Filmmaker Focus #6 Power Up

Today, a special treat. The creators of of one of Bike Smut's most mind bending films share their thoughts about sex, cycling and politics in film. Usually we have a sort of interview process to get the most from our filmmakers but in this case we are basically forced to reprint their words exactly as we received them. Standby for delightful head scratching fun in 3, 2, 1 

POWER UP – Starlow Prud.

We are ready to meet feminist people around the world. This is why we produce erotic films. The characters in our videos are not only lovers, they are becoming together immediately political.

Mario (human): Horses are extremely rare in my world.

Monix (bike) : Unlike me. I am totally missing in your world.

Banco (ATM) : It is not true, you are the star of Porny Express.

We took 91% of time looking for names, definitions, grammatical rules and its political damage. Monix is not a bike.

Gode : dildo in french. It is a DIY Porn Tool.

DIY Porn Tool : gode, spontaneity, chosen restraints, détournement, bouche à oreille, learning by doing and collaborative process avec les moyens dubord.

Warning ! The limit of this methodology is to be out of the random.

We heard about the Bike Smut open call in a feminist porn festival in France. This news turned us so on, that we began the project as soon as we came back in Geneva. We were so absorbed in our DIY biko-banco-porno production, that we forgot to look for the title of the open call. We discovered the Porny Express topic only when we were working on the postproduction. We are proud to be far away from the reality of things. We are proud to be Starlow.

Thanks for the crazy interview to go along with the crazy film, although this was more of a manifesto, than an interview. But who are we to define any medium? Why try to be so deterministic in our media and the manners by which we engage them? Really, shouldn't we all search for our own "Gode" at our own pace?

Either way we expect more to be encouraged to create and share their own ideas about their bikesexual freedom soon!

My Fucked Up Parking

Bike Smut is saved from the precipice of disaster! Just in time to launch itself once again into a gnashing pit of bikefun sexytimes in Barcelona!

The Spanish state clearly has a furious aggression towards cars. Which we heartily applaud, but most certainly not when it is applied against Bike Smut and our holy mission of propagandizing the bicycle (which unfortunately at the moment relies by necessity on our use of motorized transport). It was traumatizing enough when our tour van was towed in Madrid for improper parking, to be retrieved after 300 Euros just in time for a late start to our raucous show at the Patio Maravillas squat. But now to have our van disappeared for a second time in Spain? Truly, we are suffering. But we now have our van back, at the repeated expense of several hundred Euros, and having recovered the invaluable archives of bike porn movies contained within, we are once again fully ready with our pornographic armaments to unleash the fury of bike sex tonight.

















But, besides the terror of trying to safely park in Spanish cities, these towing incidents bring up an important point: Bike Smut is not funded. When we experience calamities like these, Bike Smut pays for it out of it's own nearly-empty pockets. We rely entirely on the donations and merchandise revenue that we receive at our shows to get us from city to city and to cover the often extreme costs of long-term international touring. We depend completely on the generosity of our community of bikesexuals to keep us going, so, to prevent Bike Smut from being permanently grounded by another excessive towing fee, support the things that you love! Come to our shows, give us some love, give us some dirty filthy money, buy our handmade underwear and branded condoms, and we promise that we will keep the bike porn growing. And you can do all this just this very night!

This night in Barcelona we will be squeezing into the fixie bike shop My Beautiful Parking, address Calle de Cervantes 5, at 21.00, for a red hot bike porn show. More details can be found on crackbook or the MBP blog.

Tonight's show follows a torrid alleycat race last night across the frequently bewildering city of Barcelona, in which Bike Smut's own Liberty Sprocket secured a triumphant last place finish. He became separated from his guide in the last lengths of the race while trying to ram his bicycle through a horde of tourists and became lost in the old city, hopelessly wandering the swarming alleys for days surviving off of dumpstered donuts until he miraculously found safe haven at My Beautiful Parking. We are very thankful that he made it back alive without being elbowed to death by tourists.

its got bike and its got porn, but it aint really bike porn

The painfully obvious answer will be announced next week. We hope that someone will guess it.

infernal internal

you have these skills ----------------------------> Some
and are hanging out in this hood ---------> Portland
and are wanting this much in return ---> NOTHING!


Apparently we need you!


If that didn't get your heart pounding than continue not to enjoy.




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Bike Porn Industries is hiring!

Well, almost. While we do experience frequent, rapid growth we also have equally frequent rapid downsizing. But at the moment we are accepting applications for our 1st ever Intern!

Bike Porn Industries organizes a touring festival of adult-themed bicycle movies. This is our 3rd year of traveling North America, sharing a view of progressive sexuality mixed with sustainability. We are looking for an office intern to assist with preparing for the next tour.

Applicants must be available 10am-4pm for 2-3 days during the week lasting until Feb 14th, 2010. Internship begins as soon as possible.

We can be somewhat flexible with scheduling as there is a lot of work to be done and much of it can be done at anytime.

This is an unpaid internship

Tasks include: assisting with mailings, internet research, event scheduling, theater negotiations, working on promotional images, writing materials for distribution and taking part in social media marketing campaigns as well as helping with our blog: http://BikeSmut.com

Additional tasks may include: assisting with production of promotional material, setting up lights or operating recording equipment

Requirements:
Please be dedicated, hardworking and LOVE DIY. We need you to be laid back with strong people skills while still being prompt and professional.

Prior experience with spreadsheets, email and other basic computing is necessary.

Photographic and video production experience are a plus, but not required.

* Location: Portland (some remote online work ok)
* Compensation: A small stipend is available.
* This is a part-time job.
* This is an internship job
* Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
* Please, no phone calls about this job!
* Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or
commercial interests.

Please apply by e-mail only: bikesmut@gmail.com (cover letter and resume).

Toeing the Line or Pushing the Camel

Hot Ass Messenger Marketing was pleased to learn that the Chicks and Bikes blog has bit on our hot ass.



What ho, Pork Barrels are so lucrative.

Penis.

Tod Seelie does bikes and sex, but not at the same time.

Tod Seelie's advice on pursuing a career in photography is a guide to living doing just about any art right. You are poor, respected and (assuming the most modest of needs) you get to have the time of your life every day you live.

"Um, don’t expect to make any decent money in band photography. Do it for the love of it, and hope you can find another way to make ends meet. I will mention one thing that I get asked a lot, which is how am I able to tour with bands and focus on photography without having a day job. The answer is to keep your expenses down. Re-examine what you really need. Don’t buy new things, be resourceful, eat cheap, dumpster dive, don’t spend money at bars, don’t own a car;ride a bike instead, and when you travel either give up or sublet your room. That last one is probably my biggest one. If you don’t need a lot of money to get by you don’t need to spend a lot of time trying to earn it. Your time is all you have, and having the freedom to spend it how you please is worth a lot more in my book." -Tod Seelie

This feels similar to the Pornographer's Playbook to Touring without Bankruptcy. These are lessons that are easy to understand but hard to live by.

Tod also talks about selling work and expectations regarding sharing of images. With any luck we will be able to find out more about his feelings on image privacy and ownership of media.