Flowers in Brooklyn
Flowers (Adult Movie Set) framed and on its way to the Don’t Be a Square group art show at Shag in Brooklyn.
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WWYD?
Estate sale, Toluca Lake, Calif., 2023 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
“What would you do if you discovered an adult movie was being filmed in the house behind yours?” Read it.
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Entitled
Yesterday I went to see the It Smells Like Girl show at Deitch in Los Angeles. The standout piece of the show was Nadia Lee Cohen’s Entitled. A giant box contains a virtual girl who gyrates, flirts, and appears to track your movements as you move before her. Poke the screen where her body is and she stumbles, drops, and develops bruises. It reminded me of Marina Abramović’s Rhythm 0. Devastating and moving.
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Bride of Frankenstein
A Bride of Frankenstein in the Fairfax District in Los Angeles. For more of my photos, follow me on Instagram.
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I Mean ...
Come See Allycin, Hollywood, Calif., 2000 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
"I mean, if you want to see porn, go watch a porn movie." Read my newsletter and subscribe to get it weekly.
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Everything He Knows About Self-publishing
Kevin Kelly has an exhaustive post on everything you’d ever want to know about book publishing. (via Kottke)
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Mirror Stage
A selfie from 2011, when I was living in Austin, Texas. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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Climbing the Fence
Purple flowers climbing over a fence in Magnolia Park. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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LAPD Estate Sale
Estate sale of a Vietnam War vet and retired LAPD officer. For more of my photos, follow me on Instagram.
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Sunset Boulevard, Today
A model on an ad on Sunset Boulevard, taken today. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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Tarzan(a) Is Calling Me
“I wanted to see this house because it was the house where Thelma Dickinson’s character in Thelma & Louise lived.” In my latest newsletter, I explore Tarzana in the San Fernando Valley. Subscribe to get it every week.
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When Pornographers Were Kings
Adult actress in the grass, Los Angeles, Calif., 2001 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
One of the books I’m working on at the moment is a book-length work of narrative nonfiction. The title is: When Pornographers Were Kings: A History of America’s Most Notorious Business. More to come soon …
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The Collagist
A collage I made on my kitchen bulletin board, under a painting I bought at a San Fernando Valley estate sale.
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Fincher, Tarantino, and Pitt
Blush & Bangs, Highland Park, Los Angeles, Calif., 2005 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
David Fincher is filming the Quentin Tarantino penned spin-off to Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, The Adventures of Cliff Booth, starring Brad Pitt, so they transformed a section of Highland Park into the 1970s.
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My Photograph in an Upcoming Group Art Show
I’m delighted to share that one of my photographs will be part of a group art show in Brooklyn this fall. The show, curated by photographer Ellen Stagg, is called “Don’t Be a Square,” and it will take place at SHAG. The exhibition will be up from September 19, 2025, to January 3, 2026, starting with an opening reception on the 19th from 6 to 8 p.m. My work is titled Flowers (Adult Movie Set); it’s featured in the lower left-hand corner of the invite pictured in this post. I took the photo on the set of an adult movie in Canoga Park, Calif., in the spring of 2009. Below is Ellen’s curatorial statement. I hope you’ll check out this awesome exhibition.
Don’t Be a Square, Group Art Show
Curated by Ellen Stagg
Shag from September 19 - January 3
108 Roebling Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
“To Be Square: Means to be old-fashioned, conventional, or uncool”
Erotic art is never square, but I asked the artists of this show: “How do you see outside a box when you put yourself in one?”
Making art in a square is not typical, but it can be done. Most canvases are rectangles in Landscape or Portrait, but a square is the same on all sides, creating a canvas for all the artists to be the same, but expressing themselves in their own way, fully and freely.
The artists in this show exemplify just that—all different. From color to black and white, and through the use of media from Photography, Collage, Drawings, Sculpture, Paintings, Video, and Multimedia, they all have a common ground—the square—and their own way of thinking outside their own constraints. By expressing themselves fully with the theme of Eroticism and what it means to them to be boxed into four walls, they are thus exposing their own deepest desires of sexuality and sensuality.
The work flows so well together because of their common canvas, but they are all so different in a playful, sexy, and thought-provoking way. If we are forced to be boxed into a square, how do we test the limits of our sexuality? Stop putting yourself in a box with conventions and don’t be a square.
Artists to show:
Agatha, Amanda Heck, Ames Robin, Daze, Dee Lee, Ellen Stagg, Isa McMullen, Jeff Faerber, Joe Borzotta, Lara Scotton, Leo Brooklyn, Marianna Carlina, Martina Secondo Russo, Micheal Paul, Peekaboo Pointe, Porkchop, subtexture, Susannah Breslin, Sy Rivers, Trixie LaPointe, Tom Tapit and William Thompson
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My Photographic Foot Fetish
Adult actors film a scene, Los Angeles, Calif., 2001 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
In my latest newsletter, I try and understand why I take so many photos of feet. Subscribe to get it every week.
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Photo City
Photo City, Studio City, Calif., 2025 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
Photo City, in Studio City, California, is a great place to get passport photos (if you’re me) and film developed.
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Adult Movie Set, North Hollywood, 2001
Adult actress, North Hollywood, Calif., 2000 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
An adult movie actress poses on a North Hollywood set, 2001. For more of my photos, follow me on Instagram.
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The Actress
Adult actress with script, Los Angeles, Calif., 2017 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
An adult actress reads her script before shooting her scene. For more of my photos, follow me on Instagram.
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Triptych (Playboy)
I made this triptych the other day of various Playboy-related things I own for my most recent newsletter, which details my time on Playboy TV. There’s a vintage Playboy mirror, a few magazines, and a branded basketball.
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