Ad inspiration spring 2009

I don't know much back ground on these images...but Im loving the raw athletic sexual energy and think it would be a good direction for spring-summer advertizing.

Rediscovering Laibach-Naughty Subversive 80's Gaybar style.

I came across Laibach on Youtube the other day while hunting down old videos. I was flooded with memories of the late 1980's. I had just moved to chicago right from school at MSU. I had just turned 21 and my BF had found an apartment on Addison in Wrigleyville, an amazing neighborhood that like boystown was rapidly turning gay as the gay migration was heading north. My boyfriend had basically scoped out all the gaybars that guys like us would and could hang out at, slighty dingy dark, new wavey, hipster-y styled bars. His favorite was Berlin. We would hang out there smoking and drinking(no drugs), we discovered that later in NYC. Berlin was truly an amazing bar, hot guys, great music, cute bartenders and seriously hip. Videos were big at the time and as people drank and smoked, we would shout at each other over the loud music and sneak glimpses of the insanely well directed videos of Rita Mitsouko, New Order, Depeche Mode, and so on, the heavy hitters of the fusion of art, fashion and music. I was in heaven. Then there was Laibach, fusing together the imagery of nationalistic eastern european propganda films of the 30's and 40's with the pomp and circumstance of a Wagner Opera, in a word, incredible. At first, I was afraid of obvious Nazi look and feel of the video, then, and I have to admit it, became sexually excited by it. Take a look and tell me how you feel. Considering this is from 88-89 I think it has aged very well...and I still get turned on by the imagery. BTW, I have researched Laibach and the group hated Nazi and Nazi germany but liked the feel of their propoganda and classic art composition that they felt preceded the nazi's and felt the art of that era cant be dismissed as Nazi. Russians and Americans used such classic art and concepts in their work as well.

Here is the video on You tube of Laibachs Geburt einer nation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YE_j0xIsJA&NR=1

Ajaxx63 in Fine literature! Every Frat boy wants it.

I love reading gay books before I fall asleep. I devour them. I have gone through about 8-10 books alone this year. Read 'em by the pool, read 'em in bed...just love em. I have this fascination with gay stories from the past, especially the gay scene in the 1970's in books like "Faggots" or "Dancer from the Dance". After the 70's gay books, I started reading books about the 80's then the 90's (when I came out), and now I have moved into present day. The latest book I was reading was "Every Frat Boy Wants It." I was worried it was going to be too trashy of a read, and not really all the fun, but I love it(I'm still reading it as of 11/24/08) and it's funny, sexy, and well written. I highly recommend it. However, I'm reading it and the lead character is checking out this guy and describes his outfit in vivid detail, " we was wearing a light blue tight shirt that had red graphics that said "Stiff Competition Wrestling" with two guys throwing down on a mat in the middle of it...I was so excited, and showed my boyfriend, "Look honey! We have been imortalized in print." It exciting to know, that we have made an impact on the gay world to the point of where we are being used as a literary foreshadowing device. The reader if in the know, we recognize the shirt and know the other character is gay! So cool. So now we have been in movies, TV shows, a comic book, have SIM characters, and now a book...Check the book out, I found it on overstock.com...and its also on Amazon.com as well. Look for "every frat boy want's it" by Todd Gregory.

This weeks Ajaxx63 sighting!

So, doing what I do, looking at porn in my free time when I'm not at the gym or at work or whatever, and found the always handsome Pierre Fitch and trick in ajaxx63's morningwood basketball shirt. An oldy but a goodie!

This weeks random ajaxx63 sightings!

Just another disjointed grouping of ajaxx63 gear out and about. As if surfing porn on the internet isn't a chore in itself, I have complicated it with saving any ajaxx63 pics I find. Offered for your consideration...I give you random ajaxx63 sightings.

Ajaxx63 sneak preview-New Designs!

This is a short sneak preview and the new designs will be up on the site this week!
We have new colors, new shirts, and new designs. Finally Ajaxx63 is back on track after all the wrinkles were ironed out switching to our new manufacturer.

Revisiting the 1980's w/Kim Wilde

I thought I have seen everything and heard everything from the 80's....I was wrong. I have never heard "the touch". It was as if Ken Russell made a fake music video. It is everything from the 80's rolled into one song and one video. Mind you this was the "other" 80's "the gay bar 80's". I was too wrapped up in English Music with its black and white video's of guys with short hair singing in front of old Scottish ruins in black trench coats and a crucifix flapping in the wind to have noticed the song "the touch". I would assume this video and song are part of the high energy pop 80's .I was too young to go out, so I would never have seen this. That being said, I love this too much and I got chills. Its beyond tacky, and by tacky I mean perfection.

Please note the dance moves at the end of the video, I recommend you do it in your spare time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1tzDxGYADg&feature=related


Kim Wilde's look is pure 80's genius. I think it is time we brought this look back, the clothes are already in but the hair needs to make a comeback as well. I, for the most part, do not like 80's hairstyles, but I liked this devil may care-Euro disco look she has going on. I can imagine her smoking a cigarette in a cafe in Brussels, shielded from the rain by a big green awning, while thumbing through a copy of Face or Manipulator, (if the table was big enough) thinking about what shoulder to wear her shirt off of, or what shoe boot to buy next with all the money she is making on her hit songs.