11. Discuss webcam communities.

Imagine if next to every GFY post, there was a live thumbnail of the person who just made that post. CitizenX.com, I site are created and ran for a few years, was like that. (except chat instead of boards.) It was bleeding edge and required a bit of patience to get up and running. While there are tons of webcam sites now, there is still none that have the many-to-many broadcast ability and love vibe that CitizenX had.

Its hard to explain, but it became a very important place to a lot of people. It was also innovative design -wise and functionally and was mentioned in a number of ?community Building? books. I even spoke at several web conferences about it.

There is something magic about telling a joke in chat or via streaming audio and seeing people laugh who are physically in Hong Kong or Denmark. I learned that it doesn?t matter where you feet are at?it matters where your head is at.

It looked kinda like this:
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close enough, and yup i totally understand, purple is a great colour to associate with eroticism, i think of super hard cock when i think purple. i also have something of an inside track on halcyon, so i know how well-suited pan is to him and vice versa. :) :thumbsup

I actually model my style after my personal "Guardian Demon" All the good stuff of a guardian angel, with none of the "holier than thou" attitude. ;))
:)
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Never met you before Halcyon but you seem like a good soul, Type of guy thats open to everything in life and not afraid to show it :) Hope to meet you some day at a convention seem like a good guy, Would love to have a sit down and talk to you about your Burning Man experiences :) :thumbsup

I have to add to the praise... first to sleazy dream, i really love the ambush interviews and halcyon, your answers make for a very interesting read. i consider myself fairly new to the industry and i'm really impressed with all the innovations that you and others similar to you have brought out.

I look forward to meeting you!

And I hope to get to the Burning Man question in the morning. (saved the best for last)
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Hey Hal,
First of all, Whats that youre on?

Second of all,
I have great respect for you for the work you did with troubled children. My parents spent over 25 years helping mentally handicaped children. Growing up in the same house as these children it was easy for me to accept them and respect them for who they were. I wish the world could see these kids the same way you and I saw them.
Once I grew up, I started working with Adults in the same condition. Sure it was a great challenge but always rewarding.
I then went on to work with Adults who were not considered menatlly handicapped but mentally ill. That was an even bigger challenge. Its not every day you get attacked my a man almost 7 feet tall tryting to bite off your ear so he can replace it with the one that was bitten off of him. Then theres the one who didnt like seeing me there on a friday night after work. That one ended up putting me in the hospital for a second back surgery.

Anyway...After this long post, Id like to say this world needs more people with compassion for troubled children like yourself.

That's my fur covered bike!!

My hat is off to you and your folks. I have the utmost respect for people who can do that line of work.

It was that experience that taught me that there are 2 ways to help make the world a better place. You can either fight darkness or spread light.

Both are needed.

The people who can spend their lives fighting darkness need to have immense hearts and insane inner strength. I'm glad I mucked through the darkness for those few years, but since then I've focussed on spreading light.

it's a fur-covered bicycle :)

Great interview so far!! Have had the pleasure to meet His Royal Pinkness, and he is a great guy. Looking forward to seeing you at the Forum! :thumbsup

Incredible interview so far!! I haven't gotten to hang with Hal a ton (something I hope to remedy at the Forum), but he is a cool guy and always makes a great impression. Plus, he has this gorgeous girly that I plan to abduct from his room while he is in town. :Graucho

"he has this gorgeous girly that I plan to abduct from his room while he is in town"

Im sure that lucky Stewie will be around for that. :thefinger

:smiling_b

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

how do you pronouce halycon

I should meet ya'll for coffee/tea on the beach and break in the new 20D right: with PINK!

(am just down the street in UTC)

awesome answers so far!

Awsome so far Hal you goin to Phoenix?

Yes! Tassy and I will both be there flying the FLASHCA$H flag.

12. Where won't you get naked? Where will you get naked? Is public sex ever involved? Ever stared in a porno?


I generally don?t like to ?inflict? nudity on anyone. So I?m not gonna get naked anyplace where someone might be offended. Like the DMV or a family gathering.
But I?ll strip down anywhere that it?s cool. I love going to the local nude beach, for example. But I?m not a fan of public sex if anyone who isn?t into it might see. I love sharing sex energy with people who are into it?but the ?might get caught? aspect never appealed to me.

Starred in a porno? Well, I?ve filmed myself with partners many times. And my sex life was broadcast live for 2 years when I lived on webcam. But only in the last few months have I considered more public on-camera sex. In addition to the Adam and Eve show (which included sex ?challenges?) Tassy and I are actually exploring a love-infused porn/art project that we both star in. It?s not public yet, but we shall see.

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http://cockybastard.com/images/2004/_me/cowboypubes.jpg

YARGH! A sexy bunch. Great answers too. I'll be waxin' many a carrot before it's over.

hey i've seen pics of your pool, we didn't get a room at the palms so we're at the marriott. i think a slumber party at vanilla's sounds WAY better! :winkwink:

13. Drugs and alcohol. Discuss.

Tough question for me to answer in public.
Let me just say that I waited until college to try pot or any drugs and I am grateful that I did so. Once I began my experimental phase?(or should I say ?decade?) I had many wonderful experiences and learned much about myself. For years I read people like Terrence McKenna and used drug exploration as a form of personal exploration. But those lessons became less and less with time. As with all things, I believe in balance.
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14. What was it like living in a webcam house?

It was like intense psychotherapy. Very quickly I had to get to a mind state where I was at peace with who I was.
At first I tried to ?act cool.? I would be aware of my posture and what I said. But that was EXHAUSTING. Finally I had to come to a place where I said, ?I believe I am a good person and lead a life of love.? If you glance at the cams for a second, you may catch me picking my nose or saying something stupid, but if you observe my life as a whole, I believe you will see I am being true to myself and my ideals.

What was crazy was that the audio was far more intrusive than the cameras. I had to train myself not to say phone numbers outloud for example. But it also taught me to not gossip or speak ill of others. It is a good lesson to never speak out loud what you wouldn?t say to someone?s face. And when you live in a cam house, you never know who is listening.


pic from Webcam house backyard:
http://cockybastard.com/images/2001/nakedhalspin.jpg

15. MTV - discuss your history there.

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While living in the webcam house, we started hosting an event called ?Globalgasm.? The idea was to heal the planet with worldwide digital orgies. MTV caught wind and decided to do a documentary of us (?Sex2K: Naked on the Net?). So they followed us around with a camera crew for a week and filmed a Globalgasm.
It was a bizarre experience to say the least. But I learned A LOT about how reality TV works and the power of an editor.

Here?s a quote of me from the show:
http://lifestudent.com/video/mtvquote.swf

OK, I swear this has to be the most "new info" interview yet! :)

16. Why have you never left San Diego?

I was born in San Diego and have lived here my whole life. The more I travel, the more I love it here. It has amazing weather, a relaxing vibe, and enough culture to keep me busy. Sometimes I wish I was in a more bustling area like New York City or LA, but the peace of living by the ocean in San Diego is hard to beat.

Where I live now with Tassy is in a place called Solana Beach in ?North County, San Diego.? Gorgeous coast and very quiet. It?s funny how important being close to the ocean is for me. Even when I can?t see it, I can feel it. And I feel the absence whenever I travel inland.

Tassy made this video from footage shot on our balcony of the ocean, dolphins, and sky:
http://g-n-v.com/pinkpiggy/beach%20bliss.mov

http://cockybastard.com/images/2004/sunsetwide.jpg

17. Studs TV show, what happened?

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Oh, shit. Another defining moment in my life.
In a nutshell, I went on a dating gameshow and was rejected on National Television by 3 women. Several things happened:
1) Despite being painfully insecure at the time, I was quite witty on the show. It was the first time I was on camera and it boosted my confidence significantly.
2) Pre STUDS, I had never really asked a girl out on a date. Sure, I hooked up occasionally at parties, but I had never really asked someone out. After that experience, all other rejection seemed easy to deal with.

I wrote up the whole experience here:
http://prehensile.com/does/studs.htm

o shit sleazy spelled his name wrong

I remember seeing you on that show! I loved that show.

18. Talk about the pink haired girl (tassy)

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I actually ?met? Tassy online many months ago as she was an online friend of an online friend.
Her screen name was ?Pink Piggies.?

It wasn?t until months later that I realized the ?pink? referred to her pigtails. She had pink hair.
A super sexy, hyper-sexed, exhibitionist internet geek with pink hair.

My friend referred to her as the female version of me.
I assumed he meant looks-wise, but my interest was piqued (how?s that for narcissistic!?) and we started to correspond.

Our chatting increased leading up to our meeting. We got to know each other a little more. Flirted and shared kinks. ?I would love to film us having sex.? ?Me, too.?

So I met her at the airport with my camcorder and filmed our entire first night together.

I waited at the gate with a pink sign. It didn?t say anything, it was just a pink piece of paper with no writing. But my cleverness was soon forgotten when we saw each other.
Instant attraction. Instant connection.

We were both nervous?but it felt good.
I put a collar on her as we waited in baggage claim.

What happened next was much more than I was expecting.

I can tell the exact point when I knew I was in over my head. It was midnight. We had just had AMAZING sex and shared a leftover pancake in bed. I went in the other room and grabbed a movie to watch as we took a sex break.
When I returned, she said, ?Can watch some of The Big Lebowski??
Of course, I was already holding The Big Lebowsky in my hand.

***
After our crazy sex weekend, she went back to Oakland. We both ached so she returned 2 weeks later for another weekend that turned into 10 days.

The attraction was too strong to deal with on a long distance basis?so I asked her to move in with me. She moved in on December 26th 2004.

***
For Xmas I gave her a romantic porno DVD I made out of the footage from our first weekend together. She loved it. I was in love.

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and people wonder why i'm so smitten... :liebe028:

Time for our daily beach walk. While we gone, I leave you with this embarassing video of me dancing my ass of in the bathroom:

http://lifestudent.com/video/haldance.wmv

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one of my favorite movies of all time!!!!

check this out:

the opening scene in the market where he's about to pay for the milk, he takes his checkbook out and starts writing... as he's writing the check, the television is showing bush giving a speech about Iraq, as he says "this aggresison will not stand..." the dude writes the date on the checkbook... i took a screencap of that shot.... LOOK AT THE DATE..

http://www.abyssent.com/abyss_al/sept11.jpg

:pimp

Isn't that TRIPPY!?

It's my fave movie, too!

I have a bumper sticker on my car that says,
"This aggression will not stand." - Lebowski

that's awsome... i went through a phase of wearing wife beaters and hawaiian shirts and didn't shave and talked like the dude.... hehe.. what an amazing movie :pimp

Hal is one cool cat, and used to be huge part of the San Diego downtown community. Back in mid 90's I was the head door guy for a club called Papa Jacks, after work we would head to the after hours club Baja Brewing company and he was a local there. Poppy, pre jupiter days was also out and about in the SD scene, back then he was all about the soccer.

Post some pics of those huge pigtails you used to have man. Thats my first impression of Halycon, ripped dude with these huge pig tails and at all the dark side after hours parties just smiling his ass off.

I don't know him personally but we definitely have mutual friends and the everyone digs him. Funny thing about Citizen X is when I worked at busty Dimitri contacted me about helping them with Citizen X and some adult affiliate programs. Small world.

Great interview Halycon, I will probably see you at Liz's b-bash next month so I will introduce myself.
BTW, thanks for the CD again.

Gavin

Holy shit...I didn't realize we overlapped back then. Very cool. And YES, I'll see you at Liz's bday!

Liz:
http://www.lifestudent.com/photos/00.../meliz_jpg.jpg

the "Trippy Longstocking" tails:
http://www.lifestudent.com/photos/00...4290359373.jpg

Damn, that be the Hal that I remember.
Funny shit back then, the dark side was definitely a blast.
I was with Liz this past weekend and told her to get you to help her with some stuff on her site, she does not totally grasp the power of the web at all. But you got to love her, total sweetie.

19. Did you climax the first time you had sex? Do you climax with Tassy?
Nosireeebob. I used to be so afraid of cumming too quick that I couldn?t climax at all.
I lost my virginity on prom night, but neither of us climaxed. Even now, it isn?t easy for me. But when I *do* climax, it is extremely intense.
http://pinkgasm.citizensex.com/previ...es/cuddle.jpeg
Tassy not only makes me cum HARD, but her orgasms are intense and transcendent, too.
She is a sexual partner as well a spiritual one.

20. Are you sensitive about your flappy ears and pencil neck?

Lol. I used to be. In fact, in Jr. High/High school, I would wear a turtle neck every day to make my neck look thicker and ears less pronounced. But not anymore.
http://www.lifestudent.com/photos/00...Shortshort.jpg

21. Do real men wear makeup?

Real men follow their own rules.
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fucking-a right brotha.

You look like Kenny G in that pic lol I look forward to meeting at Internext in FL our first :)

Quote for your sig if I ever saw one. :thumbsup

:) thanks!

btw, I'm gonna finish these questions! Just taking me a bit longer than expected. :)

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