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Cover of "Black Magick", a book I assembled together from some of my very best shots.

If you want to take a look inside, head over to www.chaospiral-studios.net!

Cover for "Rebis", a book containing the 23 images of my "Rebis" deck.

This deck, created as an accompaniment for my project Morpheus' last album, was my first photographic endeavour. It was made entirely by hand with traditional darkroom techniques and it took me more than a year to complete.

The album and the images can be downloaded for free under a Creative Commons license at www.chaospiral-studios.net under the "Morpheus discography" section.

(I wrote this for DeviantART, but it's also applicable here, except for the part at the end about the prints, of course!)

Well, it's happened again.

Some weeks ago, MySpace randomly deleted some of my photos on account of them being "inappropiate" for minors (which is funny for a site whose audience is mainly teenage girls showing their asses off). Some days later, Flickr forced me to "flag" most of my shots as "restricted", which meant that only registered users could see them, thus rendering my gallery useless for showing my work. And now, as if introducing automatic "mature" tags for everything fetish and nude wasn't enough, DA has deleted my latest shot (check it out here if you want) for being "pornographic".

And what is "pornography" for the wise minds behind DA, you ask? Well, things like masturbation, intercourse, erections or sex toys. Yup, you read that right. Any photo or piece of writing that depicts any of those elements is AUTOMATICALLY considered pornographic, no matter the intention of its creator, its artistic merit or its aesthetic value. Post a photo of a dildo, it's pornography. Period. Post a beautiful shot of a couple making love, and they will consider it to be at the same level as the grossest shots you can find at any "adult" paysite.

I'm fed up with all this. I'm fed up with everything sexual being considered "offensive". I'm fed up with the ultraconservative morality that permeates everything nowadays (is it 2008? Really?). I'm fed up with sites like Flickr or DA (the "D" stands for "DEVIANT", remember???) dropping their pants down at the slightest complaint, pissing on artists and their work just because some wimp felt offended by, oh my god, SEX.

But most of all, what I'm really fed up with is with having to have my work judged according to the lowest common denominator.

I had been thinking about this for some time, but now my mind's totally made up: I'm closing all my sites except, of course, Chaospiral Studios and, for the moment, Coroflot. I already deleted everything from MySpace, and Flickr and DA will go in a week. I will not tolerate this anymore. I don't need comments or faves. I have my own site, where I'm not subjected to the whims of assholes, and that's all I need to showcase my photos. Every new shot I release is posted to my blog at Chaospiral Studios, so with a simple feed agregator (rss reader) you can stay up to date with my latest news.

Of course, this means I will be deleting all my prints too. These hypocrites have no problem with taking 50% of everything I make selling through their site while at the same time censoring me. Well, I'm having no more of that either. Screw you, I'm taking my money elsewhere.

It's been a pleasure, my friends. But it's time to move on and leave this playground. See you around.