Photographer Ben Westwood (Vivienne Westwood’s son) on how his craft “becomes the background, like wallpaper” (via.)

Forbidden Planet interviews Alan Moore. He talks about Lost Girls as an innocent form of erotica, mentioning Angela Carter’s The Sadeian Women — “she admitted that there was the possibility she could imagine a form of pornography that was benign, that was imaginative, was beautiful, and which didn’t have the problems that she saw in a lot of other pornography. I think even Andrea Dworkin said the same thing. She said it a bit more grudgingly, but she said that conceivably there was, there could be, a benign form of pornography but she didn’t personally believe that it would ever happen.” — a book that I’ve had in my bag for two weeks but have yet to crack. Maybe tonight. (Part 2 of the interview.)

“There is no line between art and pornography. You can make art of anything. You can make an experimental movie with that candle or with this tape recorder. You can make a piece of art with a cat drinking milk. You can make a piece of art with people having sex. There is no line. Anything that is shot or reproduced in an unusual way is considered artistic or experimental. I would say that everybody is obsessed with sex. Those who say they are not: either they are lying or they are denying their own reptilian side of their sex lives. The only people I know who are really not obsessed with sex are heroin junkies.” - Gasper Noe.

“Next month, Ira Isaacs, a 57-year-old Los Angeles–based video director will sit center stage at what may be the most extreme obscenity trial in U.S. history.” Interview with Susanna Breslin in Radar, (”Art is what artists do. If it shocks you, it’s art.”) More from Isaacs on her blog.

What turns you on? “Mental dexterity, sexual ambivalence, Chris & Cosey, Merzbow, Godard, Herzog, Harmony Korine, black metal, real tits, honesty.” - Birthday Girl and “new kind of porn star” Sasha Grey

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