' Where the Horizon widens' by Ravi

That immense, unmeasurable love 
Goes beyond anything 
Goes beyond wherever I go 
Beyond what I am, my pain 
My Line of Equator

That's just a literal translation of one verse of one of my favourite songs ever, Linha do Equador. Now I might as well talk about my personal thoughts and emotions here, because, really....Ravi Redfield is a pleasant singularity in the adult arts scene.
Nobody like her makes my work so easy and comes so close to what would be my ideal: she is incredibly eager to share (via her blog) with the community the inspiration, motives, thoughts that are behind her movies.
The interactions with the actors, the story of their casting in one role or the other.
The story of what happened, to make the movie what it is.

Still, her work speaks by itself, and speaks strongly. It was like that in her debut movie, from that joyous ode to life that its very opening is, to the multiform, and sometimes duplicitous, nature of the feelings involved in Onyx Blaze. In this movie, actually, Ravi 'speaks' (with the voice of the premier voice actress in our scene, Leannan Wolfgang), giving us in the opening narration the tone of the movie.

"Greetings, my name is Ravi.
Since mankind existed, we have built relationships , communities and societies.
City states were founded, empires and nations, but all this is based on 2 people that find each other and live together.
In all ages there are more than one combination between a man and a woman.
Let me invite you to a journey of relationships that shows the most common these days."

Ravi's journey spans between 5 scenes, with a heterosexual couple, a lesbian couple, a gay couple, a transgender one, and ends in a polyamorous 'family'. Every scene has points of interest and subtle nuances in the way it is portrayed. One bit I am quoting, to exemplify the thoughtful yet spontaneous esprit that animated Ravi putting together the movie...

" The last sequence with visual effects is the transgender couple. When I was editing it the records appear too blurry to me. And the loud sounds of a big city seemed not to fit. I tried some effects and after minutes I found out that it would be best to sharpen all the scenes. Transgender are not a blurry image. 

They are real and live upon us in Second Life. I always wanted to show that transgenders are not fuck dolls or always horny. It was my main concern in this part to show them like every human. Sensitive, seeking for love and harmony. 

It was the only one time where Ravi take an active part when they were dancing. Maybe it is only my imagination, but I also wanted to show, that to be naked between transgenders is a full natural thing. So is having sex. That's why she sit close to Erika and Phoenix while they had pleasure. To make all the scenes sharp has to focus the watcher how clear transgender see their own body. That they accept and enjoy it all what they are. There are no genders, only human beings." 

I especially appreciated this role of Ravi as 'narrator', and it made me indeed smile how she sorta turned the table by being part of the aforementioned scene. Which I found quite appropriate, at that point of the movie. There's a beautiful irony, i believe, in how varied are the options, and how liquid the roles can be, in SL especially.

Watch the movie. It's a movie with feeling and a message not hammered down your throat : a journey made in SL through a lot of potential situations you have almost surely met here in SL, with the opennes that marks this world. It has the sexual flow of a Ravi movie, who can somehow handle the naughtiest and most prurient situations with the same candor of her fluffy tail.

And it's a murder mystery ! ...ok , ok, I made that one up.

I thoroughly enjoyed it: I had the luck of also being a part of it, but Ravi said already better than I could, how the mood on set was, and in general how she works, what she needs in the movie, how she shoots. From my own perspective, I can only add that the shooting was to me a total breeze. We had the look sorted in advance - I appreciate a lot a director's input on that- and my partner in the scene Mels was as Ravi said, her pleasant and fun self that most people in the group know, but also very professional and helped with competence with every little 'challenge'. A real pleasure working with them both, and being part of it was something really special.



Below lies the movie! Featuring Ravi Redfield, Talisker Braveheart, Iris Sweet, Katina Cazalet, Melanie Oryl, Crow Mistwalker, Robin Rondini, Erika Thorkveld, Phoenix Sparks, Yana Grau, Mirko Panacek, Leannan and James Wolfgang, and way too many party guests to name them all, it IS one to watch, so do it, enjoy it, read Ravi's blog post about it!
Thanks!

The Pornstars' Rack: TG Power!

Today I feel totally...

Shameless



...xxx.

And I have been feeling that way all week, because the new issue came out 7 days ago, and it's a sizzler!

In case you missed the first exciting issue of Marika Blaisdale's new magazine - do check my interview with her in the previous blog post about it -, Shameless XXX is a magazine directed to the gorgeous shemale/transexual beauties that populate the porn scene. While its older brother Aroused! focuses more on the photographer and their creative input, Shameless is a magazine focused on the model, brought to you by the exceptional artistic direction and photography of Marika Blaisdale.



Mandy on the beach meets Phoenix and her trusty tube of sun cream.  succulent peachy tooshie in yet another 'study' by Sasquatch

...plus a 'master/mistress of ceremony', who brings their own brand of hotness. This issue for instance has one fantastically erotic and, needless to say, totally shameless babe as MC, in Phoenix Sparks. Just check out how freakin' hot her shoot with Mandy is, dayum!

The Delicious Delicence! Oh it has been a while since I wrote it, lol.

But, forgive me if i am partial, obviously I am totally into what Marika does: stunning pictorials of truly iconic models of the shemale scene in Moon and Delicence, plus Yaleanna, a sexy newcomer that would raise even Ivan Ilyich from the dead with a boner, and a great threesome shoot featuring two faces (and bodies) that deserve so much attention and a great porn career: Kalista Hydraconis and Petter Miles.

Three-way fun with Petter and Kalista!

With her first and longest running creation Aroused taking a slightly different direction because of the increased number of collaborations from eager artists, Marika found with Shameless a creative outlet that puts her vision of eroticism on prominent display.
Shameless is indeed a shameless magazine, happy to be porn, to show cocks and sex, with models that resonate so very well with the visual imagination of - as her partner I wouldn't be the one to say it if I perceived it to be any less than completely , objectively true- a brilliant photographer.

Please, go get Shameless, free from Marketplace, or from one of the vendors - if you have a sex-oriented sim/place, by all means feel free to ask for a kiosk (that goes for Aroused as well, obviously). The online version is avalaible as usual through Issuu.

I want to cover your magazine, right here. Is it erotic? Is it relevant for us in the porn community? Good, let me know!

The Pornstars' Rack: An Even Hotter Summer !

Two posts in a row with my partner in it? Heck , I am so...

Shameless



...XXX.

Nah, seriously! I TOLD you yesterday, that Aroused! is gonna be monthly now, but also that Marika has still been working extra hard. And that is what she had in store. A new publication! I would love to yap about it lots, but to properly introduce what Shameless XXX is, here you have her own words.

Without futher ado, here's Marika!

One of the models in this issue, on a first magazine appearance, steady partigoer Mags

- First question: Why a second magazine?

" Two reasons. One, Aroused! is a quite well established brand, with an amazing group of dedicated photographers. It works well, and I am sure with new Head Editor it will become even better. Reason two, I know there are many tgirls in porn community, but why not have some sort of central point for them? The place people's eyes focus at when it comes to show ladies with extra beautifulness.

Marika probably would need even more magazines to fit all the great hotties she has worked with. 
Look at Akira Kira, in this issue as well !

...There's a third reason, quite silly though: I love making magazine layouts, and it was good excuse to work on it."

- Off the record....I think that was the main reason.

" Well, I won't create a third magazine very soon, don't worry."

- So, t-girls are the central point of the new magazine. Tell us a bit more about what the readers can expect to see there, and how it is different from Aroused!.

" As you mentioned: tgirls are the focus. Main difference is, it's going to be a model oriented magazine. Aroused! tends to feature photographers rather than models, Shameless' gonna be the opposite."

Uh-oh! Has Marika been focusing too much on a particular photographer! Check out the magazine to find out, in this sex and sexy shoot from Nicasio Ansar, featuring Erika Thorkveld!

- That's a very important difference. I am asking the question that interests the blog readers and group members the most, probably: what do you do to be on the magazine? Are you open to collaborations with other photographers? Also, anything particular a model could/should do to help their chances to be in it? 

 " I am always open for photographers, and in general - people who want to collaborate. We got these two titles right now, so if the photographer can't appear in Shameless, Aroused! is always open for them. The fact that Shameless is tgirls oriented doesn't mean Aroused! gets rid of them, no. It's just a different approach.

Now about models... I know many people love to pose, and I hope it's one more extra opportunity for them to do so. Something that is more persistent than random casting call in groups. So, what to do? Spoil me with compliments, make sure you look angelic or hellish hot and we'll sort it out.

The opening splash page of  'The Three Poles' shoot. Why the name? read about it below...or use your imagination... :p

One more important thing: I hope it's been noticed I am open for models without experience too. Of course, well established Stars are the core of the community, we all admire and love them, but it's good to have some fresh blood too."

- So you made this new magazine, having already a lot of knowledge built up thanks to Aroused!. Walk us through this issue a bit, from the very moment you had the idea for a magazine, this new magazine, to the final product. What is it that you did first, what came in last, the website, what did you find the most difficult, etc. You present a rather unique case because you have your proprietary method to make a magazine that is not the Intellibook used by most, but still, i like to hear about your experience. 

" After running Aroused! for over one year it seems quite obvious I do many, magazine related, things better and way quicker than before. So, as the idea about having other magazine came to my mind, I basically started making its new, original layout, and that was funniest part. I used some of photographies I got in my flickr stream for that, but final version, of course, has got unique, not published anywhere content.
So, I started working on content, inviting models, poses, shooting - you know it very well how it works.

At first I've made SL version of magazine, and the last step was making the website to be ready to publish content from Issuu. Without false modesty I can tell you this: after making second brand of magazine I could make few another ones very quick, I mean technically. I won't, we don't need them more for now, but there are common things for magazines, so work is simpler and quicker.

One 'work in progress' test page for what became the original layout of Shameless. Look closely the photo, and you'll see that the magazine was set to have another name, before Marika came up with the clever play on words.

You mentioned my proprietary method of providing magazine inside SL. Yes, I've created those few scripts, put them into objects and made single engine that allows people view it like magazine. It is way simpler than Intellibook of course, but on the other hand, do we need sound of turning pages? I could add it, that's the easiest part, but come on! :) I hear no complaints about my own book script, so I assume it works good. Additionally, to be sure about the quality I double check every single issue using some dummy account. There's quite lot work with making magazine, but it's still fun. "

- Do you have any advice for people who want to make their own magazine? 

" Alright, I probably feed vipers that gonna eat me sooner or later *laughs*, but running magazine, like almost everything in this world, got its light and dark side. It's repetitive work, that can easily become another sort of not very well paid SL job you have to do every X weeks. But it gives fun and if you like challenges - you'll love it. Patience is the key for sure, and some spare time, and some money too, but in fact it's nothing so difficult as it seems. My last advice will be, make or buy good layout. What I dislike is inconsistent look, where one page look completely different to another. "

One more shot from Marika's work on the oomphalicious cover model Phoenix!

- So, who's on this issue, and any last word to invite our readers to get it?

" Phoenix on the cover, we know her well now, deserved to open the issue imho. Akira and Mags: Akira very, very active these days, Mags made lovely metamorphosis, so both worth featuring. The Guest Photographer, talented Nicasio in his first hardcore set (yay!) and finally some little sex stuff from me with my good friend Tami and Enzo - funny is, I was about to call that set "Three Poles", not only because there are 3 poles involved...
Also, I look forward to get some feedback from community and to work with those who want do something together. Especially, I already got my first model for another issue, so hurry up! I hope our lovely readers are going to enjoy new magazine, that is the best reward for me if they are."

Thank you SO much Marika for taking the time to answer my questions, and you heard her! 
Go get Shameless , AND Aroused of course, on Marketplace! In the group notices too, and there is the online version too, here ! And.....Tell me stuff about your magazine, I want to feature your projects RIGHT HERE!

Serial Clickers - Phoenix takes Selfies!

Amongst the photo series of this hot summer, one of the most memorable is certainly Phoenix Sparks' Selfie with Pornst@rs .



Here in a 'Selfie with Domino'

It's incredibly simple in its fundamental idea, but Phoenix's photographic skills and also her fun concise writeups that introduce each, keep it fresh, cheeky and sexy.



'Speaking of sexy here is Partee..'

Well, that and her awesome co-stars there! Dang, selfies are so popular these days.

No further introduction needed (and you do know I love to yap!), just enjoy this sample of Phoenix's series, amounting to barely half of the series... so far, because it will only keep growing! Just yesterday, a new batch of photos was added, which gave me the idea to make the post today.
And please, do check out the rest of her incredibly erotic (and NSFW :p) stream, showing off her enviable physical gifts and her versatility as photographer. Enjoy her selfies with....



with Angy Piers (AJ Zimermann)



with Mags (Magelo Kidd)



with Ali Lancrae



with Larry Vinaver



with Kinana Kira



...and with Kaoru Kira



with Curtis Trevellion



with Iris Okiddo





With Aroused owner Marika Blaisdale and her dusky (yet beautiful, apparently!) partner





With Sere and Louise Kristan-Faulds!

And many more, again, on her Flickr.