Intergalactic SLUTS: Promoted

Of course it's a pleasure to talk today about ....

Would you begin watching a series from its second season? When the series is a 'space opera' sort of feature, created by a crazy sadist director with a passion for plot twists and the 'anyone can die' Game of Thrones approach? I hope you would, but in a way I also hope you won't!

A long time ago, in a cliffhanger far far away...

Well, I hope you won't...have to do it ! Because Intergalactic SLUTS is a production you really should be familiar with already if you have any interest for SL adult filmaking, representing its most original and characteristic side, joining sexual fantasies and scenarios with the ambition to create something memorable. "The possibilities are endless as ones imagination" is the line that Miss Emily used in her first detailed post about the project when it began, and that just about sums it up.
Oh, here is where I usually talk about how easy by comparison it is to make a series like this become reality in SL, when it would need to have a multi-milion budget in RL. That's it, though: easy by comparison.

For an extensive behind the scenes, check out this blog post, showing off many new and olds sets

Because making IGS Season one certainly was no easy task. Over 200 minutes of finished product, around 30 cast members with at least one sex scene, and this season already has 10 new announced. The budget as reported reached the astonishing figure of 450'000 L$, and that of course can't monetize the amount of hours spent by the collective efforts of each cast member and by the producer, director, 'special effects department'.
And that is the past. With, again, this second season announcing itself to be even more complex than the previous. More sets to be made, and miss Emily spends an unbelievable amount of time adapting and tweaking and flat out building those, and a large effort that went even in the costume design aspect. You can read all about it here



Plot twists, deaths and all the sorts, you missed out if you did not see the season finale!

If you are followers of Miss Emily's group/blog(s) you have been already exposed, one would hope, to her promotional effort for the series. Including a series of pretty darn neat pictorials made by returning star of the series Racheal Rexen. The hype train made a stop every week reminding you of the previous episodes, and if you kept up with that, that is pretty neat!

One of the returning (and quite surely alive!) cast members of season, Dr. Zoey Winsmore, in one of Racheal's pictorials

Are you also a fan of the series then? If so by now you have watched the episode, or are close to doing it. Go on and do so! You might be left with more questions than the cliffhanger of the last season gave you, though, and you might not like some of the answers given, sparingly, by this one!

Which begins with quite a shocker. To quote the 'Imdb-style' (Emdb?) page about the series...

June 2016: Season 2 picks up 5 1/2 months after Season 1 ended
Captain Emily is dead and Commander Miggins is the new Captain.

Captain Miggins browsing her cookbook, looking for the elusive recipe of the Ikea meatballs.  

Hey, you know that in fiction ( also in reality, usually), to have someone officially proclaimed dead you must see the body, but Heads have been rolling all season, and the joke is on us, Emily has pulled a Ned Stark on us. (I know, I know, 'or has she' ?)

Swords, guns, intrigue and some of the most outrageous situations you can fathom, and Season 2 will have more!

I am using the words of a wise (and sometimes even sober) man, season 1 star Larry Vinaver and telling you: "what you have here is the 'link' between the first and second season; it is a necessary 'briefing' for the viewer to bring them up to date and wet their appetite for the action to come, builds the suspense ..it also tempts their impatience and excitement to see it".

Yes, IGS is all about wetting the appetite, as Larry said... You did think that I forgot to post porn pics, huh?

It is that, and parts of it without a doubt can be appreciated much better only with knowledge of the past events and some investment in the story. Like the whole 'life is moving on and the crew needs to survive' feel through the episode, with a passing of the torch between Emily and Sandy as main character crowned with just one line followed by a meaningful camera motion. Emily is no more.

New and old faces in the series, with a lot more to happen for both!

Then again, there's a lot of new blood in this series, and the budding relationship between the new character Candy and Anyka is built up striking all the right chords, together with the 'sense of wonder' infused by the action being moved in a new location, one castle that announces to be busier than Camelot in the Holy Grail intermission. No, it's not called Castle Cum-a-lot....I think not, at least.

Moonie, Katrinova and Kei Frequency are amongst the new cast members. Complete (so far !) list here.

Emily's series doesn't require any blogging effort on my part, with every possible tidbit and promotional material avalaible on Flickr, her blog, and easy to find through her impeccable organization.
This post is simply an invitatio once more to take an interest in the series.

" This series is the best SL porn I've seen, partly due to format.  The use of text screens to communicate dialog, narration and story line is so innovative, and it opened up a whole new world of creativity and a freedom to shape the series.  The cast is just plain terrific.  And the special effects have leveled up this series to a new high in terms of production.  The result of all these things is a series that's strength is not just sex scenes, although we have plenty of hot ones, but also the way it draws the viewer into the ongoing story's twists and turns.  Like a good RL TV series does." 
- Ali Lancrae

Everyone has their unique viewing habits: I am a binge watcher of series, I am bad at keeping up and when I download (legally of course - coughs- ...good that there is no possible misunderstanding about SL series, being no-profit ventures) something serial, I usually do it with a bunch of episodes. SLUTS is still easy to catch up with, in its 10 ( one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , ten ) episodes. You are certainly not late to start watching it if you haven't yet!

Enjoy this first episode, after the jump!

Making out of with ...The Notorious B.E.N.

If you want to relax on a weekend, I have something for you ! It involves weed and sex, and...


Self portrait II by B.E.N.

I mean of course an interview with one of the most creative guys in the porn biz! He's a mariachi, a janitor, a delivery boy, a makeup-artist, an acrobat, the next James Bond, although his trademark sideburns would make him a prime suspect for an Elvis biopic or being the next Wolverine once Hugh Jackman calls it quits.

Although he is not afraid to trade them off to become a shady sheik and all sorts of other characters...including the police dude prominently featured in this post.
A versatile model as well as photographer with an intense stare that is sure to burn a hole into your soul, here's my interview with The Notorious B.E.N. aka Benjamin BigDipper, inspired by his 'Busted' photoset with Lara Sands-Dieterle!



- When did you get the idea of doing this particular photoshoot? Did you have already Lara as model in mind for it?

" Well, the basic ideas for my shoots are probably much less elaborate than some people might think. It all starts with a very basic idea, and the rest is pretty much out of my hands, the creative process takes over.

For this shoot, I was playing around with terrain sculpties to create a desert set, and somehow it turned into desert highway. And after a bit more brainstorming by myself I came up with the almost stereotypical "Cop pulls over sexy lady who did something naughty" idea.
I had Lara as a model in mind already, because she was super eager to do another shoot, after her first one."


From the first set with Lara, 'Full Service'

- I'd like to know the various phases of the photoshoot. What did you do to make the idea come true?

" The first phase of this shoot, and pretty much any other more elaborate shoot, is planning the set - that means looking through my inventory for props I can use, if I can't find anything I have to check on the marketplace for hopefully free or cheap props, or ask friends to rez props for me.

I was playing around with my terrain sculpties to create a desert set, for a future shoot, so this wasn't really a planning phase. Somehow during that playing phase it turned into a desert highway set, I started to build a road between dunes of sculpties.
Slowly all the props came together, from the roadsigns, the cactus, to the borrowed cars.

After the set was complete, with the road, cars, signs, etc, I played around with windlight to find a decent desert-looking sunset.
Then I was checking out angles, to see if the illusion of the desert road was believable enough for pictures.



The shoot itself took place once I could pick a time and meet up with Lara.
She shows me her outfit for the shoot, I tell her to make changes, if necessary, and then the main shoot begins.
It's pretty much the same process from then on, posing the model and myself with anypose, and moving all the needed props in position. For the lighting I usually don't change the windlight settings, but have 1 projector prim out with a little bit of ambient light.



Once I have shots for all the poses we did, which isn't always planned either, I upload those to flickr and give them just a slight edit.
It's mostly just cropping, a little bit of contrast and brightness, and tinkering with the saturation.
I believe that one should try to get the most out of unedited SL photos, and only do minimal photoshop work. "



- So how much of the shoot you would say is planned, in the end? Are you a "one click one pic" type of person, or you take lots of snapshots from sligthly different angles before you choose the best ones?

" As I've mentioned earlier, I don't really plan much about my shoots.
I have a very rough basic idea, and then the creative process kind of takes over.
For example, the shot with Lara and I sitting on the car and smoking a joint after sex was a totally spontaneous idea that came up during mid-shoot chat.



For some shoots I might have an idea for one or two specific shots, but sometimes I just discard these ideas because I find something better on the way. And yeah, I'm the shutterbug type of person, I take like 50 shots but throw away 35 of those again.
I think the creative process is the keyword here, one shouldn't try to force ideas to make them work, or be too rigid about their planned shots, a lot of things are "Happy Accidents", as Bob Ross would say. ;) "



- For those not familiar with your work yet, would you like to name off the top of your head at least 3 photosets OR single pictures that are your favourites?

It's hard for me to pick favorites here, people have such different tastes, and I do so much different themes, from artsy popculture to just blatant porn, or the occasional BDSM/fetish shoot.
The "Shark Cage Shaggin' " shoot is definitely worth mentioning though, because it was such an unusual location.
I can only recommend to check out my albums list, because the more extensive shoots like Busted!, Hot Coffee, or Full Service all tell a little story.


A snippet from 'Hot Coffee' featuring Racheal Rexen

- Is there any shoot you would love to do but haven't quite gotten around doing yet, or find hard finding the right setup for ? What is the next project from The Notorious B.E.N. ?

" I guess there are a lot of ideas that are flying around in my head, but sometimes other projects sort of butt in, and the idea comes back on the backburner for then.  Most projects I haven't started yet have the problem of lack of props.
Despite the couple of years we've had mesh now, some items simply do not exist in SL, the only ones that exist look bad and/or are too expensive for a single shoot. Once I find a valid alternative to those props I usually start to brainstorm ideas by just playing around with the set.

The next project is still somewhat of a secret, but the first installment of it should be out by the time I'm writing this. "


I told you that Ben will be the next Wolverine: he's already giving Stan Lee cameos...

And by the time I wrote the post, the whole set was posted, actually! Ben's Underground Slave Auction set, in six parts ( one, two, three, four, five, six ), involving models such as PJ Thornton, Tanja Doll, Carola Conover, Pwincess Buttacwup.
A big congrats to Ben and everyone involved, as the SL Porn scene certainly needs people with his kind of attitude and ingenuity.


Ben on the wrong side of the gun, with regular model and muse of his Margarita Blanco

Please do check out his sets, and I hope you will let him have some feedback as well. Elaborate photosets always get somewhat overlooked in the big 'game' of faves exchange going on in Flickr, and it's a shame, as a lot of work goes into productions like this.

And please let me know if you'd like your work to be covered on the blog!

Making out of with...Igor Romanov

Making your porn debut is not desperately difficult. If this is not the first time you read the the blog, you probably peeked already at the appropriate page listed above. What is more difficult of course is to have that initial spark grow, do your own projects, find your own way and dimension, simply sometimes find what you like to do. Amongst the people who recently joined the group and is making an impact as an artist, we took an interest recently for Igor Romanov ('jeffcosgrove' in world)

 



Ali Lancrae used her full range of interviewing skills on him on one of her mirable posts on Porn Star Confidential, providing quite the eyecandy (the pic below is just a sample)! This one will be more wordy, but the pictures from Igor himself and his pleasant and insightful comments will make it not completely boring!



- How did you learn about The Sexiest Pornstars group?

" Partee told me. She has been so helpful to me in helping me learn how to network and where. I had already posted some to Flickr and she was always interacting on my page, although quite busy herself, so I reached out to say thanks. We've been friends ever since."




Igor photographing Partee, from the set 'Beach Partee Bingo'

- Your flickr begins with your first unedited shots, then goes on as you begin playing with filters, etc. What catches your interest the most about SL photography?

" Well I left those early shots up, because the do tell the story about how it evolved. It began simply to show people something about me on my profile if they did not meet me in world. Then I got addicted to snapping pics..."

- You do more than 'just' snapping pics, tho. Even if you do get great 'instant' captures. i think you have a real talent for the party photos. Maybe it's not very stimulating to hear for a photographer who puts a lot of effort in scenarios and such but i think you had excellent results those times you did it.

" The lighting at Emily's club really inspired me, so that helps and I probably walked in with the right default windlight, and just looked around."


A great capture of Stacy at a Pornstars party

- But from your beginnings, your flickr documents a growth as photographer in many aspects. It's always refreshing to me and interesting for many readers and 'newcomers' to hear about the learning process. I know you have examples of the tools you acquire that you can share.

" Well, I am neither a photographer in RL or a graphic designer by trade. I know little about using tools such as Photoshop prior to SL photography. I had to learn as I went.
I had to learn how to patch up necklines and arms that got twisted up in a pose, etc.
For the bartender story, then was the scene where I was doing body shots off of Rachel's tunny, as she lay naked on the counter. That was actually an animation that came with the bar. I will admit that I'm not a tequila drinker, and being busy capturing the shot, realized later that a shot glass should've been in my hand, but never made it there that night. So I had to learn how to do a layer mask in order to include a graphic of a genuine shot of tequila into my hand. "

'Before and after' in one of the shots (no pun intended) of 'The naked bartender', with Rachel and Ali Avro-Fox

- And the technical aspect is just one part of the photographer's work. In fact....You mentioned to me that you get a lot a certain question...and that question is, more or less, "How much of what I am seeing is staged or is it "in the heat of the moment." . Well well, what about that?

"Haha. That is always an interesting and complicated question to answer. Methods of capture vary from shot to shot, shoot to shoot. The workflow of one shoot may go smoother in one instance over another. But I can say this: I don't post "personal memories" of that sort. In other words, I'm a private person who doesn't "kiss and tell." Anyone in the shot knows at the time they are being captured. I guess the real question is (and the reason I'm proud to be asked about this) is, "Does it look and make you feel like you caught us in the heat of the moment?" If so, then I succeeded.

 


A couple of memorable shots from Igor's latest, The Ultimate Workout, with Lacey Nora

- I love your stories that go with the photoshoots. When do they take shape? You have already an idea of where the story will go and how it will end before you shoot the pics, or does it come later? do you write every 'chapter' as you release the pics, or...? Feel free to take one shoot as example, or more. I realize it's not like that -every- time .

" Yes, it varies. Many times it the past, I would know how I wanted the shoot to progress from start to finish and the story took shape after I reviewed the shots. Sometimes I just have way more hot pics that I can use and not drag out the set so far that the casual viewer gets bored. In those cases I have to whittle it down to 6-8. This immediate release with Lacey Nora is going to be one such project.
The pictures are my babies and I love them all. Usually during review is when the characters in the play start taking shape. As with the Visiting Chanel shoot, I ended up passing off the great outtakes for her to post on her page. "





- There's also one series that gets my attention, the 'Cuddle Where you Are' series. What's the idea behind it?

"Well, (blush) I'm a romantic at heart. A sensualist. I'm a touch guy. It's very different from the raw tension of much of my recent work. It's sweet and I like that. Lately when I've run into friends, I ask them to do a quick cuddle pose. I hope to add more to this ongoing gallery. It's all about tender affectionate moments, no matter where you might be. Much like the sexual encounters in the stories, I'm challenging myself with unusual locations. We've all seen the couple behind closed door in bed scene and they are lovely. I've just wanted to do something a bit different."




Above, Igor with Lacey and Katita80.

- Not that I want to give all aspiring models the straight way to your heart but....what do you find most stimulating in a model, if anything in particular, and what do you think are the most important qualities for someone who wants to work with you? 

 " Hmmmm.....what does a young model need to know?
Last week I had an unplanned shoot and immediately went searching my friends list. It was late in the afternoon here and one of the pornstar parties was just getting underway. I was a bit frustrated at how many models, who have far less of a following than even I, turned down work, in order to attend a party that was designed to help them----drum up work.




From two really well put together sets with well laid out stories: 'Naughty Neighbors' and 'Stolen Clothes'

I am not a vindictive person, but if you are serious about working with certain people, you need to be serious about communicating. That means returning messages if you're away when messaged. Personal relationship is important to me with the people I want to work with. If you fail to communicate, eventually I will stop trying and pass you over. On the opposite end, I have projects that include people who were really interested in me as a friend (or maybe just interested in me as a man) and what I do.

 


Lara Sands-Dieterle and Bette Paige each enjoyed hot erotic photoshoots too!

They went out of their way to be available, jumped at the opportunity given, and maybe even introduced me to a venue or theme for us to shoot. Those kinds of people tend to bypass any line there might be and move right to the front.
We mentioned the shoot with Partee before. I hope she doesn't mind me mentioning this, but when discussing where and what she might like to shoot, she mentioned how moved she was by a single oral shower picture I had posted. So I then went hunting for the right venue to make it more personal.
Kind of fun to make fantasies come true."



- Is there something in the SL adult arts that you'd like to achieve and hope to in the next , or even distant future? Can be anything from ...... well, i don't want to lead you on! 

 " I think whether with an adult shot or something quite benign, as an "artist" (I don't take that so seriously with myself) I love realism. I'm really trying (and I'm not there like I'd like to be) to cause people to forget for one brief moment that they are looking at avatars and not a real photo. In that regard especially Laura Richards has been my photography idol."

 


The good thing with the porn world: you get to meet your idols face to face!

Thank you SO much to Igor for his patience answering my questions, and I hope to see plenty more of his efforts as photographer, wordsmith and man-candy in the months to come, as an active part of the community, enjoying all the various 'meme' that we all know and like! Showcasing gorgeous models like Racheal Rexen and Jesse Jane below, all the others seen in this post, and plenty more!





And if you have ideas about this blog and something to offer, please let me hear it! I love to feature you!

Coffee, tea, me? Racheal, what else

It's always great to see new directors on the scene, even more so when it's someone you already had chances to see on the other side of the camera. Racheal Rexen has already shown range throughout her porn career, not only being a model of extraordinary beauty and personality in her looks, but also constantly honing her skills as photographer.  More than just someone who takes lovely snapshots, Racheal's proficiencies secured her a spot on the staff of SL Connoisseur magazine and can be admired on her flickr stream and her blog, which often features also exclusive shots.



I obviously have a soft spot for those pornstars who give some importance to blog for their fans, and if you followed her there, you already probably had a hint something might have been brewing, when she posted a simple test clip of her notable self having a little dance for the camera.

 So, Racheal made a movie this month! And won't be the only one! Coffee Break it is called, and she certainly serves it hot. It features Racheal herself with a cameo of her partner, fresh 'pet of the month' Jezzi Mornington, and a sweet looking co-star in Candy Kane (candygurlx).

"When Racheal meets Candy at a coffee shop, you can bet some naughtiness is going to happen. "





Without further ado, let's have the director Racheal tell us more about it and this new experience for her. I can tell you, she has plans, and of course that's great news for all those of you who wish there were more opportunities for movies.

- What motivated you into doing a movie yourself? 

" There were many reasons that motivated me, I was inspired by watching many directors, like Isa, Zoey, Miss Em and Erin Cedarbridge, I saw how Erin started and became one of the best directors in SL Porn, That was really inspirational to me, I also wanted to try something new, so I thought I would try directing."

- Was 'Coffee Break' the first idea you had for a movie?

" Miss Emily suggested that my first movie should be simple, So that where the idea of Coffee Break came from, I wanted to make a simple movie with a little bit of a story, Since I already a coffee shop set, I went with it."

- Tell us how the movie 'happened'. Certainly not overnight. What did you do first, and then how did it develop into this directorial debut ?

" Just learning how to make a movie took a couple of weeks. The script was fairly simple, two people meet at a coffee shop and go and have sex. The audio was one of the hardest parts, I spent hours searching the internet just to find a 3 second sound bit, finding other simple little sounds like the door chime took a lot of time too.

The locations was built on my land, it took two or three day to build. After that, the shootings took two days, I kind of messed up and had to re shoot part of it. A large part of filming was adjusting poseballs, that had to be one of the most frustrating parts. Also finding the right sex animations/engine was very time consuming. The editing then took about a day, it was like putting a puzzle together, looking for which piece goes in what spot. "

- You thanked for your movie well known and experienced directors like Miss Emily, Isa Cheviot, Zoey Winsmore. Can you tell us more about those who helped you and supported you?

" I asked Miss Emily, Isa and Zoey for their advice, it was so great of them to take the time and help me, I really appreciated it. I also have to thank Candy Kane and Jezzi Mornington for letting me practice filming on them, They were great."

- Which part about this project was the hardest for you to do ? Do you have any advice for aspiring directors, from your experience and/or what Emily, Isa, Zoey told you?

" It took hours, finding the right audio to match my vision, searching for the right sex engine was difficult, as well as getting the poses adjusted. I would tell aspiring directors to do their research, watch youtube videos and read blogs about SL machinima. There are many online resources that will help.

Be prepared to spend some money, you are going to need screen capturing software and decent video editing software and you are also going to need a location and a good sex engine/ bed.
Don't get too frustrated, try and experiment at first. Miss Emily had great advice: keep your screen clear, hide the user innerface and hide your huds."



- Not asking you to reveal 'secrets' of course, but what are your next projects? Moviewise of course, but we also appreciate your talent as photographer , you collaborate to a magazine, you are a very popular actress and model....

"I am hoping to do at least one movie a month, they are going to be simple for a while because I am still learning how to make films. I am currently working on several ideas."

A huge thank to Racheal for being so easy to work with and patient. Enjoy please her movie, that you can see also after the jump!