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...

Jared Prudoff-Smith is officially entered in the "World's Sexiest Man" contest that is staged on a daily basis in my head. More of him here, including a genius butt reveal. (So yes, NSFW.)

Via Sticky (NSFW): Another Rick Day conquest—Eric Bélanger (NSFW, too) makes love to his camera.

Via Sticky (NSFW): Rodiney Santiago may not be on the cover, but he's the highlight of the new DNA.

Peter Picciano generously shares some of the results of his shoot with Rick Day on his Facebook page, which is very "like"-able here.

Via here: Gabriel Zadok Everett by Rick Day looks kinda like a young Hayden Christensen gone publicly bad, in a good way.

Max Emerson gives nearly all of it up for Rick Day here.

But he's more than just a pretty...everything. Max is a filmmaker. He just had two shorts in film fests, including DipSpit, the trailer for which is after the jump...

I like Rick Day's work (obviously, as I post enough of it), but I also think it's cool that this shoot is not immediately IDable as his—it's got some variation to it. And anything featuring Lee Kholafai is worth looking at. More here.

A shot from Rick Day's "Sweat It Out" editorial (NSFW) inside the third issue of Coitus. The model is Pablo Morais, which from the looks of it is Portuguese for "put it in."

Via Sticky (NSFW): Rick Day shoots on the beach, and who can blame him?