« Good things and stuff | Main | Attention hog »
Better than a whirlwind
October 27, 2005
Yesterday was a good day, one of my favorite kinds of days to have (and no, I didn’t have hot monkey sex, though that would’ve made it ever more perfect). It included many a titillating moment – interview with a stripper, corset wearing, three girl photo shoot, porn site launch party – but also felt very comfortable and normal. Cozy, even, in that special way that I want my life to be cozy and stable.
I got up and did some work and puttering around at home, then headed to Williamsburg to MK Gallery to see Charise Isis’ photography exhibition, American Stripper. If you’re in NYC, you should see it in the flesh – otherwise, check out the web gallery. Jaded girl that I am, I went in with kind of low expectations, as I’ve seen many many pictures of strippers, some taken by strippers themselves. The show really exceeded my expectations, and the photographs were different and more interesting than I thought they’d be. Charise has captured something really intriguing – her subjects are shown not in moments of faux sexual rapture as in many photos of strippers, but in moments of embodied glory of movement and self. I did an interesting interview with Charise that will be in the next issue of $pread.
Then I went home and laced myself into my new and rather lovely custom corset – I’ve always liked corsets, and I have a few off the shelf full corsets and waist cinchers, but you have not known the pleasure, beauty and comfort of a corset until you wear one made for you. I was rather fixated on the nice job the corset did on my waist and hips, everything was squished in exactly the right ways, but everyone else seemed transfixed by my boobage – let’s just say that despite it being a full coverage corset, my cup (almost) runneth over. And yes, pictures were taken.
After cursing at myself for putting my corset on before getting into my boots, I headed into Manhattan to the Carlton Arms Hotel to meet up with Bella Vendetta and company and do a photo shoot before the launch party. There’s nothing quite like that moment of meeting someone who I feel completely comfortable with, and meeting Bella was just like that, like greeting an old friend. She finished getting dressed and made up so that we could get undressed, and as we were about to commence shooting one of the other models, Ophelia, showed up – so of course we added her to the fracas, with Johnny Tattoo behind the camera. I won’t give away too much, but suffice to say that there was some boot licking and some boob squeezing involved. We had to wrap up the shoot more quickly than we would’ve liked and then hustled out to Brooklyn, where there was plenty of boozin’, boobs and people putting sharp things through their skin.
Although I wouldn’t exactly say I’m part of the community, being around folks in the body mod community is inspiring to me. They’ve all taken chances with their bodies and their lives, with the way the world sees them, and so many have found each other (though perhaps not so difficult because there’s often a high degree of visibility for folks in the scene – metal in your face and exposed skin covered in tattoos will do that). Seeing the way that Bella and co have put themselves out there in their personal and professional lives to create BellaVendetta.com makes me feel like I’m in good company, forging forward into the unknown and perhaps insane land of sex as life and work. Sometimes it also strikes me as funny that I’ve been so careful in considering the future when I think about modifying my body by acquiring more tattoos, while in other ways I’m very bold (some may say stupid) about other decisions affecting my future (that whole sex work and porn thing).
Posted by Dacia at October 27, 2005 03:51 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.wakingvixen.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/407
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Better than a whirlwind:
» download i730 nextel ringtone from download i730 nextel ringtone
free ringtones for sprint phones free lg ringtones free boost mobile ringtones cingular phone free ringtones... [Read More]
Tracked on April 19, 2006 06:20 AM
» anime girls from Jane
world sex guide anime lesbians pokemon hentai free hentai... [Read More]
Tracked on April 21, 2006 12:47 AM
» hot anime from Jane
pokemon porn anime sex anime lesbians anime hentai
[Read More]
Tracked on April 21, 2006 05:31 AM
» world sex guide from Jane
anime sex naked anime anime girls anime porn
[Read More]
Tracked on April 23, 2006 10:12 PM
Comments
Dacia, please tell me that you’ll share these pictures of you in your corset. I am not above begging.
Posted by: Balthazar B at October 27, 2005 04:18 PM
Yes, I will be sharing the pics - they’ll be up on BellaVendetta.com at some point, and I’ll nab a few to post over here as well.
Posted by: Dacia at October 27, 2005 04:27 PM
Your kindness knows no bounds, Dacia.
Posted by: Balthazar B at October 27, 2005 04:47 PM
Mmmm…corset. boobage. Everything Balthazar said, we must have a picture!
Posted by: Viviane at October 27, 2005 08:16 PM
::seconds that::
Posted by: Lioness at October 28, 2005 01:41 AM
it was postively lovely getting to meet you as well. Its a shame everything was so rushed. We need to really take our time and do a shoot. i think maybe we’re long lost sisters or something, but like…sisters that get naked with each other…is that wrong?
Posted by: Bella Vendetta at November 1, 2005 11:32 PM
you are so beautifull
Posted by: martin mk cake at November 10, 2005 11:22 AM
