Geek lustTechnology turns me on. Which is not to say I’m a gadget geek – far from it. In fact, the most advanced piece of equipment I own is a first generation miniPod my ex-boyfriend gave me. But I do think there’s something inherently sexy about Technology with a capital T – all those big, pulsing brains working and sweating late into the night, over and over, to create objects that are not only useful, but also beautiful. And the objects themselves – sleek, smooth, and often warm and humming. What’s not to like?
Dude. DJ Heather B. sure has a nice set of, uh, turn tables. From Merkley's111 Nude Ladies on Sofas at 111 Minna during the EFF anniversary celebration.
This is a truth that just exists for me, the way I know wearing striped socks always makes me smile and seeing horror movies always gives me nightmares. And usually, the technology itself is enough - no extra accessories (lingerie, dinner and a movie, a naked person holding the technology) are necessary to make laptops and iPod-compatible speaker systems seem hot.
But sometimes the planets align in such a way that my tech-fetish gets kicked up a notch or twelve, and Tuesday’s anniversary party for the Electronic Frontier Foundation was just such a night.
The factors?
1. Steve Jobs had announced the MacBook Air that morning at MacWorld. (Oh. My. God. I don’t care if it isn’t fast and doesn’t have a CD/DVD drive – I just want to put it in my goodie drawer with my vibrator and my Astroglide so I can take it out and look at it when I’m alone.)2. The organization being celebrated at 111 Minna was the EFF, an organization that defends digital rights. And what’s sexier than free speech?
3. Music for the evening was provided by DJs Adrian and the Mysterious D of Bootie fame. I’d like a mash-up with them, if ya know what I mean.
4. There was TCHO chocolate. Good chocolate. Dark chocolate. Chocolate made by a former space shuttle engineer. Wasn’t there a study linking chocolate and sex?
5. Best of all, the backdrop for the party was Merkley’s 111 Nude Ladies on Sofas, a series of gorgeous, and strikingly symmetrical, photos of San Francisco femmes wearing their favorite shoes – and not much else.
6. The room was filled with geeks! Activist geeks. Technology geeks. Geek-loving geeks (that would be me, thank you very much). Hipster geeks and former geeks. It was a gaggle of geeks! A veritable brain orgy…
No, this story doesn’t end with me and the CEO of some Silicon Valley start-up making out in the bathroom. It doesn’t end up with me in bed holding a humming MacBook Air on my lap either. Instead, it was me driving home, happy, content, somehow both energized and relaxed at the same time. It seems the event was the climax.
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Comments (2)
OF COURSE it's naked sf women! can you imagine how awful a nude pictorial of sf male djs and promoters would possibly be? Although there's a couple I can imagine hot naked (call me, Jason Kendig and Tee Cardaci), most of them I'd rather not. Sexism works! But IMHO, this show is pretty great ...
Posted by Marke B. | January 18, 2008 11:29 AM
LMAO.... hey Marke B, i saw Merkley last night at Funky Dots and, funny enough, he didn't invite me to participate in any future projects.
Posted by Tee Cardaci | January 28, 2008 05:48 AM