Stadium Nudity

Stadium Bums (Source)

Spencer Tunick is at it again, this time in Vienna. Over 1,800 people showed up for the shoot at Ernst Happel stadium. I wonder if Spencer only dreams of naked people. Must be hard (no pun).

For more images, click here (NSFW-sorta)

Read it:
Spencer Tunick and Vienna's Kunsthalle Gather 1,840 People to Pose Nude at Stadium, Artdaily.org (May 13, 2008)

Ruggers Gone Wild

Sandbach Rugby Boys Bonding

Here's an extended version of the Sandbach Rugby Team gone drunk and wild (same team I posted about before). There's lots of pints being hand (330 total!) - lots of "straight" boys going "gay" - and obviously a lot of NSFW moments. Be forewarned ... this is so classic, I love it.

Totally Priapic

The Big Penis Book (Source)

Leave it to Taschen to publish a book devoted to penises, with the boldly titled The Big Penis Book, to be released in May 2008. I love Taschen! Many of the photos are from the era of feathered hair and mustached beefcake men - I think people call penises from this era "vintage." Warning, you might feel a bit inadequate looking at the photos - or perhaps envious or maybe a little horny (you choose). The Big Penis Book is a lovely compendium of images of a bygone era - images that happen to be of men with - how shall I say - "big guns". I'm obviously intrigued - and I know you are too - and will probably have to grab me a copy at some point.

Here's more of the description of the book:
In this companion volume to The Big Book of Breasts, we explore the centuries-old fascination with the large phallus, a fascination common to men and women alike. This hefty book is profusely illustrated with over 400 historic photos of spectacular male endowments, including rare photos of the legendary John Holmes. The majority of the photographs are from the 1970s, when the sexual revolution first freed photographers to depict the male entirely nude. Photographers include Bob Mizer of Athletic Model Guild, David Hurles of Old Reliable, Colt, Falcon, Sierra Domino, Third World, and Champion Studios, with each of these iconic photographers interviewed or profiled, along with information about each of their models. And if this isn’t enough, the book closes with a special surprise comparable to the Guinness Book of Records’ Norma Stitz featured in The Big Book of Breasts! Can you guess what body part Dian is dissecting next? (Source)

See more of the photos from The Big Penis Book (NSFW).

Check it:
The Big Penis Book on Amazon
The Big Penis Book on Taschen (NSFW)

Spramp Hodgepodge 3

Originally uploaded by Burn-A-Bee

I am puckered out. Teaching days wipe me out, even worse now that the sun disappears a third of the way into my class. My students were great today - I think they like me a lot (not that I should care ... should I?). Ugh, why am I talking about work. On a brighter note: My partner-in-crime just bought his tickets to come and visit over the Turkey break. Woot, woot! He bakes a killer turkey. Chooker-roos!

• In Portland, Cultivating a Culture of Two Wheels, New York Times (November 5, 2007)
• Donors Bid Millions NOT to Rename School, AP (November 4, 2007)
• Yahoo Launches Kickstart, A New Social Network Around College Students And Alumni, TechCrunch (November 4, 2007)
• Ugly Shoes: A Brief History, New York Magazine (November 4, 2007)
• Ten Ways to Defeat Brain Drain [Mind Hacks], Lifehacker (November 4, 2007)
• Twitter Is For Twits, Gawker (November 5, 2007)
• Gadgets That Changed the World, CrunchGear (November 5, 2007)
• Now (Almost) Open: CB2 Gets Signage On Broadway, Racked (November 5, 2007)
• Gisele Bundchen Dumps the Dollar, Demands Payment in Euros, BloggingStocks (November 5, 2007)
• New Face On Speedo Sundays, Made In Brazil (November 4, 2007) [Semi-NSFW ... Nummy!]

Striking a Powerful Nude Pose for Our Planet

Forewarning: Images below could be NSFW.

Nude People on the Aletsch Glacier (Source: Greenpeace)
Known for his installation photographic pieces of hoards of naked people striking mass poses in cities all over the world, Spencer Tunick has turned his attention to the environment. Tunick recently photographed 600 nude volunteers on the Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland, a glacier that has retreated 377 feet (or 115 meters) from 2005-2006. The juxtaposition of nude people and mountains being stripped of their glaciers is a powerful commentary on the vulnerability of our species and our environment.


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For further info:
600 strip naked on glacier in global warming protest, Greenpeace (August 18, 2007)
Say freeze: why 600 people stripped and posed on a Swiss glacier, Guardian Unlimited (August 18, 2007)

Hot Spramps: Yah Totally

All American Guys Footage with "Umbrella" by Rihanna as Soundtrack (This might be NSFW, unless your coworkers are all cool with you looking at really hunky guys in their underwear. I mean, they're just undies for crying out loud!)

We haven't had any double-take, eye-candy posts in awhile, so I was rather pleased to come across this YouTube vid posted on the fantastic blog Towleroad. This vid is just completely H-O-T, hot! What's funny (or at least for me) is that every Sunday, Trent of PinkIsTheBlog.com fame posts a hot guy from All American Guys (www.allamericanguys.com), and more than once I've clicked on the picture, half-expecting to be brought to my future baby's daddy but also half-knowing that the pic is just a teaser to get you to sign up. I haven't (yet) felt that compelled to sign up, though I've been very close (there are a lot of cuties on the site!). But I shan't be selfish. We must all enjoy together! Um. Paging the blog "Hot Jock of the Day," have you seen this yet?!? I can pretty much watch this over and over for awhile. And perhaps I will... It's certainly a great way to celebrate hump day!

Last night (Tuesday) was fantastic! I got to see Dr. Paul and meet his friends Ted and Derick. I wound up winning the game we played (I've already forgotten the name! Grrr...I blame the wine!) - but my win was totally beginner's luck. Dr. Paul roasted a fantastic chicken with broccoli (only my favorite veggie!). And Derrick baked totally sumptuous chocolate chip cookies! I brought he wine, the boozer that I am. It was a great, chill evening. Everyone should institute a game night!

For obvious reasons, I'll leave you with a Rihanna song. I'm giving "Umbrella" a rest for the time being since I've totally played it out. If I've said it once, I'll say it again, the next big hit for her is "Don't Stop the Music!" Calling all DJ's - hurry up and mix the damn song! It's so good, in that sprampy way we all like. Enjoy enjoy!

Don't Stop the Music, Rihanna, Good Girls Gone Bad (2007) (Courtesy of the fantastic Central Village blog!)

Eye Candy is Addictive

The Double-Take Edition

Statue at Stadio dei Marmi (Source: Google Image Search)

I’ve been thinking about those queerly straight rugby players that I wrote about a few days ago, which got me to do a little Web-searchin' to see if I could find anything more on those buggers, I mean ruggers. And remarkably, or not, we’ve seem to hit a blogger’s impasse; with that I mean, these Sandbach ruggers have fallen into a hole (no pun).

I searched and found a blog entry called “Why Gay Rugby” Is Redundant,” from the blog Hot Jock of the Day (HJOTD). While the post had nothing new to say about the ruggers, I was more intrigued by the blog, itself. Could this hold a treasure-trove of eye-candy, I wondered? Indeed, if your fancy are “hot jocks,” you’re in for a treat. The site owner is considerate enough to label things “SFW” (Safe for Work – for all those looky-loos at work), “SSFW” (Sort-of-Safe for Work), and our fave “NSFW” (no explanation needed). Most of the jocks, at least the ones I gazed at on the site, are clothed but there’s still a lot of hotness there. But isn’t half the fun undressing them in your mind? (I’m just sayin’).

• Hot Jock of the Day (http://hotjocks.wordpress.com)
• The site did provide a link to the YouTube vid of the Sandbach debauchery (NSFW). For those of you sticklers (no pun) for size (no pun), the vid on YouTube is a tad larger than what you see on the Ethan Says blog.
  

Web surfing is like free-associating. Blogrolls are free-associators’ best friends. Inquiring minds always want to know more (or in my case, see more), so I paid Wet Boxers Guy, the blog on HJOTD's site that is, a visit. Be forewarned or rather be very tempted, HJOTD has kindly labeled it a NSFW site, and kids, it is exactly that. While most images are not of guys wearing wet boxers, but rather a large number of guys in their undies. Although I imagine that at some point something’s gonna to get wet. It’s actually not really that smutty, and for good reason—I mean, again, part of the fun is that thing in photographs that pricks you, the punctum in Roland Barthes’ lingo (blame the pun on him!), which in these photographs is that which is hidden underneath the tighty-whiteys. I'd hold off looking at the site until I was at home. Asides from that: the pop up ads are pretty annoying and might actually kill the mood.

Wet Boxers Guy (http://wetboxersguy.blogspot.com/)

So still free-associating and thinking that perhaps my eye-candy compulsion is over, I remembered something I read in the outTravler that my friend Dr. Paul gave to me. All these images of hunky mens reminded of fantastic sculptures at Stadio de Marmi in northern Rome at the Foro Italico sports complex. The sculptures are absolutely stunning and amazingly homoerotic!?! According to the short blurb about the statues (which I’ve attached below), many (gay and straight) travel guides overlook this sight. I’m making a mental note to myself to go the next time I’m in Italy, that’s for sure!

“In northern Rome, surrounding a discreet soccer field, 60 erotic--both naked and adorned--white marble Olympic athletes tower above, preening themselves or staring seductively at each other across the stadium. The incredible Stadio dei Marmi, in the large Foro Italico sports complex, was a centerpiece of Mussolini's fascist Italy in the 1930s. Perhaps that is why the Stadio, with its statues, field, and running track, is absent from most travel books, gay or straight, and is known and used mostly by locals. The formidable 12-foot size of the Stadio dei Marmi statues is surreal, made more interesting by time: Over the last 75 years, bronze fig leaves have been added to cover some of the chiseled penises, creating an embarrassed modesty; but luckily, many of the athletes still stand proud in all their naked glory.”—Christopher Lucas, via e-mail
(Source: “Snapshots,” OUTTraveler, Summer 2007 Issue)

• For more images of the statues: Google Image Search.

Oy...I think I'm wiped out from all this eye-candy! At least it broke-up the monotony of my day. Still lots to do and it seems like very little time. Hey, it's the mid-week hump! My fave day. Nighty, nighty!

jcb
Seattle Has the Best Eye-Candy!

Gay Bombs Are for Voyeurs

For Real? Edition


In my haste of reading shizz from my Google Reader, I had totally missed the headlines about “the Gay Bomb.” So finally, mostly out of boredom, I went back and read what I’d skipped over, and realized how immensely funny our government is sometimes. I had heard about this report years ago, and probably had the same reaction—silly, silly government! The short of it is that The Sunshine Project (I kid you not!), a watchgroup, uncovered the details of the Air Force’s Wright Laboratory request of $7.5 million dollars to develop none other than a gay bomb—chemically-based arsenal (hormones perhaps) that would send enemy combatants into a “gay” humping frenzy with each other (here’s where I’m confused: just with each other, or the rest of the general public—would that be collateral gay damage?). And why this would work? Decline of military morale, I think is the big reason (well and the other obvious reason). This, of course, presumes all military gays just want to get it on with each other—a real big disservice to actual patriotic gays in our armed services, I think. And why a gay bomb, really? Haven’t we proven that ecstasy is just as effective and perhaps more fun? (Not that I would know, I just say what I’ve read.) I jest, I jest. There’s got to be some irony in this story somewhere. I mean c’mon! Some high-ranking military official had probably watched one too many Dirk Yates videos and got inspired (be forewarned, following that link would definitely bring you to NSFW conditions!)? The sight of the effects of the gay bomb actually working (and broadcast on every news network in the world) would be enough to render gay porn sites obsolete! It might make watching CNN worth while again. And it would be a field day for voyeurs, that’s for sure!

I thought Gawker.com did a fantastic job making light of this truly absurd moment in U.S. history. See: “Code Pink: After the Gay Bomb.” (The puns never end! And I love it!)

Some fantastic excerpts:

“THE probability of a fruiclear weapon one day going off in an American city cannot be calculated, but it is larger than it was five years ago.”

“Only the federal government could help the country deal rationally with the problem of gaydiation, which is unique to fruiclear terrorism and uniquely frightening to most people.”

Oh how I love me some Gawker readers' snarky comments (be sure to read ‘em all!):

Sev says:

I assume the bomb will be delivered in a color-coordinated gift bag with matching bow.

Coloniel Mustard says:

It's about time. Where was this technology when I was in high school and all the guys I had crushes on were into girls?

For more inanity, read:

• Sunshine Project Uncovers US Military 'Gay Bomb,' from the Washington Post
• Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb,’ from a CBS Affilitate
  

All this talk of gay bombs has made me...well...kinda...never mind. I've got lots to do today, and we're again blessed with a sunny day here in Seattle so I need to get out and enjoy the warmth. My trip to Dublin is in two weeks and there's much to to before I leave. Enjoy the day!

BTW: Have you Sputtr(ed) yet? It's the best thing since slice cheese!

jcb
jan@spramp.org, WA

Eye-Candy in Brazil

A.M./P.M Edition

São Paulo Gay Pride (Photo from: Made in Brazil)

If you need a break, like I do right now, head over to Made in Brazil and check out the fantastic photos of the world's largest gay pride in São Paulo, Brazil, that we missed out on. Some photos might be NSFW, but who the 'eff cares! It's a celebration!

Go to: São Paulo Gay Pride in Pictures, Made in Brazil


Sigh...I love fairies...

jcb
Seattle!

Spramps in the Most (Un)expected Places

All a Sudden I'm in the Mood for a Shower Edition
We here at Spramp appreciate the head-scratchin’, double-take doin’, can’t-stop-lookin’, hyper-testosterone queer lovin’ ways that often get played out in the most (un)expected spaces. I was just telling my friend Craig the other night at Bal/Mar that P.E. (Phys. Ed.) was the most horrible class that I was required to take. After junior high, in fact, I found ways never to take it even though we needed at least a year (or two) of it to graduate (geesh, can you imagine not being able to graduate because of P.E? Cringe!). I think for a lot of us Spramps the locker-room was one of Dante’s “circle of hell.” I know it wasn’t fun for me, the little that I do remember (repressed memories?). Oh how things have changed! Indeed, we here at Spramp now consciously seek out those queer moments that get played daily right before our eyes, it seems, with folks who just make us wonder if socially constructed boundaries of gender and sexuality are just a waste of time. Or perhaps men are just inherently horny…you tell me. I originally scoped what follows out on the fantastic blog Towleroad (“A Site with Homosexual Tendencies”) and posted it onto the Spramp Shares sidebar (on the right-hand side). The British rugby players have taken “male-bonding” to an extreme and apparently have no qualms about certain…hmmm….queer actions performed—thank god for the beer, eh?!? The video clip, which you can get to via the Ethan Says Homorific blog, is a MUST to view. And be forewarned, the vid clip is very NSFW!

In a commissioned series by September Films for the UK's ITV 2, "Generation Xcess" looks at the lives of 20-somethings and how they entertain themselves on a "typical" Saturday night. Included in the film, which portrays these 20-somethings as a "culture of excess" and out of control, we find the Sandbach rugby team involved in a bit of male bonding which, after the equivalent of 240 pints of beer have been downed, involves stripping and more than a bit of "snogging and wanking" of other teammates.
(Source: Ethan Says Homorific)

From the link that I followed, the rugby team featured, Sandback RUFC, is quite legit. Unfortch, I’m not going to post the video clip here, but have opted rather to titillate with some screen captures.

Sanbach RUFC at Their Finest ... (Source Screen Captures: Ethan Says Homorific - Click on any of the pictures to be led to the video clip.)

Doesn't that just make you want to join a rugby team? The Chairman of the Sandbach rugby team posted a letter on the team's Web site and did not sound all that pleased, chalking the "excess" (as the title of the video project would seem to indicate, "Generation Xcess") to things other than, well, desire. Here's an excerpt:

As the title would suggest, the object of the programme was solely to display excessive behaviour in young people,­ an objective in which the producers were ultimately successful. While it is clear that some team members were ‘playing-up' to the camera, I have been led to believe that certain individuals had also been offered inducements to behave outrageously and ‘play-up' even more.
(Source: "Message From the Chairman," Sandbach RUFC Web site)

Whatever it is, it certainly makes for an "interesting" viewing experience.

Yes, indeed, shower time!

jcb
c c c a a a t t t l l l, WAWA