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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    12/02/09

    In reply to 'Sex Is Life. Professional Pornography Is Just Capitalism.'
    Blech. Mehmehmeh I love women. Yeah good for you. So become an amateur pornographer if pro porn is so evil and capitalistic, but stop trying to dress up what gets you hot as something high brow/arty/etc. You're not photographing with your whole self. You're photographing with your cock (how does he press the shutter?) and talking in circles until people buy that there's something more to it.
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    12/02/09

    In reply to 'Sex Is Life. Professional Pornography Is Just Capitalism.'
    I attended the opening myself, feeling decidedly shabby in the face of so much careless display of herringbone tweed and quilted jackets: the gallery was packed to F Train levels. People outside coughed discreetly behind clouds of clove-scented smog and made small-to-microscopic talk. Ten minutes after entering, I noticed a tall comely-looking chap wearing a hat made out of a mastodon’s navel who was the only person in the gallery other than myself who was actually looking at the pictures (or those fragments that could be glimpsed behind the guests). Mr. Somaiya, I presume, as everyone else was discussing silk mixes and finger-fucking.

    I will make a gross generalization and say that I was probably the only person at the gallery, not counting the staff, who had any professional connection to the art world. In fact, I AM counting the gallery staff. Nothing personal and I’m sure they’re all sweeties, but Half Gallery is an art gallery the way the way James Frey is a novelist or Olivier Zahm is an artist or the hideously decorated lounge down the street where the bill for a jalapeño martini came to $35 is a bar. Short version—they’re not. (The longer version has to do with pornographic simulacra, and it’s just too early in the morning, kids.)

    But surely there is something to the pictures as pictures? Let’s see. Naked female bodies on glossy antique furniture in underlit or unlit but luxurious spaces, the bodies splayed, prone, leaping, the faces either obscured or out of the shot altogether, one girl, shot from the waist-down, squatting to pee into what looked like a highball glass. Zahm may take a photograph with his whole self, but he denies his subjects theirs.

    This type of thing was last shocking…actually, to a certain class of people, this was never shocking. Think Warhol, think the Surrealists, think Zola, think Beardsley, think Courbet’s "Origin of the World," hell, think The Venus of Urbino, or Bronzino’s less well-known but fascinating nude portrait of Cosimo I de’Medici, an upright musical instrument in Cosimo’s hand taking the place of an erect penis.

    These are ostensibly pictures of sex, but they are also pictures of class—the bohemian ultra-rich (and their hangers-on) for whom limits are there to be transgressed. None of the young ladies I saw in Zahm’s pictures are recognizable—so their collusion with his art costs them nothing. It’s a rumor, an intrigue, a liaison sans danger. Tee-hee-hee, I peed in Daddy’s highball glass—hush! Nanny mustn’t know! Note Zahm’s refusal to share his porno sites with Somaiya—for someone who claims that sex is life, he’s eager to brandish a closed door in another man’s face.

    To put it bluntly, Stipe had the right idea. These are pictures that those who want to be seen are desperate to be seen not looking at. Blasé is the new dandyism.

    By the way--hi James! Hope your shiny little toy make-believe gallery churns along and gives you some hot downtown cred! Personally I think this as likely as the reemergence of the whalebone bustle. But whatever floats your flab.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/02/09

    @RollsRoyceRevenge: heart heart heart
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    12/02/09

    @BookishLookish: And even more hearts.
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    Image of pureblarney pureblarney
    12/02/09

    @BookishLookish: Agreed. And this is why I hate Williamsburg... I moved out here--naiively--thinking that I would learn something. But it's about people who inject money like heroine, and smother my eager heart in ash with their snide and willful ignorance. There's no sophistication out here. There are people too cool to be sophisticated. It's a 24-7 game of poker, and if anyone knows what hand you're holding, you're out.
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    Image of musicmope musicmope
    12/02/09

    @RollsRoyceRevenge: Somebody give this man a job.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/02/09

    @pureblarney: Get the fuck out of W'burg if you want to make art. Move to Sunnyside, or Jersey City, or Mott Haven and get out with the people. W'burg will suck the very goodness from your marrow, honey.
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    Image of pureblarney pureblarney
    12/02/09

    @BookishLookish: Lol! I'm not an artist. Please don't think that of me. (I'm an elementary school teacher.) And--thank god--to be fair, I don't live in the hole of the 'Burg proper, but rather, on its less harrowing outer edges, away from the hypocrisy and the herpes and the coke-bearing Gavins, who make me dream of pinning their eyelids open and forcing them to watch Love Actually and Lord of the Rings and Yellow Submarine until the TOTAL HELL OMGz of popular culture sends them crying back to Indiana and South Dakota, or wherever their kind are begat.
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    12/02/09

    @BookishLookish: I see no reason why good art could not be made in Williamsburg or by rich people. It's exactly the "with the people" bullshit that has led to spending insane amounts of money to look like you never wash your hair being equated with authenticity.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/02/09

    @RollsRoyceRevenge: I have nothing against rich people, Roy, and some of them are very, very good artists. Getting the hell away from hipsters making bad art was my suggestion.
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    12/02/09

    @BookishLookish: True enough. BTW I prefer to be known as "Rollie."
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/02/09

    @RollsRoyceRevenge: I kind of think of you this way, actually. Though you already have your star, babe.
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    12/02/09

    @BookishLookish: Alas, this is closer to the mark.

    Me being the Rolls Royce outside.
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    Edited by RollsRoyceRevenge at 12/02/09 12:21 PM RollsRoyceRevenge was starred RollsRoyceRevenge was unstarred
    Image of HenryLovesFonzie HenryLovesFonzie
    12/02/09

    In reply to Arthur Kade Touches 'Little Oscar'
    It's nice that he capitalizes his own name, and then leaves "god" in lowercase. Also, he seems like the religious type.
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    12/02/09

    In reply to 'Sex Is Life. Professional Pornography Is Just Capitalism.'
    "I am not an artist. I just love woman."

    My hero.

    Thank you, Gawker. This man is the Brassai of punani.
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    Image of TabithaIapetus TabithaIapetus
    12/02/09

    @Airvault: This should be a lesson to unattractive 8th grade boys the world over. You want to work it with the ladies? Get thee to a photography class.
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    12/02/09

    @TabithaIapetus: Between this guy and Terry Richardson? It's a lesson that should be well learned.
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    Image of pureblarney pureblarney
    12/02/09

    @Airvault: I want to schedule him for a blind date with Arthur Kade.
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    Image of alboy2 alboy2
    12/02/09

    @pureblarney: Throw in Tucker Max and you got a deal!
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    12/02/09

    In reply to Arthur Kade Touches 'Little Oscar'
    Oh, what?

    I...hm.

    I was going to say something about teaching him how to swordfight, but that makes me sound like I want to have gay sex with him.

    Instead, I'm just going to be fascinated by this:

    Great actors will spend weeks/months preparing for a role (A perfect example is Dustin Hoffman spending months studying "Autistic People" for his Oscar Winning Role in "Rainman"), and I want my fellow "Bizzers" and the Gen Pop to see what it means to become a successful working actor like Arthur Kade.

    Were they not really autistic, Artie?
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    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    12/01/09

    In reply to Arthur Kade Touches 'Little Oscar'
    That picture screams, "Ingrown hair or herpes?"

    And you know the answer is herpes.
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    Image of IpsoFacto IpsoFacto
    12/01/09

    In reply to Arthur Kade Touches 'Little Oscar'
    The thing that really bothers me is that there are tons and tons of guys out there just like him. If all the iphone picture guys had a glossy website and legion of Gawker lulzographers chronicling their adventures in fuckery, there would be an army of these mutant delusional narcissists.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    12/01/09

    In reply to Arthur Kade Touches 'Little Oscar'
    Hey, check out "The Kade Scale": [arthurkade.com]
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    12/01/09

    In reply to Arthur Kade Touches 'Little Oscar'
    I read this post, and I was confused.

    So then I clicked the link and visited arthurkade.com ... and I was even more confused.
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    Image of pureblarney pureblarney
    12/01/09

    @MisterHippity: @MisterHippity: He's ignorant of his own comic genius. It's wonderful.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    12/01/09

    In reply to Arthur Kade Touches 'Little Oscar'
    "... this is a road that Arthur Kade walks alone..." I hate it when people refer to themselves in the third person.

    Momof3wildkids feels that this is the height of arrogance. :)
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    Image of TheologicalSong TheologicalSong
    12/01/09

    In reply to Arthur Kade Touches 'Little Oscar'
    whether he's cravenly in earnest, an uncanny performance artist, or some uncategorizable mixture of the two, these posts bring me such unbridled hilarity and joy, on the worst/most discouraging of days. and I mean that sincerely. thanks, Arthur/Gawker!
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    12/01/09

    In reply to Arthur Kade Touches 'Little Oscar'
    Just as long as he's not touching his Golden Globes.
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    Image of econdave econdave
    12/01/09

    In reply to Arthur Kade Touches 'Little Oscar'
    I've never seen that flavor at Rita's.

    [www.ritasice.com]
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    12/01/09

    In reply to Arthur Kade Touches 'Little Oscar'
    I've never seen a testicular self-screen look more lonely.
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