coming & crying with LOU!
I really love Part 4 in our Kickstarter Series of Interviews With the Invariably Awesome People Contributing Writing or Photography to Coming and Crying. I gchatted the night away with Lou Noble, fellow Tumblr & swoonworthy photog, about internetting, Making Stuff, and, erm, nudity:
meaghan: What about n00dz? I know you have a sort of complicated view of that. You don’t want to take pictures that people just look at because there are boobs there…
louobedlam: Yeah, that one…taking nudes, you know it will attract attention, and a very specific type of attention. Sometimes, nudity is more honest. I think with the women i shoot, it is. But sometimes it’s an excellent way to obscure— there is nudity that can be used as a decoy.
meaghan: Somewhat counter-intuitively?
louobedlam: You’re so busy staring, you don’t notice what’s going on.
meaghan: What do you want people to notice, to feel when they see your pictures?
louobedlam: i’d like them to come away having been affected- that they see something in the photo that gives them the feeling they get/grok/understand that person,
if only in the moment they were photographed
meaghan: Yes. I think that’s a lot of the reason for this book, too!
louobedlam: My take on the book— it’s trying to put a real, honest, authentic face on something that’s not often gone down those roads. It’s not often you Connect w/erotica. Because it’s poorly written, or fake, or just ridiculous. That’s not the fault of sex, it’s the fault of the writing, of the corrupt intent to titillate instead of affect.
meaghan: Yeah. It’s just different. It’s a hard thing to write about— in that you have to really be vulnerable to do it well.
louobedlam: Isn’t that true for art in general? for really good art?
meaghan: I think so! Like DFW said, to talk out of that part of yourself that can love rather than the part that wants to be loved.
louobedlam: Yeah, that’s a really good quote.
meaghan: *bow*
louobedlam: ahahahha
meaghan: hahahah
Check out the whole interview. I come off…well, pretty much as I actually am. Damned glad I met Meaghan, she’s cool beans.
And yeah, I have some photos in this here sex book. How bout them apples? I’m pretty jazzed. Yet another reason 2010 is shaping up to be a weirdly fantastic year.
