Above a sketch willem kok did of me
it was a trial for a letterhead
for my professional correspondence
in the field of my theater-light-designer work
It would have cost me a lot of orders
had I really gone ahead with it.
I did use another Willem image for quite
some time in the more tolerant eighties
and even that was not received
with great enthousiasm everywhere
So I ended up censoring my own naughty bits ;)
New territories recently explored on the db mc pages :
| mrt 11th: | Sometimes others do things better then you could ever do yourself. It's better to recognise this than trying to hide or deny that: it will hit you with a vengeange anyway: That's why I command you to see http://vidreel.com/video/NTkxMzY0/>an Englishman in New York in full and enjoy the part about the great work of Patrick Angus from 26:00 till 43:40. quote: they all rather have us hide the bloodshed and gore of our sexuality and say nothing: the nothing that everybody can feel comfortable with. | |
| mrt 7th: | extra frontpage adaptation heralding the Tom of Finland Artfair. | |
| mrt 1st: | a 4th ultra messy demonic shit gallery is online here. notice: There will be a pre-announced disruption of the weblog, the Euromess pages and the Delftboys masterclass pages coming sunday from 18h00 till mondaymorning 06h00 (CET) Roadworks in Denmark require unplugging of our servers essential glassfiber cables. Hope masterclass members will be able to enjoy Oscar night and preceding/following red carpet shows instead. the Delftboys homepage proper and all FREE ACCESS pages from NL and will not be affected. | |
| feb 22th: | no Valentine frontpage this year but we do have the golden god award to coincide with the oscars, here. | |
| feb 14th: | no Valentine frontpage this year at delftboys, but a special at the weblog. | |
| feb 11th: | an olympic art entry over at the weblog. | |
| feb 7th: | another fundamental (?!) essential (?!) entry over at the editorial page. | |
| feb 2nd: | art history highres update and an update of the Roger Payne stuff on art6 | |
| jan 24st: | This can hardly be called an update; more a major overhaul of the main gallery of one of the most valued artists on this site. Im talking about the Hun a.k.a. Bill Schmeling. None of his extreme works have been excluded here, so this gallery is not for the faintharted. He is unrivalled and essential in a complete overview of the great heroes of our culture. All works have lovingly and painstakingly been optimised from new scans by Martin of Holland. | |
| jan 16th: | quite interesting weblog entry about the home turf of the Tom of Finland Foundation. | |
| jan 8th: | Apart from the artists websites and professional archives I keep up with on the links page, there is a multitude of random, botcher entries without author details we seem to have to get used to on the gay art mail groups. But sometimes you come across someone who does take the trouble of going the extra mile in providing well researched details. Like Frounch. I just felt I had to give credit and point you to an interesting read (partly in French). | |
| jan 5th: | Interested in graffiti queer art and cruising in musea? Watch Keith Haring AVRO tv movie (if it works outside NL) | |
| jan 1st: | Happy new year! a Very entertaining page with lots of bareback art and vid clips here. (quite safe if you only watch) | |
| dec 22nd: | a full double sized christmas surprize package with all new content to warm you inside out during the dark days. | |
| dec 15th: | Maybe it does not show much in ass/cock/mouth leaking images, but I've worked my ass off to get a long term plan and financial support going to keep db queerart afloat during the recession and steer it towards long-term survival. The (illustrated) plan is online in Dutch an English from the editorial page.
besides that, stay tuned for an amazing all new christmas double bill next week, to keep you hot through the dark days | |
| dec 8th: | the page on german pre WWII history has had a substantial update. | |
| dec 2nd: | Just saw 'Da Vinci and the code he lived by' on the History Channel. Thought you might want to see it too (9 parts on Youtube in Portugese with subtitles) or the 18 parts in English BBC series ? | |
| nov 24th: | collected some great teazerart for the upcoming release of my friend Sean Platter's Demonic 666 sex the movie. note: this is a 1st in combining, classic draw- and paint techniques, with 3d animation and real live porn. If you have problems with bareback sex it may not be your thing. | |
| nov 15th: | loads of vids of the past 2 years of exhibitions at Mooi-Man Galery Groningen NL filmed my dear friend Menne Vellinga gathered together here. | |
| nov 8th: | some dead links on the previewart thumbs page have been restored, All of Bastille is accessible again without the complicated detour we had pulled up during the bleak Bush years. | |
| nov 1st: | after being flagged as infringing on the T.O.S. of youtube (unjustified, I might add, in my opinion) the video report clips on this spring's Tom of Finland artfair are placed online over at Vimeo: 1 artist reception 2 fair day 1 3 fair day 2 | |
| oct 24th: | a heart felt editorial update. | |
| oct 16th: | Daniel Gross's work has been all over the place here, just something not so sexual by hom this time, but beautifully sentimental about 'times they are a changing' but some things do come around every so often. Like the recent remake of the movie FAME | |
| oct 9th: | another gut churning extreme artists update . | |
| oct 1st: | glorious all new 41st general gallery. | |
| sep 22nd: | New entry at Martin's grumpy rants. from next month I will have stopped some of my quite distracting side activities, and focus on the core activity: reviewing and highlighting the cream of the crop in homo erotic art. | |
| sep 16th: | Watch the Mooi-Man open art fair stand build up last week in Utrecht NL. | |
| sep 1st: | On occasion of the Sailors theme on our splash page and because of the mooiman exhibition the Sailors and Pirates gallery is hugely extended. | |
| aug 20th: | On occasion of the elections in Afhanistan, I have a weblog entry today featuring 6 most apropriate artworks of Attila Richard Lukacs. Of course many more can be found in much higher resolution on his own site and a db gallery focussing on his homo erotic works is here . | |
| aug 13th: | reminder: sailors delight art exhib at Mooiman, last remaining homo artgallery in NL | |
| aug 6th: | update of Alexander the Great. | |
| aug 1st: | new gallery dedicated to Sailors and Pirates. Early coz of canalpride. | |
| july 28th: | Anybody going to Athens this summer ? | |
| july 20th: | Canal Pride Amsterdam this year is more overloaded with queer art then ever, both from elite and sub culture sources. See my selection of events to attend at the 18-06 entry of the weblog. Also today, on the 40th anniverary of the trip to the moon, and the 90th birthday of the start of Dutch aviation industries by Anthony Fucker our own Space adventure from that era by Brad Parker | |
| july 15th: | Update of Chistopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. | |
| july 7th: | Many activities drew me from the core activity of this site: to offer clean concise well presented overviews of the best and most remarkable our out-perv community has to offer, but I resisted! An all new delivery is here . | |
| july 1st: | Just 1 more mention of amazing dramatized documentary stuff from PBS: on The Greeks (The Golden Age) in 6 parts, depicting the struggles between civilization based on democracy or on dictatorship and slavery (what's new?) or Alexander the great, or the Kingdom of David. just as, intriguing . . . Also: exhib of new work of Theo van den Boogaard at serieuze zaken | |
| june 25th: | just remember Andre Durand here ! | |
| june 15th: | to improve the web presence, priority one is to be aware of your preferences, So please, could you find time to respond to this 1st survey ? | |
| june 7th: | The 2 homo art exhibs, I mentioned last week openen yesterday. Two impression vids: the 1st on the student poster exhibition in den Haag Spui subway station here and here in HD. The second one, in the prestigious Pulchri Studios is here and here (hd may load slower depending on your connection. | |
| june 2nd: | With 2 homo art exhibs close by, it's time to look at the local art niche. The blog entry of (25-04-09) reminded me of amazing work of sixties clear-line pioneer Theo van den Boogaard, He's been our most used front page artist: like 1, 2, 3 previous times, this hidden work, and a new summer db splash page too! So high time for a dedicated page! | |
| may 24th: | more amazing dramatized documentary stuff from PBS: on the 1st century of the Roman Empire. Yep, with Nero, Calligula, Augustus, Claudius, Tiberius and all the others, intriguing . . . arousing . . .horrifying | |
| may 17th: | he's this month's splash page: some works by AXEL are on the earlier art 33: amazingly fresh ! | |
| may 7th: | another amazing dramatized documentary series: The Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance, from PBS can be found in HD and in full episodes at youtube. It deals with the daring ideas of the family to no longer have blind faith in authority or church tradition but trust in and support for creative art and science, even if never tried before, even if challenging the powers that be, even if being accused of homosexuality . . . | |
| may 2nd: | Martin has told me time and again: the extreme artists needs an urgent update . | |
| apr 24st: | After seeing Simon Schama's superbly shot BBC 4 program on baroque about the feud between gay and superior architect Francesco Boromini and macho hetero Gian Lorenzo Bernini's colapsing bell towers of St Peter's in Rome around 1648 and the eventual suicide of Boromini and victory of Bernini, despite a bit of sodomy within St Peter, I give you my handheld camera views of the classic men/god-art at the Getty Villa at the pacific coast of Malibu Ca USA on youtube.
Sorry for the shaking; I did not have BBC crew, nor is one allowed to use a tripod in there. Further I found the above BBC program and more are online fully on youtube. | |
| apr 12st: | Some recent correspondence added on the community page. | |
| apr 6st: | Last month I was at the Tom of Finland artfair in LA, the one remaining true forum of perv culture (no it's not the pirates at a yahoogroup, who published the entire content of Sean Platter's life's ouvre in one go. I do hope in future we can all unite and get all of the creators working together with yahoo and google to make sure that other groups don't go the road of blatant piracy ) In the vids you can see preview shots of the upcoming next demonic sexs album: do go buy a legitimate printed version when it comes out, to keep Sean in business! Sorry for blowing off steam, On a lighter note, at the 3-4 and 30-3 entries of my weblog you'll find a photo/vid previews of the fair. For sincere fellow art lovers informal low-tech impressions of day 1 and day 2 are online. | |
| apr 1st: | as this month is Willem kok memorial month, he died exactly 10 years ago, a new page was called for (plus a splash page). | |
| mar 20th: | got a nice hd video here that you wouldn't find on youtube: it's Falco's temptations of King Ludwig of Bavaria. At 41 MB, do give it some time to load | |
| mar 12th: | though we never have been of the prudish persuation here, you might be flying somewhere and do some homework. Next to you, instead of an old lady that might be all smiles because of your tasty desktop imagerey, you have one of those nerdy 'gay twinks', that feels embarrassed and offended with all those tasty cocks on your screen, so a few new ones are added, that are perfectly suited for public work on laptops, and still give a hint as to where you're coming from (or going to): wallpapers for any situation. | |
| mar 8th: | yep, new: art 37. | |
| mar 1st: | new old Drum cartoons added. | |
| feb 21th: | coinciding with the Oscars, which hopefully will give some credit to the Milk movie, we always award a special homo erotic artist. | |
| feb 16th: | Yep, it's past Valentine's day again, so from today online our own Oscar: the Golden God award | |
| feb 14th: | Yep, it's almost Valentine's day again, here's a link to home cooked vidclips for the occasion . . . | |
| feb 5th: | Forgot this one by Matt. Updated now. | |
| feb 1st: | For those around Washington DC: the Dutch explorers began praising the beauty of the Hudson River Valley and founded New Amsterdam 400 years ago. Today, the National Gallery of Art in Washington opens a survey of Dutch street life, "Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age." The exhibit, fresh from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague, chronicles 17th-century city living during the early economic heyday of the Netherlands. See a slideshow here, with 2 images of my home town, courtesy of the Wallstreet Journal. You may argue it's not so gay, but then, do read my weblog entry of november 25th '08 about the first gay trial by the Dutch in NYC, with artwork by Michael Kirwan. That's when it started to go wrong with equal rights in the USA. Thanx, my fellow countrymen! | |
| jan 21th: | another path we might explore deeper in the future: vidart. | |
| jan 14th: | The Prado in Madrid issued a worldwide press statement that they placed Jeroen Bosch's Garden of Delight online in high resolution. Sadly, the result is a collapse of their webserver. For now, you can still see the work here on db/queerart, or on google earth in a crappy window or fullschreen if you're willing to download the latest google earth. personally, I feel the NL Rijksmuseum does a better job in unlocking their main treasures. | |
| jan 8th: | Now our basic cable provider (the same for him as for your's truly, webmaster here, as we live in the same area) has made another attempt to get their servers up to 21st century standards (9 years late, and their customer and help service is still abismal), Martin, filth master and db board member, has made another attempt to get a page he made himself online. Layout design still needs quite some work, but the content and wit is as you've learned to expect expect from a true cult founder. Go see for yourself. Of course this does not mean the end of his grumpy column here, nor will he relax his critical eye and dirty mind in scrutinizing content and spotting typos on db pages. | |
| jan 2nd: | first of the new design pages, dedicated to fucking. | |
| dec 25th: | Merry XXX mas, fellow perv-art addicts ! the last week of the year there are daily tasty surprises on the weblog | |
| dec 24th: | some of you have trouble finding your way inside the masterclass, and granted, over the years it has grown into a labyrinth that one can easily lose its way in. Some guys have even thrown out their own paths of pebbles (favorites folder) to the sections they like, but lots of you have thus forgotten there is quite a good start guide that can help you on your way to various as yet unchartered corridors and wings of this vast museum | |
| dec 20th: | A fully new page in the Christmas Spirit with a new optimistic feel for the new year | |
| dec 12th: | One of the pages I enjoyed updating most recently is the one called "is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me" | |
| dec 4th: | Quite some impressive Cowan additions at the neoclassic gallery. | |
| nov 21th: | This came up, so a Warhol update. | |
| nov 6th: | sadly we have to report that legendary queer cult venue Vagevuur in Eindhoven indefinitely closed its door today after more then 30 years of pioneering queer culture. The most painful in this is that it was caused by the actions of the pathetic remains of a party that was set up by another pioneer of gay rights, Pim Fortuyn, assasinated in 2002. Even more sad, and a strategy lesson for us all, is that they started their own demise by kicking out the original fighters generation, so desperately needed now, as they thought: if we stay nice and sweet, nobody will bother us. The same mistake made by some jews before WWII. Sadly we are now the only conservers of their art heritage. | |
| nov 4th: | before continuing on a new general page I had to restore the previous art 35. | |
| nov 1st: | new entry at editorial. | |
| oct 24th: | Some serious political issues kept me from my update schedule. You can read about it on the weblog and also on Martin's grumpy remarks, but bear with us, as we still keep our eyes focussed on the prize: A serious overview of the most amazing erotica discoveries of these troubled times is in the making. | |
| oct 17th: | do have a look at the great Erwin Olaf pix on the 15th and 9th october entries of my weblog or see his exhib at the photo museum in Den Haag, if you can. | |
| oct 14th: | added some amazing pix of the most known inked porn artists to bodymod. | |
| oct 8th: | We had Jack Cowan work for ages on art 15, but it was high time for an update on the classic inspired page. | |
| oct 1st: | Thought hard and deep and discussed if it was a good idea, as a foreigner, to give an opinion about the US election and the Californian referendum on gay marriage. Ok, some americans may respond with "mind your own fuckin'biznis", but as USA policies also greatly infuence the rest of the world, I felt it wise to vent EU our concern, both on the db splash-page and on my private page, where you can also click back many months for lots more great works of art. | |
| sep 29th: | My friend and db-foundation boardmember had his Ning groups deleted. Well, maybe he should not have loudmouthed about hypocrits on other art-sites-groups, but what about freedom of speech? Of course he's not cut of the internet world entirely, coz he still moderates the extreme art section (in memory of Greasetank) here at db and he also let off some steam in his Grumpy old man column. | |
| sep 21st: | update of the second history page on the renaissance. | |
| sep 14st: | a small treat for the 'connaisseurs': the french, dutch, english and german pages on the asshole poem of Arthur Rimbaud have been restyled.
some more about rimbaud on the weblog. | |
| sep 9st: | one of the pages that needs to remain double on both the delftboys and queerart server was not synchronised and updated. The thumbs directory is reworked now next both pages will be updated with newly added galleries. | |
| sep 1st: | long overdue update of the Fantastic Realists | |
| aug 26th: | Roscoe updated and new product links | |
| aug 19th: | Logan Underground pencil sketches; no language; in PDF | |
| aug 12th: | Has been a while since you got a fully new page here, but server relocating proves to be far more tedious then first estimated. Anyway, here's a new general 36. | |
| aug 9th | a new page on Bush Yeaaah! not really (or, legal affairs and trying to do the right thing, and how we all suffer from the scavengers) I've very strategically and subtly tried to point out that it is very disrespectful for the artist, even in this case, when he died in dire circumstances more then a decade ago (as if they'd care), when his friends and original suporters publish a high quality book at a very reasonable price, to copy the full content to a yahoogoup (gaytoons2). when you do, you get inundated with hatemail,( if not worse) and I am the bad guy, who prevents god-gift-to-gay-culture (the blasfemy in that . . .) to spread beauty to the masses. With magazine publications you can argue (though not legally) that it is no longer on sale after a year, but with a book like this its quite different! Sadly this means I have to postpone a new Bush gallery here, and even state, that all material shown on the last one, nr 11, (some official promo material excepted, handed to me by the publisher) was already online before the book came out. It's especially complicated, when it concerns the greatest american gay artist since WWII, and when he left no estate or heirs to protect his integrity or his legacy rights. Here again we all suffer because gay rights and relations were (and still are) not protected in most of the USA. I guess all this proves this book is a gem, and you should get a copy, before it sells out; it's unlikely to be reprinted with gay art groups the way the are. Mind you, I'm not waging a war on mail groups, only on the fact that their easy access makes them a safe haven for a lot of morons/bigots. They seem to be proud of their over 10.000 registered users. I'd rather have 10 % of that and be assured they are a bit more respectful to the artists and honorable art promotors. | |
| aug 5th: | Relocated and updated Benoit Prevot. | |
| aug 3th: | Just heard that Ron Hooks, the guy I knew as Greeastank, has just died. He was a pioneer in (extreme) digital art and a corner stone in our network to fight hypocricy, intolerance, narrow minds and sensorship. | |
| aug 1st: | added some tasty works at Michael Kirwan 3. | |
| july 25th: | Relocated and updated Tchelichev. | |
| july 21st: | Quite a nice little summer escapade is online at the july 21sr entry of my weblog with some Tom of Finland grafix added to great music from the pre-aids era. | |
| july 7th: | For the 1st time in 5 years I cannot keep up with the regular updates due to the support I feel is needed in the Bernard case, and the fact that I'm filming for pig-prod, so I hope you'll excuse me and grant me some days off db-uploads. Meanwhile. Do keep informed about these events through the weblog. I'll be back with new content here before the end of the month. | |
| june 12th: | I've re-considered and reversed my decision to take the page mentioned offline. We're not living in a Christian and Muslim dominated police state (just yet) and I will do everything in my power to prevent any move in that direction, so to strengthen our resolve, the page has moved from the masterclass to a freely accessible section. | |
| june 10th: | for a change a db page has gone offline (temporarily I hope, on request of the artist and untill a Dutch judge has ruled on it). For details do read the entry of june 11th of my weblog. | |
| june 4th: | Relocated and updated Sean Platter 2. | |
| may 25th: | Relocated and updated Mike. | |
| may 18th: | Last week saw a great deal of news that distracted me from archive work at db: A devastating fire destroyed the architecture building I´ve worked in for 5 years, but most important was the crackdown of Dutch justice, with full support of our christian governement on an important catoon artist who used strong homo erotic and other extreme and sexual imagery. I considered it a sesious infringement on the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech, and even if it was insulting to the people targeted, Imprisoning him without trial is unheard of in our country. It's reported in my weblog. | |
| may 15th: | I'm relocating some masterclass folders to a different server without complicating access. All pages moving will simultaneously get updated. The first batch moved and updated are Logan, Patrick Fillion and art 35. | |
| may 6th: | Relocating masterclass galleries to a different server without complicating access, is a hell of a job, and requires a rethink of the access structure. Meanwhile the weblog is blossoming and delves into the politics of art and cultureclashes between Euro and Anglo homos at its new location. | |
| may 1st: | When somebody does something really well, It doesn't have to be copied here. We've always had Ulf pages, but now db/queerart boardmember Martin of Holland has started a ning group, with the (almost) complete works of the render master. Do remember: you have to register and give some unfaked (please) details about yourself for access. | |
| apr 26th: | The overflow of max allotted space at the queerart server was worse then I thought: Much more re-arrangement is needed. Which means a bit less new pages, but overhauling older ones as priority for now. But rest assured, the radar station for great new talent stays on full alert. For this last week of april I'm relocating the weblog, otherwise known as dankroomdiaries. A real nightmare as the log archive goes back to the early nineties, when I did not start off very systematically (still not much at that) to get rid of 65% of the bytes, I do have to filter out surplus and double files now.
I could also do with some more masterclass registrations, so if anybody could put in a good word or link to db/queerart, I'd be grateful | |
| apr 22th: | as one gig after another gets added to the serverspace here, sometimes things have to be redivided over the servers. Always a pretty time consuming, tedious job. To take my and your mind off, I chose for a little 'divertimento' in the form of a queer music top 40 (culture too) that you can use while your studying "art", on a new server ! | |
| apr 14th: | a fully new various artists page again: nr. 35 ! | |
| apr 6th: | Could not stand the modern art in an otherwise classic gallery so split modern off of HR history. | |
| apr 1st: | An update to the dedicated gallery on Benoit Prevot. | |
| mrt 20nd: | Some works of Lucien Freud have been added to History HR. | |
| mrt 14nd: | Another 5 works added to Leonard. | |
| mrt 6th: | Review of the sebastian slides: some new images and restored links | |
| mrt 2nd: | A dedicated gallery on Logan. | |
| feb 20st: | a whole new gallery filled with drooling vintage modelpix. and if you never noticed there were 2 an earlier ones? | |
| feb 12th: | another guy who finally got what he deserved for over a decade: a dedicated gallery for Logan | |
| feb 5th: | Until now I have refrained from changing the subscription price in US $. Despite the dramatic exchange rate development. Even now you can stay on the old price, but it will recur. One time registration for 2 months went up to $ 38.- | |
| feb 1st: | The special greasetank revisited page on "other extreme artists" has been updated. It is at the separate site, well known to masterclass members. (but if they lost the password they can ask again). This page however may go on a backburner in future as Martin has 2 groups dedicated to this artform: one for artists and one for all extreme sex afficionados, but you do need a valid Ning-ID with photo there. | |
| jan 20th: | Here we have a page that shows the development of technology and our site: the top is just 800 pixel width, below it extends to 1200. Leonard updated again! | |
| jan 12th: | may not be a notice of new content, but nevertheless important to guys who want to keep up with developments here: an update of the editorial ! | |
| jan 8th: | a fully new various artists page again: nr. 34 ! | |
| jan 1st: | erotic art pioneer Jean Cocteau has had a dedicated page of his own here for years, I felt Pavel Tchelitchev could not stay behind. |
