February 19, 201411 yr I've been asked to post these by several people: Hello Sports Illustrated Swimsuit - Since you guys have been lurking about or have sent your friends to come pay us visits... we wanted to let you know that you did a excellent job on 2014, best issue in a long time, however there is one small thing that some of feel needs to change... how about bringing some diversity to your locations? There are other places in the world besides Woods/Snow/Mountains/Beach/Surf/Sand. So BZ is here to help inspire you. These places not only look good in the background, but if photographed correctly can offer interest and color up close and personal. Caño Cristales River, Colombia (WOW) Reed Flute Cave, Guilin, China Five Flower Lake, Jiuzhaigou Valley, China These places especially... Those colors, would make for one hell of a magical photoshoot
February 19, 201411 yr My thoughts! INCREDIBLE issue. It also majorly helps that my fav models like Marloes, Bregje and Sara got it But the locations were stellar. Models that stood out to me were Emily, Kate U(best issue to date IMO), Gigi (she looked amazing, amazing body, face, super sexy) , Nina (looks good every year IMO swim is her sh*t) Models I was disapointed/indifferent about: Marloes. I love her butt her shots didn't wow me like I had expected. Maybe it had to do with the location, styling, etc. Same with Bregje I would have loved to see more wet'n'the sand shots of her. Chanel was kinda mehh. Some shots were good, most of them had the same expression IMO. Emily R, I was expecting a little more, I thought the shots looked kinda cheap. As to the other girls, they were all good. I mean even the models I was disappointed about, still looked amazing soooo
February 19, 201411 yr I've had some success downloading the videos using Firefox, rtmpdump and rtmpdumphelper. I had to set rtmpdumphelper to use rtmpsrv rather than rtmpsuck. I can only get 480p videos though, no HD. Also, sadly, the video editors didn't get the "nipples are good" memo.
February 19, 201411 yr Could you download Emily D's stuff for us Hoopla?My upstream bandwidth is so damn slow and unreliable it would take forever to upload any videos. Rtmpdumphelper is quite easy to use, so I suggest trying it for yourself (assuming you run windows).
February 19, 201411 yr Since we are addressing our friendly SI lurkers, Chrissy's continued presence is a joke that stopped being funny a long time ago.
February 19, 201411 yr SS. Chrissy's just keeps it real #classy#sassy like. Ya'll need to stop criticizing her for everything she does and says and focus on her strengths for which there are many, just open your eyes and you'll see... promises! It's not Chrissy fault she looks like walking diabetes. Even her own mother has to wash her hands after touching her, how would you feel if you were in her position? Chrissy 2014 SI Cover Gal
February 19, 201411 yr Chrissy reminds me of the type of friend who is fun for a few hours, but then after that you just can't stand them.
February 19, 201411 yr SS. Chrissy's just keeps it real #classy#sassy like. Ya'll need to stop criticizing her for everything she does and says and focus on her strengths for which there are many, just open your eyes and you'll see... promises! It's not Chrissy fault she looks like walking diabetes. Even her own mother has to wash her hands after touching her, how would you feel if you were in her position? Chrissy 2014 SI Cover Gal Just wow!!! Tell us how you really feel.
February 19, 201411 yr I like Gigi, but is someone out there launching some sort of hardcore campaign for her to get ROTY? I was googling on my phone to vote for my pick, so I couldn't investigate too well, but almost half the results were from posts on Instagram begging people to vote for Gigi. I think Kate Bock has proved that ROTY isn't necessarily a slam dunk path to stardom... She's dating Cody Simpson, a huge huge tween heart throb singer at the moment (2 million Instagram followers). He probably had all his fans vote for Gigi, or his fans just naturally all rushed to vote for Gigi to support him. That explains a lot, thanks. I would guess she'll be ROTY in that case. I love all of the different location suggestions. Anywhere in NZ would be soooo amazing, although maybe it's got too much Middle Earth association now, haha. I still vote for NZ! Plus then I can try to stalk the sets like a complete creeper. Also what does it mean to look like walking diabetes? When I think "looks like diabetes" I think of Paula Deen.
February 19, 201411 yr I love that Genevieve has bangs and how she looks in the ruffle bikini. For some reason I was interested to see Kate Bock from the thumbnails. The location looked great. Glad to see Jessica Gomez back. Bregje’s pictures look the most like fashion photography out of them all. Does Emily R. have implants? I like this sort of feline look that Hannah Ferguson has. Lily is Wow I did not expect her to deliver such men’s magazine appeal. ^^ Overall this issue is definitely way more out there. Like one shot of Chrissy posing topless and her butt in the air reminds me of Playboy a bit The Legends shoot was bad. I can appreciate the idea of a “class picture” but the execution was drab. Plus some of those black outfits remind me of Halloween witch getups. Kate looks amazing. She belongs in the sun. I think her body looks better than last year. Her boobs are just crazy! The gravity shoot has some crazy eyes but body poses are great. The shot of her wearing sunglasses and a pink swimsuit is an instant classic.
February 20, 201411 yr The SI people are here? Well then, allow me to put on some pants before I tell them how they completely missed the boat on hooking-up Carla Ossa 10 years ago. Although she seems to just keep getting hottter. Meanwhile, Gio Ott has more raw sex appeal in her left butt cheek than that Chrissy Tequila dude has running through his whole extraterrestrial body. I challenge you to find a bad picture of Gio anywhere~ And the girls don't always have to be gargantuan. You had Marlina Moreno in your studio, for crying out loud, and somehow you managed to let her slip away in her prime. The Swimsuit Issue used to be about pulling the mail out of the box and going "holy shit!" upon seeing the cover. And then quickly digging to find more of that girl(s) inside. You had nothing like that this year. Nice work on Hannah Ferguson though. This magazine is also about discovering new talent. If you're having difficulty finding attractive, relatively unknown models, give me a call. Your pal, Ed
February 20, 201411 yr SI needs to go to all these locations. Next issue please. And bring Lily and Hannah D down under just cause I want that
February 20, 201411 yr Author i'm going to occasionally post the ROTY percentages so we can see how wildly they change... February 18, 7:15pm34% Emily Ratajkowski34% Gigi Hadid14% Sara Sampaio7% Hannah Ferguson February 19, 8:45pm33% Emily Ratajkowski33% Gigi Hadid16% Hannah Ferguson11% Sara Sampaio2% Samantha Hoopes
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