Hello, I am known as K-8 (aka "conscious_object"). Here I keep a fetish blog with a (skewed) sense of humor. Contained herein you will find my various random thoughts on my unique fetishes, and interesting finds culled from all over the intarweb, including art by my friends, and sometimes my own art.

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The same model who did the White Violin body paint shots also did these nice looking creature ones. This shot looks like someone who wasn't expecting to suddenly wake up green:

I still haven't gotten around to reading The Umbrella Academy (though it caught me by surprise one day when I saw the cover with the violin girl sitting out on the new releases table at Barnes & Noble). I hear it's good, so I do plan on grabbing it eventually.

In case you haven't heard, it's also since been green-lighted to be made into a movie. Very curious how they will do the violin girl (who I've since discovered is actually called The White Violin, so I should probably start using that name). Will the strings still be just black lines painted on? Or will they try to create some sort of texture to them so they pop out (since adding texture has become the thing to do with comic characters in movies the last decade or so)?

Here are a few non-movie-related three dimensional takes on the character. Firstly, there are some PVC figures Dark Horse had on display during last summer's convention season:



There is also a special deluxe edition of the graphic novel that comes with a (slightly larger?) figurine of just violin gi-- The White Violin:





And lastly, a body paint photo shoot of a model who decided to dress up as the character (you can see the rest of her gallery here):



(Images found by "Bastian" and "Utsumi.")

You ever come across an image that looks interesting, but you don't bother saving or bookmarking it, and then you can't remember where you saw it?

I came across this image (or series) recently of someone in a swimming pool, with their arms (and possibly legs) completely encased in some clear inflatable cast-shaped things. I'm really curious what those inflatable things are called, and where one gets them. Does this photo series sound familiar to anyone?

I was browsing through the Yahoo Avatars for the first time in awhile, checking to see if there was anything new and interesting since I last looked. It looks like there are now plenty of possibilities of things to be turned into. (Sadly, no mannequin, statue, or puppet yet.)

Imagine both your wrists are strapped to a machine. Pens are locked into your hands. And then you're forced to...draw?

Okay, not very kinky. But there has to be some bondage-esque application for this...because why even strap someone's hands into it when you could just have the machine hold the pens itself?



Perhaps if you had someone forced to draw something vaguely humiliating? But what?

Ideas brainstormed so far by "Utsumi" and myself:

- spice girls
- carrot top
- hello kitty
- hello kitty drawing pokemon
- a self-portrait modified to look like a clown
- a self-portrait modified to look like a mime
- a self-portrait modified to be wearing hello kitty items
- sparkly vampires

Or maybe further the bondage theme by being forced to draw a self-portrait modified to look like you're wearing a ball gag? There has to be some sort of kinky potential in this machine.

She keeps saying it, but I'm not sure I believe her.

I was a little tied up the weekend before last. Y'know, in the literal sense.



I think it'd been something like a year and a half since I last had an opportunity? Recently I've started to meet some kinky folks in the area. Fortunately, one kind individual mentioned he was looking for someone to practice some bondage on and would I be interested.

The idea was to try several simple bondage positions, and snap some pics. Bound to a chair, bound to a bed, etc. Unfortunately, the weather seemed out to complicate things. It was extremely humid that day, which intensifies my allergies. So my nose was running constantly, which isn't the most fun.

On the upside, I finally got to feel what a corset is like when its tied by someone other than yourself. I wasn't actually expecting how turned on I got from the tightness of it. Though trying to take a deep breath before a sneeze was...interesting.

I also finally got to see what vet wrap feels like. A lot stretchier than I realized, though you can also get it pretty tight and secure. Also, I did not realize you could breathe through it. Which means you can also talk through it, but that's what gags are for. I'm, of course, very curious what it'd feel like to be mummified in it.



(If you're viewing this from a darker monitor, that is not a hood I'm wearing, just a big dot I added in Photoshop.)

I'm hoping we can have some more fun and photos in the future. Hopefully on a less muggy day. He's mentioned a desire to build a vac bed at some point, and you know there would end up being lots of pics of that. ;-)

Thanks to "rotwang" and "dosman" for pointing me to these, here are some new (old) behind the scenes photos of Krystee Clark as Trish Putterman:





Also interesting, a photo from one of the earlier makeup tests, showing that originally the character was going to have plastic-y eyebrows to match the hair, which personally I think they should've kept. I love her doll-like smile in this one.



I've also got six of the commercials on Youtube now. There are still at least two (possibly as many as four) that I still don't have in decent quality. For the sake of being a completist. I know there's at least one (set on a porch swing) where the Trish character actually gets more than just a single speaking line.

Fishing
Drive-Thru
Cabin
Golf
Barbeque
Museum

It's the age old tale of boy buys blow-up doll, blow-up doll comes to life, blow-up doll leaves boy for someone else.



(Found and translated by "utsumi.")

This is a very interesting art piece.

To me, it illustrates the ridiculousness of our society's reaction to women's nipples. The rest of a breast is fine, its just that one little area of where the skin is a darker color. And only one women, men can openly display their darker colored spots on their chest. In most areas of the U.S. it's even against the law for a woman, unless you're breastfeeding.

("Hey, do you have a permit for those?" *motions to exposed nipples*)

In the category of pure silliness, a medical supplies company hired a freeze model to pretend to be a Resusci Anne / CPR Annie as a promotional gag.



The funniest part? It appears the model's name really is Anne.

(Sent to me by "rotwang" and...one other person?)

Meet my sisters. ;-)

I finally got around to seeing Bicentennial Man. I didn't realize until only relatively recently that the movie featured a female model robot as well. And I have to say, this is I think possibly the most impressive robot suit I've ever seen (apologies to Maria and Maria).


One of the things that impresses me most is how they've managed to build such convincing looking ball joints at the elbows, wrists, etc., on what is actually a costume with a person inside. Not to mention the incredible range of movement the suit allows...yet still forcing movements to be slightly stiff robotic. Nowadays this would probably all be done with CGI, sadly.







The only way the design could've been more perfect is if the face was actually a makeup prosthetic glued to the person's face, to allow for more facial expression. The only control the actor really had over the face was the movement of the mouth when speaking. The eyelids and eyebrows were controlled remotely.

There was also a flight attendant version that was built, but never made it to screen (perhaps meant for the sequence when Andrew goes out searching for others of his kind?):







I can't help but think how much fun it would be to have one of these suits...the only problem is that the actress is a tiny 5'4, so even if one of these props magically came into my possession, it wouldn't fit me anyways. ;-)

Another disappointing thing is that these things really weren't built to last beyond its intended purpose of being used for filming. In these photos, you can see that the rubbery material on the palms of the hands is already deteriorating quite a bit:



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(Images found by "rotwang.")

I was bouncing some ideas off Sebastian for a floor fan TF that had popped into my head. The idea of someone being stuck on a pivot, swiveling left and right...or pull up the knob and they're stuck in place. Reminds me of an old Mitch Hedberg routine.

One day I'll eventually get around to drawing the image in my head, but Sebastian just sent me his own take on a K-8 fan, which I share with you here:

The US DVD release of Tokyo!, featuring Michel Gondry's "Interior Design," comes out at the end of the month. But some kind soul emailed me a (non-subtitled) copy of the Gondry section early. I plan to rent it once it's on Netflix (so I can understand what's being said during the second half), but here's a short clip that needs no words:

(From "rotwang.")

Completely random unrelated thing, but kind of silly and fun. Fight my Brute bot.

Some quickly made icons. If you like one you see, feel free to take.

The presentation is a little rough...the paint of the molded hair is fading, a bit of the model's real hair is poking out, and they went way too heavy on the eye shadow. But I love how undeniably plastic she looks, otherwise.

The two things that totally make this photo are the plastic eyebrows, and in particular the blank teeth. The bottom of her face, if she were wearing a platinum blond wig, would look just like a Barbie doll. The molded hair and plastic eyebrows on the other hand give a glimpse of what could be a great mannequin makeup. Going further in either direction would be equally fun.

Sadly, I can find no information on the images, other than that this was a student project being shown of at IMATS 2005 (a huge makeup convention). On her chest appears to be written "(c) 2004 Olympus, Inc.," but I can find no Olympus, Inc. that has any reation to makeup or a makeup school.