Need Coffee is doing a giveaway for the newly released V is for Vendetta DVD. The prize includes a really creepy V mask. I think that mask could provide the opportunity for some really depraved sex roleplay.
Mermaid hoaxes were perhaps popularized by P.T. Barnum and his famous circus. He advertised having the remains of a FeeJee Mermaid. FeeJee is the sucker spelling of Fiji I believe. Rotten.com describes these supposed remains as looking like a Hollywood pitch gone wrong: “It’s like Gremlins meets Piranha meets Ebirah!” PT Barnum went ahead and used drawings of traditionally attractive mermaids in order to lure crowds. It’s the damn patriarchy keeping abominations down. The three ring huckster need not have bothered apparently, as the attraction continued to appear before sell out crowds even after Barnum publicly confessed that the mermaid was a hodge podge of glued-together parts from totally unrelated critters. (via rotten.com)
An object purported to be somewhere between a mermaid and a sea monster just sold on eBay for $1,550. The seller calls the find a golden mermaid and refers to it as female. He explains his assumption that the mermaid is a she by pointing out the lack of a protruding sex organ. Really, though, what self-respecting heterosexual fanboy would bid on a male sea creature? That would be totally gay. So it just makes sense to describe the mermaid as her. I feel I can paraphrase the Q&A portion, but you really have to read the auction description verbatim to do it justice:
“While exploring desolate areas of Fort Desoto Beach at the southern end of St. Petersburg, here in Florida, I came upon a rather startling discovery. Before me lay what at first appeared to be a very large strange fish. Shocked and amazed, I realized I had found another mermaid or sea monster. I went back to my car to get my camera. My hands were shaking as I tried to calm down to take these photos. This Mermaid or Sea monster, you be the judge, is a few inches shy of being 5 feet long. Laying on a fresh natural bed of seaweed, this creature of the sea looks out as if still alive. What killed this mystery from the depths? Recently in the news there was talk of another outbreak of Red Tide. Had this mermaid fallen ill from this mysterious dreaded disease from the sea? Looking over her gracefull body, I realized what a special creature she must had been in life. Was she the missing link between primates and fish? In time, what would evolution had shaped this creature to be? I sat there thinking for awhile and realized I must get this mermaid back home. I could always ponder later. The winner to this auction will recieve the sea creature shown in the photos below. The photos have not been altered or retouched nor are they result of photo shop. The entire body has been determined to be covered in once living fish skin with scales. I have drilled a small hole in the back of the head so that it can be hung up on a wall for display.”
The seller was quite adamant about the fish scales being real, although he later changed his story on having drilled a hole in her head for display. As the description uses the word “another” to describe the discovery on this lonely Florida beach, presumably the seller has experience in customer service to buyers of curios.
IGN, now, just like MySpace, owned by the very savvy folks at FOX has its Comic Con galleries posted now. They have them broken down into convenient categories like The Babes of Tokyopop and Final Fantasy Figures.
Galleries of pictures taken at the record-smashing Comic Con 2006 are already starting to post. ComingSoon.net has more than a hundred photos although most are not of people, but more importantly the booth babe galleries are starting to post, such as this Flickr gallery by Greg O’Connell, as reported by Comic Book Conventions.
I’m apparently going to a dinner at The Omni and then getting some sleep tonight. However, everyone else appears to be going to the X-Sanguin V ball. Blue Blood has posted some photos from X-Sanguin IV.
Here is a link to a second gallery of Comic Con photos on Blue Blood. I’m busy shopping for collectible Creature from the Black Lagoon Dolls networking at the Comic Con, so I’m not ranging very far afield for my posts this week.
According to their site: We were the kids that lived down the street that at the age of 8 were putting on haunted houses for our friends. We were the ones that started setting up stuff in our yards in August for Halloween, and the ones that spent more time thinking up how to make realistic eyeballs in the candy bowl than doing our home work (by the way, peeled grapes work really well). We were also the ones who were so sad we could almost cry when November 1st rolled around and all of the pumpkins came down, and we had to put everything away until next year.
Well, it’s 20 years later, and we are still doing the same thing. On just a slightly different scale.
The original name of the group was “The Brotherhood of the Forbidden Grape.” That was before we were of legal age, and the single largest goals we had were acquiring booze and meeting girls. Usually the beer was much easier to find than the girls, thus we pursued the attainable goal instead of what we figured was a quest that would bear no fruit.
Sometime around 1990, the first ever Brotherhood party took place. We decided that costume parties were where it’s at, and our likelihood of getting girls to show up was much greater if we did something really cool. So we built Dante’s Inferno Room, the whorehouse from Beetlejuice. Much to our surprise we really did get some girls to show up, and we even have some photographic proof somewhere.
It took about 4 weeks of arguing, 5 cases of beer, and one long-ass night to put it all up. We messed with it for another week or so, but the bulk of it went up in someone’s backyard in one night. It was by far the biggest pain the ass thing I have ever built. Its a miracle that it didn’t fall down on top of everyone, and kill them all in a single blow.
However it was bad-ass looking and managed to stay up for the 7 hours of the event. Plus, it was the coolest thing we had ever done. From there, every year, it has gotten bigger, harder, more fun, and much more cool. As we got older, our disposable income grew, and our imagination grew with it. Every year since 1990 we have started the planning earlier and thrown a larger shindig. Sometimes in the past we would take a year off and do something mellow since we were burned out from all the work of the year before, but for the post part we would do some type of large shindig every year. Recently we started moving to more than one event a year even though it drastically cuts into our drinking time on the weekends. (via freaksnightout.com)
Blue Blood is going to have a few flyers for my little site in booth 433 at the Comic Con. The booth is sponsored by The Brotherhood. Here is gallery number one of the adventures in that booth last year. Thanks so much, guys.
With Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest breaking all box office records, you would think it would be easier to find naked pictures of Johnny Depp online. I’m 99% sure that nude photos of the swashbucking pirate exist, so I’d appreciate it if someone would email me a link already. I’d also like to take this opportunity to thumb my nose at those who say that genre work is doomed to be smaller than “general interest” media. With $132 million smackeroos, Pirates beat the previous record-holder for opening weekend gross, which was of course another fandom movie, Spider-Man. With $55.5 million doubloons on opening Friday, Pirates also beat the previous one day gross record, which was held by Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The top grossing flick the weekend before Pirates opened was Superman Returns. So I think this fandom thing might just catch on. Subliminal message: hire more screenwriters to create and massage fandom scripts or just send me nekkid pics of Johnny Depp. Either one is good.
On this day in 1456, Joan of Arc was acquitted of heresy. Unfortunately for Joan, she was executed twenty-five years prior. Being a strong woman can be rough. I’ve been sitting around trying to think how this date would be celebrated if Joan of Arc’s acquittal was a holiday.
Sam Sugar, of Sugar Bank and related fame, is a very funny man. His post yesterday on 10 Lies Pornographers Tell had me in stitches. I was particularly amused by “1. Porn stars are breaking into the mainstream” and “9. Art Porn,” the latter of which included the beautiful explanation “Bach was a better composer than Yanni, and Monet was a better painter than Thomas Kincaid. If you disagree that’s not an opinion, it’s proof you’re an imbecile.” Now I’ve seen art which I felt appealed to the prurient interest, or at least made me wet, and I’ve seen adult material which I felt attained a higher level.
But naturally the debate in the comments section on SugarBank is not about the nature of art. The debate is about “8. Alt Porn. Traditionally porn performers get paid a fixed daily rate, don’t get any residual pay and have no real control over the product they’re in. The product itself features skinny white girls from the flyover states who get hired because of how they look and how they fuck. Or is that alt-porn? Janine’s been rocking tatts and attitude for a decade while raising two kids without ever being labeled ‘alt’ anything, while ‘alt porn’ darling Joanna Angel recently said on camera “…does the fact I’ll let any stranger cum on my face but won’t fuck a black guy make me a racist?” Er… yes it does Joanna. A tattoo and a bad dye-job is not going to upset ‘the system’ and the ‘alternative’ to traditional porn is independence, control and new ideas not haircuts, piercings and hip records.” But what about a really good tattoo and a really good dye job?
But the debate isn’t about how good a dye job it would take to facilitate true change. Someone named FurryGirl starts going off about how she disrespects her affiliates and mainstream porn. Never mind that on her site she openly states that the only photographers she would work with are those “emailing from a major adult entertainment company.” On SugarBank, she continues to slag everyone within striking distance with “don’t get me started on how painfully cliche most of the photography is on goth/punk porn sites. Haven’t we all had enough of pale goth chicks licking knives menacingly or masturbating in cemeteries?” First off, I will never get enough of pale goth chicks with weapons or tombstones. Secondly, I’ve seen a good number of what would count as the goth or punk porn sites on the web and I’ve never seen a set of someone actually masturbating in a graveyard. This suggests to me that, at the very least, the execution of such sets can hardly be trite, them not existing and all. So Forrest Black from gothic punk erotica icon Blue Blood jumps into the fray stating that FurryGirl “can kinda fuck off” and “There is an air of irreverent DIY independence connoted by the ‘altporn’ term or label, and I simply can’t accept the idea that traditional corporate product can live up to that notion. Then again, I think that term was originally coined by corporate interests eager to exploit the tattooed and pierced teen market space.”
Once the dust settled, Sam Sugar and Forrest Black had agreed that Janine Lindenmuller and Belladonna have got it going on and the brilliantly insightful Sam Sugar had coined the expression altsploitation, saying, “just like blacksploitation movies had little to do with changing the role, or perception, of blacks in Hollywood. Alt is only as ‘alt’ as the system that produces it and most of it’s as mainstream as anything.”
And I’m left really annoyed that FurryGirl is just a girl from the amateur porn niche who only shaves a little bit and not, as I’d hoped from her moniker, a women who has sex in a colorful furry animal costume.
How very pleasant to be finishing up the week here with news of Fatal Beauties, featuring some nice artsy photos of some very cute tattooed girls. (via SpookyBlog)
I promise you, gentle readers, that I am going to be writing more often than just on holidays. I managed to stay away from the green beer and I have nearly completed a rather soul-sucking screenwriting project. So I should be able to get back to business as usual very soon. Blue Blood ran an entertaining St. Patrick’s Day photo set which inspired me to make a post and share the link for their digital St. Patrick’s Day card.
One could almost suspect a wicked queen is coercing Sweet Amy Lee into rubbing her cooter with that apple, for all the excitement she is showing about it.
I wouldn’t say this is a full-on Kill Bill themed photo set, but I’m guessing I could go to the movies with Sweet Amy Lee.
While the text on this free video clip gallery mentions something about orally ministering to large male organs, Cherry Potter seems to be all girl-on-girl action here.
I was hoping to be snuggling my husband for midnight, but it looks like I will be attending a gathering instead. It should be fairly small and chill and a nice way to start 2006. Before I go, I thought I would share this photo where Miss Bunny and BlueBlood.com wish everyone a Happy New Year.
I didn’t even know I wanted this for the holidays and this is the best gift I could possibly have dreamed of. Blue Blood has come to the web in full force. Everything I love about a number of the Blue Blood sites has been packed into one gorgeous package at BlueBlood.com and you will just have to see for yourself. I’m sure I will have even more to say about Blue Blood and the brilliant and inspiring Amelia G and Forrest Black next month, than I have had to say about Daleks and other machine lovers this month. The Blue Blood relaunch is such big news I had to mention it right away. If you are true blue old school and loved Blue Blood magazine as much as I did, you will know what I mean. This is the real deal.
The Daleks were actually operated from inside by short operators who had to manipulate their eyestalks, domes and arms, as well as flashing the lights on their heads in sync with the actors supplying their voices. The Dalek cases were built in two pieces; once an operator stepped into the lower section the top would be lowered onto him. The operators looked out between the circular louvres just beneath the dome that were lined with mesh to conceal their faces.
Unfortunately, as well as being hot and cramped the Dalek casings also muffled external sounds, making it difficult for the operators to hear the director’s commands or studio dialogue. The top sections were also too heavy to lift from the inside, which meant that the operators could be trapped in them if the stagehands forgot to let them out. John Scott Martin, a Dalek operator from the original series, commented in a documentary that it would have been easier to operate a Dalek if one was an octopus, due to to the many controls involved.
Early versions of the Daleks were either rolled around on nylon castors or propelled by wheels connected to hand cranks by bicycle chains. While castors were adequate for the Daleks’ debut serial, which was shot entirely at the BBC’s Lime Grove Studios, for The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Terry Nation wanted the Daleks to take to the streets of London for location filming. As a result, the base of the costume had to be deepened to accommodate small pnuematic tyres. However, the bumpy flagstones of Central London caused the Daleks to rattle as they moved and it was not possible to remove this noise from the final shoot. Also added to the prop was a small radar dish at the rear of the casing, in an attempt to explain why these Daleks, unlike the ones in their first serial, were not dependent on static electricity drawn from the floors of the Dalek city for their motive power.
Later versions of the prop had more efficient wheels and were simply propelled by the operators’ feet. Occasionaly, modified tricycles were used. Even so, they were so heavy that when going up ramps they often had to be pushed by stagehands out of camera shot. In addition, the difficulty of operating all the prop’s parts at once also contributed to the occasionally jerky movements of the Dalek. The latest model of the costume still has a human operator within, but the movement of the dome and eyestalk is now remotely controlled so that the operator can concentrate on the smooth movement of the Dalek and its arms.
The Dalek voice, a staccato delivery, was initially developed by voice actors Peter Hawkins (who had also provided the voice for the popular children’s animated series Captain Pugwash) and David Graham, who would vary the pitch and speed of the lines according to the emotion needed. Their voices were further processed electronically by Brian Hodgson at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Although the exact sound-processing devices used have varied over the years, the original 1963 effect used EQ to boost the mid-range of the actor’s voice, then subjected it to ring modulation with a 30 Hz sine wave. The distinctive harsh grating vocal timbre this produced has remained the pattern for all Dalek voices since then. Notable voice actors for the Daleks include Roy Skelton. In the 2005 series, the Dalek voice is provided by Nicholas Briggs, speaking into a microphone connected to a voice modulator. Briggs has also done Dalek and other alien voices for audio plays.
The non-humanoid shape of the Dalek, unlike anything that had been seen on television before, did much to enhance the creatures’ sense of menace. With no familiar points of reference, it was a far cry from the traditional “bug-eyed monster” of science fiction that Doctor Who series creator Sydney Newman wanted the show to avoid. The unsettling form of the Daleks, coupled with their alien voices, also made many believe for a while that the props were wholly mechanical and operated by remote control.
Manufacturing the props was also expensive. In scenes where many Daleks had to appear, some of them would be represented by wooden replicas (Destiny of the Daleks) or, in the early black and white episodes, life-size photographic enlargements (The Power of the Daleks). In stories involving armies of Daleks, the BBC effects team even turned to using commercially-available toy Daleks, manufactured by Louis Marx & Co. A typical example of such use can be observed in Planet of the Daleks. Judicious editing techniques also made it look like there were more Dalek props than were actually available.
Initially there were four fully functioning props commissioned for the first serial, constructed from BBC plans by Shawcraft Models (which became known in fan circles as “Mk I Daleks”). Shawcraft were also commissioned to construct twenty or so Daleks for the two Dalek movies in 1965 and 1966 (see below). Most of these props from the movies filtered back to the BBC and were seen in the televised serials, notably in The Chase, which was released even before the first movie’s debut. The remaining props not bought by the BBC were either donated to charity or given away as prizes in competitions.
Those still in BBC hands were reused several times but eventually years of storage and repainting took their toll. By the time of the Sixth Doctor’s Revelation of the Daleks, the props were manufactured out of fibreglass, and were lighter and more affordable to construct than their predecessors. These Daleks were slightly bulkier in appearance around the mid-shoulder section, and also had a slightly redesigned base which was more vertical at the back. Minor changes were made to the design thanks to these new methods of construction, including alterations to the lower skirting as well as the mid-shoulder section incorporating the arm boxes, which were now one single unit, with the vertical bands encircling the casing also included in the fibreglass mould.
These were repainted in grey for the Seventh Doctor serial Remembrance of the Daleks and designated as “Renegade Daleks” while another redesign, painted in white and gold, became the “Imperial Dalek” faction. The new methods of construction also allowed the BBC Effects Department to build non-working “dummy” Daleks meant for use in scenes involving pyrotechnics. Several of these props were blown up in controlled explosions during the filming of Remembrance of the Daleks, which would not have been cost-efficient with working props. (via Wikipedia)
Deck the stairs with amazinging sensual Scar 13 because she is what one really needs by the tree this year, as you can see in this free gallery of Scar13 photos.
The question you should be asking yourselves is “how did Masuimi Max get to be such a sexy hot devil?” as exemplified in this free gallery from Blue Blood’s BarelyEvil.com.
Christine Young is one sexy little lingerie-clad elf for Santa. I’m not sure what he is making in that toy shop now.
My favorite thing about this time of year is the way it induces regular people to get into costume with a fannish aplomb one would not normally expect in mundanes. That Christine Young really is an adorable seasonally festive reindeer too and I don’t mean to suggest that she is regular.
Blue Blood Agent Aeon shows off the circuit boards tattooed under her adorable breasts in this free gallery from Barely Evil.
There is nothing like a little costumed roleplay to spice up sex, so all this talk of Dalek domination may have put the thought in your head that you’d like to try out a bit of that. Project Dalek to the rescue with helpful detailed instructions in downloadable PDF format for building your own Dalek. According to John at Project Dalek, there is something he refers to as the Dalek Builder’s Guild. I can’t tell if this is a humorous reference to his hobbyist friends or an actual organization. Anyway, the site is excellent if you need Dalek construction plans. And you probably do at this point. Disco hotpants not included.
For some reason, the whole Narnia thing makes me think of the Bookworm Bitches site. The news is that this high quality themed hardcore video site now comes with a bunch of other sites for a high value megapackage. BookwormBitches is the only one of the bunch which really piques my interest, but I think it is nice that they are offering such a good deal.
Horror sexploitation splatter purveyers Sinerama have gotten their hands on a limited supply of the Dalek porno video. I mean, the Daloid porn flick. I am speaking, of course, of Abducted by Daloids. They have only changed some of the text on the page to say Daloid. Some still reads Dalek, but maybe they were not using a robotronic super search and replace, but were instead relying on fallible humans. Mores the pity. The pending litigation which I mentioned earlier may be the reason for the half-hearted name change from Daleks to Daloids. Sinerama describes this cinematic opus of litigation-bait as, “Abducted by the Daleks: Five years in the making and finally it’s here in a limited edition of just 1000 (numbered) discs. For obvious reasons this is going to become a very collectible item especailly with the resurgence in the interest in Dr.Who. The DVDs will be sold on an incremental basis (eg: Lowest number first). The disc contains a 56 minute main feature plus a 40 minute outake/alternative version plus a trailer . . . The story centers around three sexy young disco babes who have met the mysterious Anna. As they journey through the woods they discuss the legend of The Serial Skinner not knowing that they are already being observed by a more ambitious and ruthless species of Alien. WARNING: This film contains nudity and some strong scenes - especially in the second part of the feature. This film also contains some strobing effects.” Good thing they mentioned the strobe part. Are they worried that viewers will get seizures like kids watching a Japanese cartoon? Now that would be some humorous lawsuit action.
According to the UK’s Sun Online reporter James Hyatt, the estate of Dr. Who creator Terry Nation is not amused by the Dalek porno flick which was recently selling on eBay for around thirty pounds. The Abducted by the Daleks DVD apparently includes subdom themed vignettes of Daleks supervising lesbian sex slaves going at it and occasionally groping the girls with their Daleky groping attachments. In the article, Tim Hancock, director of the estate of things long-scarfed, is quoted as declaring “The reason the Daleks are still the most sinister thing in the universe is because they do not make things like porn.” So there you have it. Porn is not sinister because Daleks don’t do it. Or at least they only did it that one time in the 70’s with those hot disco chicks and they blame the ludes and Saturday Night Fever. Drug and Gibb-free, there is no way they would ever have had Dalek relations with those women.
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