Before you watch this, you non San Franciscans need to know some context.
This video was shot at at the Fulsom St. Fair, an SF tradition of debauchery in the highest order.

From wikipedia:

The Folsom Street Fair (FSF) is an annual BDSM and leather subculture street fair held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco’s “Leather Pride Week”. The Folsom Street Fair, sometimes simply referred to as “Folsom”, takes place on Folsom Street between 7th and 12th Streets, in San Francisco’s South of Market district. It was started in 1984 and is California’s third largest spectator event and the world’s largest leather event and showcase for BDSM products and culture. It has grown as a non-profit run and non-profit benefiting organization with all donations at the gates going to charity groups as well as numerous fundraising schemes within the festival including games, beverage booths and even spanking for donations to capitalize on the adult-themed exhibitionism.

The prim queer tea is a modest tea party staged directly in the middle of the fair!
Okay, now here’s the video. (totally safe for work, btw.)

Prim Queer Tea at Fulsom St. Fair from Star St.Germain on Vimeo.

Music is by Reverend Glasseye (rip!).

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Oh yes, I give you new musics!
Draft 2 of this tasty jam includes lots of bleeps and bloops.
It also features a second verse sung through a gnarly cold!
As always, you can see the previous draft in the playlist below the current draft!

If you don’t see a little flash player above this text, your rss reader is parsing it out.
Please click through to listen!

I don’t think this track is called ‘windows’ anymore, but we’ll see what happens in the bridge.
it needs a lot of edits still, but I’m amped to finish it.
Let me know what y’all think!

This track was brought to you by my heart bass.

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It’s that time again, where I share with you the rad things that passed my screen this week.

Ocre ELLIPSE

http://www.family-style.com/

This is a page from Ocre ELLIPSE by Jonas Madden-Connor.
This minicomic blew my mind. Look at the glory of those word bubbles!!
I wish I were the guy that thought of that.

You can buy it here for just 4 american dollars.

Huge URL.com

http://www.hugeurl.com

Like tinyurl, but opposite.

Fuck Yeah Sharks

http://fuckyeahsharks.tumblr.com

Lolcats are so over. it’s all about FuckYeahSharks now.

IkeaHacker

http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com

Ever wanted to make an awesome table out of some cheap shelves?
IkeaHacker is for you.

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Double page for you! Yay!

Pages 6 & 7 of the 24hour comic I did with Miss Mary Bee!
Writing by her, illustration/layout by me. (based on a photo by Matt Inai.)

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Page 5 of the 24hour comic I did with Miss Mary Bee!
Writing by her, illustration/layout by me.

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I was sort of hoping to get one of the other things I’ve posted to the state of being a whole song before posting anything else, but of course, inspiration hits & I have another new thing that I recorded at 2 in the morning.

This one features my roomate’s guitar, my new bass, and a toy keyboard I picked up last week.
I wanted to show you pictures, but I stupidly left my camera on the counter this morning.

If you don’t see a little flash player above this text, your rss reader is parsing it out.
Please click through to listen!

For the next draft, I’m thinking drums, electric guitar, cello.
As always, feedback is appreciated!

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As if I even need to say this:

Go vote today if you haven’t already.

[St. Obama votive, spotted in a storefront somewhere near Van Ness/Market]

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Epic TILT & link love time!
It’s been too long since I’ve done one of these.

1. no more fairy tales…, 2. When the Red, Red Robin Comes.., 3. Señorita que no desea reproducir su nombre, 4. not vegan, 5. Suboccipital muscle overlay., 6. On the Prowl, 7. White Pillow, 8. *****************************************, 9. innita : the beginning of her long trip after her assassination back in november 25th, 1906., 10. Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, 2008, 11. spinning, 12. dan black, 13. Star St. Germain, 14. Typeface poster, 15. 07400004, 16. PLASTIC 5, 17. «seems an awful waste…», 18. Bob, Howard, Jerry, 19. MUNI, 20. suntimes10, 21. While McCain suspends his campaign, 22. sometimesiwishicouldloseyouagain, 23. The Wound, 24. S-T-U-P-I-D A-N-D S-C-A-R-Y, 25. Put A Penny In The Slot (009/365)

+ poladroid

http://www.poladroid.net

Everyone and their mother has been posting about this thing, so I was going to skip blogging about it…but oh man, is that thing fun!
I made the images below out of a couple shots from the Madonna Inn I had lying around. Of course you should just do the real thing at Polariod Apocalypse.

+ Margaret & Helen

http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/

A heartfelt political blog, by grannies. So cool!

My name is Helen Philpot. I am 82 years old. My grandson taught me how to do this so that I could “blog” with my best friend Margaret Schmechtman who I met in college almost 60 years ago. I have three children with my husband Harold. Margaret has three dogs with her husband Howard. I live in Texas and Margaret lives in Maine.

Time lapse photography with a TI-85 graphing calculator

My friend Ed made this sweet time lapse using his TI-85 as an intervalometer.

Dreary Day as viewed from my window from Ed Hunsinger on Vimeo.

More info on how he did it at geeked.info.

Pantone Rubix Cube

How cool is this thing?
Looks like you can’t buy one though.

Girl’s Heart

Lastly, this youtube video blew my mind. It gets extra cool in the last half or so.

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Here I have a new draft for you of that first song I posted on the 16th, tentatively titled, “26″.

This is where things start to get interesting, because in the below playlist, you can see both the new draft of this song as well as the old one.

As songs evolve, you’ll be able to check out the entire recorded life of the song until it’s finished!
Also, all the older posts will auto update with new drafts at the top, so you’ll be able to see it no matter where you jump in.

here’s the most current draft, with older ones below it:

If you’re not seeing a player above this text, you’re probably viewing from an rss reader that’s parsing it out. Visit my site to listen!

As of this draft, I think what you’re listening to is a pre-chorus and chorus, but it’s possibly a chorus and bridge.
This will all become more clear when I write some verses.

instruments on this track are:

guitar
cello
vocals
drum machine

The first half got some mixing since last draft, and there’s a whole new second part for you to listen to!
I’m not in love with the backing vocals on the latter half, so I’ll probably re-record.

What do you guys think?

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Page 4 of the 24hour comic I did with Miss Mary Bee!
Writing by her, illustration/layout by me (after a photo, of her, by Alan Davis).

Got all that? ha.

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It looks like this collaborative piece I made with Doctor Popular is showing tonight at the LolArts show!

The show is sold out, so I’m posting it here!
If you’ve already got tickets, please say hi!

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I’m finally getting around to posting some of my shots from the Madonna Inn!

This series was thought up in New York when I was at Economy Candy with Marie & Lola.
It was there that I purchased the 1 pound sugar daddy that you see before you.
Clearly this giant candy was made to cover my nekkid.

Marie was nice enough to transport said candy from New York, to LA, to the Madonna for me.
Thanks Marie!!

I had originally planned on getting a ton of regular sized Sugar Daddies for the rest of the photo, but I learned it’s incredibly difficult to find Sugar Daddies in bulk. At the last second I grabbed two giant bags of candy at Smart & Final that weighed in at 7 pounds.

Thanks to Evan Hayden for assisting me in shooting these self-portraits. We shot all Annie Liebowitz style with me telling him how to frame it & he was more than patient with me as I rolled around on the carpet. Also thanks to my whole crew for making me laugh and helping clean the giant mess of candy off the floor.

More pictures from this amazing weekend soon!

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Track is tentatively titled “Umbrella”.
Recorded last night in a flurry of sorts.
All instruments & vocals by me.
It’s awaiting a bridge, as well as guitar by the talented Andy Dutch.
You’ll get to hear the next incarnation really soon!

More 24hourcomic pages tomorrow!

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Page 3 of my 24 hour comic with writer, Mary Bee.

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On Saturday, I stayed up all night working on a 24 hour comic with Miss Mary Bee!
She wrote the words, I drew stuff!

We holed up at the Comics Outpost for a full day of drawing, along with fellow 24hour participants Doctor Popular & Mike Hales.

What is 24 hour comic day?

put simply: 24 pages in 24 hours.
Here’s my second page (the first is the title page, and I’ll be posting that last):

It was a departure for me. I’ve been pushing the amount of textures and collage stuff in my work for a little while,
partly influenced by the non-digital work I’ve been doing (which deserves a post one of these days)
& I did a few sketchbook/collage things digitally recently that people responded well to….
So for the challenge, I decided to really embrace that collage aesthetic and let go of illustration a little if the page or time limits called for it.

I’ll be posting this comic a page or 2 at a time over the next couple weeks.

I am both satisfied and shocked that I made it through all 24 hours, and left with 24 pages in hand.

Extra thanks to my writer, Mary Bee! I couldn’t have done it without you!

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Webcam chat at Ustream

Oh yes, I am participating in 24 hour comic day!
Look at us drawing!

Miss Mary Bee and I are working on a collaborative work, 24 pages in length, to be completed in 24 hours.
Wish us luck! I’ll be trying to post some images as I go.

Thanks to DocPop and Comics Outpost for organizing & hosting.

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My plans last night fell through, and in my gained free time, I made some music!
I made a little 12Seconds video to show you a little tease, but the sound was unintelligible, so I pulled a little snippet for you to listen to here:

& here’s that 12Seconds video if you want to see what my ableton screen looks like:

New music on 12seconds.tv

I’m currently working on a solo album for the first time since 2003.
It is taking up a whole lot of my time & is the reason why I haven’t been posting here as much (among other things).
When it is done, I plan to have a big epic sketchbook with lyrics and images & you guys will be able to download the whole shebang for free & get a little slice of my life on your screens & in your ears.

Until then, I plan on posting little snippets & sketches of audio on here & you guys can see the whole thing unfold!
I’m really excited.

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fix·ture (fiks-chər)
n.
1. Something securely fixed in place.
2. Something attached as a permanent appendage, apparatus, or appliance: plumbing fixtures.
3. Anything which has become ubiquitous or permanent.
4.
a. The act or process of fixing.
b. The condition of being fixed.

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Following in the footsteps of Miss Marie, I spent this weekend at the Madonna Inn posing for and taking photos.

I really can’t describe the place any better than Umberto Eco, who says:

“the poor words with which natural human speech is provided, cannot suffice to describe the Madonna Inn…Let’s say that Albert Speer, while leafing through a book on Gaudi, swallowed an overgenerous dose of LSD and began to build a nuptial catacomb for Liza Minnelli.”

It will take me forever to finish editing and uploading all my photos and video, but here’s a taste of my weekend in the form of a couple candids I shot, and one of me by the amazing and wonderful Flip Cassidy.

[by Flip Cassidy.]

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Here’s a breakdown of that last illustration I posted!

I began this image by laying down the basic outlines with a medium sized brush.

I then added the black background, and began adding more detail with a smaller brush.

At this point, I started drawing the hair in over the black, using white. I also started using a very tiny brush, and put in even more detailed black lines. I am always tempted to leave my line work too clean, which is something I’m trying to get over. I miss some of the messy, scribbly qualities of my early work, so I’m trying to recapture that.

Splatter gets added next, in both white and black. I also put in some heavy outlines with a thick brush.
I’m trying to get a lot of variation in my line weight lately, to try and rely on my shading & coloring less.

I also added the hand lettered text, which went through several iterations of cursive and script fonts until I just hand drew it in my usual serif.

Rough color gets added.
I hate this step every time because the image instantly loses much of it’s definition and it takes work to get it back.

Rough shading.
I’m experimenting a little with the lines coming off of the shading. I keep waffling over whether I like it.

Rough highlights.
I wanted the lighting to be really dramatic, so I chose a really high contrast palate.

Initial textures.
This texture is put on in specific spots that appear to really need it, which differs from the next step because it’s very intentional where the texture goes.

Rounded corners, color tweaks & textures.
The image wasn’t quite warm enough for me, so I adjusted it a bit.
then I started throwing texture on at random.
I often find that if I think about it too much, I never get anything I like.
This though, I am happy with.

& that’s it!

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