Comments on: Hardcore Influences http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2005/02/10/hardcore-influences/ Real Talk About Making Real Sex Erotic Documentaries Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:46:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Tony Comstock’s Blog » Dildo Retailing Giant Adam and Eve to Drop Toys Containing Phthalates http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2005/02/10/hardcore-influences/#comment-15384 Tony Comstock’s Blog » Dildo Retailing Giant Adam and Eve to Drop Toys Containing Phthalates Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:43:15 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/?p=21#comment-15384 [...] This is great news out of North Carolina. I am also struck by the fact that while the porn industry seems to continue to devolve (just this year Vivid rescinded it’s condom-only policy,), the sex toy industry continues to evolve and I continute to be inspired by the sex toy industry. [...] [...] This is great news out of North Carolina. I am also struck by the fact that while the porn industry seems to continue to devolve (just this year Vivid rescinded it’s condom-only policy,), the sex toy industry continues to evolve and I continute to be inspired by the sex toy industry. [...]

]]> By: Real Talk About Making Real Sex Films » Blog Archive » Google’s Matt Cutts want to know more about sex. http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2005/02/10/hardcore-influences/#comment-14859 Real Talk About Making Real Sex Films » Blog Archive » Google’s Matt Cutts want to know more about sex. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:09:29 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/?p=21#comment-14859 [...] As to your question about my take high-quality porn related sites, I don’t know that I’m the person to ask. I have a vitriolic hatred of nearly all porn, both what is produced and how it’s produced. I take my inspiration from the new generation of sex toy makers (Vixen Creations, Njoy Toys, Fun Factory). They make their money by offering well made products, sold honestly. This approach would bankrupt most porn companies inside of a month. [...] [...] As to your question about my take high-quality porn related sites, I don’t know that I’m the person to ask. I have a vitriolic hatred of nearly all porn, both what is produced and how it’s produced. I take my inspiration from the new generation of sex toy makers (Vixen Creations, Njoy Toys, Fun Factory). They make their money by offering well made products, sold honestly. This approach would bankrupt most porn companies inside of a month. [...]

]]> By: Real Talk About Making Real Sex Films » Blog Archive » Blowfish Does it Again! http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2005/02/10/hardcore-influences/#comment-14763 Real Talk About Making Real Sex Films » Blog Archive » Blowfish Does it Again! Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:15:24 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/?p=21#comment-14763 [...] But then, that’s what Blowfish does – they find the good stuff, and they find first. Blowfish is where I first discovered theVixen Creations String of Pearls. Blowfish is where I discovered the wonderful work of erotic jeweler Jullian Snelling It was after seeing that not even Blowfish had the sex films that I wanted to see that I concluded that they must simply not exist and that I’d have to make them myself. Indeed, aside from pleasing myself, one of my thoughts as I embarked on this quixotic journey was “I want to make something that people who shop at Blowfish might like.” [...] [...] But then, that’s what Blowfish does – they find the good stuff, and they find first. Blowfish is where I first discovered theVixen Creations String of Pearls. Blowfish is where I discovered the wonderful work of erotic jeweler Jullian Snelling It was after seeing that not even Blowfish had the sex films that I wanted to see that I concluded that they must simply not exist and that I’d have to make them myself. Indeed, aside from pleasing myself, one of my thoughts as I embarked on this quixotic journey was “I want to make something that people who shop at Blowfish might like.” [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2005/02/10/hardcore-influences/#comment-21 Anonymous Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:20:00 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/?p=21#comment-21 I think a better way of putting it might be not so much that it's not the customer's job, but that relying on the custoemr as a source of creativity in terms of what to produce is ... well ... it doesn't work. Would <I>Citizen Kane</I> have been made as the result of a poll taken of the average movie-goer of the time? Would Stanley Kubrick have been able to produce <I>2001: A Space Odyssey</I> by asking consumers, "What would you like to see produced next!?" Gimmie a break. I'm not saying that consumers don't play a part. And I'm not saying there isn't room for the quickly produced, easy, money-making all-sex video in today's porn. What I am saying is that relying solely on avid consumers of crap as a source of creative influence is only going to result in more crap. Porn has so much more potential beauty than that, and by no means does that mean giving up the extreme stuff. It just means giving it a professional presentation and context that allows it to transcend the role of "crappy video documentary". Obviously, I'm preaching to the choir. I do think the consumer plays a role, though. It's just that the consumers' needs have to be filtered through the mind of a real movie-maker in order to create something really special. What we have now is little more than the direct translation of hard-on inspired whims. MLyons I think a better way of putting it might be not so much that it’s not the customer’s job, but that relying on the custoemr as a source of creativity in terms of what to produce is … well … it doesn’t work.

Would Citizen Kane have been made as the result of a poll taken of the average movie-goer of the time? Would Stanley Kubrick have been able to produce 2001: A Space Odyssey by asking consumers, “What would you like to see produced next!?” Gimmie a break.

I’m not saying that consumers don’t play a part. And I’m not saying there isn’t room for the quickly produced, easy, money-making all-sex video in today’s porn. What I am saying is that relying solely on avid consumers of crap as a source of creative influence is only going to result in more crap.

Porn has so much more potential beauty than that, and by no means does that mean giving up the extreme stuff. It just means giving it a professional presentation and context that allows it to transcend the role of “crappy video documentary”.

Obviously, I’m preaching to the choir. I do think the consumer plays a role, though. It’s just that the consumers’ needs have to be filtered through the mind of a real movie-maker in order to create something really special. What we have now is little more than the direct translation of hard-on inspired whims.

MLyons

]]> By: Tony Comstock http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2005/02/10/hardcore-influences/#comment-20 Tony Comstock Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:36:00 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/?p=21#comment-20 Of course the whole respect thing is a dance that takes two partners. No matter how good they are, you won't get very far selling $50 dildos (or $85 pyrex anal probes!) if there isn't anyone who's willing to spend that kind of money on something they're going to shove up their ass. Over on <a HREF="http://www.adultdvdtalk.com" rel="nofollow">AdultDVDTalk.com</A> the usual explination given by porn producers on the sad state of their genre is that they're "just giving their customers what they want." This is rediculous. Have you been spending the last 10 or 20 years saying "If only someone would make a pyrex ass toy, I'd pay top dollar for it."? Of course you haven't! It's not the customer's job to articluate a desire for something that doesn't exist; customers can't be expected to know what they want until someone is clever enough to put it in front of them. -T.C. Of course the whole respect thing is a dance that takes two partners. No matter how good they are, you won’t get very far selling $50 dildos (or $85 pyrex anal probes!) if there isn’t anyone who’s willing to spend that kind of money on something they’re going to shove up their ass.

Over on AdultDVDTalk.com the usual explination given by porn producers on the sad state of their genre is that they’re “just giving their customers what they want.”

This is rediculous. Have you been spending the last 10 or 20 years saying “If only someone would make a pyrex ass toy, I’d pay top dollar for it.”? Of course you haven’t!

It’s not the customer’s job to articluate a desire for something that doesn’t exist; customers can’t be expected to know what they want until someone is clever enough to put it in front of them.

-T.C.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2005/02/10/hardcore-influences/#comment-19 Anonymous Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:24:00 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/?p=21#comment-19 Love your blog, Tony. I stop by whenever I get the chance. This particular post made me think of the pyrex anal toy I bought my wife and I (yes... AND I) for Christmas. $85. It was worth every fucking penny. Many toy manufacturers now-a-days really do take time and care to create these things. Like you, I wish more porn were like this as well. MLyons Love your blog, Tony. I stop by whenever I get the chance.

This particular post made me think of the pyrex anal toy I bought my wife and I (yes… AND I) for Christmas. $85.

It was worth every fucking penny.

Many toy manufacturers now-a-days really do take time and care to create these things. Like you, I wish more porn were like this as well.

MLyons

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