Comments on: Watching You Watching Them

By: Cromagnon Woman

Cromagnon Woman — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:47:25 +0000

This was utterly engrossing and not exactly what I would have expected (which is to say, that is what makes you awesome in my book, Ross).

I found it particularly fascinating how a number of the people in the video spoke of connecting what they were watching to either someone they know/are attracted to or to their own sexual practices. When I think of watching porn, I categorize it with all of the other ways in which we satisfy our bestial needs, as something simple and basic. In many ways, however, their interviews illustrated how un-animalistic it is, how directly tied to our social networks this seemingly anonymous act can be. There was this slightly tragic thread of grasping (all puns intended) at that which was missing or unfulfilled. The video felt like something the Kinsey Institute would have orchestrated and less a work of art, except insomuch as those two worlds intersect.

By: Ana Droid

Ana Droid — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:07:41 +0000

“the artist’s intent is so overbearing that I wind up searching for the specific question that I was meant to ask; and more often than not I cannot find it”

agreed.

By: tyhiliet

tyhiliet — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:12:59 +0000

I found this to be entertaining on many levels. and all i can say, i love all their adorible face.

@ross you hit home on this
XD

By: cappy

cappy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:26:04 +0000

I watch this, knowing that these people knew they were on camera, and knowing that it was influencing the way they were acting.

Bah — try growing up in a huge house full of people, and then learning to masturbate silently your entire life because of it. :P I’m sure a lot of peoples’ faces are actually rather blank during the act…

By: Jerem Morrow

Jerem Morrow — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:02:27 +0000

I enjoyed this mostly because the people depicted aren’t at all what I go for, but I loved seeing them down and dirty, expressing why it wasn’t at all. I’ve heard “porn is degrading” so many times I could puke for months, without loss of pressure. I get that there are people out there that aren’t sexual, in any manner, but I still have trouble believing it. I also get that there are those out there who look at most porn as low brow…hehehe…but those people typically only just duck as I throw something at them. We’re all dirty little monkeys. And thank fucking heaven for that. Smut, as much as so-called artful pr0n, does it for me.

By: ben

ben — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:57:33 +0000

………

ok, that was HOT

By: Damien

Damien — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:37:19 +0000

I think the better choice of phrase would have been “the film throws into question the nature of voyeurism and exhibitionism.” In that sense, there are no specific questions, so All of the questions you encounter are valid.

The layering of Watching, the inextricable interconnection of voyeurism and exhibitionism– I think these are the Kinds of questions we’re meant to be asking…

But yeah. Deeply uncomfortable, and not entirely in a bad way.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:32:18 +0000

@Sam
I’ll agree that we all make stupid faces during sex but the creepy parrt of this was that I thought it was made really obvious that the porn-watchers were only interested in their own pleasure and others be damned (no big surprise there to be honest, that’s what porn is there for) and that is never particularly pretty to watch.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:47:28 +0000

I really don’t feel like intellectualizing this. It’s simply interesting to hear others’ experiences with porn, especially when they’re fairly articulate, and to compare them to your own.

Oh, and since when is it news that people make stupid faces during sex and orgasm? That isn’t creepy, that’s normal … and even delightful, somehow. Humans are silly creatures and we ought to be able to laugh at ourselves, especially when it comes to an act that many take way too seriously.

By: Anjo

Anjo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:35:45 +0000

I thought Robbie Cooper’s previous video with footage of children’s expressions while playing video games to be strikingly similar to Beautiful Agony, and now with this current video for Wallpaper, the interview parts is pretty much the same concept as Beautiful Agony’s confession segment… so despite the video being interesting, I am not sure how I feel about it.