Prove it!

As of midnight last night, it was exactly six years since my first post. It's been a tough thing to keep up with a dayjob and outside activities, and just when I think I might walk away, a valuable connection or interesting opportunity or a kind word comes my way. Thank you all for reading me.

Of whom are you more jealous?

Here are my favorite 100+ posts out of nearly 11,000. Please take some time to read (or re-read!) a couple and tweet or Facebook any you like.

xoxo Matt

The pocket pool championships were intense this year

BOY CULTURE

Boy-crazy

FROM BOY TO MAN: BC B.C. (2007): The entire history of my novell and novel Boy Culture as well as the movie version; might be my ultimate post.

Jonathon Trent & Derek Magyar make an Allan Brocka sandwich

BOY ON FILM (2006): An account of the NYC launch party for Boy Culture as it played the TriBeCa Film Fest.

I was left "Reeling" by the experience

FRIENDS AND "FAMILY" (2006): The movie version of Boy Culture hits Chicago.

No one would've mistaken me for Taylor Lautner

RAPT PUPIL (2006): The final night of Outfest with Boy Culture; I was fat but on the other hand got to meet Bryan Singer.

 

MY ART

 

Construction worker (shot this week) vs. James Dean

GUYDAR (since at least January 17, 2008) & ENDS OF THE WORLD (since at least January 13, 2008): Attractive men of the world—I got your backs. Your fronts, too.

i-i-i (phone)

Not totally built

Unaltered iPhone image that still blows me away

"Your pictures suck" (2008): An art critic attacks me, but not without sustaining some hits in return.

Let's call it a draw

DRAWN TOGETHER (2008): How my desire to draw related to my secret desire. One of my absolute favorite posts.

The shirtless one

LOST ANGELES (2009): My favorite photographic travelogue of L.A.

Even then, New Yorkers feared 9/11 was the beginning of the end

ART IMITATES LIFE (2006): My 9/11 and my distaste for grief tourism.

ME

Death of the party—Jeff in high school, already halfway through his life

BURNING MAN (2007): Tribute to my late high school friend and first romance.

Signed, sealed (eventually) delivered

LOST BOY FOUND (2011): There is a book in here somewhere.

Be Italian

CIAO HOUNDS: OUR TRIP TO ITALY (2011): Finally got José to Europe.

Death becomes here

ILLINOIS DEATH TRIP (2007): Ruminations on death while revisiting a past home, and the past.

Life is short...and meaningful

PASSING BY (2008): Mourning the loss of a person I only met once.

Lots more...

The new PREFmag (Mai-Juin 2010) has a hot homage (an hautemage?) to David Hurles ("Old Reliable"), the shutterbug whose sublimely sleazy work helped make prurient magazines potent reading material:

The tribute shots are by Bian Kaminski with art direction by Andrey T.:

The layout is incredibly timely in that I've heard John Waters and Dian Hanson are co-curating a major exhibit of Hurles's work—gay-for-pay drifters out on bail with remarkable wood—at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in NYC June 4—26:

The real Hurles, with Hanson (left) and Oriana Nazworthy in '09, is recovering from a stroke. It's great that he'll be able to enjoy knowing his work is being presented in a New York gallery:

PREFmag (Janvier—Février 2010) is good for several eye-popping shots, including the above glistening look at Edison Nascimento and the below illustration for a piece on Jitrois denim: 

Maybe the best is this one by J Cassoni, illustrating "La Banalité du Male":

According to PREFmag (Novembre-Decembre 2009), Carsten Andersson is "the new Britney Spears of porn!" I'm not sure what that means, but there is more of it to consider after the jump...

Davi Costa Soares (all of 24) is the coverguy for PREFmag (Novembre-Decembre 2009) is a rare combination of sexy and beautiful. Oh, wait, it's not rare...it just never gets old. Many more after the jump...

This model—shot by Joshua McVeity for PREFMag (Juillet—Aout 2009)—looks like Zac Efron & Ed Westwick's love child. More of him after the jump...

DNA #110 featured Adam Phebus by Ronald N. Tan, whose ambition in life is "to be an amazing, well-respected, professional actor—preferably a leading man in incredible movies." Asked about his fantasies, he replies, "If I told you, you'd have to put your magazine in the adult section." This is not what Sir Laurence Olivier would have said:

From Out (June/July 2009), Gregory Michael of Dante's Cove describes his new job, as a gay fratboy on Greek:

Two more intensely hot men after the jump...

PREFmag (Novembre—Décembre 2008) has this nostalgic editorial by Anthony Gayton, showing two prep-school "boys" engaged in rough-housing, gay-baiting and—as above—eventually...some quality time with Teddy and Jon-Erik Hexum:

A very cute bathroom-stall shot after the jump...

Hot DOG! To see the rest of this delicious shoot by Elvis Di Fazio for PREFMag (Novembre—Décembre 2008), just continue reading after the jump...

Darryl Stephens—my pal and one of the stars of Boy Culture—joins DeMarco Majors in a pair of "Portraits Express" by Francois Rousseau in PREFMag (Novembre—Décembre 2008). The appearance was to help promote Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom, the theatrical version of his much-missed LOGO show.

Didn't realize that movie had been released in October? I almost missed it myself—and yet it made over $500,000, coming close to matching the take of his much more hyped Another Gay Movie (over $600,000).

DeMarco is an out basketballer I've never heard of, but who—in shorts short—is someone I intend to research.