About Me

My interests range from novel to mundane, from sacred thru profane.  I love alternative and fringe culture, radical expression, cult movies and dark humor. If you like this lens, please peruse my lens collection or my group Orthia's.

My lenses on the movie Cloverfield and the Monkeybrain debate on Sex Education NOW! have both been honored as Lens of the Day picks.

From 1995 - 2002, I worked in the mail order internet world of fetish-related retail sales.  In 2002, I enrolled in and successfully complete the San Francisco Sex Information educator program and volunteered at their switchboard for three years. 

I have over fifteen years of experience in alternative and sex-positive culture, have held Certified First Responder credentials, volunteered as a monitor (DM) at the SF Citadel for two years, hosted a rope bondage "study group", volunteer as a docent for the Seattle Erotic Art Festival and occasionally teach in the BDSM community.

Hottest Tattoo Pictures and Designs!

This lens features the best in tattoo design pictures.  Check out the hottest star, lower back, arm, Japanese koi, butterfly and wing tattoo designs.  See the latest in tattooing designs and get ideas for your own tattoos! And don't forget t...

Cloverfield

Multiple Sightings Of Case Designate "Cloverfield" Camera Retrieved at Incident Site U.S.447 Area Formerly Known As "Central Park" The premise of this movie is that it's "found footage" discovered after a massive attack by a creat...

Sex Education NOW!

Abstinence-only programs and a lack of discussion about birth control methods and prevention of disease transmission have left many teens and young adults at risk of unwanted pregnancies and various sexually-transmitted diseases. The best thing that c...

300 / three hundred

300 is Frank Miller's fictional depiction of the historical Battle of Thermopylae, when the Spartans held back invading Persian forces from Greece. The graphic novel was first serialized in 1998.  The movie adaptation went into wide release in th...

Hottest Body Piercing Videos

These videos showcase a variety of body piercing modifications, from ear and eyebrow piercing to tongues studs and navel rings.  See corset piercings close up, watch how hook suspensions are done, and be amazed by a belly dancer with pierced win...

Branding (for body art)

Branding was most often used historically to mark property, most often livestock but also sometimes human.  It was also utilized as a method of marking or punishing criminals both in Europe and Asia, and as recently as the founding US Pilgrim fa...

Bettie Page - American Icon

Bettie Page was an artist's model whose all-American good looks and perky smile made her an icon.  Her image has moved into the realm of pop culture and continues to be an influence decades after her retirement. To take a look at Bettie's "...

The (un)Truth About Penis Enlargment

Penis enlargement is one of the biggest myths of the sexual world.  Despite the claims made by a wide array of products and methods, most of those different techniques and exercises for male enhancement will NOT make your penis bigger.

The Dark Knight aka Batman

The Dark Knight is another name for the character of Batman. Starting with his birth on the pages of DC Comics in 1939, the fictional character of Batman has remained one of the most popular superheros ever created.  He's still alive on the colo...

TATTOO CLOTHING

Fantastic club and streetwear, all decorated with the hottest tattoo designs!  T-shirts, skirts, shoes, men's and women's clothing, all covered with tattooed rock star style.  Lots of leather and denim, featuring great tattoo designs!

The Condom - For Health and Pleasure

Here is information about condoms, how they work, what people think of them and where you can get them. I'm someone who came of age just as AIDS was happening and I have to say the condom has been my constant sexual companion.  This image is one...

StEaMpUnK

Steampunk is a term that was coined in the late 1980s to describe a type of science fiction or fantasy writing that fused a Victorian setting and technology with later technological and mechanical developments to create a 19th century that never was....

Boris Vallejo

Boris Vallejo is a painter known for his fantasy images which almost-universally depict heavily-muscled men and women.

Elegant Gothic Lolita

Elegant Gothic Lotita is a mode of dress that was birthed from Japanese pop/Harajuku culture and is now being taken up by fans in Europe and America.

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas

You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch.  You really are a heel. The Grinch is a storybook villain who learns the true meaning of Christmas, created by famed illustrator Dr. Seuss.  First introduced in the book How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, the...

The Art of H.R. Giger

This lens will take a look at H.R. Giger's unique biomechanical art and how he's explored and expanded it throughout his career, including paintings, furniture design, movie designs (Alien, Species) and more.

Tribal House Body Jewelry

Tribal House offers you the hottest tribal body jewelry styles anywhere!  Steel, stone, glass, acrylic, and rubber; claws, spikes, talons, flares, plugs, spirals and more!

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is one of the most closely watched celebrities in the world.  She juggles a busy movie career and humanitarian work while raising a blended family with partner and fellow actor Brad Pitt. She's currently pregnant, and expecting twi...

Orthia's Horrific Top Ten

The criteria used for ranking these top 10 horror movies were entirely personal.  I like a good dose of humor and a strong original story with my creepiness. For horror devotees, there's a quote listed with each entry.  Can you guess who sa...

The Addams Family

  Celebrating all that is macabre and creepy is The Addams Family.  Created by cartoonist Charles Addams, this beloved and ooky family has gone from print to television to movies.  A new musical based on the creepy family is currently i...

Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford was a struggling actor who had turned to carpentry to feed his family when he got the chance to audition for the role of Bob Falfa in the George Lucas movie AMERICAN GRAFFITI.  After that he worked with Lucas on STAR WARS and a mov...

PETA's "Ink, Not Mink" Campaign

As a spin-off from their "I'd Rather Go Naked" anti-fur campaign, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) created "Ink, Not Mink." Tattooed celebrities show their body art and voice their support for animal rights and fake fur.

MillenniuM

MILLENNIUM was the second tv show created by writer-producer Chris Carter, best-known as the creator of the X-Files.   The show followed former FBI profiler Frank Black and his experiences with the Millennium Group, a secret organization working...

Viggo Mortensen

Although he is known primarily as an actor, Viggo Mortensen is also a photographer, poet, spoken word artist, painter, occasional musician and is fluent in several languages. His latest film was EASTERN PROMISES, which re-teamed Mortensen with HISTORY...

The Big Lebowski

Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing. - the...

Goth Fashion

Goth fashion is a blend of old and post-modern. Elizabethan and Victorian era finery meets post-punk streetwear. Vampires and graveyard fashion combine with period wear with a dash of fetish accessories.  Break out the black hair dye and the...

Fakir Musafar

Fakir Musafar has practiced myriad forms of body modification and has championed these practices as an essential part of spiritituality for many decades. photo of Fakir by Charles Gatewood.

Pasties

Pasties can be fabulous and flamboyant. Rhinestones, sequins, velvet, lace or tassels. Or they can be utterly discrete, a form of fashion camouflage. In skin tones, sometimes from moleskin or silicone, they act as a modesty panel beneath transparent...

Christopher Walken

He sings and dances, has won an Oscar and is the only guest host on Saturday Night Live to have his own recurring character.  Christopher Walken has a style and vocal delivery that have not only made him distinctive in the world of acting, but o...

Here Be Dragons

In mythology, a dragon is described as a large beast having the scales and tail of a snake, the claws and beard of a lion, wings and able to breathe fire.

David Beckham

The biggest star in international soccer these days is David Beckham.  He rose to fame playing for Manchester United, then went on to play for Real Madrid in Spain and now is the captain for the Los Angeles Galaxy in the US.  Whether on the...

The Young Ones

The Young Ones was a tv series from the UK which debuted in that country in 1982. In the later 80s it ran on MTV in the US, and later was re-run by Comedy Central. The show was about four mismatched college students in London. Many strange things hap...

Velvet

wrap yourself from head to toe in luscious, sumptuous velvet

Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno)

PAN'S LABYRINTH (El Laberinto del Fauno) is a movie from director Guillermo Del Toro, best known to American film audiences for HELLBOY and BLADE II.  This incredible story is set in 1944 and is about a young girl who uses her imagination and fa...

Flame ON!

I'm a human who collects stuff, and I love to collect clothing and accoutrements with flame motifs on them.  Boots, watches, belts, shoes, fabric, household items..., I love just about anything that has a good flame pattern on it! And I've got fr...

Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood got her start in the Kings Road, designing clothes for punk rockers back in the 1970s.  Over the decades she moved from streetwear to haute couture, mixing elements of club style with tradtional UK fashion however she wishes.

Orthia's Blood-Sucking Top Ten

Here are my personal favorites, my top ten best vampire movies.   Some are modern, some are older as far as films go.  Sometimes I like sophisticated and sometimes I like a bit of splatter.  You know... you want something you can reall...

George Eads

George Eads plays CSI Nick Stokes on the tv show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," which started it's eighth season on September 27, 2007. New episodes (post-writers strike) start airing on Thursday April 3rd!

Dita Von Teese

Dita Von Teese is a fashion model and burlesque performer known for her retro style and love of corsets.

V

"...Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

Videodrome

VIDEODROME was released in 1983, written and directed by Candadian filmmaker David Cronenberg.  The story is about cable tv mogul Max Renn, who's made his niche in the soft-core market.  He's looking for the next big underground hit, someth...

Orthia's Apocalyptic Top Ten

Here are my favorite top 10 apocalyptic movies.   Some are funny, some are serious.  Life after "the big disaster" is a theme that gets revisited regularly in the movies.  War, natural disaster, biological accidents, alien in...

~ gothic bellydance videos ~

Gothic Bellydance is a growing part of the Tribal Belly Dance world, allowing dancers to fuse gothic costuming, industrial/electronic music and elements of tribal fusion dance. 

Fox Mulder

Special Agent Fox Mulder is one of the main characters from The X-Files, a television show which aired from 1993 to 2002.  He is played by actor David Duchovny. After a six year break, there is a second X-Files movie currently filming in Vancouve...

David Cronenberg

Sometimes nicknamed "the King of Venereal Horror," David Cronenberg is a Canadian film director known for exploring themes of bodily mutation and psychological transformation in his movies. His latest film is EASTERN PROMISES and it won the...

Lord Voldemort

Lord Voldemort is the evil wizard and foe of Harry Potter in the famous children's book series by J.K. Rowling.  In the movie series, he is played by British actor Ralph Fiennes.

Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton began her acting career with British filmmaker Derek Jarman.  You may recognize her as the gender-fluid title character in ORLANDO, the angel Gabriel from CONSTANTINE, or the White Witch in THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. She...

We Love BLADE RUNNER

Now celebrating it's 25th anniversary, BLADE RUNNER is a classic among science fiction films.  Directed by Ridley Scott, the story is loosely-based on Philip K. Dick's novel DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?  Considered "cyberpunk&q...

William Burroughs' NAKED LUNCH

On July 7, 1966, the Supreme Court of the state of Massachusetts cleared William S. Burrough's novel NAKED LUNCH of obscenity charges, reversing an earlier Superior Court decision. They stated that Burroughs frank descriptions of drug use and graphic...

H.R. Giger

The distinctive biomechanical style of H.R. Giger is known worldwide and he is considered by many to be the greatest living surrealism artist.

Henry Rollins

Starting with a sudden offer to become the lead singer of the LA punk rock band Black Flag back in the early 80s, Henry Rollins has built himself up into a multi-media powerhouse.  He runs his own book company, tours with both his band and doing...

Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson is a singer and songwriter known for "shock rock."  Blending elements of industrial and heavy metal music, his look and sound are meant to provoke.

William S. Burroughs

William Burroughs was a Beat generation novelist who drew on his own life experiences for his writing.

David Lynch

David Lynch is an American flimmaker known for his juxtapositions of the ordinary and the fantastical.  He frequently makes movies where reality merges into dream states or the stories unfold in non-linear fashion.

Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

The 1984 science fiction cult film classic, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, stars Peter Weller as Buckaroo Banzai and John Lithgow as his nemesis, Dr. Emilio Lizardo. Ellen Barkin plays the spunky heroine/love interest. Buc...

Fanzy Pantz

Looking for some cute panties?  Whether for yourself or a gift for a friend, this lens has got lots of lacy, silky and hot panties!

Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson is a performance artist and musician who first captured public attention with her single "O Superman" back in 1980.  She lives in New York with her partner Lou Reed.

Dreadlocks and Hair Falls

Hair falls are attachable/detachable hairpieces that can be made in almost any way you can imagine, using yarn, real or synthetic hair, plastic tubing or even strips of fabric. They can be straight, curled, dreaded, however you want!

Clive Barker

Clive Barker is an author, illustrator, painter and film director who frequently works in the  fantasy-horror genre.  Originally from England, Mr. Barker now makes his home in Los Angeles.

X

With their two-part harmonies and diverse musical influences, X is a punk band that has carved a musical space and sound all their own in the LA scene.

Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt is one of the top movie stars in the world, and is half of the celebrity couple "Brangelina" with his partner Angelina Jolie. He first came to the public movie eye as the sexy but thieving hitchhiker in Thelma & Louise and then we...

Orthia's Lensography

My interests range from novel to mundane, from sacred thru profane. I love alternative and fringe culture, radical expression, cult movies and dark humor. See, the cartoon avatar isn't really that far off the real deal. Please take your time and loo...

Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling is described less and less as a "science fiction writer" and more and more as a "futurist."  He first came to widespread public attention editing the seminal collection MIRRORSHADES, but now speaks and writes m...

Beowulf

Beowulf is most often encountered as the main character of an epic poem.  A live action movie was made about the character, starring Gerard Butler, but most recently the story is was adapted into a feature-length, motion-capture, animated movie...

John Waters

Starting with his breakthough film PINK FLAMINGOS in 1973, John Waters has made movies that salute bad taste, explore his personal obsessions and exude an undeniable playfulness that keep audiences coming back for more.

William Gibson

Wiliam Gibson came to widespread attention with his 1984 novel NEUROMANCER, winning both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.  The word and concept of "cyberspace" was invented by him.

V. Vale

V. Vale is the publisher behind RE/Search Publications.  His books offer up intelligent views of non-mainstream and counter culture slices of modern society.

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi was an early era film actor who rose to fame with his portrayal of Count Dracula.

Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren has dabbled in the worlds of music (Sex Pistols, Bow Wow Wow) and fashion (with Vivienne Westwood), and no matter what he touches, it has to be dramatic. His most recent achievement was quitting the cast of the British reality tv show...

The Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence

"The Sisters devote ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment. The Sisters believe all people have a right to express their unique joy...

The Great Houdini

Magician Harry Houdini was the first great magician of the 20th century, building a sensational career by becoming a master of the escape act and for a time was the highest paid performer in the US. Many people still consider him one of the greatest...