Some where in this world it is Wednesday August 22 and that means it is Richard Armitage's 41st birthday. So as a birthday present for us fans he is this weeks Humpday Hunk.
Mr. John Thornton of North and South
Sweet Harry Kennedy from the Vicar of Dibley
Oh Rickey, you're so fine, You're so fine you blow my mind, Hey Rickey, Hey Rickey
It has been a few weeks since I have done Humpday Hunks and that is because I'm not all that certain it is a popular post. But I thought that I would give it another shot with Viggo Mortensen of the Lord of the Rings triology.
The photo is of Adrien and Gerard at the Met Costume Gala 2012. Adrien has been bitching that he was waiting to have to tea with Gerard because there was an auction, for a good cause, a while back and Adrien Brody had the highest bid to have tea with Gerard Butler. But I guess Gerard thought that the money would go to the charity and the tea party would be forgotten. So maybe that is what these two gentlemen were chatting about
Arantzazu Martinez is a is an academic painter from Vitoria, Spain.She attended the Fine Arts University of Basque Country and graduated in 2000. Unable to find any classical art training, she moved to New York. There she enrolled at New York Academy Figurative Art MFA program and graduated in 2002.
It was during 2002 that she met the founder of Water Street Atelier, the Hudson River Fellowship and the Grand Central Academy, Jacob Collins. He would go on to become Arantzazu's mentor as well. To develop her training further, she studied under him at the Water Street Atelier from 2002 - 2005 where she completed her training following the nineteenth century academic method.
The technical expertise,the considered composition, the exceptional treatment of light and the human form are evident and much appreciated in Martinez's work. The symbiotic relationship of these elements creates imagery that evokes Romanticism and Symbolism. Her work has the ability to create a dreamworld where magic and fantasy are part of reality.
The quality of her work has been recognised internationally; she has been commissioned by Lucasfilm Ltd to take part in an international project of Star Wars Visions and more recently on a new image project for Disney in which she is presently immersed.
Motley Crue's first single off of the album of te same name "Girls, Girls, Girls", was released on May 11, 1987. It peaked on Billboard Hot 100 chart at #12 and #20 on Mainstream rock charts.
The song of course refers to strip clubs, The Tropicana, Seventh Veil and the Body Shop in Los Angles, California on the Sunset strip.
Then there was the Marble Arch in Vancouver, British Colombia in Canada, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida's Thee Dollhouse, Crazy Horse, Paris, France and Tatletales in Atlanta.
Due to nudity in the first video, MTV banned the "Girls, Girls, Girls". The music video was shot at the Seventh Veil employing the girls from the Tropicana, which was Vince Neil's favorite club, and from the Seventh Veil.