Wallpaper: Vitruvian Manu (updated)

Awesome job. Recced.

Vitruvian Man-u? Like this one too!

Can Someone do a Roger Mason one.

This is incredible, Hirschof. It was great for next week… Hmm.

We are lacking a “Manu: Simply Erotic” wallpaper.

Vitaman-u Water? Too crazy?

Great desktop idea and execution. Excellent title. Good placement of the logo for modesty’s sake.

I just love the whole thing.

JTU.

You guys are killing me with the awesome. Well done, Hirschof.

For someone like me with no photoshop skills, I’m amazed at what ya’ll can do. AMAZINE!

to everyone for the comments. This is the first wallpaper I have ever done (I think) and I’ll try to get something else out down the road. At the moment I have some projects for a small business in San Antonio I must complete first.

Thanks again.

Yea awesome job. Very creative!

…and is just plain gay. Which is cool if that’s your schwing. I’m just sayin’.

Aw… you deleted the fun stuff

and I’m expected to explain why I think that might be considered of interest to the gay community.

All righty then.

I apologize, sincerely and completely, for any offense to anyone’s sensibilities. I thereby take back all previous comments. What I really meant was:

Both teams played hard.

It’s just plain sad that we even had this conversation because of such a great wallpaper. I wanted to encourage people to share their work, not cover it in crap. Meh.

Actually, I’m heartened that folks slowed it down, tried to explain, responded relatively respectfully, etc. etc. There are a couple of things going on here:

1) The word “gay” has become one of those words that gets used in a lot of different ways. It’s like that riff that one comic did on the word “dude,” and how the way it’s pronounced can range from meaning “Damn, you’re awesome!” to “Are you hiding behind the door with a knife?” I had a great talk once with some gay friends who even use the word as in “That’s so gay” and, you know, it’s one of those things.

2) For some reason I’m seized with a desire to make a webpage along the lines of the fabulous Stuff White People Like and call it Things Straight People Worry About Saying.

3) I had a lot to drink at my little brother’s birthday party earlier tonight.

What was intended as a quick Seth Rogen-throwaway has emerged into quite a discussion. I come onto blogs like this to get away from this sort of thing, but I guess I will try to quickly explain myself.

First, with regard to Michelangelo’s David, my answer is yes. Michelangelo was gay. Doesn’t mean that it isn’t great art, but art can serve more than one purpose.

With regard to the Hirschov creation, I wasn’t saying I didn’t like it. I was making a joke because it is gay in the same way “Ben Hur” is gay if you are looking it within the context of The Celluloid Closet.

I mean, you’ve got a website dedicated to male sport, which takes place in a gymnasium, and if you know The Republic you can see where I’m going here…

…in addition to which the site specifically bans allegedly “provocative” female cheerleader pictures, but gives thumbs up to a nude depiction of Ginobili, under the banner heading Pounding the Rock. I understand people disagree, but this strikes me as campier than Rufus Wainwright singing “How Long Has This Been Going On?”

It just seemed like an obvious joke to me. Senses of humor differ and I apologize. I still think it’s amusing, the same way Terence McNally poked fun at these types of identifications in Love Valour Compassion when he has a character remark about Tchaikovsky: “Who did he think he was fooling, writing chord changes like this?!?”

With regard to any feelings I have about homosexuality, my brother is gay. I hang out with drag queens. I wrote a play about Michel Foucault called “Ouibliette” which specifically deals with his S&M personal life in context of “Discipline and Punish.” A good book I can recommend that deals with some of this, albeit in a pop cultural context, is “From Revolution to Revelation” by my friend Tara Brabazon. I will admit this is somewhat self-serving on my part because I am quoted at length in the book.

It is sort of interesting that all of this comes up also because my other brother just published a novel about San Antonio that deals with a number of gay/bisexual characters and the sexual ambivalence of the somewhat predatory underworld. It’s called “Six Inch Crimes.”

Anyway, all I’m saying is that in labeling something gay, it doesn’t automatically have to be in a derogatory sense. It could be placing it within a historical context of things which have been associated with homosexuality, like Freddie Mercury-mustaches and Valley of the Dolls. Such was my intention.