A while back, GV staffer and blogger Angelxtacy wrote about Georgina Spelvin’s visit to our Valencia SF store. Well, she’s back! Georgina Spelvin will be presenting The Devil in Miss Jones at the Lumiere Theater as part of the IXFF (Independent Erotic Film Festival) and will be doing Q&A herself following the film. It’s at [...]
I do a great deal of visual research at the Picture Collection in the Public Library in Mid-Manhattan. During one session, I found a 70’s era photo montage in the Erotic folder of photograph of a naked woman collaged into a photograph of a hot dog bun. The artist had also squirted red and yellow paint onto the image. The image struck me in diverse ways–the eroticism, the gross-ness, the rough technique, the offensiveness.
Earlier this year, our Senior Toy Buyer had the joy of attending luminous pornstar April Flores’ art show while in LA. She wrote:
The concept was to take the April Flores Love Toy (aka a cyberskin mold of April’s lower torso) and make a plaster mold. That mold was then given to eight eclectic Los Angeles-based [...]
Late in 2002, when John Cameron Mitchell solicited 10-minute audition videos for his “Sex Film Project” to create a nonpornographic, sexually explicit movie (the final product would be called Shortbus), I had no idea how to make a film. But I had an idea for an audition video, and I had iMovie on my computer, and I had a deadline, so poof! I became a filmmaker.
We’re all pretty excited about the screening tomorrow night of “BDSM – It’s Not What You Think!” The film’s participants, as well as producer Erin Palmquist will be there for Q&A, and so will Dr. Carol Queen, Ph.D who will be hosting the event.
What’s more, Dark Garden — who makes amazing corsets — will be [...]
We caught up with a couple of finalists for the Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Fest, and asked them about their films that will be premiered at the competition screening at the Castro Theatre on September 17th (for more details and tickets, visit gv-ixff.org). Here’s our GV Magazine IXFF Filmmaker interviews: the crew of Mislaid!
GV: [...]
This is Allegra Hirschman’s Directorial Debut, but Co-director April Hirschman has directed several other popular shorts. Shady Bi, a short spoof on advisory warnings told of the the “dangers” of bisexuals to jeopardize the tentative bonds of monosexuals (straights and gays) to get along. Shafted is different because it is character driven while still being campy and fun.
Cam Shot (2008, 4 min.) is a black and white erotic and fetishist film. I wanted to pay a tribute to the amazingly gorgeous women in expressionist film. Therefore, it is a visual essay about lighting, contrast, texture, and make-up. It was filmed in front of a black velvet backdrop with a single spot on the actress (a Lowell 500W). She has dark and white make-up over her whole body so the contrasts are really visible. I think the ratio is almost 16 to1!!! I almost exclusively shoot my projects on Super 8 mm film
Our film for the Good Vibrations IXFF (Independent Film Festival) has been submitted, and now I feel like I can tell you all about it.
The shoot was one of the best experiences I have had in a long time, an experience I am still trying to analyze and digest. Often I get approached to work [...]
We caught up with a couple of finalists for the Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Fest, and asked them about their films that will be premiered at the competition screening at the Castro Theatre on September 17th (for more details and tickets, visit gv-ixff.org). Here’s our GV Magazine IXFF Filmmaker interviews: Travis Mathews, director of [...]
We caught up with a couple of finalists for the Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Fest, and asked them about their films that will be premiered at the competition screening at the Castro Theatre on September 17th (for more details and tickets, visit gv-ixff.org). Here’s our GV Magazine IXFF Filmmaker interviews: Nara Denning, director of “NEUROTIQUE NO.4″!
Our Indie Erotic Film Festival is making waves, and just got written up in the Cleveland Scene — Cleveland’s Cedar Lee Theatre is one of the stops for the festival’s “Second Coming Tour”. Here’s the excerpt that includes an interview with Coordinator Camilla Lombard.
Reel Cleveland: Cedar Lee Gets Erotic
[Cleveland Scene]
The sexual double entendres are endless [...]
Question: Did you have fun at the Masturbate-a-Thon?
Great fun! The Masturbate-a-Thon was held Saturday, and competitors (looking to best the world time record) started at 11 a.m.; I was running around getting ice and stuff, that’s always my last-minute job, and got there at 3 or so. By 4:30 it was time to start the [...]
For This just in from the fantastic Camilla in Marketing:
Good Vibrations is proud to announce IXFF: The Second Coming Tour, a national road show of the Independent Erotic Film Festival’s best shorts. This Spring, Good Vibrations is selecting the very best of past entries from its Independent Erotic Film Festival (IXFF) and taking it on [...]
If you’re in San Francisco and love kinky film, then there’s no better place to be tomorrow night than at the Castro Theatre for Good Vibration’s Third Annual Amateur Erotic Film Festival, sponsored by Tantus Toys and Digital Playground films. This year we’ve gone bi-coastal, accepting entries from both California and Massachusetts for one hot [...]
This weekend San Francisco was literally shaking with Pride. From recent lifting of the Marriage Ban (read about the struggles and slow triumphs of a similar marriage ban such as the history of Anti-Miscegenation laws), to powerful political urges still fighting for justice — for example, the TransMarch focus this Pride was for a transgender-inclusive [...]
How does that song go? … “Sistas are doing it for themselves…”
Well, they are. Giana Taylor, founder of the 1st Annual Urban Spice Awards is recognizing adult industry talent who usually only get their for nods in the “Best Ethnic” categories. Shafted (literally?!) by award after award, this Sunday’s award ceremony brings some [...]
Good Vibrations was voted a “Readers’ Poll Winner” in San Francisco Weekly’s “Best of” 2008 for… you guessed it… sex supplies!
SF Weekly contributor Michael Leaverton knows a thing or two about design, and when it comes to GV’s toys, he’s got his pick on Barry the Beaver and our Beaver launch party at Valencia [...]
Are you going to the Masturbate-a-thon? You don’t have to go in person — you can participate (or just support) from the comfort of your own laptop. The event will even be webcamed (well, a portion of it — hose attending who wish to be on webcam will be seen).
Find out m… m… more!
at:
www.masturbate-a-thon.com
As Smartyboots belatedly alluded to, the cuming of spring brings back the freak in all of us, be it fucking outdoors… getting down at play parties. The term “play party” is a recent one, though the idea of group sex is well documented through the ages, including our friends(s) at wikipedia.
An East Coast friend of [...]
This just in from $pread Magazine… From the Bay Area to the Big Apple, sex workers are organizing for political and economic justice. It’s time to organize our sex worker electorate into a political force and “Grind the Vote!”
We already have voter registration events scheduled for New York City and Washington DC, but we need [...]
Good Vibrations tends to have a lot of in-store events. Whether it’s an After Hours Class, erotica reading, how-to, product launch etc… we like bringing folks into our stores for eats and treats. And we always hope people leave a little happier whether it’s from the information they learned or from the [...]
The folks at the Center for Sex and Culture really know how to have a good time. REALLY!
Need proof? Just check out the Masturbate-a-thon. That’s right, it’s an event to rival all marathons… for those of you training for the AidsLifeCycle right now, I’m sure you’re secretly wishing the event was based on a different [...]
The sex boutique Good For Her in Toronto, Canada, throws an event every year that really blows my mind. The Feminist Porn Awards! They pick out the best indie, sex-positive, and feminist movies, scenes, and scene-makers and compile a list every year.
And, of course, Good Vibrations carries some of these titles!
Here are this year’s winners!
Boundary [...]
I care about the environment. I care about being “green” and try to “do my part”, whether at work or in my personal life. I buy organic. I recycle, reuse and try to reduce. I compost. I buy composting baggies for picking up my dog’s waste (http://www.ecoanimal.com/poopbags.html) . Heck, I buy composting [...]
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I have been working for Good Vibrations for over 3 years now and I was just thinking: I could never see myself working anywhere else. Where else can I talk openly about sex and vibrators while holding a dildo in my hand, or explain why anal sex is healthy and pleasurable—it’s all just another day [...]
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