MATRIX FOR REAL!

Starring Aaron Baker
& Sonya McFarland

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Pictures
by
Jeff McFarland
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Aaron Baker and Sonya McFarland shot a segment for MTV's
"Taildaters" the other day, & since I got some awesome cool shots taken by
my "cyber buddy" Jeff McFarland
from it that I just couldnt take my eyes off,
I thought I'd share some of the inspirations with ya`ll!
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I remember a little pick of Dennis Newman & Craig Titus
in an old Musclemag several years back from a little B-movie they'd made...
They were both in shape with veins & shit at the time, wearing black tight t-shirts
& holding guns in each hand...this pic got the same wibes to it!
I remember how bad ass I thought it looked!
But really how could it be taken & made cool in the real world
without being arrested &/or mistaken for a lunatic?

I was like, "Damn, I wish I had an excuse to
get into that shape,dress up like that
just to go & fuck some people up!"
Yeah I guess Ive read to many comic books &
watched to many movies at the time!
Aarons & Sonyas excuse taking these pix was however
as good as any you'll find, without ending up on CNN for it!!

...I guess Hollywood is the only way to go without
having to pay for it in the real world...
It's the reason Wesley Snipes looks so cool playing Blade,
& it's the reason the these two look so damned tough here!!

Aaron baker knows his stuff!
After a lifetime of reading Marvel comics,
watching the cartoons & drawing his own stuff!
Look at this picture...I realy can see the soul of the real Aaron in this one!
Aaron the warrior...stucked in a time with no place for heroes like this...
I guess the last resort for people like us are the gym!
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How many of you were very "in-tune" to the exaggerated proportions
& hypermasculine imagery found in comic books from a very early age?
I can remember myself as a skinny lill kid sitting at the floor
at my mothers shop reading èm all...imagined myself becoming a Super hero
some day like"The Thing" from "The Fantastic 4" comic book or something...
Realy thats what got me into bodybuilding in the first place!

This has to be the first generation to grow up in without having fully grown up.
Hell I have friends in their mid 30`s with brand new Superman tattoos!
Guess cartoons give us alot of inspirations...
But we bodybuilders have taken it to the next levell because
when we bodybuild, we're BECOMING that
SUPER-HERO in real life!!

Thats why the kids stare & love us!

Thats why I went to the gym in the first place...
Thats why I walk around with a shaved head, with the fat earings & necklace...
Thats why I smoke those chubby cigars & thats why I got
that tribe a`la Blade tattooed in my neck!
To walk thru life
LOOKING LIKE A CARTOON!!!
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