And what a celebration! With a cast containg everyone from Aria Giovanni and Sasha Grey (with stops along the way for Cytherea, Emily Marily, Rebeca Linares, and—hell, just about every woman you've ever been in love with), "High Strung Women" promises quite a feast for the eyes...and some other parts, too. But you don't have to take our word for it: Andrew's kindly provided these preview stills for you to enjoy.

Andrew Blake (andrewblake.com)
Andrew Blake (andrewblake.com)
Andrew Blake (andrewblake.com)
Andrew Blake (andrewblake.com)

· Andrew Blake (andrewblake.com)

If we say we have a case of the Tuesdays tomorrow, do you think they'll send us more pix?

· from Andrew Blake: fetish exclusives (tinynibbles.com)

Why, nothing short of Andrew Blake's "5 Stars," a breathtaking collection of some of Blake's most memorable scenes, starring some of the most memorable women ever to fuck on film. Aria Giovanni, Janine Lindemulder, Sasha Grey, Tera Patrick, and Dita Von Teese are the "five stars" in question: and in case that collection of leading ladies isn't enough to put you in a stupor, the cast of co-stars includes Anita Blond, Regina Hall, Justine Joli, Dahlia Grey, Nina Kornikova, Kelle Marie, Kim Wilde, Faith Leon, Temptress, Sierra, Victoria, Julia Ann, Claire Adams and Paula Price.

We don't know about you, but we think we'll be calling in sick the minute we get our hands on a copy of this masterpiece.

· Andrew Blake (andrewblake.com)

That wasn't so hard now, was it? We apologize for the suspense—we just wanted to set the mood for your own deviant sexual adventure, just the way the director would want it. In order to do that, though, we'll have to take you all the way back to the beginning, to what seems like a bajillion years ago: a time when a CBS art director named Paul dreamed of a life away from the cold bustle of New York City, a life filled with beautiful, young, sexually uninhibited models all clamoring to be his willing erotic subjects in his balmy Venice Beach condo.

Fade to black and insert a title card that reads "Andrew Blake" right about here.

Since then, the erotic artist has built an empire that defies imagination, driven by a single minded vision to create gorgeous erotica on his own terms. We once told him that his movies were less pornography and more like something that should be played out of a movie projector onto the back wall of a cocaine party circa 1982. He told us he was relieved that someone finally got him.

More accurately his work builds on itself, working its way gently underneath the viewer's skin, and building towards a sexual epiphany as inescapable and surreal as a fever dream—and just as fleeting, too. In a world of extreme close ups and shocking immediacy, Blake's languid approach is an acquired taste—one well worth acquiring.

It's been 20 some odd years since the first "Night Trips" was released, and now Blake has reprised his own masterpiece with sultry sex goddesses Paola Rey and Charlotte Stokely, calling the sequel "A Dark Odyssey." Blake opts out to eschew dialogue, allowing the pictures to tell the story and saving a ton of money on writers. The decision works well for this movie, but we'd like to discourage other autuers from attempting it for obviously self-interested reasons.

Unlike most of his previous work, which is heavily sapphic, "Night Trips Redux" is lousy with boy-girl couplings to good, if somewhat seedy, effect. It is still, however, shot on Super 16mm film, a medium to which Blake remains completely committed. Glamorizing a junky chic that belies his subjects insatiable need to be sexually degraded, "Night Trips" is in fact much more of a mirror into the director's ageless soul, underscoring his own personal history of sexual frustration with these unstable yet beautiful dolls with a reflexively postmodern paean to his own genius.

"Night Trips: A Dark Odyssey" is available now from Studio A Entertainment.

· Andrew Blake (andrewblake.com)

Usually we find porn that features things like slow-motion editing and creative camera techniques the kind of stuff that's more interesting to write about that it is to, you know, actually jerk off to. But since legendary director (excuse us, erotic artist) Andrew Blake pretty much single-handedly created the genre of high-concept smut that doesn't skimp on down and dirty action, we can forgive all the artsy frippery in the preview for his latest hardcore compilation release, the minimalistically-titled "X"—especially when we see stars like Aria Giovanni, Jelena Jensen, Cytherea, and Dana DeArmond in the cast list. We may not know much about art, but things like foot and stocking fetishism, intricate rope bondage techniques, and intense girl-on-girl-on-girl action ... well, that's another story.

· Andrew Blake's "X" (video preview @ andrewblake.com)
· "Andrew Blake Returns with X" (avn.com)
· " New Porn Daily: 20 short films by Andrew Blake" (gramponante.com)

Previously: Andrew Blake Video Editor, DVD: "Andrew Blake's Close-Ups", Andrew Blake Tribute