08/01/2008
Country Boys by Joe Oppedisano
Here's a set of new shots from Joe Oppedisano called Country Boys. They're part of a spread coming out in DNA in September, Joe tells us. Unlike some of Joe's other work (you may remember his Dangerous Boys from the Black Party or the Ultimate Fighters from his new DVD Knockout. He's also got a book coming out in November called Uncensored, and if you know Joe's work you can imagine what that might be like. Country Boys features Tyler Garceau and Travis Hanson, both with Major Model NYC.
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See the slide show here...
And if you missed the others
Joe Oppedisano Delivers Knockout Punch [slide show]
Joe Oppedisano: Dangerous Boys [slide show]
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Oppedisano Celebrates the Calvin Klein Man [tr]
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Yeah the guys are hot. And I guess the notion of this being rural American gives license to the photographer to feature only the whitest of white dudes. But there's NOTHING of any note in this photo shoot. Same same same. Is this A&F 1998? Looks like it to me.
Posted by: Gm | Aug 1, 2008 8:59:50 PM
Er, ahem, I grew up in the countryside and never once saw anybody who looked like this. Larry the Cable Guy, yes. Studly, no.
Nor did they wear overalls and straw cowboy hats. Oh, and the cigarette should be a meth pipe.
Posted by: Weezy | Aug 1, 2008 9:09:41 PM
Er, ahem, I grew up in the countryside and never once saw anybody who looked like this. Larry the Cable Guy, yes. Studly, no.
Nor did they wear overalls and straw cowboy hats. Oh, and the cigarette should be a meth pipe.
Posted by: Weezy | Aug 1, 2008 9:10:54 PM
I'll just channnel Tyra for a moment here:
Girl, you're doing the amputated toe thing.
Look at that exposed foot! You can only clearly see three toes. Two are out of sight, "amputated". A big no-no in the Tyra Banks world of modeling.
Posted by: Philip Wester | Aug 1, 2008 10:04:20 PM
Thank you, GM. My thoughts exactly.
Posted by: Q | Aug 1, 2008 10:26:04 PM
Artistically ho-hum.
Posted by: Mattia | Aug 1, 2008 10:51:45 PM
eh.....what's with the cigarette? is this the 1970's?........doesn't Joe Oppedisano know the smoking look is SOOOO not cool!
Posted by: ed | Aug 2, 2008 7:56:19 AM
I like Britney Spears songs.Greetings.
Posted by: Al@Britney Spears gallery | Aug 2, 2008 12:07:33 PM
@ Toby & 24Play
You're right, and I'm sorry for trying to be a "Know-It-All" who clearly doesn't. I was sharing the info I got from my doctor 30 years ago when he told me I had Gyno. At the time there weren't a lot of preteens using steroids, and I definitely wasn't one of them, so we never discussed them as a cause of the condition.
Since I can't delete my own comments on this blog, let me figuratively retract my incomplete information now.
Thanks for setting me "straight" (so to speak.)
Posted by: MikeInSanJose | Aug 2, 2008 1:02:53 PM
OMG !! What a calendar this would make!!
Posted by: Garry | Aug 2, 2008 3:01:30 PM
OMG is right. It ought to be criminal for guys to be that fucking hot. It ain't right.
Posted by: Hawyer | Aug 2, 2008 3:31:26 PM
bellizimo boy: le escribiré un poema. Oscar Portela
EL VERBO Y LA CARNE
POEMA DE OSCAR PORTELA
A BRUNO SANTOS
De que luz primigenia. De que auroras
Nacidas al amparo de vulneradas muertes.
De que amarillas lunas ahogadas por el agua
De lagos primordiales como los elementos.
De que silbidos áureos que presagian
El transito del caos a la armonía cósmica
El alfarero inaugural hizo tu cuerpo de la arcilla
Más pura desta tierra, oh Bruno a torbellino y
Magia condenado. Tú eres la tierra adolecida
De toda la inocencia de un devenir sin deudas
Y el milagroso azar que nos corona con recia
Aristocracia del más audaz deseo de la especie.
¿Que alfarero y chaman mojó sus dedos en las
Dolientes viseras de un pájaro para
Amasar tus labios,ánforas que contienen toda
Las endechas del mundo ? ¿Que coreutas osados cantaron
El nacimiento de tus formas cinceladas en ébano
Cubiertas por tu carne trabajada en arcilla
Santificada por la aurora de América ?
¿Que chaman te bautizó en la cuna de verde césped
Humedecido por el rocío del alba primigenia ?
¿Que sinuosos ríos de montaña dibujaron tus caderas
Que huyen de las manos del hombre y de todo poema ?.
Y tus desnudos muslos que envidian las efigies
Y rompen los harapos de humanas vestiduras
Para surgir desnudos y perfectos como la melodía
Que los vientos ponen en las florestas para que todo
Asombro bañe la hermosura de un Dios que esperará
La hora de bendecir el suelo que nos toma y tomará
Nuestros deseos todos para quemarlos en la hoguera
Del amor deseado y devolverlos a la tierra fértil
A la que pertenecemos los mortales y dioses
Que embellecen las horas de los días terrestres.
No hay templos para ti, oh Bruno, ni poemas que no se rompan
Por que eres mas bello que el verbo convertido en palabra.
Porque tú justificas todo el dolor del mundo.
Tu belleza es el premio y la eternidad del oro.
El dolor dice pasa pero el goce quiere contemplar tus fulgores.
La eternidad efímera del búcaro que no puede morir
Y vuelve eternamente como los dioses de la tierra que son
El salmo de la tierra misma y tu su encarnación oh Bruno Santos.
Posted by: 0scar Portela | Aug 2, 2008 8:54:42 PM
I just don't see it, guys. These boys are far too affected and staged with their shiny gym bodies and silly little outfits. None of them are great looking, and even masculine props can't save the rest of them from some decidedly effeminate poses. Not hot. Unless giggling is the intended reaction, I don't think this works.
Posted by: Joe H | Aug 2, 2008 10:11:13 PM
MikeinSJ-Ok, first of all, saying someone is weak because they may smoke cigarettes, which implies that they are a bad human being for having an addiction definitely shows you know nothing about the nature of addiction. Some people have moments of weakness but does not mean they are weak over all or a horrible person. So maybe you should step off your high pedestal. I'm sure you're a very strong individual and have NEVER given in to a moment of weakness.
Secondly, these guys DO look like natzi's! Especially pic 10! It gave me a chill when i saw it. This shoot totally seems like a white supremacists propaganda spread. So BOJO you can shove it where the sun don't shine.
Posted by: Mr. E | Aug 2, 2008 10:16:34 PM
Yummo!
And lol at all the snarky comments, hehe :D
Posted by: Chaq | Aug 3, 2008 3:29:19 AM
umm... quite a hot boy, i like that. :O
Posted by: clear | Aug 3, 2008 5:31:29 AM
Where I grew up, there actually were dudes in the neighborhood who looked like this (and a lot of them were very very blond from being in the sun all the time). While they did not wear overalls or straw hats, they were in amazingly good shape from doing actual farm work. They were also, however, some of the stupidest people I have ever met. The attraction factor goes way down when the guy constantly smells like cow shit, has a super thick midwestern accent, and reads at a 4th grade level.
Posted by: scientitian | Aug 3, 2008 12:31:45 PM
Well the boy in pic 10 may look like a Hitler Youth, but hey in pic 5 with the right pocket red hanky he looks like a "fistee"!
Posted by: Whackamole | Aug 3, 2008 4:38:08 PM
I didnt know that country boys waxed and shaved their chest. How metro sexual of them
Posted by: brian | Aug 3, 2008 4:41:46 PM
I didnt know that country boys waxed and shaved their chest. How metro sexual of them
Posted by: brian | Aug 3, 2008 4:42:02 PM
@ scientitian: Yours were at least blessed with attractiveness. Mine were Larry the Cable Guys in training.
@ Oscar Portela:
Querido,
¿Usted tuvo que realmente cotizar un poema tan largo? Convengo con usted. Los hombres del marrón oscuro son muy atractivos. También malo que el fotógrafo no pensó para utilizar a algunos de esos individuos.
Posted by: Weezy | Aug 3, 2008 4:49:48 PM
I think Joe O is a great photographer, and sure these boys are good looking, but this main pic ...um, gross. That foot, the nipple, and what's with that weird Klingon skin fold activity happening in there? The sexiest bits are the hands and that chunky leather bracelet thing. Anyway.
Posted by: LD | Aug 3, 2008 5:14:31 PM
Wow, handsome cowboy :D
Posted by: humbuged | Aug 3, 2008 10:53:40 PM
I must be the only person here to think that the pic(s) with the cigarette were hot, and there's nothing more I like to see than someone who knows how to handle a weapon.
Posted by: Sam Gillespie | Aug 4, 2008 4:20:14 PM