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Monday, July 6, 2026
Feel Like A Festival?
'People of all ages coming together to celebrate!'
FH readers are well aware of the annual Roskilde Festival. I've covered the Denmark music, art and activism event many times over the years. If you're not familiar with the festival check out this previous post HERE:. I follow the event not just for the culture, but for the many events that bring out some of Denmark's hottest, and of course naked, competitors.
The images featured here are from past festivals, and were some favorites I had stashed in a folder. The most recent festival however, the 2026 edition, just ended this past Saturday. If you want to check out visuals from this year's event, head on over to Page 3 HERE: to check them out!
Thanks Paul Rudd...
I love when social media actually does something positive. For me, that's when a post introduces me to an actor or a project I've never heard of before. Recently, I saw a post about actor Paul Rudd in a 2000 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. I'd never heard of this particular adaptation before and was interested to read more. Rudd played Nick Carraway and his sexuality in the F. Scott Fitzgerald's class has always been the subject debate. While never explicitly stated as gay, many scholars, readers, and literary critics—and even Truman Capote's early film adaptation—view Nick as a closeted gay or bisexual man deeply in love with Jay Gatsby
Now of course I've heard of Rudd, and I've read The Great Gatsby, but to be honest, have never actually seen any of the films adapted by the book. I keep meaning to see the Robert Redford led film, and will one of these days. After reading about Rudd however, I was curious about this version. Doing a little research I learned that Gatsby was played by English actor Toby Stephens.
Now maybe I've been loving under a rock, but I'd never heard of Stephens before, nor that he was one of Dame Maggie Smith's two sons. Although I love Smith the actress, I knew next to nothing about her personal life, nor that one of her sons was a famous actor. This led me to check out some of his roles, including two interesting nude scenes in English made television projects. Check them both out on the NEXT PAGE HERE:
StudioMGphotography: Southern California Rendezvous
Rendezvous: A meeting at an agreed time and place, typically between two people.
If you look up the meaning of Rendezvous, it typically refers to just the meeting of just two people. Creators however, rarely rely on textbook definitions, and the great ones, rarely rely on the typical. I've never viewed the work of StudioMGphotography as typical. I've been featuring Mark's work for close to 16 years, and rarely have a seen a shot with a hot male model simply posing in front of a black backdrop. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just not Mark's style.
Mark prefers to shoot his models in more creative poses, in unique and often risky settings. Usually, if you're shooting with Mark, you can expect to be hanging from a ceiling, scaling the side of a cliff, balancing precariously on a wobbly wooden chair or maybe bouncing on a pile of mattresses in an old abandoned army base. I always wondered if Mark slid in a safety waiver along with the standard model release....
There was no safety waiver needed for this shoot however, just the willingness to go erotically exceed the typical definition of a rendezvous. Of course Mark invited not just two, but three models to this particular meet up, and the three models are of course three of the hottest, and most popular male models working today. I'm guessing most of you all know, Kramer Evans, Mr. Bradford and Logan (with the red hair). All three have a huge on-line following and all three have previously made appearances on FH.
There were clues that this Southern California Rendezvous was on the horizon. If you checked out my last two features focused on Mark's work, (one with Kramer HERE: and one with Colby HERE:) the clues were there. Although the shoots, and subsequent photo books, were focused on one model, other male models also popped up in various parts of the shoots. Although Mark is a maestro at shooting the male form, he really shines when shoot two, and especially three models together. If you check back on the many Lake Powell trips,(HERE:) you'll see that some most stunning visuals occur when Mark has a triad of studs who are up for a challenge.
For this particular Rendezvous, three men meet for a long weekend of exploration and adventure in Southern California. Mark invites the view to follow along as they explore a beautiful hillside hacienda, complete with private gardens, chic terraces, a sun filled massage studio, lavish bedrooms, a yurt, and even a game room! ( had to Google yurt) From here they travel to the desert at Joshua Tree with inspiring landscapes for hiking, and another property, complete with a glass-sided swimming pool for unusual views!
You can make this hot threesome a foursome, by joining them visually with a peak into their Southern California Rendezvous and the many extraordinarily steamy moments they shared! Mark has put together the hottest shots of Kramer, Logan and Mr. Bradford in a new photo book that you check out on Blurb .(HERE:) The collection is available in a large format printed hard cover edition, or an instantly downloadable digital format. Warning, it's pretty out there these days and the book includes explicit content with full frontal nudity from all three rendezvous invitees in 64 pages guaranteed to get your heart racing.
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Southern California Rendezvous on Blurb
Back Issues: Cleo, July 1977
'Jimmy Cavaretta is flying high. A guy who fulfilled every little boy's dream of running away to the circus and becoming one of the world's most exciting trapeze artists.'
Regular FH viewers are aware of my love of calendars. I still love getting and giving calendars, especially at Christmas. Thanks to the wonderful Michael Andrews73a, most of the features in my Calendar Men series are due to his extensive and thorough research. Naked calendar hotties are the only subject Michael explores and investigates. He recently began posting on DreamCap about the male centerfolds in Cleo magazine. Michael welcomed me to share some of the results of his hard work!
I've featured some visuals from Cleo before, but never focused specifically on the magazine, or the men within it's pages. For those unfamiliar with the magazine, Cleo was an Australian 'women's magazine'. First published in Australia in 1972, each monthly edition was geared towards a mature audience.
Cleo became one of Australia's most iconic titles due to its mix of provocative content including detailed sex advice.
Cleo was the first Australian women's magazine to feature non-frontal nude male centerfolds in 1972, Jack Thompson appeared as 'Mate of the Month.' (following American Cosmopolitan's nude centerfold of Burt Reynolds six months' earlier) The centerfold turned out to be so popular, the planned 'one-off' featured became an essential part of the magazine and one of the reasons it became so popular.
When I saw Michael's archive of centerfolds, instead of staring with the beginning, and Jack Thompson, I decided to start with some favorites from the current month. I also wanted to start with a model who also appeared in Playgirl around the same time. Jimmy Jim) Cavaretta appeared in as the magazine's centerfold in July of 1977. In Cleo, the first five shots, are PG and relatively tame. Things get a little more revealing in his Playgirl spread.
Playgirl
Playgirl: January 1976
Man of the Month
Photography: Bob Seideman
As far as Jimmy's circus career, It all started when he was five and living in Florida in the U.S.A. The US Parks and Recreation department sponsored a youth circus to develop potential circus talent. Jimmy and his sisters went along, and given they all had talent, formed an act when they got older. The Flying Cavarettas were the star attraction at Circus Circus in Las Vegas and from the on, the trapeze became Jimmy's passion and life.
Jimmy's the catcher, so his sisters rely on his timing and strength to catch them at exactly the right moment and return them to the swinging bar on time and at the right angle. His body and mind have been trained to cope with the incredible strain of repeatedly catching and throwing his sisters and handling the big top tension night after night.
When Cleo learned that this daring young man was traveling to Australia to be part of the Greatest Show on Earth, the decided to catch the act. Give the risks he takes in the air, stripping dow,n for Cleo was a walk in the park.
Although 15 when he began flying in the air, by the time Jimmy posed for Playgirl, he was 26, and the act with his sisters a thing of the past. Now, he's flying with his wife, one sister, and a brother-in-law. Jimmy's also preparing for life beyond the circus tent by focusing on his love of music, especially the piano. As you can see, still a risk taker, as when he posed for Cleo, their no full frontals, for Playgirl however, it wasn't only Jimmy's moustache that got totally peeled off.
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