Tumblr favorite #1884: Cyborg digestion

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My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 053 – Interrupted Cyborg Digestion. Here is what Bacchus found.

According to the FemBot Wiki, this artwork is by the artist Subaku. The art is very much similar in style to the dozens of Subaku-tagged works here.

Subaku was profiled in some detail at Hedonix along with two similar artworks. This page offers Pixiv, Tumblr, and Twitter links for the artist.

Tumblr favorite #1883: Cyborg in progress

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My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 051 – Cyborg In Progress. Here is what Bacchus found.

This artwork is visibly captioned “Sasha Frantseva 2014”. The artist Sasha Frantseva is known as sashafranz on DeviantArt, where she identifies herself as a professional digital artist from the Ukraine, and where this artwork appears in her gallery with “Doc 2.0” for a title. She identifies it as a better version of this art:

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The artist has a Tumblr where she lists some of her other web presences. There is also a defunct artist page and gallery here that gives her name as Sasha Malashenko.

Tumblr favorite #1882: Use solvents with caution!

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My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 052 – Clothing-Specific Solvent ‘Accident’.” Here is what Bacchus found.

The artwork above is a cropped version of a taller page:

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There is a medallion in the lower right of the image that includes “Natsuhiko” which is appears to be (and is) the name of the artist. A much larger version of the artwork (2325×3377) is linked from a page here that confirms Natsuhiko as the artist. An artist profile for Natsuhiko (夏彦) leads us to the artist’s Pixiv presence and thence to his blog in Japanese.

At one site where the image is found, it’s identified as belonging to an image pool called “Dengeki Moeoh 2013-02”. It seems likely that this refers to, and thus that the image was published in, the 2nd issue from 2013 of the manga magazine Dengeki Moeoh, which Wikipedia identifies as a bimonthly special edition of the related magazine Dengeki Daioh.

Tumblr favorite #1881: Exotic pixel dancer

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My original tumblr post was here. This animation was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as Here is what Bacchus found.

The source Tumblr post in this animation’s Tumblr chain of attribution is at a Tumblr blog called “SOME WANEELLA’S PIXEL ART” which gives every appearance of being the artist’s blog for posting original artwork. Many animations in similar style (including some with “Waneela” in the design and some with very similar computer panel animations) may be found there.

Although little information about artist Waneella is available, one blogger has opined:

Visually, Waneella’s animated pixel art is an intentional retro callback to video games made in the 80s and early 90s. Conceptually, the images honor a time past; these images are a love letter to past days, when imagination was encouraged, respected, and rewarded.

Tumblr favorite #1880: Where are Asimov’s laws when you need them?

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My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 049 Robot Gangbang.” Here is what Bacchus found.

This image appeared on page 11 of Penthouse Comix 9 (September/October 1995) as part of that magazine’s second annual Damsels In Danger Spectacular. It may be seen to be titled “Iris Dewey, Lady Lawyer” and signed “Johnson 95”.

According to ComicBookDB, the “Johnson” signature corresponds with Dave Johnson, aka ‘Reverend Dave’ and/or Cornelius, whose credits include “Penthouse Comix #9 – ‘2nd Annual Damsels in Danger Issue’. His defunct-since-2009 website may be seen in the Internet Archive, and he maintains a presence on DeviantArt. ComicsVine lists him as a prolific artist with 795 artist credits.

In confirmation of this attribution, the previous page in Penthouse Comix 9 contained the following image, which shows a fragment of the same artist’s signature lower right and is captioned “Cybersex by Dave Johnson”:

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For a comic book artist so prolific, it’s curious how little biographical information seems to be available on the web. His Blogger profile lists six (!) different blogs he maintains or has maintained, along with this self-description: “Just a cover artist/animator commenting on what he thinks are good and bad cover designs. Oh yeah, he’s a multi-Eisner and Harvey award best cover artist nominee and even won once.”

Tumblr favorite #1879: Can’t resist pretty girls like us

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My original tumblr post was here. These animations were researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 048 The Rubber Mask Reveal.” Here is what Bacchus found.

The source Tumblr post in this image’s chain of Tumblr attribution offers these two tags: “#ULTRAMAN #TOKUSATSU”. According to Wikipedia Ultraman (variously ウルトラマン or Urutoraman) was a Japanese sci-fi television show in the tokusatsu style that aired in 40 episodes in 1966 and 1967.

From the Wikipedia summary there appears to have been only one regular female character on the show, played by actress Hiroko Sakurai (樱井浩子). An image of her found here looks sufficiently similar to the girl in the animations for me to tentatively conclude that she is indeed the actress seen wearing the rubber alien mask:

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Tumblr favorite #1878: Deathray Trail

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My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 047 – Deathray Trail.” Here is what Bacchus found.

This is not an actual movie poster but is rather (according to the artist) one of artist Mike Mitchell’s first gallery pieces. He writes:

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This was one of my very first gallery show pieces ever! When I lived in Madison, WI in 2007 I was asked to be in a show where we took old movie lobby cards and painted over them. I did two. It was a neat idea, but in the end hardly anyone showed up. I still sold a couple prints, but the curator disappeared shortly after and never paid anyone or returned their leftover work. Ohhhhhh art.

The artist’s web site is here, with a gallery where the artwork also appears.

Sadly, there seems to be no information available on which lobby cart was painted over. There also seems to be no discoverable information that any actual “Deathray Trail” movie ever existed, so it probably did not.

Tumblr favorite #1877: Project 513

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My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 046 – Project 513 Going Badly.” Here is what Bacchus found.

Visible in this image are the words “Project 513” and the url “huntang.artstation.com”. That URL leads to the web page for the artist Angelina Stroganova from Moscow, Russia. This image is visible there along with a grayscale version of the same art. This artist also has a presence on Deviant Art where the same artwork appears.

Although there are several references to Project 513 in connection with other artworks on this artist’s pages, I was unable to find any information in English on the significance of the Project 513 name or what it represents.

Tumblr favorite #1876: X-ray tubes

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My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 045 X-Ray Tubes.” Here is what Bacchus found.

The Tumblr post at the origin of this animation’s Tumblr chain of provenance includes the following tags: “#1950s scifi #this island earth #1955 #joseph m newman”. The reference is to the 1955 sci-fi movie This Island Earth, which was notable at the time for its special effects and for being filmed in Technicolor.

According to the plot summary at Wikipedia, the two protagonists are at one point menaced with being subjected to a “Thought Transference Chamber”, which might be the chamber visible in the animation.

The attribution to This Island Earth is confirmed by the following scene from the trailer, which shows the same two people in the same sort of chambers, albeit with a menacing robot in this frame not directly seen (but visible as a shadow/silhouette) in the animation:

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In 1996 the movie This Island Earth was heavily reworked (it’s unclear from Wikipedia whether it was completely remade or whether it was heavily cut and intercut with new footage) and released to theaters as Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie. From the Wikipedia plot summary it seems unlikely that the animation stems specifically from the new MST3K movie footage, but I was unable to rule out the possibility.

Tumblr favorite #1875: Farewell to Daleks

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My original tumblr post was here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as Δ 044 – Fond Farewell To Daleks.” Here is what Bacchus found.

The Tardis Data Core wiki about the long-running TV show Dr. Who informs us that actress Katy Manning (who played the Doctor’s companion Jo Grant in the early 1970s) later posed nude with a Dalek for a magazine:

In 1977, she posed naked with an original Dalek prop for the glamour magazine Girl Illustrated (Vol. 8, #10). She laughed the furor off, stating, “You’d have to pretty well put me under a microscope to see anything!” Upon being informed of the photos, Jon Pertwee was quoted as saying, “Typical Katy!” In a later interview, she stated that the nude pictorial “went over like a cup of cold sick.”

The Wiki article where this information appears contains a color photograph (evidently the first page of the magazine shoot) showing Ms. Manning in a different pose but wearing the same fancy boots:

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The visible text reads: “Kissing The Daleks Goodbye: Katy Manning talks to Tym Manley.”

A fortuitous eBay auction gives us a higher-resolution image of a similar pose from the cover of Girl Illustrated, along with the first few paragraphs of text from the magazine spread: 03-girl-illustrated-cover 04-kissing-daleks-intro

A different eBay seller’s auction text, preserved on a magazine collector’s blog, gives us a verbal description of the rest of the magazine spread:

The pictures of Katy include 6 poses, including a centrefold. Katy Manning was pursuaded by the Australian men’s magazine to do the feature, much to the shock and anger of BBC management at the time. They had managed to get hold of a Dalek and the darling young Katy in the buff (and in one shot with only a pair of knee length boots) made a perfect match for the most dangerous machine/creature in the universe. She commented that news of her photo shoot went down ‘like a cup of cold sick’ with the BBC Managers.

Although no complete scans of the magazine or the Katy Manning spread from it appear to exist on the web, a couple of forum posts here and here (both are incomplete, with missing images due to lost image hosting) combine to give us some idea of rest of the contents, possibly including these two additional nude-with-dalek images:

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A blog post here offers another pose where Ms. Manning is actually straddling the Dalek’s appendage:

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And finally, at Слава роботам! we find one last related image:

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To sum up, the best available description suggests that the Girls Illustrated photo spread included only “six poses”, of which at least some were centerfold-type pictures not including the Dalek. Yet here are compiled a total of seven different photographs of the same actress in the same boots posing with the Dalek prop. The only supportable conclusion is that at least some of the additional photos taken when the Girls Illustrated spread was prepared were published later and elsewhere. It has been impossible to determine whether the subject photograph was one of these or was originally seen in Girls Illustrated. But since every indication is that Girls Illustrated was a full-color magazine, most likely the subject photograph originally appeared elsewhere.

In the course of this provenance research, an older-looking, unrelated, and utterly unattributed photograph of a topless woman posing with a Dalek turned up in a tribute to the designer of the Daleks:

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