Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility — unmistakably modern, a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with it — that goes by the cult name of “Camp.” WOW this is such an amazing …
Category Archives: MAFA ZINE
Avant-Gard Film
avant-garde /ˌavɒ̃ˈɡɑːd/ noun new and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature.“he has been called a promoter of the avant-garde” Experimental and Avant Gard film is a practice that challenge the order, rules and structure of traditional film making. It re evaluates linear narrative. A lot of the early experimental films used and …
Circus Of Books
Some time I forget about the posts I write. I was about to write a new post about Andy Warhol Empire State Building when I looked at the last blog post and resized I had written a post about Satan!!!!!! (REALY)…. How funny 🙂 So I reread what I wrote, as I was going to …
SATAN
Every year at the pride parade you always get a small group of people taking up space sharing opinion while holding signs that read something like “God hates fags” or “Fags go to hell”. I remember thinking if God hates all fags and all fags go to Hell then maybe Hell isn’t that bad of …
MEMORIALISING GAY HISTORY
The Gay Liberation Monument in NYC’s gay village is a monument made to commemorate the Stonewall Riots. It was made by George Segal you may of seen his work before, its pretty great. When it was made it was too controversial for New York city to instal due to the subject mater being risky for …
Home and Garden
Perfect Pairing
Years ago a well known coffee establishment called Starbucks invented a term “perfect pairing“. A perfect paring is when Starbucks sell you the customer a coffee paired with delicious confectionary treat. For example a coffee and a pink fluffy cup cake. It is called a perfect paring because each item separately are fine but together they …
LGBTI+ History
VITO RUSSO https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/episode-01-10/ Vito Russo was an inspiring LGBTI+ activist who challenged the represntation of the LGBTI+ community in film He wrote an amazing book called The Celluloid Closet which explores in detail the misconceptions and twisted notions of the queer community in film. He was also an active and involved member of the group …
Queer Spaces
https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/9kpp45/the-new-exhibition-exploring-queer-spaces-in-london-from-past-to-present Making A Queer Space at UAL is a small diorama placed under a chair made out of the welcome to UAL hand book with a cameo appearance by the village people. One thing that is important to note that queer voices matter and queer spaces are needed. Queer spaces are disappearing left right and …