JMM:
Where do you find the pictures? What are your best sources?
My
primary source of pictures is from the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts.
I'm also a subscriber to a couple of the well-known pay sites
which, of course, provide a constant source of new images.
You can occasionally pick up some pictures from fan pages, but
it's got to the point now that I usually have most of the images
that they have! Naturally the BEA Users Gallery is a good place
to pick up new stuff from, but it can also be very frustrating
-- due to the speed the UG cycles through, and the limitation
on postings, you can rarely pick up an entire series.
JMM:
How extensive is your collection? What topics do you collect?
My
collection, quite frankly, is dominated by that wonder of the
species -- the Big Breasted Female! (Surely you could have guessed
that). I've gotta admit that I'm partial to Score's ideal
of "Slim & Stacked", and hence feel a strong pull towards the
cosmetically enhanced models. You could consider this to be the
ultimate expression of BE, actually undergoing an operation to
physically alter yourself and expand your breasts! That doesn't
mean I don't love the "nats" as well, though. I must
confess to being a bit of a preggo fan, but there are very few
sources of good, quality images on the net.
JMM:
Describe who your favorite models are.
There's
probably too many to mention, they're all my favorites, but...
SaRenna
and Dusty (already sadly missed, along with all the other recent
retirees) probably have the ultimate in enhanced bods -- SaRenna
because she personifies big bust beauty, and Dusty really did
have a very appealing chest before her reduction! After her latest
operation, Casey (Jesse) James has gone a step into the sublime
-- I really wish she would do more photo appearances. Dakota Kelly
and Colt 45 are up there as well, but neither of them do enough
photo shoots.
JMM:
The Pantheon of Global Bosoms...who else?
IMHO,
Linsey Dawn is by far the best natural out there - an absolutely
incredible physique, and all home grown! Chloe has to get a mention
in the nats category as well, but I preferred her early shots,
before she toned up; she had that little chubby "puppy fat" and,
of course, wondrously full breasts!
JMM:
How long have you been collecting pictures?
Ever
since I first installed a modem, connected to the net, opened
up MS Internet News, downloaded the list of my ISP's newsgroups,
and experimented with typing the immortal word "breasts" in the
display groups bar! Imagine my surprise and delight when it came
back with some groups!
In
all seriousness, it's probably about three years now.
JMM:
How many pictures or Megs does your collection entail?
My
image collection currently takes up 3,061,255,092 bytes of disk
space, or 2.85 Gig! That's in 38,023 files. Believe it or not,
I still consider my collection to be in its infancy!
JMM:
Tell us about your own personal archives.
They're
in a bloody mess at the moment, which isn't surprising considering
the number of images I've already got, and the number I seem to
be downloading each week. To add to that, it seems as though I
change how I store stuff every five minutes, and I never catch
back up again! I really need to take a week off at some point,
and think about how I'm going to organise this, and get it all
done.
JMM:
A week off? I won't hear of it...the newsgroups will collapse
without a continued supply of WipEouts.
When
I get about two hundred images of a particular model, I'll set
up a directory on the hard drive of her, and separate it into
directories for my scans, downloaded images, and others such as
vidcaps. I currently have directories for the following models:
Adele Stevens, Alexis Love, Alyssa Alps, Angelique, Autumn, Babette
(formerly Betsy Boobs), Candy Cantaloupes, Carrie Lorrimer, Casey
(Jesse) James, Chloe Vevrier, Colt 45 (Misty Mountains), Dakota
Kelly, Danni Ashe, Deanna Duos, Dixie Bubbles, Busty Dusty, Kayla
Kleevage, LA Bust, Letha Weapons, Linsey Dawn, Lisa Chest, Minka,
Nikki Knockers, Pandora Peaks, SaRenna Lee, Tawny Peaks, Tiffany
Towers, Traci Topps, Vannessa, Veronica Zemanova, Vicki Vann,
Wendy Whoppers, Crystal Storm, Erica Everest, Jenny, Leah, Leanna
Lovelace, Lili Xene, Montana Mounds, Penelope Pumpkins, and Summer
Cummings. (Whew!!)
JMM:
I am breathless from just hearing the names...
The
SaRenna collection has spawned a bit out of control. After several
trades, including one with the huge SaRenna fan and collector
SLFan1, who is in contact with Cornfed, I've amassed over 3000
images!
JMM:
Do you scan pictures yourself or just surf the net looking for
them?
Personally
I consider myself to be primarily a scanner, and then a collector.
As you may have seen if you look on the groups, I do also like
to give some back as well.
In
my time as a scanner, I have attempted to build up a kind of brand
image -- If you see a WipEout! scan then you can be guaranteed
that it will be the best quality scan I can produce. When I post
to the groups I will tend to highlight one of my scans over an
image that I've just down-loaded by altering the subject title,
like: Traci Topps >>> The WipEout! Scans <<<.
Here's
a few of my favourite scans as an example of what to expect from
WipEout!.
(click
each pic for a MUCH larger view)
JMM:
Are you popular? Do people contact you looking for pictures?
I
occasionally get people sending me indexes for trading, or identifying
a model. I've also seen some fan sites asking for my -- or others
like me -- assistance with certain pictures.
Right
now, though, I've predominantly limited myself to two good trading
buddies, I think both of them have been going for nearly a year
now! I did trade with more people, but the logistics behind carrying
out four or five trades at once can get a little complex!
JMM:
What is the situation regarding big tit magazines in the UK?
It's
OK, but also a little frustrating. Score magazine is easily available
via Score's UK distributors, "Double-D-Productions", (which
the famous BB photographer John Graham works with) and is the
mag that I get regularly. They did have a UK-specific mag called
Tease available a few years back, but it only lasted for
7 issues. After that, Score mag was made a little more
readily available.
There
are very few actual UK big bust mags available; the only one worthy
of mention is Big Ones International, but this is a bit
dodgy. When I first saw it about five years ago it was a bit shabby,
with only one or two appealing models in it per month. I started
purchasing it again about two years back because they had a bit
of a facelift, and injection of cash. They started posting more
of the real big bust superstars; although these were older images,
they were still good to add to the collection. Not only that,
but Linsey Dawn was in it each month, which made it well worth
it! Unfortunately its been on the downturn over the last few months,
and they've lapsed into re-prints, which quite frankly is a rip-off
when you purchase a new issue and you see you already have all
the pictures!
JMM:
Don't you just hate that?
Getting
the US big bust mags can be a bit hit and miss as well. I've found
a newsie not too far away from me that occasionally stocks the
likes of Gent and Voluptuous. Someone in the TVX
newsgroup tipped me off to a good magazine stockist in London
that does most of the American mags, and occasionally I take a
jaunt down there to stock up on new scanning material.
One
thing is, I'll be buggered if I can find Hustler Busty Beauties
anywhere in the UK. I'm beginning to believe that talk of this
mag is just an elaborate hoax! I really do want to get my hands
on an issue of this, just to see what it's like.
JMM:
What archiving materials do you use?
At
the moment, everything is merely stored on hard disk. This in
itself is pretty expensive, seeing as I have an insistence on
using Ultra 2 SCSI drives!
The
storage media has been bugging me for some time now. I did consider
CD-RW's, but I eventually decided against this, seeing as they
are limited to only 630 Meg, and my collection is constantly changing.
I eventually hit upon the idea of using removable disk drives,
and went out and bought myself an internal SCSI SyQuest SyJet
drive. This thing was fast, the disks were 1.5Gig each, and you
could read and write to them just as though they were a normal
hard drive; In all respects ideal. However, nearly the minute
I bought it SyQuest went belly up, and I was unable to get more
carts. DOH!
I've
never had a hard drive failure, but my collection is now getting
to the point where I'm thinking, "What if something did happen?
I'd be buggered!" Especially in light of talk of such things
as the Chernobyl Virus. I'm now waiting for DVD RAM's to become
a bit more widespread, so I can take the occasional snapshot of
my collection.
JMM:
What kind of photo sorting software do you have on your PC?
Surprisingly
little. Many scanners like touching their scans up with PhotoShop,
but I think this can sometimes make the scan look a little too
unnatural, and hence I don't even have PhotoShop on my
PC. I like my scans untouched from the scanner, which is why I
only use Paint Shop Pro 4. I don't even use PSP5; I think
it's a bit bloated and slow. PSP 4 is nice and thin, and has everything
I need.
Most
of my image sorting is done through a handy thumbnail viewer called
Firehand Ember. It performs similar functions to ThumbsPlus,
and has most of the features, but I just think Ember looks
a bit nicer, and is more intuitive to use.
JMM:
How many PC's do you have, and what kinds?
Oh
dear, you shouldn't got me started on that one!!! PC's were actually
my primary passion. Collecting images was something I pretty much
fell into after I got my first net connection.
After
dropping out of my Computer course at University, which I attribute
to not actually having a computer at the time, I got a PC through
the temporary work I had at the time. The PC wasn't great, and
I was slightly ripped off, but it was a start. After months of
reconfiguring it, taking it to bits, and generally digging around,
I decided to upgrade. The upgrade was a success, and now I'm on
my sixth configuration of PC, currently settled on a PII 400,
128Meg RAM. (Always handy for manipulating large images from the
scanner.) I can see my next upgrade will occur when RAMBUS appears
on the market, I think a PIII 600+ with 256Meg of 600Mhz RAMBUS
RAM will do VERY nicely!
JMM:
A real screamer, eh? I can almost hear the 'whine' of all those
fans cooling the box down...
My
drive for ever-increasing PC speeds is largely due to my liking
of PC games. Before my first upgrade, a number of my friends were
gloating at the power of the recently released Playstation. I
was, at that point, convinced that the leap from the original,
lowly 486 to Pentium would match them. This didn't really come
to fruition until about two Pentiums later, when I had a P200
MMX. I then put the first of the Voodoo cards in that, and the
first time I played Quake 2 on it, blew my mind! After
having gone through a Voodoo 2 as well, I'm now revelling in the
delights of Voodoo 3 -- god, this thing's fast! (Although, I am
really looking for 3dfx's next creation -- Ramage!).
BTW,
rather uninspiringly (shit, I think I just invented a word) enough,
my pseudonym actually comes from the PC/PS Psygnosis game WipEout
2097 (XL in the states). That's it! That's also why the big
E. If you look at the groups you may see the posts from me either
as WipEout@Ag-Sys.net, WipEout@Quirex.net, WipEout@Auricom.net,
WipEout@Feisar.net, or WipEout@Pirana.net... these are just the
names of the ships from the WipEout game. Unfortunately, my PC
has gained so much in power, and graphics abilities that the game
is no longer playable; its just too fast!
JMM:
How big is your monthly telephone bill?
It's
currently coming out at about £40 -- £50 ($75 - $90) per month;
add to that my £11 monthly ISP charge, and you can see that it's
getting to be an expensive game. Although we Brits are blessed
with the number of big-breasted natural models appearing, we really
are getting shafted in many monetary matters. I've said it a number
of times before, but this is one of the reasons why I haven't
been able to contribute to the groups, and to the BEA of course,
as much as I'd like -- it gets so bloody expensive!
There
are a number of Internet connection innovations that are gradually
being experimented with that will aid high-volume users. Of course,
many of you will be familiar with cable modems, and these are
very slowly trickling into use in the UK. BT (British Telecom)
have a cheaper ISDN link available, and they are also experimenting
with a new way of encoding signals down the telephone line that
is supposed to enable transmissions of up to 10 times faster than
normal phone lines. Also NorWeb, an electricity power company,
have found a way of transferring TCP/IP packets over their 50Hz
electricity power lines, and early tests show connection rates
of about one to three meg a second. So hopefully, soon I'll be
able to get a faster connection, and contribute more of the images
of wonderfully big-breasted ladies!
JMM:
What do you do in the Real World?
I've
recently moved into the development department of the company
that I've been at for the last few years, and I'm picking the
rather useful, yet arcane art of Oracle PL/SQL.
As
for socially, it boils down to the classic British trait of going
out on a Friday and Saturday night with my mates and getting completely
rat-arsed!
JMM:
How many newsgroups do you 'subscribe' to, and which is your current
favorite?
I
collect most of my images from the following groups:
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts.large
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts.natural
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.linsey-dawn-mckenzie
alt.binaries.pictures.sarenna-lee
alt.binaries.pictures.tiffany-towers
alt.fan.televisionx
The
Tiffany Towers and LDM groups aren't used that much at the moment.
The SRL comes in fits and starts, but there's a few loyal posters
there. TVX is dedicated to British babes/ models/ pornstars, and
LDM images can sometime be found there. However the newsgroup
that offers the most is always A.B.P.E.B; it's old and thus swimming
in spam, but once you learn to cut your way through that and figure
out the regular posters you can always pick up good material.
These are also the groups that I post to, but most regularly at
A.B.P.E.B and A.B.P.E.B.L .
I
do occasionally stray from these groups, because some decent images
can found on other groups, such as Playboy or Penthouse.
