Foreshortening! That’s an angle you don’t see very often, from above him straight into his trousers. Plus for the originality.
And two minuses for the creepy riders with cut off torsos. But since they didn’t go for the usual headless horseman look but cut the riders much lower, they earn another two pluses for originality. Yay for being different!
I just don’t get who’s the partner here. The other torsoless horseman? Or is there someone riding the shirtless dude? Who is also cut across the torso, so maybe there’s some symbolism there? Something you can only “get” after reading the book?
I’m not a big fan of romance novels so today is the first time I heard about Fabio, but after reading that article, I think we really need a Fabio tag. It would be both appropriate and fabulous. Very book coverish.
Kris
9 years ago
I don’t know how old you are, Catie, but Fabio did the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” commercials in the mid 90s! He’s known as the quintessential cover model, and is now fitness guru with his own line of protein powder. He’s been traveling the country this past year, visiting Whole Foods and other alternate grocery stores.
I’m not from the States, so I’m not all that familiar with pop culture. The only place I’ve heard about “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” is a British tv comedy (which is weird since I’m not British either :D).
Long before Fabio was doing “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” commercials, he made a very enviable living as…wait for it…a book-cover model. Back when romance covers were drawn, by actual human hands, rather than using stock-photo and clip-art, he was the “Love’s Savage Fury”-kinda guy, depicted EVERYWHERE, with those flowing blond locks, hunka-hunka-burnin’-love man-pecs, blue eyes, the whole enchilada. He was never quite my taste–don’t get me wrong, I like them manly, rather than “metrosexual,” but he just didn’t…well, butter my bread, as they say. I know, I know, ouch….
That’s what actually catapulted him to fame. Ironic that his name has arisen here, all things considered. Bless his little capitalistic (make lemonade…) heart.
And FWIW, those ponies aren’t (actually, that pony isn’t, and isn’t a pony, either) steeplechasing, far from it. Unless I miss my mark that horse is competing either in a showjumping class or a Hunters class. I can’t quite make out enough of the horse’s kit to know, and it could be in breed classes which have different tack rules than the USEF open classes. All that being said, however, a nice piece of horseflesh, at least, was used for the model. I might have considered actually using two different horses, but perhaps they wanted the flipped image for some reason. {shrug}.
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Foreshortening! That’s an angle you don’t see very often, from above him straight into his trousers. Plus for the originality.
And two minuses for the creepy riders with cut off torsos. But since they didn’t go for the usual headless horseman look but cut the riders much lower, they earn another two pluses for originality. Yay for being different!
I just don’t get who’s the partner here. The other torsoless horseman? Or is there someone riding the shirtless dude? Who is also cut across the torso, so maybe there’s some symbolism there? Something you can only “get” after reading the book?
I’m not a big fan of romance novels so today is the first time I heard about Fabio, but after reading that article, I think we really need a Fabio tag. It would be both appropriate and fabulous. Very book coverish.
I don’t know how old you are, Catie, but Fabio did the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” commercials in the mid 90s! He’s known as the quintessential cover model, and is now fitness guru with his own line of protein powder. He’s been traveling the country this past year, visiting Whole Foods and other alternate grocery stores.
Yes. I went to meet him. š
He also was hit in the nose by a goose while on a roller coaster.
yes, he is that basses.
LMFAO.
He killed a Canada Goose with his nose. The beast! Busch Gardens, Williamsburg VA, 30 Mar 1999, a day that should live in infamy.
Unlike the goose.
I’m not from the States, so I’m not all that familiar with pop culture. The only place I’ve heard about “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” is a British tv comedy (which is weird since I’m not British either :D).
BTW – those steeplechase horses.
Long before Fabio was doing “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” commercials, he made a very enviable living as…wait for it…a book-cover model. Back when romance covers were drawn, by actual human hands, rather than using stock-photo and clip-art, he was the “Love’s Savage Fury”-kinda guy, depicted EVERYWHERE, with those flowing blond locks, hunka-hunka-burnin’-love man-pecs, blue eyes, the whole enchilada. He was never quite my taste–don’t get me wrong, I like them manly, rather than “metrosexual,” but he just didn’t…well, butter my bread, as they say. I know, I know, ouch….
That’s what actually catapulted him to fame. Ironic that his name has arisen here, all things considered. Bless his little capitalistic (make lemonade…) heart.
And FWIW, those ponies aren’t (actually, that pony isn’t, and isn’t a pony, either) steeplechasing, far from it. Unless I miss my mark that horse is competing either in a showjumping class or a Hunters class. I can’t quite make out enough of the horse’s kit to know, and it could be in breed classes which have different tack rules than the USEF open classes. All that being said, however, a nice piece of horseflesh, at least, was used for the model. I might have considered actually using two different horses, but perhaps they wanted the flipped image for some reason. {shrug}.
As I recall the 1980s, my wife and her sister were heavily into those romance novels, and Fabio Lanzoni was on literally dozens of covers.
I have seen NatGeo documentaries where mountain goats headbutt like that, but horses?
What’s worse, he was into male horses!
Buahahahaha! When it comes to horse bestiality, there’s much greater chance a horse will be into him, if you know what I mean.
I was scared to click that link at work! š