manhattanbeach710

[kakecomics]

THE 40s: THE QUEEN AND TRADE YEARS 1. is barely out of his teens 2. is a queen 3. or a bit of a rough trade 4. dances with strangers 5. works in an office 6. or wears a uniform 7. has big hair 8. smiles sweetly 9. knows how to dance a Finnish waltz 10. irons his trousers 11. wears shoes 12. a sports jacket 13. and doesn't shrink from a bow tie 14. has serious eyebrows 15. has a narrow waist 16. and likes it to be close to yours (is that a gun in your pocket?)

THE 50s: THE LUMBERJACK YEARS 1. is in his early 20s 2. gets a haircut 3. keeps smiling 4. lives in the great outdoors 5. gets his muscles from logging trees 6. keeps that [waist], though! 7. has a knife 8. wears wading boots for work 9. really likes wood 10. starts wearing blue jeans 11. goes where his feet take him 12. has small nipples 13. and a washboard stomach 14. loses those eyebrows 15. knows how to handle a big stick 16. but doesn't have sex on his mind

THE 60s: THE BIKER YEARS 1. is in his late 20s 2. wears biker boots (machine's parked outside) 3. starts going to the gym 4. doesn't forget his pecs 5. grows a wider waist 6. grows his hair in a fringe 7. and sideburns 8. has lots of body hair 9. grows serious nipples 10. wears a soft leather cap 11. with a phallic logo 12. smokes 13. likes tight white T-shirts 14. doesn't go anywhere without his leather jacket 15. lives in his jeans 16. button fly, of course! 17. lost his belt 18. starts bursting at the seams 19. has 'fucker' written on his back (just in case) 20. is popular in bars 21. guess what he's after 22. smiles less 23. but is very happy to see you

THE 70s: THE CLONE YEARS 1. is in his early 30s 2. gets a serious haircut 3. but keeps the sideburns 4. and tries out a moustache 5. doesn't have a bike but gets around 6. grows veins 7. goes to gay bars 8. looks happy but doesn't smile 9. always has his poppers handy 10. gets a Tom belt 11. buys leather shorts 12. with a zip fly 13. wears biker boots 14. loses his body hair 15. likes a bit of SM 16. and doesn't spare the whip 17. knows his hankie code 18. gets his ear pierced 19. keeps up at the gym (late afternoon) 20. and grows his pecs 21. because he knows bigger is better

THE 80s: THE FETISHIST YEARS 1. in his late 30s (pushing 40?) 2. after '85 is often black 3. gets his head shaved 4. or has a mohican 5. and loses his sideburns 6. develops a love for hard leather caps 7. and starts to smile again 8. grows a big moustache 9. pumps more iron than ever 10. and knows big tits are here to stay 11. (not sure what happened to those nipples, though) 12. has cast iron hips 13. and his neck outgrows his face 14. sometimes has a foreskin 15. gets a sword-belt 16. jodhpurs 17. with a button fly 18. and a wide belt 19. wears riding boots 20. is clearly identifiable as one of Tom's men 21. uses a condom 22. and knows biggest is best

TOM'S MEN Tom of Finland: The Art of Pleasure

[anthonysperkins]

Kake: Pleasure Park (1977) by Tom of Finland

[tomoffinlandintheflesh]

Hot studs, Big muscles and Hard Dicks in tight cloth and Leatherclad. Every day of my Life is ONLY PLEASURE EVER. I want you to join me.

[swindledin77]

Eroticism and Early Britpunk Fashion

Recently I read an interesting post about rockstars, a once ubiquitous sub-category of celebrity that's currently fallen to the cultural wayside, and how eroticism is often an integral component of their public images.

And that got me thinking about early (as in 1976-1978) Britpunk's relationship to eroticism and sex. So here's a silly, rather disorganized write up I did on how sexual Britpunk fashion is and why I think that appealed to certain people.

Unlike many youth subcultures, Britpunk- which, for those who don't know, is the British version of the punk subculture- tended towards asexual puritanism. Both as a reaction to the free love movement of the hippies that Britpunk characterized itself as being inherently in opposition to in both behavior and values, and as an extension of the theory put forward by Greil Marcus about punks being the spiritual successors to medieval heretics who considered the material world to be wholly corrupt- including and especially carnal pleasures such as sex.

Viv Albertine notes in her autobiography that in Britpunk culture sex was treated as a commodity, no emotional attachment needed. Johnny Rotten, the main figurehead of the punk movement at the time, once famously called sex 'five minutes of squelching sounds' and his deep disgust for anything sexual did a lot to shape the subculture's negative perception of sex. There are barely any Britpunk songs from the era that portray romance as something positive and even less that discuss sex in any way at all.

So isn't it a bit odd that Britpunk fashion is so sexual? Because it is very sexual.

A lot of original Britpunk fashion is appropriated fetish gear. Bondage suits, leather, collars, and latex. SEX/Seditionaries, Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's boutique that basically single-handedly created the iconic look of early Britpunk, carried all of this along with t-shirts with sexual images- such as a pair of women's breasts or the word 'perv' spelled out in chicken bones- or actual porn on them- such as drawings of cowboys touching tips or Snow White having a gang bang with the Seven Dwarfs. The London Leatherman, who got his start in the gay leather scene, made leather clothes and accessories for bands like the Sex Pistols and The Clash and The Slits while allowing McLaren and Westwood to sell his wares in their store. Ripped clothes that showed off the chest and chains as an accessory were also common. Because of this the average punker in London was decked out in clothes that wouldn't look out of place in a sex club.

Let's take a look at some examples.

(Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols wearing a handcuff around his wrist and a t-shirt with a drawing of gay cowboys that resembles Tom of Finland's work on it.)

(Paul Simonon of The Clash wearing a shirt that says 'everyone's a prostitute' and has two scantily clad women on it.)

(Siouxsie Sioux wearing a t-shirt with a pair of women's breasts on it.)

(Soo Catwoman wearing a spiked collar with a chain around her neck.)

(Various members of the Bromley Contingent, including actual dominatrix Linda, wearing various erotic clothing items such as a see through dress, collars, and leather shorts.)

(Jordan and Vivienne Westwood wearing full bondage suits.)

(Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols wearing a ripped version of the gay cowboys shirt that intentionally exposes his naval and nipple.)

(Adam Ant wearing a leather t-shirt.)

(Paul Simonon of The Clash wearing a leather jacket, leather trousers, and a spiked leather wristband while exposing his bare chest.)

(Alan Jones wearing a shirt that says 'perv' on it and Chrissie Hynde wearing a latex or leather top while another woman wears a latex or leather dress.)

So if Britpunk was so anti-sex, why play with such erotic imagery?

For Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, fashion was and art form that was all about bringing the taboos of the repressed British culture out from the shadows, including and especially the aesthetics of sex. They wanted to shock people out of their complacency and liberate young people. What better way to do that then to turn something as incredibly taboo as fetishes primarily associated with gay men (latex, leather, and bondage) into the hot new couture? But neither Westwood nor McLaren were actually interested in sex (especially not with each other despite having a child together) and were content to simply explore it in an artistic and emotionally distant way. Their clothes are sexual but they aren't sexy. The eroticism exists primarily to make a point, not to tantalize.

Westwood about SEX/Seditionaries' clothes: "We’re here to convert, liberate and educate. We want to inspire people to have the confidence to live out their fantasies and change. What we’re really making is a political statement with our shop by attempting to attack the system."

But why wear these clothes? Obviously teenagers and young adults love the idea of doing (and wearing) taboo things that piss off their parents and other boring old farts. Obviously fans of the Sex Pistols, The Clash, and other punk bands wanted to dress like their idols and set themselves apart from the average citizen. But why else did punkers- in particular young female punkers- latch on so heavily to such risque fashion?

Well, to steal one of the few good lines from Danny Boyle's Pistol, when you dress like that you get a lot of funny looks but no wolf whistles.

If you've spent enough time online, you may be familiar with the concept of danger hair. If not, it basically means that if a young woman has brightly colored dyed hair then she's crazy and you shouldn't bother hitting on her. Kind of like how a poison dart frog is brightly colored to let birds know that it's deathly poisonous and they shouldn't bother eating it. Obviously this phrase is misogynistic but it does have a kernel of truth to it. Throughout history certain women have chosen to dress in ways that are intentionally unappealing to the majority of men in order to ward off unwanted advances.

Britpunk fashion on women was, despite how sexual it was, deeply unappealing to men. Legs McNeil, co-founder of PUNK magazine, talked extensively about how vile he found punk girls who dressed in the Britpunk style, how sexually unappealing they were to him. Little did he know, that's why those girls were dressing like that in the first place.

Back in the 1970s, the Britpunk style was beyond shocking to the majority of people. If you were a teenage girl or young woman who didn't want anyone to catcall you or make random passes at you while you were out on the town, decking yourself out in the latest clothes from SEX was a great way to get most men off your back. Instead of danger hair, it was danger clothes. Just because you were dressed in a sexual way didn't mean you were dressed sexy- at least in the opinion of the average man at the time.

Unfortunately though you'd just be trading in one form of violence for another as it was common for members of other youth subcultures to brutally attack punks who wandered the streets alone.

These days though everyone wants a punk girlfriend. Too bad they won't be getting one!

[hyenaswine]

there's a special place in hell for people who put ai art in the tom of finland or gay leather tags & it's just me kicking you in the dick repeatedly but NOT in a sexy pleasurable kink way. i mean i AM wearing a tail & little horns but that's strictly for me, that's my own thing.

[parfumieren]

Le Mâle et Ma Dame

Here's the thing: I really dig Jean-Paul Gaultier. I first came to admire him for his retrofabulous costumes for Jean-Pierre Jeunet's La Cité des Enfants Perdus; my admiration continued upon seeing the superfuturistic Gaultier ensembles featured in Luc Besson's The Fifth Element. I only seemed to be able to tolerate Madonna when she wore one of his marvelous, witty structured corsets. And I really liked Le Mâle.

A sassy licorice-lavender fougère with a pronounced top note of cinnamon Red Hots that comes in a bottle shaped like the rough-trade version of Schiaparelli Shocking? Hell yes! Many find the cartoon aesthetic of the ad campaign tacky or questionable, but I confess to loving those Tom-of-Finland-style sailors in their signature Gaultier striped tank tops and kiss-me pouts. Betty Boop reincarnated as a boy? Yes, please!

But truth be told, I wasn't really all too keen on Gaultier's subsequent choice of muse. Damned if I can tell you why Agyness Deyn got my goat. Perhaps it was that perpetually smug look on her face, like a cat that's found a jewel-thief-level strategy to get into the cream. Perhaps it was that ludicrous commercial for Ma Dame, in which Ms. Deyn rebelled against the heavy penalties of being a grossly overpaid and pampered top model by slicing at her hair and clothing with a pair of shears. Yawn.

So there I was, expecting Ma Dame to rear up out of the tester like a roller derby queen and hip-check me straight into next Tuesday. Instead, what did I get? I got pied, that's what. As in a pie in the face. A lemon meringue pie, to be exact-- soft, sweet, creamy, and knee-slap hilarious. I actually laughed as I wiped lemon filling out of my eyes. Why you little… I thought. Ahhhh, Jean-Paul. I can't stay mad at you.

Once I got down off my high horse (or rather, was knocked off it by this marvelous confection) I had to admit I loved being wrong. Or more to the point: I loved this fragrance for taking the piss out of me. It wasn't high art, or one hundred percent original, or even remotely serious about itself. It was simply FUN-- a scent meant to make you giggle, wriggle, dance, and play. (Why did I think it would be so standoffish, so aggro? Had I misread Agyness Deyn completely? If this fragrance was inspired by her, then make no mistake-- she's Pippi Longstocking and that's final.)

Ma Dame starts off all in-your-face lemon, which sounds like it could hurt-- but if you don't tense up before it hits you, it turns out to be a gooey-pudding pleasure. The lemon-herb-cake accord of Balenciaga Paris may be a minor homage, but the major difference is in the surprise note-- the "prestige" we'd call it if perfume could be spoken of as a magic trick. In Balenciaga Paris, it's a stainless-steel note, coldly glimmering in the background. But Ma Dame wants to say one word to you, just one word.

Are you listening?

Plastics.

When my sisters and I were kids, we shared an adorable see-through vinyl bubble umbrella with a lemon-yellow stripe around the bottom. The umbrella fit right down over you like a space capsule, but its transparency allowed for unimpeded vision as you walked through the rain. The sensations it offered were oddly juxtaposed, even mutually exclusive-- exposure and protection, confidence and concealment. Skipping down the street, you could see exactly where you were going. And if you ran into someone, it could only be on purpose… with mischief in mind.

Ma Dame smelled exactly like my childhood umbrella. Is it strange to love it so much for that?

It smelled like other things, too. On my hair, it smelled strongly of roses and geraniums. In the air around me, it smelled like stretch latex and petroleum jelly, slick and cheerful and synthetic. After an hour or so, an interesting rosemary scent began to thread its way through the latex, as did a high-and-dry vanilla-and-eggwhite meringue note. But it's the lemon-pie part that proved so compulsively sniffable-- softer than soft with just the right amount of edgy, kicky, cheerful garçonne attitude.

(It's only when you look up the scent elements and realize there's no lemon in this thing that your eyes get wide with wonder. There's no vinyl in it either-- but your senses, like mine, may tell you the exact opposite.)

Ma Dame (like its big brother Le Mâle, and like Eau Noire for Dior) was composed by Francis Kurkdjian. I'm beginning to believe this man is the Willy Wonka of fragrance. He exudes freshness, flippancy, childlike fun, a touch of danger, a love of the absurd, and the anarchic trappings of a first-class surrealist. (In fact, I'm waiting for the perfume in which the snozzberries really DO taste like snozzberries.)

Scent Elements: Mint, artemisia, bergamot, cardamom, lavender, orange blossom, cinnamon, cumin, sandalwood, vanilla, cedar, tonka bean, amber (Le Mâle); rose, orange, grenadine, musk, cedar (Ma Dame)

[i-did]

hi mlm here. so i want to write andreil smut but im a virgin so i have no idea what exactly sex is like. but i do not want to write it for the.... straight women gaze. what are some things that are accurate to write about. this is prolly super nsfw but i dont know who to ask.

Okay so this response took me literally months, and I'm sorry about that. I honestly was so excited when I got this question. I don't know why I put off responding?? But here I go: 

CW for discussion of NSFW, STD’s, and a lil homophobia

I bet a lot of people who write smut are virgins tbh, that's not to insult anyone or anything, but like writing is a non physical way to explore sex and fantasies by yourself, so you’re definitely not alone lol.

So you're MLM and want to write smut, (and others who want to get my opinions on writing non-fetishistic smut).

Porn is porn and can have unrealistic circumstances to fulfill said fantasy, such as anything from people messing around in locker rooms to tentacles.

To get a general sense of what is common in MLM sexuality, (rather than the typical feminine gaze that is seen in smut) looking at gay porn and gay porn categories is good insight. 

Bear culture, muscle culture, leather culture, etc. 

These are obviously still porn and unrealistic, however being attracted to sweat, jockstraps, and muscles is very common outside of porn. 

Bear culture is a body-positive movement that started because of the gay community's fat-phobia, age-phobia, and overall shittyness about body hair. 

Leather culture is also really big, it started because of the belief that gay men couldn’t be dominant or “masculine”, even in bed. So in America, leather culture was a way a lot of MLM embraced themselves. 

Going to pride, you will see many men wearing those leather harnesses, it doesn't indicate a preference of topping or bottoming necessarily, they're just something mlm wear and has grown quite popular in the culture, I've known some men to say it feels like a security blanket for them. 

And I think it’s very important to understand these cultures or at least be aware of them on a base level if you’re going to write gay porn. 

Also looking at erotic MLM art made by men, there is Tom of Finland, who was very historically significant, and is the most famous erotic gay artist. There is gay literature, one that openly talks about sex quite frankly is the book “We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan” which is a series of diary excerpts from a real gay trans man where you follow his life up until he died during the aids epidemic. He talks about sex with partners and discovering himself as well as what being a gay man means to him. He has a real love for sex in a way that is very unashamed and interesting to read about. We know that he wrote the latter half of his diaries with the plan of compiling them and publishing them but he passed away and people in his life carried out this wish for him. He is considered a significant part of gay and transgender history because of this, and his diaries are in LGBT museums. 

Reading gay poetry, looking at gay art, erotic, romantic, grungy, whatever, and you will find and see how they portray things differently than when it’s not portrayed by gay men usually. I mean there is a clear difference between yaoi and bara and that's the audience and authors. Some yaoi are made by MLM, (well technically their called gei comi, or gay comics in Japanese)

“Also known as ‘gei comi’ or ‘men's love,’ bara comics are by men, for men. There is a yaoi equivalent to this, and it is called ‘gachi muchi’-- it is written by women, for women.” – myanimelist.net (lol)

 but more than 90% aren't. I haven't ever heard of a non-MLM bara artist, but I'm sure there's at least one. 

Of course, I've seen things depicting MLM just together pretty realistically that didn't feel like it was written by someone who definitely wasn't MLM, but these scenes tend to be more writing in the general sense of art in the general sense rather than porn, which has a huge gap in characteristics between stuff usually written by MLM vs when it's written by women. (sorry about the binary language here)

I know some people don't like any realism in their porn, but I personally really like small details such as prep being mentioned, foreplay, even acknowledgment of the existence of condoms even if they choose to go without.

Especially as an MLM who lives in America currently, the ever-present acknowledgment and stigmatism of AIDS is around us. We think about it, even when we don't want to. An entire generation of MLM, trans people, and a lot of POC were wiped out. Not necessarily a PWP detail, but including discussion of prep, PrEP (the anti HIV medication) and/or getting tested, even for diseases besides HIV, is a small detail that I think is nice. MLM often have to have a moment when opening up a conversation about sex where HIV is mentioned, our dating apps and hook up apps have sections where you put positive, negative, non-transmissible/undetectable, or prefer not to say. The books take place in 2006 so PrEP didn't exist yet, but also the aids pandemic was happening when they were being born and as young kids, so it wasn't that long ago in society's mind. It's still illegal for many trans people and MLM to donate blood despite that the blood is screened for diseases after donation. 

Also, some realism I like is when a character isn't getting their ass ate first in the morning. Like, for me that's a huge turn-off because I think “holy fuck hygiene.” specifically with anal play I just really think even casually mentioning “washing up” or basic prep, or if you want more accuracy/details mention time between last meals or “x only ate a salad, so he would be fine”. It's like a joke in the gay community to eat chili fries or some shit on a date to indicate that either there will be no anal, or if there is you’re not going to be the one to do it, because you just fuckin ate those fries to say so. 

A cock just going in without prep and no condom is going to A) hurt very bad the body does not do that naturally and can cause injury B) get shit dick.

An also not sexy detail that is common for sex is just laying down a towel so you don’t have to wash sheets. Lube on hands? Wipe off on the towel that you’re on rn. Laying down a towel is pretty normal especially for anal. But this is if you’re going for a much more playing for accuracy sex scene. 

Honestly just writing fingering and prep and stuff like that in my opinion goes a long way and also gives the audience more to read. 

Also, sex is way more than peen in hole. Get creative, frottage, mutual masturbation, docking? Idk like thigh fucking, fucking buttcheeks but not hole, handies, blowies, anal oral, Neil doesn’t have to be the only one who gets his ass ate and things don’t have to follow formulas, in fact, they’re better when they don’t. 

Sex comes in many forms, and like I’ve definitely been with someone and he took off his shirt and I was like what, because he was skinny and clean-shaven and I didn’t expect him to have nearly as much chest hair as he did. I bet honestly Neil has a massive bush, like fuckin, massive. 

Andrew and Neil don’t have to like everything the same amount, Neil could be like “I wanna lick your armpit” and gets really off on it, Andrew is neutral but likes that Neil likes it and agrees even if it does nothing for him physically. Honestly, Neil having a sweat kink imo is pretty fitting lol. 

Try not to categorize the characters into “the bottom” and “the top”, or “the man” and “the woman”

This is something I see a lot and pay attention to how “the bottom” tends to adopt traits that are seen in straight porn that are over-exaggerated. I’m not saying it's inherently wrong to write someone as slim, but we know Neil isn't delicate, but I personally wouldn't categorize him as slim. He's a college-level athlete and is definitely muscular and defined, he has some bulk at least, he isn’t model lean for sure imo. You also often see PWP where the bottom makes a bunch of noise and the top makes none, or the top grunts and the bottom mewls, these are things I personally feel gives the bottom the role of a woman in porn. I don’t think Andreil have rough sex necessarily, but I do think when Neil does make noise, it would be because it was practically punched out of him by the feeling, and would sound more like a gasp than a kitten or whatever. There's nothing wrong with writing them both grunting, both of their voices being lower. Someone bottoming doesn’t suddenly magically not have secondary sex characteristics and stubble and body hair or a deep voice or however, they’re like everywhere else. 

When I read an over-emphasis on Neil’s slim waist and swaying hips and ass I’m like,,, okay someone please mention Andrew looking at Neil’s dick or bulge or shoulders. As an MLM, what do you find hot about men? I like stomachs and arms and shoulders, jawlines, collarbones, asses yes but like in a different way than how I like women’s asses (I’m bi lol) they are smaller and I like them muscled and squared almost. I look at veins on hands and noses and shoulders and backs, I look at a lot and I honestly don't have a type. But yeah so think about what you like, why you like it, what you might want. Or look at what others like, and why and how they want and like it.

what would Neil like, how would he feel about it? And Andrew. I kinda feel like Andrew is low-key masc 4 masc but that's just me lmaoo. Anyways, good luck writing. 

[aspidities]

Hi! I'm a 23 year old transmasc person. I haven't dated or had any sort of physical relationship with anyone since the end of high school and so have never had or used toys with anyone. I've got pretty bad sexual bottom dysphoria and I want to be able to use a strap in the future (sex without it was very one sided) but it's a really daunting idea to me. I feel embarrassed and insecure just thinking about it. Do you have any advice on getting past that/reframing stuff mentally? Thank you!

Hi, here you are! You did send me this ask a while ago, and I’m sorry. I am usually just trying to be responsible about how I frame my responses since I know a lot of folks take what I say firmly to heart and that matters to me....but then sometimes I get stoned and forget about that intent and the ask entirely.

Firstly, let’s talk about bottom dysphoria and thank you for bringing this up so we can address it— we need to speak about how it is not inherently ‘feminine’ to receive pleasure or become submissive. These are not ‘non masculine’ traits—these are just things we do as silly hairless apes trying to touch each other’s naughty bits! I know that is hard to internalize, though, because Society, for one, and Conditioning, for another, and the combination of the two is lethal to most folks, not just trans folks. Everyone experiences the loss of self when society waggles it’s weird collective finger at what we find pleasurable. It’s not okay. We have to find a way to say ‘hey fuck you’ to that finger waggling, and also to that voice inside that may speak on behalf of that conditioning—because neither has your best interests at heart. You know who you are. Don’t go to the dark place where someone yells at you that you’re wrong. You know what light is, and light is not a lie.

That applies to sex just as much as it does anything else, and I hope you all know I’m saying it to all of you.

When it comes to bottoming as a masc person, I would lovingly and warmly invite you to take a look at how cis gay men have treated it for centuries—it’s hot. Gay men have a great approach to bottoming, and it’s safer to draw our masculinity from our own community than it is from the heterosexual one, wouldn’t you agree? Look at all the freedom you see in 70s heavy leather art—Tom of Finland was truly on some shit, my dude. He understood maleness in a way that transcends beyond gender sometimes, and sometimes just absolutely wallows in it. BDSM erotica in our community was a freedom to Be that was beyond a pride flag, and beyond a coveted status in the white wide world. It was Us. You can find that same freedom! But look within, and not without! Look at our history, our culture. It’s not their way, it’s Ours. You can be a sexy masc bottom in this culture, oh my god, can you ever. You need to see and believe and experience that truth, because it’s all around you. There are sexy trans masc bottom boys on Tumblr! Go find and follow them and begin to feel like you can copy what they do, at first, until you start to find your own feet with it. It’s just like anything—you have to practice it. Take a strap that you like and focus on packing with it while jerking off. It doesn’t have to come naturally at first. That doesn’t make you a failure. It just takes trial and error until one time you’re like OH and it clicks. That’s all there is to it.

I wish you so much luck with that hot horny journey of self discovery!

[uverivera]

Healed Tom of Finland heart I had the pleasure to see during James visit to Sacred Art a couple of days ago 🖤 #queerartist #queertattooartist #queertattooer #feministtattoo #qttr #lgbtqia #lgbtq #tattoo #londontattoo #tattoobarcelona #illustration #identity #linework #blackwork #gay #lesbian #nonbinary #queer #aesthetic #ssoo #btattoing #contemporarytattooing #tttism #parloiruk #healed #healedtattoo #tomoffinland (at Sacred Art Tattoos) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzX8ipbCTo7/?igshid=mgifyd8k6pt9

[jenjen4280]

On guilty pleasures

I don’t have guilty pleasures because I don’t feel guilty about the things I find pleasurable. And neither should you as long as you and your partner(s) are safe, sober, and it’s consensual.

(Those under 18 and animals cannot give consent.)

Being a size queen, yup, not ashamed. Loving the movies Urban Cowboy and Saturday the 14th, yup, okay with that too. Being a cis-gender dyke that loves Tom of Finland’s art, yup, it’s all part of who I am.

Stay true to yourself.

[alexturnipplez-blog]

Who is Tom of Finland

Tom of Finland is probably the most influential gay erotica artist of all time. He  influenced erotic art for decades and completely changed 20th century gay culture. He was Born In 1920 May 8 as Touko Valio Laaksonen in Kaarina, Finland. As a young man Touko would draw pornographic images for his own viewing pleasures based of the male workers he saw around. He would keep his drawing hidden but destroyed them once he joined the army. Touko artistic career starts post World War II when he  submitted drawings for the American magazine Physique Pictorial which premiered images for the 1957 spring issue under the pseudonym Tom. Tom continue to grow in popularity with gay community in the U.S over the next few decades. In 1979 Tom of Finland partnered with Durk Dehner to create the Tom of Finland company to protect his art from piracy. Tom's pictures were always about invoking a sexual fantasy, and he would draw influences from men in uniform and biker culture. His work can be divided into two real period the softer more romantic art that stem right after the war during his time with Physique Pictorial and his more lewd, self-assertive drawings that came later in his career as nudity became more desired in gay art.

Tom’s work in gay erotic art, rallied the gay community throughout the late 20th century. And his philanthropic work via the Tom of Finland Foundation (founded 1984) has helped preserve erotic art throughout the U.S. Through Tom erotic art finally began to gain the recognition it deserves.

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 Bigger is better: Tom of Finland, oversized for maximum pleasureIn 1998, TASCHEN introduced the world to the masterful art of Touko Laaksonen with The Art of Pleasure. Prior to that, Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, enjoyed an intense cult following in the international gay community but was largely unknown to the broader audience.In 2009, TASCHEN followed up with the ultimate Tom overview: Tom of Finland XXL, a beautiful big collector s edition with over 1,000 images, covering six decades of the artist s career. The work was gathered from collections across the United States and Europe with the help of the Tom of Finland Foundation, and features many drawings, paintings, and sketches never previously reproduced. Other images have only been seen out of context and were finally presented in the sequential order Tom intended for full artistic appreciation and erotic impact.The elegant oversized volume showed the full range of Tom s talent, from sensitive portraits to frank

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Bigger is better: Tom of Finland, oversized for maximum pleasureIn 1998, TASCHEN introduced the world to the masterful art of Touko Laaksonen with The Art of Pleasure. Prior to that, Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, enjoyed an intense cult following in the international gay community but was largely unknown to the broader audience.In 2009, TASCHEN followed up with the ultimate Tom overview: Tom of Finland XXL, a beautiful big collector s edition with over 1,000 images, covering six decades of the artist s career. The work was gathered from collections across the United States and Europe with the help of the Tom of Finland Foundation, and features many drawings, paintings, and sketches never previously reproduced. Other images have only been seen out of context and were finally presented in the sequential order Tom intended for full artistic appreciation and erotic impact.The elegant oversized volume showed the full range of Tom s talent, from sensitive portraits to frank

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Tom of Finland - Art is not just a wish

Art needs a master like Tom of Finland. There is something unique about his original and skilled art. When you see it, you just genuinely gravitate towards the idea and meaning it holds. But beyond the erotic, he reached what many artists wish: To express real feelings. This kind of art is a big honor regardless of the connection you have to the story it depicts. This kind of art is the dream of all artists. However, you need more than just wishes to have your name watermarked in generational works like this. You need talent, resilience, and consistency to make you master of an art. Such is the story of Touko Laaksonen popularly known as Tom of Finland. He carved his niche and became a master of art with his visual representation of men. Yes, more specialy gay men.

Early Beginnings

Touko Laaksonen (1920-1991), was born into a middle-class family in a town called Kaarina, Finland. Growing up, he fell in love with art and literature influenced by his home, a secondary building, since his parents were teachers. At the age of 19, he left his hometown for Helsinki to further his education. He enrolled in an art school and majored in advertising. That was the beginning of his drawing career. The first sets of homoerotic images he drew were just for personal pleasure. They were images of laborers that he witnessed while growing up. Unfortunately, he had to destroy these images before joining the army for World War II. However, joining the army made him love uniformed men, and this rekindled his gay art passion. He began to illustrate more homoerotic images of men. The new images were not those of laborers like before, they were images of men in uniform. After the war ended, he returned to art school and continued studying an advertisement. By this time, he had perfected the art of romantic images, and his works came out better than previous ones.

The Name “Tom of Finland”

With his drawing becoming more fantasizing and erotic, Touko’s friends encouraged him to start publishing them. In 1957, he summoned courage and submitted some of the drawings to a popular magazine in American under the alias name “Tom”. Upon publishing the work, the magazine editor, Bob Mizer, credited it “Tom of Finland”. Being a huge magazine, the images went viral, and so did the name “Tom of Finland”. The period after World War II was a turning point for gay men. This was more emphasized by gay artworks. The biker culture helped illustrate gay men as willful and dominant, just like heterosexual men. This debunked the stereotypical myth of gay men being epicene. If bikers would go under the origin of their masculine outfits, they'll identify and probably solve many personal problems. Touko’s biker images, leather illustrations, and other drawings were significant in passing this message across. American gay artist, George Quaintance also drew images that fueled this moment.

Tom of Finland; The Man

The best types of art are not just good looking ones; they are the ones with enough significance to change a narrative. Throughout his career, Touko proved this. At a time where homosexuals were facing all sorts of prejudices, he showed the world the real version of gay men they did not see. His images displayed gay men as loving, carefree, happy, and most importantly, normal people that they are. Even with all these, he still managed to portray the eroticism and fetishism of being a gay man. Touko’s art brought a lot of gay men out of their shells, and they became more appreciative and expressive of who they are. For this, his works were popular in a lot of countries and he enjoyed fame. In a career that spanned over 40 years, he worked with many gay models, releasing more than 3000 homoerotic illustrations.

Tom of Finland’s Big Break

Around the 1960s, Touko was already fully into the art business. He had quite several private bodies and magazines he was working with. However, his works in this period were being restricted due to a censorship law in America that forbade the public illustration of homosexual and pornographic images. Although Touko was still creating homoerotic images, he could not get them published. Most of his published works in this period only displayed the athleticism and muscular figure of men. Even though this made him more flexible as an artist, it kept his homoerotic works away from public view. The big break came in 1962 when a court ruling envisaged that images of homosexual models are not abhorrent. This lifted the censorship ban on homoerotic illustrations, and Tom of Finland could publish his works. Touko enthused dexterity into new drawings, going as far as adding genitalia and making his illustrations more explicit.

Tom of Finland Exhibition Shows

In 1973 Tom of Finland had his first exhibition show at Hamburg, Germany. Five years later, he had his first American show, where he met Robert Mapplethorpe, a gay paparazzi. Robert helped him become more stylistic with his black and white images. At the end of Touko’s career, he was said to have participated in many exhibition shows.

More Drawings

Tom of Finland switched it up a gear in the 1970s. He created more emphatic images and added photorealism to his artistic talent. With this, he produced photograph-like images to make his works more realistic and expressive. He created various sexual fantasies that had an influence on the gay community. He was completely in control of the homoerotic art world.

Tom of Finland Foundation

Touko and his close friend Durk Dehner started the Tom of Finland Company in 1979. A few years on, they launched the Tom of Finland Foundation, aimed at helping other homoerotic gay artists through fundraising, public donations, and incomes from Tom of Finland’s collection house in Las Vegas. The house has the largest collection of erotic artworks in the world, with more than 1000 works of Touko and about 2000 works from other erotic artists.

Tom of Finland’s Death and Legacy  

In 1991, Tom of Finland lost his life to a lung disease known as emphysema. More than 27 years after his death, he is still regarded as the most influential erotic artist. Books such as “Tom of Finland XXL” and “The Art of Pleasure” have been published to tell the story of his artistic genius. Tom has a video biography to his name, and it’s title is “The Life and Art of Tom of Finland”. The video features interviews with Touko himself, talking about some of his works. There are also some erotic scenes coined from his artworks. The Tom of Finland biography is an award-winning documentary in Finland, and it is also widely accepted as an international film.

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How Tom of Finland Pioneered the Expression of Gay Desire in Art

Tom of Finland, Untitled (Portrait of Pekka), 1975. Courtesy of the Tom of Finland Foundation and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Tom of Finland, Untitled, 1947. Courtesy of the Tom of Finland Foundation and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

It was 1988, and an image of two muscular, happy men staring at each other lustily flashed onto the wall of a CalArts classroom in Los Angeles. It was a drawing by artist and former adman Touko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland. He’d been invited by his friend and fellow artist, Mike Kelley, to give a lecture at the university.

Students sat rapt as he explained his seductive drawings of gay men, which had become emblems of both erotic art and equal rights since he began showing them in the 1950s.

“This was very typical of how eroticism was expressed at that time,” Tom of Finland said, in a thick Finnish accent, as he clicked through a series of his early works from the 1950s and ’60s. One showed a man sausaged into a leather jacket, standing next to a sailor; they eyed each other at a bar, pants bulging. In the mid-20th century, sexually explicit imagery was mostly banned, “but some eye contact and hints of what might happen next [were allowed],” the artist explained. “You don’t necessarily need to show a sexual action to express the erotic.”

Tom of Finland did go on to make more explicit work. But whether or not his drawings depicted full-frontal nudity, they all represented a joyous celebration of homosexuality and a fight against discrimination. The gay community recognized this, and his work has became not only a sensation, but a “beacon of hope,” said curator Graeme Flegenheimer. “It says, ‘it’s okay to be whoever you are.’”

Tom of Finland’s daring practice—and its impact on the artists who’ve come after him—is the subject of a show opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) next week. “Tom House: The Work and Life of Tom of Finland” will assemble art from every stage of Laaksonen’s output—from childhood sketches to pieces he made in the last years of his life (he died in 1991). These will mingle with objects relocated from his former home in Los Angeles, which now operates as the Tom of Finland Foundation, and work by artists including Kelley, John Waters, Raymond Pettibon, and others who were influenced by his vision.

All of this will be brought together within a small house-cum-artwork that sits outside of the museum: Kelley’s Mobile Homestead (2012), a recreation of the artist’s childhood home, which now operates as an unconventional art space (it’s built to travel with ease). Inside, MOCAD’s team and the Tom of Finland Foundation recreated the interior of Laaksonen’s own Los Angeles perch, which Kelley frequented as both a friend and a collector.

Tom of Finland, Buddies, 1973. Courtesy of the Collection of Rob Hennig, Los Angeles, CA.

“It’s sort of a love letter between the two of them,” said Flegenheimer, who organized the exhibition with the foundation’s Marc Ransdell-Bellenger and S.R. Sharp. “The show is all about the people who supported and admired Tom, and about what the foundation does now—which is promoting, preserving, and protecting homoerotic and queer art.”

“Tom’s work has the power to change people’s lives,” Bellenger elaborated from the foundation’s headquarters in Echo Park, Los Angeles. “And one thing I want to get out of this exhibition is that Tom was a real man—and a lot of [his subjects] were, and are, real men.”

Indeed, tangible, intimate elements from Laaksonen’s world will be front and center in the show. Erotic drawings he made in secret during World War II, when he was fighting for the Finnish army, will hang not far from the pencils he often used to make his work, along with his cigarette case; a condom packet he illustrated; and his leather Harley Davidson cap. Together, these bits of Laaksonen’s life hint at his struggles as an out gay man, as well as his passionate commitment to living as one. (Homosexuality was illegal in Finland until 1971; it remained against the law to “promote” same-sex love until 1999.)

“That’s the luxury we have of being a foundation: uniting the humanity with the artwork,” explained Sharp. “Connecting Tom to the world in which he lived.”  

Laaksonen was born in the rural town of Kaarina, Finland, in 1920. At a young age, he was already attracted to the handsome men in his community. “I had a very strong fetish…with leather and boots and all that was combined with masculine professions,” he later remembered. “Nearly everybody in the countryside wears boots, because of the heavy snow.…I saw in all that something different,” he continued, smiling mischievously.  

At age 19, Laaksonen was drafted into the Finnish army, and it was there he had his first sexual experiences with men and began drawing the strong, uniformed soldiers with whom he came in contact. After the war, he studied piano and worked part-time as a graphic designer, later securing a gig as senior art director at McCann Erickson, a global advertising agency with an office in Helsinki.

All the while, Laaksonen sketched, gleaning inspiration from the buff men he saw in advertisements, as well as his own memories of the Finnish countryside and the war. “I saw them in my way,” he said of the male imagery that filled magazines and newspapers. “And I wanted to put my erotic fantasies in those pictures.”

Tom of Finland’s home in L.A., where the Tom of Finland Foundation is now based. Photo by Martyn Thompson, via TOM HOUSE. Published by Rizzoli.

One piece on view at MOCAD, from 1957, shows two young, chiseled studs jousting with big sticks. They both wear high boots that graze their buttocks. Both their joy—and the innuendo at play—is clear. “He had this wonderful artistic ability, and a great sense of humor,” explained Bellenger. “It’s very subversive, but it also gets you horny!”

In the 1950s, Laaksonen’s personal work remained mostly clandestine. But after he heard about the Los Angeles magazine Physique Pictorial—widely considered America’s first gay publication—all of that changed. He sent drawings to its editor, the photographer Bob Mizer, and they were published on the cover soon after. Mizer, who didn’t think Laaksonen’s full name was straightforward enough for his American audience, suggested the pseudonym Tom of Finland. It stuck, and by 1957, Tom of Finland’s career as an erotic artist had effectively begun.  

“Tom House” includes some of Laaksonen’s first work for Physique Pictorial, along with the comics, drawings, and collages he made from the ’50s until the end of his life. As he began to spend more time outside of Finland—in liberal hubs like Berlin, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles—the artist’s work became more explicit. He became more comfortable as an out gay man; in parallel, his subjects became freer with their sexuality, too.

In one of his famous cartoons, a strapping, smiling, leather-wearing man named Kake enters a “Pleasure Park,” where he’s free to explore his homosexual desires with other equally hunky men. Laaksonen continued to produce positive images of gay culture during the AIDS crisis, and in 1987 made a now-famous drawing encouraging safe sex. In it, an apple-bottomed man in leather chaps gives a thumbs up next to the phrase “Use a Rubber.”

“In his drawings, homosexuality is perfectly normal. In contrast to a common stereotype about gay men, his men are not weak or ashamed,” explained Florian Hetz, a young Berlin-based photographer who was an artist-in-residence at the Tom of Finland Foundation last year. “They enjoy life and sex, and don’t hide in the dark.”

From the 1970s until his death, Laaksonen spent an increasing amount of time in Los Angeles, where his friend and early agent Durk Dehner lived. Dehner’s arts and crafts-like house in Echo Park, surrounded by a lush garden, became Laaksonen’s second home. Its attic became “Tom’s Room,” where he made many of his late drawings and hung his ever-growing collection of leather jackets.

Tom of Finland, Untitled (Portrait of Durk Dehner), 1984. Courtesy of the Tom of Finland Foundation and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Tom of Finland, Untitled (From Kake Vol. 20 - Pleasure Park), 1977. Courtesy of the Tom of Finland Foundation and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Today, the whole property is now called “Tom House,” and it contains not only Laaksonen’s archive, but also his collection of erotic art (a game of “count the phalluses” would be difficult there). The space also hosts the Tom of Finland Foundation’s activities and employees (Sharp and Bellenger both live there, as do a rotating cast of artists-in-residence). It’s become a haven for the gay community, and gay artists in particular—and they are all welcome to visit. “People always remark on the feeling with which they leave this house,” said Sharp. “Upon crossing the threshold, they’re always impressed with the energy here.”

Sharp and Bellenger both aim to import that feeling in the MOCAD exhibition. “We’re going to crate up some of that energy and send it to Detroit,” Sharp said.

They hope the sense of community that Laaksonen’s drawings have inspired will also come through in work by other artists in the show. Los Angeles-based artist Jess Scott, whose painting is included in “Tom House,” remembers seeing his work for the first time in a lesbian-run bookstore in her small, liberal hometown of Santa Cruz, California. “I think it is probably a testament to the relatively broad adoration for Tom that he was hanging in a lesbian bookstore,” she told Artsy.

“​If you’re a gay artist making anything remotely sexy, Tom is always loitering in the background. You aren’t taking pen to paper and thinking, ‘be as Tom,’” she continued. “You always feel lucky he even happened at all.”

Other artists included in the show agree. “Tom’s work influenced not only the way I look at gay culture, but also how I interpret it,” said performance and multimedia artist Jordan Michael Green, who is currently an artist-in-residence at the Foundation. “Seeing so many different forms of gay masculine expression has expanded my view of our community for the better.”  

“Tom lived his life as an out-and-loud artist and gay man and that is inspirational,” said London-based artist Stuart Sandford, another resident. “I always wanted my work to be joyful and fun, a little bit cheeky, and most definitely celebratory, and Tom had the same intentions.”

When Laaksonen spoke to CalArts students in 1988, one of them asked if he was “trying to influence gay culture” with his work. The artist’s answer was typically modest. “I didn’t want to, but I’m afraid I might have,” he smiled.

A few beats later, however, he admitted that he’d been lying to himself: “I did want to influence other people, I wanted to change their opinion,” he confessed.

“I wanted to tell [people] that they had a right to enjoy their life, in their way. That was my purpose…to teach [people] to change their habits, to accept themselves, to accept others, and to be accepted.”

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The Other Worlds Austin 2017 preview Day 3

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Returning for a fourth exciting year, Other Worlds Austin, one of the premier SciFi Film Festivals in the US, features some of the best and unheralded genre films. Beginning on Thursday December 7 at Flix Brewhouse, the four day event includes 16 full length films, a slew of shorts, and a screenwriting workshop. Not terribly surprising to anyone who regularly follows my writings, I’ll be at the event.

Here’s what to expect at Other Worlds Austin 2017

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9

10 AM – 11:30 AM FILM TALKS: PHILIP EISNER TALKS EVENT HORIZON BLACK HOLE TO HELL: THE USE, REUSE AND ABUSE OF ARCHETYPES IN SCIFI AND HORROR (AND SCIFI HORROR)

Location: Austin School of Film at Motion Media Arts Center Address:  2200 Tillery Street – Austin, Texas 78723

(Open to the public, but please RSVP as a courtesy)

Can the familiar still frighten you? How do movies marvel us with visions of a future inspired more often than not, by other movies we’ve seen? Join acclaimed screenwriter Philip Eisner (EVENT HORIZON) as he breaks down some well-travelled cinematic set pieces (haunted houses, mystical swords, blood-thirsty monsters) across the genres to show how writers build off memory to construct their own mythology. Featuring clips from a variety of films, this workshop is perfect for genre filmmakers and fans alike. Remember, where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see.

12:10PM UNDER WORLD SHORTS

Taste

Adrian Selkowitz | USA | 13min Writer: Lauren Kincheloe

Claire, a beautiful and calculating trophy wife, has convinced her husband to invite an influential Hollywood power couple to dinner, believing that preparing an elaborate meal for them might result in her starring in her own cooking show. Things begin to go awry when the arriving guests step over a woman’s naked body in the driveway.

Paul’s Bad Day

Phil Bucci | USA | 2min

After blacking out, Paul wakes to find his world changed forever. (Alumi: Special Forces‘16)

Spell Claire

Greg Emetaz | USA | 8min

Claire purchases an antique educational toy that reignites fond memories from childhood and lays bare the sorry state her life is now in.

Mary & Marsha in the Manor of Madness

Kris Theorin | USA | 3min

Sinister secrets await as Mary helps her girlfriend Marsha escape from her parent’s gothic mansion one dark and eldritch night, a Lovecraftian escapade through the Manor of Madness.

Immersion

Mikhael Bassilli | USA | 7min

A man mysteriously finds himself in a room with a couple dead guys, a gun, some money, and a dubious gentleman observing from the shadows.

Studded Nightmare

Jean-Claude Leblanc | Canada | 9min

When J.-F. is inexplicably drawn to the chair in which a man committed suicide, style isn’t the only thing the leather antique brings to his home.

Couples Night

The Summers Brothers | USA | 4min

A couples night goes off the rails when one couple reveals they’re blood sacrificing devil worshippers. And then things get weird…(Alumni: The Bench ’16)

Three Skeleton Key

Andrew Hamer | USA | 10min

In this adaptation of the George G. Toudouze classic short story, an American lighthouse crew become unnerved when a ship ignores their light, running aground on the reefs. They soon discover that something is on board the ship, and it’s not human.

La Sirena

Rosita Lama Muvdi | USA | 24min

In this psychosexual fairy tale set in a small fishing village, after Hector threatens to end his affair with Mia, she discovers a mysterious woman, Mara, washed up on shore, naked and with a hook lodged into her ribcage.

Holiday Fear

Nicholas Santos | USA | 4min

In the final act of a slasher film, Bruce attempts to reclaim his manliness and impress the final girl by finishing off the killer.

  12:25PM CLOSER THAN WE THINK (WORLD PREMIERE)

Brett Ryan Bonowicz | USA | 85min

Cast: Syd Mead, Aubrey de Grey, and Matt Novak

From 1958 to 1963, a Sunday comic strip predicted the future. Arthur Radebaugh’s Closer Than We Think represents mid-century futurism at its most daring and optimistic. From Robot Driving to Space Monkey Colonies, Radebaugh’s visions of the future heavily influenced The Jetsons and many of his predictions have come true in the decades since the strip first ran in newspapers. Featuring interviews with designers Syd Mead (Tron, Blade Runner), and Rick Guidice (NASA), futurists like Kirk Citron (Editor of The Long News), scientists like Aubrey de Grey (SENS Research Foundation) and historians of mid-century futurism, this documentary tells the story of Arthur’s life and explores what it means to predict the future. A love letter to the mysterious illustrator from those of us living in his future. (Alumni: The Perfect 46 ’14)

  2:45PM SCIFI SHORTS – ALL THAT CAN BE KNOWN

Seam

Elan Dassani & Rajeev Dassani | USA | 21min

When Yusef discovers his beloved wife Ayana is a Sleeper, a living android bomb left over from a past war, he has only one choice: flee with her to the border of the Machine homeland in the desert, and pray they can make it before time runs out.

Scanners

Natalie Jenison | TEXAS | 15min

Alan’s new job as a member of a security scan team is to do nothing but attend the mysteriously non-functioning scanner under the watchful eye of a paranoid boss until he fixes the machine and unwittingly opens a portal into the unknown.

The Quantified Self

Gleb Osantinski | USA | 16min

Writers: Gleb Osatinski, Danielle Ellen

When well-meaning parents turn the self-tracking into a family religion, the consequences fall outside the quantifiable. (Alumni: House at the Edge of the Galaxy ’14)

Einstein-Rosen

Olga Osorio | Spain | 9min

Summer of 1982. Teo claims he has found a wormhole. His brother Óscar does not believe him… at least not for now.

Skinjacker

Dan Horrigan | UK | 6min

After the evacuation it’s possible to go months without seeing another human being. So we turned to Pleasure Core ltd to keep us human – and being human has some dark surprises. (Alumni: Populace ’16)

The Ningyo

Miguel Ortega | USA | 27min

Writers: Miguel Ortega, Tran Ma, Gregory Collins

Professor Marlowe finds a piece of a map pointing to the place where the Ningyo, a mythical Japanese creature, could be found. He decides to risk everything and go after the Ningyo on his own in hopes to bring to light what could be one of the greatest contributions to science. What he could not anticipate is that, in his search, he is confronted with a choice that puts the very foundations of his morality to the test.

3:00PM PAINLESS (TEXAS PREMIERE)

  Jordan Horowitz | USA | 91min

Writer: Jordan Horowitz Cast: Joey Klein, Evelina Marie, Kip Gilman, Pascal Yen-Pfister

Born with a rare condition that leaves him alienated and unable to feel physical pain, Henry Long becomes obsessed with finding a cure. A need for normalcy leads him down a dark path where he must decide if finding a cure is worth paying the ultimate price.

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Appellation

Tracy Mathewson | UK | 11min

A scientist’s secret research is threatened when a neighbour reports his suspicious behaviour to the ruthless investigator tasked with finding and eliminating extremists like himself.

  5:30PM DEFECTIVE (US PREMIERE)

Reese Eveneshen | Canada | 102min

Writer: Reese Eveneshen Cast: Ashley Armstrong, Colin Paradine, Dennis Andres, Jamie Elizabeth Sampson, Raven Cousens

In the near future, Rhett Murphy and his estranged sister Jean are forced to flee from a militant police state after witnessing the dark secrets of a nefarious corporation. With a robotic police force and their killer drones commissioned to capture or terminate them, the siblings search for shelter and a way to take down the repressive regime that rules their lives.

  5:40PM TUFTLAND(KYRSYÄ) (NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE)

Roope Olenius | Finland | 89min

Writers: Roope Olenius Cast: Veera W. Vilo, Saara Elina, Neea Viitamäki, Miikka J. Anttila.

A headstrong textile student tries to overcome her problems by accepting a summer job offer from an isolated and offbeat village of Kyrsyä. Once there, she finds her host family’s bucolic existence hides a dark undercurrent of female repression and cult-like conformity.

(In Finnish with English subtitles)

  8:20PM GNAW (TEXAS PREMIERE)

Haylar Garcia | USA | 98min

Writers: Jim Brennan, Haylar Garcia, and Kathryn Gould. Cast: Penelope Mitchell, Kyle Gass, Chris Johnson Sally Kirkland.

Jennifer Conrad is a small-town girl starting over in the big city. Fleeing an abusive relationship, all she wants is a chance to begin again. But it is hard to start over when something is eating you while you sleep … one painful bite at a time.

  8:25PM MINDHACK (NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE)

Royce Gorsuch | USA |101min

Writer: Royce Gorsuch Cast: Chris Mason, Spencer Locke, and Faran Tahir.

Mason, a young mad genius attempts to ‘hack the human mind’ in order to fix humanity.  Mason believes that if we can reset the brain then we will move away from wars and hate, and can instead exist in harmony. During the course of his experiments Mason accidentally gives physical form to his inner voice, Finn, and the pair must work together to stop the opposing forces attempting to coopt the same technology for evil.

  11:00PM PURPLE FURY (WORLD PREMIERE)

Classified | USA | 120min

Writer: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nico Lathouris, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Prince, Robert DeLeo, Dean DeLeo, and Scott Weiland Cast: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult

This road warrior gets captured, but it’s not really about him, it’s about this bad ass woman, who liberates all these other women and drives them across the desert in cinema’s longest car chase. One of the most talked about SciFi films of the decade is stripped of sound, given a purple tint, and synced up to Deep Purple’s Machine Head album, Prince’s Purple Rain and Stone Temple Pilot’s Purpe album.  Roger Waters claimed Dark Side of the Moon was recorded without once thinking of Wizard of Oz, and were pretty sure no one ever intended this pairing either.  Badges only, no individual tickets will be sold.

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