blog Zak Smith Makes the Sex Industry Human in We Did Porn
Porn! Itâs so controversial. Are we creating fantasies that we canât live up to? Are we exploiting women? Or are we just enjoying sex? However you feel, punk artist turned porn star Zak Smith tells all in his new memoir/sketch book, We Did Porn, and Bumbershoot is thrilled to have him spill all the juicy details Festival weekend.
Smith, known for illustrating each page of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and sketching ladies of the sex industry, went from the observer to the observed. Zak, once the guy in corner with the pencil and pad, turns into a blossoming star of the alternative porn world in his new book We Did Porn. Moving from the New York art scene to the Los Angeles pornography industry, he transforms from Zak Smith to Zak Sabbath. His transition between the two worlds are nearly seamless and along the way he gives us a friendly reminder that porn stars are people tooâintelligent, funny, and self-aware people at that.
Zak will be bringing his artistic pedigree and porn star persona to the Literary Arts Stage on Sunday, September 6. He puts it best: “The most hideous thing about pornography, of course, is that it works. On you.”
posted June 29 '09 at 07:06AM by Kayla in arts, literary arts, zak smith
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