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Leather boy

Visual Tales is another of those web magazines which presents us with fashion items few people would buy, garnished with or draped upon delectable examples of male pulchritude. I am not complaining. The tattooed object of desire is Dan Felton and the photos are by Bell Soto. Dan’s etiolated physique may not pass muster with many bondage enthusiasts but he gets my vote. Via VGL.

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• Corset boy
• The tights have it
• Bondage Machine
• Bad boy
• Boy wonder

Fabulas Panicas by Jodorowsky

August 13th, 1967.

More psychedelia of a sort although it’s arguable whether Alejandro Jodorowsky’s cosmic surrealism can ever be pigeon-holed so easily. Fabulas Panicas (Panic Fables) is a comic strip that Jodorowsky was writing and drawing for a Mexican newspaper in the late Sixties. The text is all in Spanish, of course, but going by the visuals in the examples gathered on this site the concerns seem to be the usual Jodorowsky fare. Jay Babcock who provided the tip (thanks Jay!) interviewed Jodorowsky in 2003 and the conversation touched on this as well as his other comic works.

June 9th, 1968.

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• Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune
• Jodorowsky on DVD

The Dukes declare it’s 25 O’Clock!

25 O’Clock (1985). Andy Partridge’s great cover design.

The DUKES say it’s time…it’s time to visit the planet smile…it’s time the love bomb was dropped…it’s time to eat music…it’s time to kiss the sun…it’s time to drown yourself in SOUNDGASM and it’s time to dance through the mirror. The DUKES declare it’s 25 O’CLOCK.

It was twenty-five years today—April 1st, 1985—that Virgin Records released what was supposed to be a reissue of a lost psychedelic album from the late 1960s, 25 O’Clock by The Dukes of Stratosphear. The catalogue number was WOW 1 and the vinyl label was printed with the old black-and-white Virgin logo by Roger Dean even though Virgin Records wasn’t founded until 1972. No one was supposed to know that the album was really a pastiche project by XTC but I don’t recall anyone actually being fooled by this, all the reviews acknowledged XTC as the originators, and band members Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding were happy to give interviews enthusing about their musical obsessions. As well as being incredibly successful artistically the album was a surprising commercial success which led the bemused record label to ask for a sequel. Psonic Psunspot followed two years later, and the Dukes’ vibe infected XTC’s own work for a while, with their 1988 album, Oranges & Lemons, pitched somewhere between the pastiches and XTC’s more usual sound .

Psonic Psunspot (1987). Design by Dave Dragon and Ken Ansell.

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Robert Gligorov

Endo #6 (2000).

More photography pushing the boundary between recording and invention. I’ve no idea what’s happening in Endo #6 but that’s surely part of the attraction of this kind of image.

Via Aeris Morpheme.