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Bradford Shellhammer


Bradford Shellhammer has been blogging for ten years. He founded Queerty.com and was the dominant voice of Design Within Reach's blog, Design Notes. He's written for and been written about in pretty much every gay blog and magazine in existence. He's a trained fashion designer though hates to sew. He lives on the gayest block of New York City, where he's most often the most flamboyant queen in a sea of flamboyant queens.‬‪



Feb 2010
Pet Shop Boys in your living room 09 Feb 2010
Caught in the act. 05 Feb 2010
The other Michael Lucas 04 Feb 2010
The Dragulator! 03 Feb 2010
Unhappy Hipsters 02 Feb 2010
Who is iamamiwhoami? 02 Feb 2010


Jan 2010
San Francisco in 1906 30 Jan 2010
ABBAWORLD! 29 Jan 2010
God hates GaGa 28 Jan 2010
James Victore at MoMA 27 Jan 2010
The Ace Hotel gets a blog 27 Jan 2010
Madeleine Albright: Read her pins 25 Jan 2010
How to make a Michael Cera movie 22 Jan 2010
Amazing shots of Beluga whales 22 Jan 2010
Dalek for Ai Records 21 Jan 2010
A visual history of Crayola colors 20 Jan 2010
Rebranding Playboy? 15 Jan 2010
Lady Gaga, creative director at Polaroid 15 Jan 2010
Grindr blocking 14 Jan 2010
Avatar or Pocahontas? 13 Jan 2010
Glenn Beck’s inspiration? 12 Jan 2010
An inconvenient font 11 Jan 2010
BUTT TV 08 Jan 2010
The Lady Gaga doll collection 07 Jan 2010
Real Good movie 01 Jan 2010


Dec 2009
Gaga and Lauper go Glam 21 Dec 2009
ABBA gets some respect 18 Dec 2009
Donny Miller for Vans 17 Dec 2009
Chainsaws make art 16 Dec 2009
Shatner verses Palin 15 Dec 2009
50 Cent featuring Susan Boyle, not Lil’ Kim 14 Dec 2009
21 years later: Erasure’s The Innocents 11 Dec 2009
Kristin Wiig comes to primetime 10 Dec 2009
George Michael comes clean about being anything but 10 Dec 2009
Billboard’s one-hit wonders of the 2000s 09 Dec 2009
National Geographic image collection 09 Dec 2009
A story of HIV via Twitter 07 Dec 2009
Giant gummy bear 04 Dec 2009
Obama’s 400-pound gingerbread house 04 Dec 2009
David Hockney paints with iPhone 03 Dec 2009
Corduroy skirts are a sin 02 Dec 2009
The White House goes gay 01 Dec 2009


Nov 2009
Pink Mince 25 Nov 2009
Keep it getting weirder 25 Nov 2009
Out verses Adam Lambert 20 Nov 2009
Classic Herman Miller TV ads 20 Nov 2009
Factory Records 19 Nov 2009
Four days with a leopard seal (and some poor penguins) 19 Nov 2009
The Divine 80s 18 Nov 2009
Pet Shop Boys cover Coldplay 17 Nov 2009
Gays with beards say a little prayer 17 Nov 2009
CRUSHfanzine + ACE Hotel Pop Up 13 Nov 2009
Bad Romance, amazing video 13 Nov 2009
Kristen Wiig does Suzanne Somers 12 Nov 2009
Jer Ber Jones covers Yaz 11 Nov 2009
Ian Fisher : American Soldier 11 Nov 2009
I left my heart at the Ace Hotel 10 Nov 2009
Tweeting twat 06 Nov 2009
The Queen of prison 05 Nov 2009
Designing Obama 05 Nov 2009
Longing for magnificent hideousness 04 Nov 2009
Answering the Proust Questionnaire 04 Nov 2009
The last days of Gourmet 03 Nov 2009


Oct 2009
Bon Qui Qui for kids 30 Oct 2009
How to butch up your gay son this Halloween 28 Oct 2009
Barbie just wants to have fun 27 Oct 2009
A greener evergreen? 26 Oct 2009
Run-DMC on Broadway 26 Oct 2009
The Hetero-normalizing of art giants 23 Oct 2009
The Empire State gets tie-dyed 22 Oct 2009
Balloons go Pop! 21 Oct 2009
Louisville, Kentucky’s hard up for visitors 20 Oct 2009
Kanye West glows in the dark 16 Oct 2009
Google Suggests some awful things 15 Oct 2009
100 notes on 100 colors in 100 days 14 Oct 2009
Green graffiti 13 Oct 2009
I just made love 13 Oct 2009
Nervous Acid’s top 50 albums of the 2000s 12 Oct 2009
Jay Smooth vs. Roman Polanski 09 Oct 2009
The Clock Tower 09 Oct 2009
Blonde heir – Madonna and Lady Gaga 08 Oct 2009
Beatles, Stones, and Robots? 06 Oct 2009
This Must Be It: Röyksopp’s odd new video 06 Oct 2009
Sneaker souls 06 Oct 2009
Too Good: Studio TooGood’s egg shop 05 Oct 2009
Depeche Mode remaining relevant with videos 05 Oct 2009
Jimmy Carter’s an ass and other political tattoos 01 Oct 2009


Sep 2009
Vanity Smurf and other queer cartoons 29 Sep 2009
Absolutly no label 26 Sep 2009
How many miles until the next Big Mac? 25 Sep 2009
Project Gaydar 22 Sep 2009
Answering “who is Barack Obama?” 22 Sep 2009
Protest signs: sad or funny? 21 Sep 2009
NY Post: Today more phony than normal 21 Sep 2009
The world’s largest swimming pool 18 Sep 2009
Art and sour cream on the High Line 18 Sep 2009
Wild Thing: Spike Jonze 17 Sep 2009
Take a bow, or not 17 Sep 2009
Major Lazer’s major video 16 Sep 2009
David Byrne’s perfect city 16 Sep 2009
The Wizard of Oz at 70 15 Sep 2009
Bloggers as fashion muses 15 Sep 2009
Mexico: A nation of world records 14 Sep 2009
Steak house or gay bar? 14 Sep 2009
Crayon Portraits 10 Sep 2009
Hitler as the face of AIDS 10 Sep 2009
Free music download: Röyksopp 08 Sep 2009
Wallpaper’s Polaroids 08 Sep 2009
Los Angeles fires: a photo gallery 04 Sep 2009
Madonna’s new album – Like a daughter? 04 Sep 2009
Hubba hubba, Hubby Hubby 02 Sep 2009
Betsey Johnson gets some respect 01 Sep 2009
New band from a New Order 01 Sep 2009


Aug 2009
Design in the way 31 Aug 2009
Raggedy Ann & Andy’s big move 31 Aug 2009
GI Joe versus THE THING 27 Aug 2009
Doctored images in the age before Photoshop 26 Aug 2009
Bear love: Grizzly Bear fan animates new video 26 Aug 2009
Iconic gay film roles: After Elton’s list 25 Aug 2009
Recipe Look: cooking without words 24 Aug 2009
Pee-wee’s back 24 Aug 2009
Facebook breakup: Throw’d TV’s hilarious send up 21 Aug 2009
A year without haircuts 21 Aug 2009
Obama: this joke’s on you 20 Aug 2009
The King of Pop painted by the King of Pop! 19 Aug 2009
First Ladies showing some skin 19 Aug 2009
Rediscovering Neneh Cherry 19 Aug 2009
Bat/Boy love 18 Aug 2009
Tom’s Diner and other rock landmarks uncovered 18 Aug 2009
Kurt Cobain’s F bomb 17 Aug 2009
Pac-Man live: Patrick Runte’s Photography 17 Aug 2009
Images of destruction: Hiroshima 64 years later 14 Aug 2009
Sporty in pink 14 Aug 2009
Beef on the internet 14 Aug 2009
Farmers’ marketing and markets 12 Aug 2009
Never being boring – Pet Shop Boys on tour 11 Aug 2009
G.I. Joe characters brought out of the closet 07 Aug 2009
Hand shake 06 Aug 2009
Giving a hand – high design for prosthetics 05 Aug 2009


Jul 2009
Palin poetry 31 Jul 2009
Tim Burton at MoMA 31 Jul 2009
Equinox wants you to pump up the jams 30 Jul 2009
Madonna as a Warholian prototype 28 Jul 2009
Knitting’s for the birds 28 Jul 2009
Grace Jones – a mad hatter 24 Jul 2009
Dumpster Dive 23 Jul 2009
Panty fetish 22 Jul 2009
The real artists of New York City 21 Jul 2009
The other penguin 17 Jul 2009
How hetero? 15 Jul 2009
Fashion shows: the uninvited 11 Jul 2009
Architects are pigs 10 Jul 2009
Gay Icons: portraits selected by Elton John, Billie Jean King, Alan Hollinghurst and more 08 Jul 2009
Phat girls 07 Jul 2009
Premiering Bruno 06 Jul 2009
Mad about Arad 03 Jul 2009
A fitting tribute 02 Jul 2009
Ga-Ga for GaGa 01 Jul 2009


Jun 2009
Scanwiches 26 Jun 2009
Digging it 24 Jun 2009
Ugly porno 23 Jun 2009
The hanky code 22 Jun 2009
Gay for dummies: bears 20 Jun 2009
A time to rage and resist 17 Jun 2009
Somewhere over the rainbow 16 Jun 2009
Big, gay and sprinkled 15 Jun 2009
All in the family 12 Jun 2009
Boys beware 11 Jun 2009
Without you she’s nothing 10 Jun 2009
Gay for dummies: Flagging 09 Jun 2009
Paris has burned 06 Jun 2009
Larger than life: Hockney and 100 Homos 04 Jun 2009
Hard bodies and a hello 03 Jun 2009