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Tuesday, 29 October 2024
Life At the Shallow End - Targeted
Friday, 18 October 2024
Beautifully Bound
Placed in a stressed position,
the swimmer bent submissively towards his captor,
displaying amazing shoulder muscles
from Russcapturedboys
Friday, 4 October 2024
Arrested Athletes
Once word began to leak out on social media about sightings of rugby players being tied up in muddy sports fields and abducted, it wasn't too long before a student posted images of himself being tied up in swimwear and marched off by a Policeman in front of his classmates. It went viral and soon everyone was doing it and posting pictures of themselves being arrested in skimpy sportswear.
Then do-gooders started doing it for charity and advertising where the fake abduction would take place. Until there came a strange report that Charity officials who went to such an event expecting to pick up the cash proceeds found that no-one was there waiting for them. The money was sitting on the bench but the fundraiser had disappeared. Police said they'd not been involved and advised Instagrammers to give up the practice.
That warning had the usual effect, i.e. next to none. Numbers of missing fund-raisers have now topped three figures. However, it's not all bad news, random kidnapping of joggers has declined.
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Cybertied is now producing mini- videos of his sexy tie-up imagery, go see!
Friday, 23 August 2024
Experiment with a Swimmer
Sunday, 14 April 2024
Punishment Art by 'G'
'greg' - The Oasis |
These two images are quite different in style but they both have been created using very distinctive, professional 'studio' techniques. Greg did not always use his distinctive logo on his images but I've not found one that does have it with a similar style to 'G' Greg. You can draw your own conclusions about the source of the liquid spilling from the boot.
Greg - The Olympians |
Friday, 15 December 2023
Domination Art by Russ 3 Cops and Leathermen
Russ - Cop Search |
Russ - Cop Probe |
Russ - Cop Probe |
Russ - Jones Beach 1 |
In 'Jones Beach' a young surfer becomes besotted by a vision in cut-offs and shades. This very 80's object of desire reacts aggressively to his attention, pouring homophobic abuse on the young man. However, that doesn't stop him from lingering with his admirer and coercing him into a sequence of humiliating and subservient acts that suggest a very different agenda.
Russ - White Water Run 2 |
Russ - White Water Run 3 |
This striking cover illustration is a decade on from the imagery Russ did for Larry Townsend and it's a more mature, accomplished style. I'm not 100% sure it's the same man but if it is, it shows considerable artistic growth.
Saturday, 9 September 2023
The Torments of Channing Travolta
When a man with a smiling, college jock face calling himself 'Channing Travolta' posts publicity pictures of himself in virgin white trunks, he's creating an image that is an attractive target for all the beastly characters in the world of wrestling who just love to take a self-regarding, pretty boy down a peg or two.
Monday, 4 September 2023
The Genie of the Lump
Sunday, 2 October 2022
Lottery Luck
Thursday, 14 July 2022
Etienne's Fishermen - 3
Etienne - Fisherman's Prize Catch |
In this image by Etienne, the clumsy amateur angler of Part 1 and the admiring bystander in Part 2 are replaced by a man in a (wet?) pouch explicitly portrayed as 'The Catch'. He's hung up to await his fate, like the fishes in the background. Except that they are tiddlers and he certainly isn't! The hooks that caught them lie on the ground.
It's normally angling practice to weigh prize specimens, to make a photographic record of them and then throw them back into the water. That seems to be the procedure being followed here, but one can't help thinking that this big fish is in danger of being stuffed and mounted or even being eaten before the day is out, figuratively speaking of course.
This comic image is one of Etienne's great might-have-beens in technical terms. The faces and physiques of the two men are beautifully drawn (particularly the catch) and the subject matter makes a fascinating bridge between the predatory nature of angling with it's dangerous impedimenta of hooks and knives and the world of captivity and domination that is S&M. Unfortunately all the beautiful detailing of this idea has been undermined by miscalculations, crazy perspectives and imbalances. These flaws which suggest to me that the artist got too involved with the eroticism of his subject and was distracted from the basics until it was too late.
Felix Falkon - Fisherman's Scuba Diver Catch |
Felix Falkon was a contemporary of Etienne and once criticised him (in a friendly way) as 'lazy' but he imitated his style and recast a number of his compositions in a 'corrected' form. This may be an example of that. The two figures here do indeed look more 'correct' and yet it's not as sexy, despite the explicit details.
The line drawing technique itself is intrinsically less sensual. There may be a colourised version of this image but Falkon lacked Etienne's mastery of shading technique, which was the equal of Tom of Finland's style. In Falkon's composition, the direct physical connection between the two figures has been sacrificed in favour of a more realistic suspension arrangement and there's less sense of lurking lust between them. Indeed the added scuba detail obscures some of the attractions of the catch. Etienne, the master of feet depiction, would probably mock Falkon's flippers as a cover-up job. Replacing the waders with boots makes a stronger S&M connection but loses an important element of the fishing theme.
Etienne - Suspended in Jock |
Compare Falkon's effort with Etienne's original suspension image and you understand the gulf in talent between them. It encompasses not only shading technique but more subtle elements like the cast of the two men's faces which successfully connects them in this version to establish a genuine sense of domination and mentoring even. Etienne's men both have a masculinity that is pretty much erased in Falkon's copied version.
Interestingly the sub's face here bears a resemblance to the that of the amateur angler pinned to a tree in Part 1 of this series, although his mentor is not the same. Etienne 'recycled' elements of his imagery sometimes and it's possible that an angling variant of this picture formed part of that set and led more directly to Falkon's imitation.
Read this series from Part 1
See the list of works by Etienne posted at mitchmen
Monday, 11 July 2022
Etienne's Fishermen - 2
Etienne - Lobster Fishing |
This image by Etienne seems innocuous at first sight, almost a pastoral study of a working fisherman. That's partly because the two men in it seem posed and not interacting in any way. There's certainly not the passion seen in the first of this fishing series.
Tom of Finland - Fish Surprise (1959) |
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Etienne's Fishermen - 1
Etienne - Fishing Is A Dangerous Sport - 2 |
Etienne - Fishing Is A Dangerous Sport - 1 |
This picture is from the same series and shows the cause of the fisherman's anger,
the bumpkin's wild line-casting has hooked his pants and torn them wide open.
Both these images were published in Mars magazine No 12 (1965),
apparently there are 4 more in the storyette but I don't think I've ever seen them.
The rope 'belt' in the first picture seems ripe for exploitation later on!
Etienne tended to portray men with cute, diminutive bottoms but the cautious portrayal here probably also owes something to the uncertainty around censorship of sexual imagery in this period when controls were being challenged.
Tom of Finland - Two Fishes (1956) |
Tom of Finland can lay claim to having spotted the erotic potential of flying fish-hooks first in this 1956 image. The back-to-back, over-the-shoulder looks here don't exactly reek of sexual excitement but the fish lying on the ground do seem to allude to a hoped-for conjunction of men's parts (big and little!). The picture does look oddly cropped, so a more indicative bulge may lie just out of sight!
1956 was not a good time for provocative gay pictures.
MacLane - Surfer Hooked |
This picture by Bill MacLane must date from around the same time as Tom's. It dodges round the eroticism of the ripped swimming trunks by introducing a melodramatic menace. There's an interesting thought process going on, here relating sexuality to danger. and threat. It's similar to the moment when Freddie Kruger decides to chop up a pair of teenagers steaming up a car.
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There's also a mitchmen version of this scenario by Mitchell (next post)
More Etienne and Tom in Part 2