Glibertarians.com 2017 Archive

Tag: muscle

  • Friday Afternoon Links

    *hums Katy Perry song gaily while preparing links* Oh hello there fellow Glibertarians! I didn’t hear you come in. It’s Friday afternoon so we’ll keep things relatively light. Enjoy!

    • Los Angeles tunnel diggers discover bone of ancient giant sloth. Kristen Bell hardest hit.

      The twin human advances of digging giant tunnels under the erf to move people and catheterization so that drugged out homeless people can piss themselves continuously on the train without ruining their ratty sweatpants.
    • If you recognize this guy, track him down and fuck up his day with a cudgel. Explanation. Update: Guy was caught after I finished prepping links, you’ll have to wait until he’s out to cudgel him, sorry folks.
    • Philippine politics are almost as interesting as American politics. I wonder how you say “the minute you drive it off the lot” in Tagalog. Also this week, Duterte does his best STEVE SMITH impression.
    • Today is National Doughnut Day. You forgot? Monster! The Denver Post wants to remind you that people who bring their coworkers (and Friday Afternoon Links editors) doughnuts are more popular in a thinly veiled an ad for Postmates: promo code DONUTFAIRY (no relation to our kindly Edit Faerie).
    • Lebanon bans ‘Wonder Woman’ in protest against Israeli actress Gal Gadot. Lebanese Rivens hardest hit.
    • Pornhub released an infographic showing the most common misspellings of porn searches by state. Florida Man sure likes his wbony porm, eh? SFW link from Thrillist if you don’t want “Pornhub” in your work history (their blog is SFW, but pornhub.com…)

    And while skimming #MuscleBear on Instagram looking for some skin to post up, I came across this:

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BU0g0BFFrmt/

    10 internet points to whoever can figure out why that hashtag was used there. And here’s something more in line with what I was looking for.

  • Manly Monday

    Sugar Free sent this my way, but don’t let that scare you off: “Romance novel cover model wanted in Connecticut robberies is arrested in San Diego” David Byers (mildly NSFW) of the (very ritzy, I’ve been there) Solana Beach, CA has apparently been robbing banks (three of them! or one of them twice the story seems muddled) and a gas station in…Greenwich, CT. As far as I can tell he started his life of crime in SD when he stole a rowing machine from his apartment complex gym. Honestly, I’m thinking Zoolander sequel: male Instagram models gone rogue while Derek and friends overcome their increasing irrelevance at the democratization of beauty and save the day. Anyway, Byers randomly resurfaced in NY, PA and AZ before making it back to San Diego where he was driving around applying for jobs while driving a stolen vehicle and of course because he’s a model, he was arrested shirtless (autoplay video warning).

    Something SFW, and something less SFW. Now don’t get me wrong, I would, without question, stick it in crazy in this case, but only with an assumed name and at a hotel. One doesn’t want crazy following one home.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BHvun0DDkFW/?hl=en

    A SFW example of his professional work (though unless the story is about a closet case with a girlfriend, his photo doesn’t really fit the title).

    When SF sent this my way, the fact that he was a Michael Stokes (mNSFW: man butt and implied nudity) model immediately pinged something in the back of my brain. When I saw the guy’s pictures I realized immediately what it was. Stokes has a type (muscles, bad tattoos) and a style (shiny, bold, uncanny use of HDR) that’s very distinctive and a few years back he did a series–and companion coffee table book–on Veterans who had lost limbs while serving, which began with him shooting Alex Minsky. This launched Minsky’s career as an underwear model, and also a fully clothed model who cleans up well, but where’s the fun in that? The Daily Mail has some fine examples from the book. There’s also a 2017 calendar…because of course there is.

  • Manly Monday

    Anyone who has done yoga, stepped on a cardio machine at the gym, or flipped a tractor tire over repeatedly at CrossFit owes a nod to Physical Culture. The idea had bubbled up previously but began coming together as a movement in the mid-1800s as people realized that sitting at a desk all day probably wasn’t that good for you. Because 19th century Europe, all of this got tied in fairly neatly with nationalism and we’ve never quite escaped a sense that the physical fitness of the people is a reflection of the health of the nation. Physical Culture and the various ways it’s been en vogue or out of fashion for the past ~175 years is fascinating and you can learn more from Dr. Warty’s paired courses “Physical Culture: an anthropology of manly strength and nations at war” T, Th 8-10am and “Squat more, fleshy thing, I am disgusted by your weakness” M, W, F at the same time. Or of course you can check Wikipedia for the ultra abbreviated version or The Art of Manliness for a sweeping gloss of the issue.

    One of Mizer’s models

    Because it’s Manly Mondays, we’re mostly here for the skin and so we turn to the case of Bob Mizer. Mizer was a Los Angeles based photographer with ready access to the burgeoning muscle culture of Muscle Beach in Santa Monica in the mid-1940s. He founded the Athletic Model Guild, which published Physique Pictorial one of the earliest beefcake magazines of the post-war period. By the mid-1950s the implication of nudity under the posing pouches he was using on his models had drawn the ire of the USPS and he was charged with obscenity and did a 9 months stint in a work camp. The obscenity charge only served to make him more well known and he became a primary source for photographic records of muscle culture in Santa Monica/Venice Beach through the ’60s and ’70s. You’ve potentially seen some of his art with old photos of the Governator showing off.

    Unforutantely for you all, copyright is a strange beast and I’d prefer not to get trampled under foot, so I’m just going to send you looking elsewhere including a fairly Safe For Work Bob Mizer Foundation Kickstarter campaign from 2012 to help raise money for properly archiving some of Mizer’s work. The less safe for work, but safer-than-a-Mapplethorpe-exhibition, galleries hosted by the Bob Mizer Foundation, and of course potentially NSFW depending on your Safe Search settings: GIS or Bing Images.

    Also bonus footage from Muscle Beach back in the 1950s heyday that has nothing to do with Mizer, but is part of his milieu.