Beautiful agony

December 1, 2004 1:54 AM

"Facettes de la petit mort" Yes, it's erotic but it doesn't feel like porn. Or does it? (NSFW)
posted by hjarten (19 comments total)

You can say DP all you want, and it doesn't sound like porn, does it?
posted by bashos_frog at 1:57 AM on December 1, 2004

Thanks basher but the link (www) didn't come up in the search.
posted by hjarten at 2:11 AM on December 1, 2004

On first glance the typeface for Beautiful Agony reminded me of Eduardo Recife's Selfish. But the characters, such as the "f," are not Selfish. Anyone have a clue as to what face the logotype utilizes? (Maybe this is something for Ask Mefi, or the Typophile Forum?)
posted by Colloquial Collision at 2:57 AM on December 1, 2004

hjarten, you got (you have gotten) the gender (you have gendered) of "la mort" right, (unlike some -- no link provided), but could we please have the adjective agree with the noun? Like, ah, la petite mort. Please Gob, may we stick with this Euro-mandated standard?

*mutters*

Effing fascists and exporters of fascism.

And sod your fake parmagiano.
posted by Wolof at 3:34 AM on December 1, 2004

bashos_frog: Brilliant.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 3:45 AM on December 1, 2004

And sod your fake parmagiano.

it's "parmigiano", Mr Nitpick
posted by matteo at 6:31 AM on December 1, 2004

I'm thinking I might take that new chick from logistics. Things go well, I might be showin' her my Oh-face. Oh! Oh!

-Drew, Office Space
posted by Shane at 6:33 AM on December 1, 2004

Heh! Did you see the outtakes of Drew, from office space? They're hilarious!
posted by erratic frog at 7:42 AM on December 1, 2004

I saw this somewhere a while back. I think it's a beautiful view of a person that the sex industry (for lack of a better term) doesn't often show.
posted by Nenna at 7:42 AM on December 1, 2004

"Facettes de la petite mort" is a really cool concept (what Nenna said). Has anyone watched the vids? Do any look, ya know, faked? These are "30 days - Recurring billing US$14.95", etc., right?

I think Drew showed up late in the first season on Dead Like Me, erratic frog, as a temp in the cubicle farm where the main character works. A very cool reference to Office Space, which has to be getting close to cult status by now. Dead is a fun series, IMO, collected on DVD at the video stores now.
posted by Shane at 8:29 AM on December 1, 2004

I think Saatchi & Saatchi (UK ad agency) did something very similar - well, indentical, actually - in a campaign for an upmarket London sex shop call Coco de Mer a few years back. Nothing new under the sun, not even pseudy porn.
posted by rhymer at 8:42 AM on December 1, 2004

What will they do when they go over 9999 videos?
posted by wobh at 9:37 AM on December 1, 2004

Oh yes!--Oh no!
You come here often?
Twice. And just because ‘petit’
Missed the DP search.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:58 AM on December 1, 2004

"Facettes de la petite mort" is a really cool concept (what Nenna said). Has anyone watched the vids? Do any look, ya know, faked? These are "30 days - Recurring billing US$14.95", etc., right?

They have free samples on the site and there are some illegals floating around the p2p networks. They don't look fake at all.
posted by callmejay at 10:43 AM on December 1, 2004

they look like they're experiencing childbirth.
posted by Hankins at 12:38 PM on December 1, 2004

it's "parmigiano", Mr Nitpick

I told you it was fake!
posted by Wolof at 12:51 PM on December 1, 2004

The free samples on the site change every week or so, so unless you want to see all of them systematically, you don't have to purchase a membership. Just in case, um, you wanted to know.
posted by Specklet at 2:43 PM on December 1, 2004

I remember seeing this site a little over a year ago. I thought it was pretty cool and very erotic. It seems that they have quite a few more videos now.

/me ponders getting his girlfriend to do a video...
posted by daHIFI at 2:43 PM on December 1, 2004

Funny, I just had one of those moments while looking at this site -- the one where you realize you have arrived in the future.
posted by scatman at 12:27 AM on December 3, 2004