Topic: Jake's pix

[ksxks]

Thanks kathy!  This goes back to your man-boy theory.  It's another aspect of this phenomenon, I think.

Aha -- this is true.  Though I didn't make that connection when first mentioning this lovely blending of masculine and feminine.  I guess the masculine handsomeness was waiting in the boy to come to fruition later...while meanwhile, his beautiful features in that young, fresh face could often take on an almost feminine beauty.  Using those terms loosely of course -- we know here that masculine and feminine are not black-and-white, but gray, and multicolored.

kathy

[ksxks]

Not exactly fanciful.  Actually, I have similar fancies.   It's called the Ideal.  And here he is.

The Ideal, yes.  We all must have genetic coding for what is our Ideal.  Gladly, there are many of us here with the same genetic coding!!

kathy

[ksxks]

Can we blame him? He looks dazed.  And why not?  You can be blinded looking directly at the sun.

Funny!  I thought he looked dazed, too, in that second pic, having just had an encounter with Jake.  Blinded y the light...

kathy

[ksxks]

There is something magical about the look in the above pic.  It draws you in without the subject even looking at you.  Quite a curious effect, don't you think?

Yes, I do think.  This is quite a compelling pic.  He is almost looking at the camera, but not quite.  Very there...yet just out of reach.

kathy

[ksxks]

This is one of my all-time favorites -- so dreamy.

kathy

[ksxks]

Simply one of my old favorites: masculine and mysterious:

Yes, indeed.  Epitome of masculine and mysterious.  Masculine of a certain very special kind, that is.  He is not here Marlboro Man; he is not Conan; he is not James Bond.  He is probably future-man.  What's it called?  The new homo-something designation?

kathy

[ksxks]

Oh!  Just about my favorite of his younger years.  Indescribeable beauty.

kathy

[ksxks]

Unusual, intriguing.  And leather pants?

kathy

[ksxks]

The perfection of boyish beauty:

Yeah, I like this.  The high school boyfriend.

kathy

[ksxks]

Thomas, THIS is the apex of boyish beauty!

kathy

[tpe]

Great pic!  I don't think I've seen this one.

kathy

It's from my favorite series: The NYC Premiere of Jarhead. 

[tpe]

OMG I love this!  Gorgeous eyes, sweet smile, hairlicks, and I can even see the neck hollow through his t-shirt.

kathy 

And his lovely Adam's apple, of course! Feel like biting this neck?

[tpe]

Fascinating.  It's kind of...odd, like seeing something out of context.  But I can almost imagine the circumstances when he would look like this for this fleeting moment.  Just lovely.

kathy

I was also trying to guess the event where that pic was taken.  Because it showed only his face, it was hard to tell.  Not ebough of the clothing shows to give us a hint...

Nice pic: 

[tpe]

Here I am, Rosie.  You said you wanted me?  Come and get me.

Rosie, what are you waiting for?!

[tpe]

He has the most fascinating face on the screen this century thus far.  And all the rest of him ain't bad, that's for sure.

kathy

His face certainly isn't stereotypical, no?  Not the usual Hollywood hunk you would have expected a few years back...

[tpe]

LOVE this pic!  Love him against green, love his hair, love his sweet expression.  (This was the period, though, of him shaping his eyebrows, about which I have mixed feelings.)

kathy

Yes, for some reason, I also adore those pix that set him off against a green ground.  Something about it enhances the skin tones of his face, I guess...  It is a matter of color aesthetics, perhaps...

[tpe]

Sh*t!  I almost fainted as I scrolled down this pic!  I haven't seen it.  It's dream-fodder, for sure...

You're right -- wild, angelic, sexy, innocent, all at once.  I cannot believe this man.

kathy

To see is to believe!  But as it is written: beati qui non viderunt et crediderunt

He does look Christ-like in this one:

[tpe]

What a beautiful poem, and heartbreaking, under your circumstances.  When did you find it?  Or something you've always known?

kathy

Yes, I've known it for some time.  It is by Emily Dickinson, I believe.  It came to mind a few days back when I was discouraged about getting the ring remade...

[Rosie]

Rosie, what are you waiting for?!

Unfortunately, I passed out and died on the way.....and that's even in my dreams....the excitement kills me every time....I'm destined to never have him..... :\'(

But I console myself here, by looking at pics like this one, that may now be my all time fav, well, in the top 10 anyway....and that's really something for me      ....I love sooooooo many........but this......guh. swoon. Thud. There aren't enough words to say about this pic....

[tpe]

Unfortunately, I passed out and died on the way.....and that's even in my dreams....the excitement kills me every time....I'm destined to never have him..... :\'(

But I console myself here, by looking at pics like this one, that may now be my all time fav, well, in the top 10 anyway....and that's really something for me      ....I love sooooooo many........but this......guh. swoon. Thud. There aren't enough words to say about this pic....

With all the recent rumors, it is good to console ourselves with just some pure Jake, no?    This pic is a beauty!

[tpe]

Aha -- this is true.  Though I didn't make that connection when first mentioning this lovely blending of masculine and feminine.  I guess the masculine handsomeness was waiting in the boy to come to fruition later...while meanwhile, his beautiful features in that young, fresh face could often take on an almost feminine beauty.  Using those terms loosely of course -- we know here that masculine and feminine are not black-and-white, but gray, and multicolored.

kathy

The facial hair is quite misleading no?  As usual, it makes one look older than one actually is.  Without it, his face is so boyish, in spite of the soft angularity:



Combined with the facial hair, you get this sense of man-boy so characteristic of Jake.  At least this is one way of looking at it...

[tpe]

The Ideal, yes.  We all must have genetic coding for what is our Ideal.  Gladly, there are many of us here with the same genetic coding!!

kathy

I wonder about this myself.  For me, he is the Canon of Beauty.  He is not exactly Grecian, in the manner of Polyclitus.  But for me, he exceeds whatever the Greeks have envisioned.

From: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1990_Dec/ai_9339044

How did Greek sculptors succeed in rendering this ideal, these figures in the full bloom of youth? Above all through the science of proportions which, until the beginning of the Middle Ages, was considered to be the key to beauty. A detailed description of its principles was given in the fifth century BC by the sculptor Polyclitus in a treatise on his statue the "Doryphorus" (Spearbearer) which was known as the "Canon" because it embodied the ideal proportions of the male form. Although what he says is not always clear, Polyclitus created a system of fixed ratios between the different parts of the body which was taken as a model for several centuries.

[Twisted]

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[tpe]

Funny!  I thought he looked dazed, too, in that second pic, having just had an encounter with Jake.  Blinded y the light...

kathy

Jake -- if he were the sun, I would happily exchange places with Simeon Stylites, blinded by looking continually at the light.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites

Zodiac duo:

[Twisted]

[tpe]

He is so so beautiful on a green ground!  Thanks Twisted.  

[tpe]

Yes, I do think.  This is quite a compelling pic.  He is almost looking at the camera, but not quite.  Very there...yet just out of reach.

kathy

Like a god: familiar, but distant.

[tpe]

This is one of my all-time favorites -- so dreamy.

kathy

Yes, he is Jake, the Price of Dreams.