Naked City: Ten Weeks In

I know it’s been radio silence over here on Waking Vixen, but I’ve been keeping busy working on Naked City, my blog for the Village Voice. This is the blog’s tenth week, which means that I’ve not only written more than 200 blog posts, but that I’ve now shot and edited 10 episodes of Naked City TV. I’ve learned a lot from shooting the show, and it’s taken me on interesting adventures. Here’s a wrap-up of all the episodes of Naked City TV so far. This week’s episode, an interview with renowed fetish photographer and obsessive collector Eric Kroll, is in the video player at the top, for everything else you’ll have to click through to Naked City to watch, I didn’t want to clutter this page with ten video players.

Babeland Brooklyn Before Opening Day - June 2, 2008. Naked City TV got a personal tour of Babeland’s new Brooklyn site just days before opening, with co-founder Claire Cavanah, who helps us to imagine how the construction site will become home to a new sex positive mecca in Park Slope.

Michele Capozzi: Tour Guide to NYC’s Underground - May 26, 2008. In this episode of Naked City TV, Michele Capozzi ruminates on the ways sex in New York has changed since he moved here in 1978. We also get a peek at a piece of Manhattan not many people know about, the boat basin off the Upper West Side - which is where Michele calls home.

GrappleDen: Underground Erotic Wrestling Club - May 19, 2008. Naked City paid a visit to the GrappleDen party in Hell’s Kitchen, where a mix of competitive, exhibition, fetish, and just plain fun wrestling matches take place one Wednesday night every month. They may have silly (and skin-baring) costume themes, but their training and enthusiasm for grappling is real.

Inside Fred Harper’s Painting Studio - May 12, 2008. Fred Harper’s pop surrealist paintings burst off the canvas with a blast of color, machinery, and sex. Naked City TV paid a visit to his studio in Williamsburg to get a sneak peek of the work he’ll be presenting at his upcoming show at Last Rites Gallery.

Bondage Bed Design in Williamsburg - May 5, 2008. Furniture designer Sullivan Walsh crafts one of a kind pieces out of his studio in Williamsburg. In this episode, we visit the workshop where all the magic happens.

SoHo Theater Stages a Stripper’s History of the World - April 28, 2008 This episode features clips from the stage production of Heather Woodbury’s one-woman show “The Last Days of Desmond Nani Reese: A Stripper’s History of the World,” as well as an interview with Woodbury.

A Tour of San Francisco’s Center for Sex and Culture - April 21, 2008. In this episode, Carol Queen and Robert Lawrence introduce the Center for Sex and Culture, it’s mission, and it’s brand new facility.

Sex 2.0 Brings the Internet’s Sex Nerds to Atlanta - April 14, 2008. On April 12th, sex nerds from all over the country gathered at BDSM community space 1763 in the city of Atlanta for Sex 2.0, an unconference that explored the intersection of social media, feminism, and sexuality. In this episode of Naked City TV, several participants from the conference talk about why they went to Sex 2.0.

The Porno Jim Show - April 7, 2008. This episode shines the spotlight on The Porno Jim Show, a live comedy act in which Porno Jim delivers the dirt on how to find good porn, offers up some of his faves, and supplies plenty of laughs with examples of some of the stranger porn available.