Working Selfie
Selfie, Las Vegas, NV
I Get Tweets
Nice Eyes
Stripper Advice
Photo credit: AmuseBewbs
"As a stripper, I have scads of finicky little costume pieces that are forever getting lost, natch. I live in a shithole with inadequate closet space, and all my drawers are spoken for. Do you all have any creative ideas for keeping my two pieces in one piece, and my skimpy little pseudo-dresses unwrinkled?"
Get Your Gun
No Privates
Jessica Drake, Las Vegas, NV / Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
This week, I'm doing a series of posts on my Forbes blog on the porn convention and porn awards that I went to last week in Vegas. The first one is: "For Women in Porn, The Personal Is Political and Profitable."
"'I’m not entirely comfortable with the label "feminist porn,"' Stormy announces mid-discussion. 'What does my vagina have to do with it?' she asks the crowd rhetorically. 'Why can’t I just be a great director?'"
[Forbes]
Pony Play Time
Shooting Girl
Shooting girl, Boulder City, NV / Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
How to Be a Man
"He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and nonfiction, including his Famous Book of the Eskimos), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926; he amputated his gangrenous toes himself), was involved in the Danish resistance against Germany, was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis before escaping to Sweden, studied to be a doctor at university, his first wife was Inuit and his second was a Danish margarine heiress, became friends with Jean Harlow and Mae West, once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces, and, last but certainly not least, won $64,000 on The $64,000 Question."
[Kottke]
Wild Things
Mr. Fleshlight
Photo credit: Jack Davies
"Between the airport and his office, he began to redesign the product in his mind. 'I knew that it would have to be portable; it had to be small; it had to be able to fit easily into the hand so that it could facilitate the use of the product. I thought, Guys are into tools. And what I had settled on was a flashlight, so I decided to call it Fleshlight.'"
[Vice]
O HAI
Call Me
The Strip, Las Vegas, NV / Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
The Future of Porn
This is interesting. A gay porn production company digitally removes condoms in post-production.
"'With this movie I really wanted to capture the essence of that time, when life seemed more carefree and spontaneous. In keeping with this concept, I felt that condoms need to be addressed. I wanted to give the impression of a pre-condom movie, but use condoms as we do in every scene we film. I found a way to film the movie safely and effectively, while giving the experience that I had intended and using the hottest modern stars.'"
Sacred Spaces
What's on Your Mind?
That's Forniphilia
"The interview is in Russian, but you don’t need Google Translate to see what everyone’s so offended by. It’s the accompanying photograph of Zhukova sitting atop a black woman chair by provocative ’60s pop artist Allen Jones. Jones’ forniphilic chairs were a source of controversy during the height of their popularity in the ’60s, though it’s Buro who have amped up the cringe factor by selecting one of the few pieces that uses a woman of color."
[Styleite]
Tiny Idea
I'm intrigued by Kevin Rose's Tiny, an in-development blogging platform that would enable readers to see what the writer was doing as they were writing the piece you're reading.
In particular, it prompted me to consider how sex bloggers, erotic authors, or other producers of perverted text-based content might use the platform. For example, what if the female author of an erotic blog was nude while writing?
You would see her blurred naked form in the background, in real-time, as she worked to create her piece. So much for the gap between words and that which they seek to represent. In this case, the text and its author would coexist.
Leaving Las Vegas
Airport, Las Vegas, NV / Photo credit: Susannah Breslin