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Liam by Gilles Crofta
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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Restituda Is Back!
Restituda may not be back in town, that amazing site sadly was deleted! But Restituda has bounced back with a brand new version, Restituda1's World of Male Nudity. Restituda's site, and hours of hard work has always been one of my favorite places to visit. Not just for the images, but it has been a major research source when I am putting together posts, especially for the favorite import category. (like French actor Guillaume Gouix going shown here in the 2011 flick, Poupoupidou.
I know I am not the only one who missed Restituda's incredible blog, I learned of the blogs deletion when checking out my stats last week. Seems fans of the blog were searching for it as the blog was one of the most searched phrases on FH for the last week or so.
Belated: Gilles Crofta
Gilles Crofta is an artist that has been long overdue for a feature on FH, so I offer a belated welcome to the Loughborough, England photographer. I have been familiar, and enjoyed Gilles work for several years now and even featured a few of his images when working on model profiles and interviews with AJ Pack and Adam Fletcher.
AJ
Things however sometimes slip through the cracks no matter how much we try be organized. Thanks to model Tommy (with the beautiful bottom, at the bottom of this piece), I am finally filling the gap, as Gilles image of Tommy, back to camera, naked. holding the cigarette was an image in I have had saved in my 'contact' folder for almost a year now. The image of Tommy is a great example of what I love so much about Gilles images.
BModel
It often seems that some photographers who focus on athletes and fitness, shoot with a bit of a narrow focus. We have all come across images of great looking fit men who are oiled up, muscles glistening with their body looking incredible. Then, your view widens and you wonder why the photographer didn't put a bit more time and attention into the models face, hair, fashion and surroundings. Gilles puts his attention on every aspect of the images he produces.
Adam
Although his one important focus may be physique, Gilles clearly understand the overall effect of the image is equally important and beautifully blends glamour and fashion with fitness creating stylish images of incredible men while not losing an ounce of their inherent masculinity.
Callum
This blending was never more present and evident than in Gilles work with professional Rugby league footballer Stuart Reardon last year. If you had not heard of Gilles Crofta by then, I'm sure most of you caught his images of Stuart. Their work together spread like wild fire across the web and although Stuart was shot by many professionals last year, Gilles images became some of the most popular downloaded and shared. His image of Stuart, crouched naked, holding the football on the filed was one of my favorites and embodied so well the essence of the athlete.
Chris
2013 promises to be equally as busy, and successful for Gilles. Gilles images appear frequently on models for PUMP underwear and has been spending many of his pre-Christmas hours scouring through his favorite images for some calendars planned for next year.
Danny
Gilles Crofta on ModelMayhem
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Jacopo
Jon
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Tommy
12 Tips to Survive Your Office Holiday Party
The office Christmas party can be one of the most stressful events of the year. Imagine a party that most invitees don't actually want to attend, one where most of the guest list you can barely tolerate, a few you had sex with and now don't speak to, a boss who makes your life a living hell. Not to mention those people you usually try hard to avoid due to missteps at Christmas parties from the previous years! I have had my fair share of Christmas party incidents and thought I would share some tips I have put together to help get you through the annual holiday get together! Take heed, ignoring even just one of the following tips can put having anything close to a Merry Christmas a great risk!
1. Prepare Something To Bring
Unfortunately even though you don't even want to go, you have to bring something. Even when they tell you not to! My suggestion, in lieu of a gift for the host, bring something you love to eat for the buffet table. This way, you can avoid eating the crap prepared by the co-worker, especially one with questionable hygiene habits.
2. Go Alone
Just because you have to suffer through a night of office torture does not mean one of your friends or loved ones needs to as well. And why would they want to come? They don't know anyone, they don't care about your office in-jokes and gossip, and they certainly aren't going to further their own career (unless it's at your expense). If people expect your spouse to come, just say, "Oh it's his or her office party tonight too." Instant excuse! Trust me, They will thank you for it anyway.
3. Overspend on Secret Santa
If your office makes you draw names and buy a gift for someone or put a gift into a pool that everyone picks from, be sure to go over the limit. I'm not talking about buying a $100 watch when $5 is the agreed amount, but just go slightly over. If it's supposed to be $15, spend $20. If it's supposed to be $25, go $35. Just make sure that yours is the nicest and most sought after gift. Avoid 'gag' gifts, they are never as hilarious as you think when you buy them.
4. Pig Out!
Since you're on alcohol restriction, you have to do something to overindulge. Go for the food. Eat like your one of those skinny guys in One Direction, eat like you just got voted off Survivor, eat like your Kirsti Alley the night you got kicked off Dancing With The Stars, just eat!
5. Don't Pull Out The Guitar
Pulling out a guitar at a beach party or outside BBQ is great, people can walk away. At a Christmas party your trapped and people who don't want to listen to the few cords of Stairway to Heaven you play endlessly or your lame version of Smoke On The Water. The guy with the guitar, once a symbol of coolness, is, at a Christmas party, now just the opposite.
6. Dress Up!
No, don't bust out the hideous Christmas sweater like your Aunt Denise, but wear something nice and festive. Not festive in a holiday way, but make it look like you put a little bit more effort in than you do on the normal day. I would avoid wearing anything you think makes you look hot. First off, it usually doesn't and on the odd chance it does, you don't want to risk waking up naked, with your sexy clothes on the bedroom floor of someone you have spent the last 364 trying to avoid.
7. 2 Drink Maximum!
I know you don't want to hear this, especially if there is an open bar at your holiday party, but this is really just smart for everyone. Face it, you're not a co-ed at Mardi Gras, and you don't have the tolerance of when you were. When you start drinking bad things start happening, hey just do!
8. Don't Go Outside
There is never a good reason to go outside once the party has started. The only people who go outside are going out for a smoke, a toke or a poke. With your system fueled by alcohol, the chances of getting into trouble are high, especially on a cold night, in a strange place. Save the poke and the smoke for when you get home and have the toke prior to going to help get you through the ordeal.
9. Go To Work The Next Day!
Let's say you don' t listen to me (how dare you!) and you get drunk at the party, and let's say your company is stupid enough to have their party in the middle of the week. If those two things happen, you have to go to work the next day. If you don't, everyone will know why and they will sit around and talk about you all day. Even if you did something worth gossiping about, if your at work, you can at least do some damage control.
10. NO KARAOKE!
The Soundtrack from Grease is never enjoyable to anyone except the drunks singing it.
11.Schmooze with Spouses
Don't spend the night with the same people you usually always hang out with! The secret to working an office party: don't go and brown nose your boss, get friendly with his or her partner or spouse. Putting your nose halfway up your boss' ass is so transparent that everyone is going to see what you're doing. But if you talk to their significant other they might spend the drive home telling your boss how charming and sweet and smart and funny you are!
12. NO Pictures!
This one is important! Since most of us will ignore most of the tips on this list, ensure that NO ONE takes any pictures to use as evidence of your bad behavior. With everyone now having cameras in their phones, this can be a difficult task, but not impossible if you pay close attention.
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