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| Swedish beauty Erik Andersson is surely one of my favourite long haired models out there. And I particularly favour that long smooth silky look of hair. The kind sported by other models like Michael Tintiuc and the almost invisible but adorable Allen Roth. Whatever happened to him? See him HERE on The Beauty Hunter. In fact at the bottom of that page I did a whole posting that covers the subject on the attraction of hair HERE. But as for the beautiful Erik (above and below) I dont think I've ever seen him in a bad editorial and I've always thought that he possesses what I call unapproachable beauty. These coloured images of Erik have that unmistakable stamp of photographer Alasdair McLellan who has quite a fondness for fashions with a retrospective feel to it. The images were part of an editorial for Another Man Magazine titled 'Some Lost Bliss' more of which can be seen HERE. I particularly like the black & white image of Erik further down below by Giorgo Codazzi. I find it almost hypnotic. It's not just a picture I want to look at for just two seconds. They're some of his best monochrome images, more of which can be seen HERE. ERIK ANDERSSON: STOCKHOLM SWEDEN NATHALIE MODELS SWEDEN NEW YORK MODEL MANAGEMENT |
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ERIK ANDERSSON BY GIORGIO CODAZZI FOR THE JULIAN KEEN S/S12 COLLECTION A NEW ITALIAN MENSWEAR BRAND |
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I'd say this was more like FOUND bliss! Ah, the Swedes. One thing I love about them is that they are not only beautiful, but that they are perfectly COMFORTABLE with it and tend to show it off to its greatest advantage. None of that false modesty crap.
ReplyDeleteHi p/b, Well thanks for saving the day. I thought this post had bombed.
ReplyDeleteI was going to go off for a week and ponder on why so many old friends
dont drop by so much now. They've only time to look. It is frustrating.
I know this problem will eventually end The Beauty Hunter. Just a matter
of when.
But you're right. The Swedes have something special. To put it bluntly
they dont sexualize nudity.
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ReplyDelete(Conclusion)I used to get hundreds of readers on Diaryland, and my entries would generate dozens of discussions. My current site on Blogspot averages no more than about 12 visitors a day, most of whom are butterflies, alighting for half a second and then moving on. During my entire several-year time on Blogspot I think I have received, maybe, a grand total of maybe 8 comments, less than I used to get for just one entry in the old Diaryland days. It's partially my fault, because I write entries so rarely, but there's little incentive to write a piece that extremely few read and even less make a comment on. So it's almost dead. I can also blame myself because my blog isn't limited to some particular kind of entry, it's more like a diary the way the old Diaryland was intended to be. One might think "Who would ever want to read any of that, they don't even know you," and yet the counter to that was that the formula did work in the Diaryland days. People GOT to know you from reading your entries!
ReplyDeleteSo, I don't know the answer, I only know the problem and can sympathize with it. Still, the loss of these things would be terrible for those who enjoy them and participate in them. A site like yours obviously takes a LOT of work, but so does my blog. One entry in my blog takes me almost an entire weekend day to write and edit. And it really feels like I am just doing it in a vacuum. And the air is getting very thin....
p/b, Yes I suppose the diary format can be popular with some and will often bring in a regular crowd. But it does seem as if the image is more powerful than long texts.
ReplyDeleteBlogging does have it's high periods as well as it's low ones. It's often frustrating how the posts that I put the most work into are the one's that get overlooked. This might turn me into a lazy blogger.
Was pleased though this week to get a thankyou from two well known photographers thanking me for mentioning them and posting up one of their models.
Oh they've been running some of those old Michael Parkinson 1970's shows on the BBC this last month. Last week was an amazing interview with Richard Burton. I remember you telling me how as a young usher you literally bumped into him. He was smoking like a chimney. But with regards to his excessive drinking he seemed to have a death wish. But he did tell us some amusing stories and anecdotes not to forget a bit of name dropping... Dylan Thomas, Winston Churchill etc. The whole series might be worth a post with thumbnail pics of all the greats. David Niven's interview the week before was interesting.
Dee.
Dee, I think your idea of a post with those greats would be a good idea, for me, anyway. I came back here to see if you had left me a reply (as you did, thank you), and I saw the first half of my comment in which I outlined the de-evolution of the commenting over the years did not appear, showing only the conclusion to it. It took me three tries to get the system to "take" that comment without deleting it, and finally it looked like it did, but now I see that it is gone again. That means it is totally lost, as I wrote the comment at work as a Word document and once the entire comment "took", I deleted the original.
ReplyDeleteI do think I made some important points which I didn't want to lose, so I will attempt a shorter version here:
It would be a terrible shame to lose The Beauty Hunter, but I understand your frustration. I have seen not only a diminishment of on-line comments (discussions) over the years, but also a de-evolution of the very formats regarding acceptance of the written word. My original entre was Diaryland, but soon people began to drift away from that and some of them ended up on MySpace. But blogging on MySpace soon enough disappeared and all people ever did with that was "collect Friends Stamps", which I thought was more than useless. Then the herd left MySpace and moved over to Facebook, which is basically just a "news" site where people write at most a few sentences. But even that was too much for people, who now are obsessed with Twitter which is just a "news headline" site.
Also, there is what I think of as the Tumblr phenomenon, which I haven't fully figured out, yet. Great for pictures, yes (although everybody copies everybody ad infinitum), but there really are no comments at all, just a long column of "Liked it", which can hardly be worth the bother. That seems to be the "invading alien species" that is taking over the ecosystem, killing off sites like yours, which are now an endangered species. One good thing about you regarding comments is that you respond to them, what a treasure that is, most web owners can hardly be bothered to do that. I do wish that those who comment would also respond or write comments pertaining to those written by other commenters, have a real DISCUSSION, but that is out of the question, everybody is so insular.
I said all this better earlier today, but anyway, this was the gist of it.
p/b, Sorry you lost it all. I've noticed that Blogger cant handle large comments. It seems to allow only so many lines. Ah so you do your blogging homework in the workplace as well. Still, bosses aren't to know are they.
ReplyDeleteBut yes I like the idea you mentioned where one comment might produce another one thereby creating a discussion. It used to happen more so maybe 4 or 5 years ago. Your over generous responses to my top 100 films was truly awesome. It alone still makes a good read. And it actually spurned on a friend of ours (Jason) to compile, write and self publish his book titled 'The Top 50 Most Influential Gay Movies Of All Time.'
Yes I think I'll have a go at making some thumbnails for The Parkinson legends.
p/b, I did get your longer first comment after all. But I found it
ReplyDeletein my Blogger spam box so I sensibly deleted it.
At least I got the jist of everything you said.
Dee