Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Stanislav Ianevski

Stanislav Ianevski is a Bulgarian actor, best known for playing Viktor Krum in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Ianevski was born in Bulgaria and has also lived in Israel and England, where he was known for his athletic skills. While attending Mill Hill School in England, Ianveski had no particular acting aspirations and was not a drama student. He had only auditioned for Potter after being spotted by Fiona Weir, a casting director who prompted him to attend an acting workshop, which resulted in his casting as Viktor Krum, a Bulgarian. He was selected from 600 others, most of whom had auditioned in Sofia, Bulgaria.

He can next be seen in Eli Roth's Hostel Part II





Bulgaria joins the EU on 1 January 2007 - if Stanislav Ianevski is typical of Bulgarian men then welcome to Europe, fellas...

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Joseph Sayers

Joseph Sayers born in 1983 in Lakewood, New York, United States is a male fashion model best known for his nude centerfold for Abercrombie and Fitch Quarterly, shot by Bruce Weber, and also for the fact that, despite being only 5'6" tall - although I have also seen him quoted as being 5'9" - (most male models are at least 5'11"), he has experienced great success as a fashion and commercial model.

Despite his 'lack' of stature for a model - Joseph Sayers is so perfectly proportioned and generally so otherwise perfect that he has managed a successful career in modelling and here are some incredible shots of him by Joe Oppedisano - some of which appear in the book Testosterone.


Joe Oppedisano

Joe Oppedisano is a 'Fashion and Portrait Photographer with an edge'.

He has recently published a book of his edgy male erotic photography called Testosterone.

Joe presents his male models in dark stylised photos that sometimes appear to come from a different epoch but are simultaneously very modern. You see a lot of skin, sweat, leather and dirt and will be helplessly drawn to these specimens of raw masculinity.

Testosterone features photos of specimens of raw masculinity that are set into scene, usually with just a single light source in gloomy places like bars, cellars and stairwells.

This distinctive style is often carried through to his more mainstream fashion work.

If you are a fan of masculine men then Testosterone comes highly recommended.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Sebastien Izambard

Possibly not the kind of bloke blokes go for - being a member of popera sensation Il Divo doesn't help - but there's no point in denying the undoubted handsomeness of French singer Sebastien Izambard.

Bet he'd look great with a beard...

Monday, December 11, 2006

Sporno

When approached to write an article about the homoerotic subtext of sports for Out magazine this spring, the journalist Mark Simpson feared the subject was old news. “There wasn’t much of a point,” he says, “since sport was already the new gay porn.” Indeed, with the publication of a Dolce & Gabbana underwear campaign featuring Italian soccer players glistening in a dank locker room, the phenomenon had gone well beyond subtext. All that was lacking was a name, and it didn’t take Simpson very long to invent it: sporno.

Sports, of course, have always celebrated physical form. What has changed, Simpson argues, is how we look at men. Thanks to what might be called the Abercrombie effect, the male body has become increasingly aestheticized — or “metrosexualized,” as Simpson would have it (he invented that term too) — and male imagery, particularly in fashion advertising, has become more overtly sensual. Considering that sports is visual, masculine and (like porn) geared mostly to men, Simpson was not surprised to find male athletes — even, or perhaps especially, heterosexual ones — grooming their physical image and “fetishizing themselves.”

The arrival of what Simpson calls “equal opportunity flirts” like the soccer players David Beckham and Freddie Ljungberg, who dabble in gay iconography and openly embrace their gay fans, lends sporno a celebrity cachet. (Simpson calls sporno stars like Ljungberg, whose physical assets are abundantly featured in Calvin Klein underwear ads, “young hustlers.”) Among professional sports organizations, the French national rugby team has pursued its sporno status most aggressively. The team’s annual calendars, Simpson notes, include photo shoots in which “there is no pretense that this is anything but hyperhomoerotic.” Indeed, some images are but a few soap bubbles away from pure pornography.
Source: The New York Times

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Michael Witt

This is not actually a scene from a gay porn movie ...



... but Michael Witt and Brett Stewart of the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles - Yep, Australian rugby.

Dieux Du Stade

Got the book? Got the DVD? Got the Calendar? Get the t-shirt!


Alex Moffat

Bringing out out the big guns for Strathcarron Hospice - Mr February Alex Moffat -from the Stirling County Rugby Club 2007 charity calendar.

Lacoste Pour Homme

They have recently been showing this classic, classy and very sexy ad on British TV again - still probably the most unashamed and sensual use of male nudity in a mainstream television advert.



The model incidentally is called Ian Lawless.