Category — Tasty, Sexy Art and Photography Reviews
Blog Flavour: Photo Blog
As a rule I surf written content blogs. There are also many pictorial blogs. Sexy ladies mostly, sexy guys, couples, fetishes, and what ever you can imagine. In the past I’ve posted about art oriented web sites, I particularly like pin ups and sketches, mind you there are professional photography sites too, and I’ve reviewed some of them as well. Recently, surfing Stumble Upon, I’ve found myself tripping on some tasty pictorial blogs. So of course I take note!
Take for example, The Code: 831, it has a disclaimer at the front door: All images, unless otherwise noted, were taken from the Internet and are assumed to be in the public domain… By imposing no limits, it gives carte blanche and the results fabulous. The shots are well chosen, depicting a strong flair of sexuality as opposed to posing models. Are they porn? For the most part I would disagree, but I would rather say that they are sexually explicit.
The concept is simple, the size of the images acceptable. The archives took some time to load, but they are very well organized. it was worth waiting for a zillion thumbnails to load. The second time around a little less painful, since they’re in your cache.
Done on Tumblelog the whole thing appears to be very low maintenance and is very functional. The photo I chose is one of today’s entries. It’s from John Tisbury.
If you visit Stanley over at Sexoteric.com, you’ll find a regular stream of tasty photo links, always credited to the artist. You’ll also find links to most type of adult photography if you hang out long enough and explore. The tough part, I find, is getting it right. What’s right for me may not be right for another. In terms of Internet, we know what’s available. To find a blog, that’s more like an collection of the best, sexual shots, is a lot tougher than just dropping in on any of the thousands of porn blogs or galleries.
I welcome your suggestions or finds.
September 27, 2008 No Comments
Sean McCall
Regular peeps that stop by here, know that I like to do a quick exposé every once in a while on Tasty, Sexy Art, and Photography. After I was granted permission to go ahead, I discovered that
photographer and cinematographer, Sean McCall, has an impressive trail to follow. Far beyond the few shots I had in mind.
It was a pleasure researching him, and finding out there was so much more than I expected. Since this post is about Sean McCall’s photography, let’s take a look at that side of him. He is working in the fields of fashion, advertising, commercial, beauty, glamour and products including publication such as in Allure, Bazaar, Details, Glamour, GQ, Madamoiselle, Redbook, Sunset and Vogue. Impressive credits.
Even more impressive are his subjects… Ali McGraw, Angelina Jolie, Bo Derek, Caprice Bourret, Chris Farley, Dita Von Teese, James Coburn, Mohammed Ali, Pia Zadora, Steve Guttenberg and Tommy Chong. That maybe a 20 year line up, recently Sean McCall is working for Designers like Moschino, Gautier and Dior. Some of the above mentioned names may be viewed on his website .
I didn’t research the cinematography side of Sean McCall as extensively, but I did find one piece I thought everyone here would enjoy, entitled Blooming Dahlia. From 2004, this is an 8 minute film featuring Dita von Teese. In 2005, he was also involved with A/k/a Tommy Chong.
More recently, and back to photography, say April 2008, the tabloids splattered photos of a young Angelina Jolie. The photos were taken by Sean McCall, about 1 year before she began to be noticed.
I found other references to work in print, you can find out about it at Pocketvenus.com.
Thank you Sean, for allowing me to do this post.
Since I asked permission for this article to display one specific photo, I will send you to the photos that first got my attention. I’m sure you’ll appreciate them too . For more Sean McCall photos, follow these links…
You can look forward to some new banners in the coming weeks!
July 21, 2008 No Comments
Will Elder
In my madness recently I made a note that I wanted to mention Will Elder in passing. After all if it wasn’t for him, I may have never learned english. I spent many 6 hour train rides, in the 70’s, between Montreal and Toronto reading Mad Magazine. What I probably didn’t know at the time, is he was also the creator of Little Annie Fanny, which ran for 25 years in Playboy Magazine. Not that I wasn’t reading Playboy at that age, but I probably couldn’t afford it and would have been too young to buy it! But I knew the cartoon.
Will Elder passed away May 15th, at the age of 86 after a long battle with Parkinsons disease, leaving behind a legacy of work which is acknowledged through out the Internet by several reviewers and interest groups. In 2003 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame.
Known for his Chicken Fat style, (he coined the phrase), he always put a lot of graphics in his background frames. Enough to keep you busy and amused for hours!
May 31, 2008 No Comments
Lucrezia Magazine
Publisher: Anastasia Mavromatis
Sub-Editor: Nicholas Christie
Art Editor/Webmaster: Eddie Ostrowski
I love talent channelled properly. Here you’ll find "quality erotica, informative essays, articles, art, that focuses on a variety of themes". Such a project headed by Ana Mavromatis from Sexualité amongst many blogs she authors, is a treat. It has an art and photography section nicely documented and reviewed by Ana herself but to top that section, photographer Eddie Otrowski himself presently reviews Blue Art by Gunther Vandenven. In the current issue, Eddie is also featured and interviewed by Ana.
Strict rules are put in place for those authors who wish to gain exposures, that’s a good point. It guarantees well written work. The submitted work, is presented in Lucrezia Magazine under two different themes/sections: Essays and articles being one and Fiction being the other.
An online project such as this requires a lot of time and effort to set forward. Obviously this has been done here. Already in third or fourth month, this is a real treat to follow.
March 8, 2008 No Comments
Jon Hul
Just freshened up the gallery with a few pin ups from Jon Hul. The one below is my favourite. I first caught a glimpse of it last year on Sexualité. I feel some new banners coming on!
Bio from WikiPedia…
He was born in Pittsburgh, PA and later grew up in California and Nevada. He attended Orr Junior High School in Las Vegas, NV in 1971. In 1974, he attended Valley High School where he studied ceramics, oil painting, watercolors, and commercial design.
After graduating from Valley High School in 1976, he taught himself how to play drums and played gigs off and on for a few years in a funk band called Soul Connection.
He decided to become a full-time artist in 1987 and to focus on fatherhood.
He is not a college graduate, and is mainly self-taught. He has noted as early influences the artists Salvador Dalí, Frank Frazetta, Alberto Vargas, M. C. Escher, Pablo Picasso, and later Patrick Nagel, Olivia De Berardinis and Hajime Sorayama.
Frequent subjects for his erotic art include Shae Marks, Suzi Simpson, Victoria Zdrok, Julie Strain, Anna Nicole Smith, and Pamela Anderson. He uses the media of watercolor, acrylic paint, oils, and pencil.
[edit] Books
* The Art of Jon Hul (2003) (ISBN 0-86562-082-2)
* The Jon Hul Sketchbook Volume One (2006) (ISBN 0-86562-136-5)
His books are available through Amazon.com . Some of his artwork at the Erotic Art Network.
June 23, 2007 No Comments
Giovanna Casotto and Happy Easter by the way.
Some news….
High speed rocks! As in very High speed. I’ll be spending my early mornings this weekend trying to do a little network configuring. For anyone that has a house full of users on wireless, if you have Ultra High Speed available, make the move. It’s certainly worth it. We have on the average 4 to 6 users, and when they’re all boys/males, that bandwidth gets a little too thin for comfort. The ladies’ habits are a little easier to deal with.
Guys tend to d/l a lot more, stream movies, I even had a couple of guys hooking in with their voip. That’s when you call in the bigger guns! 16 megabits per second ought to do it!
Giovanna Casotto
Unless your Italian is very good, it’s rather difficult to get info about Giovanna Casotto. I surfed many websites and found information I didn’t expect. For example, most of the illustrations drawn, are self portraits. Explicit too! I found a few nude photos of Giovanna Casotto, right next to the illustrations. I was impressed!
A pretty woman to begin, it’s not surprising the illustrations are beautiful. She started drawing erotic comics in 1994, after meeting up and working with Franco Saudelli. He would take the photos and she would re-do them her way, in a realistic style.
It was fun observing the details wherever feet and footwear were part of the illustration, the attention brought to is remarkable.
Of course, I’ve added a few photos to the gallery. Check them out.
As some of you may have noticed, less posting these days, as I’m busy with a few side projects. Let alone WORK!
As a result, I will probably enhance this section a little more. I find it easier to pick up at any time as opposed to blog surfing and reporting. I still visit many blogs, as well as my favourites on a regular basis, I just don’t presently have the resources to write them up.
Speaking of resources, has anyone tripped on this little gem? Graffitigen.com. It allows you to type your text and select a Graffiti typefont and generate it. Kind of cool.
April 6, 2007 3 Comments
