I am going to ramble and continually update this post as I find the time. By no means is this post a finished product. But let’s pull up our britches and begin.
Once upon a time I made videos and sold them on Atom Films, MetaCafe, and Revver. The basic premise was pretty women walking past you on the street in a head turning outfit giving you a flirtatious glance. I had some early financial successes with it.
I was born and raised in NYC. Came of age in Manhattan during the early 90's. I also have worked in early web analytics at a major media company right in Times Square. Both of these facts are relevant to the Saturated Entertainment tale. Now shortened to just Saturated E. I was in a job with forever shifting org charts that shifted cubicles around every 6 weeks and was forcing me to figure out how to make 8 hours of work stretch out to 40+ hours. NYC energy was different back then. i predicted Apple's explosion based off the headphones I kept seeing on the subway, The web was equally as interesting and I knew what was getting eyeballs. I had access to some pretty expensive data collecting software. I'll pause here to interject with the current knowledge that what I thought then and know now are two different things but that the analytical logic for starting what I started wasn't off. It was working. My website ended up in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
My early videos showed pretty women walking candidly down the street. Pretty early earn I switched to getting permission, paying the women and getting releases for the distribution of the clips. I tried posted them on YouTube but eventually got kicked off with no warnings or explanations. I was cancelled before being being cancelled was cool. Lol. The hypocrisy behind these decisions was insane considering what was being hosted and promoted throughout media.
At that time my content although titillating but was never erotic, and never full nude. I was keeping myself inline with what was being shown on TV, Newspapers, Magazines and even on YouTube itself. Stuff like this.
* I don’t own or control the sidewalkbeauty url that appears in these clips anymore. I'll try to find the time to scrub them off.
I got kicked off Google Adwords as well when I tried hosting the videos on my own page. I eventually started buying wholesale outfits and hiring models to wear them. For instance, I sold these pink shirts online. I had to learn how to make my own shopping buttons. I had created another domain which I no longer own and has since just become some Asian link farm.
The world has changed so fast but then again it hasn't. How often we mislabel things and overreact to media propaganda has taken a different hue. Trying to navigate this balancing act on this yellow brick road while our supposed leading institutions are being run by charlatans like Oz himself. This whole charade, this whole performance is filled with hypocrisy. Selling clothes made enough money to sometimes put back into a shoot for new content but it wasn't making a living. Add to the fact that running a retail shop out of an apartment in NYC wasn't exactly ideal caused this endeavor to fade away. Since I had dabbled with payment processing I decided to sell some of my content for subscriptions. At this stage my shoots turned a bit more risque and at times would mimic nudity shown during R rated movie scenes.
The longer version is worth a glance. (I’ll link to that soon).