According to the artist’s website, this artwork is Aquarium 4 by Enoki Toshiyuki. It is part of what the artist calls the Aqua Cycle. A short bio of the artist may be found here.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Author Archives: faustus
Pull and howl
Original post here. Sourced to feeling-is-first.
Fucking in the stocks
Dungeon
This is a postcard with the caption in Russian, reading “Парижскій Салонъ 1910. Боксеры. — Жанъ Шарль Піерръ Ля Пались.” The caption translates as “Paris Salon 1910. The Boxers. — Jean Pierre Charles de Chabannes La Palice.” This particular image of the postcard appears to have been scanned and posted to Flickr in 2010. A similar postcard with the same caption in French may be seen here. The image on both postcards is, according to the captions and to this page, a work by Jean Pierre Charles de Chabannes La Palice called The Boxers, which was indeed exhibited at the 1910 “Salon des Artistes Français”:
Depicted, presumably, is a fanciful scene from the Boxer Rebellion, during and after which many lurid accounts of rape and torture circulated.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Cooking is fun
Original post here. Sourced to sexygirlsart.net via notpulpcovers. Original text:
(via Erotic Fine Art: Fastner and Larson)
Doll enjoying life
Original post here. Original text:
A CandyGirl by Orient industry, enjoying life
Opium den in Vietnam
Image contains the text:
Opium Den in Vietnam, by Lawrence F. Watkins.
When I told the editor of Exotic Adventures that I would shortly be leaving on a longish trip to Saigon, he immediately said “Good, I want you to visit an opium den and give us a complete report.”
His request shocked me. I had been to Saigon three times in the past four years, as a travelling representative of the rubber company for which I work. Each time, I had scrupulously avoided Saigon’s numerous fumeries, or opium-smoking parlours, despite frequent invitations from Saigonese friends and business acquaintances to “come have a smoke.” My curiosity was high, but I had the Westerner’s fear of the sinister habit.
Nevertheless, I agreed to consider the idea. And before I left for Vietnam, I did some checking on opium addiction. I found that opium addiction is much more difficult to attain than addiction to other drugs. It takes six months, at least, of regular (continued on next page)
Image contains the text “The French Deputy Inspetor led his American visitor into the dark and murky opium den. There, in the smoky gloom of the unreal world, he saw a half-naked girl reclining on a wooden bench.” and a signature “J.F. Apgar, Jr.”
From the text contained within these images, we can deduce that these are two illustrations by J.F. Apgar for an issue of Exotic Adventures magazine. This page tells us that the Opium Den In Vietnam story appeared in Volume 1, No. 5, from 1959 (see cover). Interestingly, the article’s attribution to author “Lawrence F. Watkins” is said to be pseudonymous; the true author may have been none other than science fiction legend Robert Silverberg. However, in a 2013 Yahoo Groups posting commenting on the Exotic Adventures attributions to him, Mr. Silverberg said “I wrote some of the EXOTIC ADVENTURES items listed below, not all. I do have a record of which ones they are … but I don’t have the time to look them up now.” So the matter is uncertain. As for artist J.F. Apgar, there seem to be no references to such an illustrator in the searchable record, giving rise to the suspicion that this, too, was perhaps a pseudonym for another artist.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Kiddie art done better
Original post here. Art is that of Sylvain Sarrailh (“Tohad”), whose DeviantArt site is here. Sourced to 1los via infernalmonitor.
Poe v. Lovecraft
Original post here. Sourced to fantasy-book-home. Original text:
Lovecraft and Poe.
If this were a comic I’d read the fuck out of it.
I need it
#I feel like Poe would be really sad all the time #and Lovecraft would be all DUDEBRO GOT NO TIME FOR DEPRESSION PH’NGLUI MGLW’NAFH CTHULU R’LYEH WGAH’NAGL FHTAGN #and Poe’s all WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN #and then monsters
reblog for the tags. because HELLS TO THE YES
#WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN
# And then monsters
What is this perfection.
This needs a synthy 80’s soundtrack
Shadow of the Spider
This photo is from a set called “35” by photographer Edgard Berendsen. A blog interview here offers more information about the photographer.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.