Quien es Vicisitud y Sordidez?
An avalanche of traffic (second only to Google) from Spain yesterday, which it turns out traces back to an oblique two word link on the Spainish launguage blog Vicisitud y Sordidez.
The linking words were “tiempo real”, and linked back to a post titled Memo to Sienna Miller: Real sex does not have jump cuts that was half google-bait, and half a meandering riff on the way the passage of time is depicted in love-scenes.
Judging from the number of people who visited via that one little link, Vicisitud y Sordidez has a readership that would makes the world of sex-blogs, even top tier sex blogs, look pretty small. But my command of the Spanish launguage is barely sufficient to allow me to travel in Mexico and usually get on the bus to the right destination, or actually get what I want in a restarunt. It’s no where near sufficient to make heads or tails of what sort of blog Vicisitud y Sordidez is. Even with the help of the Google translator, I really don’t know either the post in particular, or the blog in general is about.
Whatever the case, I think it’s pretty nifty that six months after I made the “jump cuts” post, such a well-trafficed blog found a reason to link to it. But it still leave the question: Quien es Vicisitud y Sordidez? (Sorry, I can’t find the right key combination to put the upside-down question mark at the front of the sentence.)
June 30th, 2007 at 3:11 am
Hello there!
I am a Spanish film, tv, advertising & docummentary editor who does a little blogging for the fun of it. Usually, 400 visits is the average readership in our blog, but I decided to have some fun speaking about my brief work as a porn film editor and that post was sent to “Meneame” - a news-promoting site - being one of the greatest successes of the day. 10,200 visits in just one day!
A little flash-in-the-pan if you ask me… Not even a popular post about F1 - I never intneded being mainstream, just loved F1 from 1986 - came that close.
So, when I was writing the article, did some research on the web and came across your page, which I found quite interesting. Obviously, being an editor, I was surprised by both the jump-cuts article and the one about timing during a sex scene. I feel you are right and assume that what I edited was plainly crap.
But, no, vicisitud y sordidez is not a sex blog. It deals with sex every once in a while, but that post was about EDITING sex. My cousin does have a pretty interesting sex blog - dealing maily withBDSM, politcs, philias, queer theory and some personal issues - which I recommend:
http://la-mosca-cojonera.blogspot.com/
Sometimes, he writes in English and he also gives tips about parties and sex events taking place for foreigners who visit Madrid. You would love meeting him.
Also, I like the overall content of your blog very much. Great work.