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"We are in danger of losing vintage wetlook history"
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After over a month of silence and no posts at all this Group is going the way of the dinosaurs and could do with some activity again....so here is my comment....do you know that we are about to lose all trace of vintage wetlook photos, slides and magazine clippings.
FYI the earliest known purposely made wetlook media started in the 1940s with Craig and his wife being the first known married couple wetlook fans who made photos and cine films. Both of them passed away but they passed their collection to the original "Wetfan" poster TG from Florida who created the great Wetlook Newsletter in the early 1990s. Wetfan had his great collection of photos and clippings from the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Roger Carpenter of Aquantics also had a huge collection of magazine clippings. wetlook photosets,slides and articles stored in his attic.
Wetfan and Roger worked with a guy in Canada to create the site Vintagewet.com and they restored hundreds of their old photos and clippings and were the 2 largest contributors to the site which was originally hosted by Graham on his Styx server. The site was up and running in the early 2000s until the webmaster disappeared and was presumed to have died. Then the site hosting was passed to David Wilkey and David and Roger maintain the vintagewet archives. Sadly we since lost Roger and David who have both passed away.
The only remnants of these archives can be found on the Internet Archive Wayback machine from 2002, however many of the links and pics were not saved by the Wayback machine.....so this is all we have ...
https://web.archive.org/web/20110202115738/http://vintagewet.com/
I managed to save around 20% of the pics that were on this site 20 years ago....so I have around 100 vintage pics from the 40s-60s, like this sample attached from the 1940s of Craig's wife......
The good news is that Mike from WSM Production has undertaken a project to restore all of Roger and David's Aquantics and Artscene videos from the 80s and 90s, and I am available to lend a hand if he needs help upscaling these old videos to HD quality.
But we need a young pup to create a new site to host all this vintage media. The good news is the Original Wetfan is still with us and I chatted with him recenty. He is now in his 80s and both Mike and I are also getting up there in age and in our 70s. If somebody younger wants to set up a new Vintage Wetlook Archive, I can reupload the stuff I saved from the old site and perhaps Original Wetfan can reupload his collection again.
Hopefully someone will come forward and set up a hosting space, and then we can preserve the legacy of Craig, Roger and Wetfan.
FYI the earliest known purposely made wetlook media started in the 1940s with Craig and his wife being the first known married couple wetlook fans who made photos and cine films. Both of them passed away but they passed their collection to the original "Wetfan" poster TG from Florida who created the great Wetlook Newsletter in the early 1990s. Wetfan had his great collection of photos and clippings from the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Roger Carpenter of Aquantics also had a huge collection of magazine clippings. wetlook photosets,slides and articles stored in his attic.
Wetfan and Roger worked with a guy in Canada to create the site Vintagewet.com and they restored hundreds of their old photos and clippings and were the 2 largest contributors to the site which was originally hosted by Graham on his Styx server. The site was up and running in the early 2000s until the webmaster disappeared and was presumed to have died. Then the site hosting was passed to David Wilkey and David and Roger maintain the vintagewet archives. Sadly we since lost Roger and David who have both passed away.
The only remnants of these archives can be found on the Internet Archive Wayback machine from 2002, however many of the links and pics were not saved by the Wayback machine.....so this is all we have ...
https://web.archive.org/web/20110202115738/http://vintagewet.com/
I managed to save around 20% of the pics that were on this site 20 years ago....so I have around 100 vintage pics from the 40s-60s, like this sample attached from the 1940s of Craig's wife......
The good news is that Mike from WSM Production has undertaken a project to restore all of Roger and David's Aquantics and Artscene videos from the 80s and 90s, and I am available to lend a hand if he needs help upscaling these old videos to HD quality.
But we need a young pup to create a new site to host all this vintage media. The good news is the Original Wetfan is still with us and I chatted with him recenty. He is now in his 80s and both Mike and I are also getting up there in age and in our 70s. If somebody younger wants to set up a new Vintage Wetlook Archive, I can reupload the stuff I saved from the old site and perhaps Original Wetfan can reupload his collection again.
Hopefully someone will come forward and set up a hosting space, and then we can preserve the legacy of Craig, Roger and Wetfan.
Do unto others, then run
I tried to add a few pics and accidentally duplicated my post.
It is too cumberson to post lot of pics here, one link at a time ....so I posted them to my Patreon channel here ...
https://www.patreon.com/posts/139108304
It is too cumberson to post lot of pics here, one link at a time ....so I posted them to my Patreon channel here ...
https://www.patreon.com/posts/139108304
Do unto others, then run
Being that these pictures and maybe video was once owned by someone maybe they are still with us, how would running a site with said pictures work since this person would technically still be the owner of them?
Messyflyboy said: Being that these pictures and maybe video was once owned by someone maybe they are still with us, how would running a site with said pictures work since this person would technically still be the owner of them?
Most of the original owners of these pics are now deceased, including Roger Carpenter. Many of the oldest pics of Craig and his wife were inherited by WetFan (who is still with us, but now in his 80s). Both Wetfan and Roger Carpenter gave permission to share these images.
Roger and David Wilkey's legacy of videos has been inherited by Mike of WSM. David Wilkey inherited Rogers media after he passed away in 2019, and with now that David has passed away last month his long time friend Mike is securing permission from the family of David Wilkey to restore and release their media. David and Roger were partners in Artscene and Aquantics, and now the baton passes to Mike of WSM.
Do unto others, then run
I think I managed to save every picture from the Vintagewet site before it closed; I look forward to the old stuff being available again on WSM. I find modern WAM for the most part boring - skinny models in the same clothes and the same poses (most very beautiful but way too young for me as I prefer ladies of, shall we say, a certain age being somewhat "vintage" myself").
ngawa said: I think I managed to save every picture from the Vintagewet site before it closed; I look forward to the old stuff being available again on WSM. I find modern WAM for the most part boring - skinny models in the same clothes and the same poses (most very beautiful but way too young for me as I prefer ladies of, shall we say, a certain age being somewhat "vintage" myself").
Great. I only saved some of the pics, but not all of the photosets.
Would it be possible to create a zip file of them all and share them with the community,
Do unto others, then run
It seems to me that Reddit would be a good place to store these photos. Someone could create a "Vintage WAM" community there.
@ Wamtec
Sorry for the delayed reply - I visit here every now and again but not as much as I used to and most times I scroll by instead of logging on. Anyway Pzzzp seems to have most of the bases covered regarding the old Wetfan stuff; funnily enough I attempted to put the same stuff on my profile page and got in trouble with the admins...
The old Vintage Wetlook site is where my profile pic comes from.
Sorry for the delayed reply - I visit here every now and again but not as much as I used to and most times I scroll by instead of logging on. Anyway Pzzzp seems to have most of the bases covered regarding the old Wetfan stuff; funnily enough I attempted to put the same stuff on my profile page and got in trouble with the admins...
The old Vintage Wetlook site is where my profile pic comes from.
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