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So You Want To Make Porn - Perspectives From The Inside

Featuring James Mogul and Madison Young

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

1:00 PM to 3:30 PM

at the Center for Sex Positive Culture (CSPC) in Seattle

James Mogul and Madison Young are thoughtful, witty and engaging.

They're also smart pornographers - James directs for Kink.com and Madison directs for Madison Bound Productions.

Their workshop will cover the following:

Background

• James and Madison - life before porn and art galleries
• Why we do it and getting started - the inspiration to create something
• Working as an indy starving artist
• Bondage photography
• Founding Femina Potens
• Building your vision
• Starting and developing Madison Bound Productions
• Artbound Productions and NawaShibari
• Learning the craft - gaining experience, directing and producing for the fetish market
• Going corporate - fitting into the machine with your vision intact, directing and working for Kink.com
• Social concerns in BDSM porn
• The politics around queer porn, feminism and activism

Making Movies

• The idea, creative methods and themes
• Writing it down - development and scripting
• Budgets - no-budget, low-budget and larger shoots
• Making it happen on shoot day
• Getting paid - post production and distribution
• Legal concerns

Making a Living

• How to keep the ideas coming
• Originality and sustainability
• Lifestyle arrangements

Performance - The Tail of a Bondage Model

A reading from Madison's first book, performed with a compliment of Japanese style rope bondage by James.

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Sadistic Rope Bondage featuring James Mogul and Madison Young

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About James Mogul

James Mogul created the bondage photography web site NawaShibari.com and is the director of Kink.com's MenInPain.com and theTrainingOfO.com sites.

He is an amazing rigger and top, a captivating instructor and a serious photographer.

James launched his kinky career in Seattle, where he played, taught and developed content for NawaShibari.com.  James conceived of and produced the groundbreaking Artbound I and II events in 2000.

James' last workshop at the Wet Spot was in 1999.  Don't miss this one.

About Madison Young

Madison Young is making waves in feminism one orgasm at a time with her award winning queer production company Madison Bound Productions and the nationally recognized Femina Potens (www.feminapotens.org) - a sex positive gallery and performance space dedicated to women and transgendered artists.

Madison has traveled the world with her sex positive performances, workshops, panels, art work and readings from her upcoming memoir "The Tail of a Bondage Model". Her writings have been published in On Our Backs and Girlfriends Magazine and can also be found in the anthology “Baby Remember My Name”. Madison has been featured on MTV’s program Out and About, the documentary Lesbian Sex and Sexuality Porn Today: Pushing the Limits, and Brian Alexander’s recent book "America Unzipped".

Registration and Fees

Workshop fee: $25

CSPC membership is NOT required for the workshop.  Please bring ID to verify that you're at least 18 years old.

Pre-registration is NOT required for the workshop.

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