Ads - Part 85

 Suistudio

Suistudio is a Dutch brand of custom-tailored clothing for women.  They had come under fire for a marketing campaign featuring nearly-nude women, so in 2017 they turned things around with a series of ads featuring nude men, called their "Not Dressing Men" campaign.

They showed male rear nudity in the ads, but concealed frontal nudity.

Note that the female model is wearing a different outfit in each photo, because that's what they're selling, though our eyes may be elsewhere.

A different female model with, I think, the same male model.

She seems to be wearing the same outfit in this photo and the previous one.

Now she is wearing a white blouse and different pants.  He continues to be free.

Hiking - Part 87

 Old River Valley, Denmark

Carsten Fischer, who lives in northern Denmark, took this hike that he identified only as "old river valley", presumably near where he lives.  Above, stripping before the hike.

He stripped down to just shoes and socks.  I think that's the old river in the background.

Setting out into the river valley.

A boardwalk somewhere along the route.

A shadow of Carsten.

This was from a different hike, but I had to include it.  Carsten getting close to nature.

Back to the old river valley hike.  Something to sit on.

That feels good.

And a shower feels good after the hike is over.

Weighing In - Part 87

Shootboxing Weigh-In

The video above shows an unashamed black fighter weighing in.  Oddly, he strips off his shorts but leaves on his socks.  None of the websites carrying this video listed the fighter's name, or even mentioned the date or place of the fight.

However, the sponsors' names in the background tell us something.  Que Sera Japon has been a corporate sponsor of shootboxing events in Japan.  Shootboxing is a combat sport combining kickboxing and wrestling.  Que Sera Japon sponsored events in 2015 and 2016 in Tokyo, which may have been when and where this weigh-in happened.

Poem of the Day - Part 87

 It's Raining, It's Pouring

Another classic nursery rhyme.

It's raining, it's pouring,

The old man is snoring.

He went to bed and bumped his head

And couldn't get up in the morning.

Artists - Part 89

Hans Canon

Hans Canon was the pseudonym used by Austrian artist Johann Baptist Strašiřipka (1829-1885), no doubt due to difficulties that people had with his Slavic name.  Above, a self-portrait, 1868.

He mostly painted portraits and historical scenes.  Above is a large work The Circle of Life in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.  There is some nudity, but it's restrained and mostly covered.

However, he did paint a few full nude paintings, and interestingly, they're all male.  Above, Seated Male Nude.

Reclining Nude, 1876.

Male Nude.  It's clearly the same model as the previous painting

We end with Study of a Male Nude.

Beach Bums - Part 84

Tambaba Open 2013

Praia Tambaba, or Tambaba Beach, is a beautiful beach in the northeastern Brazilian state of Paraiba.  There is a clothed beach and a nude beach, but unlike American and European nude beaches, which are clothing optional, clothing is forbidden on this nude beach.  You have to be naked.

This sign says "The Naturist Association of Abrico is present in another event."

This beach is the site of the Tambaba Open, one of the world's biggest nude surfing competitions, sponsored by SONATA, the Sociedade Naturista de Tambaba (Tambaba Naturist Society) and the Brazilian Federation of Naturism.

One of the competitors.

Another view of him.

A different competitor.

One of the officials with a microphone.  The judges are naked, too.

Another surfer.

And another.

And another.

We end with a thumbs-up for the surfers and the competition, though two of them are making the Hawaiian "shaka" sign, a goodwill gesture which is also used by surfers to mean "hang ten."

Gods, Myths and Heroes - Part 81

Osiris

Osiris was the Egyptian god of the dead and lord of the underworld.  The figure above is not Osiris; it is the deceased inhabitant of an Egyptian tomb appearing naked before the god Osiris.

According to Egyptian myth, Osiris was murdered by his brother, the god Set, chopped up into 14 pieces, and scattered across the country.  His wife, Isis, who was also his sister, retrieved all of the pieces except his penis.  It had been eaten by fish in the Nile.

So Isis made a new phallus for the resurrected body of Osiris, apparently good enough to conceive a child, the falcon-headed god Horus.  The "corn mummy" above, inside a falcon-headed sarcophagus, shows the dead Osiris.  His body is wrapped, but he has a significant bulge.

Statues of Osiris always had an erection.  Apparently his penis was connected to his ability to resurrect you into the afterlife after you died.

But this is a more accurate view of Osiris.  This is the same figure as the previous photo, but it is lying down.  Osiris was always shown lying down, to emphasize that he was dead, and yet he lived again.