I’ve seen “porn stars” in person. Some are friends. At Macworld, I joked with someone I’ve done fetish photos with about HD porn, cracking evil snaps about butt pimples and rank surgery scars… and then, as timing has it, today there’s a great piece in the New York Times about porn in HD. (We pinged it on Fleshbot here.) But the best response to this has to be in Clive Thompson’s post when he wrote about *regular* celebrities as seen in HD, snip:
“Back when I wrote my original New York Times Magazine piece on this phenomenon, I was actually pretty gentle in my descriptions of some of the stars I saw in red-carpet footage. I didn’t want to be mean. But the truth was, the majority of them all looked like hell warmed over, and when the camera zoomed in on each full-screen interview headshot, I screamed and screamed like a little girl. It was like being Gulliver in Brobdingnag, queazed out by the sight of the giant’s pores looming like lunar craters. When one well-known celebrity power couple went in front of the camera, both of them looked sephulchral (…)” Link.
* Note: the “$3.6 billion in the United States” that porn allegedly makes, cited in today’s NYT piece — I’d like to see that number verified.
