Man Candy Day: Chad White

Milan train station is a two level station: you arrive with the train at the second level and then you use a staircase to reach the first level; the hall of the station is two floor high and it's quite impressive when you are descending the stair to look up to the ceiling. I still remember the time when, lifting my gaze, I saw this huge Dolce&Gabbana Ad, hanging from the ceiling with a mostly naked very fine man: the jeans were so low that you could clearly see the dip at the end of the back... I almost missed a step and the colleague that was with me asked me worried if I was well... no, I wasn't well, I just had a vision!



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Chad White, born in 1985, in Portland, Oregon, is an American model. He is one of the newest faces in the modeling industry. White has been seen in the June 2006 issue of L'Uomo Vogue where he owned the entire editorial well. His work for L'Uomo Voque is one of his most important stints as a model, as photographed by world-renowned photographer, Steven Klein. In one of the photos he is with Gore Vidal (photo 2). Other major works include shots for for L'Officiel Hommes by Milan Vukmirovic (photo 3&4), for Out Magazine by Francois Rousseau (2 times, photo from 5 to 8) and for Wound magazine by Paolo Zambaldi (photo 9).

White has been on the runways in fashion capital cities in the world. He is one of the favorites of Versace, D&G and Dsquared2, among others.

White is known to his colleagues and friends to have unswervingly patient, tireless in his work, kind, fun to be with and capable of enduring any amount of hardship without complaint. He speaks little but is extremely intelligent.

6' foot 2 White, played baseball in college and was drafted for Major League Baseball, an eventuality that failed when he injured his hand. But as these hot pictures testify, baseball's loss is truly modeling's gain.


Chad White by Nicolas Wagner for TETU Magazine


Chad White by Nicolas Wagner for TETU Magazine

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Man Candy Day: Chad White

Milan train station is a two level station: you arrive with the train at the second level and then you use a staircase to reach the first level; the hall of the station is two floor high and it's quite impressive when you are descending the stair to look up to the ceiling. I still remember the time when, lifting my gaze, I saw this huge Dolce&Gabbana Ad, hanging from the ceiling with a mostly naked very fine man: the jeans were so low that you could clearly see the dip at the end of the back... I almost missed a step and the colleague that was with me asked me worried if I was well... no, I wasn't well, I just had a vision!



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Chad White, born in 1985, in Portland, Oregon, is an American model. He is one of the newest faces in the modeling industry. White has been seen in the June 2006 issue of L'Uomo Vogue where he owned the entire editorial well. His work for L'Uomo Voque is one of his most important stints as a model, as photographed by world-renowned photographer, Steven Klein. In one of the photos he is with Gore Vidal (photo 2). Other major works include shots for for L'Officiel Hommes by Milan Vukmirovic (photo 3&4), for Out Magazine by Francois Rousseau (2 times, photo from 5 to 8) and for Wound magazine by Paolo Zambaldi (photo 9).

White has been on the runways in fashion capital cities in the world. He is one of the favorites of Versace, D&G and Dsquared2, among others.

White is known to his colleagues and friends to have unswervingly patient, tireless in his work, kind, fun to be with and capable of enduring any amount of hardship without complaint. He speaks little but is extremely intelligent.

6' foot 2 White, played baseball in college and was drafted for Major League Baseball, an eventuality that failed when he injured his hand. But as these hot pictures testify, baseball's loss is truly modeling's gain.


Chad White by Nicolas Wagner for TETU Magazine


Chad White by Nicolas Wagner for TETU Magazine

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Bound to Fall (Encounters 3) by Ann Somerville

Bound to Fall is the final book in the Encounters series; is the parallel story of both couples of the previous two books, the chimerical human Dinun and his Angel lover Moon, and the chimerical human (but with an heavy Angel genetic legacy) Suaj and his human lover Raeln.

Both these couples have problem to overcome to be happy together: Dinun finds out that he can't live in Moon's world due to his health condition, and he wants pretend from his lover to be captive in his "narrow" world: Moon is not used to live in the confined space of an home, he is born to live in the open spaces where he can fly. On the other hand Raeln, even if deep in love with Suaj, and more than happy in their relationship, misses home; he is aware that he will not find anything better at home for him, but still he longs for a world that he still considers his own. When an spaceship from Raeln's planet asks to land, it's the change for all of them to test their bonds.

There is a clear shift in the story at the middle: the first part has almost an utopian mind, made of "friendly" scientists who want only to learn and develop new ways for living better; the second part almost ends in a nightmare. Unfortunately what happens in this futuristic world, is what always happened when different cultures meet and don't "mix"; there is always one part that believes to be better and to be allowed to judge and bring pain in other life in the name of the wellness of their people, doesn't matter if this means to injure others.

Said that I would like to spend a bit of good words on the characters. In this last book there are two characters that I believe had the space to develop and grow as they hadn't had in their own story. Dinun, in the first book, was a nice character, but he was almost too naive, smitten by the powerful Angel who was his lover, he didn't have the chance to have on the reader a strong impression. Now instead he is the leading man in the relationship, he is maybe more angry and mourning, but he proves a strenght that I hadn't found before. Sure Moon is still the stronger in body, but finally Dinun behaves as an adult.

The second character that I see in a different way is Suaj; oh yes, he is still a bit detached, but now I can see that he cares for his human lover. He is not obviously the passionate character as Raeln, but at least I have no more the impression that for him Raeln is only a nice benefit deriving from his work, I finally have the impression that Suaj would not be happy if Raeln should decide to go back home. Probably he would be find a way to overcome the pain, but at least he would feel it.

There is clearly more passion and more open feelings in this last book than in the previous two. It's not necessary a question of sex, if I remember well there is only one real sex scene, but the characters are more open, they arrive to the reader in a more direct way, and so they leave a deeper impression.

http://www.lulu.com/content/5940701

Series: Encounters
1) On Wings, Rising: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/393060.html
2) Reaching Higher: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/485944.html
3) Bound to Fall

Reading List: 

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Bound to Fall (Encounters 3) by Ann Somerville

Bound to Fall is the final book in the Encounters series; is the parallel story of both couples of the previous two books, the chimerical human Dinun and his Angel lover Moon, and the chimerical human (but with an heavy Angel genetic legacy) Suaj and his human lover Raeln.

Both these couples have problem to overcome to be happy together: Dinun finds out that he can't live in Moon's world due to his health condition, and he wants pretend from his lover to be captive in his "narrow" world: Moon is not used to live in the confined space of an home, he is born to live in the open spaces where he can fly. On the other hand Raeln, even if deep in love with Suaj, and more than happy in their relationship, misses home; he is aware that he will not find anything better at home for him, but still he longs for a world that he still considers his own. When an spaceship from Raeln's planet asks to land, it's the change for all of them to test their bonds.

There is a clear shift in the story at the middle: the first part has almost an utopian mind, made of "friendly" scientists who want only to learn and develop new ways for living better; the second part almost ends in a nightmare. Unfortunately what happens in this futuristic world, is what always happened when different cultures meet and don't "mix"; there is always one part that believes to be better and to be allowed to judge and bring pain in other life in the name of the wellness of their people, doesn't matter if this means to injure others.

Said that I would like to spend a bit of good words on the characters. In this last book there are two characters that I believe had the space to develop and grow as they hadn't had in their own story. Dinun, in the first book, was a nice character, but he was almost too naive, smitten by the powerful Angel who was his lover, he didn't have the chance to have on the reader a strong impression. Now instead he is the leading man in the relationship, he is maybe more angry and mourning, but he proves a strenght that I hadn't found before. Sure Moon is still the stronger in body, but finally Dinun behaves as an adult.

The second character that I see in a different way is Suaj; oh yes, he is still a bit detached, but now I can see that he cares for his human lover. He is not obviously the passionate character as Raeln, but at least I have no more the impression that for him Raeln is only a nice benefit deriving from his work, I finally have the impression that Suaj would not be happy if Raeln should decide to go back home. Probably he would be find a way to overcome the pain, but at least he would feel it.

There is clearly more passion and more open feelings in this last book than in the previous two. It's not necessary a question of sex, if I remember well there is only one real sex scene, but the characters are more open, they arrive to the reader in a more direct way, and so they leave a deeper impression.

http://www.lulu.com/content/5940701

Series: Encounters
1) On Wings, Rising: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/393060.html
2) Reaching Higher: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/485944.html
3) Bound to Fall

Reading List: 

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading+list&view=elisa.rolle