Jon Kortajarena - The Pilot

So I sort of piloted a section of my survey. I Facebook asked Mila to help judge the images from the Jon Kortajarena post I did. Here's how it went (copy and pasted Facebook Chat messages and edited to keep this short, not to exclude information)

Me: Ok so I''m going to send you a link with pictures of the same guy. I need you to tell me what emotion/vibe you get from him, rate each picture out of 10 (10 being best) and tell me which one you like best

 

 

Mila: What do you want me to say about vibe? Like the emotion he makes me feel or how he feels?

 

 

Me Both :D

Mila: I give the first one a 9 and I think he feels like excited and he makes me feel his adorableness seeping through the photo.

 

 

The second one 7 and it's just sexy. Or like suggestive of something more.

The third one I think 8 cause he looks intrigued and it makes me like him cause he looks nerdy and cute and is reading and I like that.

 

 

The next one 10 cause it makes him look approachable and nice and I like it alot better when he's smiling and being natural then when he's all brooding.

The last one an 9 too cause I dunno it makes him look vulnerable and like he needs and hug and it makes me wanna give him a hug and be nice and have a nice deep conversation.

 

 

So I found this very helpful and interesting especially from all my research pointing out that women are more physically attracted to cocky or brooding guys.

 

 

The first image, I classified as the cocky/confident image. She gave it a 9, got excited and loved his "adorableness"

Second image, I classified as the angry/intense/brooding image. She gave it a 7, calling it "sexy" and "suggestive"

Third image, I classified as semi-brooding/thoughtful image. She gave that one an 8 saying that his thoughtful expression and that the newpaper reading was a nice "nerdy" touch.

Fourth image, I classfied as the happy/cheerful/smiling picture.This got her highest rating of 10. The smile made his "approachable" and "natural". I liked it in particular when she said:

"I like it alot better when he's smiling and being natural then when he's all brooding."

Fifth image, I classified it as the more sad/pensive/melancholy-type of brooding than number 2 and 3. The vulnerability of the image appealed to her maternal-like instincts, to try and help and comfort him. A sense of sort of approachableness comes through as she felt they could "have a nice deep conversation."

Overall, very helpful and hopefully I can clean up and distribute the survey by tomorrow night.

Picture Survey

Thinking about doing a survey. Here is how it would go. The first few questions would be based on franchises and fandoms. E.g. First question would be:

Out of these characters from the television series Gossip Girl, who would you choose and why?
a) Dan Humphries, (Penn Badgely)
Why_________________________
*insert image of the character*

b) Nate Archibald, (Chace Crawford)
Why_________________________
*insert image of the character*

c) Chuck Bass, (Ed Westwick)
Why_________________________
*insert image of the character*

Then later on the questions would go, "Which image do you like better and why?" Following would be images of a random male model but each image his face is displaying different emotions: Happy/cheerful, angry/brooding/sad/pensive, cocky/confident/relaxed.

e.g (post below)

Jon Kortajarena - EXPERIMENT RANDOM

**EDIT NOTE** I have posted these images in relation to the next two posts. I sent this link to a friend to ask her a couple of questions about it. I asked her to give me the emotion she think's the model is trying to convey andwhat she feels when she looks at each of them, then rate them out of 10 (10 being the best) and which one she likes best and why.

Do Nice Guys Lose and Bad Boys Win?

I love this site. It inspired the previous post. Brought a lot of characters from past eras up which helped. I mainly love it because it led to a page about the "Byronic Hero". It talks about how the bad boy image was created in the 1900s by the notorious poet Lord Byron. It then proceeds to list examples from the past (Shakepeare era) to present (I love how they list characters and then just name the actor Alan Rickman as if the man himself was to just a natural brooder and just gets the roles).

Good finds. As soon I look into this more and try to find a few more things, I'll get right into the primary.

Do Nice Guys Lose and Bad Boys Win?
http://enlightenedwomen.org/do-nice-guys-lose-bad-boys-win/

Semi-panicking because my school e-mail is not working. My myclasses is but mymail isn't. I NEED MY TEACHER COMMUNICATION AND MORAL SUPPORT. WISDOM IS BEING BLOCKED FROM ME THIS VERY INSTANT.

Ok. crap.

The Evolution of the Bad Boy

When I say bad boy, I think of the 50s with the emergence of Elvis and James Dean. Leather jackets, motorbikes (even though James Dean was never seen near a motorbike in any of his films. FACT.), smoking. Rough around the edges, rebels without causes, smart ass, talks back.

All signs of douchery yet for some reason, sooooooooo totally hot. But why is this? What is it about them that makes them so appealing? Is this healthy, or right, even?

And the fact of the matter is, the bad boy image began waaaaaaaaaay before the 1950s. It can be seen in Austen and Bronte literature with broody Darcy and Heathcliff. Heck, there was most probably some broody bad boys in Shakespeare.

I think, like fashion, there are different types of bad boys and they trend in a little cycle. They branch off from mysterious bad boy to brooding bad boy to rebel bad boy etc. Right now brooding bad boy is in.

Vampires are obviously everywhere and they are the epitome of brooding bad boys. They are immortal, beautiful monsters who regret or revel in their life of killing over the years. The vampire male leads in most of the shows and movies we see today mainly spend their time hunting animals instead of humans because they try to cling on to their humanity as they mourn the loss of their soul and the horrendous murders they've done in the previous decades or centuries. And since they were "turned" in the 1800s and even before that, they have those gentlemanly quality that pays homage to the original brooders from Austen/Bronte eras.

Before that was the "rebel-without-a-cause" bad boys who defied the rules just to spite authority and broke the rules because they were bored. The boys the dads warned you about who were up to no good and would be a bad influence on their little girls. Famous examples = James Dean, Bender from The Breakfast Club (<3), Danny from Grease.

There's probably more branches. I don't know exactly where this post is going, what point it's trying to prove or what I'm trying to say. But it all kind of sounds important to me so I'll just write it down in case.

"Dude watching with the Brontes"

I love this. It's pretty self explanitory. Basically parodising the two of the Bronte sisters "man-hunting" for their husband and liking the brooding ones which many of their lead male characters represent (Heathcliff anyone?) While the other sister just sees them as jackass jerks who are annoyingly rude.