The Pornstars' Rack: July's Out!

Can't wait for July to begin? Well step into it already with the July issue of...

SL Connoisseur



I admit it, since the first impact with a new issue of SL Connoisseur is (obviously!) with its cover, I am always tempted to sprint through it to get to bask in the glory of a new pictorial by the wonderful Cream Release. Who has been shooting throughout these months with remarkable ability some of the brightest stars in the world of the SL adult entertainment scene (and me).
In this issue, it's the turn of multi-award winning photographer Spirit Demure-Rust.

SL Connoisseur tastes like strawberry and licorice! ...ok maybe not. Stick to reading it and don't try to lick it !

But as I browse through the magazine, the splashy pages of SL Connoisseur turn out to be molasses for the eyes, and I just have to keep digging in. You can't help but being appreciative of the efforts made by the committed and motivated staff under the direction of Edvard Taurion, whose contributions you won't see in other magazines on the scene, making SL Connoisseur a mag with a distinct individuality, and identity as well. A lifestyle magazine unlike any other. "Always original", as underlined in the intro by mr. Taurion.

Every interview is different from the next, and the personality of the interviewed is a huge difference!

On this issue, what the cover says and more. There are interviews with designers with close ties to our porn community such as Selina Anatra, and more 'mainstream' ones conducted by Asalah Blauvelt and the ever dependable Onisa Lundquist, who once more is in charge of the Pet of the Month pictorial...
This month it is the turn of Margarita ' Margie' Blanco and her new face!

The rest not so new but absolutely still in mint condition!!

And with Beccha being the vivacious explorer with interviews and reports from different locations. Including in this month's issue a trip to one location who is creating some buzz on flickr and around many 'insiders' of the industry, mantained by one person with solid porn accolades back in the day, Lorenz Beerbaum. We might have to talk about the Billionaire club a while again in the future.

An everyday scene from the Billionaire Club, scouted by Beccha!

Edvard welcomes always your feedback and contributions, and is striving to improve with his staff a magazine that aims to offer quality to the reader and has some real gems in its lineup who would be the envy of any blazoned publication. To tighten further the relationship with the reader, SL Connoisseur has a in-world fan group of course, and again is organizing a party for its release.

Laura Richards's erotic story is the ideal closure for the magazine, ending it on a sophisticated, unique note.

With pride and joy we present you new ~SL~ Connoisseur Magazine for July, full of original interviews, reviews and pictures. promo party for magazine will be Sunday noon slt with DJ Onisa and raffle for *KL* Fetish Bed KiKi-Pink Doll. Hope to see you all there. 

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Laura and other stars of the magazine at the first ever party, photographed by new editor Dea Santis

So all in all! Get a copy of the magazine on Marketplace ! Get it through the inworld kiosks, get one at the party! Have a peek and as mr. Taurion always encourages, give your feedback. Magazines thrive on that sort of relation with the fans!

I am always happy whenever time allows to give coverage to your creations. Contact me, Katina Cazalet, in world, I'd love to have a look at what you have done and help highlight the fruits of your efforts!

Hello! Pornstars - June 12th 2016

Margarita Blanco taking a SLelfie @ Club Yana

Aww no, we do not mean to tease at all, really! You see, it's all true! Every week, Yana's party (yep @ Club Yana!) is your Official Pornstars party, from 1 PM slt to , generally, 3 PM. But the bouncers don't kick anyone out, you know! Pornstars parties are a great way to meet ...people! Photographers, director, fellow pornstars. Such as the adorable Margie Blanco, or the stars-wearing starlette Shae Bellambi.



Shae by Sunday Whitewood @ Club Yana

Some take their own photos, some are snapped by the fantastic photographers who always drop by at the party that beautifully concludes the weekend. One constant though...Yana gets them all! So enjoy the second half of the exclusive party pics submitted to this blog by the stripping and perving dj, and see you there! Again, @ Club Yana!

You took party photos ? Wanna be on the blog? Are you interested in being a party photographer for the Pornstars group ? Do you host a party and want people to see the sexy patrons that visit and have a good time at your place? Just upload your photos on flickr, and IM me to be sure I don't miss them out!

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!

May The Sexiest® Photos Of The Day Be With You!

May the 4th be with you! For a few more minutes at least! We continue the blog tradition of running 'special' posts for the so called 'Star Wars day', because...well, because we know you all love it.



'The Force Awakens', and not just that, as you look at Serenity!

Today there have been quite a few wonderfully creative shots to celebrate THE saga, but so many more have been published as well throughout the year. Here's a little compilation (made entirely from my memory and from my recent spottings, so don't pout if you are not there! I promise you will be next year!), that I am actually kicking off with a mini-set from Nicasio Ansar, who has helped me through this year immensely.

And that obviously, under his extremely gentle and kind demeanour, hides a deranged maniac.

Enjoy, and let me know if you wish more 'special' galleries and initiatives to be promoted through the group.

Thank you, and Qapla'! d'oh, wrong series, sorry.



'She dances for his entertainment' by Pwincess Buttacwup



'May the Fourth......' by Spirit



'May the 4th be with you', thanks Woiven!

Holly Arkright is an 'Intergalactic Warrior'

Butta is 'Waiting on Lord Vader'



...who's gonna tell her that Margarita has him busy?



'Rebellion' by Terri Topliss





Eddie after last year gives us another whole themed set with 'The 4th strikes back'



'Margarita The Force' by Leanna Mai



And Margarita's version. Check out her flickr for a lot of sexy May the 4th photos!





Be in a couple of photos from her Busted Magazine shoot of January 2016, a whole sci-fi issue!







Of course Laura Demonista had photos for this theme!





Dokielicious Doobie has been working on a Star Wars related comic, these are just 2 samples of her project, that announces to be epic!



'The Force Awakens' by Korri Petermann aka Jewell Infinity





Two photos from TammyJones' huge sci-fi album , featuring here Tisha Carfield and Edvard Taurion



Sere is one wonderful BBW!...wait, no, i misunderstood that.



Kaoru Kira is a big SW fan as well. Here's her 'Battlegrounds Fan Poster'







The uber-cute Lara Sands-Dieterle made a complete Star Wars set for Aroused 34! May the 34th be wih you!







So many gorgeous Star Wars themed photos by Rachel Swallows throughout the year, avid roleplayer as she is. More in this set.





Margie did so many sexy SW pics through the year too :-) Here's 'look out' and 'Feel the power of the Latina Side'



Paige Snowpaw in 'Return of the Dead Eye'



'May the 4th be with you', and with Kelly Marcus!







Leading to the release of the new movie, Jadelyn McAuley uploaded many sensational pictures.



Graham Collinson and Fleur are other aficionados of the May the 4th tradition

Bewitched Difference is 'Darth Be'

'Oh my goodness... Master Luke, please rescue me!', one hilarious shot by Werre Stand



'Use the Force harder' by Reddevil Studios



'The force this one has?' by Akira Voorhees



'Who dares disturb my Master's sleep', asks Miss Blackflag



'Have you felt it?' by Serenity Kristan-Faulds

And since I always like to end on a positive note... 'May the Tis be with you!' says Envy Trevellion!

Thank you again everyone for the wonderful photos , all year long! Long live and pros....ah , damn it, wrong one again!