How long have you been in porn?
The first time I got naked on camera was three years ago. In my senior year of college my roommate and I had this ridiculous idea to start a porn site and we just kinda went with it. It was hard to find models at first (mostly because we had no idea what we were doing and like, didn't even own a camera) so I was like…well, maybe if I do it then it will be easier to explain to other girls why they should do it. This ridiculous porn site idea wound up being a pretty good one… and you can see it yourself on www.BurningAngel.com.
After being online for about a year and a half, I was like… we should start making movies. By that point I learned a little more about the business and myself, and realized there was a really dirty exhibitionist inside me that needed more than just a still camera to really be captured appropriately.
What made you decide to crossover from having an internet site to producing DVDs?
After I went to my first AVN Expo I came to the conclusion that I really liked porn.
You recently have been in adult productions other than your own? What prompted that decision?
I realized that I could really learn a lot from working with other directors and it would make me better at what I do. It was a sad gloomy day when I realized that I wasn't the best porn director on earth but the conclusion led to very positive changes.
when will enough be enough and what lies ahead post-porn?
You mean… there is a post-porn?! Yikes. I never really thought about that.
Joanna on... what makes alt porn "alt"
Beyond the tattoos and piercing is there a difference between and an alt porn girls and "mainstream" porn girls?
Richard Kern took some photos of me, and said something along the lines of “Joanna doesn't do this for the money… she does it because she's crazy…” and he meant that in the nicest way.
Like I really love what I do and I don't think I'm being presumptuous when I speak for the other girls on BurningAngel as well. If we were just doing this for the pay check… we wouldn't be so "alt." We really like doing this…. And that's what begins to separate us from a lot of other people.
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