Alone Time

As the name suggests, this blog is first and foremost for things that might be of interest to me when I am indulging in same. Hence pictures that scratch various itches or indulge particular fancies of mine. I have tagged them for my convenience, though the names of the tags may be slightly opaque — not out of perversity, but just because they please me. The tags are listed below. I also link to various blogs which I follow, with brief descriptions and/or judgements. As solipsistic as all that sounds, I am extremely susceptible to flattery and adore answering questions. I also like to write captions for pictures; the tag #captioned is one of the few that is self-explanatory. I have pretty specific tastes, but what is tumblr for if not the expression thereof? The captions that I wrote myself can be found under #selfish. Do let me know what you think. If you like my taste in pictures, it may be worth your while to have a look through my likes as well. As will be immediately apparent, I like men, I like control, and I like words. If you want to talk about any of those (especially in combination) feel free to be in touch.

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Birthday boy.

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Pietro Boselli by Ollie Ali – CR Men’s

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A 1942 poster aimed at recruiting medics for the U.S. Army. The artist was Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer. He was an Army vet himself, having served in the first World War. In 1942 he was tapped to serve as an artist for the War Department. Working from a studio in the Pentagon, Schlaikjer turned out dramatic scenes for recruitment and propaganda posters. He also painted portraits of Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Schlaikjer had a conservative view of art and its purposes. In 1933, he helped form a group called the Advance American Art Commission. The New York Times reported the panel was “designed to function solely for the purpose of publicly coping with the existing foreign evils and abuses threatening American Art."

The group formed during the controversy over a mural artist Digeo Rivera painted for the then-new Rockefeller Center in New York. In his autobiography, Rivera said the Advance American Art Commission “exploited the occasion to condemn the hiring of foreign painters in the United States.” He went on to describe the group’s members as “chauvinistic second-raters.”

After the war, Jes Schlaikjer continued his painting. He briefly taught art classes and took up blacksmithing as a hobby. He died in August 1982.

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Press headquarters, Algiers, 1943.

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I saw an online tutorial about how to make masks from old clothes, so I cut up this old pair of shorts! I had to hand sew it, and it came out too small, but it's not bad for a first try! What do you think?

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maybe the quarantine is… good??

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Oliver Svejstrup Brynnum

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Few things delight me more than when a person with a non-adult tumblr likes a bunch of my posts, and I realize I know something about them that most of their followers don’t.

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Taking Off

Click, reblog and follow.  Pass me around to all your friends.

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Jack O’Connell, photographed by Stefan Heinrichs for INTERVIEW Germany, summer 2016.

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i see sumn

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