Bodybuilders - Part 44

Jack Thomas

Jack Thomas, originally from Maine, got hooked on weight training and fitness at an early age and won the Junior Mr. America contest.

He is best known for a series of photos taken by California photographer Russ Warner in the 1950s showing Jack Thomas and fitness guru Jack LaLanne nude together.  We'll look at those another day.  Today, we look at photos of Jack Thomas alone, also taken by Russ Warner.

I was not able to find specific dates for these photos, but they are from the 1950s.

I know someone who should appreciate the shadow in this photo.

Posing with a fishing net.

Posing with a bamboo pole.

I don't know if it's the pose, the detail, or what, but I really like this photo.

Posing outdoors.

Outdoors on some rocks.

We end with this photo, taken on those same rocks, that was used as a magazine cover for Trim Quarterly, a physique and gay interest magazine.  And it gives us a clue for the date of the photos.

Olympics - Part 26

Kurts Adams Rozentals

Kurts Adams Rozentals was on track to represent Great Britain in Olympic canoe competition until recently.

Born in Latvia in 2002, he moved to England when he was 8 years old.  In 2023, he won a silver medal at the Under 23 World Cup Championships men's C1 final in Krakow, Poland (that's him at left).

But in 2025 he posted some explicit material on OnlyFans to raise money.

And here's a gif from his OnlyFans video.  He also posted the video on Instagram.  When they found out about the Instagram video, Paddle UK, the British organization that had been sponsoring him, banned him for two years and kicked him off their World Class Programme, their program to financially assist athletes to prepare for the 2028 and 2032 Olympics.  Paddle UK claimed the video brought them into "serious disrepute".

Kurts said the ban would not have happened if athletes were funded properly.  His £16,000 yearly grant from Paddle UK was not enough for him to be a full-time athlete, and he had to do something else to raise money.  “While I understand the video could be described as crazy, it was not illegal and certainly shouldn’t be the reason for banning an athlete,” he said.

Events - Part 92

North East Skinny Dip

The North East Skinny Dip is a mass nude event held in Druridge Bay, England, to celebrate the Fall Equinox.  This year the equinox is on Sept. 22, but the North East Skinny Dip is being held today, on Sept. 20, perhaps because it's a weekend so more people can attend.

At 7:00 am, the naked participants wade into Druridge Bay, which is part of the North Sea, at dawn.  That makes for a beautiful picture.  Oh, and the sky is nice, too.

Some participants running toward the water.  They have to buy tickets to participate, and the event raises money for MIND, the mental health charity.

In 2025, 1200 people were said to have participated.

The North Sea in late September is not particularly warm.  In fact, it's downright chilly, so participants don't skinny dip for very long.

Most of the photos of this event show the rear view of people going into the water.  Very few of them show a frontal view.  But what goes in must come out.

Performers - Part 92

Sergey Shnurov

Sergey Shnurov is a Russian rock musician, born in 1973.  In 1997, he created the band called Leningrad.  The band was known for its profane lyrics and scandalous behavior.  Above, Shnurov in the Leningrad band.

An excerpt from a Leningrad concert in Nuremberg, Germany in 2002.  The band had 14 members, all of whom performed naked.  The band had a rich sound, including trumpet, trombone, tuba, saxophone and keyboard as well as the usual guitars, bass, and drums.

Shnurov is the lead vocalist whom the video focuses in on.

Shnurov at the keyboard.

Shnurov pissing from a stage.

A slightly older Shnurov.  In case you're thinking he's not very well endowed ...

We end with this photo of Shnurov.  Remember that some people are growers, not showers.

Photographers - Part 92

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Calendars - Part 93

Doncaster Brewery and Tap

The Doncaster Brewery brews beer in the city of Doncaster, Yorkshire, England.  They also run the Tap, a pub that sells their beer.

In 2020, they put out a nude calendar that featured Brewery and Tap employees and customers.  In this copy of the calendar image for June, some text unfortunately overlays the photo, but in the actual calendar, the text wouldn't be there.

Like most British nude calendars, it conceals frontal views, though rear views are shown, and it supports a charity.  All proceeds from the calendar were donated to Firefly, a cancer charity that helps local people in need, and in particular aims to remove the stigma around personal cancer for young people.  I presume that for young men, "personal cancer" refers to testicular cancer.

Here's an example of a month from the 2020 calendar.  For some reason, the calendar images were in black-and-white, although the calendar was clearly printed in color, which strikes me as very odd.  What were they thinking?  Were they going for a vintage look?  Because the photos would look much better in color.

This color photo shows a photographer doing a photoshoot for the calendar.

And this photo was also said to have been taken during a photoshoot.  I don't know if it made it into the calendar or not, but if it did, it would have been printed in black-and-white, which in my opinion would ruin most of the charm of the photo.

They put out another calendar in 2022, with the proceeds again donated to Firefly.  This is one of the monthly images.

And this shows a photoshoot for the the calendar.

We end with another photo showing a calendar photoshoot.  There's something amiss when the photos of the photoshoot look better than the photos in the calendar.

Protests - Part 92

 Extinction Rebellion Bank Protests, 2021

On September 3, 2021, the group Extinction Rebellion, founded in 2018 in Britain, staged a protest at two banks in Manchester, England.  The group accused the banks of financing companies that produce fossil fuels that are causing global warming, as explained by the spokesman in the video above as the protest began inside Barclays Bank.  The protesters are wearing masks because this protest occurred during the Covid epidemic.

A view of the protesters outside Barclays Bank.

The protesters also targeted HSBC, another bank that has provided billions to finance fossil fuel companies.

A group of protesters inside the HSBC office.

And here they are outside HSBC.

We end with a view outside HSBC.

Did these protests get the banks to stop funding the fossil fuel companies?  Of course not.  But the naked protests did generate publicity, which hopefully helped spread the word about the dangers of global warming.