I recently met a fellow geek, Paul Mutton, who as well as being a techie geek is also a photography geek and whilst looking at his collection of photo’s last week, I came across three collections that he’d titled "Geek P0rn". Each of which consisted of around ten photo’s of a lady wearing nothing but an item of technology (i.e. a ribbon cable, floppy disk or CD-ROM).

The pictures immediately reminded me of those taken for the 2000 Alternate WI Calendar which consisted of photos of the members of the Rylstone Women’s Institute posing nude, their modesty typically hidden by objects taken from around the house. The calendar became a run away success selling nearly 300,000 copies world wide and their story was subsequently made into the hit film Calendar Girls.

Not surprisingly it occurred to me that Paul could turn these photo’s (perhaps with the addition of a few more models into a calendar aimed the techie markets, perhaps tailoring one for software developers, one for web developers and one for those special techies that are referred to as BOFH.

It’s unlikely that the calendar would have anywhere near the success of the WI one, but even selling 5,000 for £5 would net a healthy income for relatively little effort. Alternatively, or as a complimentary product Paul could create a series posters with amusing or inspirational techie focused quotes on them.

As the photo’s aren’t really pornographic and I believe demonstrate some artistic talent there may well be scope of create a book, or publish a series of prints as a work or works of art on the theme of "Naked Technology".

Finally of course lets not forget that whatever our personal views on the morality of pornography, it is a big business. There may well be an untapped niche in creating material for aimed at geeks.

Starting at the softer end I suspect a blog with a daily photo using topical technology would generate traffic and that traffic could be monetorised with advertisng. After all as the character Steve on the UK series Coupling (Inferno episode) puts it:

When man invented fire, he didn’t say, "Hey, let’s cook."  He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark."  As soon as Caxton invented the printing press, we were using it to make pictures of, hey, naked bottoms!  We have turned the Internet into an enormous international database of naked bottoms.  So you see, the story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms. 

You can view the collections in full by visiting Paul’s website, specifically the Geek P0rn galleries 1, 2 and 3.

Which idea do you think is best?

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