S I Z E C O N

SizeCon - Poster & Video Montage.

Sadly, I wasn't able to attend the first ever SizeCon in New York City this year for a variety of reasons (mainly due to being UK-based), I would've been there in a heartbeat if I could. I'm a huge believer in what the organisers are doing for the size community, and I will try my utmost to support them, and, with a little luck, attend next year's convention.

I was, however, incredibly fortunate to have a winning poster design exhibited at the venue, and I heard that someone was able to give the artwork a home at the end of the event! It's a render of a gentle mini-giantess scenario that represents a sometimes forgotten side to my work.

This exact scale ratio stems from a retro sci-fi pin-up I found online long ago, which has the caption:

"This Martian maiden looks a treat,

But top to toe she's thirteen feet,

So hard luck spaceman, there's no joy,

When giant girl meets six foot boy."

I always thought that it was a cruel to assume there would be 'no joy'.

There is also a wonderful thread on Giantess City entitled Giantess Kiss, in which the thread owner, SantaClaus, states:

"The interest in giantesses is understood here to be sexual, though there's little sex in the giantess presentations we see here. For many people the female giant is a power symbol more than a sex symbol... ...When we see the giantess' mouth, it's usually open to devour a victim, not puckered to express affection. I've gone through the work of many of our contributors to find the simplest expression of affection, the kiss."

I first saw this striking image on a birthday card given to me by my girlfriend several years ago - it depicts a scene from Gulliver's Travels. I had somehow never caught sight of it before, and it's always stuck with me. I like the politeness and delicacy of it, though I'm by no means a fan of grovelling or envisioning giantesses as goddesses to be served, I think it's more of a sign of respect; a poignant, appreciative gesture from a small man to a giant lady. I included a small nod to this image in my SizeCon poster entry, though if truth be told, I probably did it because even on a stepladder he can't reach her lips...

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In addition, I volunteered myself at the eleventh hour to help Jitensha & Bryan piece together a video montage that showcased various niches of the 'size community' in contemporary media to be screened as part of the 'Size in Popular Culture' panel at the con. 90% of the content was curated by them, all I really did is throw their picks together alongside a few choices of my own, title the clips as accurately as possible, and set it to a soundtrack - though I hope it's an enjoyable watch! 

N.B. This is the original version I created - for the music heard during the SizeCon screening (picked by Jitensha) sync the vid up with this. 

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