An endlessly surprising aspect of Realcore images comes from the fact that most material is shot in homes. This allows to peep into people’s places, look at their forniture, their cupboards, the art on their walls. And more: very often you find other images embedded in the pic, on fireplaces and bookshelves. So marriages, children, grandchildren and friends are often visible (and only rarely blurred out) in home-made material.
The original image was posted in the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breast.saggy usenet newsgroup.
Tomorrow at 5 PM there’s a Realcore show at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, as part of the Impakt festival. Also on saturday, at 5 PM, there will be a discussion on DIY porno with Show-n-tell, Nat Muller and myself.
It’s very likely that the Waag will stream (audio/video) my lecture tomorrow; in any case it will be available as a download in the next few days at this URL: http://connect.waag.org/ .
Just a quick reminder of the upcoming Realcore gigs, that you can catch if you’re in Holland: wednesday, aug. 23rd, I’ll be in Amsterdam at the Waag; the show is at 8 pm and entrance is free. Friday, aug. 25th, I’ll be in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht (5 pm, free admission) as part of the Impakt festival.
I found Babette in the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.exhibitionists newsgroup. Sissy Babette is a 50 yo guy from Berlin, he’s gay and submissive. But things aren’t that simple: here’s what he says about himself: “My tiny cock looks like a fat clitoris and I get only premature ejaculations. I’m not able to have sex with women, last I’ve had sex with a woman at the end of the year 2000. I’m not able to satisfy a woman, I ejaculate my useless cum after few moments in women’s vagina. I’m sure that I’ll never be allowed to have sex with a woman, that’s why I’m a ridiculous, fat sissy since many years.” Babette has a very imaginative and verbal website, where he found new and more powerful ways to humiliate himself in public: graphics with the exact dimensions of his penis, a brief history of his previous lives (and marriages), long descriptions of the free services he offers. It seems as if, for Babette, this public act of digital humiliation is as fulfilling as wet sex.
The disclaimer for the images is absolutely outstanding: “This file is published for Sissy Babette’s public humiliation. Please distribute and share this file on the web as you like.” You hear? Copyright can become part of sexplay, and CC can be arousing.
I found this very interesting essay about the Glory Hole, subject of many Realcore pictures, complete with explicative photos. It’s by Don Anderson, and it’s called The Force that Through the Wall Drives the Penis: The Becomings and Desiring-Machines of Glory Hole Sex. It explains very well what a Glory Hole is and it includes some interesting first hand (pun not intended) information; for example about a “place (that) actually had a video-feed of the parking lot as one of the channels on the arcade so patrons inside a booth could watch the parking lot and see people parking and entering the store. This way a person waiting in a booth for a partner can see if anyone is coming in whom they may find attractive.”
Don Anderson’s point of view is admirable: “Part ethnography, part theoretical inquiry, my research explores how video arcades in adult video and book stores provide a location where desire is nomadic and able to be freely expressed outside socially constructed identities.” Both practical and theoretical: excellent.
One of the new sexual practices made possible by digital photography and the Internet (the key elements of Realcore) is the Tribute: one performs a sexual act using a print of someone’s picture, this act is photographed and then posted. There are many variations on the tribute theme: this one is performed by Marion, a pro-am of many talents (perhaps too many: Marion and her husband run several websites, devoted to different genres, all featuring her as the star); the dick pic should be from one of her subscribers (and the hard-on could have been obtained looking at Marion’s website).
Foodplay has always been very popular; after all, who hasn’t heard the phrase Don’t play with your food at least once? But this goes beyond simple foodplay: this dessert was actually built around the feet. It looks kind of sloppy, and way too sweet, but the cherry nails are simply sublime.
