Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Monday, 12 September 2011
New Video coming soon
So tonight I got a bit bored and remembered I had a sex scene on tape (yes tape, my camera is now getting quite old!!) that I filmed sometime late last year, but had done nothing with because, well it was supposed to be a 20+ gangbang of Andrew Kovacs, and noone showed up. However, I did manage to film a 4some between Andrew, his buddy from Switzerland he travelled to London with, the hot'n'sexy Ed Gunn from scene 5 of Treasure Island Media's "Full Tilt", and my buddy cum muse (it seems) Drew Marks. Luckily Drew Marks was passing by, and I managed to persuade Ed Gunn to come over to the hotel that very night when he appeared on BBRT.
Reviewing the footage it's actually quite horny. The scene reminded me that we actually did have a really fun time shooting it - the same weekend we all went to Hardon and had LOTS of fun. All I could focus on during the filming was the fact that nobody had turned up, but actually what I managed to film was really hot. So tomorrow I am going to start cutting the scene. Before I show it to you guys, I will send it to Treasure Island and perhaps some other companys if they don't want it. If I have no luck with selling it (yes I got all the relevant documentation from the performers) then I will put it on my blog for you guys to see.
Wish me luck! :) Soon I will repost some of my old bb fuck vids too. They've been gathering dust and need to see the light again I think! :)
Below is Andrew Kovacs getting fucked by Jasper in a preview of a video I shot for him last year
Cristian
Reviewing the footage it's actually quite horny. The scene reminded me that we actually did have a really fun time shooting it - the same weekend we all went to Hardon and had LOTS of fun. All I could focus on during the filming was the fact that nobody had turned up, but actually what I managed to film was really hot. So tomorrow I am going to start cutting the scene. Before I show it to you guys, I will send it to Treasure Island and perhaps some other companys if they don't want it. If I have no luck with selling it (yes I got all the relevant documentation from the performers) then I will put it on my blog for you guys to see.
Wish me luck! :) Soon I will repost some of my old bb fuck vids too. They've been gathering dust and need to see the light again I think! :)
Below is Andrew Kovacs getting fucked by Jasper in a preview of a video I shot for him last year
Cristian
Sunday, 11 September 2011
The legacy of 9/11, for me.
We all know the global, political legacy of 9/11. But I have been interested, particularly on this day, to question my personal response to the events 10 years ago, and to question our cultural response to the tragic loss of human life.
We all have our memories of that time - what it meant to us, how it changed us, how we felt as the subsequent wars and jingoistic "clash of cultures" overtook our airwaves. But for me, one thing really stands out that I felt I needed to hightlight today. It is what I have taken away from 9/11 - as someone, NOT from the USA, untouched personally by the events except from the indirect cultural shift.
I found myself watching the poor people in New York 10 years ago running from the dust, or clinging to the side of the buildings, and contemplating the sheer horror and suffering that these people were going though. I thought about all the poor people inside the planes. And, as we all do, imagined myself in that position, and how I would feel, and wondered about how I would react. If 9/11 is a tragedy at all, it is surely due to the loss of human life. The 10 year anniversary today has been focussed primarily on those who lost their lives, and the familys of those victims.
So it got me thinking again about what we deam "tragedy", and for what reason. I asked myself this very simple question: "Why are the 3000 dead on 9/11 so much more important than the 12.4 million people in Somalia who are in urgent need of food and are dying at an alarming rate? Why are those 3000 more important than the 40,000 (or so) people losing their lives every year in the USA due to lack of access to healthcare in a soley capitalist/corporatist system which fails to cover everyone?"
Surely this is as much of a national tragedy, if not more so? For, if we take loss of human life to be our indicator of what we consider "tragic", then so much more needless and avoidable human suffering and death should be at the top of our agendas. But it isn't.
And then I got to thinking about the answer. Ofcourse, we as human's are big on symbolism. 9/11 symbolised, in one morning, the fragility of human existance. The images of the towers were cinematic, visual and biblical in scale. It happened very close to home for America. But more than this - the people who died, on the whole were identifiable. By this I mean, they had similar sounding names. They spoke, on the whole, our language. They had, on the whole, our skin colour. They were, in John Pilgers words, the "undeserving dead". As apposed to the thousands of subsequent deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan that are the "deserving dead" whose lives we just cannot bring ourselves to value, and thus think about.
And so, as I too feel sadness at the tragic and needless loss of life witnessed on 9/11 ten years ago, the legacy of the event for me is that it taught me something. It taught me to value human life, AS human life. For every American or British death that I contemplate, I will ask myself why this means more to me than the death of a non Christian heritaged, non-white, non-English speaking human being - dying in numbers that put 9/11 statistics into relative obsurity. I will question others, when they bring up 9/11 about their feelings on the thousands of needless dead in Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria etc. Or the 40,000 a year in the USA. Not because this is more important. But because it is of equal importance. Or atleast it should be if our grief at needlessly lost human life is to mean anything at all! Did those who died in the towers only mean something to us (and America) because they died in the towers, on that day? If anyone of those who died on 9/11 had died due to a drive by shooting, or as a result of a loophole in medical insurance the day before the attack - would we even want to know their names? Their deaths are painful soley because of the situation that lead to their deaths? Surely that is doing a grave disservice to the dead. Every innocent life is of value. So today I don't just think of 9/11. I think of humanity and it's need to co-exist in mutual understanding.
We need to put people/humanity before religion and nationality if we are to grow at all. If religion and nationality means more to us than our common humanity, which I think for many it does, then I believe nothing will ever change. This is harder, I believe for Americans because of the very political nature of their country's existence which means they experience much stronger jingoism from school, the media and culture in general as they grow up. But we all do the same thing and forget our common humanity and the multitude of things that make us the same - choosing to focus instead on the dimentional distinctions that seperate us: religion, politics, nationality, skin colour, sexuality etc.
I watched this wonderful film, 9'11"01 September 11 which I urge you to find and watch too. Alejandro González Iñárritu's section from Mexico ends with a wonderful line "Does God's light guide us, or blind us?". It's a quote that I couldn't help but remember as Obama stood at Ground Zero today, mentioning religious faith as if it were the saviour of humanity. Sadly, it isn't quite so simple!
We all have our memories of that time - what it meant to us, how it changed us, how we felt as the subsequent wars and jingoistic "clash of cultures" overtook our airwaves. But for me, one thing really stands out that I felt I needed to hightlight today. It is what I have taken away from 9/11 - as someone, NOT from the USA, untouched personally by the events except from the indirect cultural shift.
I found myself watching the poor people in New York 10 years ago running from the dust, or clinging to the side of the buildings, and contemplating the sheer horror and suffering that these people were going though. I thought about all the poor people inside the planes. And, as we all do, imagined myself in that position, and how I would feel, and wondered about how I would react. If 9/11 is a tragedy at all, it is surely due to the loss of human life. The 10 year anniversary today has been focussed primarily on those who lost their lives, and the familys of those victims.
So it got me thinking again about what we deam "tragedy", and for what reason. I asked myself this very simple question: "Why are the 3000 dead on 9/11 so much more important than the 12.4 million people in Somalia who are in urgent need of food and are dying at an alarming rate? Why are those 3000 more important than the 40,000 (or so) people losing their lives every year in the USA due to lack of access to healthcare in a soley capitalist/corporatist system which fails to cover everyone?"
Surely this is as much of a national tragedy, if not more so? For, if we take loss of human life to be our indicator of what we consider "tragic", then so much more needless and avoidable human suffering and death should be at the top of our agendas. But it isn't.
And then I got to thinking about the answer. Ofcourse, we as human's are big on symbolism. 9/11 symbolised, in one morning, the fragility of human existance. The images of the towers were cinematic, visual and biblical in scale. It happened very close to home for America. But more than this - the people who died, on the whole were identifiable. By this I mean, they had similar sounding names. They spoke, on the whole, our language. They had, on the whole, our skin colour. They were, in John Pilgers words, the "undeserving dead". As apposed to the thousands of subsequent deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan that are the "deserving dead" whose lives we just cannot bring ourselves to value, and thus think about.
And so, as I too feel sadness at the tragic and needless loss of life witnessed on 9/11 ten years ago, the legacy of the event for me is that it taught me something. It taught me to value human life, AS human life. For every American or British death that I contemplate, I will ask myself why this means more to me than the death of a non Christian heritaged, non-white, non-English speaking human being - dying in numbers that put 9/11 statistics into relative obsurity. I will question others, when they bring up 9/11 about their feelings on the thousands of needless dead in Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria etc. Or the 40,000 a year in the USA. Not because this is more important. But because it is of equal importance. Or atleast it should be if our grief at needlessly lost human life is to mean anything at all! Did those who died in the towers only mean something to us (and America) because they died in the towers, on that day? If anyone of those who died on 9/11 had died due to a drive by shooting, or as a result of a loophole in medical insurance the day before the attack - would we even want to know their names? Their deaths are painful soley because of the situation that lead to their deaths? Surely that is doing a grave disservice to the dead. Every innocent life is of value. So today I don't just think of 9/11. I think of humanity and it's need to co-exist in mutual understanding.
We need to put people/humanity before religion and nationality if we are to grow at all. If religion and nationality means more to us than our common humanity, which I think for many it does, then I believe nothing will ever change. This is harder, I believe for Americans because of the very political nature of their country's existence which means they experience much stronger jingoism from school, the media and culture in general as they grow up. But we all do the same thing and forget our common humanity and the multitude of things that make us the same - choosing to focus instead on the dimentional distinctions that seperate us: religion, politics, nationality, skin colour, sexuality etc.
I watched this wonderful film, 9'11"01 September 11 which I urge you to find and watch too. Alejandro González Iñárritu's section from Mexico ends with a wonderful line "Does God's light guide us, or blind us?". It's a quote that I couldn't help but remember as Obama stood at Ground Zero today, mentioning religious faith as if it were the saviour of humanity. Sadly, it isn't quite so simple!
Friday, 9 September 2011
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