oddities and magikal monday :: esotika erotica psychotica

Esotika Erotica Psychotica
Mike Kitchell
Creator, primary contributor, editor, and site designer.  "Esotika Erotica Psychotica began as a film review blog by Mike Kitchell on January 2nd of 2007.  He started to blog with the eventual goal of having a website that would serve as a sort of "platform" for people and information pertaining to the particular blend of film that he was fascinated by; namely, that which combined sex, horror, art, and experimentation.  The necessity for the website was felt due to a discontent with the prevalance of genre film review sites that would often overlook or dismiss the so called "pretentious" films, and "art film" review sites that would ignore the "low brow" genre films.  Since he felt the most important films were the films that were brilliant combinations of the two, he decided that a remarkably nobrow approach was necessary.  The necessity for a new website also grew out of the fact that many internet based review sites were primarily DVD review sites.  He has a major appreciation for DVDs (obviously), but DVDs aren't relevent without the films that they hold."

"Esotika references "esoteric", meaning in this context, of course, obscure. The films applauded on the Esotika site are often fairly obscure, or at least relatively unknown, films.  Erotica clearly references the erotic and sexual content in many of the films discussed.  Psychotica brings to mind the idea of a sort of "psychosis", which in film can relate to a very "free" or "experimental" method of narrative, imagery, or really anything.  Those three signifiers together produce, at least, we would hope, the idea of what makes an Esotika film an Esotika film."

whirling beauties :: erotique digitale

Erotique Digitale
Kelly Michael Charles Lind
"Hi. Im Kelly Lind. Hmmm ... I think this is where a photographer talks in the third person about how important his work is, all he's accomplished, and all the ways you should envy him. But it turns out, that just makes me feel a little sleazy, awkward, and dishonest. Im just another average guy, working towards an extraordinary existence, one day at a time."
excerpt taken from About

"Frankly, I can do without shooting the harder stuff. I tend to linger at the beginning of a set with the model fully clothed because more often than not, I find my subjects to be more sexual with their clothing on. Even the most seasoned porn star doesn’t let her guard down completely while nude. It’s a very vulnerable place to be. So i enjoy shots like the one above because there’s a vulnerability that’s difficult to capture otherwise."
excerpt taken from Blog

Join Erotique Digitale

There are moments where a decision has to be made.. to embrace every facet of all artists and their medium, or to stay on the surface and whistle while the world's underground stays apart from your reality. The places I have seen and the faces of our fears, including joys, all stand together. Our dictionary of words can not begin to touch what happens within a person's journey. We make choices of what to watch, whom to reach out to, how to prepare dinner, and where our money is spent. Kelly Lind straddles realities for many and vividly documents his journey. I choose to support photography and due to the fact that I assemble pieces so close to the human body, erotica claims many parts of my heart.

martha's girls

Martha's Girls

"I, Martha, feel it necessary as your kindly hostess
to tell you expressly what awaits you in my friendly parlor.
Let me make it clear from the outset that Martha's Girls
is no virtual bordello. Such a prim and proper lady
as myself couldn't possibly lend her name to any
den of iniquity. No siree!
This project is an earnest tribute to my
tremendous fascination for vintage erotica. Ah, the lovely
ladies of yesteryear... Do I adore their striking style
and wholesome physique!
What a waste it would be to have all that fabulous flair
consigned to the bygone days - no, I say,
let us keep it flourishing on into the future."

aubrey beardsley

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley 
21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898
An English illustrator and author.  Aubrey Beardsley was the 
most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era, renowned 
for his dark and perverse images and the grotesque erotica,
which were the main themes of his later work.  Some of his 
drawings, inspired by Japanese shunga, featured 
enormous genitalia. His most famous erotic illustrations were 
on themes of history and mythology.

 





















Beardsley illustrated Oscar Wilde's play Salomé - the play 
eventually premiered in Paris in 1896.  He also produced 
extensive illustrations for books and magazines (e.g. for a 
deluxe edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur) 
and worked for magazines like The Savoy and The Studio. 
Beardsley also wrote Under the Hill, an unfinished erotic tale 
based loosely on the legend of Tannhäuser.  
Beardsley's emphasis of the erotic element is present in many 
of his drawings, but nowhere as boldly as in his illustrations for 
Lysistrata which were done for a privately printed edition at a 
time when he was totally out of favor with polite society.

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