I am a Hematolagnia

I am a Hematolagnia from The Inbetweener on Vimeo.
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Photography and styling by Yuri Endo
Music Mad World by Gary Jules 

My intention for this short piece was to create a visual material that would make even 5-year-olds understand the fundamental concept of blood fetishism. I hope I accomplished my goal. 

I have all your equipment in my locker

Blood Fetishism on Prezi

I have created a visual material for my upcoming presentation and I am quite psyched by the outcome.  The program that I used here is called Prezi, a free online editing tool which  zooms and rotates by itself. I should warn you first though, it was not as simple as it looks to maneuver as I no longer can count how many sleepless nights I had to spent with this guy. Now that I have finally mastered it (sort of) let me show you its sweet moves! It even lets you embed You Tube videos and upload  Flash animations.  Unfortunately, it does not have video exporting function at the moment, but good news is, you can use another free tool such as Screen Toaster to capture and export your masterpiece as a movie file. I do not work for whoever created these amazing inventions but let me just tell you...I think I'm in love.

Prezi-The zooming presentation editor
Screentoaster-Toast your screen

Blood Fetishism 103

http://www.teknemedia.net & http://www.fadmag.com

Some artists experiment with bloodletting, blood consumption, self-mutilation and animal slaughtering as performance art. Quite frankly, I haven't completely digested many of those artists' true reasoning for their manners of expressions. Still, I found the following artists' performances visually intriguing and a little more convincing than those of the others.

Blood Fetishism 102

http://www.garyreed.net

Renfield’s Syndrome also known as Clinical Vampirism was named after the character Renfield in Bram Stoker's Dracula, and is a psychiatric disorder in which the sufferer feels a compulsion to consume blood. People who suffer from this condition are primarily male and often have the delusion of actually being a vampire and feeling the need for blood to obtain supernatural powers and sexual arousal. According to current psychiatric terminology, Renfield's Syndrome is classified as schisophrenia or paraphilia.

Blood Fetishism 101

http://www.anomalousmaterial.com

The ancient Maya Civilization said to be perceived blood as a substance processes powerful and magical properties. The Mayan gods were believed to be nourished by human blood, and ritual human sacrifice and bloodletting were regarded as the only means of making contact with gods. Consequently, the Maya believed that if they neglected these rituals, cosmic disorder and chaos would occur. In today, similar beliefs still prevail in some society and cultures often in rather deformed manners or a form of fetishism. As such, in these forthcoming posts, I would like to explore further on those particular individuals’ interest in blood as well the curious cases of related incidents and art forms in the history.