#james castle

[jaxxy-girl]

Catcher in the rye hand...

Anyhow but yes this is related to the catcher in the rye, basically Holden yknow trying to catch every kid from falling off the cliff. Phoebe was supposed to be in his palm but she flew away with the wind...the ones dangling are supposed to be the ones he lost and might have felt like he failed, the yellow being James Castle and the red being Allie Caulfield.

[blondebrainpowered]

Untitled construction (turkey), not dated on found paper, color, soot, string

This artwork is currently in the collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

James Castle was born in 1899 to Frank and Mary Castle in the sparsely-populated mountain community of Garden Valley, Idaho. His parents served as postmasters in Garden Valley from 1901 to 1923, working out of the living room of the family home. James, the fifth of seven surviving children, was deaf from birth. He began drawing at about age six and, from age ten to fifteen, attended the School for the Deaf and the Blind in the Idaho town of Gooding, 150 miles away. The Castle family moved to Star, Idaho, in 1923 and purchased the Star Grinding Mill. Frank Castle died in 1927, and Mary moved with James in 1931 to a property on the outskirts of Boise. When his mother died in 1948, James lived in the Boise house with his sister Agnes (Peggy), her husband Guy Wade, and their four children until he died in 1977.

Castle gained recognition as an artist in the early 1950s when his nephew Bob Beach, while attending the Museum Art School in Portland, Oregon, showed his uncle’s drawings to his instructors. Castle’s work was then included in exhibitions throughout the northwest, with one-person shows in 1963 and 1976 at the Boise Gallery of Art, now the Boise Art Museum.

Castle's work is now shown internationally.

For more information: https://jamescastle.com/james-castle-biography/

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

James Castle

[hereditarybiggulp]

Barebackula (2016)

This campy, steamy raucous celebration of bare adult content is liberatory and as fun as it is hot. The film was nominated for 3 Gay VN awards and 10 Grabbys, under the direction of the prolific GayVN hall of fame inductee and founder of Lucas Entertainment, Michael Lucas (XBIZ Awards: GLBT Director of the Year [with Tony DiMarco], multi-time GayVN award winner, Grabby Best Newcomer – Director winner, known for Fire Island Cruising and La Dolce Vita). The story is a retelling of the events of Dracula, specifically, the story focuses on the portion of Dracula's story where Jonathan Harker stays with Count Dracula in his castle in the Carpathian Mountains. This movie is a good time and is a celebration of a new era for gay adult film and gay culture more generally.

In a similar fashion, Jonathan Harder (James Castle, who won best actor at the GayVN awards for this film; Ass Fucking Alpha Males, Bare to the Bone 1 and 2), an English attorney, arrives at Count Barebackula's Castle Bare in the land of Truvadia. When Barebackula (Damon Heart, Grabby winner; Spain in the Ass, The Rental Property) opens the door, with dark eyeliner and eyeshadow, the seduction of Jonathan Harder begins.

While showing his guest around the house, the sounds of moans can be heard through a door. Harder seems concerned or surprised. Barebackula explains that Harder is hearing "The music of my house." Barebackula opens the door to reveal two similarly dark-eyed men going at it, undisturbed by the opening of the door, played by Dylan James (who won a Grabby for his work in the next scene; The Perfect Gift, Top Management) and Alex Kof (Daddy's Home, Hot to Sub). The two are uninhibited in their lust for each other, and Barebackula and Harder watch from the doorway. Harder seems bewildered, but slowly starts to rub himself, and Barebackula smirks and walks away, leaving Harder to enjoy the scene in front of him privately. As the two wrap up their fun, Harder makes himself scarce, still hoping to not be caught.

This leaves an opening for Dylan James to slip in and find Barebackula enjoying the smell of Harder's underwear from his luggage. Barebackula beckons James and says he hopes he has some more to share for him. Dylan James, eager to please his master, happily provides. Harder, evidently looking for his luggage again, finds the master of the house bottoming for his servant, and Harder finds himself rubbing himself more earnestly this time. Barebackula looks at one point, unclear whether it is to Dylan James or to Jonathan Harder, "I want your cum." The two are sexually free and dynamic with one another, with their desires and exploring each other's bodies.

Harder then is provided his room, where he will stay for the duration of his visit with the count, who provides two servants to amuse Harder, having seen how much Harder enjoyed seeing the two scenes prior. Here Barebackula also gives a speech to Harder and explains that in his castle, the men inside enjoy bareback sex, and Harder looks timid and admits that he's never had bareback sex. Barebackula's servants, Alex Kof and Mario Domenech (Men in the City 1 & 2, The Meat Rack) join Harder in bed, and his reservations turn into uninhibited lust as the three go at it, the two servants coaxing the desire out of Harder.

The narration tells us after that Harder stays for weeks and starts to rival Barebackula's servants in his sexual appetites. Barebackula's seduction is almost complete. Harder approaches Barebackula and asks to be converted to being like Barebackula. He explains that he has to feed on the load that Harder gives him. So the two of them start to make that entirely possible. Harder does not need to bring down his walls of repression for this scene, but eagerly supplies Barebackula with what he wants, and as he tastes, Harder's eyes turn dark like the other servants, so that he can live forever in Castle Bare in the mountains of Truvadia, and continue to delight in its revelries.

This movie is the seduction of Jonathan Harder from a sexually repressed British attorney into a sexually liberated 'monster' that leaves his society life behind to pursue his own pleasure. It's a celebration of the advent of PrEP, which came on the market in 2012, and was only out for four years when this film was made. Barebackula, set in the fictional Truvadia (thinly veiled reference to the first mainstream PrEP available, Truvada), is equally a seduction and celebration of its viewer, who watches the first two scenes just as Jonathan Harder does—the figure of the voyeur is no longer featured after Jonathan gives into his own desires and breaks out of his own repression. Harder is the late adopter of PrEP, who has lived in the shadow of the AIDS Crisis for the past thirty years, who is curious, but unsure; he's the well-adjusted, middle-class gay man, that the just-like-everyone-else gay rights movement of the 2000s sought to produce, but has desires that don't fit the station that he's found himself in.

Barebackula and his servants seduce Harder by showing him another way of being, one that is free and free of shame and fear, and invites the viewer to become monsters along with him.

[jackrussle]

James Castle's cardboard sculptures

[anotherdiamonday]

James Castle, House, c. 1910-1977

[thepapersnail]

James Castle, Untitled (Two Buildings), n.d., soot and spit on card

[baebeylik]

James Castle (Corn). American. 1910-1977 CE. © James Castle Collection and Archive.

Whitney Museum of American Art.