We’re huge fans of Krysztof Nemeth, so you just know we’re buying his awesome new shirts. Check out the kickass pinup art:
Buy the shirts in Krysztof’s store, and check out the rest of his amazing work at charm-school.com
Our friends at Blueblood are gearing up for a wild summer of traveling hedonsim, and are looking for models, fashion designers and event promoters in the DC/Baltimore, Atlanta, and San Diego areas.
MODEL, DESIGNER, EVENT PROMOTER CALLS FOR DC/BALTIMORE, ATLANTA, SAN DIEGO
Travel season is coming up again and that means Blue Blood will be on the road, kicking ass and taking pictures. Blue Blood would like to hear from interesting local clothing designers and shops who are interested in getting product placement and press coverage. Event promoters in those areas are also invited to contact Blue Blood for possible sponsorships and media exposure. Among other things, Blue Blood’s Forrest Black and Amelia G are shooting for http://www.blueblood.com and http://www.bluebloodboutique.com and Marquis. Prospective models ideally are interested in both fashion and nude modeling. Models must be rockin’ one or more of the following looks: gothic, punk, fetish, good tattoos, other damn weirdo individual. Models are ideally comfortable modeling at least topless and must be clear on what your personal limits are. For models, these are mostly either paid gigs or content trade gigs if you have your own site. Please write to submit@BlueBlood.net and send a picture(s) of yourself or a link to a picture(s) along with what magazines and web sites you are most interested in appearing in, what levels of nudity and/or explicit actitivy you are comfortable with/interested in doing on camera, and say which city you are convenient to and whether you have your own site. Photos do not have to be professionally shot and do not have to be nude even if you are applying for nude work. They may not, however, feature a blurry webcam photo and a snapshot with heavy Photoshop filters applied. If you submitted to sadistintern@blueblood.net, please resubmit. Blue Blood receives hundreds of model submissions a week and it will not be possible to go through all of them, especially once on the road, so please put the city name and MODEL SUBMISSION in the subject, so your message will be treated as priority when the Blue Blood crew is in your city.
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REPOST THIS MODEL CALL TO MODEL LISTS, YAHOO GROUPS, BOARDS ETC
BTW, other folks should feel free to submit stuff like this to us via our submission forms.
Cybernet Entertainment, the softies who bring you family sites like Hogtied.com and FuckingMachines.com, are changing their name to Kink.com. They’re running a contest for folks to design a new logo for them, and if they use your idea, you’ll get a 2 year subscription to all of their web sites! That includes:
So if you’re down with the BDSM and have some graphic design skills, fire up Illustrator and send them your ideas!
WSJ.com - Web Sites Fight Proof-of-Age Rules For Porn Performers
The adult-entertainment industry is embroiled in a legal battle with the federal government over new regulations that many online purveyors fear could put them out of business.
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Mark Prince, whose Montreal company, 2much Internet Services Inc., sets up live, sex-oriented chats with women filmed via Web cams, says he is complying with the U.S. rules by collecting documents from his performers, because of business relationships with U.S. companies. Several of his performers have quit over privacy concerns, since their information could be shared with other adult sites, he says, adding that more than 100 women working for his company’s U.S. clients have done so, too. “Some of the performers were terrified,” he says.
Forbes.com recently posted an article by Dan Ackerman that takes to task some of the revenue estimates offered by the adult industry:
The idea that pornography is a $10 billion business is often credited to a study by Forrester Research. This figure gets repeated over and over. The only problem is that there is no such study. In 1998, Forrester did publish a report on the online “adult content” industry, which it pegged at $750 million to $1 billion in annual revenue. The $10 billion aggregate figure was unsourced and mentioned in passing.
The article gives off a vibe of agenda (”The fact is pornography, or ‘adult entertainment,’ is as marginal now as it ever was.”), but part of that may be the simple fact that much of the PR that paints porn as “mainstream” uses economic statistics as its foundation. If people are spending similar amounts of money on porn as they do on other, less controversial media, then porn isn’t just the shameful vice of men who can’t control their urges and women who are morally lost to society. Organizations like AVN obviously find it in their best interest to present their product as something everyone can feel okay enjoying, and you have to wonder about their figures when they can’t explain how they arrive at them:
How Adult Video News gets this number is not clear. We asked Adult Video News‘ managing editor, Mike Ramone. “I don’t know the exact methodology,” he said, “It’s a pie chart.” Asked to break the figure down into sales versus rentals, a standard practice among those who cover the video industry, he said he didn’t think it was available and suggested we call the editor-in-chief, who didn’t return our calls.
Regardless of the economics of it all, though, I think it’s hard to argue that our society is much more sexually open than it was 30 years ago, and that expressions of sexuality — sometimes to the extent of pornography — are more acceptable.
(via sexblo.gs)
Edit: Wow, that was a really terrible headline.
It appears that Ping-o-matic, a service that passes on update pings from blogs to several search engines and is used by default in Wordpress installs, may not want to handle traffic from sites with adult content. From Dougal Campbell’s blog:
> Do you have any idea of why I can not ping your site anymore?
Because we don’t want pings from porn sites?
What disturbs me about this post:
Given the way some people in the industry choose to handle their business, it’s not entirely surprising that many (most?) people equate porn with spam. But it’s flawed thinking, not unlike equating labor unions with organized crime, or George W. Bush with christianity.
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Just so ya think twice before you put “aspiring suicidegirl” in your Myspace profile.
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