* Yes, it’s true: we’re doing some very interesting shuffling at Gawker. “Brian Lam, currently at Wired Magazine, will helm Gizmodo, the gadget site.”
* Blink and you missed it: my favorite porn director of all time (yup, gay) Wash West just had a big feature on him in the LA Times. He’s the brilliance behind my faves Naked Highway (super-dreamlike gay Lost Highway), and The Hole (much loved in this podcast) — and he directed the excellent mainstream release The Fluffer (which, interestingly I saw with Mark Pauline when it hit the theaters). Read the great article The XXX factor; snips:
“Another case in point: This May, independent distributor Lionsgate released “See No Evil,” a thriller funded by World Wrestling Entertainment and made by director Gregory Dark, whose extensive list of adult film credits includes “Sex Freaks,” “New Wave Hookers 3” and “The Devil in Miss Jones 5: The Inferno.” Dark, who also has made music videos for Britney Spears and Mandy Moore, declined to be interviewed for this article.
(…) He [West] also says that, although others might have had a difficult time leaving adult films, he didn’t. ‘It’s sort of a glass ceiling — you push hard enough and you will smash through.'”
* Alan Moore’s Lost Girls controversy rages on in The Independent’s article, Erotic Peter Pan ‘sequel’ sparks outrage. Will this book even see the light of day?
* The ever-squeezable Bre Pettis emailed friday to tell me he saw me on the big screen at this weekend’s Gnomedex 6.0 (horrible site) conference in Seattle, and I was in good company: Susan Mernit mentioned many of my friends and colleages in her talk as well (including my yummy pal Dacia). Here was the great link list for her talk; this was the plan for her Sex & Longing talk, and here are her afterthoughts. There was a discussion, and I really really really wish I could’ve been there for that; also because I don’t agree with her statement that we operate in a “shadow world”. Gawker — Fleshbot — is far from a shadow world, not to mention how often this site gets Boing Boinged, and even linked to from mainstream media outlets like Newsweek and WSJ — we’re in the light of day here on Tiny Nibbles, folks. I’m not sure exactly what she said about all of us and what we do, but I’m stoked to see a bunch of us hardworking, very visible sex-positive bloggers *even mentioned* at a conference like this, especially when they had “don’t legalize gay marriage” Senator John Edwards as a keynote douchespeaker.
