Bedazzled and Stark Bollock Naked
by Alphaville Herald on 05/04/05 at 10:55 pm
The Herald staff aren’t always as quick off the mark as we’d like to be. When a forum thread on the Bedazzle Nude pics got underway, our editorial board were passed out underneath a poker table following a drunken brawl over the six aces Uri had found in his shirt-sleeve.
So as I sit here in the out-patient ward, I regret that we did not post this link sooner and in accordance with our “All the nudes that’s fit to print” policy.
Executive Summary: A forum-poster responds negatively to a page at the Bedazzle website that displays several of the group’s female members in the nekkid. The pictures were originally shot and featured at Bedazzled’s Chinatown build. The poster suggests that the pics were a publicity-ploy and that their respect for the Bedazzle team took a hit when they saw the developers posing in the nuddy. Spawning 400 posts in 3 days, the majority of which were flameage (“You STFU!”, “No, YOU STFU!”), the thread eventually degenerated and was locked down by Pathfinder Linden. Despite the Star Trek Federation Undergraduate name-calling, there are some interesting topics raised in what remains. The thread touches briefly on art vs porn, the publicity-value of nudity, feminism, real bodies vs virtual bodies and the debate about whether your naked ass can degrade you and your work.
And not real naked ass but computer-generated naked ass; Asses that have questionable physics and – out of consideration for prim-lag – often less junk in the trunk. So uh… that should uh… be a factor to consider.
As always, opinion at the Herald is mixed and still suffering from the secondary effects of a whisky bottle to the skull and a general anaesthetic. So keep your eyes peeled for the next Post Six Grrl – “Phwoaar!” and our forthcoming essay “Virtual boobies as subconceptualist paradigm for postdiscourse constructivism”.
Urizenus
Apr 6th, 2005
wowzers. I’m bedazzled!
raven
Apr 6th, 2005
Wow nice piece too bad you only see on side of this issue. Did you talk to any of the forum posters or are you just talking out your ass again?
Neal Stewart
Apr 6th, 2005
Hi Raven. My talking ass is indeed biased and automagically agrees with whichever side has the most exposed breasts. The point of posting the forum link is to correct this bias by giving you direct access to all sides of the issue. Together perhaps we will find there many talking asses with which we see eye to eye.
Urizenus
Apr 6th, 2005
Raven, what side of the issue is Neal supposedly on, besides “go read the threads”? Let me now give equal time to the other side: Move along folks, nothing to read there.
raven
Apr 7th, 2005
you base your opinions on explosed breasts LMFAO. Ok then I won’t take this site seriously again.
kris
Apr 7th, 2005
uh… I’m pretty sure for the most part this site isnt supposed to be taken seriously. Climb back down outta your own ass, will ya?
Urizenus
Apr 7th, 2005
>you base your opinions on exposed breasts
wow, we have to figure out a way to work that line into the masthead or something. hehe… I said “masthead”.