The Brutality of a Toxic Love

quote [Julia Fox, artist and head designer of Franziska Fox, recently released a graphic, autobiographical art book titled Heartburn/Nausea. The book acts as a character sketch, exposing flashes of intimate details that add up to mold a vision of a troubled girl. There is no hesitation between honesty and story telling, as this book is a collection of literal documents from the artist’s life. The book is extremely raw and almost devastatingly personal. She invites us into her own past, for just a moment, allowing us to truly have an experience through her memories].

‘I just wanted to take something bad and make it good. For myself, but also for anyone else that has been in a fucked up situation’ Julia Fox

(via Beautiful/Decay)

Chas Ray Krider Photography

quote [Chas Ray Krider's photographs are part of a tradition of erotic art that employs exaggeration, mystery and the guilty pleasures of voyeurism. His photographs are about the forms employed in narrative based erotic art. Chas Ray's work is widely exhibited and published, including two solo book, Motel Fetish by TASCHEN (2002) and Do Not Disturb by La Musardine of Paris (2007)].
Portfolio at Tumblr.
[Thumbnail model: Sophie King]

Paintings for Ants by Lorraine Loots

quote [Potluck 100 | Paintings for Ants is a project by Cape Town-based miniaturist painter Lorraine Loots. The project follows on 2013's 365 Paintings for Ants and 2014's 365 Postcards for Ants.

A collection of 100 miniatures are to be painted throughout 2015. These will be painted over 25 weeks, on themed days, namely: Microcosm Mondays, Tiny Tuesdays, Fursdays and Free Fridays. The weeks will be announced randomly as the year goes along, the dates of the paintings thus becoming the "potluck" element.

All 100 original paintings will be auctioned on Instagram, framed in raw wood and exhibited, before being sent to their owners in February 2016. A limited edition of 10 prints will be released for each of the 100 paintings. The prints will be released later in the year].

Outtakes from The Sex Book by Madonna and Meisel

I've been a big fan of Madonna erotic photography and in 1992 I also had a copy of The Sex Book, but I never seen before this collection of amazing "Outtakes" by Steven Meisel. Enjoy if you can!
And you can find more @ Extreme Outtakes and @ Madonna Outtakes, but not the same ones.... 

Artists and Their Cats

quote [Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, so many great artists have one very furry thing in common: cats. Gathered here for the first time by editor Alison Nastasi are behind-the-scenes stories of more than 50 famous artists and their feline friends. From Salvador Dali's pet ocelot Babou to John Lennon and Yoko Ono's menagerie of cats, Artists and Their Cats from Chronicle Books captures these endearing friendships in charming photographs and engaging text].

Alison Nastasi is an artist and journalist based in Philadelphia. She is the weekend editor of Flavorwire.
[Thumbnail: Herbert Tobias / Photograph by Peter Fuerst; @ 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn]

Bisexual Husbands by Violet Blue

Bisexual Husbands is the new exciting book by Violet Blue, blogger, writer, journalist, sexpert and super(h)eros at Tiny Nibbles.

Bisexual Husbands is now available for purchase on Amazon or directly on Digita Publications, Violet Blue's store where readers can find her self-published works and buy them direct.

quote [Seven stories skillfully depict seven different bisexual husbands whose cravings for a same-sex tryst have reached the point of no return, and their wives can't wait to watch -- or join in, sometimes controlling the action. Layered characters and vivid, clever fantasies drive this compendium of bisexual men in loving couples who want to get dirty -- sometimes taking turns as the center of a three-way where there's truly no limits].

Books: The Fetish Collection by Paul Burns

Published by The Aboulia Press and distributed via Amazon and Kobo, The Fetish Collection is a book for those who would like to read more about sexual variation.
Written by Paul Burns "...the thirteen short stories and novella that make up The Fetish Collection are very varied other than each including at least one unusual sexual preference. These range from ablutophilia (bathing) to zonaphilia (girdles) by way of obsessions with the likes of balloons, dolls, food play, painted toenails, shoulders and yachts..
The characters deal with issues at different stages of life including a boy who can’t understand why men stare at his mother, a student grappling with honesty, a priest who no longer has faith, grief in old age and a woman facing imminent death. Some stories feature explicit sexual scenes, others are coyer. Surprises abound".

Japanese flip books for Xmas

An incredible collection of Japanese flip books published by Mou Hitotsu no Kenkyujo. You can buy them on Amazon.

Tokyo Blue by Romain Slocombe

Cast Clinic is a "behind the scenes" footage about the making of Tokyo Blue, the new photography book by Romain Slocombe.
Slocombe is an anglo-french photographer obsessed with Japanese women, medical fetishism and accidents. Tokyo Blue features scenes of everyday Tokyo life and people combined with some hospital scenes, kinbaku, crutches, bandages, wheelchairs, and hospital beds.

Dust & Grooves

Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting is an inside look into the world of vinyl record collectors in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. It all started out several years ago as nothing more than a way for photographer Eilon Paz to make use of his idle hours. Adrift in Brooklyn after emigrating from Israel, Eilon—a record collector on the side—thought it might be fun to start taking photos of people whose record collections were both larger and weirder than his own.

The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society

The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society is a group of friends, and friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends, and complete strangers, who love good books and sunny days and enjoying both as nearly in the altogether as the law allows.

quote [Happily, in New York City, the law allows toplessness by both men and women. So that’s the way we do our al fresco reading. If you’re in New York and the weather’s good, won’t you join us sometime…? To find out when and where we’ll be meeting next, write to us at toplesspulpfiction[AT]gmail.com].

Books: Illusions of the Body by Gracie Hagen

Our beloved Chicago-based photographer Gracie Hagen released an amazing new book featuring her photography series titled Illusions of the Body.

The original photographic serie Illusions of the Body is "...made to tackle the supposed norms of what we think our bodies are supposed to look like. Most of us realize that the media displays only the prettiest photos of people, yet we compare ourselves to those images. We never get to see those photos juxtaposed against a picture of that same person looking unflattering. That contrast would help a lot of body image issues we as a culture have" explains Gracie Hagen.

The book (Full Color, 100 pages, Bound Softcover, Matte Cover Finish, 8.5”x11”) includes 17 never before released images and all advance purchases will be numbered and signed by the artist (Limited Edition Signed Pre-Order $50 unsigned post release $60 Books will be shipped May 1st).

You can buy the book directly @ Gracie Hagen website or meet the artist at the book Launch Party (April 26th, 2014 at 8pm -11pm) Forte Framing and Gallery in Chicago.

Come pick up a copy and get it signed by the artist! 

Michael Cogliantry: Furry Kama Sutra

Michael Cogliantry is US based, award-winning editorial and advertising photographer with a background in fine art photography.
Furry Kama Sutra is a photographic serie and a video project called Furverts. The project consists of three short video clips, each featuring various fursuited characters interviewed in the style of a slice-of-life documentary. The title alludes to the fact that each episode features a brief sex scene. Furry Kama Sutra was released as a collectible fur-covered book/dvd set.

Book: Playboy Behind the Scenes

The awarded photo book "Playboy Behind The Scenes" (...by Patrick Van Dam) gives a unique look into the mysterious world of Playboy Magazine through personal and intimate photos of tangible moments during Playmate and celebrity photo shoots. Over 150 photos of unexpected, undirected and natural responses; humor, disillusionment, absurdism and vulnerability in an erotic setting.

Fetishisms Manifesto by Jonathan Leder

Curated by Amy Nicole Hood and photographed by Jonathan Leder, Fetishisms Manifesto is a bi-annual erotic publication “inspired by the under the counter nudie-mags of the 1950s.
Featuring photographs of Emily Ratajkowski, Britany Nola, Amy Hood, Marlo Lavonne and more.

[Previously on... Jonathan Leder at Unscathed Corpse]

Interactive Chart of Biblical Contradictions

quote [A few years ago, computer science whiz Chris Harrison created a beautiful visualization linking up every cross reference in the Bible. So, for example, if a verse in the New Testament referred back to a verse in the Old Testament, there was an arc drawn between the two chapters they were in (the vertical lines at the bottom represent the number of verses in that chapter). Turns out there are 63,779 cross references in the Bible (and that many arcs in the image)! If it’s any indication of how complex this image is, the high-resolution version is more than 100MB large.

In 2009, graphic designer Andy Marlow used Harrison’s work as his inspiration to created a similar visual for Sam Harris‘ Reason Project. This time, though, he only included arcs representing contradictions in the Bible.

Now, computer programmer Daniel G. Taylor has taken all that data and turned it into a visual masterpiece.
His website, BibViz (Bible Visualization), gives you the same linking arcs as before, but when you hover over one of them, it lights up and tells you in the upper right-hand corner of the screen which verses are being linked together. Click on an arc and it takes you directly to those verses as compiled in the Skeptics Annotated Bible]

(via Patheos)

Barbara Nitke: American Ecstasy Book

American Ecstasy is a memoir in pictures and words of the twelve years photographer Barbara Nitke spent shooting stills on porn movie sets in New York City. [Photo Gallery].
The book takes place in the 1980's at the end of the Golden Age of Porn, as the industry transitioned from high budget, scripted film productions to smaller and ever cheaper video shoots. Nitke's images reveal the contradictions inherent in the business - great beauty, tinged with sadness, punctuated by surreal silliness. As she chronicles the sights and sounds of life on the sets, her stories also reveal her own struggle to come to terms with the end of her marriage and her fascination with the sexual outlaws of the porn world. Among the porn stars featured are Ron Jeremy, Vanessa del Rio, Nina Hartley, Sharon Mitchell, Sharon Kane, Siobhan Hunter, Jeanna Fine, Damian Cashmere, Tasha Voux, and many more. Directors include Henri Pachard, Candida Royalle, Lasse Braun and others. American Ecstasy is now available online.
[Previously: Barbara Nitke: The Sexuality Project]

Crafting with Cat Hair

I wonder if someone already started crafting with human hair, meanwhile here's a book to learn how to make cute handicrafts with your cat. Crafting with Cat Hair shows readers how to transform stray clumps of fur into soft and adorable handicrafts. From kitty tote bags and finger puppets to fluffy cat toys, picture frames, and more, these projects are cat-friendly, eco-friendly, and require no special equipment or training.
[Previously on... cats at Unscathed Corpse]

Voices from the Corridor by Jan Van Rijn

The Voices from the Corridor are a collection of erotic fast fiction by Annemarie Ryders and Jan Van Rijn, each one preceded by a drawing as a highlight and key. The primary story element is the text, with the illustrations and graphic compositions used as essential stylistic devices to convey atmosphere as well as interpretation. So the book is really an illustrated narrative with features of Comics and Graphic Novel.

360° Christmas book by Yusuke Oono

quote [Germany-based artist Yusuke Oono brings Christmas to life with his latest 360 degree book. At the spine of the laser-cut book is a Christmas tree which the holiday characters revolve around. Santa Claus, a snowman and several reindeer surround the decorated tree].
(via Made In Slant)