Not only that I intended to go to a movie premiere on this friday- a friend of mine already insisted that I help him by moving his furniture into the new flat – and “there is a very special woman I have to chat with” didn’t work as an excuse. Why does all of that have to be on exactly this friday?

Oh well… seems I’m out of luck for the RE chat appointments! 🙁

Yes – I envy you, and yes – this sounds far too good to be true.

A model, falling in love with its photographer while shooting erotic scenes? Aw, come on! Even for Hollywood this is too much of a cliché!

Well, I wish you good luck. Maybe this is the kind of the event to demonstrate that Life can turn spontaneously to the better. Or maybe something completely different. Time will tell.

Actually, this is a point that probably should be considered when moving to another forum software.

I know it that way, that guest posts have to validated via one of these picture codes… I hope you know what I mean.

This way, at least you can keep out the spam bots.

Hey Hywel,

your report was quite interesting. I never really realized that the model is actually defining the picture, and not so much the photographer…

But it’s true, I guess. When you see those modelling shows (in Germany, currently another episode of “Germany’s next top model is running), the photographer basically says: “give me sexy, give me cool…” , and the girls try to give him something he might like. This is basically as specific as it gets.

For me, this sheds a new light on the modelling business…

I guess, to get more control of a scene, you would have to invest much more time into a single shot.

Btw. , several years ago I had a single BDSM tutorial shooting here in Germany. Most of my pictures were pretty boring, a good bunch of them were even horrible… but the few I really liked were these, when the model didn’t pay attention for a moment. They weren’t so… artificial, but much more alive.
This is why I think that bad pictures are sometimes the better pictures.

Yeah, I partly agree. I know that there are a bunch of “harmony” rules in photography, that disallow certain perspectives.

But sometimes I think: wouldn’t be certain pictures more interesting, if they would break the rules?

For example: the golden cut defines in what proportions a body should lie within a picture. If you willingly break that rule, you will get pretty ugly – and sometimes amazingly dynamic – pictures.

Or, why not just shoot the back view of a female body in a photo session?
Disturbing? Maybe. But might be quite interesting as well.

Oh my…
I would have loved to come, but I totally missed it. I had no idea that the chat was today, I just saw this thread.

And I really looked that much forward to chat with you, Kate!

*sigh* 🙁

Really amazing and beautiful shots!

Although I guess that being chained barefoot in the snow must have been pretty painful.

Yeah, I’m with Hywel on that one. This is one of the cases where voting has nothing to do with a fair and democratic decision.

First of all, every voter should know every candidate. Since we are talking about a commercial topic here, this would mean that a significant amount of all relevant voters must have seen (and probably paid) for all candidates at some point. This is just impossible.

And like Hywel said: I guess the total amount of voters ain’t that big. If we would talk about millions and millions bondage lovers, this would be different.

I really only know of two awards that let the publicity decide, and these are the MTV Movie and Music awards. MTV is so well known, and the voters are usually so familiar with the content they are voting for, that this actually works (more or less).
But even the Oscars have a closed Committee.

Nah, I don’t think you can achieve anything significant by participating in this. Let it be.

@KateTT wrote:

Oh I LOVE Alias! Can bring the DVDs down for you to borrow when I come down for the meeting if you like Hywel? I fell in love with Jennifer Garner in that series.

Oh Kate, me too! Absolutely! I just finished the fifth season of Alias, and I can’t get enough of her!

But I’m not jealous, we can share her.
So, the only problem that remains is: how do we convince Jennifer Garner to leave Ben Affleck? :glare

Again a very interesting question…

On the one hand, there are tons and tons of sexy music clips. The whole music industry is circling around the term “sexy”.

On the other hand, I have the feeling that Hollywood totally lost interest in erotic themes. We had a couple of interesting movies in the 90s like Sliver or 9 1/2 Weeks (although I think the latter is widely overestimated), but besides this…

I just went through my DVDs and tried to remember any sexy scene. I really couldn’t think of any. “The woman in red” from the matrix came to my mind, which is basically a film noir joke.

Have I seen any woman in red lately? Any femme fatale?

So Hywel, if you plan to spicen up your videos a bit, I actually doubt that you should take Hollywood as role model! 😉

PS: well, I can remember one thing from the recent past, and that is “Kate” Evangeline Lilly from Lost. She manages to look regularly very sexy, although I’m not sure what exactly she does to achieve that. Maybe, because she is not some glossy Vogue model, but she sweats, she is dirty and she has ragged clothes.
I guess, sexy often stands in contradiction with beautiful.

Yep, thought so too. The green dress is absolutely stunning. Makes a great contrast to the skin tone and the shiny collar.

-> me *smirks silently about Kate, but decides to shut up this time*! :;):

I guess, Hywel would like to keep the upper hand. If you allow all posted instructions, they might be distasteful, dangerous or – even worse – boring.

But collecting suggestions here, filtering them, and let Ariel randomly decide her own fate – sounds amazing! And kinky! 😀

As you alreads mentioned, the Real player is disgusting. Also, I regularly examined strange compression irregularities in real clips – like, artifacts and strange slowdowns.

Altogether, I think the Real format is crap, and deserves to die out.

Since Apple had quite an uprising in the last few years, I’d vote to substitute Real media through Quicktime.

Sorry to hear that. At least nothing irreplaceable has been stolen.

And I guess this burglar was not of the sort like “Female, end 20, attractive, locked herself accidentally in the globe cage before leaving”? Oh, Bummer.