Year: 2013

Above: The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting: Porn OH&S (YouTube) Update, April 11: Clarification and correction on the “Apple gay image censorship” story (below) from @ImageComics from @comiXology – apparently we didn’t have the whole story, and SAGA’s ‘response’ to Apple was… not completely clear. On Tuesday, mainstream news outlets covered the results from…

There are many astonishing data points about Thom Puckey‘s sculptures, and (warning) some of you may find them disturbing. Most of his work over the past decade is life-size, realistically detailed female subjects with different kinds of guns – sculpted flawlessly in marble (often monochrome marble, to be exact). Puckey explains, My project: marble figures,…

In the last five years prostitution in Brazil’s largest and richest city has had a makeover. A new type of brothel has proliferated – aimed at a younger, more funky, less reticent customer. Forget dirty old man, think guy-about-town. There are about 20 of these “luxury houses” in the city. It is no longer enough…