Such a shame

I was asked to do a post for Carl Hardwick which I would be happy to do. The problem is the fact that there isn't a Carl Hardwick anymore. Carl was the alas used by Rusty Jeffers who decided to go back to bodybuilding a few years ago. He wrote an e-mail to his fan group stating what he was doing and that maybe one day Carl will return. Well now Rusty is a personal trainer in Arizona so I doubt we'd ever see Carl again. So that would mean the post would be all pictures which I could do, but just seems like a cop out. Now I don't blame Rusty for this. I actually blame the industry. Think about it. Colt Studios is way different from when Carl worked for them. Do they still even do the minute men series which was so popular back then. They don't even have models that don't do videos. One thing that made Wade Neff, Carl Hardwick, and other Colt models so famous was that they were in so many different prints that when they finally did a video it was a big deal. Now there are no studios that really have just picture models. All guys are expected to do something on film. Plus all porns have shifted to more of a scene by scene mentality. Very rarely do you get a porn with an actual plot. Usually it's just a bunch of stand alone scenes that they string together. There are studios trying to hold onto that, but seems like there are fewer and fewer. The audience for porn has changed. The medium in which porn is viewed has changed. When I was getting into it, the internet was still doing dial up so forget trying to download a scene let alone a whole movie. Pictures were still the main way to get off. Now all the pictures are just stills from scenes. So Carl Hardwick would be expected to do a scene with another guy which he wouldn't do. Rusty never hid that he did modeling and scenes for colt, but he never did anything with a guy. He is straight. He didn't flaunt it in our faces like a lot of guys now, but that is why you never saw him with another guy. Then there is the fact that the industry itself is going through a revolution. I'm sure many of you know that Trenton Ducati....I think I spelled that right... has signed up with Lucas Entertainment to be an exclusive bareback model. As porn shifts more to that we lose that sort of golden age porn that I grew up on. Guys like former Colt Models can't exist in this new porn age. You can't just do some pics and a video here and there. You have to do your own website if you do that. Then you'd be pressed by everyone one visiting to do a video and once you do one they want more and want you to do more. Hell look at this blog. A lot of my most popular posts are the ones with videos. There are even some product sites that have video demonstrations of their products. Yes I'm talking about Fort Troff. More will go that way to get more guys visiting. The more that visit the better chance they'll buy something. Simple marketing.

 Furthering the point I was making images like this that are just a guy nude posing don't exist anymore in porn studios. All images come from stills or a video shoot. Yeah the guys post, but it's part of a video still. Which is sad because I think we got a lot of nude photos of guys because they didn't have to do videos.

 I found that updated photo of Franco that I was looking for. I really need to look up how to spell the last name. I think it was Corenelli. Anyway as you can see he's aged very well and still pretty buff. A lot of the colt models seemed to age well.

 This is a classic Carl Hardwick shot. How do I know you ask? Well I know Carl's work and the boots too. This is from the Legendary body video if I recall right. Even though the models were nude it wasn't about jacking off. It was to show the beauty of the male body. Certainly wouldn't see a video like that anymore.

Now yes we do have some gems in what's being posted today like the one here of Christian Powers and Max Chevalier. Two very muscular men going at it. Guys that would have easily been in some golden era videos.