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Matt by AANE Photography
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Friday, May 29, 2015
Happy Birthday today May 30th
Happy 57th to Ted McGinley!
Above, Ted dressed up for GQ in 1980 and below, undressed in Physical Evidence (1989)
Above, Ted dressed up for GQ in 1980 and below, undressed in Physical Evidence (1989)
Heating Up
If you happen to be watching Masterchef, you will undoubtedly have noticed contestant Dan Collado. Dan won the mystery box challenge on this weeks episode making him an early front runner. Gorgeous, and great in the kitchen, what more could you ask for?
Corpus evanescente: Matt by AANE Photography
Since discovering Mike, (AANE Photography) and the arousing assortment of men he has captured, we were fortunate to be able to join the Pennsylvania photographer on two of his many excursions. The first, a trip to St. Louis with his incredibly hot work with B-Rad. This was followed up by a Jaunt to Johannesburg with his images of beautiful South African model Kyros. Mike's next journey, although a little bit closer to home, was not without it's own adventures.
Mike had put out a casting call for underwear models and one of the models to answer his call was Matt. At over 6 feet tall, Matt's tall lean body, blonde hair and great face and mouth, made him the perfect model for the shoot. Sometimes some of the best results come from unexpected problems and stumbling blocks. For Mike's first shoot with Matt, that proved to be the case. Car issues almost ended the shoot before it began, but eventually, Matt got to Mike's studio, stripped down to a variety of various colored briefs and boxers and, as you can see by these images, the sexy results that followed.
Once down to his undies, Matt got more comfortable as they shoot progressed. Matt was curious about the process for having some implied and nudes taken, so near the end of the first shoot, Mike agreed. So off came the skivvies for the next part of the shoot. Once the images were edited and sent back to Matt, he intimately posted them on his social media pages, but then quickly took them down. Although the shots posted were not full nudes, Mike thought perhaps Matt was having second thoughts, or was worried about his friends or family seeing the images. The proved not to be the case.
In fact, a week or so later Matt called asking about doing another shoot, this time wanting to take things even further. The experience of his first time modeling nude, along with the response, not to mention the reparation... inspired the gym instructor to want to get back in front of Mike's camera. Plans were made, a date was set but again, sadly an obstacle again arose. This one Matt couldn't control and the shoot had to be put on hold. Given the great results of the first shoot, hopefully the planned second will occur when Matt is available.
Obstacles aside, one of the positive results of that first shoot were hundreds of great images of Matt. For his part, Mike says Matt was one of the best models he had shot in awhile, curious, creative and a natural in front of the camera. Being one of the best meant Mike chose to include Matt in his latest venture, mɛn. mɛn is the new compilation book Mike has lovingly put together featuring the hottest shots of six of his favorite models. Three of the models are exclusive, never before having appeared in print. All six, including Matt and B-Rad, from my first piece on Mike's work, appear full frontal in more intimate images than they appeared on FH.
At close to 90 pages, mɛn brings together the raw and incredibly erotic imagery from AANE Photography along with the photo retouching work provided by THOM Graphophoton. You can buy the book in soft of hard cover, or buy the low priced pdf downloadable edition! You can preview mɛn on blurb HERE: Raw may be used sometimes to refer to something 'unfinished,' but for Mike and THOM Graphophoton, raw is definitely used with intention and it's visually erotic effect.
'At THOM Graphophoton, in conjunction with AANE Photography, we revisit the era when photographs did not just mean clarity for it could also be hazy. Not always centered, for asymmetry may mean novelty. And sometimes, the imperfection is what is perfect. Photography is first and foremost, an art form.'
In 2014 Mike began photographing men. To remind himself what strippers tell men, "puede mirar no puede tocar," he named his photography studio AANE Photography. AANE comes from "Ang Asawa Ni Edeng," which is Tagalog for "the husband of Edeng," Fred's childhood nickname. Mike has been married to his husband Fred since 1997. Fred loves to tell others the wedding was a little Sex In The City as like Carrie and Big, it was a lavish and elegant Manhattan event. If you haven't gathered, the partnership is both personal and professional with Fred being the man behind THOM Graphophoton, THOM coming from The Husband Of Mike.
-Behind The Scenes-
Keeping with my Behind The Scenes theme, I love when pets enter into shots. Having owned many cats and dogs, I know one of their goals is always to remain the center of attention! That is why why, cats especially, love to dance on key boards, require extra affection when your busy or on the phone, and slide nonchalantly into shot, interacting with that pesky model who annoyingly seems to be getting the lions share of their owners attention at the moment...
Timothy for Gregg Homme
Timothy barely wearing the sexy and colorful styles of Gregg Homme
You have to love an underwear collection in which one of the categories is See Through...
From the Jon Snow Collection?
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Happy Birthday today May 28th
One of the hunks from The Covenant turns 32 today, find out who HERE:
(hint... he was the only one actually naked in the locker room...)
Patrick Lambie: Legs
Ok, first off, I am not handing out awards for best body parts... but that would be an award show worth attending. I do think South African rugby union player Patrick Lambie definitely would make the finals in the best legs category.
Reek...
It was with great interest that I read the outrage over the rape of Sansa Stark on a recent episode of Game Of Thrones. In the episodes final scene, Sansa (Sophie Turner) is sexually assaulted on her wedding night by husband Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) as Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen), is forced by Ramsay to stand and watch. Don't get me wrong, the rape was ugly and difficult to watch. As a viewer I was always rooting for Sansa to escape the masculine evil that always seems to surround her. My fascination however is with all of those who all of a sudden found this scene so out of bounds?
Yes, I have read that in George R.R. Martin's books, it was not Sansa who was raped, but a girl posing as Arya Stark who married Ramsay. But someone was raped. Anyone who reads FH on any type of regular basis knows how much I adore cruelty. Physical cruelty, mental and emotional cruelty, sexual or power based cruelty especially. FH is in fact my response to various other blogs and sites whose purpose is only to mock and bring down others. Although I have made the odd swipe at a celebrity or media hypocrisy, I try to keep the blog as positive as possible.
But... Game Of Thrones is rooted in cruelty. Passion and power yes, but much of the power the characters gain come through incredibly violent and cruel acts. I don't understand why this surprises anyone. I love the show, but have had to divert my eyes many times during overtly violent and cruel scenes have graced my television screen. Both men and women have been raped, mutilated, decapitated and bludgeoned in every possible way since the show began. Forgive the term, but the writers have clearly been toying with Sansa as 'rape bait' since season 1. The term is ugly I know, but all through the shows first couple of season, Sansa's virginity was played up and she was always on the verge of being assualted or raped when engaged to Joffery. In fact, Joffery played out his violent fantasy's about Sansa in some particularly violent acts on prostitutes. Then there is Petyr Littlefinger, whose lecherous looks always had me thinking he was the big bad wolf to Sansa's red riding hood.
I did not enjoy the scene of Sansa being raped, but I was also not surprised, the show pretty laid out this was Sansa's fate early in the shows run. It was especially hard to have Theon there given he and Sansa were raised together. But many seem not to be as outraged by how horrible the rape must have also been for Theon. No character on GOT has been through more violence, torture, and sexual humiliation and degradation than Theon (nicknamed Reek by Ramsay). All of this cruelty, not to mention his castration was also at the hands of Sansa's rapist Ramsay.
I am wondering why all of those people calling for a boycott, (including you Sen. Claire McCaskill) were not outraged about all of the acts of violence and sexual sadism Theon has gone through? Was it because Theon was written as a bit of a letch himself in season 1? I trust not, we have all been educated not to blame the victim. I am not sure the response to Sansa's rape says as much about our feelings towards the violence against women, as it does about our acceptance with the epidemic in film and television of violence against men.
Wish Book: Skyler by Studio James
It was back in 2011 that I was first introduced to the work of Robert (Studio) James. In my first piece featuring Robert's work, (Home Alone) I was struck by the connection I felt to the Wisconsin photographer's theme of being home alone. Within Robert's images, being alone isn't a bad thing, it's an opportunity.
I have a fairly stressful job, supporting others as they work their way through a time of fear and pain. I love spending time with my friends and family, but I also crave at least a day or two a month to have all to myself. With work taking the bulk of my week and family obligations often dominating my weekends, it is rare to have a full day, let alone a full weekend to do exactly as I please.
Being surrounded by people all day has me craving moments of solitude. I distinctly remember the first few evenings when I first moved out into my own apartment. It was the mid nineties and although computers had been around for awhile, I didn't own my own at that point. A great evening was a pizza, a good VHS choice from Blockbuster, followed by a good book before bed. Before the Internet, books were often the way many of us moved from reality to fantasy. A good book could provide erotic stimulation from a few well constructed sentences. With visuals not readily at hand, one's imagination was the best and only vehicle for getting (off) on-line.
Robert's images of Skyler are not of a man alone, they are of a man enjoying spending time with himself. Surrounded by others at a wedding all day, there is nothing more fantastic to Skyler than getting home, pouring a drink and removing the tuxedo which had constrained him most of the day. He had been looking forward to this moment most of the afternoon and as he gave his toast at the reception, dreamt about getting home and pealing off that tux.
When down to his grey undies, Skyler pics up the novel he had started a few days ago. He is three quarters through the book and the off/on relationship of the novels main characters are finally on with a descriptive three pages of their erotic coming together. Time to put the book down, it has served it's purpose of getting the juices flowing.
Robert is a master storyteller, visually unveiling the story through his images. Robert gives you just enough to get an idea of what the model is feeling, but leaves room for the viewer to use their own fantasy's to fill in the blanks. This was Robert's second shoot with Skyler. Robert had just moved into a new house in the country when Skyler called asking about another shoot. Given he had a brand new home, there were many new locations he wanted to try out.
Robert says that most of his shoots last about 4 or 5 hours, but with all the new locations he wanted to work in, they decided to spend the entire day and do a variety of sets each in a different location. There were two sets of images that stood out to me, this one and another which I am going to share in a couple of days. Although this set of images comes from shooting inside Robert's new home, they also spent a fair bit of time shooting outside.
'Two of the outdoor locations were within 10-15 feet of a county highway. The road is not heavily travelled but approximately every 5 minutes a car would come along and Skyler, having no clothes on, would have to scamper over to some brush and hide behind it till the car passed. We made the day without getting caught. We spent a good twelve hours shooting, moving to the next location and shooting some more. We were both exhausted by the end of the day but Skyler was a trooper and was 100% into each setting.'
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