08/31/09 05:08 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
This is Bria’s second time in
BlackMen’s 40on40 Issue. As a
prerequisite, you gotta have at least 40” hips
to be featured in this issue. I have to give a
shout out to my man Marcus Blassingame for
reaching out to Bria to feature her in this
issue. With the direction this magazine is going
(with fewer black models), I doubt she would
have snagged this feature without him.
It’s actually an interesting issue. Many of the
photos are pictures we net veterans have seen before.
So here you see some
reverse
pilfering--instead of a website grabbing
original content from the magazines and posting it,
here BlackMen took some infamous images that were
already in cyberspace and solidified their legend in
the magazine.
Tags: Bria Myles
08/31/09 01:38 AM Filed in:
Video Vixens
You heard it here first. The ethnically questionable
model who walks out of the building in the beginning
of Ron Browz new "What Up Bro" video is the talk of
all the message boards and will probably be an XXL
Eye Candy Girl or a SHOW cover girl before you know
it.
If anyone knows her name, tell her to hit me up for
an exclusive interview.
08/30/09 03:55 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
Nice!
Visit Miss Koi on Twitter
here.
Tags: Miss Koi, Koi
08/26/09 11:16 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
Just had a great shoot with Bria and a couple other
beautiful models. It was different from the norm. It
will be interesting to see how people react to it.
Tags: Bria Myles
08/22/09 06:39 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
The screencap of
eBay bidding below is from
three years ago, and shows one
of Melyssa Ford’s magazines going for upward of
$200. Check eBay today and you’ll see that many
Smooth and
BlackMen auctions
end without so much as a single bid, let alone
reaching $200. On average, these magazines sell
for about $3, about $4 below their newsstand
price. What gives? Even old issues of the now
defunct KING don’t seem to have any value on
eBay. Is it a sign that the urban eye candy
market is officially dead?
Click to enlarge.
Tags: Melyssa Ford
08/22/09 03:56 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
I was never a big fan of hers, but I’ve got to say
that her most recent pics have been smoking! Job well
done
Mia. Looks like you’ve got a
new fan in Indosplace.com. (Click to enlarge)
Tags: Mia Michelle
08/21/09 12:27 AM Filed in:
Video Vixens
So I’m waiting in line for take out tonight at
California Pizza Kitchen in Westwood and suddenly I
see this girl behind me that I know has to be Nikki
B. All of sudden Mr. Photographer who has shot
several major urban models became a stuttering,
bumbling fool: “Uh, excuse me, are you uh... Haven’t
I seen you on the cover of Smooth? etc. etc.”
Anyway, this girl is gorgeous in person. I mean for
real, super pretty and very nice. She was telling me
how addictive Twitter is for her, so join her
here.
Tags: Nikki B
08/20/09 12:45 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
Bria is hosting a party tomorrow... (Click to
enlarge)
Tags: Bria Myles
08/18/09 12:30 AM Filed in:
Video Vixens
Now I don’t want to go getting all racial, but it
seems to me the urban eye candy genre had its origins
in hip hop/rap music videos. The women in those
videos
and the early issues of BlackMen
(note the name,
Black men), KING,
and Smooth were, by and large, black. So this genre
started off showcasing black women for a mainly black
male audience. But over time, this has changed
dramatically in the magazines. It’s no longer about
black women. It’s more so about white and Latina
women. Let me state for the record that I have
nothing against women of other races, but I don’t see
a whole lot black women on
Lowrider or
Maxim covers. Yet, white and Latina women
seem to dominate the few covers a black model can be
featured on.
Coco has had at least 6 - count ‘em, SIX - BlackMen
issues in the last two years. More than any black
model I can think of. SHOW magazine just finished
with the Latina Black Lingerie issue. Now the next
issue is the SHOWcase, also featuring two Latina
models on the cover: Jesika Maximus and Jessica
Burciaga. I know for a fact issues with Bria Myles
and Khyrsti Hill on the cover are waiting in abeyance
while these new SHOWcase Latina issues come out.
Maybe this all comes down to dollars and cents for
the magazine owners. Maybe black males don’t buy
magazines with black women on the covers. If so,
that’s a sad commentary and not an issue I expect a
profit driven magazine operation to take on. But it
sure would be nice to start seeing sistas return to
the forefront of a genre (urban eye candy) they
founded.
Tags: Jesikah Maximus
08/17/09 12:59 AM Filed in:
Video Vixens
If you wanna be an urban model, you’d better be a
brick house, because it’s going to be a tough road
ahead if you’re not. Don’t get me wrong, you might
get
a little shine if you’ve got just an
okay body. But you won’t be remembered or in demand
like
Maliah Michel or
Bria Myles. Take
Khrysti Hill for example. She
hasn’t done anything new in over a year. Yet,
while other girls are dancing around half naked
on Youtube trying to catch a break, the die hard
fans are still pining away for new photos of
Khrysti. That’s because she epitomizes what the
market wants.
So what if you don’t have a great body? What if you
have polite, demur curves. Be a commercial actress.
That’s where ethnic women with pretty faces and
petite bodies do best. You have to remember that
urban modeling began because up until 10 years ago,
the only place a woman like
Bria Myles got props was on
the streets of her neighborhood or in the club.
No magazine would dare feature her on their
pages (except maybe
Jet), let alone a
cover. But after J Lo and the birth of hip hop,
a small chasm finally opened up in the
mainstream for truly curvy models. The women
guys had discussed at the barbershops for years
were finally acknowledged in a legitimate way.
About two years ago, in rebuttal to what seemed like
a tidal wave of ridiculously voluptuous women trying
to get in the business (the Buffie effect), the
magazines started trying to force more svelte models
upon us, in an attempt to appease their advertisers
no doubt. (Advertisers consider women who look like
Buffie and Bria near porn.) Guess what? It didn’t
take. The origin of this market was thick women and
that’s what it will remain until it disappears.
Models built like
Chanta Patton can always find
work in commercials or Maxim magazine or at
Hooters. But girls like Khrysti
only
have this market, and it’s loyal to them till
the very end.
Khrysti Hill’s Twitter page.
Tags: Khrysti Hill
08/14/09 02:50 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
Lisa Raye is still looking very good at
fortysomething. To think, she started off bumping and
grinding to Tupac videos. She’s come a long way.
Tags: Lisa Raye
08/12/09 12:32 AM Filed in:
Video Vixens
Even though posting
Love Barnett will do
absolutely nothing for my Quancast or Alexa
ranking (because few people are searching her
name these days), it’s very important to
remember the foundations of the urban eye candy
industry. Love Barnett is one of those models
that a lot of guys really liked back in ‘04, but
she never quite made it to the Melyssa Ford
level. She was in some iconic hip hop videos too
- the best of their day. Check her out on
YouTube and Google and you’ll see why I think
she’s worth remembering. You can join her on
Twitter
here.
Tags: Love Barnett
08/11/09 07:59 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
After all, she was number 10 in my Top 10 list this
year. At any rate, this is yet another example of
some exceptionally shoddy post production work by
Smooth, as anyone remotely familiar with Photoshop
can see the retouching just behind the arch in Cubana
Lust's back (it's that abnormal distortion on the
ocean waves around her back). Otherwise a nice pic.
(I removed her tatt because I don't like tatts.)
Click to enlarge.
Tags: Cubana Lust
08/10/09 10:22 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
The second issue of the Smooth Girl Live From Jamaica
issue has hit the stands. Bravo to Smooth for
pressing on in these dire times for the urban eye
candy market, and also for giving some fresh faces
some shine, like
Courtney Starrburst, who
granted me an interview a few weeks back. It
just so happens that hers is my favorite
pictorial in the issue. I’ll leave it for
someone else to scan the Cubana Lust photos.
(Click horizontal photo to
enlarge)
Tags: Courtney Starrburst
08/10/09 03:46 AM Filed in:
Video Vixens
This should help start the week off better. Miss Koi
is an avid Twitter user and she’s looking to up her
followers, so return the favor and make her Monday by
joining her
here. Photo compliments of me
(Click to enlarge)
Tags: Miss Koi, Koi
08/08/09 06:12 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
Every aspiring urban model out there should read this
interview with
Melyssa Ford in the new issue
of Jamrock. If nothing else, this girl knows
what she’s talking about when it comes to this
business. Among the stand-out quotes:
[1]"A video vixen
is kind of like a diva but a level below. It is a
woman whose career commands respect, because she's
worth it. So a vixen is a diva with her training
wheels on..."
[2]
[On the show Candy Girls] "It's great TV, but the
unrealistic part is the girls living in the house. A
bunch of video models living in a house funded by
this agency? Okay, let me know where the hell that
happens!"
[3]
"I'm trying not to be part of the [Hollywood] machine
but it's difficult not to feel like you have to
conform in order to find another level of success so
I am definitely here to tell every girl, if you are
thinking that videos are going to be the springboard
in helping you get a career in acting you have
another thing coming. It's not going to happen, and
if it does, well more power to you, because I
couldn't figure it out."
Click pics to enlarge.
Tags: Melyssa Ford
08/06/09 06:38 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
This is a collage of some of the pics I’ve taken of
Bria over time. A pattern starts to emerge of very
straight ahead, no frills, colorful images. Baby oil
rarely enters the picture and the retouching is more
on the photorealistic side.
(Click to enlarge)
Tags: Bria Myles
08/04/09 02:33 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
There’s been a lot of speculation about what happened
to Khrysti Hill since she disappeared from the scene
about two years ago. Well, she graciously granted me
a very candid interview about what she’s been up to,
her feelings about the Amsterdam video, why she shut
down her website, and a lot of other things fans have
been wondering about. So sit back and enjoy this
Indosplace.com exclusive. (Click photo to enlarge
image and interview pages.)
To read using Acrobat’s Reader, click here:
K.HillInterview
Tags: Khrysti Hill
08/03/09 01:09 AM Filed in:
Video Vixens
08/02/09 11:01 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
First, credit where credit is due:
ClicknSpark’s blog. I
love that place and have been known to “borrow”
a thing or two from them. Hopefully, my buddy
Dub doesn’t mind too much.
Anyway,
Mixed Magazine looks
like a pretty good e-zine. (Aspiring models take
note: possible place for exposure.) These photos
of
Mia Michelle are impressive
to me - looks like the photographer really
controlled his environment. Shooting outdoors is
actually more difficult than studio work in many
ways. Finally, it’s noteworthy that Mia has a
better collection of photos than your average
urban models, due in part to her association
with
Marcus
Blassingame, who makes sure any model he
likes gets the 1st class treatment.
Tags: Mia Michelle
08/02/09 07:34 PM Filed in:
Cool Stuff
08/02/09 03:32 AM Filed in:
Video Vixens
In addition to being amazingly sexy and cute,
Jenna Shea also keeps an
interesting micro-blog on Twitter.
Unfortunately, her account got
hacked just before she hit
1000 followers, so join her on her
new Twitter page
here. (Click to enlarge pics)
Tags: Jenna Shea
08/01/09 09:42 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
If you’re like me, you never get tired of looking at
this girl. Leave your comments and let Koi know what
you think - she reads this blog.
Join her on Twitter and
you’ll find out there’s more to Koi than just
her great looks. (*Click to enlarge)
Tags: Koi, Miss Koi