Dudecake #4: Canadian Pride is Hot

But this is probably Photoshop. No one is that awesome. Via.

Dudecake #3: My Daguerreotype Boyfriend

Unidentified Irish political prisoner/sex bomb, 1857

This Tumblr of long dead hotties preserved with early photography methods is whizzing around the Web, but I thought I'd post about it as this month's dudecake. I love Tumblr as a tool for distributing images of good looking people, and My Daguerreotype Boyfriend is the best example of this that I've seen since since Punks I Like to Fuck. 

As I clicked the link to this site and waited for the page to load I thought, "how hot can these daguerreotype boys be?" Wow, very. I was startled by the endless string of babes totally melting the silver on which they were imprinted. And what's more unattainable, and therefore alluring, than a guy who died long before you were born?

Some images are of historical figures who were, indeed, hot, and these are even more alluringly unattainable. They belong to history, not to you. Sigh.

This Tumblr is brilliant! But, so far, there are only two pages. Support the cause, submit images.

Dudecake #2: San Francisco's Hunky Jesus Contest

Sometimes the pin-ups just fall into my lap. Not literally. When I say that I mean my brilliant friend Emily sends them to me. Today she brought it my attention that an esoteric sect based in San Francisco called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence celebrate Easter each year with a rite they call the Hunky Jesus Contest. As far as I'm concerned, the Jesus you see above wins. But you can judge a few more of the entrants for yourself over at BuzzFeed. Happy May.

Dudes of the World: Ex-Otago

So I just had to look at lots of really boring, bullcrap normative pictures of ladies and gents on magazine covers for an assignment for a class I'm taking. It was stultifying and depressing. Depressing enough to herald the return of dudecake! I believe the world still needs it. Or I still do.

Without further ado, here is an Italian indie pop quartet called Ex-Otago.Watch the video. The really skinny guy with all the tattoos takes a bath in a tin tub halfway through and it just doesn't get much better than that. It's so nice of them to be so under-dressed so often. Oh, and they've just released an album.

100 special ladies

Tatoo artist Danielle Distefano created the 100 portraits in her first solo show 100 Ladies in just six months. Though the portraits are rendered in the traditional tattoo style, each one is so distinct that they are entirely liberated from their genre and granted unusual, expressive life. An extraordinary biography is implied by each mysterious face. Looking at all of them together, the effect is more cumulative and than repetitive.

Each piece builds on a larger picture that becomes more than the sum of its parts. It makes for an unexpectedly rewarding and inviting experience. I'm afraid the show closes at the end of August so you only have a little time left to get down to Young Blood Gallery and check it out. (Sorry for slacking and posting about it in the middle of the month.) If you like ladies, hurry up.

Dudecake of the month

Karl Heinz Weinberger is one of my favorite photographers. He is best remembered for documenting the life and times of a peculiar subculture of Swiss teenage rock n' roll fans in the late 50s and 60s. (They might have invented punk.) His photos of girls are supercool and I may or may not have based past Halloween costumes on those but, as I've said before, since there are already plenty of pictures of hot girls in the world, I'm going to run with some pictures of hot dudes. And yeah, Weinberger is a highly regarded photographer and there's a lot of depth to his work all but, like, tell me that shit isn't hot.

Um, the one of G.G. Allin is included more for historical interest than anything else.