baby art blog

an hour in the company of yuka and sachi packaged in a neat digipack/hardback book style cover – if you’re a kokusyoku sumire fan there’s not much doubt that you want it or already have it

so i’ll just comment on the bonus track (and something that annoys me about japanese) – it’s footage of their trip to paris with some completely retarded japanese dubbed voiceovers of the french fans – admittedly some rather retarded french fans, but that’s besides the point – i’m sure they’ll be hugely offended if/when they see it and immediately become ex-fans – japanese always adopt preposterous ridiculing dubbed voices even for serious foreign films

sad confession of a middle-aged man – i’ve been attempting to buy a custom blythe doll off the japan yahoo auction recently – but always outbid by girls a third of my age who already have collections of 200 of them – grrr! – these things ain’t cheap ($300-$1000 or more), where’d they get the money? – probably from screwing middle-aged men like me!

out-of-the-box new blythes are damn ugly – these transformations by custom blythe doll hobbyists definitely “Art” imho – everything reshaped and remodeled: clothes, hair, eyes, eyesockets, eyelids, eyelashes, nose, chin, mouths, complexion, make up… – altho they are all mostly much of a muchness – a ubiquitous frilly-frilly goth image – personally i’m ideally looking for a schoolgirlish doll with simple bob cut – tho the top pic above was the first one i bid on (cheek blush somewhat over-zealous but i was in love)

the doll/assemblage below, just found by my wife, rather cute (and rather mark ryden)

ps: blythe pronounced “brice” in japan as “blythe” is completely unpronounceable for japanese – and the yahoo auction generally adopts the system of adding five or ten minutes to the completion time when anyone bids in the last five or ten minutes – defeats the last-second bidders that makes ebay a bit of an unfair sham

tribute by bonnie

original painting from january 2004

original rough scribble (note complete lack of artistic ability, haha!)

the inspiration – our cat “rocket”s neuter op (out of focus)

another inspiration / reference photo – (same photo also more directly copied previously for this)

the uk recently bulldozed in laws to criminalise possession of “extreme pornographic images” – ie: anything “grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene nature”, anything life-threatening; anything causing (or liable to cause) injury to breasts, anus or genitals; necrophila; bestiality; and any realistic likenesses of

now the uk are bringing in new laws making all images of child sexual abuse illegal – this specifically includes computer-generated images and drawings (!) – any one in possession of such images will face criminal charges and up to three years in prison under the new proposals – this is supposedly being introduced to close “a loophole” and magically rid england of it’s paedophile problem – hmm, sounds more like thought crime to me despite the feeble reassurances of the ministry of justice:

This is not about criminalising art or pornographic cartoons more generally, but about targeting obscene, and often very realistic, images of child sexual abuse which have no place in our society

so i wonder how the guidelines will be written up – presumably focus on or actual depictions of genitalia and penetration etc an automatic no-no – ie: the above work by the chapman brothers?! – and, as i said before here, who decides how old a non-existing girl in a drawing is? – especially in cartoony hentai manga (which it feels the law is mostly targeting?) – fat bums and big tits only permitted under the new world order?

this is victimless crime – no harm committed to anyone by looking at stupid manga – drawing a child is not the same as raping a child! – a drawing cannot (but is) being put on the same level as a photograph – the “supply and demand” axiom gets trotted out again despite the lack of any scientific evidence – censorship does nothing to directly prevent actual child abuse (arguably could even cause it!) – the problem won’t go away…

seeds to the death of freedom of expression – say hello 1984

detectives from the child protection and sex crimes unit seized pictures from roslyn oxley9 gallery in sydney acting on a complaint from child abuse zealot hetty johnston concerning a “sexualised” image of a “scarred for life” 13 year old girl on an invitation to the exhibition by bill henson found online

bill henson; no comment

and that’s sort of how i feel too – i scrolled over two weeks worth of boring bickering re “child porn or art?” – for some reason the case doesn’t really interest me as much as it should? – perhaps because it’s photography rather than drawings/paintings? – and perhaps, as the subject of one or two controversies of my own, i find the whole nature of controversies, and the attendant opinionated ignorance, all very tedious and ultimately pointless

the whole matter has now come to a full stop – after all the accusations and threats, federal police have announced that no charges will be made over the photographs, following the director of public prosecutions view that a case would be unlikely to succeed, and the images were cleared by a classification board as “mild” and safe

so, in all, a grand waste of time – all the public and legal and political drama (prime minister kevin rudd dismissed the photos as “absolutely revolting”) – all instigated by one member of the public holding the belief the naked body is “obscene” – and the one person to actually benefit most (at least in terms of attention) from all the hysteric nonsense is target bill henson – well done hetty!

i think the approved for distribution images with black bars are far more sick and disturbing than the original photos