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!! OMG, here is documentation of some of the most harrowing MASCOT costumes ever to haunt this Earth !!

This is the shit nightmares are made of! We can only guess as to how many of these cursed images were on the mood board for Five Nights At Freddy’s. Check out a full gallery of some of the most deranged, unsettling mascots you’ll wish you never laid eyes on after the jump!

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!! OMG, a Q&A with interdisciplinary artist Ryan Van Der Hout !!

Torn Self Portrait by Ryan Van Der Hout

Torn Self Portrait by Ryan Van Der Hout

When you wander into the Toronto Sculpture Garden right now, you’ll find New York-based Canadian interdisciplinary artist Ryan Van Der Hout’s To Reflect Everything – an outsized mirrored sphere that recalls both a disco ball’s joyful character and a satellite’s transportive enticement.

The concept and composition of Van Der Hout’s piece, which is on view in the Sculpture Garden until mid-May, navigates notions of queer utopia, identity, and transcendence. And it invites visitors to pause in contemplation via literal and metaphorical moments of self-reflection, highlighting the impact of our fragmented selves and environments in relation to the idea of incompleteness in belonging.

To Reflect Everything And Show Nothing by Ryan Van Der Hout

To Reflect Everything And Show Nothing by Ryan Van Der Hout

To Reflect Everything nestles nicely into Van Der Hout’s oeuvre, a compilation of photographic, public and sculptural works which explore vast themes including grief, queer becoming, and nostalgia; their piece To Reflect Everything And Show Nothing from 2022 is an interesting companion to the larger sculptural piece currently on display in Toronto’s downtown core. The photo is a compellingly abstracted portrait of the artist, who is sporting drag makeup, refracted through the showy grid of a disco ball’s surface.

Begging the question “Who is that?”, Van Der Hout’s image reveals so much about the human condition’s preoccupation with identity definition and construction through a camp lens, which ultimately reveals tantalizingly scant information. In the Toronto Sculpture Garden, Van Der Hout allows us all to step into a similarly fractured, albeit fantastical, world to consider this question of ourselves.

I was eager to have Van Der Hout further illuminate the inspirations behind To Reflect Everything and dig deeper into the depths of his practice for this Q&A. Dive in after the jump!

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!! OMG, WATCH: Step inside Ryan Murphy’s Bel Air home built by Richard Neutra !!

Ever wonder what Hollywood’s biggest homo’s house looks like? The man who brings you all the camp characters, show after show? Well, step inside the Richard Neutra-designed home, built in 1955. The Brown House features what is believed to be the only double-wide living room designed by the legendary architect. Check it out with ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST above!

!! OMG, hard time getting to the gym? This series of photos of 20th century bodybuilders might just get you POMPED !!

We needed some motivation ot get us off our ass today and go for a sweat, and this 20th century bodybuilding gallery from Queerty filled us with a pre-workout zap of nostalgia. Thee guys just didn’t have the same ‘roids or T as these young #GymTok youngins do these days! Or the ridiculous haircuts. It really was a different time. A place for guys to bond and admire eachother’s progress, you know?

Take a step back in time with a gallery of vintage male bodybuilders caught on film after the jump. So swole, brah!

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