A Very Fashionable Party, The Sam Way

So how was your New Years Eve celebration? Here's how sexy model Sam Way gets down and parties, as captured by photographer Jens Schmidt.





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Best of 2008: Love/Hate by Steven Klein

Steven Klein makes his first appearance in the Best of 2008 feature with his Love/Hate editorial for the October 2008 issue of W Magazine. The photoshoot featured Tyson Ballou and Linda Evangelista with styling by Camilla Nickerson. I love the eye-patch!

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Best of 2008: Luciano Carvari Footwear Collection Ads

Here’s the new entry in Homotography’s Best of 2008 feature, the Luciano Carvari Spring-Summer 2008 footwear collection ad campaign. The campaign, which is called “Flora - Amore”, was shot in Thailand, Morocco, Zanzibar, Mexico, Chile, Peru, as well as on the territory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Botanical Gardens. The ads bring living plants and shoes, as well as hot men, together.

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Tony Ward is a Play Boy!

The sexy Tony Ward (forever known as Madonna’s boy toy during the Justify My Love era) is featured in the November issue of Playboy France with photography by Shawn Mortensen. Tony is clean shaven and smooth in the editorial, unlike his recent full-beard photoshoots.

 

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Best of 2008: Football is War by Erwin Olaf

 

The latest entry in Homotography’s Best of 2008 is a fusion of sports, movies, photography, and homoerotic imagery in the name of “Football is War” by photographer Erwin Olaf. Commissioned by AD newspaper to feature the Dutch football team in their Euro Championship special earlier this year, Olaf informed the players upfront that they would be portrayed as "lust objects, that there were sexual and erotic elements and that they would be completely covered in mud.”

 

“Football is War” is obviously inspired by the movie 300 and shows the Dutch players as Spartan warriors. The participating players were John Heitinga, Rafael van der Vaart, Edwin van der Sar, Joris Mathjsen, Nigel de Jong and Giovanni van Bronckhorst.

 

 

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Fantastic Present

Fantasticsmag has a fun editorial/photoshoot entitled ‘Present Tense’ with photographer James Nixon and model Bobby R. It’s cheeky, cool and fun to look at. See the whole thing here.

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A Coming Out Story in a Music Video

I just came upon this captivating music video by Icelandic band Sigur Rós, and I can’t believe I haven’t seen it before. The music of Sigur Rós has been used in many gay-themed movies and shows, including the US version of Queer as Folk and the dark movie, Mysterious Skin.

This music video tells a heartbreaking story of two young boys in love and how their families can’t accept their being gay and try to ‘butch’ them up. The song is entitled “Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa” and is a bit old (from 1999), and although it’s in Icelandic, the song is mostly instrumental. You just have to check out the video below.

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Best of 2008: Olla Condoms Campaign

Like I mentioned in the sexy new Greenpeace anti-whaling campaign, there is nothing better than raising awareness with some eye-candy. And this latest entry in Homotography’s Best of 2008 feature is certainly one of those. The 2008 ad campaign for Olla Condoms by photographer Cláudio Elisabetsky showed us that, "The day after is more relaxed for those who wear condoms." And to prove their point, they had four hunks wrapped in white towels sitting around in public having a smoke and looking all happy while the people around them looked stressed.

The campaign was created by age ad agency , São Paulo, Brazil

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Madonna Hard Candy Outtakes

I just came upon these outtake pictures from the Madonna 'Hard Candy' promo photo shoot by Steven Klein. I haven’t seen them around before (except the black & white one). is it just me or does Madonna look like she has three breasts in the below pic (left)? No wonder it stayed an outtake!I have to say though, even without photoshop in some of the pictures, Madonna looks physically awesome.

 

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Merry Xmas

Homotography wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

The illustration is by artist Chris Haughton.

Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Tattoo Ads

There is nothing better than promoting awareness about serious issues with eye-candy. It’s like hitting two birds with one stone for me. PETA always does it with their ‘I’d rather go naked than wear fur’ campaigns, and now Greenpeace is getting in on the action as well.

Greenpeace are hoping to put an end to the savage whaling in Japan with this new creative ad campaign which lets you know that “Not all traditions deserve to be
preserved.” Illustrations of the bloody & barbaric whaling are tattooed (temporarily I am sure) on the bodies of some hunky hunks. The campaign was created for Greenpeace by advertising agency Leo Burnett, Hong Kong with photography by Lewis Ho & artistic illustration by Thomas Ho. (click below images for bigger size)

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Arena Homme Plus Gets Faceless

 

The latest issue of Arena Homme + magazine celebrates 20 years of Maison Martin Margiela with this intriguing faceless editorial by Olivier Rizzo with photography by Willy Vanderperre. The model is Bastiaan Ninaber.

 

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