Slap this link and go to UBERDAVID's MySpace site. We haven't decorated yet but there is one tune to listen to

www.myspace.com/uberdavidx

Summer is finally here, the hormones are bubblin' and SOAK is coming.

The specter of safer/protected sex raises it's "uncomfortable" head. Slap this link to read an overview PLUS the respective risks of various activities. <www.poz.com/archive/2005_Aug_348.shtml>

Show love but don't share your own bio-history. Cover up, play safe and buy stock in latex.

Please join us for the next fetish night on June 21, 2009.

Everything at fetish night is a legal activity between consenting adults.
DeaconX's Fetish Night is always the third Sunday of the month at Berbati's Pan.

The next fetish night is Sunday, June 21st.
(Then July 19th, then August 16th, then September 20th, etc.)

Doors open at 9:00pm
21+ with valid and proper I.D. only
Sliding cover charge - Fetish dress enforced

Berbati's Pan
SW Ankeny at 3rd St Downtown (Map It)
Portland, Oregon

I've gone beyond the bounds of my Facebook Terms Of Agreement. First MySpace. Now Facebook. I've become a FaceSpace Bandit.

"Our Code of Conduct outlines the types of content we do not allow on the site. This includes any obscene, pornographic, or sexually explicit photos, as well as any photos that depict graphic violence." It must have been this part. Dayum! My account simply vanished! POOF...in a cloud of clucking Calvinism.

If you're hangin' around FaceBook and do a search for someone named David Dashutah, that might be fun.

Meanwhile, David Rolin and his obscene, pornographic and sexually explicit photos will hang out in Tribe like the good old days.

Perhaps.

But this person, in their own words, shared what I often have trouble articulating re. my photography protocol. I'm taking the risk to publish these words:

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David Rolins Opening: Then AND Now.


Last Night I went with my lover to see David Rolin's Then and Now retrospective. David is a human, and beautiful one. He's 69 years young, lived through the sixties when he was too old to be a hippy and too young to be a square. He saw the genesis of punk as a man grown man under the mantle of the dubious wisdom of midlife, all while I was a stripling youth too angry for ideals.

He told me he had no formal training, no education in photography. Its clear he had curiosity and passion- and maybe our real life's work requires only this, and not the trappings of achievement, degrees, publication, recognition ( or notoriety). Perhaps all we need is to be in love with what we are doing, and to do what we love. Perhaps the greatest fortune is knowing what we truly love and can be loved through.

David started this hobby of photography as a man interested in spatial relationships; in his early work the landscape of vast interiors gained his lens, warehouses, urban enclosures. At some point in the late 1980's he had the chance to work with a model. Never having embraced this opportunity, he placed her in a vast space, something he was comfortable photographing, and her presence was only slightly more incidental. In that particular image I was drawn to the texture of the wood floors more than the nude woman- somehow, despite her presence, they were what spoke loudest to me from that frame.

Still, somehow, something of the models presence stuck: perhaps the vast interior of the warehouse where she sat in a single chair became more empty with the presence of her single, nude person: a naked woman with Christmas lights glittering between her legs like the half asleep promise of a ecstasy unknown…and in that feeling of emptiness, without a catastrophe, without a flaring moment of illumination, his work began to change.

The transition was smooth if not seamless. Evolving through his years, one thing remained consistent: models would be free to do their own thing. David does not tell a model to "stand this way, wear these things, take them off this way". Instead, he says "Know your boundaries and respect mine so I can respect yours. Then let US collaborate and see what shows up…" If you were inclined to be photographed by David, and wanted to know what his boundaries are, I would suggest you ask him.

Looking at his work, hundreds of prints spanning 30 years or more, I saw few of the boundaries we might expect – neither inhibition or subtlety is failed in this retrospection of his work. Yet the boundaries are present and clear- In my own words I could sum them up, though perhaps at the risk of assumption. I would say "Be honest. Be fearless. Move from love and passion, and don't divide them." That is what I HEARD, though As I said, im simply proposing- you'd still be best to ask him if your sincere about being photographed.

I've wanted to work with David for some time, but in my own 'slow to realization' trend I've not made real the opportunity to put my own honest, fearless passionate love under the benign scrutiny of his lens. I've been distracted, and despite making motion towards engaging in a shoot, I've found circumstance and obligation have precluded the commitment. Many of my friends and some of my playmates have worked with him. After having met him, looked at hundreds of his photographs from the most innocent to explicit, I am not merely planning to put my ropes and other BDSM images in the scope of his camera, but I'm bragging him up.

And now its on my list. Im going to gather a small group of rope loving people, and tie them with delight. Im going to ask him to shoot the moments. And im going to be incredibly honored to be a part of his lifework, the creation of images of intensity and intimacy which beg us all to ask ourselves "am I squeezing every bit of joy into this moment which I am capable of?" I expect that much from my submissives, myself, and my partners in art. So let it be known: last night was one of the best art show openings I have ever been to. And I look forward to more!

Kymberly Jane
06/05/09 10:28 PM

NOt sure IF i emailed you already

But..Im going to Oregon the 20th thru 25th of this month~

And .. i never been there to shoot.. And im emailing ya because i really Dig your page..and wondering if you would hire little me to pose all nudie for ya..

Now i know Oregon is terrible economy wise.. But while Im there Im completely lowering my rates so i can pose with as many people while there as i can..(since Im not sure i will go back anytime soon)

SOooo Im only charging $75 per hour fashion to full nudie.. Let me know If your Up for taking some Dirty pictures smile

OXOxOxOX
kym


David Rolin
06/06/09 7:28 AM

Hi there Kymberly Jane

Wow! What an honor to hear from a real professional full-nudie model. We poverty stricken Oregon photographers rarely get such an opportunity. You can't imagine how overwhelmed I am at your offer to shoot "dirty pictures". Your generosity is exceeded only by your pretentiousness. I'd love to book about 30 hours of your valuable time but I don't think my studio has the capacity to contain all of your attitude.

For future reference, my commercial rates are $300/hour. Prints or digital images are $75.00 each. My fine art sessions are free, but it's obvious to me that you don't meet the criteria. As an aside, I haven't paid for a "model" in 25 years of shooting nudes. For $75.00, I expect a "happy ending", a free drink and a hot lunch.

Good luck, gurlfriend. I hope you make a bundle!

"not-born-yesterday" David

Cherie Hiser has been a friend and mentor to me for 30 years. Her work has been pivotal and paved the way for serious art photographers. Many of the images you'll see in this YouTube are of people in my life. I owe her deep thanks for sharing her vision and instilling in me the profound respect I have for those I photograph.

She is one of the village elders of our tribe...the creative, the bold, the visionaries.

www.youtube.com/watch

I need to surf a couch for the nights of May 26, 27, 28. Any one or all of those dates would be awesome. Can trade righteous 420, menial tasks, crimes against nature or whatever. All love!