Graham Kolbeins

Ephemera, inspiration, artwork and footwear. grahamkolbeins.com

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With just over 5 days left, we need your help to complete the Queer Japan Kickstarter! Pledge your support today and help us tell these crucial stories of artists and activists in the Japanese LGBTQ community. 

Queer Japan on Kickstarter: http://kck.st/1TeKRIb

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If you follow me on any other social media you’ve heard about this far too much by now, but-- I’m directing a new documentary called Queer Japan and we’re in the final days of our Kickstarter! Check out the rewards (a lot of rad stuff from MASSIVE and some of the artists in the film) and please pledge to help us get this movie made!

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Some movies I liked in 2015!  Titles link to the trailers. 

Clouds of Sils Maria Dir. Olivier Assayas

Kumiko the Treasure Hunter Dir. David Zellner

What Happened Miss Simone? Dir. Liz Garbus

Nasty Baby Dir. Sebastian Silva

Nightingale Dir. Elliott Lester

Mad Max: Fury Road Dir. George Miller

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Dir. Roy Andersson

Xenia Dir. Panos H. Koutras

Tangerine Dir. Sean Baker

Carol Dir. Todd Haynes

Love Hotel Dir. Philip Cox and Hikaru Toda

Iris Dir. Albert Maysles

I used to do this every year on my old art blog. I decided to start the year by deactivating my Facebook for a while so I figured I’d channel my social media energy into Tumblr and start this uncritical, unranked listing of movies up again. 

There are still a ton of possibly very good movies I need to see from 2015. Current To-See list: The Assassin, Anomalisa, Appropriate Behavior, Chi-Raq, Star Wars 7, It Follows, Goodnight Mommy, Joy, Inside Out, The Big Short, Spotlight, Straight Outta Compton, Jafar Panahi's Taxi, White God, Timbuktu, Room, Spy, Creed... the list goes on. Also some of the above are technically 2014 releases. Oh well! 

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“Realiti” by Grimes

My anthem of late.

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Nike Air Command Force!

Birthday present from Ricardo. My life is complete. 

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Broke the punching bag at Gold's Gym on my first day using it. BOOM!

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Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It edited by Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins; introduction by Chip Kidd

280-page black & white 7” x 10” softcover • $35.00 ISBN: 978-1-60699-785-7

Ships in: December 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now

Big, burly, lascivious, and soft around the edges: welcome to the hyper-masculine world of Japanese gay manga. Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It is the first English-language anthology of its kind: an in-depth introduction to nine of the most exciting comic artists making work for a gay male audience in Japan. Jiraiya, Seizoh Ebisubashi and Kazuhide Ichikawa are three of the irresistibly seductive, internationally renowned artists featured in Massive, as well as Gengoroh Tagame, the subject of The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga. Get to know each of these artists intimately, through candid interviews, photography, context-providing essays, illustrations and manga. Massive also includes the groundbreaking, titillating work of gay manga luminaries Takeshi Matsu, Fumi Miyabi, Inu Yoshi, Gai Mizuki and comic essayist Kumada Poohsuke.

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MASSIVE

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@grahamkolbeins with his childhood acting headshot. Very sexy baby.

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TEX  by Beau Rice Published by Penny-Ante Editions Release Date: 11/18/2014

penny-ante.net/title/tex/

Book trailer by Graham Kolbeins

In the twenty-first century, relationships have been transformed in unprecedented ways. Technology has birthed a paradoxical space between isolation and connectivity, profoundly expanding the possibilities for how and with whom we create intimacy.

An experiment between the epistolary and the ectype, Tex is a performance act in print. Featuring walk-ons by various interlocutors, this mnemonic outpour examines the potentiality of relationships in the digital age. Metonymic displacements, grammatical violations and verbal spillage form this rowdy non-narrative documenting one LA artist’s sexual exploits, an evolving attachment to Texas-based former fling, Matt G, and the determination and opportunism involved with the continually forthcoming publication of this, his first book.

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"Pochative ~ Body mo Heart mo Glamorous" (ぽちゃティブ～BodyもHeartもグラマラス～), 2014  by la BIG 3

Plump, plump, positive!

Hamburg, fried chicken, yakiniku,

Pancakes, macaroons, donuts,

Delicious, happy!

Find happiness!

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Paprika (2006) opening credits. R.I.P. Satoshi Kon.

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Just started back at the gym, and trying to remember Arnold's words when my whole body is sore as fuck. #cumming

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Dear humans: please destroy all guns and weapons of mass destruction.