Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Because I know all of you are very interested in the supposed Jimi Hendrix sex tape, here's the link to the official site. Click here to see a still (no nudity but nsfw). From watching the preview I am doubtful about it being Hendrix. The dude is definitely biting Jimi's style but it doesn't look like him to me.

The most suspicious aspect of the tape is that it appears to have been professionally (or at least semi-professionally) filmed. The camera seems to move around, meaning that someone was in the room operating it (Jimi didn't just set it up himself), and it also looks like the action is lit for the filming & not from typical household lights. Notice how the people are well lit, and when one of the ladies is riding Jimi, her shadow is directly behind her on the wall. Imagine on one or both sides of the camera there were lights on stands facing the the scene. This would make all three people well-lit on film & create shadows of the three on the vertical wall directly behind them. Now imagine the room was lit by the typical floor lamp and/or ceiling lights. I think the lighting should be different than what we see in this film.

The film has the aesthetics of 1960's porn & not a home movie, although we know that people often try to imitate both the filmic & thematic attributes of professional porn in their own home made dirty movies (as well as in the bedroom). Both the apparent movement of the camera & the shadows could be artifacts of the editing process for the preview so we'll have to wait & see the original when it comes out.


UPDATE: Here's a link to the trailer. It's not much more than a minute long but only has a few seconds from the sex tape. It's an FLV file so you may need to download the FLV movie player.

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