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In Other (Photo) Blogs, 5.16.08: Red Boxes and Ice Cream

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:22:00 GMT

What to do if you’re not feeling naughty enough? Siege knows: bathe yourself in raunchy red light, of course. Check out Siege’s late night at NYC burlesque bar, The Box, in all it’s red-lit glory. Afterwards, make sure to get up close and personal with blonde bombshell Anna. Who knew balance acts could be so beautiful? And if you want to get really, really up close, check this one out.

Don’t let Autumn’s grumpy little Paula make you grumpy (although we’re pretty sure she won’t)…ice cream is on the way! And she’s not just eating it in these deliciously drippy photos. Speaking of eating and deliciously dripping, see what Autumn bought the paper boy. And don’t hesitate to step into Autumn’s garden photos, for a scintillating secret…

Now, take a peek into Brandonland where it’s all penises and skateboards…and musings about SanFran. Oh, Brandonland, a place that always leaves little to the imagination, and lots to think about. For instance: the statement you make when pairing a naked light bulb, a loose fur coat, a beautiful girl and a…sword?

With Chase’s depiction of the pinnacle of Youth Angst and Drug Culture as our backdrop, we are made to ponder PBR’s place in the mix, among other things…like tantalizingly naked girls. Ever traveled to a seedy motel to eat a bag of ‘shrooms? Just for the fun of it? No matter what your drug of choice, don’t miss Chase’s twisted tale of Tybee Island.

What happens when you mix Rose and Olive, a lonely hotel room, Marilyn Monroe, a camera all together at 5 a.m.?.......THIS.

— Alexandra Godfrey

New on Nerve, 5.16.08: The Nerve Date with Bobbi

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:38:00 GMT

This week’s Nerve Date is pretty much the happy ending to a Craigslist missed-connection fantasy. Photographer Tony Stamolis spotted the lovely Bobbi as she sat, waiting for friends to pick her up at a train station. Thankfully they were late…

How to get a pretty young thing to talk to you?
“You offered me caffeine and the prospect of $1 vinyl.”

Check out the Nerve Date here, and a sneak peek at some of the Nerve Premium shots, after the jump…

Sneak Peek: Photoblogger Autumn’s Work To Appear in Journal Nico

Nicole Ankowski — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:25:00 GMT

We love Autumn Sonnichsen, and her fabulous Nerve photoblog. Her blog is like an instant mental trip to Brazil, and a world made up of lazy mornings, week-long beach adventures, and wild city nights. Oh yes, and did I mention all the gorgeous naked women? (And sometimes, if we’re lucky, men.) Autumn’s work is also being featured in the summer issue of Nico, a gorgeous fashion/photography/art/design journal.

Here’s a sneak peek of some her delicious spread…

...and you can order Nico here.

New on Nerve, 5.9.08: Back and Forth, Photography by Marlene Marino

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:23:00 GMT

The first few photos in this set by Marlene Marino are just as cluttered with minutiae as her subjects are stripped down — the mattress is bare, every available surface is covered in knickknacks and empty bottles, the floor is piled high. It's an intimacy casual enough to make you forget the lovely naked girls as they meander through the space. It's the set's later shots that feel like a revelation: out of the bedroom, examined up close, these bodies become expressive and expansive in their own right. — Caitlin MacRae

New on Nerve, 5.2.08: The Nerve Date with Sarah

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:38:00 GMT

Let me just say that Sarah and photographer Tony Stamolis have found the most erotic use yet for pink marshmallow Peeps. I’ll leave it at that, but you’ll want to go out with Sarah, yourself. Believe me. Click here to see the entire Nerve Date. And check out a few more racy pics after the jump…

See Sarah in all her glory (yes, more glory!) here at the Nerve Date.

Deep Inside…Brandon Herman's Photo Blog

Nicole Ankowski — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:41:00 GMT

Shennanigans + boobs in the Suburban.

How best to describe Brandonland, Brandon Herman’s Nerve photoblog? I mean, there’s always the one word that springs (ahem) immediately to mind: dick. Cock. Men wearing shirts with no pants. Men peeing. Men skateboarding. Men doing yoga or making out with women or punching each other in the stomach. All with no pants.

In other words, a thing of beauty.

Brandon seems to capture the lifestyle of the young, impetuous, intrepid souls…people who find adventure wherever they go. And don’t mind urinating against a wall, or each other, on the way. Do you live in Brandonland?

Here’s some of his latest blog entries (sorry for the male full-frontal editing, kids. Go see Forgetting Sarah Marshall). Enjoy his entire blog here.

Jay-Z is Evil
4/28/2008 11:29:19 PM

I was watching the O'Reilly Factor yesterday morning with my grandma and they covered this story about this kid in Florida who was arrested for making his own grandmother perform in some gangsta rap videos he made. In some of the shots she's decked out in gang-banger attire, complete with bandana, baggy jersey and bling, and in others she's wearing a ski mask, waving a gun and money, and talking about shooting cops. O'Reilly was totally horrified, and he had some pretty blonde Republican chick on the show talking about how twisted the kid was as well, but personally I found it touching that gangsta rap had been the catalyst for some generation-gap-crossing grandmother-son bonding. It kind of made me want to make a rap video with my grandma.

And on the subject of rap:
I would encourage all of you readers to boycott Jay-Z. He's evil and I'm pretty sure that he is actually just a white person in blackface working hard to perpetuate black oppression and racism. The values that he instills in black youth are the equivalent of a million white kids looking up to Donald Trump. All he raps about is consumerism and its sad that he rots people's brains with such garbage. And it makes sense that he is marrying the whitest black woman on earth.

I got a splinter yesterday at the pool party I was at but I can't seem to get it out of my foot, so I think its just going to have to be permanent. Like a tattoo.

Currently listening to: "Bleeding Brain Grow" by MC Paul Barman.

Today sucked
4/23/2008 11:23:50 PM

I've been really moody all day today. I woke up with a bad hangover and a downer attitude. I hate that. Sometimes I actually love hangovers because they slow everything down a bit and make everything seem kind of trippy. And you feel all fragile like you're made out of glass or something. As long as its not a throw-up hangover, I usually can enjoy it. But not this one. This one is a depressed, think of lots of reasons to hate myself hangover. Boo.

My younger sister is flying in tonight to visit me. She called the other day and said she hates college right now so I am flying her out for a couple days of me. What a nice brother huh? She was supposed to be here hours ago but she went all the way through security with no boarding pass, then obviously was sent back to the check-in counter, and by the time she got back through again she had missed her flight. What a dumb-dumb.

Tonight we'll drive out to the desert so that tomorrow we can go to this pool party Anthem mag is throwing for Coachella. It wouldn't be me if there wasn't a pool party involved, now would it?

Currently listening to some Nine Inch Nails song, the name of which I actually don't know.

Its Tearin Up My Heart
4/23/2008 10:45:07 PM

I've been listening to these crazy mashups all day. Like ones where they combine forty different hit songs from the 90s all into one long continuous ass-kicking stereo slam-jam. Why is it that a bunch of songs I don't like can all be amazing when melded together into one mashup masterpiece?

Some highlights from today's mashup findings:
A mashup of "Hey Ya" by Outkast and "We Will Rock You" by Queen.
A mashup of one 80's pop hit song for every letter of the alphabet, all in alphabetical order.
A mashup of early nineties club classics that kicks off with that "What Is Love" song that the Roxbury brothers bob their heads to.

Currently listening to: "Welcome Back Mix" by DJ Praise, an epic medley combining 70's action theme songs with 90's hip-hop.

Hollywood Death Tour
4/21/2008 1:24:02 AM

So this producer from the Canadian TV company CHUMTV called me a few months ago and told me that he was going to come to LA and do a special on David Lynch and a special on me, which I was totally excited about because I love being on TV. They arrived last week, and they interviewed me a bunch, and then they wanted to see me in action so on Thursday night I took them out with a bunch of friends and we toured around to houses in Hollywood where famous murders had occurred and got drunk and naked a lot and took pictures. Check it out...

So here's me answerin' some questions about what it is that I do and why I do it. The sun was in my eyes and I was drunk and couldn't concentrate, so I'm sure I'll look like a total dumbass.

And here we are at the first stop of the night, the house where the famous Wonderland murders (involving porn star John Holmes) took place. And Morgan had to pee.

Paula against the wall in the garage of the Wonderland house.

A pit stop on the side of Mulholland Drive. More pissing and stuff.

We got driven around in this big black Suburban and even though they told me it sat eight, I brought ten friends. We were all cozy like sardines. There were lots of shennanigans in the Suburban.

Me and Paula in front of the house where the Sharon Tate murders took place. I know it looks like I'm wearing a dress but its actually a trench coat over shorts.

Shennanigans on the road too.

Here's Morgan in front of the house where the Menendez brothers killed their parents. The new owners have a Bentley.

Shennanigans + boobs in the Suburban.

Currently listening to: "Ringfinger" by Nine Inch Nails.

North America!
4/17/2008 8:00:00 AM

I just can't stop with the gymnastics. I think I was supposed to be an Olympic coach or something. Here's the latest contender in my gymnastics championship:

I just registered to vote yesterday. Who are you all into? I like Hilary. Don't know why. She just seems cool. Reminds me of my mom if my mom wasn't so pretty, and was a little meaner.

Currently listening to: "North American Scum" by LCD Soundsytem

New on Nerve, 4.25.08: Something More Comfortable, Photography by Javier Carmona

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:22:00 GMT

In this series, photographer Javier Carmona deftly walks the quivering tightrope between sex's two primary sensations: ecstasy and discomfort. Some of the discomfort is literal — a girl on a fireplace mantle struggles for balance against the counterweight of her own enormous boob. But other shots show a more internal distress that, for many of us, parallels the fireworks display of thoughts that occur during sex: ambivalence about our bodies, the unfamiliarity of intimate touch. It's as if he's read our minds. — Will Doig

More Erikitty in Action…

Nicole Ankowski — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:15:00 GMT

We all know good dental hygiene is of the utmost importance. But Nerve photoblogger Autumn and her gorgeous friend Miss Erikitty take the nightly teeth-brushing ritual to a whole, new, delicious level. See their homemade video after the jump…

They should use this in dental schools:

Deep Inside…Rose and Olive’s Photo Blog

Nicole Ankowski — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:28:00 GMT

Who are the earthiest photobloggers in the Nerve blogosphere? Honey child, you know it’s the down-home, delicious duo of Rose + Olive. Let’s venture beyond the Premium veil and see what those lovely, earthy goddesses are up to (and whom they’re getting down with)…

Easily my favorite place to be at night
4/18/2008 2:15:00 PM

flash me 1

flash me 2

bruises

in the bayou

And not far from home, to boot.

Anti-Nostalgia
4/16/2008 12:24:59 PM

It's amazing to me that a little spinning bolt inside my head can tilt a bit in one direction via my halfass (and halfconscious) suggestion and lay out a series of wonderful things to remember and other things made to forget.

Sometimes when I'm just waking up I'll remember part of a dream, one I had of Michelle this morning for instance, and a piece of her face will come to mind and the way she moves her hair back from her face with only her fingernails, not her fingers, and I'll decide, in just one moment, that I don't want to think about the dream any more. That I don't want any details, that I don't want to replay any of it, that I don't want to beat myself up this way or sentimentalize that way.

And you know what, magically, I don't.

I'll get up slowly, trying not to wake the warm body in my bed, put on my jogging shoes and tie my shoelaces twice on a forty minute run. Without remembering a single second of the dream other than the one of her face bending down behind the counter.

It's also amazing how memory can work in the opposite way too. When you want to tie a bunch of decisions and images into a basket, throw in a hundred pound stone and kick it off the pier at the edge of the peninsula.

But then again, you don't want to really. Knowing that you could, and might one day, is enough. You are, after all, having quite a fine picnic right this second.

Injuries on Alex that neither one of us may be held accountable for.
4/15/2008 12:54:55 AM

surgical scar

But the first thing she showed me the other day, thought I might like it. File under things you never get to see, or not enough. What is the fetish called for the way everyone bruises and heals differently? This one gets red.

Modesty is the new Exhibitionism;
4/2/2008 10:38:12 AM

or,

why subtle shyness is once again sexy. so it can be occasionally subverted:

watching a beautiful boy watch us watch boxing
3/28/2008 5:57:29 PM

all afternoon and into the evening.

thank you espn.

(although the man washing his green impala outside the window did sometimes distract us.)

and also thank you, channel somethingelseorother, for the handheld amateur porn we watched late into the night. who knew being bent over the backseat of a bouncing (driving) suv could be so (literally) fucking sexy?

B-Bunny Grows Up Right Here!
3/13/2008 12:45:37 PM

Our sweet countrygirl from Ferriday, Louisiana is taking a big ole piece of metal that flies through the air(!) this weekend. She'll land in a city far away from her small-room apartment and spend a weekend on foot seeing, tasting and (if i know her as well as i think i do) taking many kinds of advantage of the city's many kinds of exotics.

And before she flies back home in that same big metal tube, she'll see in person people we've collectively only ever known through the internet.

B-Bunny, we're crossing our fingers that you'll end up naked-by-desire in more places than you count, will get kissed on the cheeks by more people than you will remember, and, while eating a hotdog in a very public place, will be cheerfully molested a bit to the point of bringing out that big guffaw of yours that we love so much.

Do You Want to See Miss Erikitty In Action?

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:04:00 GMT

Seriously. I’m not even teasing you. Autumn has video of the most beautiful laundry-room burlesque dance in the world…

Oh, Autumn. She just makes me want to move to Brazil. And become a photographer. And wear outfits like Miss Erikitty. So jealous, so in love.

Here you go, you lucky bastards. KittyTV:

New on Nerve, 4.18.08: The Nerve Date with Nina

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:59:00 GMT

You know that awkward moment when you're in your building's laundry room, and the hot hot hottie from 4B comes in? And uses the machine next to you? And you try not to look obvious while you check out Hottie's underwear/ass? Well, photographer Tony Stamolis doesn't just stand there in these situations. He invites his neighbor out for some guacamole, beer, and then back up to his place. I guess it helps if your neighbors are like the lovely, uninhibited Nina. Even on laundry day, she doesn't mind getting a little dirty...

Deep Inside…Tokyo Undressed on Nerve

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:12:00 GMT

Today we’re featuring a photographer Rikki Kasso’s work in the gallery “Director’s Cut.” But Rikki’s got a little secret (probably quite a few delicious ones)…he used to be a photoblogger for Nerve. So in honor of his recent work, let’s take a trip down memory lane, and a look deep inside his past Nerve blog, Toyko Undressed…

There are so many lush, evocative and downright hot nude pictures that I could spend the entire day posting his work. Here’s a taste, and I’ll be putting up new pics throughout the day. Because he’s just that good. Lucky Nerve Premium members can click here to see his entire blog.

[Photos Last Updated 2:52 pm]

Everyday is tomorrow
8/5/2007 10:05:40 AM

Close Distances
7/27/2007 2:02:21 PM

Still. Shaking.
6/25/2007 10:01:30 AM

Far and Found
6/11/2007 10:40:20 AM

Love Comes To Me
6/6/2007 4:35:12 AM

Here are a few pics from last wednesday, me and Asuka spent the day at the love hotel looking for love.....

Rising Sun
6/5/2007 8:40:43 AM

New on Nerve, 4.11.08: Director's Cut, Photography by Rikki Kasso

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:30:00 GMT

Born in Brooklyn, Rikki Kasso has spent the last few years photographing the seamy and dreamy underbelly of Tokyo and its various inhabitants. If you've seen his work, you know the man has never met a hotel room he couldn't turn into a delicate den of depravity. Here, Kasso captures a guy, two girls and an assortment of sex toys in what can most easily be described as "behind the scenes at a low-budget porn shoot." But rather than aim his lens at the most basic ins and outs of the business at hand, Kasso focuses on the subtle details that show the personalities of all involved. From smoke breaks to a girl's laughter when tickled, he finds the perfect combination of soul and smut.

New on Nerve, 4.4.08: The Nerve Date with Lambchop

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:18:00 GMT

You might recognize Lambchop from someplace. Maybe you pass a hundred brunettes on the street every day…but do they all have that smile? That quirky grin and gleam in their eyes? That flat, milky stomach that shows when her shirt rides up?

You’ll want to check out the Nerve Date with Lambchop; so good, even vegetarians will crave her.

Deep Inside…The Chase Photo Blog

Nicole Ankowski — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:25:00 GMT

Haven’t guessed which intern is which? You should try…you might just win a free year of Nerve Premium, that fabulous all-access pass into the realms of the photobloggers. Let’s push aside the Premium veil and take a sneak peek into Chase’s world. Sadly, I can’t show you any (frontal) below-the-waist loveliness (so none of Chase’s “Pink Fridays”), but I still think you’ll like what you see…

Also, think it's easy to date when you have a career like this? Check out Chase's thoughts, and photos, after the jump...

Here are a few sample bits and luscious pieces from Chase’s blog; check it out in its entirety here.

It always seems like you are leaving
3/26/2008 11:18:44 PM

"A little voice says I'm going crazy to see all my worlds disappear. Vague sketch of a fantasy, laughing at the sunrise like he's been up all night... But now have to find a bed that can take this wait."

RGMII
3/20/2008 11:56:40 PM

Sometimes I wish I could travel back in time just to tell teenage me about some of the shit we were going to get into in life. Just all of this stuff in general.

REFLECTIONS
3/19/2008 11:41:04 PM

These pictures are from Lady Day back in the Ghost Rape motel. I once displayed a shot of just her face. It was an odd shot from the side of just her face. I explained that it was her watching herself in the reflection of the mirrored ceiling. This is what she was looking at. I can honestly say that these are some of the rawest shots I've taken on an emotional level, as she was completely lost in her image.

Them.
3/14/2008 4:54:46 PM

So being single in this business sucks, in my opinion. It might seem like a good thing, but it's not to me. It's actually kind of annoying for me. Hard to explain, maybe.

Dating when you are in this business can be pretty awful as well. It takes a certain type of person to be able to deal with all of this. I'm pretty sure that every girl i have met in the past 7 years has been "warned" that I am "porno guy" before we even go on a first date. One of my best friends is also a photographer for Supercult, and he has the same problem. He recently told a girl he liked that he takes photographs for Supercult, and she just started crying. Then she hung up. He has not heard from her since. So... There's that kind of stuff. Also, not always an easy thing when you have to meet the parents. Um... I've gotten lucky with a couple parent situations, but how many times can that happen? I'm pretty sure that on first glance, I am exactly the opposite of what a parent wants to see on the other side of a dinner table.

FTWWTF
3/12/2008 10:27:49 PM

The girl in the picture here is awesome to shoot. Luckily for me she wants to go into business of selling her underwear, which works out for me for as long as she's in business and needs more pictures.

In search of
3/6/2008 10:03:19 PM

Constantly searching for perfection in photos. Once i was talking to a friend about it and realized it was a control thing. Photography and photo manipulation is simply an area where I feel a person could one day fake perfection. It helps to start with a model with the most famous butt in town.

In Other (Photo) Blogs: X-Ray Goggles and Y-Shaped Bums

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:03:00 GMT

Ever wish you had X-ray goggles when some hottie body sashays by you on the street? There could be different settings on the goggles for “totally naked” or “undies only” depending on your curiosity. Well, apparently Siege wishes for those goggles too, only he has an extra special setting on his: “knee socks only.” And it’s sexy. Don’t miss seeing Isabella via Siege’s own special X-ray vision… or her cute Y-shaped bum.

Autumn’s got us all hot n’ bothered as usual. Check out her latest, complete with blindfolds, garter belts, heels AND mud baths — oh my! One look at Jo’s mud slathered mid-section and I’m sold on the prospect of gettin’ dirty, just for the hell of it...

Brandonland, just as absurd as always, finds our photo friend in NYC once again, staying out until the wee small hours, allowing the energy of this place to kick his ass and coming home to play yet another rousing game of “Dick on the Face”, only this particular round is for the skin contact-shy player in all of us…

Chase, bathing in the turmoil of his driving artistic force and his own self-loathing, gives us his last sexy scene from his most favorite recent series. Check out the model in the wet see-through tank, a trippy photo with too many limbs to figure out and the most interesting tarantula I have ever seen. Here’s a hint: it’s made out of human body parts.

And over in Rose and Olive territory, we have our choice of enjoying the sun-splashed tile floor, the sexy Sunday morning shoe taker or the breezy bedroom with flower dappled sheets- complete with scantily clad Rose, exercising her right to stretch. The last one I’ll save for your own personal shock-value enjoyment, but let’s just say, Olive got kinky last night — and liked it.

— Alexandra Godfrey

Deep Inside...Autumn’s Photoblog

Nicole Ankowski — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:43:00 GMT

I’m feeling naughty this afternoon. Yes, yes, I know that only Nerve Premium members get to see all of the beautiful sexy madness that Autumn’s photoblog brings…but I’m breaking all the rules. Well, bending them slightly. Let’s go deep inside Autumn’s recent posts…I’ll bring you a little taste from beyond the Premium veil…

If you aren’t familiar with the artist, here’s how Autumn describes herself:
“Autumn Sonnichsen was born in Los Angeles. She shoots fashion and all manner of sexy girls. She's interested in porn stars in deshabillé, fashion models falling asleep on airplanes, prostitutes sitting at the bar after work and the general residue of women with hypersexual lives. She lives in New York and Brazil, for the moment. When she's not taking pictures, she likes to drink martinis, listen to Dolly Parton, and stay in bed.”

And here are some of her recent visual interests (sadly, I must edit out the nude below-the-waist shots, but you can use your imagination...and I'll bring as much above-the-waist deliciousness as I can.):

Jo is a Rock Star
3/24/2008 1:33:03 PM

Remember back in December, when I was on that epic road trip across the forsaken lands of Northern Brazil? And I had all that good-looking company? Well, we edited and interviewed and demanded lots of money and new plane tickets and the lovely Jo is now the star of her very first official photo spread, even if it didn't happen all that officially in the beginning. It's one of my favorite stories that I've ever published, mostly because it took so long and the girl is just so very precious to me. It was a long trip, more than a month, and we really went just to go, not to take pictures. So the pictures are kind of a bonus, a continuous series of happy accidents.

The One Night Out Series (with Monica Mattos)
3/19/2008 8:35:13 AM

Monica Mattos is a busy girl. Ever since the skinny Brazilian dark-haired beauty received her AVN trophy for best Foreign Female Performance, she hasn't stopped working. She is a sweet and well-mannered girl that loves to get fucked in the ass on film; one of the infinite versions of the Brazilian Girl Next Door, and a happy one at that. She won't tell you which directors she's worked for and which movies that she's made that week, but what she will tell you is that she's single again and goes on enthusiastically about the interviews that she's been giving on the Brazilian version of David Letterman, something that a porn star has never done in this country, which gives her a good reason to think about leaving for the first time for Hollywood, the land of Jenna Jameson and book deals and better implants.

We took her to see a Burlesque show at Loveland, a club in a swanky part of Sao Paulo, far away from where she now lives, in a working-class district with her mother. She had never set foot in the place, or in the neighborhood. We gave her first Cosmopolitan and the stripper asked to pose for pictures with her.

Then we went to her old neighborhood downtown to drink beer in a filthy lesbian bar, where the waitress passed her notes from delirious fans and many a drink was bought for her. She doesn't pretend to be nice to them, to you, or to anyone, she won't offer you anything other than that radiant smile and her beautiful ass. She's one of the most sincere people that we've ever met.

We bought more beer from the bodega on the corner and took photos of her on the stairways above the freeway, with people hanging out of the windows of the apartment buildings, and we made friends with the Mafioso skater boys that populate Roosevelt Square benches at night, where people fuck quietly and smoke joints while staring out at a Sao Paulo's non-existent skyline and listening to the traffic moan loudly beneath us. The city's huge curves and lights mirrored Monica's own in other dimensions, pulling her skirt over her ass, her two cell phones ringing the whole time, reveling in her pure and newfound pleasure in being single and alive at night in the city where she was born. She is Sao Paulo's Prom Queen.

But then she had to go, to catch the last train back to her mother's house on the other side of town, where she's living since she divorced her husband three months ago. We took one last photo, of her in the metro station, and kissed her on both cheeks and made plans to do it again next week.

Words by André Maleronka.

Visit Autumn’s fabulous blog here…and tell me: who do you think we should go Deep Inside next?

New on Nerve, 3.21.08: Odds and Ends, Photography by Natasha Papadopoulou

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:25:00 GMT

No matter how sexually expressive you are, menstruation and its many accoutrements are more often than not relegated to the realm of unsexy. The whole culture surrounding feminine-hygiene products seems to demand that what happens in the vagina, stays in the vagina, until it can be stealthily discarded and never mentioned to anyone except your woman friends over fruity drinks. So there's something infinitely refreshing about the way these photos let lady-products be something other than a blocker of bleeding. Photographer Natasha Papadopoulou takes the tampon out of context and repositions it in ways that are imaginative, sexy and funny. By using it as a prop, it becomes a conversation piece, not something to simply be tucked away. — Caitlin MacRae

Check out all the below-the-waist love, right here.

In Other (Photo) Blogs, 3.20.08: “The Way I Like You Bent Over the Best”

Nicole Ankowski — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:32:00 GMT

Over at The Daily Siege, we’re greeted with a serious-looking portrait of a Texan couple that doesn’t remind me at all of my family portraits, a raw and lovely new set with trans-model Brooke, and a gorgeous shot of electric tattoos accompanied by a diary entry about regressive propagandists and moral hazards.

The world of Brandonland is full of body bridges and naked handstands, and fears that he may be menstruating. He also treats us to some shots of himself taking a piss and then, inexplicably, trapped in an ice machine. All part of a day’s work, y’all.

Chase is full of meditations on having a St. Patrick’s birthday and a rare shot of a model with a smile; he also brings us some stunning reflections of a girl in the water transfixed by her own image like a bird at a mirror, and, even though it’s Thursday, here’s a shot of last week’s Pink Friday to help you gear up for the end of the week.

Still rocking the streets of São Paolo, Autumn takes us on a night out with Monica Mattos, Brazilian porn’s beautiful girl next door, beautifully lit naughty bits, and candid doorway shots of the empress, barely clothed. Also: love bruises, and the body submerged.

And deep in the heart of everything Rose + Olive continue to feed their love of 50s Playboy centerfold Marilyn Waltz, look at skin surfaces in natural light and the fruit of creation, and bring us a sweet series of red little knees – a body part that often gets overlooked in the realms of sexy.

— Caitlin M.

Chase discovers a very special T-shirt:

Autumn's friend Miss Erikitty gets a new outfit:

Rose and Olive play pin up:

Siege loves ladies, all the ladies:

And Brandon loves this:

About Last Night: Lit 'n' Porn at the Sienese Shredder Issue Release Party

Nicole Ankowski — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:42:00 GMT

“Like a child looking through The Joy of Sex for the first time” — Emily Farris [photo courtesy Daniel Krieger]

We love literature and we love smut…so naturally we had to check out the Sienese Shredder’s release party last night, as they found a way to combine both in their second annual issue. The journal “brings together poetry, critical writing, visual arts, unpublished rarities, oddball ephemera” and, you know, a bit o’ porn.

Nerve editor Will Doig got his culture on, and met photographer Susan Unterberg (far right) who showed him her photographs of human thumbs that look like penises, and goldfish mouths that look like vaginas.

Will was the only one there not wearing glasses, except for Nerve's Scanner blogger Emily Farris, who (full disclosure) organized the party. Other artsy attendees included painter and filmmaker Alfred Leslie, writer/director Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco), editor-in-chief of Art in America Elizabeth Baker, poet/painter Sarah Plimpton, and a ton of other really smart people who probably give good cocktail-hour conversation.

But we really liked the human-thumb penis pics. Though we’ve never seen vaginas like these. And you hopefully haven't seen a penis like that second photo:

[thumb/fish/penis/vagina photos courtesy Susan Unterberg and Sienese Shredder]

Insider Exclusive: “In Plain View” Outtakes!

Nicole Ankowski — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:43:00 GMT

As Victoria’s Secret always asks, “What is sexy?” Do you need nipples and nudity to light your spark, or can subtle be sexy, too? Photographer Jackson Eaton gave us both the subtle (just a few inches of lovely hip, peeking out from under a comforter) and the not-so-subtle (male full-frontal, and balloons!) in his gallery, “In Plain View.” In these delicious outtakes, we get sexiness of the quiet, clothed variety. That tense, quiet, delicious calm before the storm...or is it after? You decide.

New on Nerve, 3.14.08: In Plain View, Photography by Jackson Eaton

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:44:00 GMT

It's always nice to see a guy rocking the funny underpants. Increasingly, purveyors of popular apparel for the modern man have started carrying weird undies, a welcome end to the fascist white-and-powder-blue Fruit of the Loom regime. And she's not doing so bad herself — turquoise thigh-highs spread-eagled on a hamper never go out of style, no matter what the season. But what we love most about photographer Jackson Eaton's photographs is the feeling of subtle chaos, a sense that something ridiculous just occurred, and will occur again before long. It makes us wonder whether something as unpredictably lovely might occur in our own lives. We'd better change into our best unmentionables, just in case. — Will Doig

In Other Photoblogs, 3.11.08: Happy Birthday, Siege!

Nicole Ankowski — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:37:00 GMT

The Siege may come to us on the daily, but his birthday seems to be lasting the whole month long. From boob telegrams to a gorgeous photograph whose title – “Beatrice Ass Up” – says it all, the man’s got something to celebrate. And in the midst of the revelry, he serves us up another eerie/beautiful shot to accompany an ongoing contemplation of birds, souls and gastronomy.

From the streets and rooftops of São Paolo, Autumn brings us striking shots of urban bondage, complete with police interference, then brings us deep into the forest for some barely-clad climbing and acrobatics. Also: sexy nose-picking and straight up f*cking. Prepare to be enthralled.

This week, Brandonland is full of naked dudes in crowded, well-loved apartments – including friendly competition with historical allusions, PBR suitcases, and come-hither stares with tangled microphone wires.

Chase never fails to deliver the visual goods with strong narrative accompaniment. Whether it’s Pink Friday, empty bathtubs and full lips, or a series of near-perfect derrieres, we’re always on the edge of our office chairs wanting more.

And as a beautiful finish, Rose + Olive take us into the bath as well – first with a stunning, playful romp in the tub with blended beets, and then an intimate homage to a vintage shot of Simone DeBeauvoir. Either way, we’ve never been so torn between getting clean and staying messy.

— Caitlin M.

Nerve Amateur Photo Contest: New Contest, Past Entries…

Nicole Ankowski — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:22:00 GMT

If I didn’t already work here, I would enter the hell out of each month’s Amateur Photo Contest. Grand prize is five hundred bucks, baby. And just enterings earns you a free month of Nerve Premium…and a great excuse to take naughty pictures with someone you adore. Talk about win-win.

I can only imagine what wicked, wonderful, wily art you will come up with for this month’s contest, the sexiest photo of a bad hair day. Click here to enter. And check out some premium photos from last month’s contest (sexiest photo of someone with tools) after the jump…

Tanita's equipment...
Anonymous

Gold Digger 1
Brass Johnson

Untitled
Pat

come here.
shell

Pinched
aMix

Assembly Diagram 99871
Cyborg Sex Pod Design Ltd

I wish I could show you some of the more creative contest entries, which feature new uses for old power tools (and, um dildos). But we’ve gotta keep this blog mostly PG-13. For below-the-(tool) belt shots, and more, check out the premium contest entries.

In Other (Photo) Blogs: Truth or Dare

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:07:00 GMT

From playing truth or dare in the backseats of cars to face painting with Claes Oldenberg, Rose + Olive maintain the uncanny ability to make the ordinary otherwordly, whether they’re philosophizing or using their hands. Sometimes both, at the same time.

Over in Brandonland, boys in the attic make everyday kitchen gloves just a little hotter than before. Also, another bare chap blisses out on the drums, wearing only a fuzzy hat and a facial expression that can only be described as nakedly peaceful.

Chase – while reassuring us that he is, in fact, not a creep (don’t worry baby, we never thought you were) – entertains with anecdotes about girls who go from sober to “spring break wasted” in a flash, crashing Goth clubs with sunshiny enthusiasm (“Who tells the DJ on people?”), and a reason to retain the bush.

The Daily Siege starts off our week with full, bright body shots and fierce, bound up faces. Also included: more sharp political relevance with a new, equally haunting shot of the Black Irish girl.

And Autumn explores further the naked body in and out of water, goosebump by goosebump, and gives us a sexy little shot of her favorite journalist’s desk.

— Caitlin M.

In Other (Photo) Blogs: Snowflakes Meet Summer

Nicole Ankowski — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:59:00 GMT

The Daily Siege: Siege has a bone to pick…I’ll let him speak for himself: “Adam Shepard, When I See You I Will Strangle You With My Bootstraps, You Sanctimonious Little Sh*t.” Along with anger he brings beauty: bodies splashing in milk baths, and pink dreams of summer.

Brandonland: Brandon’s back in L.A., but sharing photos from his travels. Meet “Winston from Alabama. He's pretty jacked for someone who apparently lives off ramen.” And the hot, invincible Zach: “He lives in the walk-in closet of another kid's bedroom in a house full of eight people. When you're 19 years old, you're like so tough you're invincible. I remember that time. I could have slept on broken glass for all I cared. Just give me swig of Jack Daniels and a hit and make sure I don't try to drive anywhere.”

Rose & Olive: Writhing, beautiful bodies on the floor? Right on. Rose & Olive capture some playful naked wrestling, whilst meditating on art and Kant. They also bring us bruised knees and belly tattoos, and then things get a little animalistic…literally.

Chase: Chase spreads rumors (is he a sicko?); meet the lovely "Face-tats"; and get wet, up close, and personal with Snowflakes, and, um, her crotch. She’ll make you melt.

Autumn: Speaking of getting wet, Autumn dives underwater with her friend, Naked Boy. Plus, she shows us why “wet dreams come true” with two hot blondes, showcases a naughty ballerina’s special moves; plus: thong meets tongue meets camera.

New on Nerve, 2.8.08: The Nerve Date with Amanda

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:59:00 GMT

This week photographer Tony Stamolis spent a night at the museum with the luscious Amanda. Of course, the night didn’t end there…check out why Tony called Amanda the “Girl with the Golden Gun." Of course, we think she has many, many golden attributes...

In Other (Photo) Blogs: Carnivale, Baby

Nicole Ankowski — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:34:00 GMT

Siege brings us a symphony in blue (you may not be able to tell what all the body parts are, but he makes ’em look lovely). Also, we love how much he loves his woman, Katie:

Is there a word to describe that feeling that happens when you look at someone and want to protect them and nurture them and rape them and devour them and own them and share them and hoard them and eat them and worship them, all at once? I'm sure the Germans must have a word for it.

Until then I know it as Katie.

Let that inspire your Valentine’s Day love notes, all you freaky bastards. Check out more pretty pics after the jump…

Autumn brings us portraits of Miss Erikitty during Carnivale…whatever she’s sucking on, we kinda want one, too. Plus dinner-party sexiness, tickle-fest madness, and a lovely lady with a pink bedroom and black lingerie.

Rose + Olive take a break from their road trip to get a little naughty down by a little lake…Oh yes, and they’re making new friends, too. We like her tutu.

Brandon’s got boys and beers and bikes, oh my! And this couple:

And Chase visits a sexy friend in the Big Apple…you’ll want to check out her apples.

New on Nerve, 2.1.08: The Nerve Date with Kyra

Nicole Ankowski — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:50:00 GMT

Is photographer Nathan Appel the luckiest man alive? He’s one of them, at any rate…this week he goes on a date with the lovely, platinum-blonde Kyra. She hints that she’s been to a Playboy mansion fling or two, and we can see why…the Girls Next Door better watch out.

See the entire date, right here.

In Other (Photo) Blogs: Bill O’Reilly’s Mad at Brandon, Pudding

Nicole Ankowski — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:06:00 GMT

It’s politics as usual with the Nerve photobloggers...Siege is venerating John Edwards’ failed presidential bid (again!) with a larger-than-life shrine to Fluffy: “He stands for actual progressive values, and actual progressive action. His opponents are little more than Republican Lite. Yes, even Obama.”

Brandon’s titillating boob shots incurred the wrath of FOX News conservoid Bill O’ Reilly. Apparently, Mr. O’ Reilly isn’t too keen on lesbians eating pudding. Brandon recalls: “It ended up being this whole story on the O'Reilly Report about Ivy League sex parties. I didn't see it, but I heard that they showed one of the posters with my photo on it as an example of the despicable sexiness that was occurring on campus.”

Meanwhile, Chase’s Dark Days makes Brandon’s college-age experiments seem tame in comparison. Maybe Papa Bear would look fondly on Ms. Autumn. Homegirl’s going all Biblical on us with her latest. Speaking of bears, Rose and Olive remind us of why our Moms lusted after Tom Selleck. Though their current model has a lot more going on for him than a fine, lustrous ’stache…

— Joey Hood