11 New Manips for Jan 15

[BA2]

Some new images on the Wiki, I hope you like them!

I'd make images and stories and post them even if I thought nobody looked at them - just something I enjoy doing and a way to try and give form to a deep but hard to grasp idea that has been lodged in my head for many years now. So I'm not fishing for feedback or an ego boost or anything here, I'll keep going regardless... but:

If anyone has any opinions - good or bad - then I'm really genuinely interested to hear them. What do you like (or not) and why? What images, scenarios, backstories etc come to mind? What works and what doesn't? The reason I want to know is that the 'bounceback' from someone else's head always sparks off new inspiration. Even the briefest or most left-field comment can spark off a whole new chain of imagination. Basically the more feedback or new work on the board the more pictures, not because I'm being precious about things but because I'll probably have more ideas!

Please forgive my hypocracy in requesing feedback - I know I'm pretty poor at this myself. There is a steady trickle of great images (produced and harvested) and stories on the board which I very much appreciate. Often I think about commenting, over-think, get inspired and end up producing something of my own so: authors, artists and collectors - please take my images as feedback!

Also - I don't guarantee to do requests but I'm always open to suggestions, either general or quite specific. If you want to suggest an idea, image or whatever then please do, if it appeals then I'll certainly give it a go, if not then nothing lost. Even if a suggestion doesn't grab me right away then something similar is likely to bubble to the surface eventually as the thought bounces around. I've done a few private commissions (free and discrete) too if there are any takers - again no guarantee I'll produce.

[Devil]

I look and read everything that you submit through the website. It's incredible. You are such a major contributor, it's great to have so many passionate people involved in our little fetish.

Keep it up!

[General]

I have to concur that I always find your images great, along with the little vignettes. Particularly the 'look' of the women you chose works quite well. They often seem very normal; like they'd be the girl next door or in the next cubicle over which is great. Sure porn star sexbots are fun too but there is something quite intriguing about seeing a girl on the train and having that quick thought that maybe she's a robot.

My only suggestion (since you asked for it) is with the text. For me it's often a little hard to read as the font color seems to blend in with the background. I understand this may be on purpose to keep the words from pulling anything from the picture but sometimes I have to zoom in and squint. Not that I mind all that much but if you're looking for something to improve upon, maybe a new text approach can be added to the product backlog.

[Spaz]

Top shelf, as always.

[smalk]

I simply love your work and envy your talent

[dale coba]

My only suggestion (since you asked for it) is with the text. For me it's often a little hard to read as the font color seems to blend in with the background.

I have much more I want to enthusiastically say about your art, than just to agree with the General; but unfortunately I got a splinter in the tip of my right index finger, so I'm going to have to let that heal a bit before I can get going at my top speed. The track pad is sending little shocks right through my skin where the hole is every time I drag.

- Dale Coba

[dale coba]

Some new images on the Wiki, I hope you like them!

I have these pretensions at understanding graphic design. I'm not convinced that the captioning methods you use are widely in practice elsewhere online, where images are captioned. I know a very large black box with some white text beneath, surrounding a picture, is a great waste of space and is very popular means used by the least technically capable captioners. There are the make-your-own-you-meme sites, but they don't mind plastering large-font characters over pictures which act as familiar icons; so blocking out parts of the image is of no consequence.

I think you need a better method. Of course I would, I have varyingly terrible eyesight. I wonder if there is a picture file format which would enable your text to pop-up with the mouse over a specific location? Otherwise, I would like to see you add as much space to the canvas outside of the frame of the image, as you require to hold your text.

I often look to see where a particular strategy or approach is winning. If I can't find anyone else working it and winning it, I have to wonder if I'm barking up the wrong tree.

-------

False modesty: there is so much going on here, I don't know if I'm ever going to get around to discussing the text! What a gorgeous portrait of a time and place where such as this could be real, normal. Their smiles, their hair and their clothes are so comfortably casual, conveying that in many respects these are entirely normal and well-adjusted pretty young ladies.

A variety of models, and a duplicate. Differently engineered body types. The ease of these robot women standing against the wall, together and unconcerned or threatened by each other's state of undress (because they're in a pause mode, and because they're well-programmed and well-adjusted).

I believe this composition unconsciously evokes the criminal identification lineup, long popular in films and television. "Number four, step forward please." Blondie has some body issues, that's clear by her context with the others - and yet the way she covers herself is conventionally normal human behavior.

Metaphorically, there is a depth of field to this picture. In the back row a world is represented where women are objects as much as if they were marble statues. They may be dressed like people, but they are tidy and compliant like robots. Blondie has her seams visible, so she's not some human who's wandered into the wrong room. She's representing familiar human modesty, though we can see she's no more human then those in the rear.

If we have read the picture carefully before examining the text, the text confirms so much of what we would dare suspect and hope to be the case. Blondie has some mix of human-like drives, but dominating them ultimately is her programming.

The best of both worlds is the one in which many women are confused about what it means to be a Robot or to be a Person; but none of them are confused about what it means to be a Woman.

Her modesty is false in the conventional sense, because her beauty betrays her - she has nothing to be modest about. Her modesty is also false because in a world of beautiful robot women, modesty would not be programmed unless specifically part of a performance for the benefit of her owner.

-----

Director's vision: You take advantage of a strong original image, the actress and the composition. The text is legible, comfortable to engage with. She consents to wearing so little, in daylight on the set in front of people. She consents to standing motionless in a balanced position, but one which would be awkward for human woman to maintain for long. Were she human, the distant look in her eyes would suggest she was lost in thought. We see her cable and open access panels, so we know she is merely lost and without thought.

The text adds exposition to the world of robot actresses. The killer line is left for last, when the object speaks and reveals that she is not some high-strung human actress diva, but a compliant and ego-free tool.

-----

Community: Ultimately, I can read the text. I have to zoom in pretty far though.

I just spotted the conical sections taken out of her areolae. If I rotate them, will those sections line up with voids, so that I may pull on the nipple and remove the apparatus?

The ladies are so casually comfortable with their nudity and artificiality. The phone and cable look to be so technically simple, without the text we might well think that the woman on the left was a human. The simplicity of the composition, the lack of minor details, suggests a simplicity and purity to the relationship between the two robot women.

The text fills in the blanks about what is going on. The words and the meaning convey successfully. I know that I would not be able to stop editing that paragraph, because it still does not quite yet feel to me as if it has been hammered into the most succinct form possible. Don't develop a complex like mine.

-----

Wetware probing: She has a nice confused, absent stare, her head slightly tilted, hair not too much askew. She still adheres to the fembot law of always making her beauty visible - get that hair out of your face, other people's fembots!

Including her fleshy lips is new, daring and I feel it works. I'm not sure that I recall anyone ever going that route. I get the rationale for having her panties wadded up, from the text which is clearly legible; though I feel it could pop a little bit more against the background.

I like how Mrs. White's hands rest on either side of her open cavity. They perform no function in that position, but they convey a certain amount of apprehension, hovering behind a defensive line where her hands rest while the necessary work is completed.

---------

SoftSense: The text is almost completely lost to me, without a great deal of magnification.

Who cares? She's goddamn gorgeous, with her kind face, and her demonstration of kindliness by showing us her naked and electronic, vulnerable perfect body. She sits with the painting behind her, because she is the more important artwork.

I just looked up really, really close between her legs. She is so very, very happy to see us!


- Dale Coba

[N6688]

BA , LOVE the new stuff
You realy put attention to detail in every image you do.
Just keep doing what you are doing on that front
The only thing that i could "complain" about is that your texts tend to blend in the background so sometimes they are pretty hard to read.

ps
I know you only tend to use images of women that look verry realistic (re: just normal girls) but if you want to make an image about a less advanced android from a time the robot companies thought they should only make "perfect" looking bots (re: bimbots) than you can Always use these: http://fembotcentral.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12251