Monday, January 12, 2009
Technical Problems
Having a little bit of technical issues tonight. I think it may have eaten three comments. I really apologize and if you find any other bugs please let me know.
The good news is that the transfer over to wordpress might be sooner rather later (hopefully the next week or so).
The good news is that the transfer over to wordpress might be sooner rather later (hopefully the next week or so).
posted by Amy at 9:11 PM
4 Comments:
Hello Amy,
I wrote a quite long comment yesterday for the post about the improvements. That was about pictures on your blog. Didn't see it show up, maybe was "crunched " in the process...
Kisses,
Yola
Yola, I think it was crunched! Will you forgive me?
Well, will write it again right now cause I like you. A shorter version. It as about posting pictures of yourself on the site. You know how much I love pics, but this is about you not me.
So my opinion is that so far you have managed to create an imaginary world of it's own here through your stories. You have become kind of the main character of it. This is great. Now,do you always love the movie when you've read the book ? That's the thing: there's more risk here that pictures ruin part of this imaginary world then they bring more excitment to it. Personaly I'm not sure I would be turned on by a shitty cell phone shot video of you having sex in the poor light at the back of a car. You see ? This woul not reflct the emotions the people involved have.
However, I still do think that at least graphically, the site needs some visuals. So I see two solutions:
1. Go look for pics you look on the web and just illustrate your stories with them, even if they have nothing to do diectly with the subject. Just cosmetics. But I'm not so excited about this idea.
2. I think there's something really worth trying: you take sex snaphots of yourself, with your partner, etc...You can even use a camera with a remote control or something, I do this often. Now, obviously, there's high risk the pictures are not very good, which takes us back to the starting point: you ruin the magic. But that's OK because if you use Photoshop, for example, you will find these "artistic", "scketch" or "stylize" filters that can transform the poorest snapshot into a very intresting "illustration". Very simple to use. The result can be a bit like these erotica books with a sexy drawing on the cover. But you can use whatever explicit stuff. Will look a bit like "erotic art" stuff, if you want. No limit to creativity with these and you can take them to the most appropriate balance of abstraction. So here we do have a solution: you've got your story illustrated, the magic and reader's imagination are still at work, this is your own body and your own ceation.
See an example on my blog, post is about "Porn, art and bullshit". There's an example of this. But again, there's no limits to what you can do.
Maybe this helps or maybe not. Took me 15 minutes, so finally this was not the short version :)
If you want, I can show you a few possibilities. Just send me any crappy pic.
Kisses, Yola
Yola, thank you so much for re-typing that. I agree that the site needs images, maybe not for the same reasons that many of the guys do, but I know you're definitely on to something. Every time, I stop by your blog, I really am struck by how much your blog stands out because of the photos and how it really illustrates everything.
I don't know about sex pictures though. I don't know if I would be comfortable with that. I never imagined myself in front of the camera like that, however part of me is turned on by it. Then there's the fact that the guy might ask questions about what the photos are for or would want his own copies of them. I just don't trust anyone enough for that.
I do agree that choice #1 isn't that much fun.
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