
Right now members on ES can vote for ‘Pick Of The Week’ and the winners gets to enter the competition for free. These first 3 weeks I didn’t bother to vote since nothing really stood out and this does not even concern the real competition of what gets into the 2010 art book. The first weeks winner (June 20) was the digital piece ‘Aurous Dream’ by Jeff Wack; two beautiful naked women models lying next to eachother. It’s a flawless realistic piece that will surely win a place in the book but it’s not very exciting or daring, more like predictable.

The June 27 winner is a Mixed Media piece (photo and digital) called ‘Kim as Eve’ which is a really lame piece. It looks like some not-so-subtle special effects in a digital program was poured onto a photo of a nudist woman (she’s not even completely naked and she’s ‘Eve’?) Pictures taken of naked (or semi-naked) women in nature is by far the most common erotic/sensual photography I can think of and adding some digital effects to that isn’t making it stand out more. I thought we were voting for the world’s greatest erotic art of today, not the world’s most common erotic art of today. Besides, this is more sensual than ‘erotic’. Then again the competing entries have hardly been much better thus far. This is why I can’t be bothered to vote.

This week we got something that was better though. A photograph of a skinny model with awesome body art by the body art artist Paul Roustan. I guess it’s under mixed media due to it being both photography and body art. The black hole in her chest looks digital though, in fact on closer look it looks like an error mistake and my eyes gets fixed on it. Somehow that’s still the best part that completes the pic for me and makes it stand out. I’m hoping it gets to be in the book since I would like to see this pic up close… Though maybe I’m just biased since I love skinny girls (feels compatible with my own body type) and women expressing ‘annihilation’ while still maintaining their beauty.

For next week I did vote for a few pics that actually had male-female interaction.