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Dennis,

Your commentary is among the best ever commentaries I've received since on this service; it's simply outstanding and relates strongly to this photo in a way I never could have anticipated. Zampano of Fellini, no less. I got sick after I saw that film from stomach flu and vomited for three days, so I have awful associations that are not necessarily from that film, but nevertheless associated from it; and a long hospitalization arising thereafter . . . . while they explored to find the 'root' cause, as it coincided with a case of gall bladder obstruction . . . . so that was two weeks of excruciating abdominal pain and nausea after watching a Fellini film.

This guy looks like he is none the happier for having had his repast there in the Sands Expo Center near Las Vegas Boulevard (The Las Vegas Strip) -- shared with the giant computer Expo called Comdex -- around which the electronics industry seems to rotate. (the delegates from each go back and forth -- 'honey I have to go to Comdex *sotto voce* and the porn expo next door'.

But what the guys got was not real 'porn', as this screen is the most 'porn' anyone saw there and is maybe noteworthy just for that . . .

All was contrived to 'look like' porn but bare nipples and pudenda were off limits, and there is a question whether the 'act' suggested hereinabove ever really took place or were 'faked', given such restrictions by the City of Las Vegas.

(but it does make a great photo juxtaposition, I'll have to admit, rules or no rules . . . and one woman obligingly did remove her bikini top -- right -- to reveal a bare nipple, which I obligingly captured, but it had no photographic merit so will stay buried on my hard drives.)

Pay per view operators, shilling for new customers, were giving out 'code cards' to call up their service and view 30 minutes of 'free porn' to anybody who asked, and one service was giving out free demo DVDs of its various 'amateur' web sites with real porn on them all compiled just for this expo . . . one scene from each site . . . and they had about 15 or so sites, so 15 or so porno scenes (which this reporter dutifully watched) . . . .

The site owners must have left their yachts just to visit the expo, and I felt just a tad envious of that wealth and so little work, as I sweated getting photos like this for no pay and just to make a reputation (I hope) for getting photos like this.

Yes, I have lifted the tent flap a little, but then I almost assuredly knew what was underneath; I'm not the first to have done so; the first time I saw such a thing documented was in a photo expo in Frankfurt, Germany, with several cameras and associated cables being shown in one photograph being aimed between a woman's legs showing apparently 'you know what', and that idea never left me . . . . I saw that in the early '90s when porn was a 'film' business and it was then being 'videotaped' and an enterprising photographer had documented the 'other side' of the business -- for amazing shots.

This is a continuation of that, I think (giving credit where credit is due, and if anyone knows that photographer's name, please insert it and/or a link here, as I'd appreciate it, together with an appropriate warning).

Dennis, your comment probably outclasses the photograph; after all mine is a rehash of prior work and maybe not so original after all, but your comment is just great (rehash or no of a prior idea, it is entirely well presented and commands attention.)

It reminds me of the other great comment you made about Elvis's manager -- Colonel Parker -- as well as the great comment made by Photo.Net member Doug Hawks about certain 'nodes' on his hand, associated, maybe, with Vikings (also should be required reading.)

You honor me with your presence (and humble me also).

John (Crosley)

In my thousands of e-mails, I cannot locate his URL.

Can u send it again?

Sorry for the difficulties.

I do finish things; unlike the story of the guy you told me about.

John (Crosley)