Frankie by Joseph Bleu, part 2. Pics are by way of VGL, awesome as usual!

Sometimes when things don't seem to be working you just have to make a change. (Or pick up a golf club, if you happen to be married to Tiger Woods.) One of my favorite sites, The Fashionisto, posted these pics of model Frankie Fallica (great name!) by Joseph Bleu, who has joined Major Models:



I had been noticing Frankie back when he was with Red Models, which represented him while he did some great work:


Sometimes, however, it's time for a change. The Joseph Bleu shots look terrific IMO, so it looks like Frankie made a wise move. Hope to see more of him!

The Glee cast doing George Michael's "Last Christmas". I like the original, but this is growing on me!
I forgot when posting the Zach Ferry pics that I had these from Red (by Joshua Jordan) as well:

We had actual winter type weather this week in Atlanta! It'll get old fast, but until at least the end of the year it's a nice change. Plus, I finally got a new winter coat this year, and I plan to get some use out of it! Maybe that's why coats have been catching my eye? I posted a couple of pictures of Nick Gogel by Joseph Bleu a little while back, and I ran across these at Mr. Bleu's site, with Nick wearing more than in the previous shoot:


And here's Zach Ferry from Red Models in some seasonal stuff for Instinct Magazine, by Vincent Dilio:

It's December, and I make no excuses for my love of the Holiday season, so pictures like this just make me happy.
Happy also to see Joshua Delos getting more work. Idle has posted him before, and here he's photographed by Joe Lally for Visual Tales :

David Filipiak, previously seen several times on Idle, but first here, was photographed by Doug Inglish and posted at Nous Models Blog, and is pretty cool way to start out December!

Cowboys! Coincidentally, I was looking into when the next issue of the sporadically published, but, nonetheless, excellent series put out by Dynamite of the Lone Ranger might be coming out, when I stopped by Major Models Blog (as I do fairly often), and saw these Western-influenced pics of the extremely good-looking Cory Bond (a man who would do well IMHO in a big screen role, regardless of genre! for Kult Mag 07:

As the robo calls this weekend keep reminding me, tomorrow is December 1st, time for a run-off vote in Atlanta! Mary Norwood took offense to being called the most hateful name in Atlanta, "Republican", and pointed out that she voted for Clinton and Obama. I didn't vote her way then, Nor would I this time around. (Not certain where "Libertarian" falls in terms of 'hateful' in Atlanta, but I'm fairly certain it's not held in high regard.)
From Wiener Models today I give you Michael Vavra, from Vienna, Austria, as photographed by Kosmas Pavlos:



and as photographed by Michael Brus (Styling & Grooming: Anita Savija):

I've posted a little Chris Fawcett previously, and was pleased to run across some new work on Oh La La , a shoot by San Sierrain new York City was produced by Cesar Leon and styled by Joseph Episcopo.

Some post-holiday revisiting as we close out November! Adam C. Phebus, previously seen for Timoteo here did some more Timoteo shot by Tom Cullis The results are impressive.


And from America Eagle Outfitters Blog we have some behind the scenes shots of Marlon Teixeira from this campaign:

Northstar from Marvel Comics is one of my favorite underused characters for a number of reasons. He and his twin sister Aurora were created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne as a part of the group Alpha Flight, a Canadian superteam designed to go up against the X-Men of that time. Eventually, they proved popular enough to warrant their own book, which Byrne wrote and drew without Claremont.

In Alpha Flight Byrne fleshed out the members of the group, and Jean-Paul Beaubier, previously only noted for having been a professional skier, had hints given of both a terrorist background and a gay personal life, making Northstar Marvel's first almost-out gay male hero. His sister, Jeanne-Marie, from whom he was separated as an infant, had an abused childhood, and wound up with a split personality, where "Aurora" wasn't just a costume and code name, but an actual separate personality from the school teacher Jeanne-Marie. Before Byrne left the book, he set up a situation whereby Aurora could be seen as 'cured' by the next writer, but no new writer ever took him up on it, nor referred back to the scene (a group of Flighters were trapped in the Shaman's pouch, noted for its ability to drive a rational person insane upon seeing inside, and only Aurora was conscious while within. She spoke no dialogue upon exiting.)

Northstar and Aurora are both capable of superspeed, both in flight, and, though rarely depicted, running, as with other comic book speedsters, such as Flash, Quicksilver, Impulse, etc. They also share a light-emitting power, which, on occasion, each has been capable of producing individually. It depends on the needs of the story and the writer. Currently, Northstar is fully 'out' and a member of the X-Men (though appearing mostly as a background character), and Aurora is varyng degrees of crazy, and I belive unaffiliated. There is also a younger set of twins, from an earlier timeline (don't ask) running around, though no one has utilized them since the cancellation of that run of Alpha Flight. While most writers only use Northstar sparingly, and see his sexual orientation as his main characteristic, Jean-Paul's been a devoted sibling, a writer, a teacher, and a professional skier (though the ethical nature of whether his powers contributed to his success and whether that was right or wrong has not been fully explored), as well as having a shady history as a part of a Quebec-based separatist movement, make him a character whose potential is yet to be realized.