Diego - Potential Blog Icon?

Seem to have this Latin thing going at the moment. Hope it will not be a problem for too many people. As if! But please 'Comment' if you are seriously displeased.

As I am putting this together, I suddenly realize Diego has a strong family resemblance to Andre Oliveira of yesterday's post. So the theme thing is even stronger. As well as the Latin business, I think it's partly the tight muscled bod. But mainly the general features of the face, particularly the full broad mouth and cleft chin and set of the eyes.




Don't wanna see his boner do you - I don't know why cos it's hot. Well I'm going to force it on you anyway, so to speak.


Diego also targets a niche market:





And what post wouldn't be complete without a jerk and blow job, close-up!




Don't know about you, but a curved dick is a real turn on for me. What do you reckon?

Andre Oliveira - Blog Icon

I think in life, you only ever see a handful of guys that really blow you right away. And linger in your imagination - for ever.

I posted something on Andre Oliveira ages ago but have just found some more pics and, cos he is one of the very 'chosen few', I rushed off and am now tripping over myself to get them on my blog.

Now, when Andre does taking off swimmers, it's an international incident! Cars crash, trains derail. Planes vanish into the Bermuda Triangle. And usually sensible guys loose it. Like me!






And the guy has a sense of humour! Never thought of doing that cute number after I take my swim wear off.

It should be said that Andre does lazy, seductive, observed but detached sex god so so well! Very Dietrich!




And if there were any doubt about his flip side being inadequate in any way ... ... well, I'll let you guys be the judges. I like the slow reveal in this mini-set. And the quizzical raised eyebrow in the second photo - challenging you not to look.




Oral - a true feast. I'm drooling already! And that wet stuff on your keyboard is dribble too! Admit it.

All this and he cums too!





He has it all! I defy anyone to disagree. And not to go into collection mode.

Travel-Life Update

Kinda got seriously stuck here in the Philippines. I came for a shortish stay and now it's five months and still going. Go figure!

I've just got myself a new and small studio just out of the central plaza area of Baliwag, Bulican. And finished the curtains, tables and chairs, crockery, etc thing. It has a balcony over-looking some old houses and their lush gardens. And the 'palenke' or daily market is absolutely huge and only minutes away.

The gay scene vibrant and I seem to have become a central member. I guess this must be part of the explanation for digging in!

I'm living above an internet cafe so expect lots of posting from now on!

Aboriginal Painting - Current Abstract Visions

Emily Kame Kngwarreye Untitled, 1992. Synthetic polymer paint on canvass 61.0 x 50.5cm

Much of more recent aboriginal painting has moved way from bark to acrylic on canvas. And Germaine Greer has spoken of this in terms of such latter day artists being captured by the European Gallery-Dealer system. A world-wide phenomenon in so many guises.

In this context and anecdotally, I’ve heard of canvasses being prepared and colours selected by city-based dealers to take to Utopia, a remote outback aboriginal community including printmakers and painters. Of a shed being hung with prepared canvasses and artists instructed to paint their way round the room. And of a representative of a certain Sydney gallery taking a gift of a patent leather handbag to Emily Kame Kngwarreye! Perhaps imagining such a present would reflect the artist’s growing reputation in the art world, in Australia and overseas! I only hope Emily said ‘The only thing this is useful for is putting yams and berries in!’

But what interests me in this bark and acrylic-canvass work is its non-naturalistic representation. And trying to understand the semiotics involved, which is particularly tricky across cultures.

The Emily above makes meanings, in abstract form, about yam tubers growing underground.

And the Rover Thomas below constructs an ariel ‘view’ of country where the artist lived. The essence of that landscape, reinforced by use of its actual earth pigments. Certainly three hills can be identified. And perhaps plains moving away from those hills. But abstraction moves in and interpretation is needed. Why dots? And dot-enclosed areas filled in with colour or alternatively further dots? And why is the crown of one hill dotted in and those of the other two not? Lines of dots suggest contour lines on a topographical map. But now of course I am just speculating.

Rover Thomas ‘Artist’s Country’, 1988. Natural pigments on canvas. 61 x 76cm

Whatever the complexities of understanding these works on canvas, they seem very much to appeal to our present formal Western aesthetic, balancing out form, line and colour in ways that delight us.

The painting I have is on the right:

And I wonder where its pair is! Mine seems sadly to miss its mate, I often anthropomorphise!

Ricardo Villani - Still Looking Hot

It's good to know some people don't change!






Even the rear view is still mouth-watering!!!

Traveling round Zambales, Vigan, and 100 Islands

I drove north of Manila to Zambales, Vigan and the 100 Islands.

Zambales for a few days cos a friend offered a fab house overlooking the ocean:



And then Vigan cos I'd often planned to go there, a trip never realized. The city has the best preserved Spanish colonial 'bayan' (town centre) in the country, with 'kalesa' (horse-drawn carriages) functioning as taxis.


This CBD is full of rather grand old mansions:

And more humble houses:

Some of the former have been evocatively re-furnished. You have the sense that this 'frozen' scene could suddenly come to life, with the original C18 or C19 owners walking in and asking what you doing there:

The lighting in two and three, remeniscent of C17 Dutch interior painting, is as much the product of the photographer as the moment! Calculating art-ster!

Finally, on to the 100 Islands and something much more athletic. Though the act of traveling round is, in itself, not for couch potatoes!!!

So, the hotel restaurent there, set over the ocean:


And a vantage point for the islands:

The start of a day trip round the islands:

Landing on a deserted beach, and climbing for a view back over where we landed and our boat:

Followed by snorkling and kayaking. And eating and sun-baking.

Post Script

In Vigan Zoo, I realized a life-long dream - getting up close and personal with an orangutan, a couple in fact:

They were so gentle, fixing my gaze with theirs and spontaneously holding my hands and stroking my face. I was totally blised out. And I mean totally.