Multi Orgasmic, Multi Meetup, Photo Books

[lb_lee]

• Lore Jason and us are planning another multi meetup on Saturday, March 19th, at Pine Bank Park in Malden, MA. (5-10 minute walk from the Oak Grove Orange Line station; car parking is also available, and while it'd be a bit of a schlep in a wheelchair, I think it is accessible.) An outdoors pavilion with picnic tables. Come for snacks, drinks, talking plurality, comparing notes, learning and having fun! For anyone plural, pluralish, partially or formerly plural or questioning. If you're not sure you count, the answer is "yes, you do." More details forthcoming.
• Made some minor corrections to Multi, Orgasmic; ebook buyers should be able to freely redownload the files if they want to. Also, misjudged the printing costs and changed the price; paper is $8 now, ebook $4. It's selling better than I imagined.
• Weeded the healthymultiplicity.com index, added a couple new things.
• Discovered that photo books can make for great art reference, and now I cannot be stopped. So far, I've got:
  
  • Howard Schatz's Athlete, AKA those pics of various Olympiads that went viral online. Useful for basic build and height/weight ref, also lots of good reference of hands and feet and people running, jumping, gripping, etc. I handwrote in a TOC and index, hoping to take more thorough notes on proportions.
  • Loving, a bunch of photos from the 1850s-1950s of men in love. People hugging, holding hands, or being casually intimate with each other. I plan to handwrite in an index so as to more easily find poses and such, since this book is gigantic. Lots of useful hands reference.
  • Thomas Pakenham's Meetings with Remarkable Trees. "Remarkable trees" is Marketese for what I've always called "big honkin' trees." No banyans, alas, but many Irish dad jokes about "the best and worst of limes."
  • Leonard Nimoy's the Full Body Project. Haven't bought it, just grabbed from the library. Big curvy women, mostly nude, very satisfying to draw. Worked better for me than Adipositivity, which crops too much for me to find it useful; I want as much of the person in the frame as possible.
  • I should look over my copy of Rebecca Swan's Assume Nothing and see if it'd make for decent ref. I suspect the answer is no; it's mostly portrait photography, which crops too close to be useful for what I want.
  • Eventually Andres Serrano's Big Women is going to turn up somewhere at a price I can afford, and when it does, I will dive on it. Ditto Howard Schatz's Passion and Line (dancers) and Nude Body Nude.
  • If any artists wandering by have their own photo book recommendations, please let me know. I'd especially love a good photobook of fat guys or old folks, preferably nude and with as much of them in the frame as possible.

 

Comments

[starfallhaven]

You know, photobooks are something we never even thought about. But that kind of thing would be invaluable for our anatomy reference, especially bodies interacting.

Also, good luck on the multi meetup! Wish we were close enough to make it.

[silvercat17]

There a couple of sites designed for photo reference of fat people. www.fatphotoref.com has entirely volunteer provided photos and requires a password. (DM me for it if you want to take a look). There's only one guy tho

They have a few recommended resources as well.

[beepbird]

Might have to get myself a copy of Full Body Project, sounds like references I need! It's annoyingly hard to find photos of fat people in specific poses.