SUPER AYU by LESLIE KEE

[Ayu_Love]

I have no dislike for mannie at all, I think he's a good-looking chap, and I do not know him personally so I have no right to judge him. To me he looks like a very nice guy, who Ayu loves and trusts, so I wish him the best as I would with Ayu.

But I have to say, what on earth was Leslie thinking with arseless pants!? D: I don't know what kind of work Mannie usually does, but to me you can tell even though he is a professional model he doesn't feel comfortable is some of those photo's, which is why he is posing awkward. To me, the pictures of where he is lying on the bed, in the bath, with the leather jacket, and with the angel wings (Except the last one, all you can see in giant package. Ayu is lucky LOL) are nice. They're not too overly posed and are quite soft because he's posing more naturally.

But I still can't get over the arseless pants, Lesie I love you but WTF!? Hahaha. The shower photo's seem very awkward too, It doesn't look to me like he's 100% comfortable, or Leslie was telling him to pose in odd poses, either one. xD

[JackieRos]

I burst out laughing when I saw the book.
I love male nudity sometimes (can you call this that) but this is just .

Omg if ayu did some pics like these I would have loved it O.o
I guess it has to do with sexual preferences

[Ayu_Love]

^Same. I'm a girl, but I can imagine Ayu looking good in arseless pants but for Mannie it kinda looks like he's come back from odd S&M/Ann Summers party. xD Sorry Leslie, but they do not look good. D:

[Benikari47]

I don't find Mannie very attractive, and i can understand why so many of you don't like the photos.
But i honestly don't think there that bad, i think he's one of those people who look amazing on certain angles and like trailer trash on others (not to be rude)

I think the concept of most of the photos were great, but could be executed better. The ass shots are just pointless though, like.. why was that necessary?

[Ayu_Love]

^This.

[Coelacanth]

Originally Posted by Ayu_Love

But I have to say, what on earth was Leslie thinking with arseless pants!? D:

The problem here is that Mannie has a pancake butt/no shape to his ass, so those underwear are not flattering at all.

[Ayu_Love]

^I would agree. I've seen those types of pants on female alternative models like Miss Mosh and they look awesome on them, which is why I think they would look fine on Ayu, she probably has a curvier bum. But I have never seen them look good on a man. D:

[Andrenekoi]

First of all... I do find Mannie hotter now xD

I saw two things on this photos...

1. Mannie is doing mainly female sexy posing... None of his posing on this book is manly at all... No wonder so many people over here are saying Ayu would look better on those photos... They are more flattering to women. So, I supose they tried to play a little with this, the different ideas of what's sexy for men and women.

2. The photos, the compositions, the posing, the outfits... They all remind me of Madonna's S.E.X. photobook and of 70's underground S&M pornography, what seemed to be the main aesthetical inspiration for this...

Overall, a very fetishist piece of work... I can get why most over here are turned of by this... But in the end of the day, Ayu is the one meant to like this... And maybe those are some of her fetishes... ^^

[Benikari47]

I want Ayu to do a song about her fetishes with Mannie tbh

[YUKARI]

^^ I wonder if SUPER AYU is something like Madonna's S.E.X.

[isthisLOL?]

I like them, his photography style, as Andrenekoi said, in this is highly 70s S&M and perfectly executed for that. But it's not a style everybody enjoys, it IS inspired by a fetish. But please don't confuse "not my style" with "bad photography".

I do think Mannie's body looks a bit weird in some poses though(not about the actual poses but more about his body type, some parts of his body are much more defined than others) oh...and his bulge is pretty nice, though almost everyone can have a bulge like that in briefs(briefs = huge bulge magic) and underwear shots supposed to be erotic are almost always stuffed or made using a cockring. Also, I would have prefered the assless shots to have been in jockstraps as they define more(the strings are lower, "hugging" the cheeks and lifting them up) and are a bigger part of fetish culture, not these weird open-rear briefs.

Does anyone know what's in the rest? Can't be only like 20 pages? I wanna see all of it.

[AyumiAi]

Originally Posted by AyUmIXx

here

http://sayonarababy.tumblr.com/post/...hat-came-today

didnt ExodusUK say there were more photos?

[BlackSilence]

The cover wasn't very flattering either, but the whole inside.....that photobook looks like light p0rn to me more than atristic nude xD WTF Leslie? BUT if Ayu liked that, there's only one phrase that sounds in my head "I'm not that innocent!" xD She's probbaly not so innocent like we would like her to be >D

[letter]

Oh my eyes.
I don't particularly care for his looks--he's Ayu's husband.
And I can ... appreciate (to an extent) nudity in photography, but this is just embarrassing. He isn't a fantastic model.

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by Yoake

I think you misunderstood what I said. I don't make any esthetic judgements about those photo in my comment. I don't say if they're nice or ugly. & It's not because of the comment above me that I said that.

what I mean is Leslie Kee want to innovante about the posture of the model. When he made a photo for a magazine, his work stay classic. But that kind of books is more his own book & it's why he want to do something else that nobody make before him. He does it as the pictorialist or others artists did before him. I compare his work to others contemporary art that are often provocative.

My first sentence was just a little joke to introduce my historian view & not my own taste about them.

I wasn't really judging your tastes in any way O_o I thought you were saying you were surprised people were shocked because of the nature of the photos.

And well, idk I think that is probably shocking to some people, but I don't think that's the issue in entirety with why people don't like them.



Maybe it's what andrenekoi said up there. The feminism is just, not my taste I guess. Because to me, his body is just weird in those poses...and his facial expressions...

idk in my own personal opinion, Mannie is just not a very good model at all. So I suppose Leslie did pretty well with he could with what he was given.

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

The pictures are kinda shocking, I mean why would he appear almost like it was a sex magazine or something? I don't think people expected it lol

Nothing wrong with it at the end though, I don't mind at all LOL

[Ayu_Love]

Originally Posted by Benikari47

I want Ayu to do a song about her fetishes with Mannie tbh

Same.

The fetish concept does not bother me at all, I've been a big fan of Fetish and Alternative photography for years, I love models like Miss Mosh, Ophelia's Overdose and Ulorinvex, I just don't think Leslie executed it very well with Mannie. But I do like the concept he was going for. I'm not sure how well leslie knows about fetish and alternative photography? His work has always been more portrait and fashion photography to me. If he's done the same for Ayu though, it's going to ROCK.

[pommy48]

ing :rolfmao

I don't believe I've ever laughed this hard...
Those shots X_X So cheesy
I think I about died when I saw the bubble bath

Ah...I'm crying from laughter

[Yoake]

Originally Posted by emiko

I wasn't really judging your tastes in any way O_o I thought you were saying you were surprised people were shocked because of the nature of the photos.

And well, idk I think that is probably shocking to some people, but I don't think that's the issue in entirety with why people don't like them.



Maybe it's what andrenekoi said up there. The feminism is just, not my taste I guess. Because to me, his body is just weird in those poses...and his facial expressions...

idk in my own personal opinion, Mannie is just not a very good model at all. So I suppose Leslie did pretty well with he could with what he was given.

As you follow with your own tastes I thought that you thought that I said that his postures,... was art & That I defended the pics as if I like them (which is not for each pic). I'm sorry. I think my brain is a bit died because of studying period. X_X
I agree to say that naked + exhibisionism is not the only stuff that made people don't like them. There are always a lot of factors intrinsic & no-intrinsic.

[TeddyGrahams]

Okay I clicked that link because everyone was talking about it. It's just embarrassing. :/