Amy Winehouse and frankly I really don’t want too. She’s a disgusting crack head and I don’t know why anyone would want to see her topless. Here is Amy on holiday in St. Lucia enjoying the water topless.
Amy Winehouse and frankly I really don’t want too. She’s a disgusting crack head and I don’t know why anyone would want to see her topless. Here is Amy on holiday in St. Lucia enjoying the water topless.
My first passion is photography. I have made a living of being a photographer for several years now, hold two degrees, and countless awards for the same. So after writing my book I started wondering what they would do for the cover and it made me a bit annoyed. I wanted to do it. I didn’t want to give up creative control of part of my project particularly to someone else who does what I do.
I started designing covers and considering different ideas for the shoot, then I started thinking even more broad. With digital readers becoming so prevalent and publishing houses charging the same or more for eBooks than trade novels and hardbacks I thought how great it would be to work within the medium. Printing images is expensive, but adding images to an eBook isn’t anymore difficult than adding pages, if you have the images. So why on earth wouldn’t I illustrate parts of my book? Add visual representations throughout, instead of just on the cover. After all, it is what I do.
So I started casting and drawing up storyboards and planning the images, hunting down the right breed of horse, finding the right costumes for the period (and knowing when to take them off!) So far, with my art director, we have finished two of the shoots for the novel. Both solo shoots with the hero, Roxleigh, in studio. It was so much fun I can’t wait to finish the next book and start shooting it.
For me a project that starts coming together is the most exciting thing in the world, and right now I am obsessed with this book. I found the horses —a specific breed that isn’t prevalent in the U.S.— and have plans to shoot with them this spring, and since the book is set in the spring/summer I look forward to a couple outdoor shoots to finish off the novel.
Until then, I’ll give you a little preview of one of the images from the shoot, this won’t make it into the book because it isn’t very telling, it is also a little too far on the side of objectification of form to be comfortable, what with being a headless, faceless body. What it is, however, is sexy as all get out. Well, if you like naked men and water, always have to add water. Water makes everything better.
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The past year was tied for the second warmest since 1880 according to a new analysis of global surface temperatures by NASA scientists. Year 2009 was a small fraction of a degree cooler than 2005, the warmest on record (The full article can be found on ScienceDaily).
The hot summer of 2009 is followed by a cold winter. BBC Weather forecast for Kiev gives low temperatures all week, and night temperatures around -25°C (-13°F) for the next several days. Now is not the best time for many northern hemisphere naturists.
So, this weekend I’d like to blog the photos from the southern hemisphere, another side of the globe, where it is summer right now. And here are the photographs by Luiz Tadeu Duarte from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (ltduarte on Flickr). These images are from his Ensaio 1 set on Flickr.
Ensaio 1.24 by ltduarte on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Ensaio 1.40 by ltduarte on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Produção: Rubber Seabra
Locação: Espaço Cultural Casa da Gloria
© LTDUARTE photography
I would only say that, in my opinion, the photos are excellent and suggest to visit the Photographer’s gallery. When you see the work of a true artist, you begin to understand how art differs from anything else.
Links:
1. ltduarte’s photostream on Flickr
2. Luiz Tadeu Duarte (ltduarte) on Twitter
Skin is often linked to notions of wholeness and completeness. It is not found only in one area of the body, it appears everywhere, not simply forming the surface of the body but responding to the body’s internal structure to create the terrain we recognise as the human form; following the extremities of cavities by turning inwards to form the familiar hollow of the mouth, the labyrinth of the ear and the knot of the anus. And yet, skin is not an impermeable container of the body, keeping in and keeping out; it breathes. Its very fibres are in constant flux by virtue of discrete and multiple interactions between the inner body and the outside world. It absorbs and emits, becoming a part of our immediate surroundings by sharing the breath of intimate conversations, the humidity of the atmosphere and the temperature of cool air. In fact, on closer inspection, it is difficult to define skin as an entity in its own right before describing its characteristics according to either internal or external forces. These impressions upon the flesh offer a rich network of interactions and associations long explored through the body in art, particularly, in discussions on the threat to identity that can arise from a border so constantly breached. Skin is both literally and metaphorically understood as concealing or exposing what is familiar, desired and accepted of our body image. It is understandable therefore, indeed necessary, that such concerns lead to notions of fragmentation, mutilation or fetishisation of skin. Skins two- folded-ness, however, its absorption of the external world and emission of internal properties can also be examined and represented as a more integral part of the body. The figurative work exhibited as part of the Fragmented Figure exhibition, arises from an enquiry into the ways in which the emphasis of flesh and skin in figurative ceramic artworks can be understood, discussed and demonstrated in terms of aesthetic properties. In particular, how the interaction between expression, representation, surface and form can create or prompt certain perceptual relationships suggestive of sensations or emotional states associated with flesh and skin. Included are examples of initial test pieces devised to establish common traits between clay and skin and the application of these findings to achieve more particular emphasis in larger scale figurative artworks.
vanessa vs audrey. obviously this is not about body of work or it wouldn’t even be a battle. thank you france.
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Here are a handful of photographers posting on Flickr worth visiting:
Erotic Art Photo. She (at least that’s her claimed gender) has an empty profile but joined Flickr just this month. Among her 200 photos are erotic shots from yesteryear. Here are some of the more salacious samples: “resting on her laurels”, “dancing with friends”, “intimate ladies”, “hotwheels”, “three of a kind”, and “mirror, mirror”.
If vintage photos of women now old enough to be your great grandmother turn you on, Johnny Mahoney’s photostream is just your ticket. Vintage Nudes is an excellent set. Johnny actually took these photos himself. Next week he celebrates his 108th birthday.
You will find another antique dresser full of vintage nudes at Rosepusateri’s site (sorry, she has no sets).
Proof people had sex before 1966 (the year I discovered it) may be found in the racy set Vintage Erotica by Memento Mori1880.
Want to know how people fucked in truly ancient times: this photo of Roman brothel art from Pompeii, and this one, and this one, too.will show you how they managed without Viagra.
If you’re feeling old now, this delicious set by Von Wolfsburg of an accommodating blonde should perk you right up.
