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Friday, April 30, 2010

Arts / Sex Seattle Erotic Arts Festival

Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:48 PM

This was my second favorite piece at SEAF. My favorite piece—my favorite suitable for hanging-on-the-wall piece—was a delicate little line drawing of a couple of satyrs doing something stupid and dangerous. I can't describe in any detail without ruining it. Go find it. My favorite interactive piece was Ellen Forney and Jacob Peter Fennell's brilliant "Love Note." You sit at a small writing desk, pen a short love letter (lovely thick paper provided), and then tuck your note into the pocket of any one of a dozen pillows resting on a large bed. But before you can tuck your note in the pocket of the pillow you've selected, you have to remove the last love letter left in the pillow. That love note—left by someone you don't know for someone you don't know—is yours to read and to keep. It's a charming piece. Here I am filling out my love note last night while Ellen watches from a safe distance...

And my favorite piece of ass—besides the one I arrived with—belonged to the boy burlesque dancer in the tutu. Daaaaamn.

The Seattle Erotic Arts Festival is a unique event and a great time. Get down there. It's at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall through Sunday. More info at www.seattleerotic.org.

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That love note thing is one of those ideas I wish I had come up with myself. It's cute and charming, and interactive art is the best. Wish I could be there. The Erotic Arts and Crafts show in Toronto was cool, but very very small.
No chance they'll be back around in August, eh?

Posted by Ness

on April 30, 2010 at 4:09 PM

Dan, agreed. The tutu stripping boy burlesque dancer was a hottie. Amazing legs!!

But Waxie Moon stole the show. He performed twice. Sexy and hilarious and over the top. Waxie Moon should be required viewing.

Posted by Reverse Polarity on April 30, 2010 at 4:11 PM

Thanks so much, Dan! But FYI: Love Note is a collaboration with Jacob Fennell, we both did a ton of work.

Posted by Ellen Forney on April 30, 2010 at 6:02 PM

So what did your letter say?

Posted by Canuck on April 30, 2010 at 10:01 PM

Stop Faking! That is awesome!

Posted by Suz on May 1, 2010 at 1:00 AM

Dan is famously fond of his own ass......

Posted by ...he takes everywhere he goes on May 1, 2010 at 9:39 AM

"I'm sorry for farting in your mouth"?

Posted by pox on May 1, 2010 at 10:53 AM

This was my third year attending and my third year being absolutely disappointed. I left after two hours feeling unimpressed and, yawn, bored out of my mind. The artwork was mostly "been there, done/seen that" and the performances were okay, if you could actually get a spot to view them.
I had work featured there and you would never even know it. They need to either decide NOT to do a literary event, or make it as big and bad as the rest of the show.
Don't bother attending- waste of money. My tickets were free.

Posted by unimpressedinseattle on May 21, 2011 at 11:26 AM