Enough Foo-foo, Come Join The Manly Contest.

Great idea! I entered a couple guitars and a tractor. Then I spit on the floor.

heh

Who you callin' foo-foo?

About time! great idea JC.. I'm going bear hunting this week, with a bow, then afterwards I'll send in my entries...

I just added my only man-cave appropriate pic - unless you think puppies and or kittens would be OK.

Puppies? Maybe if set in the right scene.



Kittens? It had better be a kitten saving a firefighter from a burning building while fending off zombies and taking a swig of Jameson.

Interesting contest. But I would say that a girl on a trampoline might be a better fit for a video, not a still. Motion can often be important in art! LOL

Yupp, just wondering if anyone had a good still inspired by the old Man Show staple.

Edit, not a ONE in a search on FAA, I see an untapped market!

This one has a beer bottle! :)

I'm there.. and brought a BIG gun and hot women...LOL!

Finally!!! A Contest that suits things made of STEEL!!!!!!

I brought my torch....

I even brought in a MAID to serve!! Going for the WIN!!

Soooooooooooooo, this contest and discussion inspired me to cook this! Cooking this, inspired me to shoot this.

Yeah, it's shot on a kitchen counter, anyone wanna make something out of it?

JC that looks great! I'm suddenly very hungry.

I recently lost 15 pounds eating stuff just like that. Screw carbs!

Hello! Finally, a place to use this picture!

Fly-fishing the Alberta Rockies, there's nothing better...

JC, are you inviting us over for breakfast?

I don't know if my patriotic pieces are man enough...but since a friend bought one and put it in his man cave...I thought it qualified. ;)

Great shot JC. =)

Awesome JC......I'm in


BTW.....I've already got a couple of "MANCAVE" pieces that I'm working on but now I've got to pick up the pace on both.

A force of nature...

Your breakfast looks yummy, but what I noticed most of all, is how clean your stove top was! Awesome.

Go Ravens!

Great idea, JC !

The steak, bacon and eggs look wonderful !

I have entered my 4 man- stuff photos. Any of you guys remember Jimmy Kimmels The Man Show ???

Hey, JC ...you were a Manly pilot once.

Ever fly any low-tech planes like this one ???

Brian, I hate the Ravens even more than the Jets. I think SF is the team to beat. I would like to see Randy Moss get his first Super Bowl ring. Enjoy the game! It is always more fun when your team is playing.

Janice, I'd like to see Ray Lewis get his last ring. The Ravens have always been the underdog and they like it that way. Either way, a Harbaugh will win. ;)

Brian as a life-long Steelers fan you may think I want the niners to win. But I don't. I want Ray to end his career the same way Bettis did.

Can't say I am going to miss Ray though!

Yall are welcome to come over for breakfast but that steak is LONG gone....

Ya know, photo editing programs work better than a sponge to clean a stove.

So what is it that makes a Real Man?

Robert, if you don't know, no one can explain it to ya. But I have a feeling you know anyway.

oh come on JC let me have some fun..lol

What makes a real man is whatever the individual wanting to be one thinks does. Though, it could also mean whatever woman is in his life thinks it is.

So don't you think they could be mistaken ? or is part of being a real man mean you're never wrong? according the women i've known men are always wrong...

Painted this for a man cave, it,s my hubbies work shop wall. it is 36x36

Looks like much of my house Jaxine!

Robert, a real man is often wrong but that comes with being decisive, and a real man accepts his mistakes and learns from them.

I agree with decisive ...very good, and something I don't think everyone really grasps....

Great Idea, I am certainly gained to enter my four.

Oh and BTW, THIS is why I had to cook the steak for breakfast... I saw it. I wanted to eat it.

I like beef I've known personally

4 submitted. YAR!

And to wash it down with a good bourbon,.... does being competitive count?

some tell me how to transfer my manly photo here to the discussion site

I don't think there is any Foo Foo here!!

http://fineartamerica.com/displayartwork.html?id=6306215&width=250&height=156



The mending complete she sails once again.

Well JC being a chef you could be my sous , Chef....not a bad presentation....Bammmm Bammmm, Bon Appetit

That steak looks so yummy with the eggs, etc... it does make me hungry. (Although I was thinking about the newborn there and it well... if it was up to me I'd want to take it home as a pet). lol.

Might be some 'phoo-phoo-phoo' here, not quite your man-cave image, but..........takes all kinds, right?

I've forgotten the words to YMCA. When does that come in this program? Also, I never could get the hand motions down. Should I seek help?
You don't have to be full grown to be manly:

Hi JC, just posted four beasts I've had to grapple with in my time.

i saw a bull fight a few years back, within minutes the dead bull was in the knackers yard at the back and carved up as steaks and joints for the butchers. amazing and part of the culture which i respect, meat doesnt come fresher. i dont comment on the bull fight besides saying the bull did what it would do in the wild as opposed to a smokey electrocution and the rest of the process in a cold metal yard where it may take minutes. but i cant put the photographs of the carving up, up, as it may offend. i didnt realise that the bulls were eaten afterwards and that made it in my mind acceptable. a bull pumping rage and adrenalin may not feel that much pain....

How about cycling across America. Will that cut the mustard.

I've always felt that something was... not prticularly wrong, but somehow not enough here. Now look at the number of entries! That's what we've been missung here all the time!!!
I submited UFO, gun, female nude and my mean, ugly face. No chance to win or even to be noticed, but I feel good... as if giving outside something, what you have too much inside... hopefuly men understand me.

I think you're right, friend Yuri.....JC has struck a chord here, and sparked real bonding....and it's such a friendly place, full of support and truth.

No kitty, no Puppies, no pink siren.

Only man stuff:








Grrrr...

Yury, you will at least be noticed, I started the contest and the thread mostly to look at "manly" art and am actually going through every image so at least ONE person will take notice!

Biking across the US, Manly!

Ballet, believe it or not Manly!

UFOs, Manly.

Bull fighting, definitely manly. (No politics on that in this thread, and it is an accepted part of the culture where it is practiced, plus, the bull has a chance!)

a z900 is a manly kinda bike and it was manly of me to be in front taking pics on my manly r1

To Jim Sauchyn
Sorry everyone, I can not help my feelings. I have to write a personal message to Jim Sauchyn here. Heya, Jim, are you still here?
Jim, I envy you a bit. I'd been hunting bears for the best part of my life, it was my favorite kind of hunting. There was time, when I decided and prepared to hunt a bear as in the old times with a pike and knife. Fortunately, with my growing experience I rejected that idea. Not because I was afraid, I was daring and crazy about hanting. However, by that time I understood from my hunting experience that a bear is not a tank, it is not so difficult or danderous to kill it when you know how to use your weapon. No heroism is needed, especially when you hunt alone, long way from any human dwelling. Bear is not an enemy tank, but it is the most interesting, most capable animal. For me it became much more interesting to live among bears, to understand bears, their individual differences, attitudes, reactions, begavior. Hunting bears was a teaching life experience for me. I decided that a bear deserves more respect then to serve as a live target in some childish game, which can allow me to feel myself as kind of a hero. Any life is more precious then our ambitions of this kind. I am not a pacifist, you know, I can kill. Bears also kill each other and humans, when they can, they love to eat meat, including bear flesh, they are kinda cannibals in this aspect. However, the process of killing is not the most interesting part of hunting for me, may be it is even the worst, most unpleasant part, though natural and inevitable. Now I see no reason to make killing longer, more difficult or dangerous for a hunter, more painful and torturous for an animal. That's why now I prefer to use effective modern weapons. The quicker - the better. Do not you have such thoughts yet? Certainly, you have a right for your own understanding, manly entertainments and experiences, and I am not the one to teach you. Good luck!

Manly enough??

Both certainly "manly" Ms Rainbow.

Oh, here is something interesting about "Manly" art on FAA. There are really not that many images tagged with manly but it would seem that it is also a term that means, um, well, a specific orientation of art. Not that there is anything wrong with that mind you, and that specific market segment tends to buy art so I guess I will be putting more manly tags in my art.

One more addition to that contest, so to say "out of the program" (against the rules, not to be jadged in the course of the contest, but still seems "MANLY"):
http://youtu.be/WQ6E8Q0-JjE

Is being a father baby trainer manly? this is not photoshop and she is not yet 6 months old here

Pretending Caddie is mine with tripod and self-timer. Early 70's. USN compliant beard and hair. I think I shot this in the commuter train station in Ravinia, Illinois.

I guessing this thread and contest was directed and in reaction to my threads that deal with more sensitive issues but at 55 I challenge any of you to keep up with me on the farm or in the woods...I'll supply the farm and the woods...

RJC: Your ploy for cheap/free labor fails. But you win. You're in better shape than I was at that age. Good for you.

Gregory you never fail to see right through me...lol

Actually Robert, the contest and thread was not a reaction to your threads or any thread for that matter. I actually consider myself one of the worlds true romantics and I am nothing if not passionate. (Other threads you may have started I am unaware of.) Basically, I was stuck inside on a rainy day and shot a baseball glove and thought, I wonder how much manly art is out there. That and I wanted to do a contest that excluded cats.

I have NO doubt you would kill me on the farm but then, we could go play in the octagon or shooting range where I do OK.

Oh, Gregory, the shot of you on the Caddy = BAD A$$!

I don't know JC, I hit 7 out of 10 at skeet and was putting one on top of another at 150 yards with a 35 this fall..Not as good with a hand gun but I'd like to try...we're not that far from each other...what do you say?

Works for me, you aren't that far away either. (Though, I have NO guns now that I am in NYC)

I have plenty.... take a trip this spring and we'll have some fun..I'd love to meet you..perhaps I'll get in touch next time I'm in the city..

Sounds like a plan.

All of you are wrong, I got you beat, Me and My Shadow now that is manly, as they come.....smiling

Can I play in your Man den? ;) LOL Sorry, I couldn't help myself LOL

Melanie:

If you hold a rifle like that and pull the trigger, I think you'll poke your eye out. Do you have a magazine in the rifle? They work better when loaded. I thought the trigger was under the stock, not on the side of it.

Hope you can bayonet that elk as he charges you. But I think he's a better at fencing than we are, perhaps. If you're lucky, maybe his antlers will get tangled up in that sling, too.

Did I miss anything, guys?

I hope you can take a joke at your own expense, Melanie. I suspect I might have a few coming my way now, too.

LOL It was just a photoshop joke Gregory but you definitely pointed out all the things wrong with it LOL I just had to do this. I spent about 2 hours making this for this thread. I'm mad at my husband right now. What can I say LOL

Oh I can actually shoot but only with a handgun. I couldn't fire a rifle if my life depended on it, I guess you can tell that LOL

I thought your comment about the antlers getting tangled up in the sling was the best part of your post Hahaha

You got me. I just thought it had really strong "fill flash". Pretty good for a quick photoshop hack!

K, that one didn't work. What about this one? It's not photoshopped, I really was into bodybuilding about 5 years ago. Can I lift weights in your den? LOL Weightlifting is manly! Something has to count! ;)



Ugly picture of me but it's real ;)

Well, you certainly blocked the guy behind you. Good move, there.

The guy with no shirt came in second in a bodybuilding competition that day. It was the end of his bodybuilding career. The guy in red nearly always won his competitions but he wasn't competing that day and the guy behind me was training for a competition. These were my friends. Women cannot develop muscles to the same degree as men because they lack the testosterone. I was about as big as I could get no matter how much I lifted. I could bench my body weight, I could curl 50 lb dumbbells, and I could deadlift twice my weight and I'm in my 50s. I think that rates at least a ONE TIME DAY PASS into the man den ;) LOL

LOL Melanie, you are a talented girl. No living creature could make more mistakes with one rifle! (add the string over the gun, position of body, FEMALE BODY, GENTLEMAN!, and also positions of arms, legs, etc,etc.) Minus one mistake of mentioned above though - originaly SKS had an undetachable mag for 10 rounds (which seems the case), so you can not see weather it is loaded or not. However, may be the note about the mag could be still correct - there could be later modifications or customized models with detacheable mags for 20 and even 30 cartriges...
Yes, the gun looks as Soviet SKS-45 carbine, and the shown sample seems to be very interesting. It has a needle type folding bionet, while the majority of SKS, manufactured in USSR, had a sword type folding bionets. (By the way, d'you know that attached bionet and the form of the bionet can influence ballistics?) I've read somewhere that only some rare early SKS samples had needle type folding bionets. Note, SKS was the only gun out of many Soviet experimental models, chambered for 7,62X39 cartidges, which was partly tested in real combats during WWII. However, Soviet military authorities did not decide to suplay Army with SKS during WWII. They preferred to start a long contest for all types of guns, chambered for 7.62X39 "middle" cartridge (carbine, machine gun, storm rifle) in which all Soviet notable gun designers participated (Tokarev, Simonov, Sudaev, Dragunov, Degtiarev, Kalashnikov, Korobov and many others). They didn't work too hurriedly, made long and profound lab. testes of experimental samples, shooting range testes, experimental shootings by some elite Army regiments, etc. They were also accurate and slow in conclusions and decisions, because new firearms already could not influence the events and results of WWII too much by that time. May be the shown is a rare sample of SKS, which was manufactures in USSR even before it was oficially adopted by the Army in 1949. On the other hand, later SKS - 45 was manufactrured in more then 20 countries, so in other countries they could make any changes and modifications, uncluding any bionets. I'd love to know more about this particularly sample of SKS - 45 anyway.

Yury, you seem to know more about the rifle than the owner does. It's a rifle that a friend of mine owns. He lives in a hamlet in the mountains of Alberta. Remote place. I was visiting him last year and he let me hold the rifle. That's when the picture was taken. I shopped the background out and overlaid it over a forest picture. There is no local law in his area and it was remote so he was going to let me take it outside and shoot it with 50 rounds of ammo but it was 3 am and I didn't want to learn to use a rifle in the dark, I would probably shoot his windows out or accidentally kill a poor unsuspecting deer minding it's own business in the forest at the back of his house.LOL I don't think he knew a lot about the rifle but I'm pretty sure it is rare. I tried to talk him into selling it to me but he wasn't going for it :/ It was exciting just holding it, even if I was holding it wrong! ;) It's a beautiful rifle and you're right the bayonet was needle pointed and it folded down. I'll call him in the next few days and see if he knows more about the rifle. I have to get him away from his moonshine to answer the phone so it could take awhile ;) We're talkin' major moonshine drinkin' mountain man who tells me 'your butt is getting bigger' whenever he sees me and thinks it's a compliment ;) I always come back with 'your mouth is getting bigger', then we hug LOL He's a guy that would fit in in this thread ;) *just kidding!* ;)

Melanie, be sure I know a lot more then I wrote about guns and SKS carbines (which means "Samozariadny Karabin Simoniva = semi auto carbine designed by Simonov) in particular, some facts are funny or almost unknown, but it is not the place to desply my knowledge - it is an art web. site. Nevertheless, all that, all firearm related info is still interesting for me. Please ask your friend to find all marks on his gun. There should be the year of manufacture, stamps of the manufacturer, stamps and the lenguage can tell weather it was manufactured in the USSR or elsewhere. Still better if he could make close up photos. Inform me, please, by FAA personal mail if you find out anything. You may also ask me any question about any firearms when need be.

The guys who flew these back in the day were real Manly:



And so are the guys who still fly them today.

My man den images are scarce on FAA. Here is one though, nothing like playing in the garage on a Saturday morning with cold beer and your favorite project.



I had another one, but as it turns out, mixing weed eater gas in a dynamite storage shed is a bad idea.

Q: What's more manly than a truck?



A: LOTSA trucks! :))

OK - so they're toys...But they're BOY toys! Nyah!

Best. Python. Sketch. Ever. :)))

Trucks are pretty!

Well played, RJH! And now, for something completely different...

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many cool images entered, don't forget to com out and vote.

I went through all 800 or so images and there really is so much wonderful work on here.

BTW, this one gets the administrator's choice award though there was a lot of stiff competition.

Oh, and Wib, your truck with the dude staring at the bikini woman seriously brought me back to my youth.

Voted!