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Kylan Boyd by Michael von Redlich
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Sunday, September 1, 2024
Welcome Jono!
'Shall we throw another sausage in the pan?'
When host Rylan Clark asked the girls about adding another sausage, a beautiful face and body, and succulent sausage, soon walked in. The sausage belonged to new contestant Jono Brown who joined the gang on this week's Dating Naked UK.
Although I still love me some Mike, who I featured last week, (HERE:), I'm also crushing over Dan, and certainly Jono, who didn't hesitate to shake things up. Two new episodes dropped yesterday on Paramount Plus, and I caught the episode three late lasts night.
'I'm definitely a triple threat. I've got the looks, the charm, the charisma, and I know the girls aren't going to be able to resist it. As an ex-pro footballer, I've become accustomed to girls throwing themselves at me whenever I please. I've come here to shoot my shot, and I know I'm going to score.'
A little cocky maybe, but most likely wrote by the show. Still. with his looks, I'm sure he's right.
Anonymous Anatomy
My love of John Irving novels began in the early 1990's. I was still a teenager, too young to be left at home alone for a weekend, but too old to be dragged on vacation with my family. Yet, my siblings and I all were forced to a cottage that belonged to a friend of my fathers. On the plus side, the cottage was lined with book shelves, and I dove into The Hotel New Hampshire, which I finished before the weekend was over.
I soon got my hands on other of Irving's novels including The Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp. Years later, when I was older, I caught some of the movies. Irving's novels cover long periods of time, following characters over decades. This makes them difficult to fit into the short time span of a normal movie. Still Cider House and Garp did ok, but The Hotel New Hampshire for me, didn't come close to the magic of the novel.
Irving's novels always include scenes featuring erotic visuals. Not always sex scenes, but scenes with nudity that excited the mind of the teenager reading them in the 90's. One of the memorable scenes from the movie Garp was the shower scene. I was reminded of the shower scene when the movie recently aired on my retro movie channel. It reminded me I that featured caps from the scene in a previous post back in 2017. (HERE:)
For those who don't remember the scene, the young Garp, (James McCall) who has an interest in wrestling, follows the school's wrestling team into the locker room after a practice. He's soon interrupted talking to one of the wrestlers when his mother, (Glenn Close) barges into the locker room to get him.
When I first saw the scene, all I noticed was bunch of naked guys. When I recently re-watched the scene, I focused in on one. Starting with the image just above, if you watch the left side of the screen in the video I included, there is one particular hottie who does the lion's share of the nudity.
It starts with a shot of his butt as he walks into frame. Man of the extra's bare their buns in the scene, but I didn't realize until this viewing, that this actor, is the only extra in the scene that goes full frontal. I don't know why I didn't notice the first time, I thought it was a few different extra's that went full frontal, not just one.
This had me wondering who the hot extra on the left side of the screen was. We get a quick frontal when Garp first enters the locker room with his penis in the air when he turns around. It's the same guy whose penis we see when Glenn Close comes on the scene.
My curiosity can be annoying, but I'd love to interview this actor. I'd love to know how he got the part, if he had to do a nude audition. I'm curious if he knew he'd be the only one showing penis before hand, or was that decided in the editing room. Did he sign a specific contract, different than the other extras, was he paid more for the added exposure?
Curious minds want to know curious things, but there's something sort of fascinating about the scene his anonymous anatomy. I saw anonymous, as he doesn't appear to be credited anywhere, not on IMDB or in the movies closing credits. Curios if he's done any other acting, or if this was his only big screen appearance. There is something also sort of great about having your penis on the big screen, and yet still remaining anonymous, telling anyone, or no none along the way.
I'm guessing given the film was made in 1982, the actor would be now, at least in his early 60's. Guessing from his appearance he was somewhere between 19 and 21 when he filmed the scene. Curious minds, curious questions. I'll keep looking for info, but I'm guessing his film full frontal is something he's chosen to keep in his past. Hopefully though, it's something he smiles about from time to time...
A Paradoxical Perspective: Kylan Boyd by Michael von Redlich
'Modeling was a new area for Kylan, but one he embraced very quickly and naturally.'
I think some might assume that modeling would be a breeze for a porn star, but that's not always the case. Sure, they have experience being nude in front of a camera, but the purpose of an image is far more nuanced than that of an adult film. With a film, you expect to be fully satisfied while watching, the purpose is to meet a need. An image on the other hand, is more like a sensual beginning, an visual invitation to a party, not necessarily the party itself.
Like a great book cover or film poster, a great image stimulates the viewer to want to see more. To open that book, to see that movie, to learn more about the person in the image, and the person who created it. My favorite images are more subtle than sexual, more erotic than explicit, more seductive than climatic. Yes, they can often lead to a climax, but as an initial provoking, stimulating our imaginations to then take over.
Most of all, the images that I tend to be drawn to arouse. They arouse a sensual excitement for sure, but more specifically for me, they arouse curiosity, and the desire to see and learn more. That's exactly what happened when I saw images of porn star Kylan Boyd from photographer Michael von Redlich. I first one of Michael's shots of Kylan on Michael's Twitter.
I'd never seen any of Kylan's films, but I knew his name. A quick Google search brought forth a series of images, mostly caps and still from his films. I was struct with how different Kylan looked on 'film', compared to the images that Michael had captured. In the screen captures from his films, Kylan looked 'busy'. Most were moments in which his body and facial expressions were frozen moments of erotic frenzy while in the midst of sex.
In Michael's images, there's a beautifully paradoxical perspective of Kylan captured. A quieter, more peaceful and personal perspective, one that your average porn flick doesn't usually provide. Porn is just a job, and we all act differently at work than we do behind the safety and privacy of our front door.
Michael's images capture that safe side, a vulnerability with a focus on beauty and form, far from the heightened sexual frenzy of Kylan's day job. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with sexual frenzy, but with photographs, I'm drawn to something more sensual and subtle, something that provokes my mind flow along with my blood flow.
When Michael sent on a folder of his work with Kylan, I was struct that almost three quarters of the shots featured Kylan with his pants on. I was a little surprised, as given his work in porn, I'm sure he'd have jettisoned the jeans without a second thought, as soon as Michael started shooting. Although those jeans do come off, Michael set a tone with the clothed shots, capturing sides of Kylan that might have missed if he'd been nude in every shot.
Given the folder had hundreds of images, if they'd all been nudes, it would have gotten boring. Instead, my initial focus was on Kylan's beautiful face and eyes. Michael captured an array of beautiful looks and emotional expressions. I loved the range of perspectives that Michel captured, going from an almost boyish innocence through a knowing sensuality, enticing the in viewers with eyes and poses.
Of course those jeans did eventually come off, in a slow, seductive strip. You can check out that series, as well as Michael's thoughts on his work with Kylan, on the NEXT PAGE HERE:
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