Xavier Dolan 4

 

See more of Dolan here: XD

Ángel and Carlos

 See them here also: AC

R.I.P. Amateurs from Everywhere 4

 

I have recently found that a website that I would occasionally mine has vanished.  It's not the first time this has happened, of course.  The internet, simply by its ephemeral nature, seems to guarantee this in some ways.  The site was called Amateurs from Everywhere 4.

There was a brief note from the fellow who ran it, saying he was moving on to Twitter but I can't seem to find the stream on Twitter of the Amateurs that I knew.  He left the Nibblebit platform after many years.  I also see that Nibblebit itself, after about a decade of service to the public, closed up shop this past May.

The original Amateurs page was clunky and also decidedly a bit buggy (terrible pop ups and malware threats).  Regardless of that, if you had a nimble anti-virus and some patience it was a treasure trove of mostly regular guys in the buff.  And all types .. and I mean all.  It was a literal stream of images, very addictive indeed.

I saved many files stacked for 'future reference' like a good little squirrel.  I am a completely visual queer and have three external disk drives bursting at the seams with material from the early years of Web 2.0.  We got our first computer (a Dell tower with dial-up connection) in that long gone millennial year.

I simply grabbed every image that caught my eye and have found quite a few on my drives.  They were easy to search for because all the pictures from Amateurs had the word 'original' in their jpeg tag.

A number of the sets that I have posted here on Deliciousdeity over the years have come from that site.  The young Latin fellow I christened as Big boy (with his five sets) came from scrupulous attention to the stream on Amateurs, along with Bearded uncut tatted hunk previously, and even the Two uncut Canadians post from a few years ago.  A large number of the World Naked Bike Ride pictures (11 sets) also came from Amateurs. So I admit that I am indebted to the efforts of whomever was behind that daily passel of smut!

In honour of the hours of fun spent scrolling and scrolling (this time more like a gerbil on a wheel), I have put together a file you can download of some of the choice images that I have held onto for over a decade.  It is full of all kinds of men.  I have tried to cull the clearly professional images and the obvious porn stars from the download to give it the tenor of what it used to be - just guys hooked on showing the world their stuff.  On Amateurs some porn stars and pros always slipped through, of course.  There are a lot of iPhones in the mix.

Although I am a 'white male' I consider myself a minority (in my mind at the very least).  Being gay does that.  So, you will find many sizes, colours and shapes of men in this download.  There are, of course, a few of my favourite themes seaming their way through.  Ethnic.  Usually endowed.  Furry, and uncut.  Maybe Amateurs from Everywhere 4 will find its way to Twitter eventually.  Or maybe not.  Whatever the case, feel free to download or just take a peek.

Take a look here: AFE4

Big boy 5

See more here: BB

Ramón Novarro's Mayan Revival pile, 1928

 

The house was designed by Lloyd Wright, old man Frank's son, whose work was in a similar idiom to his father's.  The house is known as the Samuel Novarro house and is located at 5609 Valley Oak Drive in the Los Feliz neighbourhood of Los Angeles.  Louis Samuel was Novarro's business manager, but had his hand in some dirty dealings and was found to be embezzling from Novarro.

Ramón took possession of the house as a rather hushed affair and got rid of Samuel.  After he moved in he hired Cedric Gibbons to style the Art Deco interiors.  He also asked Wright to expand the house further, as well as the gardens.  He lived here until the late 1930s.

Some have attributed this landmark as the place where he was murdered by the Ferguson brothers, but that house was at 3110 Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Studio City.  After his death the house in Laurel Canyon was eventually demolished and another one now stands in its place.

The Samuel Novarro house continues to inspire drivers on that serpentine stretch of road in Los Feliz, a spot that is now much more built up than it was in Novarro's time - during the eclipse of silents and the break out of sound.