You full-feed readers will be happy to learn that Eolake Stobblehouse, a friend of this site from the beginning and a frequent contributor to the comments section, has agreed to subsidize full feeds, in a deal which includes a new ad. Eolake is something of a legend on the web—his site, DOMAI (WARNING! Adult content at the link) is one of the web's great success stories. A nude picture site, it's not p*rn unless you happen to be a Puritan or a fundamentalist Moslem (and I've always disliked the term "soft p*rn," which reads to me like "gentle viciousness" or "mild violence" or some such near-oxymoron). It features respectful if rather exuberant female nudes—think '50s and '60s Playboy and you'll have about the right gestalt. The new ad labeled "Joyful Nudes" is his. He also kindly agreed to feature just a face in the ad, to accommodate people in workplaces or schools who might be discomfited by anything even slightly more explicit. (Surely no one will object to a face and word "nudes"? If so, it's full feeds for you!) Anyway, it's thanks to him that full feeds will continue for a good long while. Just so you know who's buttering your bread. If you don't want to visit DOMAI, you might want to stop by Eolake's blog, which is non-commercial, family friendly, multi-interest, and has many photography-related posts.
Also, oddly enough, our recent posts about Vincent Laforet led to a rather interesting discovery—Vincent and Eolake are near dead-ringers.
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Mike
Bonus points for Vincent's assistant's similarity to Sergey Brin!
Posted by: Dominic Arkwright | Monday, 29 September 2008 at 01:36 AM
Ah, you caught us. This is really Sergey and me doing research for a video search technology for urban areas.
Posted by: Eolake Stobblehouse | Monday, 29 September 2008 at 01:57 AM
Mike,
I'm Muslim and I do not take all nude pictures for p*rn.
Please don't mix up everything, all Muslims are not integrists.
A french/Muslim reader.
Posted by: Kader | Monday, 29 September 2008 at 02:10 AM
Doppelgänger....
;-)
Adam
Posted by: mcananeya | Monday, 29 September 2008 at 02:38 AM
Truly excellent match!
Known doubles are fun. I've got one or two. When we're in the same place, we can really mess with people's heads. Sometimes they're even people who know us pretty well.
Unknown doubles are spooky, though. I've got some long-time good friends who clearly remember dinner with me about a decade ago in New Orleans. I hope a good time was had by all; I've never been there in my life.
do DOO do do do DOO do do ....
pax / Ctein*
(*have you collected the whole set?)
Posted by: Ctein | Monday, 29 September 2008 at 04:10 AM
Re Kader's comment: To the best of my knowledge, conservative followers of every major religion (and possibly some atheists too) would consider that website p*rn, and less conservative people would not. So how about replacing all references to religious denominations with "particularly conservative"?
I know it's nitpicking, but you have a wide spectrum of readers. I'm neither Christian nor Muslim (your spelling is a little archaic :)), btw.
Both pairs of terrible twins are uncanny.
Posted by: expiring_frog | Monday, 29 September 2008 at 07:06 AM
Funny, I thought exactly the same thing when I saw that first portrait, even before reading the text you wrote above it!
I hope Vincent reads this, pretty funny.
Posted by: Jan | Monday, 29 September 2008 at 07:20 AM
When I moved to this town a few years back, I was told on two separate occasions that I worked in town hall. And once I came into a favorite restaurant and the waitress said to the other: "hey, the *real* Eolake is here now." Apparently my double just left. Sadly I've not met the guy yet.
Posted by: Eolake Stobblehouse | Monday, 29 September 2008 at 10:14 AM
How do you pronounce "Eolake" and what's its origin? I've been curious ever since discovering DOMAI and his blog.
Oh, and while I'm at it, is there a reason behind the name DOMAI?
Thanks!
Posted by: Howard Cornelsen | Monday, 29 September 2008 at 01:45 PM
"Oh, and while I'm at it, is there a reason behind the name DOMAI?"
It stands for "Dirty Old Men's Association International." [s]
Mike J.
Posted by: Mike J. | Monday, 29 September 2008 at 03:34 PM
"mild violence"
That would be dance, right?
Posted by: Hugh Crawford | Monday, 29 September 2008 at 07:12 PM
Eolake is a nom de plume. It's pronounced in English: accent on E, short o, lake like Lake Michigan.
Posted by: Eolake Stobblehouse | Monday, 29 September 2008 at 07:15 PM
Oh, and for the origin of DOMAI, see:
http://stobblehouse.com/text/interview.html
Posted by: Eolake Stobblehouse | Monday, 29 September 2008 at 07:16 PM
I would be interested to know (but not obsessed by the question of) how many n*de photos of different women are on the internet, both p*rn and simply n*de for one reason or another. I think there must be hundreds of thousands by now -- Photosig has something on the order of 3,000 at any given time, with more arriving daily. Would it be possible to take some kind of statistical sample of the totality of websites -- if there's any record of the totality of websites -- and then actually examine the sampled sites and count individual nudes, and then extrapolate? I wonder if it could be as high as 1 percent? I wonder what the percentage would be among high computer-using college women? Ten or fifteen percent?
JC
Posted by: John Camp | Monday, 29 September 2008 at 10:54 PM
All you need now is to get Greg Gorman to sponsor your site, then us ladies can have an option of looking at some classy male nudes while we're here.
Posted by: Irena | Tuesday, 30 September 2008 at 05:49 AM
JC:
How many different women? Nigh impossible to do even a good guess, but definitely in the five figures. Maybe six. Domai has over 600 models now, and it's a tiny site compared to many.
Posted by: Eolake Stobblehouse | Tuesday, 30 September 2008 at 12:11 PM