stepbrothers.

I’ll be posting a poll soon to see which one you’d love a Part 2 of—or if you wanna explore other members too!

TRAPPED is out !!

CHAINED is scheduled for mid-July, but I’ll be sharing the headcanons by the end of this month!

Now, for POWER PLAY Part 2 💥

First of all—thank youuuu 💗

Second, I do have a first draft already!! But it needs some polish, especially since I’m trying not to make the wording too crude lol. I want each fic to have its own flavor, so it’ll take a bit of time...

BUT I promise it’s coming for next month’s drop!

As for the rest of my babies:

Familiar. (old!vampire Sunghoon 🦇 x new!vampire reader) — Coming by August! It'll be a 2-part fic featuring Heeseung too 👀

Pretty Boy. (virgin!softboy Heeseung 💞 x first love reader) — Also by August! This one's suuuper fluffy (well... with some smut, bc let’s be real—I’m a perv lol 😳)

Saltwater Waves. (Enhypen boys x siren!reader 🌊🧜‍♀️) — No release date yet... I’ve got other stories planned before I dive into this one, but it’s on the horizon!

[seakclauswinkler]

I think with my art i have opened the box of pandora for the world. With in the same visual art signal one with liberal aka lefties “ values “ see’s inspired to cxckolding one’s own culture, doing white expensives substances from the andes mountains with in south America, supporting cutting of the own bloodlineage with alphabet people esg globalists culture.

With in the same visual art signal, a conservative family with there traditional values gets the inspiration for the opposite of the above mentioned.

Drinking tea, eating responsible, embracing family, modesty, repressing holding down female hypergamy, not giving in in to quick social media dopamine hits validation addiction attention from chad & Tyrone, monkey branching, collecting bodys.

Instead having many children, embracing housework, culinary skills.

Women turning there back on modern society, the bigger better deal, although before hitting the wall, in there beginning to mid 20s.

My art caters to both lifestyles with in the same signal, painting, trigger, form.

My art won’t stop selfhxte aka slave Moral from the christians. Or the ethno masochism from most of white folks with in the western world.

I guess my art confirms eachs self opinion people are already having. It’s the dot, or the exclamation mark (!), or dot (.), at the end of a/ the sentence they are saying to oneself.

The 2 paintings with in this posting, are work in process. Detail work, with my small tiny brush, going deeper into the rabbit hole.

In case you want to know what i listen to during my process, my you tube play list is public, and updated almost every hour.

Just check my you tube account. Here on instagram iam shadow banned, no one sees what I post/ publish here, except my followers. For the outside world my insta account is invisible.

#SEAK #ClausWinkler #SEAKClausWinkler#paternalsecurityart #contemporaryart #vaterschaftssicherheitskunst #gallerytour #artgallery #abstractpainting #arthistorian #conservativeart #wordart #energyart #artadvisory #artadvisor #mengoingthereownway #mgtow #stylewriting #healthart #berater #advisor #spraypainting #art #artwork #kunstberater #kunstberatung #schönerstrich

[xtrablak674]

1/8/93

Hi, I am the Editor, Producer, and Main writer for Fashion Fag Magazine® I do not want to be the only contributor to this magazine. I want and love your input and support to make this magazine, that you can rely on for good articles, poetry, reviews, fashion tips etc. Use this magazine as an outlet for your feelings and emotions. I will try to have in depth interviews with prominent gay figures and the ordinary fag. Unlike other magazine this magazine will not be, Gay white male oriented.

This magazine will be inclusive of everyone, lesbians, bi-sexuals and supporters. People of all races, colors and socio-economical backgrounds will be represented within these pages. If you see us falling short on any of these promises let us know because we are here to serve your needs. With all of this said enjoy your first issue of Fashion Fag Magazine®

Peace, Love + Hair Grease

Miss Trevor

Nineteen Ninety-Three, thirty-one years ago, three decades, a quarter of a century, seriously a lifetime ago, but one thing is consistent I have used the written word to express my feelings, values, failures and loves for a long damned time. Mind you, this was the furthest thing from a magazine, the first issue basically being double-sided text on colored office paper, it was all about the aspiration!

I would love to say my starting this zine/newsletter was an original idea but that would a fine piece of creative retelling of history. My college friend Matthew Carlin had a newsletter called TMCM, The Matt Carlin Mirror where he talked about his life, love, school and anything else that came to mind. It was his post-college way of keeping in touch with the friends made back in Ithaca, and like him I thought I could do the same and grow the fan-base I thought I had, in my head.

Desktop publishing was a new idea in the early nineties, albeit Quark Xpress was started in 1981, it didn't become more widely used until the early nineties on Macintosh and Windows dominating the market share of the time. I wouldn't start using it myself until '95 somehow coping a bootleg version for my Mac SE. Previously I was using AppleWorks which later became ClarisWorks, this was basically just a word processing application, and I remember to create just one page I would have to create a text box in different positions and put them together when I printed it.

Below is one of the template pages from issue #2, there are three parts of this page, the find-a-word with its description below, Miss Moody Herself and the bits below it, and the three columns on the lower half. I didn't know how to make ClarisWork split up a page into different areas. I could easily make columns, but having something on the upper half of the page that was different than the content on the lower page had to be done by passing the document through the printer multiple times my Apple StyleWriter II.

So in my digital files for one page I would sometimes have three or four ClarisWord docs. It made for a slightly confusing organizing of an issue because one four page issue could easily have twelve to sixteen files. Quark Xpress which I taught myself, would get rid of the need for multiple documents and multiple passes through the printer. It had become the standard for desktop publishing and it was appropriate that I should utilize the industry standard for my own mass-read publication.

Sorry, I went off into a technical rabbit hole, but I think part of understanding who I am is to understand my technical proficiency throughout my adult life, and even now, its one of the things that I seriously think gave me the edge when I went to work in the corporate world, the fact that I had dabbled in so many applications and technology made me hit the ground running faster than a lot of my contemporaries.

I wish I still had that old SE, I gave it back to the friend who I purchased it from as a payment for his ripping out the old red carpet in my new apartment, the same one I am living in today. The reason I would love to have it, is I know there was a special app I used to create the type for Fashion Fag Magazine, my initial logo, which would change by my third issue.

Looking back at this production this was truly the first manifestation of my artistic voice as an adult. As I am learning of my childhood where I attempted to draw, sing, perform and write a little bit, but here I was now taking writing to the forefront as a means of expression. Albeit untrained I was designing a newsletter about my life and my experiences, I was seeking to give a voice to my identities and the struggles faced there within.

For all the wonderful things I learned at college, in this post-college queer world I was attempting to be seen for all the many aspects of my personhood, not just a body part, skin color or general aesthetic appeal. One of the backlashes of attending a primarily white educational institution, no matter had well-intentioned folks were, I was repeatedly othered. Sometimes by the people who looked like like me and had similar social-economic backgrounds, and others who loved the way I did with varying economic backgrounds but also failed to see the entire me.

Just a brief moment about the title, I have alway had a thing for fashion albeit my vision for myself and what was actually executed in the real-world wouldn't align until much later. I still felt I had the potential for a personal style that would surpass that of my peers.

Albeit the whyte queers weren't necessarily always the most fashion-forward of folks, particularly the ones I knew, I envisioned personal style being able to push the envelope and announce something more nuanced about my personality other than just being Black and queer. This voice would come to full fruition later, but Fashion Fag Magazine was precognition of what I knew would come in time.

Through my observations about my world I wanted folks to see the world in the way that I did. And through my nine issues published from nineteen ninety-three through nineteen ninety-six I attempted just that, sometimes successful other-times failing miserable, but still trying to make myself seen and heard in a world that wasn't really checking it for people like me, dark-skinned, femme, gender non-conforming, queer, well-spoken, nerdy, comic book reading, dance the house down folk.

I am going to try to translate this classic text for a new audience, who am I fooling with my twelve followers here, but I look at this mini-blog as a digital obituary for my life, and its important to include all the bits and pieces of a life, so you're are not just broken down to legal document or a one-hundred and fifty word summary. For as long as Tumblr is around which may be less than the span of my life, I at least want to make an attempt to record my thoughts and feelings about the breadth of the experiences of Trevor A. Brown.

[Photos by Brown Estate]

[thefashionlover]

I’m loving this new trend of stylists dressing celebrities in iconic vintage pieces from fashion history (especially when they are the result of groundbreaking design, like in this case).

Anya Taylor-Joy arrives at the “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” premiere wearing a Paco Rabanne Haute Couture look from spring summer 1996.

[donteesworld]

[sedr84]

[thingzxme]

Im gonna love you like a black widow, baby 🔥🕷.

#blackwidow #eboy #tumblrgayboy

[davidemusitano]

Un viaggio composto da visioni, parole e riflessi, dove l'immaginazione si mescola con la realtà per mostrare le caratteristiche delle città.

[dogbite142]

Some of us started the game in the early 90s before Vaporwave was a thing.