Gilding the Lily

Times have abounded with kismet for Gilding of recent. Or perhaps the world is just as small as the saying says it is.

It was a year ago, perhaps………….
that Gilding found this image while searching the Googlesphere for a graphic to incorporate in a photomontage project that was to be used as a prop for her dreaded Public Speaking class. Aimless searching with mere keywords in the Googleverse proved to be more tedious than Gilding had the patience for, but searching the endless websites dedicated to MySpace layouts and graphics was a perfect source for gathering the smaller images needed for the photomontage. That is where Gilding came across this beautiful image shown. The image never actually made it into the montage. Gilding simply couldn’t find it in her to change the image even in the slightest, which is exactly what would have happened in order to incorporate it. And so the image has remained in her cache of images.

Then upon searching for
images to incorporate in yesterday’s post, The Shape of His……….Pornography, Gilding came across this image and its subsequent post by Carrie Greenberger-Berger.

The girl in the picture, and plastered across the cover of the pornographic DVD, “Body Magic,” is Lara Jade. The picture is one of Lara Jade’s oeuvre of self-portraits; this particular one taken when she was just fourteen years old. The news is a bit old, so this is just a brief recap:

TVX Films jacked Lara Jade’s photograph from her page on deviantART and placed it on the cover of their DVD porno. When asked by Lara Jade to remove her photograph–her image–from their cover and compensate her for their theft, the President of TVX Films sent her back a string of emails: 1st) deny deny deny! TVX Films doesn’t steal images from the internet. They have a company that does that for them!; 2nd) Blame the victim because her of her name–”ITS NOT LIKE IT’S A HOUSE WHOLE NAME.”(<–that’s not Gilding’s incorrect spelling; that’s how it appears on both of Lara Jade’s pages, which I’m sure is exactly how the President of TVX Film’s spelled it given his propensity for being sleezy and rather un-educated.); 3rd) Boast that her victimization is going to help YOU even more; 4th) Warn her that her 10 seconds of fame is almost over. And by putting it in “ALL CAPS” she’ll be sure to know that such a privilege was both given and taken away by your mighty, paternalistic (we’ll ignore pedophilic) hands; and 5th) do as any self respecting and benevolent chauvinist (don’t forget pedohile…er, wait…we were shoving that one under the rug, right? Uh, yes…) would do and point out the error of her ways in demanding her rightfully owed compensation for harm done and property stolen by denying her out-right and patronizingly calling her silly.

And that, my Gilded Lilies, is how a proper Porn corporation is run.

Whence Gilding went to bed last night, she had not found out what had become of the young Lara Jade’s plight. But today’s search brought her to Lara Jade Photography, and Lo’-n-behold what should she find? That Lara Jade is none other than Gilding’s beloved image above. Not only are Lara Jade’s photographs gorgeous, but so is she.

Gilding rues that this Darling and her art had to suffer this ordeal. And while Gilding is a believer that fate is your own, even she cannot deny that Kismet’s ulterior designs will still have their way; and leave it to Her to know Gilding would be compelled to find out how this beauty who soooo does not have a “face-for-porn” would be lumped into a keyword search for “pornography.” .^_^. Cheers to Kismet!

Link: Lara Jade Photography