...I'm off to the best parties in town!
CAMP: "A cornucopia of frivolity, incongruity, theatricality, and humour." "A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love." "The lie that tells the truth." "Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to or characteristic of homosexuals."
Showing posts with label Vintage posters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vintage posters. Show all posts
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
Friday, 17 April 2020
Sunday, 27 December 2015
Marlene on the Wall
"I had no desire to be a film actress, to always play somebody else, to be beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me."
"I'm not an actress - I'm a personality."
"There is a lack of dignity to film stardom."
"I never ever took my career seriously."
"I was an actress. I made films. Finish."
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (27th December 1901 – 6th May 1992)
Saturday, 31 October 2015
Thursday, 5 June 2014
Divine Saves The World
From Dangerous Minds:
In San Francisco in the 1970s, Todd Trexler was one of the most prolific and sought-after poster artists for the city’s predictably amazing drag scene. He generated many posters for the Nocturnal Dream Shows and midnight movie screenings at the Palace Theater on 1741 Powell Street (it was also called the Pagoda later on). His attention-grabbing yet stately posters captured and perhaps helped define the distinct aesthetic of San Francisco’s drag happenings. The contrast of Art Deco filigrees to big personalities like Divine and the Cockettes is very effective.Divine decadence, indeed.
Sadly, Trexler passed away in February of this year at the age of 70. His essential posters can be seen in an exhibition that opens this week at Magnet (4122 18th Street) in the Castro district of San Fransisco. Some of the items have not been on display in 40 years.
As an art student in 1968, Trexler began making posters, many of them hand-drawn. He was close with Sebastian (or, as he was also known, Milton Miron), a key member of the Cockettes. Todd continued to do work for them for a number of years in the 70s, before moving to Monterey to attend nursing school in 1979.
Here’s Trexler on the “Divine Saves the World” poster shown above:
"I absolutely adored working with Glenn on the few occasions that I did! The day that we planned to take photos for the VICE PALACE poster I’ll never forget. Glenn and I sat in the back seat of a car with Sebastian in the front. We drove around San Francisco looking for a place to use as a backdrop. We ended up at the Palace of Fine Arts and decided it was perfect! Glenn was in makeup, bib-overalls with the sides split to make them large enough. He had tossed a couple of 50’s net prom dresses in the trunk of the car. He slipped into a pair of open-toed backless mules and wrapped the prom dresses around himself and instantly became DIVINE! I took the photo and that poster is an all-time favorite of my poster career."
Todd Trexler posters website
Friday, 28 June 2013
It's Gay Pride eve
...we're taking our "three steps to instant loveliness"...
...and we're almost ready to go!
Happy Gay Xmas Eve!
Gay Pride in London 2013
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Thursday, 29 March 2012
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