Archive for August, 2009

Even farm stands are supporting our show…

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

farm stand

Sent by some of our parents…

Chelsea Lately Talking About Our Show

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

HERE’S THE VIDEO (Start watching at 1:44):

If you ask me the lady doth protest too much. I think when she’s in the privacy of her own home she’s watching hours and hours of donuts and pickles.

STAGING COMPANY

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Katie St. Ives is originally from LA (born and bred in the Valley) and she has the tattoo to prove it. When she created her porn name (the St. Ives was inspired by the brand of lotion) she found out it cost $5 to register your name, and she had $3 to her name. Her agent helped her out and bought it for her.  I found Katie utterly delightful to talk to.

Katie St. Ives

And yes, I’m still getting used to chatting to people who I just watched getting penetrated. On this shoot I watched from a staircase and I was quite happy to have the more explicit view blocked by a big column. (I saw a LOT last night on the Girlvert shoot.) So mostly I saw a lot of bouncing heads and feet.  Katie was mostly getting it in mish (that’s porn lingo for missionary) on a table. The table – quite big – was decorated with what I’ll call Home Depot Gothic Revival.  I assumed they were props. But really it was all laid out by a real estate staging company.  See the house is on the market so the staging company makes it look attractive and lived in.  And while they wait to sell it I guess they rent it out to porn shoots and people have sex in between the plates and goblets.
After the sex all was restored. Katie took a shower (cold cause no one really lives in the house) and we talked. And perhaps tomorrow prospective buyers will tour the house and may or may not remark on how nice the table setting looks.

Girlvert

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

I spent the better part of the day watching the shooting of the latest Girlvert. A series about a vengeful, mean-spirited pervert girl (hence girl + pervert = girlvert). Much more to write, but wanted to share a few photos straight away.

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Getting ready to molest the stripper at the bachelorette party

A bachelorette getting ready to shoot

A bachelorette getting ready to shoot

Lacie Lane getting into make-up. She's only topless because it was hot in the valley and she was tired of wearing clothes. She was shooting a clothed non-sex scene that day.

Lacie Lane getting into make-up. She's only topless because it was hot in the valley and she was tired of wearing clothes. She was shooting a clothed non-sex scene that day.

Tatiana Kush getting into make-up

Tatiana Kush getting into make-up

Tatiana, Lacie, Eric

Tatiana, Lacie, Eric

And this would be the back of my head as I watch what the industry would call "an interracial DP"  The DP, as I learned, basically involves a lot of awkward manuevering. It's quite tricky to get two orifices, two erections and a camera to all work together in time and space.

And this would be the back of my head as I watch what the industry would call "an interracial DP" The DP, as I learned, basically involves a lot of awkward manuevering. It's quite tricky to get two orifices, two erections and a camera to all work together in time and space.

The Devil Made her Do It

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

 

Georgina Spelvin and her husband John Welsh

Georgina Spelvin and her husband John Welsh

This is Georgina Spelvin and her husband, actor John Welsh, in the garden of their lovely Beachwood Canyon home. Georgina starred in the seminal (sorry) adult film “The Devil in Miss Jones” (1974), one of a series of films (Deep Throat, Behind the Green Door) that broke into the mainstream in the 70s. It was her second hardcore movie, and on the first, “High Priestess of Sexual Witchcraft,” she apparently wasn’t aware that she was shooting a porno until the cameras were already rolling. She was living in a communal loft in Manhattan’s meat-packing distract appropriately called The Pickle Factory. On “Devil in Miss Jones” she was also in charge of craft services, so when she wasn’t shooting, she was cooking. She also appeared in the Police Academy movies (”I got my SAG insurance from those movies.”) and in the Jenna Jameson remake of “Devil.”

Now retired, she has also published a book, The Devil Made Me Do It, that recounts her career in porn, as well as her earlier work as a dancer in such Broadway hits as The Pajama Game and Cabaret.

Woodmen

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Evan Stone as Kirk My favorite exit off the 101 freeway, which skirts the edge of the San Fernando Valley, is Woodman Drive, the exit I’ve taken a few times to meet some of the male talent of porn. The Woodmen.

Evan Stone, who no one in the industry seems to dislike, arrived at Starbucks shirtless and with his famously long hair gone. I asked about the hair, and it seems that, having refused to cut it for anyone before, he couldn’t turn down the role of Captain Kirk in the recent Star Trek parody porno. Kirk’s hair is iconic, and Evan doesn’t like wigs, so director Axel Braun captured Evan’s Samson moment on camera. I have to say, I think Evan looks better with the short hair. They released the parody, in which finally we actually get to see Kirk getting it on with a Vulcan (played by recent hotshot Sasha Grey).

Asked how he maintains his wood throughout a long shoot, Evan says you just can’t overthink it. It’s the men who begin worrying that they won’t get paid or hired if they can’t maintain who start being unable to perform. A downward spiral.

I still haven’t quite gotten over speaking over lattes to someone whom I just watched engaging in multiple acts of intercourse on my computer screen. Or chatting idly between scenes on a shoot with a man who is completely naked and maintaining his erection while making small talk. But I’m getting there.

(S)HOES, (S)HOES, OMG (S)HOES

Sunday, August 9th, 2009
This is a Vans store in Chatsworth CA, the capitol of porn.

This is a Vans store in Chatsworth CA, the capitol of porn.

Sierra Skye Sebastian Silver and Alliterative Anecdotes

Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Sierra Skye Poolside

Sierra Skye Poolside

Sierra Skye has a sunny personality, brains, and big boobs.  In this job her bust (which is natural) is her calling card. Sierra was the first girl in school to get breasts, and initially she hated them and was weary of the attention and teasing. But at 14 she decided to embrace them and discovered boys around the same time. Having already been first in one category she was the first girl to give a blowjob. And a couple years later her sexual talents met technology with the webcam. On a site designed for minors, she’d push the limits.  No sex allowed.  No flashing. No sharing those boobs. Well, Sierra got her account canceled.  So she’d get a new name. And eventually they figured out her ISP and banned her computer. Fast forward to adulthood and Sierra’s made a few scenes in her home state. Scenes she describes as just awful. She didn’t know what to do. No one helped. They covered her in baby oil which looked terrible. And it was shot terribly. Now in California she’s much happier with her work, especially working with Lynn LeMays and LeMayzing Productions.  Nice to have a good photographer.  Sierra’s career is an example of one of the new phenoms of porn. The talent doesn’t live in LA. They commute.  Sierra flies in for a week of work once a month and then back home.  (Though she plans to move here soon.)  The director Roy Karch, an industry veteran, told me that he just shot a girl who was a student at a midwestern university – she flys out friday, shoots for two days, then back in her math class Monday morning.  Sierra hopes to take her money from porn and send herself through school to study forensics.

Sebastian Silver

Sebastian Silver

This is Sebastian Silver. Like everyone of course, not his real name.  When he first created his nom de porn Sebastian had trouble when asked on the spot what his name was. “You have to think for a second of who you’re talking to and which name to use.”  Sierra had a similar problem. Back home a friend was calling her and calling her (with her real name) and couldn’t get her to turn around and finally just screamed “Sierra!” and got a reaction.  Sebastian is male talent obviously and consequently has a different relationship to the industry and the camera.  “Mostly they don’t see me. You’ll get one shot of the face.  And then it’s just about my cock.”  Which rings true with what many of the cameramen have told me – it’s all about framing.  You’re trying to get the girl without the guy even though the girl is being penetrated.  Most cameramen seem to agree that it’s important to try to get the balls out the shot. “Cause who wants to look at the backside of a guys balls or his taint?”  Of course in many cases the balls are close to the shaft so you’ve got to be good. Sebastian shared some of the things male talent needs to do to break in to the business.  The fans are excited about new girls “fresh meat” as everyone seems to say.  They really don’t care about the guys.  So a guy is on his own. One of Sebastian’s first jobs was a group scene with a bunch of guys and an older woman.  In her 60’s maybe.  With an enormous scar on her stomach because, as she explained to them, she had previously tried to kill herself by shooting herself with a shotgun.  I’m not sure how you survive a gunshot wound to the stomach.  Hopefully I will never have to find out. He’s since graduated from gunshot scar gangbangs, and has worked with talent like Sasha Grey.  In this pic I asked him to give me a badass look. He gave it his best, but said “What’s a badass look.  Don’t know if I knew how to do that.” I figured every porn guy would have a badass look handy, but then again, they’re not necessarily shooting the face so often.

there are gays in los angeles too

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

IMG_0294So while the scene in LA is predominantly straight porn, there are some gay studios and directors. Had lovely interviews this week with Chi Chi LaRue (who has the gayest van ever, pictured here) and Jett Blakk (pictured here with his Blakk Katt).  Chi Chi was way way skinnier that what I expected. He’s lost 120 pounds this year. He’s still a great big gay icon, but a skinny gay icon now. Channel One studios was a great white boxy building in West Hollywood with all the blinds drawn.  Funny I haven’t been to a single porn office that didn’t cover the windows.

And Jett Blakk I visited at his home which not only had cats but two pinball machJett Blakkines, which is still my dream for what I want to do when I grow up. Own my own pinball machine. Jett does “story porn” which made me think of “story corps” that program you hear on NPR where people go into a booth and tell a story and it gets archived at the National Archives, etc. etc.  Maybe in the future we can do a similar thing with porn. A little video booth where you make your own porn and air it PBS.  A tip from me to PBS for their fund drive week.  But seriously “story porn” as you might guess is porn with a story and one of the big questions out here is whether or not there is a future for stories in porn with everything going “gonzo” (no stories just sex) for the internet.  Jett’s adapted stories such as Poe’s Masque of the Red Death. I asked him if stories about the PLAGUE were sexy for gay men. He agreed probably not, so in his version it was the “Red Sex” not the “Red Death.”  Here’s another free tip – a porn version of Billy Budd.  Has this been done?  And if not why not?

Not the Valley

Thursday, August 6th, 2009
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Eli Cross

So last week I had the pleasure of interviewing director Eli Cross at his home/studio/warehouse/every teenage guy’s fantasy life pad.  Especially as a New Yorker used to living in the cubicles we call home, I was amazed. While we spoke in the library on the open second level a rental was shooting some porn… apparently very slowly.  I didn’t see much happen except some naked girls walked around and got in make up and lights (a few lights… like 3… we’re fiddled with)  Eli… or Bryn (wikipedia cites his real name so I don’t think I’m outing.  I also like that wiki cites his ethnicity as “none”) had some hilarious stories and many a colorful opinion.  Once we transcribe all this stuff I’ll be sharing some stuff here. Eli Cross movies are imaginative and hard core.  I thought I knew what hard core meant, but then I borrowed a copy of Upload and now I think I get it. My brain melted a little.  I think there is now a lobe or two missing.  Or maybe I know have extra lobes I don’t know.  I’m not a brain surgeon.  If anyone reading this is please get in touch with me.

Some of our crew went back today to watch some more.  And our writer held a light. I think that means she now can refer to herself as someone with experience as a porn PA.