Photographer Scott Pasfield, author of the photo-book Gay in America.

About two and a half years ago, celebrity photographer Scott Pasfield lost work due to the poor economy so he went on an adventure to travel all 50 states including Hawaii and Alaska to capture the stories and photos of everyday gay men.

How can you not love this gay Amish and bear couple?

His book, “Gay in America,” presents a beautiful, diverse look at gay men at their most intimate moments at home. The book is not just a testament to the Scott Pasfield’s ability to bond with his subjects but it also illustrates how the Internet brings gay men from all walks of life together.

Join us as we talk with Scott in the home studio about why he felt it was so important to make a book about gay men and the amazing stories that didn’t make it but are still worth telling.

Listen as we chat about gay Amish couples, unusual love triangles, “forever aloners,” the quiet dignity of brave every day folks and the work of Richard Avedon.

Also, how do you cope with your subjects when they have a change of heart or even die.

And, did Scott hook up with any of the guys in his book? Find out!

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Anna Grodzka becomes the first openly trans woman to be elected to the Polish Parliament.

Rosie O’Donnell returns to TV, should we give the tormented talk show host a break?

Actors in zombie make-up confuse the hell out of paramedics in Torornto after a platform collapses on the set of the new film sequel “Resident Evil.”

And too hot for NPR– Ira Glass’ sex tape.

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Lotería is a Mexican game similar to Bingo, but instead of ping pong balls they use images on a deck of cards. Hipsters in the late 80s early 90s loved these designs and for a time you could find them represented everywhere, from t-shirts to TV shows like Pee Wee’s Playhouse.

Here’s La Sirena:

and El Gallo (which usually represents the Card’s Brand):

I’m sure coming out for a trams person full time is a cause for celebration, but this self portrait just makes me think of Alien monsters popping out of people’s bodies.

Did you know two of the characters in the original alien movie were written into the script as trans? They changed the script after the actors managers protested.

I painted this two years ago during the beginnings of my obsession with black velvet paintings, and with Steve Jobs’ passing I am unapologetically making an attempt to sell it. Help me continue to afford my Feast of Fun Plus+ membership by bidding or sharing this listing through social media!

Steve Jobs memorial at the Apple Store in Germany.

Touching, beautiful and digital. Although you’ve seen many of the make-shift Steve Jobs memorials found at Apple Retail stores around the world, one group has taken it to the next level at the Munich, Germany Apple Store.

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Tony Tasset, who recently created a giant eyeball in downtown Chicago has been commissioned to create the rainbow.

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She's watching you!

There’s technique and then there’s technique.

The eggs are single use cameras that are also the the finished product. Eggs just got a whole lot cooler.

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Sure it’s pretty tacky, but that’s the whole point!

Find out how to make a Rainbow Window Hang.

Dancing Sailors by Charles Demuth circa 1918 watercolor

Ahoy there matey! An exhibit on gay sailors opens in Halifax, Nova Scotia after a run in the UK. Not surprisingly, they’ve found out that a lot of sailors were gay.

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Flottille (detail) from Etienne Cliquet on Vimeo.

This video titled, “Flotilla,” shows micro-origamis that are about 2 or 3 centimeters long open up slowly as they pull up the water on which they are floating through what’s known as a capillary action.

We use to love making straw worms as a kids.

The “Surfing Madonna” is painted on public property so some people feel as though it should come down because it’s religious in nature. But others love it and see it only as art. What do you think?

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I wonder what configurations he could make if he did this while having sex with someone?

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Banksy’s ‘Gay Bobbies’ is expected to fetch almost $2 million at auction in the U.S.

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The Outcast, by FatYogi

Artists Linda Regula and Paul Richmond are launching an online project dedicated to giving the victims of bullying a voice through the arts. The You Will Rise Project (youwillriseproject.com) will provide a multimedia showcase for drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, poetry, and other creative expressions by people of all ages, representing their experiences with bullies.

Regula and Richmond believe hurtful experiences can become inspiration for powerful works of art that can be both healing for the artist and inspiring for viewers. “Even when bullies try to take it away, you still have a voice,” says Richmond. “Our goal with the You Will Rise Project is to create a space for those voices to be heard.”

Linda and Paul were both bullied as kids, and have channeled those experiences into their own art. They first met in 1984 when Paul (who was four years old at the time) began taking art lessons from Linda. An instant bond was formed – one that has lasted twenty seven years. Not only did she teach Paul how to paint, she also taught him how to use his art to express what he was feeling and experiencing, just as she did in her own work.

Linda attributes her experience of being bullied to the fact that she was “poor, skinny, motherless, and very shy.” Paul was bullied because he is gay. They both believe that these hardships served as powerful motivation to make choices that ultimately enriched their lives — and their art.

“The first picture I remember drawing was a colorful phoenix rising from ashes,” Regula explains. “My fourth-grade teacher chose it to display in her ‘honor place,’ but while she was out of the room, a bully grabbed it, ripped it up, and threw it into the air like confetti. I don’t remember drawing again until adulthood, so I know how deeply being bullied can affect a child, especially when one’s home life is also horrendous.”

The logo for the You Will Rise Project is a colorful phoenix painted by Regula.

People of all ages are encouraged to submit work to the project. Submission guidelines can be found on the website, and all levels of artistic experience are welcome. Those wishing to remain anonymous can do so.

“This is such an exciting project because it empowers people to speak up about what they’re experiencing,” says Richmond. “It’s powerful because it’s not about us as adults telling them what to do. We’re simply giving them a space to create and share their own stories.”

Visit youwillriseproject.com for more.

It’s an egg, not a vessel!

Lady Gaga Egg

You will be eggsterminated!

A Dalek from Doctor Who

Monsters at Easter? Why not? Jesus was a zombie!

Halloween time

If he’s this good at drilling, give me his number!

Egg hole driller

And some eggs are simply NSFW.

Just one more session where I show how to preserve and display these lovely eggs. Subscribe and you’ll be first to see it!

“I feel that Gauguin is evil,” Burns later told an investigator. “He has nudity and is bad for the children. He has two women in the painting and it’s very homosex­ual. I was trying to remove it. I think it should be burned. I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you.”

I’m kind of amused how the two women in the painting look like they’re going, “WTF is she doing?” It’s like Gauguin saw the future!

From chat rooms in the late 80s to today’s mobile apps with geo-location, the digital realm is having a growing impact on how we meet others and how we think about who we are.

Some see it as a good thing, others think it’s a part of a digital apocalypse.

Remember when we had to design and pass out flyers to get people to come to our shows?

Under the name Billy Brown, Michael explored a sexier side of himself by working as a go-go boy in Texas clubs in the name of art.

He turned from performance art to architecture and then finally to interactive app design to explore how people connect with the world around them and the nature of desire.

Listen as we talk about how YouTube is the new performance art scene.

The five type of photos you need to make a sexy connection online.

And all the hot news:

Hope this Chinese delicacy doesn’t become an import- eggs boiled in boy’s pee!

and a man is arrested for stealing from his boss, you won’t believe what he took.

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Nude Green Leaves and Bust

The painting “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” by Pablo Picasso that sold last year for $106.5 million at Christie’s in New York is on display in London for the first time in 60 years.

It is the most expensive painting sold at public auction but it’s reported that Ronald S.Lauder privately purchased a portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Klimt for $135 million in 2006.

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An artist on Ebay gets revenge against an another artist in China for stealing his homoerotic concepts. But the thing about getting revenge against someone in China is that you are hungry for more revenge an hour later.

Meet Arthur, the town drunk of Sligo, Ireland. Be careful he doesn’t step on you, after all, he is ten feet tall and a puppet. No telling what damage he could do.

Arts and crafts! Once the domain of lonely housewives, frustrated gay men and tortured children at day camps, the art of making things by hand is having a renaissance on the internet, with sites like Etsy allowing crafts people to make and sell all sorts of fabulous merchandise.

But just like that Arts and Crafts fair at your local community center, many people use the site to connect with others and they find all sorts of colorful ways to get into your business and offer advice or even pick fights over your style and art.

Today we’re joined by visual artist Kenny Stein, who under the alias Brian Kenny makes glittery postcards with vintage images of hunks, pin-up gals, mugshots and circus freaks.

Listen as Kenny shares with us his stories on making it big, fighting with Christian fundamentalists on Etsy and the horrific homemade arts and crafts atrocities featured on the popular blog Regretsy.

Plus all the hot news:

Tortured animals are found on a bestiality farm in Washington State. Will Richard Gere adopt them?

The Supreme Court struggles to understand the difference between emails and pagers in a landmark hearing for employee privacy rights.

Wu Yulu- a Chinese farmer devotes his life to making robots out of scrap materials and is about to unleash his creations on the world.

The popular Hitler parody videos on YouTube are taken down for copyright infringement, even though the fair use videos have increased rentals and purchases of the German-Austrian film Downfall.

And a heated discussion erupts on our site over the originality of Lady Gaga and the creation of culture.

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The controversy is heating up over the Smithsonian including and then removing a video containing religious and gay imagery from the exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” which explores how sexual orientation and gender identity have shaped American art.

In this video Congressman Jack Kingston seems upset that the exhibit also includes a photo of Ellen Degeneres “grabbing her own breasts.” Perhaps he wanted to see Ellen grab someone else’s breasts.

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The video, “A Fire in My Belly” by David Wojnarowicz is an edited version of a thirty minute video he created in 1987. It is described as “a compilation of footage largely shot in Mexico, weaving together numerous images of loss, pain, and death into a metaphor for the AIDS epidemic; it concludes in a picture of the world aflame.”

The artist, David Wojnarowicz died from AIDS-related illness in 1992.

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Here’s the video edited in a different way on Youtube. This is not the exact same version that was in the Smithsonian exhibit.