Future Fashion Week
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18 January 2012
The future is near and it might not look like everyone expect it to be.
In a wild, noisy, spammed world with cameras and facial recogintion we might be surrounded by awild ecosystem of automata, robots, and all kinds of virtual parasites. The right to stay anonymous and disconnected will be extremely important, the new parameters will change our sight on everything. What today may seem the sign of oppression might tomorrow be a sign of freedom….
Schwarzrosagold/Mathias Vef realized this project at the Royal College of Art, London in colaboration with Ching Ling Lee and Min Su Kim.
WISHING YOU A SEXY XMAS
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24 December 2011
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Je vous souhaite à tous un Joyeux Noël et une Bonne et Heureuse nouvelle Année.
Auguro a tutti un Buon Natale e un Felice Anno Nuovo.
Les deseo a todos una Feliz Navidad y un Feliz Año Nuevo.
Seni isteyen tüm bir Noeller ve mutlu bir yeni yıl.
Jeg ønsker jer alle en glædelig jul og et godt nytår.
Ik wens u allen een Zalig Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar.
وأتمنى لكم جميعا عيد ميلاد مجيد وسنة جديدة سعيدة.
Svima vam želim Sretan Božić i Sretna Nova godina.
Я желаю вам всем счастливого Рождества и счастливого Нового года.
Желим ти све Срећан Божић и Срећна Нова Година.
Desejo a todos um Feliz Natal e um Feliz Ano Novo.
Życzę wszystkim Wesołych Świąt i Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku.
Εύχομαι σε όλους Καλά Χριστούγεννα και Ευτυχισμένο το Νέο Έτος.
Vă doresc tuturor un Crăciun fericit şi un An Nou Fericit.
Jeg ønsker dere alle en riktig God Jul og et Godt Nytt År.
Jag önskar er alla en God Jul och ett Gott Nytt År.
Přeji vám všem veselé Vánoce a šťastný nový rok.
Szeretném, ha minden kellemes karácsonyi ünnepeket és boldog új évet.
Tibi opto in Christmas et Kalendis.
Ju uroj gjithë të një Gëzuar Krishtlindjet dhe Gëzuar Vitin e Ri një.
काश तुम एक मेरी क्रिसमस और एक नया साल मुबारक हो सब.
Желая ти всичко Весела Коледа и Щастлива Нова година.
FREE AND EQUAL IN DIGNITY AND RIGHTS
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7 December 2011
The historic speech delivered by Secretary Clinton at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
Thank you, Hillary
A Spectrum of Future
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26 November 2011
FutureTense: SPECTRAI, Chuck Elliot: Radial/TWO
The Londoner exhibition Space FutureTense in Shoreditch drags people in with a giant iris looking outside. The disarming work of british artist Chuck Elliot opens a ‘survey of dynamic use of color in contemporary art’, which can be taken literally.
The veils of color in Elliots poetic prints on a slightly shiny metallic paper are just the perlude to even more vibrant tones like in Lee Bakers’s Refractive Monolith for which he used 15.000 meters of yarn.
FutureTense: SPECTRAI, Lee Baker: Refractive Monolith
FutureTense: SPECTRAI, Lee Baker: Refractive Monolith
FutureTense: SPECTRAI, Chuck Elliot: Radial/ONE
welcome to vauxhall
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25 November 2011
Vauxhall is a special area in London. Many gays might know it for nightlife pleasure. The whole area has a tradition of that, starting with the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in previous centuries. Today the Royal Vauxhall Tavern provides pleasure and performance but also for around 150 years! Performance is a gift of pleasure in both ways – for the people you watch it and for the performer himself or as one put it “You are my therapy”. Today people come here to see “purveyors of progressive working class entertainment” – and hopefully will continue to get entertained for the next 150 years.
The portraits are from two shots for a project at the Royal College of Art, one outside on the streets in between after hour clubs, sex clubs and the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. The other was done in the Tavern during it’s successful Saturday’s show “Duckie’s”
Thanks a lot to the Royal Vauxhall team!
resistance is futile
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22 November 2011
Resistance Premiere: Schwarzrosagold, New York Painter Mark Lorenzetto with Resistance actors Tom Wlaschiha & Andrea Riseborough
Resistance Premiere: Actors Tom Wlaschiha, Andrea Riseborough, Writer Owen Sheers and Director Amit Gupta
Tom Wlaschiha stars side by side with Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen in Resistance, a drama set in an alternate Britain in which D-Day has failed and the country is under Nazi occupation.
We were at the London premiere this weekend to celebrate this great movie. This Monday the premiere in Wales followed with the participation of his Royal Highness Prince Charles of Wales.
Tom-(c)-Schwarzrosagold2011
Even more exciting, Tom is just playing the Jaqen H’ghar in the HBO series “Games ofd thrones”. For those who haven’t seen him in a movie yet – have a look at Brian Singer’s Valkyrie, Joseph Vilsmaier’s Bergkristal or Krabat by Marco Kreuzpaintner.
We will keep you updated with an interview and a photoshoot we just did with Tom.
who thinks about you?
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15 November 2011
Tom thinks about you all time, so you should come to the party of the young multitalented DJ, Fashion designer, model and much more. So now its time for you to think about him and come to his party this sunday, Dec. 11th from 2pm @ SK Robinson, Skalitzer Str. 36 in Berlin Xberg.
Je ne regrette rien
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4 November 2011
MUTO Manifesto is a fully visual independent publication, created by Exterface “to glorify the beauty
and the vitality of the masculine figure”. The magazine is entirely designed by the stunning Parisian studio that is famous for creating fantasies between rough masculinity and soft photoshop mastery – and for their very personal and very sexy look on very good looking guys. Like Juliene et Stéphane themselves.
Exterface by Exterface
Bogotá
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31 October 2011
You have done Rio, Sao Paolo and Buenos Aires and didn’t event think about Bogotá? And if you did you thought it was dangerous? A lot has changed in Columbia’s capitol. The city officially claims that “the only danger is that you want to stay” – and they may be right! Bogotá is a surprise for almost everyone – the city, the restaurants, the café culture and the gay scene.
Chapinero or tenderly called “chapigay” is the center of Bogotá’s gay community. There are more than 100 bars, discos and clubs for the gay community in Bogotá, and most of them can be found in Chapinero,with the huge “Theatron” in the centre, on of the biggest and most popular gay discos in South America. That’s also where the grand finale of the biggest party weekend takes place – on Halloween.
Bogotá is full of surprises – not only that Columbia is one of the leading countries in LGBT rights and that the mayor of Chapinero, Blanca Inés Durán Hernández, is openly lesbian. There are a lot more social achievements – the TransMilenio, one of the most efficient public transport systems was created in just a few years, one of Bogota´s main roads turn into the “ciclovia” every sunday and is completey closed to make room for almost a million bikers and pedestrians, or the Virgilio Barco Public Library, that grants also the poorest in the city accces to bookss, computers and modern media. The library is named after the former president of Bogotá whose son Virgilio has been aleading LGBT rights acitivist and co founder of Columbia diversa.
Bogotá is full of great stories that have not been told yet. All you have to do is come and see. And maybe stay.
libray in Bogotá (c) schwarzrosagold 2011
left: Virgilio Barco. Right: the ciclovia on a sunday
mach dich zum horst
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14 October 2011
There is a lot of big words around, when “Multitalented photographer Armin Morbach” decides to start a new magazine. A magazine can speak for itself – and listen what it says:
“The magazine addresses a highly financially significant target group.The project will be focused on the lifestyle of modern gay men who don’t define themselves on the basis of their sexual orientation. It’s about being a man, being at ease with your body, with your desires, with your needs, with your habits, with your sexuality. The visuals will be breathtaking high-end images incorporating expressive, mind-blowing and sometimes even shocking subjects.”
Horst tries hard to imitate marketing genius Steve Jobs (R.I.P.) by limiting the first issue and claiming to send it “exclusively to the world’s most important decision makers, creating a medium for presenting products to people you’ve never been able to reach before”. Hmm, we are still waiting for ours.
But for now anyone can reach there willing to spend 33,99 Euros for a magazine.
Well – it’s gay. It’s out. Let’s see.
1955 – 2011
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5 October 2011
R.I.P.
bøsse schwule
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16 September 2011
Anonyous artist HuskMitNavn and the designer Troels Øder Hansen, designed a queer salt and pepper set called Gordon & Andreas. Its a game on the word „bøsse“ which means both homosexual or box/salt shaker. The two gay friends are available with or without a leather vest at Normann Copenhagen.
John Palatinus
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1 September 2011
Rick Conroy, Photo by John Paladinus, circa 1958
John Palatinus, the last living pioneer of the legendary beefcake era, arrives in Berlin with a spectacular exhibition. After loosing all his works in 1959 through a raid by postal inspectors and NYPD, John worked for more than forty years in fashion and interior design photography.
From 1954 to 1959, Palatinus worked in his studios in Northern Indiana and New York City, photographing young male bodybuilders. His photographs were published in numerous bodybuilding magazines of the era, most notably Tomorrow’s Man, a pocket-sized publication featuring males with posing straps or other coveringsfor their privates. At that time in America, it was illegal to send even seminude photographs through the U.S. Mail.
In early 1959 his now classic photographs were driven from the market by zealous US Postal Inspectors aided by the New York Police Department in highly-publicized raids. All of John’s his cameras, equipment, photographs, negatives, and mailing lists were confiscated and never returned.
Now, after more than half a century, his almost forgotten work has been re-discovered, thanks to the work of archivist and curator of vintage physique photography Alan Harmon.
Vernissage: 07. Sept. 2011 19.00 // Fetish reception 10.Sept 16.00 //
Exhibition until 15. October at CAFÉ DES ARTISTES, Fuggerstraße 35 – 10777 Berlin
Bad Gastein: a sleeping beauty
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25 August 2011
Enchanting. Magical. Fashionable. Eccentric. Breathtaking. Crazy. Unique. Regardless which word you pick – it fits this extraordinary place. Once praised as the “Monaco of the Alps”, today, the term “Sleeping Beauty of the Universe” is more fitting to Bad Gastein. A magical sleeping beauty who isn’t sure whether she wants to be kissed or not. However it ends up, this place has charm, energy and a charisma that seeks people of its equal.”
Dining room at Hotel Miramonte (c) Schwarzrosagold 2010
If you want to meet the people who came up with these words, you can stay in the Miramonte, a Hotel between a James Bond movie and a “Heimatfilm”, or Haus Hirt, where Thomas Mann is said to be inspired for his ”Felix Krull” or Das Regina, the urban rocker in a rural jungle.
Well, we have all seen dramatic mountain peaks before. But the combination with Bad Gastein, this mad architectural Fata Morgana: that is unique. Hard to grasp. Especially not in words. And even if you were to succeed, then three are enough: What a view.
Suspension bridge in Bad Gastein (c) Schwarzrosagold 2011
Sommer.frische.kunst
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19 August 2011
Kunstresidenz in BadGastein (c) Schwarzrosagold 2011
The newly establish art festival sommer.frische.kunst tries to connect to Bad Gastein’s past as a glamourous summer destination. The “kunstresidenz” provides seven international artists an opportunity to create new work while living at the “Kunstresidenz”, the “kunstfestival shining” presents contemporary art, and the music festival summer jazz in the city brings the sounds of jazz to Bad Gastein.
Artist Phillip Fürhofer, known for his light boxes and set design was inspired to create two exceptional pieces that deal with kitsch and kik.
Phillip Fürhofer at Kunstreseidenz Bad Gastein (c) Schwarzrosagold 2011
After Art Party at Hotel Regina (c) Schwarzrosagold 2010
The workers works
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4 August 2011
It’s not only famous artists such as Sven Marquardt, Marc Brandenburg or Piotr Nathan that tribute to Berghain’s tradition of being a new definition of contempory culture.
From August 18th to 26th more than 40 artists Berghain and OstGut staff members will present their works on the ground floor of KUBUS, the yet unexploited part of Heizkraftwerk Friedrichshain and will be presenting paintings, photography, installation art, sound and music within the conceptual open designed group exhibition.
The exhibition is open to the public from August 19th to 26th between 4 and 10pm. The vernissage on August 18th will be followed by an opening party at Panorama Bar from 10pm.
For the Vernissage-Party on 18.08.2011, 10pm amongst others Rummelsnuff will be rocking the Panorama Bar, the closing party is a week later on 26.08.2011, 10pm in the Berghain Kantine.
Danish Delicatessen
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28 July 2011
Danes are delicate. Gordon knew he was, and so naughty Lars had an eye on him. But cheeky Gordon irked around, so he had to be called to order.
Just Sad… Good Bye Amy
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24 July 2011
Amy Winehouse (C) Schwarzrosagold
Fashion Week
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6 July 2011
While the fashion scene of the world is gathering in Berlin to look for the latest fashion trends you are one step ahead. Show your DoubleNeonDoubleNeon pants or get our brand new Unisex tops. Blur your eyes and wear Berlin with a nonconformist twist and feel comfortable besides Bread and Butter basics and Premium Posh. It’s up to you – hand-printed in Berlin or mass made in Asia.
Schwarzrosagold Berlin. Wear it with pride.
Schwarzrosagold Fashion - handprinted with love
São Paulo Pride 2011
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3 July 2011
São Paulo Pride 2011 (C) Schwarzrosagold
When three million people gather in Brazil, you’ll sure have a party. It wasn’t carnival that was hosted in the 20 million city São Paulo, but the biggest gay pride on this planet. As a call for equal rights, this giant voice reached out to change the world’s biggest catholic country. Having already an equal rights civil partnership, a brazilian court voted this week to open marriage for same sex couples.
Together with Argentinia, the two South American countries show how much there is still to fight for in Germany.
Schwarzrosagold reported for Gay guide Spartacus and MÄNNER magazine from the middle of that amazing crowd with people from all social classes, between all the hotties, the trannies, the dykes and the thousands of supporters, which was awe-inspiring. The impressive concrete jungle of São Paulo was the perfect background for this massive statement of pride and revealed later that nights its magic again in the clubs and bars with the deliciousness of the Paulistas.
São Paulo Pride 2011 (C) Schwarzrosagold & Priscilla Vilariño
São Paulo Pride 2011 (C) Schwarzrosagold
São Paulo Pride 2011 (C) Schwarzrosagold
São Paulo Pride 2011 (C) Schwarzrosagold
Sao Paulo Pride 2011 - The Week (C) Schwarzrosagold
São Paulo Pride 2011 - Mr Gay Diversidade (C) Schwarzrosagold
São Paulo Pride - City Center & Copan (C) Schwarzrosagold
São Paulo Pride MASP & Auditorium (C) Schwarzrosagold
São Paulo (C) Schwarzrosagold
