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Post by billiey36 guest on Oct 6, 2006 20:20:20 GMT -5
I understand Converse is going to sell red sneakers as part of this campaign.
I think Apolo should be the sneaker model.
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Post by tabatha on Oct 6, 2006 20:48:21 GMT -5
i agree w/ you billiey!
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Post by Bella on Oct 7, 2006 11:26:34 GMT -5
bella...either you are a very astute art major, or an advid reader of those cheesey romance novels. either way, your descriptions almost make me feel naughty for reading it! good job, nonetheless...! Hahahahaha! I'm neither. I was just playin' around. What I am is the same as you and everyone else here. I'm just a normal red blooded woman appreciating the naked form of a man I admire.  |
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Post by billiey36 guest on Oct 7, 2006 22:03:57 GMT -5
I've been thinking about that naked picture (I do that a lot for some reason!?!?).
Compare it to the other shot of Apolo in the skating pose with his hair flying--effortless sexiness.
Annie L. had to really work to make the thigh the focus of the naked shot. The only way to do that was to tone down that glorious hair and catch a bashful, toothy grin on Apolo's face instead of his beautiful smile or a more serious look.
The only way to get the whole thigh was to get him nude, but even then, the picture is cropped in such a way that we don't get to see where his butt meets the floor.
Some of us still think it's a sexy shot because it is Apolo, and he is naked! Some think Annie could've, and should've, taken a sexier picture.
But maybe she only got him naked in the first place because she told him it would be all about the thigh. She had no trouble catching his sexiness in the other shot, and certainly knew the effect that hair would have when treated properly.
I admire what Annie did with the nude shot even more now. She emphasized exactly what she meant to, gave us enough skin to get our imaginations and libidos going, and respected the boundaries that I'm sure Apolo must have set.
I find the whole effect interesting, and still sexy because of how hard she tried to make it not be.
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Post by Elle on Oct 7, 2006 22:04:20 GMT -5
I've been unlucky finding these on my side of the pond.  |
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Post by CrimsonAngel on Oct 8, 2006 0:00:30 GMT -5
Oh good grief! So the boy is nude! So what  I mean my goodness, some of you all fawn over Apolo like he is the finest thing in the world  I mean come on, it's just a pic. A Gap Ad at that. I am more impressed with the message of the ad and him participating in it than him being nude. I guess because of the issues that the Ad is addressing and the Gap campaign that the ad is running for. So for that, Apolo gets a super big handclap for me ;D As far as being nude I don't know, whatever I guess. Fawn, Fawn, Fawn if you want   |
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Post by sparkle on Oct 8, 2006 2:44:03 GMT -5
d**n writing!
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Post by majestic on Oct 8, 2006 3:33:58 GMT -5
Sparkle - there is a picture on page 5 of the "naked" pic without the writing on it. |
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Post by epiphaniii on Oct 8, 2006 10:30:13 GMT -5
Excellent observations, Billiey, and I agree with everything you wrote. As with any great piece of art, my appreciation of these photos deepens the more I view and think about them.
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Post by nermiina a.k.a nerka on Oct 9, 2006 21:26:21 GMT -5
dammm thats some nice piece of man ;D
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Post by nikkid on Oct 9, 2006 21:58:39 GMT -5
Bella, if you have any other thoughts or ideas about other Apolo parts with Disney referances PLEASE share. You pick the part although the Torso is a great start. |
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Post by CrimsonAngel on Oct 11, 2006 22:00:31 GMT -5
I saw another Gap ad with Apolo on one of the buses in my city today. He is shirtless but he has on some pants and he is striking a pose. Now on this one, he looks great ;D
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Post by susie on Oct 11, 2006 22:06:32 GMT -5
Bella, your analysis reminds me of comments made about Picasso's groundbreaking "Demoiselles D'Avignon". Apolo's face isn't all rearanged like the faces of Picasso's ladies, though. I think that someday, when Apolo is old, he will pull this photo out and look back fondly at what used to be. I also think that this photo will be hanging in some major art museums one day as part of a retrospective of Annie's work. She's already had retrospectives at the National Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. |
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Post by Bella on Oct 11, 2006 23:27:17 GMT -5
Bella, if you have any other thoughts or ideas about other Apolo parts with Disney referances PLEASE share. You pick the part although the Torso is a great start. Woohoo, that sounds like a challenge! So far we've exhausted the Mowgli and Peter Pan references, so the only thing left are the princes, mostly nameless hotties that sweep the famous pricesses off their feet, except for Aladin who is named and then there's the animal characters... I'll have to think on it a bit... |
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Post by Bella on Oct 11, 2006 23:29:57 GMT -5
Bella, your analysis reminds me of comments made about Picasso's groundbreaking "Demoiselles D'Avignon". Apolo's face isn't all rearanged like the faces of Picasso's ladies, though. I think that someday, when Apolo is old, he will pull this photo out and look back fondly at what used to be. I also think that this photo will be hanging in some major art museums one day as part of a retrospective of Annie's work. She's already had retrospectives at the National Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Do you happen to have a pic of that Picasso (hahaha, that was fun to write)? I'd love to see it. I think Apolo will still be in fine form as an older person, but yes, I agree, he will have this and many other fond memories to look back on. And no Annie retrospective would ever be complete now without Apolo's thigh (giggle). |
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