Fey Wray (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} pixiesnakes) wrote,@ 2007-10-06 20:35:00 |
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Arse Electronica
Well I just got home from the Arse Electronica thing. It was good over all. I was hoping to run into more local porn producers that I've lost touch with, but the group seems really mixed, and generally geeky and/or students.
The first speaker was Mark Dery, and I don't know who the hell he's supposed to be, but his talk could have been interesting if it wasn't so overly academic that it became completely useless to me. I'm not operating in an academic environment, and Foucault is nice and all, but I wonder if this guy has had a conversation outside the academic ivory tower ever.
Carol Queen was awesome, as to be expected. She talked about the development of vibrator technology, with an antique vibrator show and tell, and also brought up some ideas about the way people thought about health, hysteria, sexual pleasure, and vibrators as sexual devices. I'd really like to follow up with her on issues of wealth and socio-economic class status and the treatment of hysteria and consumption of vibrators. She also talked about early 20th century pornography that they have in the Center for Sex and Culture archives, and I would really like to see some of it because I really want flapper 1920's underwear, and it is impossible to find, so I need to see more pictures and videos so I can reproduce it myself. Seriously. I just want to sew panties.
Kyle Machulis was also awesome. He talked about technological developments being used for sex toys. He works for Second Life but he also runs http://slashdong.com/ and some other DIY sex toys sites and I am REALLY interested in connecting that with girltools.net because trying to write for that blog is just tedious and boring. How many reviews of the Hitachi wand does the world really need? No more, I say. And I have no clue what to put in that blog other than just site updates, because nobody wants to read ten different models reviewing the same damn sex toys over and over again. In fact just the other day Penny was asking me about finding more toys to review for the site, because she's run out of stuff.
Violet Blue was also amazing, as to be expected. She talked about online privacy and sexual privacy. She talked about the craigslist project being completely legal in spite of the fact that people's personal contact information and pictures were published when they responded to an extreme BDSM ad on craigslist. She also talked about an Arizona police officer being fired because he and his wife ran a small personal adult website, and an anonymous sex blogger whose personal information was released and became the target of paparazzi. Most important to me though, she talked about 2257 regulations. Not many people know about it, and a shocking number of adult industry models are painfully uninformed, and it is something that really troubles me. The 2257 regulations are about recording keeping for adult film, websites, photography, etc that is in theory supposed to prevent child pornography. Not only is child pornography so underground that these regulations are actually worthless for that purpose, but it specifically requires that personal information on adult models be released and available for viewing to just about anyone. Which means that potentially some random person can obtain a model's full legal name, home address, social security number, and driver's license. Most people are immediately concerned about stalkers, as am I, but I think more importantly that this is all the information you need for identity theft. The government is specifically making adult models vulnerable to identity theft, and models are completely uninformed. I personally handle personal information from models when I'm filming, and I have no intention of doing anything shady with it, but if I were to sell the films to another company I would have to give that company all the model's personal information. If I were to send out free pictures or video clips for promotion I would also have to send out the model's personal information. And that is entirely uncool, because just about anyone on earth can put up some blog or little site or whatever and collect free pics and clips for promotion and also collect information to commit identity theft. I predict that identity theft will eventually happen, and that will be what brings down the 2257 regulations.
Then Violet Blue interviewed Eon McKai, and he's just plain nuts. But he did talk a lot about the mainstream industry and the "old school" DVD production and distribution, and that confirmed my desire to go in the completely opposite direction.
I guess I'm going back tomorrow. There were several more presentations tonight, but I was just too tired and I have stuff to do.
Well I just got home from the Arse Electronica thing. It was good over all. I was hoping to run into more local porn producers that I've lost touch with, but the group seems really mixed, and generally geeky and/or students.
The first speaker was Mark Dery, and I don't know who the hell he's supposed to be, but his talk could have been interesting if it wasn't so overly academic that it became completely useless to me. I'm not operating in an academic environment, and Foucault is nice and all, but I wonder if this guy has had a conversation outside the academic ivory tower ever.
Carol Queen was awesome, as to be expected. She talked about the development of vibrator technology, with an antique vibrator show and tell, and also brought up some ideas about the way people thought about health, hysteria, sexual pleasure, and vibrators as sexual devices. I'd really like to follow up with her on issues of wealth and socio-economic class status and the treatment of hysteria and consumption of vibrators. She also talked about early 20th century pornography that they have in the Center for Sex and Culture archives, and I would really like to see some of it because I really want flapper 1920's underwear, and it is impossible to find, so I need to see more pictures and videos so I can reproduce it myself. Seriously. I just want to sew panties.
Kyle Machulis was also awesome. He talked about technological developments being used for sex toys. He works for Second Life but he also runs http://slashdong.com/ and some other DIY sex toys sites and I am REALLY interested in connecting that with girltools.net because trying to write for that blog is just tedious and boring. How many reviews of the Hitachi wand does the world really need? No more, I say. And I have no clue what to put in that blog other than just site updates, because nobody wants to read ten different models reviewing the same damn sex toys over and over again. In fact just the other day Penny was asking me about finding more toys to review for the site, because she's run out of stuff.
Violet Blue was also amazing, as to be expected. She talked about online privacy and sexual privacy. She talked about the craigslist project being completely legal in spite of the fact that people's personal contact information and pictures were published when they responded to an extreme BDSM ad on craigslist. She also talked about an Arizona police officer being fired because he and his wife ran a small personal adult website, and an anonymous sex blogger whose personal information was released and became the target of paparazzi. Most important to me though, she talked about 2257 regulations. Not many people know about it, and a shocking number of adult industry models are painfully uninformed, and it is something that really troubles me. The 2257 regulations are about recording keeping for adult film, websites, photography, etc that is in theory supposed to prevent child pornography. Not only is child pornography so underground that these regulations are actually worthless for that purpose, but it specifically requires that personal information on adult models be released and available for viewing to just about anyone. Which means that potentially some random person can obtain a model's full legal name, home address, social security number, and driver's license. Most people are immediately concerned about stalkers, as am I, but I think more importantly that this is all the information you need for identity theft. The government is specifically making adult models vulnerable to identity theft, and models are completely uninformed. I personally handle personal information from models when I'm filming, and I have no intention of doing anything shady with it, but if I were to sell the films to another company I would have to give that company all the model's personal information. If I were to send out free pictures or video clips for promotion I would also have to send out the model's personal information. And that is entirely uncool, because just about anyone on earth can put up some blog or little site or whatever and collect free pics and clips for promotion and also collect information to commit identity theft. I predict that identity theft will eventually happen, and that will be what brings down the 2257 regulations.
Then Violet Blue interviewed Eon McKai, and he's just plain nuts. But he did talk a lot about the mainstream industry and the "old school" DVD production and distribution, and that confirmed my desire to go in the completely opposite direction.
I guess I'm going back tomorrow. There were several more presentations tonight, but I was just too tired and I have stuff to do.
