Interview: Rachel Sellan

Rachel Sellan

Over the years I have been super lucky to get some great interviews from people, many of them were my friends and I have been grateful for doing me such a big favor. Recently I decided to be a big girl and wanted to try something. So, very timidly I approached an actor to ask her how she felt about doing an interview for the blog. And the crazy part... She agreed!

Who is this actor I asked to interview? Why it was the beautiful and talented Rachel Sellan. I am almost certain without a doubt you all know who she is, because if I know my friends and readers out there then I know you have in the least seen one the parts she has played. Because you probably know her as, "the scene where that woman gets turned into a mannequin" in Silent Hill: Revelations. When after this I want you to say, "the scene where Rachel Sellan gets turned into a mannequin."

Without any further guff from me here is, Rachel Sellan...

Monyca: How does it feel or do you know that even for a small part in the film you have what amounts to a bit of a cult following for your role as the "mannequin girl" in Silent Hill: Revelations?

Rachel Sellan: I honestly never thought that my small role would have such an impact with the fans of the movie. I only realized it when I was at work; A guest came up to me and ask if I was the mannequin girl in Silent Hill. Once I confirmed, he proceeded to tell me that I did an amazing job. Also on my IMdB page, there is a comment stating how I “nailed being a mannequin”. It was a nice surprise to see even the smallest role in this film still caught the eyes of serious fans.

M: I read that your not all that comfortable with being ogled for your body, which on a person to person level is quite understandable. Though as an actress would you say that you find you have some amount of exhibitionism, that you enjoy being seen? 

RS: Being ogled for your body and looks are so superficial but being an actress, this is something that I will have to deal with as my fan base grows larger. I do believe there are many ways people could approach you and some of the ways I've been approached have been a little excessive given where I work. I don't appreciate people drooling over me but I definitely can take a compliment, especially when it comes to my acting.

M: Your body type is quite perfect for the part and I am curious if the role of the "mannequin girl" was something you pursued of were you approached for it?

RS: I was approached by my agent to go in and do a modesty test in front of the director. Modesty test is basically baring it all in front of the director. He then gauges if I fit the right criteria for the role of the mannequin girl. The next day after the test, I got a call from my agent telling me I booked it. I knew this was a big opportunity for me only because of how big Silent Hill was and also remembering it when I was young, playing the video games with my brothers. I knew this was going to be the start of something great.

M: Did they have to do any sort of body imaging to pull off the transformation sequence or was there any body molds produced to make any props?

RS: They did do body imaging to produce the effects. I had to go in weeks later and sit on a turn cycle (nude) as it slowly spun around and took photos every second. It was definitely a different experience but the effects looked great.

M: Was shooting the scene uncomfortable having to do a nude?

RS: Honestly, at first I thought “oh boy, how am I going to do this”. Once I was on set, the director made sure I was extremely comfortable. They had a closed set which allowed me to be in the moment as my character to show the escalated fear as I turned into a mannequin. It was pulled together pretty nicely. I was younger when I shot this but it was an experience in which I learned a lot. Specifically being on a professional set with my own trailer and what not— It was a dream come true.

M: In the Miles Jones video for his song "All Lies" you have a wooden puppet look done through body painting. Is it a coincidence that you portrayed the mannequin girl and a puppet in the video or has the idea of being almost doll like been something you found intriguing?

RS: Miles Jones is one of my good friends and the makeup artist Jessica Grant is amazing at what she does. When I showed up that day, they decided that I would be a puppet. I’m not sure if I was pinned a puppet because of Silent Hill but it was probably just a coincidence. With my experience of film and working with the camera, I believe it showed one of the two different aspects of dolls that I have played.

M: You studied Acting at Niagara College in Canada, what sort of special classes that were offered did you take to help improve your skill set? Was pantomime/mimicry a part of them?

RS: The year I started at Niagara College was the first year the Acting for Film and Television was introduced. All the classes were new to everyone and I believe they accomplished teaching us every single thing we needed to know in order to excel in our career. We had many scene study classes, improv classes, stunt classes, voice classes, even some history on acting and editing classes so we can do more of our own work. I was very blessed to join this program as it has brought me much success and continued friendships that I will hold with me forever.

M: What is your favorite part about acting?

RS: Acting has been a big passion of mine for years, actually about a decade. I’ve always enjoyed embodying new characters and challenging myself by doing things I thought I could never do or be someone I never could be in real life. Having the opportunity to be very malicious in The Sublet was extremely fun for me because I am nothing like that at all. If anything, my friends say I’m too nice. I very much enjoy this business; It is so rewarding putting all your heart into a scene/movie and then seeing the end results, especially knowing that you made an impact on someone else.


M: Is there a role you really want to play that you have not got to yet? Is there a role that you have played you don't want to again?

RS: I’ve always wanted to play that “badass Laura Croft” role or I guess anything Angelina Jolie.  She's had many roles where she kicks ass and takes names and I love that. I’ve taken some stunt classes, so I’m trying to get myself extra prepared for the opportunity to be the lady killer. There really isn’t a role I wouldn't play. The more people you know through networking and/or worked with will always benefit you no matter what. In this stage of my career, you want to take any opportunity thrown at you because, well, you never know. However, if there is a character I’m being asked to play and it doesn't feel right for me or there is some discrepancies about her role I will not hesitate to say something. I’m still trying to breakthrough in the industry and I have not had a problem with any of the roles and opportunities given to me as of yet.

M: Is this the strangest interview you have had, by a blog that focuses on people as statues, mannequins, dolls, and among other objects?

RS: Not at all. Aren't all interviews a little invasive? You’re asking the questions no one else would and hey, if there's a following out there for my mannequin role then so be it! It’s really exciting to think that a small part would open so many doors to lead to where I am today. I am super grateful for all the opportunities given to me from my wonderful agent. She is a dear friend that continues to push me for those amazing roles that will soon lead me to stardom. I am also grateful for you to take the time to create these questions and reach out to me for some answers. It definitely gives me some “I’ve made it” feels. Everyone has their own journey especially when it comes to the arts. I believe I have made some great and horrible choices on my way. Everything has and always will be a learning experience. Through each experience, I will take it all in and use it continuously towards my career to start something magical.

Seriously how awesome is this woman?! Rachel could have took one look at the blog and said nope, but she was cool beyond measure and not only gave me some great answers but some in depth ones. Way more then I could have ever really asked for. If you haven't seen Silent Hill: Revelations, you should, and don't just fast forward to Rachel's scene either! And please show this beautiful woman some love and see some of the other movies she is is in, she is absolutely talented and I for one can only hope to see her in more things... Maybe as more things to.
Once again, with the most amount of gratitude and appreciation, thank you so much Rachel...

Sincerely, Monyca






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Review: Mall Mannequin by Arim

Mall Mannequin

by

Arim

Earlier in the year I read a great story by Arim about being transformed into a mannequin for a job, I am not reviewing that story. Instead I am reviewing the even more up my alley story by him called "Mall Mannequin." When I say up my alley I mean it has a lot of the tings I tend to find enjoying in  my erotica. It has transformation, it has objectification, it has mannequins, and it is creepy as f**k.

I admit I wasn't fully into the story with the opening and the delinquent types, even knowing that they are just there to be fetish fodder didn't really endear me to them. I am not tied to my victim protagonists being a certain type. Innocent, toughs, nerdy, or what ever I don't really care as long as the concept is strong, And after you get a few paragraphs in the concept manifests in all of its glory.

I love Agal and Mato. Most tf erotica tends to have a lot of Mary Sues in them. They tend to be perfect examples of what ever concept they are based around. Even the more villainous are usually a little weak. Very few though are real monsters. These two are monsters through and through. And it goes beyond physicality. Which in and of its self is pretty nice, there are plenty beautiful women already in objectification erotica who transform people, so having a pair who break that mold, all the while molding others, is quite a breath of fresh air. The mania of their personas also is something that appeals to me. I really can appreciate their sense of desires and passion for what they do, one could say I may have a small kin-ship with them in that department.

Over all the story has a few hiccups with prose, but you would be very hard pressed to find me one that does not in the genre, and it takes more then a few bits of inspiration from "Silent Hill: Revelations"  but I recommend Arim's story. It has that right amount of sexiness and creep that just makes me get all... yeah, just yeah...

You can find Arim's story here at Deviant Art...

http://arim.deviantart.com/art/Mall-Mannequin-666608340

And his over all page there...

http://arim.deviantart.com/

Exhibit: Golden Inspiration

Golden Inspiration

Avatar: Rachel Phoenix (rayeanners)

              Lisa Matoba (lisachuchu) 

By: Rachel Phoenix & Lisa Matoba
Location: The Art Gallery of Accidental Entanglement

You ever feel that your most likely done with something, finished with it regardless with whether you want to or not? I really thought I was most likely this way with writing about exhibits on Second Life. With no gallery of my own, well  without a  large scale one like I had before bent on displaying and fostering growth of objectified avatars. And then you see something of such beauty, and your are unable to resist yourself or deny that maybe you do have something left to say.

I have a lot to say about this piece. And all it took was a slight turn of the camera and there they were, a pair of golden beauties. Now every since I first came to The Art Gallery of Accidental Entanglement I have seen a fair number of excellent works by a lot of people., it seems to bring out a creativity in people. I really was very taken with this look that Rachel and Lisa created, I have thought that the mesh anime look heads that have come out are quite photogenic and what they came up with showed both that and more. I was in awe and the more I looked the more details I came across. From the the subtle wrinkles in Lisa's gloves, to the panties around her feet, the harness of Rachel's strap-on,  and the thin straps of her top. All of this added a depth to the golden material they were composed of that goes beyond the shine on their molded forms.

I tried to look at the two of them in an analytical purpose, but I am that way only part of the time. Because the other part of me was looking at them with that part that is most ingratiated by beautiful things, especially those ones that are people shaped and motionless. Tickled this fancy of mine they did. Rachel bending Lisa over, her strap on pushing into her friend, the pair locked in a golden moment of intimacy, Seriously I want to wax poetically about them, but the absolute most striking part of this whole thing was it was Lisa's first time as an object. What her and Rachel developed something that roused me from a torpor that left me starved for more of what they can create in the future.

If you want to visit The Gallery of Accidental Entanglement, who I owe a great thanks to, http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Iva%20Oa/141/185/21/

From the Sculptress: When the Stars Become Right

When the Stars Become Right

It was long promised that there would be a lull between the times of the great demon goddess's feasting and her slumber. Though the moment has come and she has arisen. Statues will dot the landscape, dolls will lay in the corners of rooms, and mannequins will clog the windows of shops as far as the eye can view. Wellfare beware, for it s the return of the green lady.

How is it going my friend, toys, and the things in between? Did you miss me? Because I missed you! When we last seen the succubus she was filled with doubt and despair at the state of her beloved community. It looked as if things were to fall to ruin and the days of objects would pass into history. Well I am still filled with doubt and despair but I am quite thrilled to say that it is not about ASFR! I was so uncertain a couple years ago. Things just looked so bleak. I think I was looking at things through black painted glasses and to me I could see no hope. You all did though. And that has given me the strength to arise from my tomb, grab the nearest mortal to me, turn them into a chair for me to perch upon and survey this great kingdom of ours.

ASFR is the nation we have built. It is a democracy of the people and objects for which we pour our hearts into. I must admit to no small amount of shame for ever doubting it. I should have been stronger, Because no singular pillar, no matter how beautiful the body that it was transformed out of makes up the sole base of it. It is many. Because we are many made of different materials. It is the objects of glass combined with the figures of steel that works in conjunction to make this thing we have to be beautiful.

So what if I am waxing poetically... I have been screwing around for a couple years and this was a long time coming. Believe me when I say that while I have been quiet I have fed off the generous morsels you who create content have delivered, and I have drank deeply of those who enjoy them. It pleases me to no end to see things as they are. I may have had different visions of what the future would hold but I am in no way disappointed. So please allow me to do the things I can do to help you all.

I will not try and lay out my plan for things to come. After all a plan is a list of things that will not happen. And while the in world gallery is gone it does not mean that my love for the objects of Second Life has diminished. I just am now more able to travel about to spread it where ever they may be.

Remember I love you all, whether stiff and rigid or soft and pliable. I Monyca owe you all a tremendous debt,

Sincerely,

Mony

Keeping Peanuts Out of the Choclate

Is something so disgusting that it should not be disallowed to mingle with the rest of a genre? This is something I have constantly shook my head at because it's ridiculous in the way it is usually approached by the person bringing it up. Very rarely is the subject weighed against any possible offense to something you may enjoy that another finds completely despicable.

This is the example I always use because it happened to me as a 3rd party involved.

An avatar on Second Life was posed as a statue that was caught within mid masturbation. A person approached me and told me that this was both disgusting and offensive and wished them to be removed. The person that said it to me was in a male furry avatar wearing both a dress and a dirty diaper.

I was at a loss for words really. I remember just blinking with my fingers hovering over the key board. I really did not know how to respond to this. I had often been criticized for allowing males and furry avatars to be placed and I staunchly defended them because I felt no one has the write to dictate "taste" onto another person's likes, especially in an arena where I was promoting as much freedom as possible. I finally had to respond by saying that they were free to leave if it bothered them but I would like them to respect this other persons likes. This was not good enough for them. It became an immediate attack on decency. I finally could bare no more of this round about conversation. Because indeed this person had been the subject of around a good baker's dozen worth of complaints. I had avoided telling them or really any people I had received complaints about because I was the admin there and all problems would be addressed and handled by me. I simply said that if your going to judge then you need to be ready to be judged yourself.

The above analogy is pretty much part of a larger issue that I see in a lot of the erotic genres. A person has no issue delving into something that they enjoy yet feels totally inclined to be outraged when someone else does it with something they dislike. The biggest 2 kids on the block for this is death and rape.

This is where I take my stance. I am a total supporter of fantasy and letting a person delve and enjoy in fantasies with the clear cut thought of, "This is a flight of fancy." Both murder and rape are horrific incidences that do not need me to drone on about. I think almost all can agree on this, and if not, then I will be straight forward and ask you to just leave now. I am not gonna waste my time defining what entitles either murder or rape, because a sensible human being will know.

But I can not deny there is a large number of people who find both genres within the erotic community to be extremely sexually appealing. If you said eww to either of those then again just leave. I am not trying to sway anyone as to the merits of either just illuminate on a hypocritical stance. Another small anecdote is when a vore themed parcel once moved in next to my own on Second Life. A person I lived with was completely out raged at such a gross thing was there and was asking to have it removed. Here we were engaged in some straight up hard core same sex bondage and this person was on the war path that such a disgusting practice was being perpetrated without any regard to how they may have felt about us. No discussion on what was or was not acceptable to them and the community as a whole. "They do something I hate, they need to be gone." Not to say that a person can not find these things to be an affront to their sensibilities. It is the complete failure to accept that they are allowed to exist.

The biggest cry of foul is usually leveled against the death involved fetishes. You will hear people level the "gross" word at it and say it's disgusting and at times that it should not be allowed because it promotes something morally reprehensible. Those same people almost uniformly are totally turned on by rape and brutalization. They will often use the term force play. Because the R word is often not used, but lets consult a dictionary on this. Without just copy and pasting it and trying to keep it to the least sexual meaning it basically means doing anything by force without consent. I have no problem with people using less stigma associated words but a duck is a duck even when called a water fowl regardless of how broad the term is.

Again nothing against the fantastical enjoyment of said acts as long as they are regulated to the space of pure fancy. I just do not understand how anything can be looked down upon and decried by saying it has no place. When it obviously HAS a place. By the simple fact that more then one person enjoys it and it bleeds into different genres that is a undeniable fact. It is arguable whether at a specific time or place it is acceptable but that can be leveled at anything. Because you can take something that is completely seen as innocent and it could be viewed as not having a place in eroticism. Such as tickling. How you may ask? Try tickling someone who hates being tickled during sex once and see how they react. I can almost promise you they feel it has no place during it.

What the real issue I am trying to hint upon is the lack of acceptance that there will be others who have ideas and likes that may be the complete opposite of what you believe in or stand for. You don't have to engage in them, you don't have to like them, you can even talk smack about them. You just have to accept that there are others out there who do and that as long as they practice it in ways that do not infringe upon your own personal freedoms then there is no real big deal that they do. And don't give me the "I have to see it or know about it is enough." Sorry you had your intellectual box a little dinged up, but think about it as a practice in getting over it. Because when we limit those erotic enjoyments for others. We just are setting ourselves up to have our own tastes stepped upon in a similar manner.

From the...?: I like pleasure spiked with pain.

From the...?: I like pleasure spiked with pain.

Hey...

So like, Hi.

I Didn't think you folks came around any more, but after looking under the hood I found foot prints... And lots of them.

So how have you all been?

Oh cool, that's always a good way to pass the time.

Me?

Yah, well you know...

I ended up closing the in world gallery on Second Life. Hmmmm? Why? Oh geeze, well I just can be... I mean you all know.

Right?

Looks like I better start at the beginning...


I am self destructive. Be it through the various activities I engage in to my own mental behavior it seems I have the desire to see myself in a hole. I either can't handle the pressures of a life that is far to easy to even complain about or I have a strong masochistic desire to just twist in the wind. I would like to say I keep these bouts of self conflagration confined to just my person, but I don't live in a void. Because if you did there would be no oxygen to light the fire, but I would implode, which is what my intention is, but I have learned that there is fallout and victims other then myself. Normally here is where I would come completely clean and tell all of you how much of an idiot Mony can be, I would poke fun at myself for a bit and then I would push on. I can't really do that this time, because in this past 14 month period things have been pretty fxxked up. I would never be that one bitch who goes around talking smack. Well I can be but I am not gonna be that one that has to throw it up on a soap box. Mony knows that she can do dumb stuff for even dumber reasons and no one is ever the cause of an of it, just I am. Facilitated or not by third parties, I still have the reigns. Right? So in the short I had a rough patch in about every angle of the thing we called life and I crawled under a rock.

I want to thank anyone who has come to this blog in the mean time. Whether you are new to it, checking up to see if it's been updated, or if you are one of the ones who helped me start it. I owe you a lot and I can never repay you. But let me do SOMETHING...

The Gallery Lapideus: Mission statement
Ugh... damn... I have no clue what it is or going to be. Since the original concept was to cover the goings on of the Second Life area of the same name I use to run. Now I did expand really quick a couple years ago to try and cover a bunch of stuff in the related area for Second Life and a lot of the internet abroad as compared to my own tastes. When I started to revamp for the "Season 2" stuff I had a much broader idea. I had a lot of positive feed back on the reporting stuff I did so I started to put together a number of articles based around stuff in the A.S.F.R. community. This had lit a spark in me but I really collapsed around the time I was wrapping them up. I think somewhere in the external-drive I have the notes. BUT... I will get back to that in a moment. What I have to decide is what am I going to do with this space. Especially if I make good on dong stuff again. I would ask you all, but your telling me to do my thing, so I figure its about all I can do. In short I have no clue what I will be giving you all, but I promise I want to give you something worth you coming here for.

The State of the Genre
WTF happened? I mean seriously, take a fetish break and when you come back its a cataclysm. Now that isn't a fare assessment really. When I do dig out the before mentioned notes realize we all seen a lot of this coming. If you wonder what I am talking about, let me break it down into three segments,

The Past: Now I would like to say I was around in the good old days of IRC and all of that but really I arrived right at the end of that. If you can remember those days before then or even around that time you will have probably fond memories of those covert fetish searches. Oh it was so much fun, I remember it feeling like an adventure. I mean seriously. I would be up to the most awful wee hours of the morning following links or suggestions from chat rooms. Search engine algorithms weren't designed for our kind back then so we had to use our undeveloped claws to dig through the minutia. If you were looking for a statue of a beautiful woman, well its a good chance you'd have found tons of sites about some well known landmark or an obscure page somebody had made. It was usually a boring dig until you nailed that nugget of gold. I remember when I seen my first photo-manip. I am not to much a snob to say I was in love. I mean to see that others had tastes like that to and they were willing to just give it away to us. We all need to say a thanks to those ancestors because they made this internet for us. Then we got to see the rise of themed sites which would collect the work of those people and deposit it in a place where we could all gather to look and see. I remember being so paranoid over getting a virus I would copy and paste these works into other formats like Microsoft Paint and Word Pad to try and keep from getting them.. After all it was always said that it was from the porn sites where you got them, remember? What am a I rambling about? This has to be your question I bet, so I better get with it. What I am alluding to is that there was nothing for most of us to even grasp onto, we floated in the ether taking wild swipes and grabbing onto what ever. Sometimes it was a story, or a picture, or a friend over chat that we clutched onto. Out of this time a lot of what I call my idols of the genre came up.These titans gave us the terrafirma from which we could walk on to seek out others by looking in places where the goal of those searches were gathered. It was their creativity and foresight that we owe the past nearly twenty years to. I am no archivist and I am no scholar, philosopher yes but those others, no. So if I were to be spouting off names I bet I would have most wrong or out of order. I use to get mad when people would use Wikipedia to tell me facts from periods f my life I was in. Just because you read it on the site doesn't mean that is how it was on the ground. Though I have come to realize that when your on the ground, you have missed a huge chunk of the big picture. We were living it, yet there was way more going on then any one of us could have known. You could call this a "Golden Age" of A.S.F.R. where we got to know so much more about the different sub-genres as well as the definitions that would rise and fall. The sites, groups, cabals, clans, what ever would rise and fall and a number of minor and major conflicts and celebrations would come up. Again I wont try and list them because a lot of the time I stayed on the side lines through the majority of this and generally don't have anything to say even on the subjects where I was involved. Besides who am I to speak about others. If you remember those times when the great sites walked the land and we flocked to certain names because for the first time in our lives we seen those fetishes we loved so much rendered, then you can do what I am doing and look back with a smile. If you don't remember those time. I just wasted your time.

The Present: Now we hit the rough patch. Is hard to say where I can define the present. Because when I wrote this I was in the present but often the present follows a linear path backwards a little while before it hits The Past. I would possibly start the present at about 2009/2010. I think that's when a few of my friends in this life style started to talk about rumblings. Whether it was a site suddenly going offline or that definitions and sub-groups were fracturing the community. It was about then that the the hydra that is A.S.F.R. started to pull at its self. Over those previous decade and a half we had started with a simple kink devoted to robots and it burst into a number of other heads that we would either come to  love exclusively or favor over the others. I know I spent my hours caressing the mannequin head of the A.S.F.R. hydra all the while never paying much thought to he original robot head. I really think a lot of the first real tears began with the doll head. The doll community exploded and it charged ahead of the rest of the body until it pulled from the rest of the heads to form its own creature. No longer satisfied to be one of many it rose into the spotlight. Suddenly A.S.F.R. wasn't recognized by people who were interested in dolls. I can remember when I came to Second Life it was a term almost no one knew. Yet I was watching all of this A.S.F.R. stuff going on. I am not sure when money began to enter the picture, possibly about the height of the doll interest. I know have to say this, art is ALWAYS about money. Because we say its not, but you ever tried buying a canvas with artistic integrity? Art is only available to us as a species when there is just enough to survive and as soon as we are able to make it another day those of us with the artistic talent will use the left overs to create. A lot of those beloved sites and the work were done by people who just made art for the sake of making art. Meaning they did that stuff because the wanted to, not because it was their job to. I mean probably a graphic artist or three was doing it as a job but that's beside the point, what I am saying is, is that it was charity to us. And when stuff got tight all around lots of it was sacrificed for the age old human instinct of self preservation instead of being used for art. Someone somewhere with a good head on their shoulders must have seen this and stepped up and became a patron of art in the doll community. Whether through benevolence or shear greed is not for discussion here but it had the effect off sending a ripple through that community that was felt back in the rest of the hydra. Because suddenly Dolls where hot commodity and doll themed stuff that was suddenly no longer regulated to the niche of deviant fetish. The contrarians of the genre, myself one of the biggest, looked at this and would get upset. Suddenly you have people loving dolls? WTF, I actually loved dolls in an intimate way and now its like totally cool for anyone to be a doll lover. That's more of a personal problem but I think that was felt in the rest of the parts of A.S.F.R. When things began to upswing economically I think you suddenly seen either people looking to see what other little gems were out there that could be lifted up and re-polished for the wider audience to see or the holders of those gems beginning to polish them and hold them up. This made the entire hydra begin to pull in different directions as the ideas of mannequins, or statues, or robots began to be lifted from the regular place of sci-fi or fantasy one off episodes and entire ideas formed around them. Self publishing places like the venerable deviantART and ebooks started to churn out stuff that didn't have to go through the reams of "will people like this" where it would be trimmed to fit a huge variety. I can imagine if you look at the amount of commissions on dA, I bet you would see a huge increase in more then just the genre I am discussing here, Because suddenly there was money to be made.Which again brings out that contrarian, because we had people who had who bled for us by maintaining free sites where our favorite art and stories could be stored who seen the same people who relied on them to basically digitally publish their work try and make a buck somewhere else. That would burn anyone's ass, and you cant condemn anyone who decided that it wasn't worth the effort any longer. One could argue there was still thousands of readers and viewers out their that depended on those sites because simply paying for a website to show posed mannequins or ebooks on petrification was not an option. I would not be happy if I had done it for those years and now the chance that you can sell your stuff that trumps the community. So what do we do?

The Future: Seriously do not ask me. Remember I just ran off for over a year because little old Mony can't be expected to deal with a little pressure. Though if your still reading I can at least owe you a lay out of what I can see happening. I think it is time that we all or at least the ones who can pony up for this stuff. In the modern world its the only way to get new material. Or at least see it flow regularly. We can not expect people to drop money on programs, art supplies, web sites, or anything for that matter without making them feel like its worth it. I know a lot of artists will say they write because they love it and the people who say they love there work is the reward. I do believe in that, but when that person can't get stuff because they bust there rear and and money is tight we can't then bemoan the loss of their stuff. It is my belief, and I am simply hoping they will, they will take that money I pay and invest it into their craft. So when the next Photoshop comes out they can snatch it and improve their work. Maybe its a high minded concept but we all need to be patrons of the arts that we love if we want to see it flourish. The other side of this coin is, we need those artists to come through for us. They can't feed us garbage and expect us to pay. And they have to ensure the product they do give is consistent to expect to consistently be supported. Maybe in main stream commercial industry we can be expected to buy crap on name alone, but in this smaller new arena that will just kill us all. I mean that. Because its on the artists shoulders to ask us a fare price for what they do. This BS where sites ask over twenty bucks a month for thirty new pictures, where half are the same thing in different angles, or ebooks that are around seven dollars for a mere six thousand words is, excuse my language, a fxxking joke, You only mock yourself and hurt us all by asking those kind of prices. Know what you produce and ask for compensation, not profit. IF you show you constantly can put out quality material, then you can ask us for more money, and then use it to improve by investing your craft, and after you have done that can you be looking to turn a profit. You can't see it as if you has a twelve dollar book and sold two being the same thing as having a two dollar book and selling twelve. Because while both add to twenty four, because you may have the same the amount of money but only a fraction of the admirers of your work. Even if you expect word of mouth to carry from those people the ramifications are not the same as a dozen people taling about the awesome gynoid comic they got for a couple bucks. I know this is different then what we are use to. We are use to our Legacy of Timeless Beauty Archive or our Naga's Den fixes. But they are gone or at least not putting new stuff out. Times have changed and we need to change with it. We need to look at the future, because those other two parts I wrote about are not coming back. Never. I want to point out that this is only my opinion, because right now we need to decide all of us together is there a future for us as a community.

I really do love you all,
Monyca Medusa Meiyers

p.s.
Thank yous,

You, the person who read this far.

The others who kept coming back even though the blog jut sat there and sat there. You made me at least write this.

Thank you especially to Amber and Jenny, we might never have known by the way things turned out but I do cherish the time I sent with you girls. I hope you know that I do love you and am sorry for any thing I may have caused. Forgive this moron please. You gave me a soft landing after a couple falls.

And thank you Mistress, only a true masochist would allow this stinging insect back into her arms. My admiration is flattened by your majesty.

p.s.s.

ITS THE RETURN OF THE GREEN LADY!

From the Sculptress: Like, better then my favorite sweater...

Like, better then my favorite sweater...

Normally the summer wall hits and I end up becoming more docile and lounge around hating the weather when it comes to my indoor activities. This year has been nice and cool in my neck of the woods so I have found myself surprisingly spry. A number of cuties have been making sure that I enjoy this weather by being gracious enough to keep my company, and for that I've done my best to keep things for them entertaining.

So I know I have been a little lazy on getting exhibit pics up but I am trying to put together something a tad meaningful and hopefully of interest to my friends and visitors. This first one up fell together so quickly I was left scrambling, but that's nothing new for me.

Monyca

Author Den: Samantha Washborne

Samantha Washborne

I had first been introduced to the world of digital books about 10 years ago via manuals and other such things. Before long I began to notice all sorts of different uses for it, much from piracy, but I don't judge. One thing kept me from really embracing digital books. Nothing beats laying back on the couch and reading a book, in fact kicking back anywhere and doing it is awesome. Things got a bit better when I got the lap top because I was freed from that damn desk to read in comfort... almost.

About a month or more before my old machine went to the great beyond, my friend Sammi Luv on Second Life asked me if I would take a look at a manuscript she was working on. I was over joyed to be able to look at it and read it when I got the free time at the gallery. When I was able to get more regular after the computer issues I got back in touch with Sammi and she showed to me her finished product. I had to have it. In almost 12 years I haven't had a hand held piece of erotica.

Oh those were the days, slipping in the back door of some dingy porn place and making straight for the fetish fiction. Oh how many nights I enjoyed reading those poorly stapled manuscripts and hiding them in more intelligent books and reading them in public. When I seen I could buy a physical copy I jumped at it and I have enjoyed many a night forcing myself to only read 3-4 pages to enjoy the sensation of something I have not done and that filled me with the same wonder the internet did regarding kink.

On to Samantha's work....

I am one of those people that does not like the reviewer to talk about the actual story, I'll just talk what it's about and why I like it or have an issue. Mony "I do try to stay objective!"

The stories put the protagonist through a series erotic self control, experimental, and sexual tests. All this is set to a very detailed but not crushing manner that helps you immerse into the stuff that she is put through instead of wandering WTF? is going on. Samantha's dialogue, both between characters and the protagonist's own internal, is extremely engaging. It's not very often that I can find erotica characters to be that way. It's usually because they are either not destined long to have actual development or they are just a caricature of another mainstream. I'm not saying that there on not some out there because there are tons, I was just caught off guard about wanting to see more about this girl. My final on The A.S.H. Stories is that its is a great series from a great author who I believe deserves praise and her work to be seen and shared. If you love sexy sci-fi then I would recommend you picking up a copy of Samantha's books. I will even go one step further and recommend getting the physical copies if you can over the digital, I know my secret book collection would not be complete with out them.

Oh! But there is more...

With all 3 of the the books that you purchase Samantha has includes bonus stories. The first time I read through the books I decided to not read the bonus stories until I read all 3 of the main. Wow... was that a big mistake. I am in frigin LOVE with them. They have a different tone from the main stories and from each other. They range from the intimate realistic range of a married couples love life to body snatching all in Samantha's tech savvy writing. You can always tell a lover's devotion by the knowledge the acquire on there kink and Sammi is a lover of sci-fi.

Samantha's collected works are:

The A.S.H. Stories
     Part 1: The Assessment
     Bonus Story: Shut Off, Turned On
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1478221364/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1


     Part 2: Remote Controller
     Bonus Story: The Spark

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1478347481/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

     Part 3: Programus Interuptis
     Bonus Story: Time Management

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1479259160/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Regardless of what format you get them in please do and support this great woman, we need her to keep making us more stuff!

Exhibit: Choukoku

Exhibit: Choukoku

Exhibit: Choukoku

Avatar: Jonzi

By: Jonzi

Beginning Date: 4-8-13

When I first seen the Riko avatar with all it's beautiful mesh work on it... I hated it. It may just be the fact it was a popular avatar and I have a tendency to not like things on that account alone. Deep down in I was falling in love with mesh. The potential for it was limitless in the asfr community, and this little cutey would be the one to show me just what could be done with it.

The first thing I seen of Jonzi was a DARLING gynoid she had put together and that alone made me fall in love with her work. More and more she would show me her newest thing she was experimenting with and eventually she was able to show me just how much I would come to love mesh.

When I first asked her if she was interested in doing an exhibit she was adorble shy worried about what others would think about her work. I told her never once did I have some one be rude to the exhibits in the gallery. When she showed me idea I was beyondo driven to the brinks of lust. Such a sexy piece of work.

I also owe Jonzi a huge debt of gratitude for her being patient while I f**ked off. I owe you so much girl.

Choukoku

From the Sculptress: Here we go again...

Here we go again...



It's finally done. Well... that is not entirely true but I have gotten the doors t the gallery opened and have the first exhibit in. Just a couple small but hopefully enjoyable additions have yet to be addressed but I do not think their delay will detract from the enjoyment of the gallery.




If some of you had doubts I would ever actually reopen the gallery you would not be alone. I was not sure it would open back up myself. Life does these things like get in the way, unfortunately this was not one of those situations. I was having a hard time having any sort of motivation, just turning on the computer would take effort because I may have to explain to people why I have been taking so time. And all the harder when I have nor real answer. Though I have finally done it and I am going to damn the consequences and get this done. Because I owe it to all of the great friends, family, and supporters of the gallery.

First and foremost I would LOVE for you to come down and see the great build. The new gallery was designed and built by the wonderful Lita Moraine or Sweetie. Above all else I would say it was my desire to do right by her for all of her hard work and fill that sucker. Between mesh and texture work this girl has gone above and beyond what I could have ever asked her to do. Thanks dear, a million times over.

Ok, no more excuses, lets take the gorgon by the serpents look her in the eyes and get to posing.

Your friend and devoted curator,
Monyca Medusa Meiyers

In case you have never been t the gallery before, don;t remember where it's at, or am just to lazy to walk. Here is a SLURL.
The Gallery Lapideus

From the Sculptress: Behind the 8 ball

Behind the 8 ball


I've wanted to get back to the gallery, seriously. But I haven't felt like it.

I'm not one for forced laughs so if I'm nor feeling it then I'm not going to try and put half a$$ed stuff up just to fill up page space. Luckily had the fore thought to plan ahead a little. Hopefully I can turn on the flow of articles and  finishing off the in world gallery up from this minor trickle.

-Monyca

Interview: Drake

Interview: Drake

2/3/13

From when I can first remember being left unsupervised alone with the internet I was looking up pictures of statues. And in the majority of that time a name has popped up again and again. I have long followed this artist and admired his work in the ASFR genre. Around 4 years ago I made this super well indention'd attempt to let him know just how much I appreciated all of the work he has done over the years and some how he got out of the extremely incoherent ramblings that I wanted to join the cast of Medusariffic. By this point I had dug a grave so deep I was terrified to say anything to the contrary. Today I cherish my friendship with Drake and still appreciate everything he has done for both me and the comunity as a whole.

With further ado, I present to you all... Drake.

Monyca Medusa Meiyers: How did you discover ASFR?

 

Drake: In the early days of the Internet, I was doing a few searches on Medusa and suddenly.  ASFR.  Even in the early days - no matter what your fetish - you could connect with like minded people.

 

M: What made you decide to begin making art for the genre?

D: Pretty much right after finding the genre online; it isn't enough to witness or consume - you have to create and contribute.

 

M: What's your favorite medium to work in?

D: The mind.  While I am currently working with 3D; it is the idea of inanimate transformation that fascinates me and it can emerge in so many different mediums.

 

M: Is there an ASFR style you like more then others?

 

D: For material I am partial to stone and gold in that order; for scenario I like the unwilling victim taken from fear to orgasmic pleasure and transformed at the height of climax.  I also prefer the victim be aware or semi aware in the transformed state; with the potential to be restored, even that restoration is never fully realized.  Something like this.

 

 

M: Who is your favorite character you created to work with?

D: Elaine Blonde and her supporting cast; as I can drop them into almost any genre with a minimum of trouble.  Maxine Midnight is a much purer genre creation; but due to  my decision to wrap her in a very specific set of genre elements, she lacks the versatility of Elaine, Trish, Dee and X.  I think when taken as the whole, the Maxine Midnight stories are better; but Elaine Blonde is more fun to write and create with.

 

M: Is there anything you draw inspiration from?

 

D: Pretty much everything;  while Elaine Blonde started as a straight up spy satire, I have hit a lot of genres - mystic, video games, superheroines, pulp and even the classics, like The Most Dangerous Game. Satire lends itself to virtually any target - one of my regrets is never completing my Moral Majority story, where the secondary conflict is based around a Mary Whitehouse parody taking control of Elaine's agency.

 

M: What was your first piece of work you did in the genre?

D: I don't remember.  The file is over... five computers ago (I have been doing this for well over a decade); so the date created/date modified data is no longer accurate.  There's over 800 images, documents and movies before I moved fully over to 3d work.  (I just checked... some of them I didn't even remember- some of the early animations were hot, even if they are rough work.)

 

M: Why did you make the jump from manipulations to computer generated work?

 

D: That one is easy.  I like to tell stories and I felt very limited in the stories I could tell with photo-manips.  I had to spend huge amounts of time looking for images that I could string together into a semi-cohesive story; and while I had some success, it was more adapting the story to available material.  With the current computer generated work, I have far more freedom to tell the stories I want to.

 

M: Do you like to mix ASFR with other genres, as you did with Maxine Midnight combining ASFR and pulp?

 

D: Yes.  Not just yes, hell yes.  From espionage to two-fisted pulp to science fiction, fantasy; come to think of it, there are very few genres I haven't dipped my creative toes into.

 

M: Why is Miss Miyama so effing hot?

 

D: I genuinely don't know.  She is one of my most popular creations, but one I put very little thought of in the genesis.  Normally I plot, plan and think of the why and how when creating villains.  She is an authority figure (Teacher) who exercises power over those under her charge (her students); which is a very strong taboo, and therefore doubly naughty. Here, I'll let her take a stab at it.

 

 

M: Are there any artists you enjoy particularly?

 

D: Way back in the day; an artist called JLS produced some of my favorite ASFR manips of all time.  I still consider his Bobbie image one of the single greatest ASFR works ever.  CMQ is another great artist, whose work both written and drawn is top notch; the Candy Cane and the Golden Dildo of Midas is still right up there in my top five of all time.  Panic for his art and writing, Argo for doing 3D work that astounds me every time, and many others.  Though truth be told, I like everyone who takes the time and burns the lean tissue to contribute to the genre.  In the words of Dr. Han - you have my gratitude.

 

 

M: How would you like the genre of ASFR expand?

 

D: Outward.  While it would be nice to see some mainstream adult films embrace ASFR (I have been working of a script...) there are now plenty of fetish artists producing short films in the genre; I would like to see more and more people step up and create.  There has never been a better time, there are lots of free resources and tools available and a wide pool of tutorials and mentors to call on.

 

M: Do you have any current or future projects?

 

D: Always.  Right now I am working on a Sword, Sorcery and Sappho Japanese style visual novel game; this is my first time both writing in the Visual Novel format, and learning the particular program I am using, so it is a lot of fun.   I have multiple issues of Medusariffic going, and have plans for completing the current Maxine Midnight story arc and starting up another one.  Somewhere along to line I would also like to start taking commissions, or perhaps do some for-pay projects; but I still haven't figured out how I am going to fit it into my current schedule.

 

All the best,

Drake

How can I thank Drake enough for what he did for this interview. He is always going above and beyond my expectations. Please go out and give Drake some love through his web site or any place you see his name.

http://www.medusariffic.com/

http://drakedrakedrake1.deviantart.com/

From the Sculptress: Season 2

From the Sculptress: Season 2

Hello my friends and welcome back to The Gallery Lapideus, I am your hostess Monyca Medusa Meiyers. But please call me Mony all of my friends do.

So I bet you thought the good ol'gallery was finished didn't you? Well I think it and me still have a little bit of life left in us and after some rejuvenation we are both back for a new season. What is "Season 2"? You might ask. A gimmick, a way for me to get people's attention and see if I still have relevance. It may or may not work but I am willing to give it a try. Though it is more then just that, it is after all a new start to the gallery, the blog, and myself in this. I get to come back with all the things that people loved and what worked and possibly trim the fat a little and do away with what didn't work. Without further ado, let's begin.

2012
The previous year was both a blessing and a curse for me.

The Blessing
When I had first thought up the idea of the gallery I was more or less hoping to attract some of my fellow SL residents who I knew loved ASFR. It was my hope that I could possibly get one or two to set up a box or post and hang out with me. I was floored by the response, not just floored but driven into it (see below for how this would effect me) by all the responses I got from people. Within days of opening up I was flooded with requests from people who wanted to be an exhibit. When I had first tumbled this concept in my mind I had never even figured anyone other then my friends would come, but come they did. People from all around the grid would eventually begin to make their way to the gallery to look at both the collections of artwork I had gathered for the walls and the avatars who made up the exhibits. In a short time I would be meeting some of the most talented and best people I would ever meet on SL. So many people were either on board or supportive to the idea and I was often praised for my project. I was thanked for what I was doing for the community or for introducing others to it. That really did feel nice because it wasn't often that I felt I had accomplished much on SL. In fact after over five years just prior to the opening I was a little on the fence about remaining active on it due to the drain it was putting on me emotionally at times. Little did I know this drain was about to be unclogged.

The Curse
I do not do well with success. In fact I do not do well with being the person that others are looking to for anything. I just have the terrible tendency to either shrink from it when the going gets tough or spread myself way to thin. I think I did a little of both. At first I was gung-ho on making sure the gallery was a nice place to be for people to come and relax and take in all of the ASFR work from so many of my friends across the net and possibly show off their own work. It would be very soon that I would realize just what a mountain I was climbing. Within the month I was busy either explaining the premise of what the exhibits were or setting up space for them. Now I did try and keep some strict rules about what I would or would not do/allow. How quickly I would be bending and breaking them. At first I was the one who would be taking most of the punishment, many many nights were stretched way to far and I was worn very thin. But hey, only I was really being hassled by this. Around here is the big oops I should never have done. I begin to "play" with a number of exhibits in the gallery. This would come back to bite me. Because I should have been following my mission statement and not my erogenous zones. This was way unprofessional. Because while I was saying the gallery was not for play I was showing that it indeed was. Combine this with me caught in the never ending cross fire of IM's, maintaining the gallery, and trying to stay sane. Something was bound to give, and unfortunately many of my relationships that had blossomed from the gallery would be the things to give. Next would be my sanity.

So I must say thank you and that I am sorry in the same breath, because I owe a lot to all of you. I mean this from the depths of my heart.

And on to the changes
What are they gonna be? Well for the most it is a stream line of the over all concept. I want to make it a little less of a cumbersome experience to the guests and to myself. I want to make the experience enjoyable to myself because without me being happy at it I can't expect to make others happy as well. Here is a list of some of the changes to be expected.

A new building for the gallery
This was something a number of my friends had suggested to me around the end of the summer. The original warehouse design I had selected was a nice low prim and well made design that I think had a uniqueness that  fit my style. Towards the end I was seeing some issues with the layout that I am hoping will be taken care of in the next build.

Fixing the wall frames
The wall frames were a good idea that I copped out on. I was rushing towards the end and the frames were one of those things I had planned on doing more with. So I ended up just using some freebies I had collected at some point. I am hoping the next round will be more thought out.

Limits on exhibits
I want to be able to show case the exhibits a little more so combined with the change of the frames I want to make the exhibits an attraction and not a filler for space. I want the people who take their time to do this to feel they are special and not just "working" on SL.

Getting rid of the things that are just not working
There just was somethings that did not seem to pan out like I was hoping. Either through my own lack of pushing it or through lack of interest. I decided to pull a couple things due to this and have either just get rid of it all together or move it to the blog. The Erotica Library will be one of the things I have decided to get rid of. This was a hell of a chore for me to copy and paste all the stories while contacting authors for permission  I quickly burned out and never re-ignited on this. The Artist Corner is something that I am removing from the inworld gallery and moving to the blog. This is something I have mixed feelings about. Because this was undoubtedly one of the things I got tons of comments on but it was requiring I rely on others to facilitate. So I have decided to move it to the blog with some changes I feel you all may enjoy. Seating Areas are somehing that I had tons of interest in, but when it came down to it, I never seen utilized unless people were being directed to it. So I have decided to put a couple in somewhere but I am more then happy to leave my good neighbors at the World Of Kink to be the social spot and if you need a place to sit I recomend thm for sure.

The blog is getting it's own tweaks
This is MOSTLY me trying to maintain some sort of schedule and not do it in tangents when things interest me. I can not say if or when this will happen but I am looking to implement this, maybe... The other is the moving of the Artist Corner to the blog to better take strain off from having contributors worry so much. I am also adding a pair of media articles to better break up the Review articles I had written before. Since a review is in a sense a critique of the subject I thought it was better I not review the work of others and leave that to products that I am trying to show to everyone. Because showing the pros and cons of a device is different then talking abut what I may or may not like about someones work.

That's about it for what this new spin on The Gallery Lapideus has in store. Of course this is not all there is because without a doubt I will change more, not do others, and in general need to hold some things from you to keep you coming back, right?

Some thanks I most definitely owe

The first and biggest goes to... YOU! It has been ever set of eyes conected to  brain behind it that have done me the great privilege of taking your time to either visit the inworld gallery or read this blog. And in a lot of cases doing both. Kudos to you. When I was close to giving up on this it was the tought of disapointing you that made me get off my rear and do what I owed.

Kris Shiras
What can I say other then the inworld gallery and, in my opinion, one of the best transformation and doll sims on the entirety of the grid would not exist with out her gracious commitment to The Doll Works. Support her, tell her that she is a goddess to us for what she does, because she is. I know I hold her in esteem for it.Thank you Kris.

Roen Fardel
My best friend, partner, and lover has been way to good to me and understanding while I have delved into this passion of mine. Without her I would have never made it this far. I love you Mistress.

Auroro (ladyph4antom)
We had been acquainted for a number of years prior to the gallery and her coming to SL even if she doesn't recall but she helped me to see the gallery was something others liked and respected and not just me deluding myself into feeling I was on a sinking ship. Thanks for the prospective.

Sweetie (Lita Morane)
There is nothing I can say except, WOW! This girl went above and beyond what I was expecting with her exhibits. I have had some great works done by a number of people who I have valued but I will always think of Sweetie's stuff with a point of pride to have been honored to show. It is one of my best rewards on SL to date.

PetrifiedOne
Passion and commitment are rarely paired together. I know they are mutually exclusive in my own case, but I was thrilled to find them combined in her. Thanks hun for being there for me.

Dani (lilihanah)
This girl has been in and out of the gallery from day one! I can't even compare the amount of times we have spoken to others, because even if she wasn't an exhibit I will admit I often thought of her as a fixture. Your support has been a pillar.

PLEASE, anyone who I did not mention I in no way value these people any more then you, each one of you has done as much and in some cases more to make The Gallery Lapideus what it is. I may do most of the heavy lifting but it would be another collection of prims had you all not made it your hang out. I hope I can return the love you have showed in kind.

Thank you everyone, lets enjoy this new season of the gallery together.

Your friend and gallery curator,
Mony