Visionary and traditional, wispy and soulful, tender and cool, Spike Jonzes Her ponders the nature of love in the encroaching virtual world and dares to ask the question of what might be preferable, a romantic relationship with a human being or an electronic one that can be designed to provide more intimacy and satisfaction than real people can reliably manage.
The film makes one think: Can an artificial being who is made for you provide greater fulfillment than a flesh and blood human being of more erratic capacities? Does an artificial, computer-generated fight create a more desirable level of fantasy while holding any sense of reality at bay? Does a virtual female wrestling match have equal erotic value to a real one? Can it actually provide more user-specific erotic satisfaction?
I am not talking about the lunatic fringe of keyboard cyberfights, a genre that only appeals to the lower socio-economic and intellect demographies. I am referring to 3D CyberGraphics producers such as Merlins Kingdom and Calvados Japan who are very quickly weening me away from a decades long bittersweet habit/obsession of buying erotic female wrestling videos.
Over the last 15 years, with Internet distribution paving the way, I have found a disturbingly direct correlation between the increase in ferocity (read: violence) and decrease in eroticism and attractiveness (read: beauty) of the performers. With the exceptions of Foxy Combat and Fighting Dolls, there is no acceptable place for me to spend my disposable income in any sort of satisfactory manner.
Once the 3D creations can be programmed to move fluidly at my command, I will put even those 2 companies in my rear view mirror and never look back.
Just look at what these guys are doing! They are creating impossibly beautiful designed for erotic combat.
I know its abstract, but isnt viewing a match on video just an abstraction as well?
Bottom line: this interests me. This arouses me. (Note the differences in the artists individual approaches to sweat: Merlin goes for the sheen, while Calvados Japan represents individual droplets.)
-- Edited by ofecteau on Monday 4th of November 2013 11:35:13 PM
-- Edited by ofecteau on Monday 4th of November 2013 11:36:40 PM
And so we begin again. The beginning was the perfect plausibly deniable soft-core porn for this guilty little teenage pervert: Sports Review Wrestling, with its posed pictorial stories. Though realism is improving (I too love the sweat), 3D images need work (watch the teeth especially) to be lifelike enough for me. Then there would need to be enough images generated that sequencing them would achieve motion. And let's not neglect a synched soundtrack replete with sexy computer-generated moaning. All eminently doable, in principle.
The result would remain an unmistakably male fantasy creation, though. Men think about women in gross terms. These stories invariably end in humiliation (as they should), but humiliation is shown as a binary condition, like a stereo that's either full blast or off. Real women in intense erotic competition display infinite microdynamics. Contrast Shayna's humiliation in ACA 154 with Bobbi's in ACA 70. Sure, such could be scripted, but recall that the only scripts worth anything were by women: Joan and Tricia.
What's needed is some sort of distaff AI that would predict how a particular woman (say, a celeb) would behave in the whole range of erotic wrestling situations, based on real material showing that woman in non-wrestling situations and on material showing other women (the existing corpus of FF videos) in wrestling situations. The software would then generate its own action and dialogue, faithful to what it knows of the participants. Of all the smart, accomplished people who posted at CWWS, is there one who'd know how to get this started?
