Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician and a computer scientist. Born in Kentucky in 1946, Rucker moved to Silicon Valley when he turned 40. Rucker has published twenty-five books, primarily science-fiction and popular science. He was an early cyberpunk and an editor at Mondo 2000. He often writes SF in a style is characterized as transreal. His most recent novels were Frek and the Elixir, a far-future epic about a boy's galactic quest to restore Earth's ecology and As Above So Below, a historical novel based on the life of the sixteenth century painter Peter Bruegel.  Rucker is a professor emeritus of computer science at San Jose State University, where he created a number of freeware programs relating to chaos, artificial life, cellular automata, higher dimensions, and computer games. He is presently working on The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul, a nonfiction book about computers and the nature of reality. Rucker's website can be found at www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker or at www.rudyrucker.com.

Oh Me Oh My

First, I read about the "Female Security Device" on ErosBlog. Patent #: 5,769,090. Inventor: Norma Brown. Description: "The Female Security Device is designed to defend and protect a woman against rape." Features: Evidence Retrieval Needle, Internal Audio Recorder, Fully Deployable Airbag, Additional Optional Superglue.

Then, somebody told me about "Impenetrable Devices." Creator: Ira Sherman. Concept: "Sherman’s sculptures are beautiful, medically graphic, anatomically correct, intimately worn, stainless steel prostheses that effectively stop any intruder but in no way are limited by considerations of plausible use or practicality." Bells & Whistles: "The Electric Fence"'s 500 volts, "Cremasteric Reflex Corset"'s pneumatic-driven cutlery, "The Injector"'s hypodermic syringes with sedatives.

After that, I had to lie down. Link Discuss

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I'm in Love with an Android

Cruising through the all too small dirty comiXXX section of Meltdown on this Christmas Eve, I discovered "Little Tokyo Rose." What a lucky girl I am. Indeed, how Santa must love me so to send me such a fine new pervy graphic comic book for Christmas. Yes, I did give it to my boyfriend, but he hasn't had a chance to read it yet, as I promptly scooped it up in my sweaty mitts and haven't put it down since.

Rose, you see, is a robot. She was made in Japan at the "Yamasaki pleasure-bot factory," and then she was shipped right off to work at a 'bot brothel in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles. Don't you hate it when that happens? There, she met a 'bot lovin' boy with a penchant for metal heads, and the two soon set out on a cross-country, cops-a-chasin' joy-ride replete with heavy software petting.

"Little Tokyo Rose," written by one David Lance, has been published by Esoterotica Press, and the best part is that "Little Tokyo Rose" can be in your damp little grasp too for a mere $5. Of course, you can also check out Rose's website and sit around the house watching her robot boobs jiggle or drool spittle all over your monitor in her pinup calendar section, but you're much better off buying the comic today. Dare I say, this may be the kookiest graphic sexcapade since Martin met Tina! Link Discuss

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Porn, Hold the Sex

Laura Carton is a Brooklyn-based artist who unites Adobe Photoshop and hardcore pornography to create--what else?--art. In Carton's photographs, messy beds lay abandoned, a horse stands alone atop a hill, two paddle-boats sculpted like ducks float empty in a lake. What's missing? The erotic acts that used to be featured in these adult snapshots, snagged from various porn sites on the Web. Apparently, Carton, whose formerly-X-rated art is looking to turn her into the hottest porn artist since Jeff Burton and/or Larry Sultan, got inspired when she came across a porn still wherein a copy of "The Grapes of Wrath" was sitting innocently in the background. Carton subsequently got busy with the Clone function of Photoshop, and systematically removed all traces of obscene action from the shot. Why? Who knows.

The resulting artworks are titled according to whatever website they were nabbed from, and Carton is "concerned but not unduly worried" about being sued by an enterprising pornographer, whose porn is being offered at higher prices to art-inspired Manhattanites, for copyright infringement. Carton also has lots of artsy-fartsy things to say about her work, revolving around a "rewrite of the narrative"--and her gallerist offers up something involving "a spirit that exists within"--but, in the end, the photos are just plain interesting anyhow. Link Discuss

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The Operation

[Caution: Clicking on links herein will lead to graphic imagery.] Recently, someone asked me, as people are sometimes wont to do, if there are any prOn movies out there that are actually any good. In most cases--take, for example, "Bat Dude and Throbin" or "White Men Can't Hump"--the answer is, indeed, "No." But, there is one exception. "The Operation" is 13-minutes of more art-film than adult-film, spectacularly shot in medical-grade infrared. Inside a tiled and antiseptic operating room, a group of Haz-Matted operating room assistants gather, rendered ghostly and abstract by the medium. Head surgeon Gina Velour begins a rather racy series of intimate procedures upon her gurney-bound patient Otto Wrek (a.k.a. Jacob Pander), and the ensuing action enables also-the-director Pander (in a double role!) to serve up sex like ne'er before. It's hi-tech prOnography that elevates writhing bodies to erotic transparencies. The film went on to win the Chicago Underground Film Festival in 1995 and has gone on to take on cult status among prOnnoisseurs.

Gina Velour:

"...there's always a question involved: once your clothes are off, how do you make the nudity interesting? You want it challenging and thought-provoking instead of just pornographic. So this feeling of wanting to explore nude photography led to using the infrared. But you know, the first time I saw myself on screen filmed in infrared, it was completely shocking! We had no idea what this effect would look like. We were on set, on the gurney, ready to start and we looked at the monitor and it was mind-blowing! I felt like 'The Invisible Woman' plastic model! All my veins were showing, all my arteries."

Over at good ol' Stroke Magazine, one can peruse a wide-ranging collection of stills from "The Operation." (I couldn't get the online video of it to play, myself, but, I'm sorry, no, I will not loan you my copy, even if this is the season of giving.) Link Discuss

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