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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For those who haven't been keeping up with season two of Dollhouse, I should tell you last night's episode involved a subplot where women were kidnapped and turned into forced living mannequins. Naturally, it was played up for extra creepiness in such a way that it didn't really light up the fetish fuel portion of my brain like it might've if, say, it didn't take place in some dark dungeon, and if ( Spoiler ).

But then, if I were playing with some of these concepts in a mainstream story, I'd probably ramp up the creepiness as well just so no one would suspect I might, say, have a fetish that could involve seeing actresses on set standing very still, looking like mannequins, and pretending they're stuck like that. Ya know.

A few lines this episode that amused me:

"He'll be an empty-headed robot walking around Hollywood. He'll be fine."

"We have names, remember that. We're human, we're not his toys."

Doesn't that last line sound like something right out of a story on LTBSA or something?

Anyways, on a totally not at all related note, it appears from the preview shown after the credits that next week we'll be getting a flashback story detailing the whole story of the evil mind control enthusiast who had Sierra turned into a doll. Have we surprised Totally Spies yet, or no?

Meant to write this earlier, but things have been so busy. (Okay, so SL hasn't helped, either.) I admit I was putting it off a little because I knew it was going to be another long one. The following is essentially what could've been four or five different blog entries all mashed together into a single rambling monologue. Enjoy.

So after actively exploring hypnosis for awhile, I kind of lost interest in it for a period, for a number of reasons. I was still open to the idea of in-person hypnosis, since that's something I've not gotten to explore much as I'd like, but otherwise I just wasn't very interested anymore. Other than letting a friend trance me a few years ago when he was looking for people to practice non-erotic hypno on, I really hadn't bothered with any hypnosis for probably around four years or so.

However, a few things have changed since then. I still have zero interest in text hypnosis...but now webcams and mics are a lot more common. I even have both built right into my laptop. While in-person hypnosis is still preferable (feeling someone's touch while frozen in place is on my list of things I'd like to experience at some point), webcam hypnosis is the next best thing.

My recently renewed interest in hypnosis has been sparked by mainly by two people: Lex of the Hypno-Fantastico, and a long-time friend of mine who goes by the name the Enchanter.

First, Lex posted some hypno-induction videos to Youtube. I was still not entirely in a hypno mood, so I didn't try them right when came out. But I started to become a little more interested after seeing a couple videos posted by Jenniferj521 of her reactions to Lex's videos, followed by videos demonstrating the effects of some text trances emailed to her by Lex. (There were only two or three videos at the time, but now there are ten, with more continuing to be added every now and then.) I wouldn't have probably known about the vids, except that a few people IMed me a link. Including Lex himself, who offered that if I wanted to try his hypno vids and the results were favorable, he'd be willing to send me a customized one as well. However, I still hadn't had enough interest return that I felt like giving it a try just then, so I told him I'd give it some thought.

At about the same time, my friend Enchanter told me he'd been learning hypnosis and had found a local erotic hypno group, and we were discussing his recent successes. The idea came up of maybe trying some webcam hypno sometime in the near future. Not right away, as he wanted to get a few more in-person trances under his belt before he decided to try out the webcam thing, but now I was beginning to consider it a little more.

Earlier this month we started chatting about the idea more. I was finally feeling much more up for it, and we set a time for the weekend. In the meantime, I decided to give Lex's freeze/immobility video inductions a try.

If you're curious to give these a try for yourself and see how well you might take to them, here are the videos to watch (in this order):

1) 001 Hypnosis Induction

2) 002 Freeze / Immobility Post Hypnotics

3) 002 Freeze Test

The first file is sort of a primer, to hopefully make the second file work even more effectively. The second file gives you three variations on freeze triggers. The third file allows you to test the triggers to see how well it's worked.

Some of you will take to the trance very well. Some of you might have so-so results. Some of you might feel like it didn't work at all. Some people are simply more suggestible than others, for whatever reason.

So how well did it work on me? ( Click here to read about it, or try the videos above first if you'd like them to be a surprise )

Anyways, if you try the files, I'm curious how well they worked. Feel free to let me know in the comments here, if you don't mind sharing.

A few days later, Enchanter and I did the webcam thing. It was kind of awkward at first, because I'm not all that used to 'camming, and talking to my computer screen took some adjusting.

I was kind of nervous, mainly because I wasn't sure how well or how much of it was going to work, and I didn't want Enchanter to get all disheartened when a trance with only the third or so person he's put under ends up not working out the greatest. And at first, it almost seemed like disappointment was going to be inevitable. Firstly, I was a little distracted...I'd forgotten he was in a different time zone, and thought I had a whole hour still when he IMed me. It was also a little humid in my apartment, which was distracting...and the fan I brought into the room to help ended up being a little distracting in its own right, though less so.

Then the first couple attempts at induction sputtered out in different ways, which had me quickly dreading that this was just not going to work at all. It ranged from having a hard time hearing some of what he was saying due to quiet laptop speakers and/or a quiet mic, to having one of the bulbs in the room actually going out just near the beginning of another attempt. He changed up the induction each time, to try out different things (and perhaps so it wouldn't seem too predictable). The first time or two, I wasn't sure if the induction was really working all that well even. But at one point the induction got far enough along that when I could no longer make out most of what he was saying, because he'd started speaking more softly, it took me a few minutes to snap out of it enough to let him know I'd just missed most of what he'd said those last few minutes.

But eventually it did work. And it worked well enough that even though we were only planning to have hypno fun on some day during the weekend, when our schedules aligned, we ended up doing one right the next Monday as well. Thing is, I had so much thrown at me in those two days of trances, I'm having a hard time remembering everything that happened, let alone in what order or even which day it happened on. I probably should've blogged about it right afterwards, rather than several weeks after the fact. ;-) So I'm probably going to forget to mention a few things...maybe he'll comment below to add anything I've missed. ( Read All About The Triggers )

And I think that's all I have to say for now. Enchanter did manage to get some of the triggers to work in IM as well...but it's just not the same as being face to face (even if only via webcam), y'know what I mean?

More updates as they occur. ;-)

I've now had about a dozen different people IM me this video, so I figure I'll post my comments about it just so people will stop sending this particular one. ;-)

It's a short film called Contracuerpo, which means "the body against" or "against the body." It uses the idea of a girl who tries to become a mannequin as a symbolic analogy for anorexia.

I haven't posted it here because the seriousness of the topic, and the disturbing nature of the short film, sort of negate whatever potential fetish appeal the short may've had (for me personally, anyways). I would not click the link if you are not prepared to be a little disturbed.

Now, on the other hand, if there were a behind-the-scenes video about the mannequin bits...

Y'know, one thing I don't think I've ever talked about in my silly little blog here are my early explorations of hypnosis. So I thought I'd tell you about the first time I was ever successfully hypnotized.

I think I've been interested in hypnosis since the first moment I was aware of the concept, but what may've really heightened my interest was my first time seeing a stage hypnosis act in person. At my high school, they would hire one each year as part of the Homecoming Week festivities.

If you've ever been to one of these stage acts, you know the first thing they do is try a little test that the entire audience can participate in. This is so they can tell right off the bat who the most suggestible people in the audience are, since not everyone is equally suggestible to hypnosis. It's usually things like being asked to clasp your hands together, and discovering they are now locked together until the hypnotist says release, and a visualization one where you close your eyes and imagine a balloon tied to your wrist, which slowly causes your wrist to rise. This last one in particular is especially effective for the stage hypnotist, because generally the higher their hand is in the air, the more suggestible they likely are. In fact, its like they've already raised their hands to volunteer, which is why this is the last one he does before gathering volunteers.

I remember the first couple times I attended these acts, I was afraid to participate in these small test examples. This was partly out of fear that it would end up working and friends would somehow convince me to go up on stage, which I did not want to do. But also, just a general fear of losing control of myself and/or my inhibitions in front of a group of people. This may sound silly, but that's also the main reason I've never been interested in trying alcohol.

Anyways, a long story slightly less long, toward the end I finally worked up the courage to see if the audience participation bits would work on me. And what I discovered was...they didn't. At all. At first I thought maybe it was because I was up in the balcony, and maybe hypnosis had something to do with range from the hypnotist (which it doesn't, btw). At the very last school hypnotist act I attended, I sat down on the floor, closer to the stage, and tried it again. And nope, nothing.

For a long while, I was convinced I was simply unhypnotizable. The irony, having such a strong interest in being hypnotized, and being completely immune to it.

In college, I discovered a free-hypnosis-mp3s website that I hesitate to name, but it was called Warp My Mind. I decided to give these a go, to experiment further and figure out if maybe different techniques might work on me. The site had various different inductions, but none of which seemed to have any effect on me. For my test to see if it worked, I used a freeze trigger trance file, which was followed by an mp3 of him giving the trigger, followed by some silence and then a release trigger. But no induction seemed to work.

I started to wonder if maybe i was doing it wrong. People are supposed to forget the trance generally, aren't they? Maybe I'm listening *too* closely, and I'm supposed to sort of not listen to it consciously in order to let it sink into my subconscious. I tried falling asleep to induction files, letting files play while I slept, etc. Nothing. (In hindsight, I think it was just the sound of boredom in his voice kind of grating on me, and the background noise of cars driving by outside his window being extremely distracting.)

One day while reading up on instances of hypnosis not working for people, I came across one comment where someone said they'd had a partner who didn't at first seem effected by the hypnosis, but that if they said the trigger word several times in a row, rather than just once, it seemed to stick then. So I decided to try that.

I loaded up my trusty CD walkman with the disc of burned mp3s once again, and this time when he spoke the trigger word, I pressed the "back" button so that the word would repeat again.

"Nope, nothing." Back.

"Still nothing." Back.

"Again, nothing. Wait. Why am I not pressing the back button? I can't seem to get my finger to push it...whoa, I can't move!"

And that's the first time I ever got hypnosis to work. Of course, being as into "the struggle" as I am, I couldn't help but try to test myself to see if I could break out of it before the release trigger...which I did, after only 10 seconds or so. But after that, hypnosis became much easier, and I've had some pretty decent luck with several different people, including being once frozen in front of my monitor for around a half hour. But those are stories for another time.

The following are items posted over on Doll's Realm that I liked so much, I just had to second their goodness.

- Check out this bondage sack by Simon O. It's so hot, I'm not even reposting the image. You will have to click, and be blown away by the hotness. Also, I'd love to spot someone actually out skiing in this outfit, which is practically only one step away from a superhero outfit.

- These boots. I think if I heard this sound coming from my own feet, I would be highly distracted. And I don't mean by just the sound.

- If an episode of a sitcom contains both a plot where the main character ends up posing as a wax figure of herself, and a scene at the end where her daughter ends up dressed a Barbie, do you think it might be safe to assume one of the writers may've had a thing for ASFR? ;-)


- I'm not normally into stories that involve a personality change that's permanent, but this one had me laughing by the end. "I am Mrs. DeChamps!!!" (Granted, I have an odd sense of humor.)

Thanks to lmcdosman, who had some old VHS tapes with commercials still intact, I think I've finally got all the Puttermans ones. You can see my full list at the bottom of this entry.

Turns out the commercial that I thought the Trish character had more than one line in still had her speaking only one line. But she does get more screen time in this one than in any of the others:

I'm a little behind, so I'm just getting to posting about this no. Medusariffic #40 was just released, but for those who haven't looked at issue #39, I'd like to point out that it featured a full-length Undercover Prop story starring virtual K-8.

You can download issues here.

Possibly the most accurate/honest depiction of ASFR fetish. ;-)

(You'll need to enlarge it to read the text.)


Villainous Overtones by =ArgoForg on deviantART

(Found by jay_petto.)

I don't often post videos of living mannequins just holding very still, without some fun story element or interesting costume that makes it particular unique. But where this video becomes particularly impressive is about halfway through, when the models start to be picked up off the ground and rearranged. The one at 1:45 made me LOL.

I wonder if the live audience were actually fooled at any point?




Though I still think this is the best way to end a mannequin skit.

(Found by Dosman.)

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
Update:
Grandman
The Date
Porch

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. ;-)

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.

About a marionette turned into a clockwork robot mannequin.

Warning: also contains evil clowns.

A goofy '80/'90s musical performance featuring mannequin posing, robotic movements, and interesting outfits. (Found by "Dosman.")

But what I really like about it are the twists in the "story," that come across even without being able to understand what they're saying. ( Further thoughts, but I suggest watching the video first. )

If you can look past the cheesy sentimental tone, this is a pretty fun illusion (except for the boring last minute, which I think was him just filling time to make it to the end of the song).


If only there were more magicians out there influenced by early Copperfield rather than later Copperfield, back when his illusions had a sense of humor. I mean, "hmm, we're going to need to get you some legs" would've lended itself so well to a humorous approach. (Though I did get a few laughs from the way the canned applause cuts off so abruptly.)

This pin-up is from way back in issue #27. Issue #31 is out now.

In the latest issue of Medusariffic, it seems I've gotten a new job as an undercover cop (or is that undercover prop?):



There's also a new addition to the cast this issue, someone whose name several of you may recognize.

From a friend:



Do you have any suggestions for "magic trick" manips you'd enjoy seeing?