Sunday, March 29, 2015

BOMC done & a look back at early VHS

BOMC-007 video cover
Rinko in BOMC-007
My next major project for the JAV archives was the Bombom Cherry DVDs, which I worked on the day before yesterday and finished yesterday morning. A pleasure for me, and all my followers, I'm sure.
TFC-1008 video cover
 Ran Masaki in TFC-1008:(1986)
After working on that currently-running series, I got another hankering to investigate the early days of big-bust video in Japan. First I wanted to finish up the VCA/D-Cup label project. In the process of investigating those releases, I discovered that Behemoth-- one of the good guys at Wikipedia-- had started an article on busty Nikkatsu Roman Porno and early JAV star Ran Masaki. (Being a contributor of content rather than a drama-queen and rule-maker, naturally Behemoth is now blocked... Have I said it lately? If you want to do productive work, Wikipedia is the LAST place you should be! They don't even want contributors anymore, only drama-clowns...) This pointed to some nice images of Masaki's work in AV-- she appears to have worked only in 1986. I quickly posted a couple of those, and will ear-mark them for IMDb submission.
Eri Kikuchi in  (ST)Q-19 (1986)
Next, I found a treasure trove of Eri Kikuchi videos. While digging into her work, I found myself in a Hydra / Sorcerer's Apprentice situation... every lead I followed brought up dozens of more videos, and dozens of more leads to follow... I'll ear-mark busty Ms. Kikuchi for serious work later on, after I finish the above two projects.

The Pink Film archives-- now in semi-stable condition-- have created a pretty good illustrated filmography for the Pink Film careers of these actresses. By linking them to IMDb, they can be found by English-speaking audiences. This new JAV archive will help to add their AVs to their IMDb filmographies, as well as a link to images of the video covers.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

"Mother" finished; a visit with Naomi Fuji; and on to more MAGURO

MOT-070 video cover
Aya Manabe in MOT-070, set to post on April 5
Yesterday morning I finished the "Mother" (MOT-) label, posting to both Blogger and Tumblr simultaneously. I then added them all to IMDb, and added the IMDb entries to the Blogger/Tumblr entries once IMDb accepted them. By going through linking to IMDb I was able to review the 69 videos I had submitted to them, and found three typos, which I corrected this afternoon.
As a break from this recent series (2013 - present), I thought I'd look back to the early days of AV, and post some entries for Naomi Fuji (藤尚美), who debuted in 1982. Unfortunately, it looks like she only acted in Pink films, or at least I couldn't find any of her AV work. Since she seems rather obscure, but quite busty for the era, she became the subject of my second entry at the Actress database (which I didn't really plan on starting until next year).
Here at this blog we took a glance at this lovely lady back in August of 2012. I haven't given the formatting for this new Actress database much thought yet, and was having difficulty putting together this simple post. I was a little tipsy by that time, so, rather than risk seriously screwing up some formatting, I ran the Blogger-to-Tumblr program and finally finished all the transferring from Blogger to Tumblr. My two (pre- and post-1990) Pink Film Archives are now merged into one 3,500 entry archive at Tumblr.
UTOPIA-002 video cover
Kaori in UTOPIA-002 (2012) now at IMDb
Today I posted more Tumblr-only The bakunyû series DVD entries over to Blogger until they started forcing me to prove I wasn't a bot at every post. Then I finished the day by uploading the six Maguro "Utopia" DVDs to both blogs and IMDb. IMDb accepted the first three right away, but it looks like I'll have to wait till tomorrow to be able to link the other three from my archives.

(P.S. 3/27/2015 IMDb has now accepted all six; and, the day's work lost me a total of six Twitter followers...)

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

First cross-blog posts: Mother series

MOT-012 video cover
Yukari Orihara in MOT-012
 Yesterday, while browsing around the Web, waiting for the clocks to strike midnight in New York, so I could post more at Tumblr, I saw several nice covers in the "Mother" (MOT-) series, and so decided to make it my first full cross Blogger/Tumbler series. I collected and translated the data during the day, then uploaded to Tumblr & Blogger simultaneously last night and this morning. This cross-posting worked fine, until I hit Blogger's post limit, after which I had to verify I wasn't a bot every time I tried to save an entry.
MOT-029 video cover
Misuzu Tomizawa in MOT-029
I'm still working out my philosophy with regards to the JAV Archive. With the Pink Film ones, my goal is completion. That's an improbable goal, but not a completely impossible one. However it is literally impossible for one guy to make a complete database of JAV. My JAV database is intended just to reflect my own personal tastes.
MOT-052 video cover
Yukari Orihara in MOT-052
This MOT- series has some very eye-catching, lovely ladies in it, and nice covers-- as you see throughout tonight's post-- but it also had a lot that didn't interest me. I'm not sure how to go about handling series like that. If I'm doing a series, I might as well do the whole thing, which is what I did in this case... But now I've got several entries of videos that don't suit my taste at all... and that doesn't feel "right"... so in the future I might just pick out the videos that I like, and leave the series incomplete...
MOT-056 video cover
Shiho Terajima in MOT-056
Another new aspect of my posting is that I have set Tumblr to echo my posts live on Twitter. I noticed that when I was in the heat of posting-- about 40 posts within three hours this morning-- I lost two followers. I see this happen a lot: I gain followers through my musings on film, music or other things, and then they disappear when I post on JAV/Pink related stuff. I imagine I get a few porn-hound followers too, who roll their eyes in boredom when I start prattling on about opera... I guess you can't please all the people all the time. And, on the other hand, I think I've gained a couple followers at Tumblr through these Twitter posts, and someone did "Favorite" and Re-tweet one of these post/Tweets, so I guess it's a good thing in the long run.
MOT-061 video cover
Naho Hazuki in MOT-061
My IMDb work has slowed down while I've been working Tumblr into my posting routine during the past month. Today, after I finished posting the MOT- series to the blogs, I started submitting them to IMDb. I'm a little over half-way done with that now. I should finish in the morning, then link the IMDb pages from the blog entries. So, with the "Year of the JAV" about a quarter of the way through, I've got my posting routine about worked out. I don't have it down to as fast as I'd like-- where I can see a video cover, grab it, translate the data & post it within a minute-- but it's getting there. I was able to get this 74-entry series onto both blogs within a day... and now almost at IMDb half a day later... so it should all run more efficiently from now on.

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Two Birthdays & a Return to Blogger

Birthday boys, Bach & Meyer
Yesterday was the birthday of two of my all-time heroes.  For some reason, I never knew they were born on the same date. First, Johann Sebastian Bach. The world without him would be considerably less joyful, but his work is outside the subject areas of this blog. However, the second: the great American auteur Russell Albion Meyer, was an enormous fan of one of the prime subjects of this blog: enormous boobs.
Kitten Natividad & Russ Meyer
I was fortunate enough to see Mr. Meyer on a few occasions. First, at a showing of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, with Roger Ebert. Second and third at a small theater near my old apartment in L.A. The theater-owner was friends with Meyer, and would occasionally run a Meyer retrospective with the master in attendance, always accompanied by a few of his buxom starlets. I remember Haji and Kitten with him one time. He and Pandora Peaks sat in the row right behind me another time... I didn't even realize they were there until a twin shadow floated over my head, I turned around and saw it was Pandora standing up. I think this was the time they had women in the audience come up on stage so Meyer could pick the honorary "Russ Meyer girl" of the evening...
The incomparable Tura Satana in the incomparable Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
Another time, there was a rare Meyer film being shown-- The Seven Minutes, I think-- which I really wanted to see, but I had a previous appointment. I went in to see just the first half hour, then had to leave. Mr. Meyer was standing in the lobby talking with the theater owner. When he saw me leaving, he muttered, "Idiot!" I went over to explain the situation, and he shook my hand and said, "Well, don't be late!"
Kitten & Russ
One of these days I'll have to post a more thorough appreciation of Meyer's work. But for tonight, let's just leave it off with a Happy Birthday to one of America's great eccentric artists, and a man who clearly enjoyed his work.
"Dekkappai girl", Ren Nagasawa in BOMD- series, now at the JAV archive
I'm still transferring the Pink Film archives over to Tumblr, and have been adding a few new JAV series to the JAV archive when able-- mostly transferring old Boobpedia work. I'll have to start adding these to IMDb too... It occurs to me that the whole reason I'm moving the archives over to Tumblr is not because of posting difficulties, but because of image limitations... and if I'm hosting those images at Tumblr, and if posting between the two services is simply a matter of copy & pasting... and if Blogger has MUCH better searching capabilities... then I might as well keep maintaining the Blogger Archives too... As a matter of fact, several times I've tried to find a Pink Film poster at Tumblr, and found it impossible, given up, and searched at Blogger and found it in a split second. So I've been wondering if I should just post the HTML code linking to the Tumblr image, both here at Blogger and at Tumblr at the same time... I experimented with this idea last night on the Ruby Bomb (BOMD-) series, and it just added very, very little more time to the posting process, since the code is almost identical. The only real adjustment I had to make was to resize the image at Blogger before posting, and that just takes two clicks.

Monday, March 16, 2015

The bakunyû & BBW Chihiro at Tumblr

AV-Channel banner for a special sale of The bakunyû series
This weekend I finished transferring the pre-1990 Pink Film Database over to its Tumblr equivalent. 1,808 posts so far, and that's just half of it, since I'm going to merge the newer Blogger Pink Film Archive into one Tumblr archive after I've adjusted the post years back 20 years so that the timeline between the two is consistent. Also, I dived back into the wonderful, obscure world of busty VHS titles, and added Akira Takatsuki's pioneering pre-Cinema Unit GAS big-bust series for VCA: The bakunyû (ザ・爆乳).
Morikawa Mariko in The bakunyû vol.1
I'd really like to add all these to IMDb, but it's hard to find exact release dates for these early videos. The main series seems to have run between 1994 to around 2001. The first release starred JAV BBW icon, Mariko Morikawa. Another release of hers about, the same time, has an almost identical title, but I can't tell if it is part of this series or not.
Yôko Koizumi in The bakunyû hôman musume #6
There are a few related sub-series, including the BBW-themed The bakunyû hôman musume series (ザ・爆乳豊満娘), three volumes of which star Yôko Koizumi. In general, I'm finding I like Tumblr more than Blogger, though I do see a couple things Blogger does better. The main thing is that Tumblr's searching function is almost non-existent. Unless you include the search term as a "tag", and then type exactly that term, you ain't going to find it in the blog. Even Google-searching doesn't seem to work. That's a major fault. I've started adding the video code as tags, but I'm afraid I might have to start including the titles too... Also, Tumblr supports HTML, but doesn't give you any kind of HTML editor/generator. I've been using Blogger's editor to get the HTML code, then either saving it as a template for later Tumblr posts, or just copying and tweaking it for my purposes at Tumblr. Cross-posting between this blog and its sister blog at Tumblr is easy with HTML too-- just copy & paste.
Chihiro, complete collection (as far as I have) at Tumblr
For this blog, probably the most significant of my Tumblr activities today is that I decided to take a tentative, preliminary start on that JAV actress database/blog that I've been thinking about for a awhile. This will have bio info and images of my favorite actresses/models, linked to their appropriate JAV archive/Pink archive tags for the filmographies I have compiled therein. IMDb linkage will ensue (I'm a bit behind on that, but always leave a blank marker to remind me of submissions that need to be made.)
Chihiro
The only entry currently at this new archive is the amazing, spectacular, and all too mysterious Chihiro, whom we discussed in May of last year. Ironically, because I am unaware of any videos or films in which she appeared, links to the other databases won't apply in her case, only a storage of images. But she is the reason that I decided to start the archive now. I spent a lot of time hunting around and finding images of her last year, but now those are all inaccessible on my old hard disk. I came across two big stashes of her images yesterday. Now I have arranged them in something like a logical procession, and want to save them all together in one place, just in case of more future hardware trouble. So, HERE IS CHIHIRO. Feast your eyes, ladies and gentlemen! She is GORGEOUS!

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Tumblr: Kyonyû etsuraku & Pocharinko series

Yûko Mizumori in Kyonyû etsuraku #51
I think I've got my pace in the work at Tumblr now. Followers of this blog should also enjoy my JAV archive there, which will be my main work this year. Since I'm specializing on busty/BBW releases only-- rather than all releases, as with the Pink Film archives-- there will be more there to feast your eyes upon. Yesterday I uploaded dozens of new JAV covers in record time, and then posted the entries for them. Mainly I worked on the Kyonyû etsuraku (巨乳悦楽) series.
Ren Nagasawa in Pocharinko vol. 6
Then, almost as an afterthought, at the end of the day I did the Pocharinko (ぽっちゃりパラダイス ぽちゃりん娘) series, which I had posted at Boobpedia in 2008, when it was new. I'm finding that it's now very difficult to find images and/or information on several of the videos I worked on back in those days, spurring me on to preserve more of our JAV BBW heritage in these blog pages... I should finish Kyonyû etsuraku tonight, then maybe upload some more series images, and finish the night off by transfer-posting more to the Pink Film Archive. Still a long way to go, and a lot of reformatting to do, in the Pink Film work. I'm merging the two Archives into one at Tumblr, requiring a lot of date-change work.

Saturday, March 7, 2015

The Quest Continues

...Sorry to keep posting about my blog/archive troubles, but it does affect the future of these projects.... maybe I'll go back and decorate them with tasty illustrations later... But here is the latest news:

The move over to Tumblr is proceeding as well as can be expected-- at 250 posts per day, it will still take about a week to get everything over there. My experiments with making new posts there has run into a little glitch though. When I upload images directly to Tumblr, they are sized-down... I don't like that. So, searching for a way to work around this, last night I found that I could upload to Picasaweb at an amazingly fast rate-- much, much faster than at Blogger-- and then post HTML link code into Tumblr. Et voilà! Problem solved! Full-sized images, with the added advantage of being saved at two sites simultaneously for better security!

But not so fast, there, Mr. Dekk! This morning I got a message from "Google Plus"-- which I wasn't even aware I was using-- that I had been violating their adult content policies... I guess here's how it goes: Blogger allows adult content, and it uses Picasaweb to store its images... however, Picasaweb has a policy against adult content... nice inconsistency there... So if you post to Picasaweb through Blogger, that's OK, but if you post directly to Picasaweb, that's a violation... I guess... Which means I'm back to figuring out how to post to Tumblr full-sized, or finding a different image storage site...

Does everyone have this sort of trouble? I don't see why they should... I must be going about this wrong...
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Shiori Tsukada in PZD-019
P.S. (March 8, 2015) OK, I THINK I might have found out a solution to this problem. Instead of using the "Text" variant of posting under Blogger, with image attached (this gives the downsized image), post the image as "Photo". Now, whether I also have to make a separate Text post to get it to show in the archive, or whether the "Photo" posts will post right along with the Text ones, I don't know, since I've reached my max posts for the day and can't test this theory yet. The only problem I see with the "Photo" option is that it doesn't allow a Title (that I can see anyway), just descriptive text. That might be OK, or making a text post with a link to the photo post might work too (it looks like some other blogs do this)... Anyway, above you see the JAV cover I've been using as my guinea pig on this project-- Shiori Tsukada (whom we met in GAS-305) in PZD-019.
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P.P.S. (March 8, 2015) OK-- the post "Photo" option DOES give larger images, and links to the original sized image... BUT it doesn't allow a Title for the post... I searched the Internet and found complex work-arounds to this, with pages full of code, and just thought, "How FUCKING stupid!" Why the hell wouldn't they just put a space for a title, as with Text posts!? Jesus Christ!... So now I've got to decide whether to have posts with smaller images, with a title, or title-less posts with fuller-sized images... or maybe double-post-- one blog just for Photo posts, then a blog with Text posts with code linking to the images...
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Miwa Sasaki in FBS-48
I've opted for the last solution. I started up a separate Photo-only blog. This allows 10 images per post. I tested it out with the first ten Kyonyû etsuraku series videos:
http://dekkappai-jav-image.tumblr.com/post/113144630056/bs-01-bs-10
Then linked those images into Text posts in the main JAV blog:
http://dekkappaijav.tumblr.com/tagged/Kyony%C3%BB-etsuraku-series
This allows Titles, Video information, a fuller image, with a click-link to the complete full-sized image. Pretty much just how I want it. This will involve a  little extra work, but the images upload much faster than at Blogger. Once I've got the posting process worked out, it should go smoothly and quickly enough.
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Mitsumi Nanao in FBS-59
P.P.P.S. (3/9/2015) I think I've worked out all the kinks, and have put my posting routine at Tumblr into some recognizable, logical order today. In the first test-drive I started in earnest on the Kyonyû etsuraku series. I was able to upload about 88 images at the image blog in an amazingly fast amount of time compared to Blogger, which has about the most illogical, clunkiest, unreliable image interface their engineers could possibly design. I made 20 full Text posts at the JAV archive in a reasonable amount of time, with links to the image blog, and then back-links from the image blog to the main blog, for users who happen upon the image blog rather than the main blog. Things seem to be falling into place. I'll continue making a few more posts for the rest of the day, then spend the rest of my allotted 250 daily posts in transferring the Pink blog over just before midnight, EST.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Revised plans

Now that the threat of censorship is gone-- at least for now-- I have run into another limitation at Blogger. Coincidentally both in my Pink Film Archive, and my new JAV Archive, I have come up to the 1,000 image limit at Picasaweb within the same week. Blogger/Picasaweb used to handle this limit by automatically starting a new album associated with your blog and starting from image #1 there... but that made too much sense... Now, once you hit the 1,000 limit, they let you keep adding images to the same album, but you can't access or link to them... which makes no sense whatsoever, and, therefore, is best in line with the way the Internet has been headed over the past decade... Apparently Blogger also has an image limit: TWO thousand (note the inconsistency between the two programs, lest any of this start to make sense), after which you just can't add images at all...

Anyway, these limitations don't pose much of a nuisance to this blog (Hail, Hail Boobpedia!), but they are unworkable for the archive blogs. Tumblr, on the other hand, seems to work better for the archives than Blogger did, but it doesn't work very well for this, more text-based, blog. Commenting on posts, for one thing, is absurdly complex at Tumblr. Once I hit the limit here at this blog, I'll just start a new one ("Hail, Hail Boobpedia Continues!" or something), since this blog is just a random collection of my own discoveries, subjective observations, reviews, etc. and not a systematic, objective, chronological listing of film & video releases, as are the archives. The 250-post per day limit at Tumblr is a pain in the ass for me right now, while I'm mass-migrating these blogs, but it won't be a problem once I'm creating new posts there. I doubt I've ever come anywhere near to making 250 original posts in one day, even when I'm posting from a file of pre-prepared, templated information...

So, here is my revised plan for the year: I will migrate the two (three) archive blogs over to Tumblr, but keep this one here at Blogger. The new JAV Archive, and adding/linking that data to IMDb remains my main project of concern this year. The new address for this archive is: http://dekkappaijav.tumblr.com/). My posts at this blog this year will depend on available time and if I find something really compelling to comment on. I won't delete any of the blogs at Blogger, because that would remove the images which are now linked from Tumblr. Uploading them to Tumblr would be a huge pain in the ass, and waste of effort. The Blogger archives will in their current state here, with no more film/video entries added. I may continue double-posting this "Hail, hail" blog though. This one here at Blogger blog will remain the "real" one, but I may copy the "good" ones over there-- the ones actually dealing with the subject, and loaded up with tempting imagery, rather than my own personal troubles and rants. I've quickly acquired several followers at the Tumblr mirror blog (http://dekkappai.tumblr.com/)... Maybe call it, "The Best of Hail, Hail..." Tumblr seems to be oriented towards community, but I don't intend to use it that way-- just as a holding location for my Pink Film poster & JAV cover images & information.

During all this unexpected turmoil, my IMDb work has slowed a bit, but continued (the 2002 entry for the Pink Film Award and the GUN- "Kyonyû or die" series are my most recent major submissions), and my Twitter activities have diminished a bit, but they'll continue as before once I've got everything situated and back into regular running condition.