Tumblr favorite #1812: Naked Dave Stevens

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.

Tumblr favorite #1811: Quinnicide

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.

Tumblr favorite #1810: Mental switchboard

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.

Tumblr favorite #1809: Tube girl princesses

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.

Tumblr favorite #1807: Pixilated woman

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 037 – Pixelated Breasts.” Here is what Bacchus found.

This animated .gif on Tumblr sources back to this Tumblr post on what turns out to be the artist’s Tumblr blog. The tag there is “Toxic Super Freakout” and although that’s not hugely illuminating, the artist Max Capacity has a web store in which it appears he’s sold a series of eight deliberately-obsolete VHS videotapes under that title, featuring his imagery and the music of The TV People. It is unclear which of the eight tapes may have featured the frames in this .gif. There’s an article at The Creators Project that attempts — with only partial success in my view — to explain what Max Capacity is up to:

Many of his GIFs and videos, whether commissioned or simply personal, feature samples from VHS tapes and typical 80s iconography. MAX CAPACITY grinds them into a patchwork of colorful and lo-fi pixels, reminiscent of early 1990s net art and Zahid Jiwa videos. Much like his brethren who populate this semi-anonymous artistic scene, MAX CAPACITY is a devoted internet user. His visuals can be found on Flickr, and he has over 270 videos (and counting) on Youtube and Vimeo pages. Mostly, these videos consist of 15 second loops in bright, neon and acidic hues, grainy and pixelated but gorgeous as hell. He also maintains a loosely organized clutter on Tumblr. Beyond this chaotic work-in-progress, MAX CAPACITY has recently dabbled in some musical projects…

Thus it seems likely that the nude in this image is not Max’s original work, but is a sample from an unknown video that Max has pixelized, colored, illuminated, and whatnot. A considerable sampling of his Toxic Super Freakout videos can be found on YouTube, but they seem not to be labeled in a way which would hint at which samples are from which videos.

Tumblr favorite #1806: Sexy R2 unit

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 036 – Sexy R2 Unit.” Here is what Bacchus found.

A commenter on an Imgur appearance of a slightly photoshopped version of this photo (one that artificially accentuates the visible portion of butt-cheeks) identifies this as a photo of Meg Turney, who is a cosplayer and internet personality. Although that’s a somewhat sketchy attribution to be sure, it’s given some additional weight by this stock photo of her appearing in the same R2-D2 dress at something called the Streamy Awards. Too, these Pinterest posts ( 1 2 ) feature demure-ish selfies of her in a closet in the same dress.

For interest, there is an entire Pinterest board devoted to women wearing versions of the R2-D2 dress. While browsing it, I discovered a captioned version of the subject photograph that asks the question you were probably asking also:

Tumblr favorite #1805: B-movie splashes

Original post here. These images were researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 035 – B-Movie Splashes.” Here is what Bacchus found.

These lovely, surreal, and futuristic photographs are 10 of 13 shots for a 2012 advertising calendar created by Dubai-based Indian photographer Tejal Palatni. The additional three are these:

The calendar site (a portfolio on Behance, a site for connecting freelance artists with work) offers all thirteen pictures in much higher resolution. The calendar was created for fashion brand Splash, and is explained thusly:

Heavily influenced by B-movie sci-fi clichés, the calendar asks: are we destined to revisit our same life choices, or will we truly create a new beginning?

For more information about the photographer, see this recent profile in ADL (Art – Design – Life) magazine. In it, Patni reveals that he learned to achieve the high contrast in his photos by shooting under mercury vapor lights from railway stations:

The reason I got noticed was only because (I had very little knowledge of light) I knew how to capture what looked good to my eye, so I started pushing black and white films to the max-3, 200-6,400 ASA and shoot my friends who posed as models under railway station (Mercury) lamps. I experimented a lot with those lamps and became quite an expert at shooting high contrast pics. Maybe that is one reason, my pics still remain dark.

Tumblr favorite #1804: Spacegirl tentacles

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 034 – Spacegirl Tentacles. Here is what Bacchus found.

This artwork is by Japanese artist Kurono, whose Facebook page identifies him (?) as an “artist, illustrator, and graphic designer in Japan.” He has a web page here, which offers this additional information in English:

After having been employed as a designer of videogames, and as a designer for a record label, KURONO is currently doing free-lance artist in Tokyo, Japan. That style is to begin with a cute character and then poison it somehow with an eccentric and unexpected twist that morphs something normal into something abnormal. Blending cute elements or characters with weird, poisonous twists can produce fascinating artwork.

KURONO has done various designs for Tees, CD jacket, flyer, poster, and more. “It is my hope that many people will look at my stuff and find the unique and interesting element that lies within.”

Kurono has an extensive profile online at Behance, which is a sort of online portal for freelance artists and people seeking to obtain their services. This particular artwork is shown there under the title Spaceage Mystic Order, and is the first in a “series of self-produced posters”. Several more posters in the series can be seen at that same link. It appears from photos on a couple of gearhead blogs in Japanese that these posters have been marketed at Japanese auto/bike shows. A version of the artwork is also planned to feature in an upcoming set of stickers.

Tumblr favorite #1803: X-ray love

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 033 – X-Ray Love.” Here is what Bacchus found.

The source Tumblr post for this image tags it “Derek Yaniger” which is consistent with the visible “Derek” signature. The artist’s web page is here, and there’s an entertaining bio written in a sort of retro Beatnik jive. This image appears on the artist’s website along with a news item announcing that it was released as a “jumbo sticker” called X-Ray Love. It also appeared in an article about the artist in the Brazilian Playboy.

Tumblr favorite #1802: Aliens need teen girls

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 032 – Aliens Need Teen Girls. Here is what Bacchus found.

This is a poster for Night Caller From Outer Space, a movie which (according to Wikipedia) was also released as The Night Caller and Blood Beast From Outer Space. This 1965 British movie is based on the novel The Night Callers by Frank Crisp. The plot features aliens from Ganymede who kidnap teen Earth girls for breeding purposes. There’s a detailed and sympathetic review of the movie here that offers comparative information on the different available DVD versions. Horrorpedia offers additional information, and another review here offers this view of the magazine the aliens placed bogus modeling ads in to lure the girls to their alien breeding doom:

Here’s a larger view of the similar artwork on the poster for the “Blood Beast” version, at least one of which is available for sale:

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