Sex Dolls and Disney Heroes

My God, I've got some interesting e-mails in my inbox today (which I've devoted entirely to being lazy).

First up is art related. Because of the new direction my last piece has taken, the quiet, family-man of the faculty sent me something that actually relates to it. At least visually. Apparently, a performance artist actually ordered a RealDoll of herself and constructed a piece where she would have sex it with. She even went as far as to marry it in a Las Vegas chapel! My morning skim of the article took note of a lot of use of the word "feminism" with a paragraph acting like an advertisement for the RealDoll company. While this is no doubt exploring sex, sexuality, and gender roles, I can't help but wonder how exactly this relates to my last piece other than similarity in content. Admittedly, I'm unwilling to read the article in its entirety out of a want to be lazy today.

On a similar note, Jason e-mailed me an article he found involving a deviantART artist who has a series devoted to sexual representation of Disney male characters. It's quite an impressive series that you can view here and here if you have a DA account. Of the ones that I was able to view, I kind of like the direction he went with Kocoum. He kept that proud Native American look while still added a hint of sexual tension which just made the image that much more exotic and not so much erotic unless you look below the waist. Another Disney "hottie" that I like in this series is Aladdin. He's practically topless already in the film, but the image places him in a rather candid expression as if he or the actor playing him (if we go from the Roger Rabbit kind of angle with animated features, that is) was being asked a question and caught between reactions. It makes Al look even more hot than he did in the film. Other Disney characters include Milo and Jim from the Disney Animation "bomb" films Atlantis and Treasure Planet. Jim looks especially hot given the fact that he's practically jail bait in the film but "matured" for the image produced.

But, much like someone I know who does have a DA account, these kind of artists just make me feel bad about myself. If you can wade through all the anime that has blown up on the site, you can find some amazing photographs and illustrations, most of which are from either untrained artists or people like me who are being properly schooled. It's mostly a graphic designers and photographers protfolio community if you REALLY dig, but someone was able to show me some really sweet Flash animation there that looked like it was hand rendered.

Okay, enough of that. I'm going to play Spore since I haven't touched it in so long and I'm over saturated with art as it is. Of course, it doesn't help that I'm playing a game that awards my creativity instead of my gaming skills, but still.