Sexy Snow White art

Pop culture artists love to sex up fairytale heroines. They enjoy adding mature overtones to familiar public domain characters. In the process, they take something innocent and childlike and make it naughty and adult.
I’ve previously written about sexy depictions of Cinderella and Tinker Bell.
Today I’ll review some sexy depictions of Snow White.
Why do artists find Snow White sexy? Maybe because she’s “the fairest one of all.” Or maybe because she’s so pure, making her a target for corrupting influences. Or maybe it’s the fact that she lives with seven men. Or maybe because she falls into a spell-induced slumber and men kiss her while she’s sleeping. Or perhaps taking a bite of the poisoned apple is like Eve and the forbidden fruit. Your guess is as good as mine. 
Anyway, here are some examples of sexy Snow White art.
No review of sexy Snow White artwork would be complete without mentioning the work of comic book artist J. Scott Campbell. He’s done many excellent Snow White depictions including some for his Fairytale Fantasies calendars. A sample of his work leads this article. (Other Snow White art by Campbell can be seen here and here.)
Other comic book artists have taken a crack at Snow White as well. Here are two covers from Zenescope’s Grimm Fairy Tales comic.

Often Snow White is depicted with big breasts, such as in this drawing by Nathan Seals of NathansComicArt.

Or check out the killer curves in this Snow White art by Pasquale Qualano.

Artist Cris Delara shows the moment a scantily clad Snow White bites the cursed apple. You can see more of her wonderful work at DeviantArt and Delara Art.

Artist Virginie Sivetoh turned Snow White into a tattooed stripper, complete with nipple tassels and high-heeled shoes.

Some artists depict Snow White as a Goth or punk girl with lots of leather and metal. Check out the work below of Sakimi Chan at DeviantArt and Tumblr.

Then take a gander at this version of Snow White by Serge Birault. She’s no damsel in distress in this knife-wielding depiction. (More of his work is available at DeviantArt.)

Many other artists on DeviantArt draw Snow White in underwear, corsets or other skimpy clothing.

Consider this boudoir art of Snow White by Biaani on DeviantArt.

… or this buxom Snow White by Matthew Stewart on DeviantArt.

… or this bare-bottom Snow White by Pinky Pills on DeviantArt and Pinky Pills.

And finally, here's a version of Snow White with a skin-tight outfit by artist Deacon Black with color by Stacy Raven.

Sourcing photos, part 2: Fair use arguments

Copyright issues related to online photos are a controversial subject.
The battle lines have been drawn between copyright maximalists and those who believe in a liberal interpretation of fair use.
The maximalists don’t believe in fair use applications such as derivative works and educational purposes. They want to stop all unauthorized uses of their photos or at least get the users to pay up for the privilege.
Fervent believers in fair use, such as myself, think the public benefits greatly from the freedom to rework, embellish, interpret and comment on copyrighted images. We think legislators, Internet services and others should keep “fair use” top of mind when considering copyright law, especially for non-commercial uses.
Check out the overview of fair use from Stanford University, written by Rich Stim.
Earlier this week, I wrote about two photos used in some recent online ads. This would not be a fair use application if the photos were used without authorization. The ads are clearly using the photos for commercial purposes.
Other instances are not so black and white.
Some new media organizations argue that many photos they gather online are in the public domain.
Twitter site @HistoryInPics makes that claim for the historical photos it posts, The Atlantic reported. But it’s at least guilty of bad netiquette.
“They don’t provide sources for the photographs or the captions that accompany them. Sometimes they get stuff wrong and/or post copyrighted photographs,” writes Alexis Madrigal, senior editor of The Atlantic.
Another popular website, BuzzFeed, makes fair use and public domain claims for many of the cute animal photos and similar meme-ready images it collects online, The Atlantic says.
At the same time, copyright holders have gone to court to wring huge awards from those who use their images without permission.
In November, a federal jury ordered two media companies to pay $1.2 million to a freelance photojournalist for their unauthorized use of photos he posted to Twitter, Reuters reported.
The jury found that Agence France-Presse and Getty Images willfully violated the Copyright Act when they used photos Daniel Morel took in his native Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
The award seems excessive. The jury ended up making Morel “the best paid news photographer on the planet,” Getty’s attorney said.
In January, the Associated Press issued a cease-and-desist letter to George Zimmerman for trying to sell a piece of art that appeared to be based on an AP photo. Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, was attempting to sell the painting to help pay his legal bills, according to media reports.
Zimmerman’s art is clearly fair use. He may have used the AP photo as inspiration, but he made significant changes to it, including the addition of political commentary. (See articles by the AP, Daily Mail and Legal Insurrection.)
In 2011, the AP successfully sued artist Shepard Fairey for his iconic “Hope” poster featuring then presidential candidate Barack Obama. Fairey claimed fair use, but ultimately settled the case.
In a fitting twist for our remix culture, that “Hope” poster has now been reworked by artists to parody the Obama administration for its NSA spying scandal, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Photo: Side-by-side comparison of George Zimmerman artwork and AP photo.

Sourcing photos: Sexy women edition

One of my biggest pet peeves is when websites fail to provide attribution for photos.
Content aggregation websites are notorious for grabbing photos online and not saying where they came from.
Many times I’d like to know more information about a photo, such as when and where it was taken, who’s pictured and what exactly is going on.
It’s good online etiquette to provide credit where credit is due. And, while there are fair use applications, copyright issues also come into play.
Lately on Yahoo websites, I’ve seen ads featuring photos of sexy women with the caption “Google Banned This Video! This Shocking Video Went Viral In Days.” I don’t know what product they’re pushing because I haven’t clicked on the ads. (Update: the advertiser is Money Map Press.)
But I wondered where the ad makers got their photos of busty young ladies out having a good time. So I did a Google reverse image search on photos from two of the ads.
One of the photos was easy to identify. It’s of English actress-model Helen Flanagan in the back seat of a car in February 2012. The photos are credited to Splash News Online, according to the Daily Mail. (See two photos at top.)
I wonder if she or the photographer knows it’s being used in an advert, as the Brits say.
The other photo is still somewhat of a mystery. I found a version of it dating back to April 2008. That website appears to credit photographer Mark “The Cobrasnake” Hunter, which makes sense because he takes a lot of wild nightclub and party pictures. But I can’t find confirmation of that.
Over the years, this particular photo has been used on dozens of websites, usually in collections of pictures of hot women.
Anybody have any info on that photo?

Photos: Top two show English actress-model Helen Flanagan; bottom two show an unidentified woman from an unknown photographer.

About.me: Great site for consolidating your online presence

People today leave a lot of footprints online through their various social networks and creative websites.
About.me is a free service that consolidates your online presence. It’s a place where you can put links to all the websites that define you: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Blogger, Flickr, etc.
Each person gets an individual page to list their background and their websites in as much detail as they’d like. They can top it off with a full-screen hero image of themselves to create a super attractive personal page.
But About.me has one other big plus: the ability to contact any member directly. It doesn’t display member email addresses, but has an app that forwards messages to the recipient’s email box.
This is a great function that I’ve already used successfully. It may not be that important to most people, but to journalists like me it’s a great tool. We’re often trying to contact strangers to get or exchange information.
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other services have ways for people to contact someone they don’t yet know. But none of their solutions are as simple and elegant as About.me.

Photo: Sample About.me profile page highlighting some features.

Adults could follow teens in abandoning Facebook

It’s not hard for me to imagine Facebook going the way of MySpace. The social network is a mess and becoming less relevant to users by the day in my estimation.
A controversial study by researchers at Princeton University predicted recently that Facebook could lose 80% of its users by 2017. The study was debunked by Facebook data scientists and others for its use of Google search data to predict engagement trends rather than studying actual engagement trends. Facebook called the study “utter nonsense,” according to TechCrunch.
The study got a lot of coverage in the U.S. because it played into what a lot of people already feel about the massive social network.
People are expressing a lot of frustration with Facebook as it ramps up advertising and constantly tweaks its News Feed algorithms, changing what information is presented to users.
Facebook faces competition from mobile apps like WhatsApp and Snapchat and other networks like Twitter and Google+.
Facebook may be healthy today, with 728 million daily active users and 1.19 billion monthly active users as of Sept. 30, but online audiences can be fickle.
Articles have been trickling out about discontent among Facebook users.
First, reports started showing young people abandoning Facebook. A European study said Facebook “is dead and buried” to older teenagers, who prefer Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat.
A study by iStrategyLabs earlier this month said Facebook has lost 59% of its college users and 25% of its teenage users in the last three years, IBD reported.
Freelance analyst Benedict Evans says Facebook’s core product, News Feed, is “broken” and has “collapsed under its own weight.”
Too many items clutter people’s news feeds and users can’t read it all and have a difficult time finding things that are relevant to their lives, he said, according to Business Insider.
Facebook is overstuffed with news articles, videos, photos, Internet memes, status updates, games and, increasingly, advertisements. It suffers from featuritis or feature creep. It does everything, but does nothing well.
At worst, Facebook will become like Yahoo, with billions of users, but no one really thinks about it much, Evans said.
In a video, science blogger Derek Muller slammed Facebook for the changes it’s making to the algorithms on its News Feed.
“The problem with Facebook is that it’s keeping things from you,” Muller said. “You don’t see most of what’s posted by your friends or the pages you follow.”
Facebook is now treating content providers like advertisers, trying to get them to pay for better placement in users’ news feeds, Business Insider reported.
Personally, I’ve never been a big Facebook user.
First, I used it mainly as a bookmarking service for interesting articles, because its ubiquitous like and share buttons made that easy. But finding those articles on Facebook now is quite difficult.
Later, for grins, I used Facebook to communicate with dozens of Googlegangers around the world. But friending other men named Patrick Seitz lost its appeal and I eventually unfriended them all.
I also used Facebook to connect with a childhood friend, which was nice. But there are multiple ways to do that now, such as through Twitter, LinkedIn, About.me and other services.
I still keep two Facebook accounts (one personal and one for work), but I don’t visit them very often. The big question is: Are other people feeling the same way?

Photo: Screenshot of my Facebook page with my Googlegangers.

Johnny-come-latelies with 2014 predictions

Some prognosticators were procrastinators with their 2014 predictions.
Here’s a round-up of interesting predictions for 2014 that came in after my last few articles on the subject.
Of course, we might not even finish the year since Norse mythology has the end of the world set for Feb. 22. The Viking apocalypse is called Ragnarok. (See articles in the Daily Mail and Mirror.)

Christian commentator Pat Robertson

Christian media mogul Pat Robertson made some 2014 predictions in an interview on CBN.

Economic crisis in China

“Sometime during the year there’s going to be some kind of a credit crisis,” he said. “And I think China is going to lead the way. That whole economy is like a house of cards. And when it starts falling, it’s going to affect the entire world.”

Iran gets a nuke

“I do believe the Iranians will have a nuclear device before the end of the year,” he said. “And (President) Obama is using a tactic of containment that’s not going to work.”

Problems for President Obama

“I think the president will be severely hampered. America is going to turn against him much more so than now as that Affordable Care thing starts biting hard as it is. He’s going to be discredited terribly.”
Robertson says Obama will avoid governing and instead devote his time to traveling.

Differing predictions on ObamaCare

While Robertson thinks ObamaCare will be a disaster in 2014, Byron Wien, vice chairman of Blackstone Advisory Partners, thinks the problem-plagued health care program will turn itself around.
“The Affordable Care Act has a remarkable turnaround,” Wien predicted. “The computer access problems are significantly diminished and younger people begin signing up.”

M&A

Apple will buy TiVo, predicts Dan Mirkin of Trade Ideas.

Liberty Media, Charter or Comcast will buy Time Warner Cable, predicts BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield.

Verizon will acquire Intel Media and launch the country’s first virtual cable TV service, Greenfield says.

Microsoft will buy one or two media companies, says Joe Pulizzi, founder of the Content Marketing Institute. The outcome of these moves will pave the way for further media purchases by non-media companies throughout the year.
“It’s going to open the floodgates and 2014 will be marked as the year that non-media companies started buying media companies and you’re just going to see it take off,” Pulizzi said.

Yahoo will buy Business Insider, predicts Chris Ciaccia, technology editor for The Street.
“(Yahoo CEO Marissa) Mayer has been acquiring talent, most recently David Pogue of the New York Times and Katie Couric,” Ciaccia said. “The two companies already have a close relationship, with Business Insider CEO and Editor in Chief Henry Blodget appearing frequently on Yahoo Finance programs.”

Jawbone, Fitbit or both will get acquired, Ciaccia said. Both play in the wearable technology and fitness device market. Potential buyers include Nike, which already makes the Nike Fuelband, and Under Armour, which acquired MapMyFitness for $150 million in November.

IPOs

Uber and Lending Club will go public, says Howard Lindzon of StockTwits.

Hillary Clinton won’t run for president

“Hillary Clinton decides not to run for President in 2016,” Blackstone’s Wien predicted. “She says her work with various Clinton non-for-profit initiatives is important and unfinished. Specifically, she explains that her health was not an issue in her decision. The Democratic race for the top seat becomes chaotic.”

Differing predictions on smartwatches

“Smartwatches are dead in 2014,” wrote Tim Bajarin, an analyst with Creative Strategies. “All attempts at creating a smart watch for the masses have failed. The ones on the market today only appeal to male geeks and ultra early adopters Although we may sell as much as 1.5 million smart watches in 2014, unless someone masters the issue of elegant design and style matched with non geeky technology, they are not going to be a product for the mass market anytime soon.”

But Avram Piltch, online editorial director for Laptop, sees things differently.
Smartwatches will “finally break through” in 2014, Piltch predicts. “In 2014, we expect Google and Apple to enter the smartwatch market in a big way. With Apple’s ability to leverage Siri and Google’s Google Now, both companies have assistant services that should work really well on your wrist, along with the ability to mass produce electronics at reasonable prices. Samsung will step up its game with a follow-up to the Galaxy Gear.”

Google Glass goes mainstream

Google’s computer glasses, Google Glass, will attempt to reach a larger audience in 2014. In 2013, the cyborg headsets were made available to early adopters for $1,500 each.
Dan Rowinski, mobile editor at ReadWrite, predicts that Google will announce a retail version of the device for $299 at its Google I/O conference in May.

Forbes contributing writer Mark Rogowsky thinks Google Glass will go commercial, but cautiously.
“Knowing that a full-on commercial launch of a low-priced Google Glass would be met with failure, Google instead releases Glass as a ‘Beta Edition’ for $699,” he predicted. “With a decent supply of apps, early adopters find the functionality very satisfying even while the battery life remains absolutely atrocious. Talk immediately turns to Google Glass 2.0, which is shown just months later, is much more stylish, but has very vague answers about the battery.”

Adam Kmiec, director of global digital marketing and social media, Campbell Soup Company, believes Google Glass “will flop, UNLESS the consumer version has a built in cellular connection.”

Snapchat crashes

At least two prognosticators predict that photo-sharing service Snapchat will crash in 2014.

“Snapchat will implode,” Kmiec says. “It will grow its user base, but won’t figure out how to monetize the platform. All the while, Facebook/Instagram, Twitter and Google will come up with extensions to their platforms that will provide the basic utility of SnapChat, but for a mass audience.”

The Snapchat valuation bubble will burst, The Street’s Ciaccia predicted. The popular messaging app that allows users to send messages to their friends and have them disappear within 10 seconds has been valued at $2 billion. It reportedly turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook and a $4 billion offer from Google.

Photo: Fortune Teller windows by Flickr user Scott Swigart.

AVN porn award for clever title of the year

Those offended by pornography or sexually oriented humor please read no further.
The AVN Awards for porn were handed out Saturday night in Las Vegas. The only award that interests me (of the 120 video awards given) is the Clever Title of the Year. It appeals to my adolescent sense of humor.
This year, there were 15 nominees. Runners up included “Cray Cray Vajayjay,” “Gone Black … Not Coming Back,” “London Bitches Falling Down,” “Look Dad, I’m in Porn!,” “My Pussy Ain’t Gonna Lick Itself,” “Pump’r in the Dumper” and “Vags With Badges.”
The winner was the Cirque du Soleil parody “Cirque du Hole-A.” This was the sixth year for the award.

Here’s a list of winners to date (updated Jan. 25, 2026):

2009   Strollin’ in the Colon
2010   Who’s Nailin’ Paylin?
2011   The Devil Wears Nada
2012   Beggin’ for a Peggin’
2013   Does This Dick Make My Ass Look Big?
2014   Cirque du Hole-A
2015   12 Inches a Slave
2016   That Rapper Destroyed My Crapper
2017   Aunts in My Pants
2018   Black Loads Matter
2019   Hamiltoe
2020   I’m Not That Kind of Girl Unless You’re My Brother
2021   Jumanjizz
2022   Invading Uranus
2023   I Can’t Believe It’s Nut Butter!
2024   Total Eclipse of the Hole
2025   My Talking Penis Told Me to Fuck My Step-Mom
2026   Sittin’ on the Cock of the Day

No “Abercrombie & Bitch”

Speaking of clever titles, “Abercrombie & Bitch XXX,” a porn movie announced last May, was cancelled.
The movie would have parodied controversial clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch and its CEO Mike Jefferies, AVN reported.
But adult film star Kelly Shibari, who was involved in the project, told me via e-mail Sunday that the project “never happened.”