Coffee and Male Pinups

Good morning to all of you out in the vast, wondrous  and sometimes downright scary interwebs.  I realize that my post from yesterday, the male pinups, was supposed to contain pictures.  Well...it was working just fine on my ipad, but for some reason or another HAL just didn't want to make it work for me.  Fortunately enough I didn't hear an ominous voice declaring, "I can't do that, Dave." So now that I'm at the desktop, I can remedy the picture situation.

Also, I need coffee.  My brain needs a kickstart.  The awful part of this need for coffee is that someone, I won't say who...HAL...broke my glass French press.  So I and the kiddies are going to brave the freezing temperatures to purchase a new French press and, while we're at it, some new coffee.  Fair trade, of course, because I'll feel like a subhuman if I increase the level of exploitation of workers via my coffee purchase (never mind that I went to Wal-Mart, yesterday).

So while I'm out getting my java jive on, do what you can, my faithful minions, to deconstruct these photos.  What makes these photos strange or funny?  Is there power at play?  Are the men in these photos betraying their social gender roles?  Are these power poses, or would you say that the male subjects in them are being submissive?

Also, check out Rion Sabean, the artist behind these ingenious photographs, here.