“Like a child looking through The Joy of Sex for the first time” — Emily Farris [photo courtesy Daniel Krieger]
We love literature and we love
smut…so naturally we had to check out the Sienese Shredder’s release party last night, as they found a
way to combine both in their second annual issue. The journal “brings together
poetry, critical writing, visual arts, unpublished rarities, oddball ephemera” and,
you know, a bit o’ porn.
Nerve
editor Will Doig got his culture on, and met photographer Susan Unterberg (far right) who showed him her photographs of human thumbs
that look like penises, and goldfish mouths that look like vaginas.
Will
was the only one there not wearing glasses, except for Nerve's Scanner blogger Emily
Farris, who (full disclosure) organized the party. Other artsy attendees included painter and filmmaker Alfred Leslie, writer/director Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, The Last Days
of Disco), editor-in-chief of Art in
America Elizabeth Baker,
poet/painter Sarah Plimpton, and a
ton of other really smart people who probably give good cocktail-hour
conversation.
But we really liked the human-thumb penis pics. Though we’ve never seen vaginas
like these. And you hopefully haven't seen a penis like that second photo:
[thumb/fish/penis/vagina photos
courtesy Susan Unterberg
and Sienese Shredder]
