Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 043 – Emily Fixes Herself.” Here is what Bacchus found.
This image is from the Facebook presence page for Skidtography, the photography business of photographer Jason Skidmore. The photo is found here in the model gallery for Emily Erickson, along with one other photograph from this series:
The second of DMFO’s new pieces running as part of Squick or Squee week. He re-imagines a pulp art execution.
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I originally blogged this image in a post “In the hot seat” at Infernal Wonders. It’s a crop from a cover illustration for the magazine Detective Line-up (August 1952). You can see the whole cover in the original post.
DMFO has a DeviantArt site here.
A larger version of this art is expected to be published at the Internet Archive in early November.
Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 042 – Naked Dave Stevens.” Here is what Bacchus found.
This artwork is called “Amor Alien” and it is by artist, musician, and self-published comic book author Laura Molina. It appears as the seventh image in an unlinkable flash gallery on NakedDave.com, which is the web installation of the artist’s Naked Dave series. Wikipedia describes the work as:
…a series of paintings created by Laura Molina, inspired by her relationship with illustrator and Rocketeer creator, Dave Stevens. A five-month long relationship between the artists ended in early December, 1978 after she miscarried their child at eleven weeks. Molina started the series in 1993 after an attempted reconciliation initiated by Stevens failed to settle things between them.
That Wikipedia entry also quotes an interesting statement by the artist that’s sourced to the NakedDave.com website, but which is not currently to be found there:
There’s something I’ve realized about why these paintings make people so uncomfortable. Dave Stevens is a “male muse”, and an unwilling one at that. The traditional gender roles have been reversed. This upsets the order of things. Women are not supposed to have my technical skill or use it to toy with and objectify a male subject. I do this for the same reason that Dave and other male artists continue to paint and draw naked women….Because I can.
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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 041 – Quinnicide. Here is what Bacchus found.
This artwork, featuring DC Comics character Harley Quinn in a series of increasingly cartoonish suicide attempts, is called Quinnicide. It was drawn by UK artist Phillip M. Jackson (jollyjack on DeviantArt) to a script provided as part of a DC Comics talent search contest. He writes:
My stab at illustrating the script DC provided for their talent search.
This was done purely for fun. I’m not looking to land a gig working on a big-name comic. I’d much rather focus on my own projects than work on existing IPs.
Besides, there have got to be more talented artists out there whose style would better fit the DCU than mine. I honestly don’t think I could work fast enough for them, anyway! 😀
There has been quite a bit of internet chatter about the script DC chose for this, mainly in regards to the oversexualization of Harley Quinn (which I can’t really argue with) and how the script requires her to be depicted in a bath.
Lots of hysterical people criticising DC for “requesting her being drawn naked”.
I’d planned out my page before I’d read any of these comments. She has to be in a bath, so that she’s naked is pretty much a given, but it had never occurred to me that Harley should be rendered in any kind of pseudo-soft-core pose. That’s just not in key with the character that I know.
If you read the script and thought that was what was required, that says more about you than it does DC.
It reads:
PANEL 4: Harley sitting naked in a bathtub with toasters, blow dryers, blenders, appliances all dangling above the bathtub and she has a cord that will release them all. We are watching the moment before the inevitable death. Her expression is one of “oh well, guess that’s it for me” and she has resigned herself to the moment that is going to happen.
Not:
PANEL 4: Harley sitting naked in a bathtub with toasters, blow dryers, blenders, appliances all dangling above the bathtub and she has a cord that will release them all. We are watching the moment before the inevitable death. Her expression is one of “oh well, guess that’s it for me” and she has resigned herself to the moment that is going to happen. We are witnessing all this from a birds eye view. Suds and steam obscure the nipples but not the full rack. Her free arm is curled just under her boobs, raising them slightly out of the water and at the same time squeezing them together gently.
A rubber duck floats over her snatch. It looks happy.
If each panel of a comic tells a story, this one is meant to relay that the apparently suicidal Quinn is about to fry herself…and she’s going to be thorough about it. There’s no reason for nudity to be any kind of hang-up or focus at all, hence its complete absence from my interpretation.
It turns out there was indeed a major ruckus about the competition, and DC Comics was forced to apologize.
We have two kinds of art — all of it specially commissioned for Erotic Mad Science — running as part of our annual pre-Halloween tradition of Squick or Squee week. The first two will be two new illustrations by DMFO, both pulp art recreations. This one is “A Gift to Septimo.”
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I originally blogged this image in a post “When sex came to Septimo” at Hedonix. It was originally an illustration to a story called “The Facts of Life,” run at Future Science Fiction, September 1952.
DMFO has a DeviantArt site here.
A larger version of this art is expected to be published at the Internet Archive in early November.
Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 040 – Mental Switchboard>. Here is what Bacchus found.
Although this image appears without credit in many hundreds of places around the web (especially sites about mental health or hypnosis) virtually all appearances seem to be various crops and edits of this image on Flickr. It was posted by Flickr user James Vaughn (x-ray_delta_one) and comically captioned “…needs more Miltown!” (This is a reference to a once-popular tranquilizer and relies for its humor value on the switchboard operator’s frazzled appearance; one Flickr commenter calls her “the quintessential frazzled switchboard operator of the 1950s.”)
Viewing this image where it appears in x-ray_delta_one’s excellent photostream of vintage magazine illustration, we see that if it is a detail from a magazine illustration (as appears likely) the whole page does not appear, which is a departure from Vaughn’s usual practice. Among the image’s many tags are: magazine, illustration, advertising, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and magazine illustration. This suggests that Vaughn, too, believed it was from a vintage magazine advertisement or illustration; I take his inclusion of two likely titles to suggest that he does not know where the image appeared, and was guessing.
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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 039 – Gagged Princesses.” Hers is what Bacchus found.
This artwork is called dpt5 by artist erikson1 on DeviantArt. The gagged women are all princesses from various popular movies for children.
The artwork is a “gagged variant” of a work by the same artist called A Princess Tale continues:
There’s a suggestion that a blindfolded variant also exists, but I was unable to locate it in the artist’s galleries.
Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 038 – Absolut Tubegirl.” Here is what Bacchus found.
This is a work in the style of the famous Absolut vodka advertisements that always carry a tagline consisting of the word “Absolut” followed by one other word. And sure enough, this is a cropped version of such a complete-seeming ad:
This ad-like artwork is by photographer Caesar Lima, and appears in his portfolio (under “Conceptual”) on his website. Although the Absolut brand has run a great many “novelty” versions of its signature ad campaign, this one seems unlikely to be a “real” advertisement for the liquor brand. In seeming confirmation of that fact, Lima’s list of client brands does not include Absolut.
A bit more digging turns up the interesting fact that the image of the woman in the bottle is actually one of six photos taken by Lima as part of his Body Shades project. The model is identified as Samantha Torres:
Unrelated to these images but of potential interest in reference to the frequent Erotic Mad Science “If you’re pretty enough, you don’t need a helmet” meme, Lima’s portfolio also features this countervailing image of a beautiful woman wearing an Apple-branded space helmet.