for all ya’ summer lovers or is it… lilly livers?

pix of model candice swanepoel by photographer adam franzino 

we do have a mandatory nude post policy here at TS, where we are obliged to post soft nudes just to compete with all you “influencers” who post , well soft nudes on instagram! so here it is… but here’s a story at least about these pix… now can you imagine candice had to go on social media and ask people not to body shame her after she gave birth to her child and gained like 2 and half pounds. what kindd-of-a world do we live in people? by ac

handcraft your fetish

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fleet ilya leather fox mask

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fleet ilya leather cage harness photographed by rita minissi

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fleet ilya leather hand craft technique in video segment

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fleet ilya leather half web corset

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fleet ilya leather cross back bra photographed by rita minissi

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hand crafted fetish is the founding aesthetic of the leather accessory collection named fleet ilya.  artist rita minissi’s explored the collection through her photographic lens in the images above.  one can view more of this project as well as rita minissi’s complete body of work on instagram thingspowerthemselves.   some of the traditional saddle making techniques used to produce fleet ilya are artfully revealed in this black and white video.  by jj

odiseo.

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my latest find is odiseo – a biannual publication that offers both visual and intellectual stimuli circulating around erotic photography and contemporary essays. the most interesting aspect of odiseo is that it balances philosophical stories and essays with images that lie in between art and erotica. odiseo is a project initiated by barcelona based design agency folch.

‘we do define ourselves as erotic, but not as a magazine. as opposed to most magazines we do not seek to publish current content, but rather speculative essays dealing with topics that may or may not be of relevance in the near future.’
– pol pérez

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odiseo vol.7 is dedicated to the notion of truth. the issue is launched as a triptych, which was shot by photographer juan hernández. in this publication you’ll find a sensitive approach with photographic essays by one of my favorite photographers, paul jung, as well as some great written opinion pieces including eugenia lapteva and hans frederik jacobsen. by lb

Just to even the grounds here’s Nastassja Kinski in the summer of 1970s

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hello summer.

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and just so you all behave… here’s her father, klaus. nice guy, short temper. just ask werner…

image 1: nastassja kinski, daughter of klaus kinski. image 2: a rare picture on location for the film “aguirre wrath of god” by werner herzog. pure genius, go see it if you haven’t, its 2 hours of nastassja walking in the amazon in her bikini… kinda… and then klaus comes in, and kills werner. by dd

the powers of katsu

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now that katsu did the first drone graffiti in the world on the latest kendall jenner ck billboard, we thought it was a good opportunity to post the great graffiti version of the classic eames movie, powers of ten. by kt

men we love: six films by alain robbe grillet

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is that anna karina? no but a marie-france pisier. uncanny!

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you may know him for his involvement in “last year at marienbad” but french writer, alain robbe grillet’s classic films were until recently near impossible to buy in the united states, or so i thought until i saw that kino classics (redemption) have re-released not just DVD, but blue ray versions of robbe grillet’s films; “successive slidings of pleasure”, “l’immortelle”, “the man who lies”, “eden and after”, and “n. throws the dice”. my search just now for the films resulted in, just another of his great films trans europe express“, but no dice on the rest… i reckon they will be available soon as the post i read was teasing the release as late as oct 2014. by uh