Via Sticky (Work Unfriendly): Lope Navo's work with Fernando Sippel causes a ripple for So Têtu.

Via Sticky (NSFW): I'm afraid I'm a sucker for poses like this, which originated here (where you can find more of 22-year-old Greg from New York).

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...

Têtu (Summer 2011) takes you b-t-s to witness the making of its sexy cover. The video is well worth a couple of minutes of your time, no ifs, ands or butts about it...

Ashton Kutcher has that Alain Delon thing happening (somewhat! c'mon!) in Têtu (Mars 2011), above. The same issue's coverboy is Thomas I.—and I do declare, he sure ain't ugly:

From Hercules (Issue 09 A/W 2010-11), gotta love this Terry Tsiolis-shot macho-dandy. He looks like Mapplethorpe a bit, no? To be sure, hand me that bullwhip:

His pal from the same shoot is also quite something, and also quite '80s:

But my fave from that same ish is this guy, as seen by Giampaolo Sgura for a shoot called "One of a Kind." He sure is:

More guys after the jump...

Mark Vanderloo has still got it, and flaunts some of it in "Easy Afternoon," a shoot by Jonathan Frantini for Italy's GQ Style (Marzo 2011), above. Below, a great shot from Hercules (Issue 09 A/W 2010-11) that would work wonders if tacked to your local gay center's find-a-roomie bulletin board:

Têtu (Mars 2011) introduces me to musician Andy Butler (top) and reminds me why I like Rafael Nadal (bottom—or probably at least versatile?):

More after the jump...

Coverboy Tao from Têtu demonstrates what it takes to be chosen to front a magazine for a month. One more choice shot of him after the jump...

I'm not into boxing, but am a sucker for boxers (upon request). Here, a slew of outtakes from Jeremy Kost's shoot with Caio Cesar definitely contains a few knock-outs.

Via Parisian Boys: The Décembre 2010 cover of Têtu is here, and it's devoted to Brazilian Maikel Castro as seen by Marcio Del Nero.

Above, a great shot from the editorial "Jump!" by Felix Lahrer in TETU (April 2010). Below, the same ish offers a shot of Cayden Ross of Randy Blue infamy: 

 Chris Evans, Mr. Perfect:

More after the jump...