Jeremy #314
Last night a group of us where sitting around the bar at the studio looking at some old vintage porn magazines and remarking at how erotic and sexually enticing this type of imagery used to be. What I mean by vintage is 80’s magazines like Men and Playgirl and the likes of that. [read more]
Published: November 1, 2011
Zach #412
On website overload today trying to get everything ready for the Friday launch of the new site. So far it is all going well, though it is taking a lot of time to get everything functional. Lots of details as it feels we are working around the clock to make it happen. [read more]
Published: November 2, 2011
Jeremy #605
I have been battling a sinus infection all week and slept in this morning. I think we all have been pushing a bit too hard on the web project to get it up by tomorrow and are running into issues as we have been testing it that need to be resolved. At this moment I am utterly exhausted and need to take a break. [read more]
Published: November 3, 2011
Cheyenne #168
It seems far easier to be creative then it is to actually market or sell your creativity. This is becoming the lesson of this week. This is the greatest leap in my creative endeavor so far since this project began. I think back to the beginning of when I was first getting into photography and the greatest hurdle was just getting my self to the creative table. [read more]
Published: November 4, 2011
Griz #103
It’s official, it’s the first day of winter in Montana, and I woke up this morning to see the trees above my bed, through the skylights covered in a blanket of white snow. To me this signifies the turn of the season as this also signifies the turning point of another phase of my life and existence as an artist. [read more]
Published: November 5, 2011
Griz #105
It’s official, it’s the first day of winter in Montana, and I woke up this morning to see the trees above my bed, through the skylights covered in a blanket of white snow. To me this signifies the turn of the season as this also signifies the turning point of another phase of my life and existence as an artist. [read more]
Published: November 5, 2011
Brian #156
It feels like I have reached the pinnacle of a wondrous place in my life today. I now have a public home where I can dwell and share my creative spirit. A year and half ago I was too afraid to even show my work publicly and now have a site that totally celebrates what I have become. [read more]
Published: November 6, 2011
George #248
I spent the afternoon drifting in a universe of my own creation, so near, yet so far from my current existence, drifting in and out of consciousness. It was almost like I could see myself separating from itself. Am I am even slightly aware of my own life? [read more]
Published: November 7, 20111
Chad #122
There was a time in the 50’s when young men arriving in Los Angles seeking fortune and fame in the film industry were recruited by photographers to be photographed nude or nearly nude for companies like Athletic Model Guild to showcase these young guy’s bodies in the hopes of hiring them for work. [read more]
Published: November 8, 2011
Corey #337
It has been about two and a half months since I returned from my inspirational trip to France and Germany and have since accomplished the goal I set out to do. This morning I have began reconnecting to some of my Man Art and Red Bubble friends and approaching them on the possibility of building a gallery of their magnificent works that could become featured artist on the new site. [read more]
Published: November 9, 2011
Ty #115
Most of yesterday was spent cleaning out the garden. It’s the final winterizing of the plants for the season. I put my headphones on and listened to a couple of my favorite musicals and began to pull the annuals, cut perennials, and mound roots of things that need protection. This will be my last garden post for the season. [read more]
Published: November 10, 2011
John #237
I have recently been working through the Reed Massengill book Uncovered: Rare Vintage Male Nudes and am struck by the remarkable beauty of the images, not so much the models that are paraded though out the book, but by the photographer’s skills in crafting the images. [read more]
Published: November 11, 2011
Travis #635
Yesterday I began a discussion about analyzing light in a photograph to use it to your advantage. The discussion began with my looking at a book of rare vintage nudes from the 60’s. And there was a prime example of what I wanted to talk about in one of the images but I can find a decent enough image of it online to show my examples so I am going to take this image of Travis. [read more]
Published: November 12, 2011
Travis #692
The Naked Man Project website has been up for a week now and though you may not see changes happening to it, I assure you it is continually still under construction. We are still trying to learn the programs and how it all functions together from the back end and there are still lots of detail stuff going on within that inner structure. [read more]
Published: November 14, 2011
Brandon & Chris #109
I recently bought a book called “Porn: from Andy Warhol to X-Tube” edited by Kevin Clarke which is a visual guide following the history of gay porn both in publication and multi-media formats and it’s evolution. It’s actually quite a wonderful book that is put together quite nicely with lots of images of porn stars, cover art, advertising, quotes, and fascinating well written articles by people in the business. [read more]
Published: November 15, 2011
Narcissus #129
I am beginning to think our plight is to struggle with finding meaningful existence, yet I remember a time when I was so idealistic and my dreams wider then the ocean. Now I have crossed those oceans and the idealistic dreams are back. But it feels there is a huge hole or gap in the middle of my life filled with loss fueled by uncertainly and loss. I think this erodes at the core of our self-expression and breeds doubt. [read more]
Published: November 16, 2011
Jeremy #921
So far, being in Montana, I have had great difficulty gaining the credibility to be taken seriously by potential subjects. “You want me to what?????” is the common response. There always seems to have been a sense of perversity surrounding the idea of men exposing themselves nude, or partially nude, that has been the source of greatest resistance. accessible. [read more]
Published: November 17, 2011
Russell #151
Advice to Young Artist
It seems young artist are always asking my opinion on their work. Sometimes they are quite talented and sometimes they need to just keep working to get what they want. I tend to not comment on their work but my standard word of advise to young artists is to keep at it.
Published: November 18, 2011
Travis #386
I love weddings for this reason. It’s like highly emotional theatrical events that unfold before your eyes that you become caught up in. Some one said to me last night, you have one of the best jobs in the world getting to shoot people at their greatest moments of joy. I paused and thought about it for a moment and replied, absolutely it is one of the pleasures of my life. [read more]
Published: November 20, 2011
Chase #132
It feels like we are finally beginning to tame the beast of understanding how the project functions internally. New artists have been submitting works and I have been building galleries for them. [read more]
Published: November 21, 2011
Corey #350
I have the first featured painter and visual artist on The Naked Man Project website today. The artist is my friend Tom Acevedo in Boston, whose paintings I have admired for such a long time, who also happens to be a very sexy hot man. [read more]
Published: November 22, 2011
Jeremy #1129
A question has recently arisen about getting to the essence of who we are as artists. I have recently been reading a book about a man, in love with photography from age 10, who went to a photography workshop with the photographer Minor White in the 60’s. [read more]
PublishedL November 23, 2011
Travis #764
I now somehow wished I had made that leap in the beginning because I somehow always knew this is where I wanted to end up. But looking back I wonder if I would have found this vision and what it would have become today if I had. It has been the expression of my life and soul and is the vision of what I have become. [read more]
Published: November 24, 2011
Justin #326
I am strongly becoming empowered by other artists’ images. I have been working with several other artists from around the world who have submitted images and writings that I have been creating galleries of for this project. [read more]
Published: November 26, 2011
Nate & Zach #227
I saw a video that actually moved me and got me thinking about this whole concept of gay marriage. I have been very mixed on the subject, not sure where I stand on either side of the debate. I sense my own security in my own relationship seems to be enough to bind us. [read more]
Published: November 27, 2011
Jeremy #225
For some reason I have been thinking lately about the lonely death of the American writer Tennessee Williams. Here is a brilliant man who has crafted some to the greatest plays of all time for the American Theater. Things like A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. He choked to death on the cap of some eye drops he was trying to open with his mouth on February 25, 1983. [read more]
Published: November 28, 2011
End of the Relationship Series #640
I’ve had many great loves in my life, most of them ending so badly that I learned to put up a protective barrier around myself in which I could contain my emotions. It doesn’t mean that I gave up on loving it just become more cautious with it. [read more]
Published: November 29, 2011
Chad #224
Elizabeth is one of the most extraordinary people I have never actually met, because despite having been diagnosed with MS several years back and it completely disrupting her life, she has somehow managed to reclaim her life. [read more]
Published: November 30, 2011
