Friday, November 06, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
They Shoot Porn Stars, Don't They?
Today marks the debut of "They Shoot Porn Stars, Don't They?," a text-and-photo essay about the adult movie industry and the recession.
Originally, I wrote it for a publication, but I subsequently pulled it. When no other publication expressed an interest in publishing it, I decided to self-publish it.
The site was designed and illustrated by the talented Chris Bishop, who created the infamous Barack Obama Riding a Unicorn T-Shirt.
"In this canon, the real subject is not human sexuality but humanity itself. The products that Jim produces are videotaped vivisections, studies in which homo sapiens lie upon the operating table, the director is the doctor, the camera is the scalpel, and the only question worth asking is, How far will we go if we are pushed to our limits?""They Shoot Porn Stars, Don't They?"
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"Bold and ambitious." -- Boing Boing
"Brilliant." -- Warren Ellis
"Ms. Breslin has changed the way I think about the business of making pornography." -- Metafilter
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3/1/10: 1,000,000+ page views.
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True/Slant: "Dirty DIY: Self Publishing A Treatise On Porn Valley, USA"
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