When is the last time you went to an art gallery? Vena Virago, who in some circles is known as Margie Schnibbe, will open her “Honey Bunny” show tomorrow night at Circus Gallery on Lexington Ave. I’m waiting for my manTwenty-six dollars in my handUp to Lexington, 7065Feel sick and dirty, more dead than aliveI’m [...]
Max Hardcore’s bumper sticker for a car I won’t drive
Other than chlamydia, my favorite piece of swag from January’s AVN convention is this Max Hardcore bumpersticker. Why do I bother writing about it two months later, you ask? Because I believe my car would be blown up if I stuck this to it, and I have no idea what to do with it otherwise. [...]
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Joanna Angel: a vase or two faces?
Somewhere north of her nipples and south of her neck, Joanna Angel noted, the swans turned to fish in the sunlight. Previously: All the Best Cowboys Play Guitar HeroSee also: Burning Angel, M.C. Escher
Even cowgirls like the glue
The artist responsible for this and other art-but-true works will be signing his new book at Burbank’s Hyaena Gallery (right across from True Romance‘s Safari Inn!) this Friday night. Previously: Katja Kassin: Brennen hinunter das haus; Mary Carey hosts a happeningSee also: Coloring Book Land
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Sources: Nerdcore way of the future
If the future is to be apocalyptic, as scholars agree, at least there should be nudity in it, and for months at a time. 365 And Occasionally 366, a trade publication for the calendar industry, reports that the biggest challenge facing purveyors of wall calendars is that people don’t look at them. “It was October [...]
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Tasteful "Ambition"
Photographer Michael Grecco’s “Naked Ambition: an R-rated look at an X-rated industry”, is a coffeetable book that many would feel comfortable keeping on their coffee tables; there’s not a lot of nudity. And the high-color photographs, snapped backstage at the past two AVN conventions and awards shows, often appear theatrical or like circus art, presenting [...]
Toys Kill (with help from porn)
Photographer Justice Howard and designer Jim Koch have put together Toys Kill, an exhibit featuring her photographs, many featuring interesting takes on the more glam members of the adult industry, and his toy designs, which will turn your children Evil, and thus better suited to deal with the world. The show runs from October 6 [...]
Pink is the new steve
Pink is a suggestive color, of course, and it’s no surprise that it is used in porn names (Jocelyn Pink, Pink Visual, 1 in the Pink, 1 in the Stink), but when I looked at this Joanna Angel cover from Hustler, her ex company (she’s at ClubJenna now), it sent me poking around the steveporn [...]
It’s hard to be a pornsaint in the city
This collection of artful renderings of some of my personal favorite porn personalities has a daunting amount of theory behind it, which can either be a turnoff, a justification, or, well, just those two. Best to not read the manifesto attached. Suffice to say that not since Bang Boat has there been a porn site [...]
Samantha Sterlyng: My Ass, Rummy’s Face
Semi-retired porn star (because she lives in Maryland) Samantha Sterlyng created a video for a college Government class in which she projected slides of current and former Bush Administration officials on her body. I can imagine how her professor reacted when she turned in her homework. “I thought it would be something interesting to see,” [...]
Sasha Grey’s Jezebel & June
“It’s like The Ring but less sexy!” – Student Film Intellectual Monthly Previously: Something is about to happen to Sasha Grey; A little more Ssha Grey never hurt anybody; Profiles in missing the pointSee also: Sasha Grey
Porn Valley art panic
One features a crane, and the other features a telephone line to nowhere. How is one the “alt to alt”? I guess you can’t call a color scheme legally actionable, though reversing the “e” in Penthouse looks about as edgy as writing “Kidz Menu”, and just seems silly. But at least the Penthouse title lets [...]
The Erotic (Kool-Aid Acid) Coloring Book
This coloring book, created in 1975 by Craig Berlin from what appear to be infrared surveillance photos, was purchased at a New York bookstore by Manhattan blogger Jaime Morrison. I thought we had collectively decided to stop freaking each other out (with art, anyway) by 1975, but I was wrong. Previously: VCA embraces pixelation; “Now [...]
VCA embraces pixelation
In a move lauded by industry watchers, VCA has left behind the porn trope of placing stars or splotches on box art genitals (also the name of my band) and replaced the controversial process with simple pixelation. “I don’t even know what’s down there between that MILF’s legs,” said Loup Perch-Tounge, chairman of Chatsworth’s Lycee [...]
Passages: Hentai turns back on porn screenwriting
Today I talked with former AVN coworker/current HentaiPR owner Wayne Hentai. One of his side projects recently has been writing porn scripts. I will not tell you what they were. He has seen about 15 of them made into movies. We are going to see each other on a set this afternoon. “Did you write [...]
Porned Alaska
Alaska, the graphic designer whose boxcover art is often the best part of many porn movies, has a new website featuring his porn work and mainstream art. Six Months of Light vaults the designer out of his .net ghetto into .com sunshine, with all the respect and validation that implies. How many times did I [...]
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