tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849353458940206382.post6425435105714017363..comments2023-04-11T02:48:10.263-07:00Comments on Fulani's limited attention span: A writing experiment - Achtung FetishFulanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14959628434559905605noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849353458940206382.post-38321209561154140752012-05-05T15:31:16.790-07:002012-05-05T15:31:16.790-07:00(That should be 'starting point', of cours...(That should be 'starting point', of course - your comment was about voyeurism so it was probably a Freudian slip!)Fulanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14959628434559905605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849353458940206382.post-34958223750198652222012-05-05T15:29:28.460-07:002012-05-05T15:29:28.460-07:00Thank you! Yes, I've occasionally used paintin...Thank you! Yes, I've occasionally used paintings (or things like notebook jottings of diagrams) as a staring point but using fetish photographs felt like I needed to apply more discipline to the writing to bring out not just the actions depicted and their eroticism, but some of the underlying issues. <br /><br />I don't know whether you could position the photographer as a 'voyeur' since there was (I gather) a lot of discussion between him and the model about the shoot, its theme, the management of the shoot and the type of end result they were looking for. So it might be better to see them as collaborators. That may not be the situation in the porn industry generally but I think it was in this case.<br /><br />As for me - you could position me as a voyeur (I wasn't at the shoot, which was done before I was ever involved, but I was of course viewing the images). But I was, I hope, an active and reflective voyeur. I was both narrating and to an extent analysing what I was seeing, finding frameworks of meaning around it, and trying to address underlying themes through the narrative.Fulanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14959628434559905605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2849353458940206382.post-23722497759834221692012-05-05T10:01:08.696-07:002012-05-05T10:01:08.696-07:00Thanks for this -- what an interesting and fascina...Thanks for this -- what an interesting and fascinating cerebral exercise! I've done a similar thing myself, using paintings as a starting point for my erotic stories. But the series of photographs that you mention, makes it a of more joint narrative. Writer, photographer and, of course model. It also seems to be about positioning, like whom is the voyeur? You, the photographer, both of you?billierosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.com