but how do i broadcast a webcam on my website these days? still images, every 30 seconds old school cam girl style?

i am on a MAC. i have an internal (attached) cam and an external one..is there a way to run/alternate both?

I love the internet. Talk about viral!!!


Women Against Sarah Palin

I Hate You Sarah Palin!

so i was given this fab blackberry curve (T-Mobile) but i am debating between getting T-Mobile contract or selling it and getting an iPhone (AT&T) so, what do you think??

my needs are:

* phone service with good reception in brooklyn and manhattan (shockingly spring does not have that, my current provider)
* good textin' abilities!
* easy email access and able to manage multiple email accounts (gmail)
* ability to view and update my google calendar OR sync google calendar
* to use a maps feature (ex google maps) and hopstop.com
* good reception, few dropped calls, internal speaker relatively loud (i'm partially hard of hearing)
* the ability to distinguish blocked calls from normal numbers or in my phone book (ringer profiles?)

what i'd like to be able to do (bonus):
* update blogs (wordpress)
* update my twitter
* check facebook + myspace
* listen to music (itunes, pandora.com), watch video (youtube, etc)

i am questioning whether or not i should have a public site again or just stay on LJ "friends only" style.

i realize i used to post all3all about my sexual exploits and seeing as i've been a married old hag for the past year, it is a little difficult to find juicy tidbits of gossip to share. i'm not really interested in discussing the intimate details of my relationship here.

woah. news flash. roommate #1 just texted me that the sex party / cruisin' thing on the pier in greenpoint got shut down (hilarious) and roommate #2 had her fuckin' wallet stolen at a show just now -- ON HER BIRTHDAY. what gives?!

back to my story, though. this may seem comical to most civilians, particularly those fond of sex and the city, but recently i've stumbled across several of my lovers while with my current beau. he always asks who's that or how do i know them and i proceed to quite honestly explain, quite matter of factly, the context in which i came to fuck them. this is a common occurrence, perhaps most common that i expected.

i live in a city of eight million and i've slept with under 100 people. statistically, the odds are in my favor. so what gives?

in the past week, j. and i ran into my former lover s. while in a coffee shop. granted, we both lived in prospect heights and frequented the bakery but what a fluke. i explained we met at a fetish party. me, dressed head to toe in latex, corsetry, 4" heels and a smattering of matte red lipstick. her, in all her soft butch glory, perfect katherine moening cheekbones, cropped tight curls, and bewildered look. she looked deliciously out of place and i took full advantage of it. we didn't go home together that night, but we certainly did after that. she was chivalrous, albeit an alcoholic so despite the fact she would insist on paying for things when we went out, she was too drunk to do it and i would get the bill. s. disappeared after a few weeks and i had only run into her once before this recent encounter since we were sleeping together.

and then there was last night. out for a date with my guy, enjoying downtown west side to east side, and stopping for something to satiate my sweet tooth on the lower east side. j. went to use the loo and i suddenly hear my name being called. then my last name, then the school i went to. so of course, i turned and i see this african-american guy who looks entirely unfamiliar to me. my heart sort of stops. i don't like when people know who i am, but i don't know who they are. i look at him quizzically.

"sorry, do i know you?" i asked. he said that he had something that might jog my memory. he handed me his ID. he looked similar to the man standing before me with locks to his shoulder. i glanced at the name. nicholas. nicholas? who the fuck is nicholas? my mind raced to place the name, the photo, the man standing before me before things got completely awkward. and then it hit me. nicholas. NICK.

oh right. i had an unfortunate one night stand with this fellow maybe my third year of college. he ended up sleeping on the couch of our common space and i locked the door behind him. no sense in letting him return for seconds.

we made small talk in the cake line while i picked out my vegan desert. he's been in the city four months, DC since he has graduated, and thinks he looks different now. i smiled, playing off my utter loss for recognizing him on his new hair style. the truth is he wasn't a particularly good lay, certainly not memorable amongst those i've bedded.

i paid for my slice and said i had to head back to my boyfriend. we hugged, awkwardly and brief, and then he went back to the bar next door. he had recognized me from the street!

i am lucky to have a fabulous fag boyfriend who can cooly see through my sexual exploits to the real, nerdy, loveable me.

and as what? i want yr ideas!

thanks xoxo

a non-descript subway car, stark lighting. women in their late 20s through late 30s in black business attire (mostly suit jackets and slacks), chic. plain faces, without makeup, some with glasses, others without. some listening to ipods, others with eyes shut, some reading. one woman in the middle in a black pencil skirt, white starched blouse, black jacket with brown or blonde hair (maybe red?) pulled back into a bun. she is wearing striking red lipstick and looking towards the camera.




no new projects or responsibilities without benefiting the creative process, without making art.

$pread Magazine Reading Event

February 6, 7-9pm, at Bluestockings, NYC, NY

On Wednesday February 6th, join $pread staff and contributors for a reading event at Bluestockings bookstore to celebrate the launch of issue 3.4.

Featured readers include $pread contributors Gerry Visco, Chelsea O'Neill, and $pread 2006 cover boy Rich Merritt, author of Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star and Code of Conduct.

Wednesday February 6th 7-9pm Bluestockings bookstore (bluestockings.com)

172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington

.......
Subj: 1/17 THU: Sex Workers' Action New York (SWANK) mtgs

SWANK - Sex Workers' Action New York Upcoming Meetings

About Us:
SWANK is a group of radical, current and former
sex workers who are committed to building community
and providing support to sex workers and our allies.

We identifity as sex-positive, gender-inclusive, radical,
queer-positive, kink and BDSM-friendly, critical of capitalism
(though not necessarily anti-capitalist).

We are opposed to and don't tolerate any form of
oppression, including but not limited to: stigmatization,
stereotyping, homophobia, racism, ageism, sizeism,
transphobia, sexism, and patriarchy.

UPCOMING CLOSED MEETING for current/former sex workers
[First Monday of the month]
Monday, January 7th, 7pm - 9pm
For location information, please contact swank AT riseup.net
For new members, please contact us at least 3-4 days in advance.

UPCOMING OPEN MEETINGS for current/former sex workers and our allies
[Third Thursday of the month]
Thursday, January 17th, 7pm - 9pm
at the Urban Justice Center - Sex Workers' Project. 123 Williams
Street (near Fulton St.), 16th Floor.

TRAINS: #2, 3 to Fulton; #4, 5, J or weekday M or Z to Fulton St. &
walk east; A, C to Broadway-Nassau & walk 2 blocks east; E to World
Trade & walk 4 blocks east; R to City Hall and walk 7 blocks SE.
(Recall that Cortlandt St. is closed & the N never serves Financial
District stops before Midnight.) BUSES: M1, M6, M9, M15, M22,
B51. Financial Dist. street MAP w/ trains at http://tinyurl.com/mg9bb.

Please join our mailing list for more information and in case
of any changes: https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/swank

Visit our myspace: http://www.myspace.com/weareswank

i have a canon elph and a mac and all of a suddenw hen i try to connect the camera to my computer, it doesn't register that it is connected. it just tries to continue taking photos like it isn't registering....

any advice on how to rectify this???

thank you.

things are maybe working out. who knows. in time.

greetings from baltimore.

This Saturday it's the 24th Annual Mermaid Parade at Coney Island! Rain Or Shine.

The Mermaid Parade is the nation's largest art parade and one of New York City's greatest summer events. It celebrates the sand, the sea, the salt air and the beginning of summer, as well as the history and mythology of Coney Island, Coney Island pride, and artistic self expression.

For parade participants, registration begins at 10AM, Parade begins at 2PM. Procession to the beach and the ceremonial ribbon cutting immediately following the parade. This years King and Queen are Lucky Diamond Rich, The World's Most Tattooed Person and Bambi The Mermaid, The Queen Of Coney Island!. Spectators are advised to arrive early for best viewing spots and please use mass transit.

Immediately following the Parade, it's The 4th Annual Mermaid Parade Ball. The ball is the perfect way to chill out after the parade. Join us for the air-conditioned splendor of club Velocity, located in the historic Henderson's Building, for a beautiful evening of Mermaid Parade afterglow.

Featuring Live Music from
Les Sans Culottes, Future in Plastics, The Marina, DJ One Mic.

With burlesque and sideshow performances by Tigger, Little Brooklyn, Creamy Stevens, Todd Robbins, Adam "The Original Man" Rinn, and other superstars!

Saturday, June 24th
5-11PM at Velocity
3015 Stillwell Ave. (opposite Nathan's)
The Mermaid ball tickets are $10, VIP Tickets $50 (21 and over).

While installing My new iPod, I selected "Automatically update my ipod from the library" but now I can't switch it back to "manual!"


How do I de-select that option and manually add and remove songs and playlists from my ipod (video ipod, the new one) using itunes?

I can't find the option on how to rectify this anywhere!!!

Thank you

Seeking cheap, compact (Elph-like in size), digital camera with pretty good to great quality, OPTICAL zoom (3x preferred), and rechargable batteries.

Any advice?

The photos are just to basically replace disposable point and shoot. Something small, tough, hopefully unlikely to break. The cheaper the better. 2 or 3mp, more would be great, too.

Let me know thank you :)

I am so upset that I won't be able to make the reception to see Ana & Melissa's work! What a tragedy!!!
I will be on my way to Amherst by then.

Fuck!

In any case, everyone should go and support these wonderful artists and women!

$pread presents Sex Worker Visions, an exhibition featuring art by sex workers
and about the sex industry, at the LGBT Community Center David Bohnett Cyber
Center at 208 West 13th Street, New York City, from March 29 – May 20. Visions
kicks off with an opening reception on March 29 from 6 to 9 pm.
Visions is curated by Audacia Ray, Executive Editor of $pread and former
Assistant Curator at the Museum of Sex. Artists include sex activist and
educator Heather Corinna, former SuicideGirl and illustrator Molly Crabapple,
exotic dancer and photographer Charise Isis, and former prostitute and
filmmaker Anne Hanavan, as well as Paul Sarkis and George Pitts’ intimate
portraits of porn stars. Photographs by Erin Siegal and illustrations by Fly
and Cristy Road originally appearing in $pread will also be on display. Sales
will benefit the non-profit magazine.

The March 29 event is also the opening night of the Sex Work Matters conference,
a joint venture of CUNY and the New School (http://www.sexworkmatters.net). The evening
also marks $pread's one year anniversary, and the Spring issue of the magazine
will be available for sale at the reception.

For opening night only, the exhibit will be completely interactive with a webcam
video project, “30 Second Sex,” masterminded by multimedia artist and erotic
professional Melissa Gira (http://www.sacredwhore.org) and featuring webcam pioneers Ana Voog (http://www.anacam.com) and Echo
Transgression (http://www.artvamp.com) camming from remote locations. Computer monitors around the Cyber
Center will display the websites of sex worker rights advocacy groups for the
public to peruse. Former call girl Tracy Quan along with sex worker activist
Carol Leigh (aka Scarlot Harlot: http://www.unrepentantwhore.com/) will be signing copies of their respective
books, Diary of a Married Call Girl and Unrepentant Whore.

WHAT: Sex Worker Visions opening reception
WHERE: LGBT Community Center’s David Bohnett Cyber Center, 208 W. 13 St., NYC
WHEN: 6–9 PM

The Sex Workers' Art Show Tour is coming to your town! The show is a critically-acclaimed eye-popping evening of visual and performance art created by people who work in the sex industry to dispel the myth that they are anything short of artists, innovators, and geniuses!

The wildly successful cabaret-style show is hitting the road again to bring audiences a blend of burlesque, spoken word, music, and multimedia performance art, as well as a visual art display that travels with the show. Intelligent and hot, disturbing and hilarious, the performances offer a wide range of perspectives on sex work, from celebration of prostitution and sex-positivity to viewws from the darker sides of the industry.

This year's incredible lineup of performers includes acclaimed Whitney Bienniel artist and burlesque performer Julue Atlas Muz; iconic queer writer and author of The Chelsea Whistle Michelle Tea; hip-hop poet Juba Kamka, foremother of the prostitutes' rights movement Scarlot Harlot; artistic director of the only existing black burlesque troupe Harlem Shake Burlesque, Simone de la Getto; filmmaker and performance artist Bridget Irish; writer and feminist smut purveyor Tralala Farsi Sentiamo; and tour founder and ringmaster Annie Oakler. Visual artists include infamous camgirl and artist Ana Voog, and filmmaker Teresa Dulce.

The show includes people from all areas of the sex industry: strippers, prostitutes, dommes, film stars, phone sex operators, internet models, etc. It smashes traditional stereotypes and moves beyond "positive" and "negative" into a fulle rarticular of the complicated ways sex workers experience their jobs and their lives. The Sex Workers' Art Show entertains, arouses, and amazes while simultaneously offering scathing and insightful commentary on notions of class, gender, labor, and sexuality!


March 7, 2006
New York, New York
at The Knitting Factory

in the Tap Bar
74 Leonard Street
8pm sharp
$10
www.knittingfactory.com/kfny/index.cfm

I need someone to point me in the direction of a standard 2257 Model release contract for models who are NOT paid and do not want to relinquish all rights to images.

PLEASE PLEASE i need this ASAP

Thank you!

Romina and I want to get hair cuts this Tues or Wed and spend like 70 bucks or less.

I need to do something about my long, vague goth girl hair. No offense to my beloved goths, but it needs some serious help.

Any suggestions for someone to make something amazing happen to my hair with excellent potential in NYC?

Suggest a salon, c'est vous plait.

Can someone help me install a blog script like WordPress or whatever in to wondergirl.org, integrating it in to the layout?

I will trade something for this service!

XO