In 2004, artist Zak Smith blew away New York's art world at the Whitney Biennial with his visual interpretation of Gravity's Rainbow, a wall-size installation consisting of over 750 illustrations of Thomas Pynchon's famous novel.Five years later, Smith brings us We Did Porn, a shocking but thoughtful memoir that chronicles his journey from the New York art establishment to the LA alt-porn scene. Smith provides insightful and, at times, hilarious commentary on life in the zeros, as well as an unwavering view of the colorful, complex underworld of the adult industry.

Author's Note

Valentine's Day

I Crawl Like a Pig

The Sex Scene

Wolves

Nothing Unimportant

I Go to Los Angeles to Be in Porn

Pretend Your Task Is Not Degrading

Plot Developments

Pictures of Nights

Drawings

Boba Fett, etc

Cause-and-Effect Problems

A Side Note

Of Braindead Fucks

Why I Am That Fucker

Oh, Also, about Porn Girls:

Drawings

How Do Your Friends Talk to You after You Start Making Porn?

Like Porn Only a Place

Fish, Pig, Bug, etc

Like Porn Only Good

Things Are This Way

MSA-0011 [ext.] EX-S GU et al

Other People's Cities in the Dark

Drawings

A Few Brief Things I Should Say before We Get Started Talking about Porn Again

Cartoons about Pain

Barely Legal Whores Get Gang-Fucked

Year of the Rat

Useful Intelligence Gleaned from Simulated Drowning,Sexual Humiliation, and the Intentional Infliction of Bodily Harm

Drawings

Conversation I Have with Leom McFrei Just before Shooting Medical

Conversation I Have with Osbie Feel Just before Shooting Medical

Conversation I Have with Osbie Just after Shooting Medical

Medical(part one)

Medical (part two)

Medical (part three)

Death

Mailbag

Technical notes on the artwork