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THE INTERVIEW
 

CelebFakirs.com: What does TFP actually stand for?
TFP: Ah, yes... the classic question.

Actually it's like this, when I first started faking I didn't know about the community or that one was expected to have a "name". I was completely website oriented. My goal was to build up a website with homemade celebrity porn. After one of my not-so-creative moments I decided that the site should be called "Totally Fake Pictures" (most of all to protect me from potential law suits) I then started marking my fakes with the acronym "TFP" to indicate that they originated from my site...
When I started to post my fakes at the ABPNCF group I did so anonymously, but people saw the logo and replied "Great fake, TFP!" and so I was baptized.

During my early years I thought about changing it a couple of times, but I was too lazy and the prospect of reestablishing my identity in the community deterred me. Over the years friends have told me that if I had a better name people would, to a larger extent, remember who I am, but I don't really care... I hope they remember the fakes, that's enough. I don't even put my name on more than about half of them anymore.

CelebFakirs.com: How did you find out celebrity faking existed?
TFP: I actually "invented" celebrity faking. Then I stumbled on a couple of sites on the Internet and realized that I wasn't the first to do that.


CelebFakirs.com: What was the first fake you ever saw and who faked it?
TFP: I have no idea. The first fakes I saw that impressed me were made by fredd38.


CelebFakirs.com: What made you get into faking?
TFP: I wanted to learn more about Photoshop and at the time (1998) most of the pics you could find on the Internet were either porn or celebrities...


CelebFakirs.com: Who was the lucky celeb who was first faked by you're self?
TFP: That would be Gillian Anderson.

CelebFakirs.com: When did you do you're first fake?
TFP: The first one I actually published was in January 1999... after about 8 months of practicing.


CelebFakirs.com: Who has been the biggest influence in you're faking career to date?
TFP: I've really tried to follow my own ideas, but on occasion I've been inspired by people like Vincent and proto.


CelebFakirs.com: Who would you consider to be the best fakir around at the moment?
TFP: I think that's a difficult question to give a short answer to. We are all good at different things. I've worked quite a bit with digital image editing professionally, I've also worked as a Photographer, as well as a Photoshop teacher for several years. All those things combined probably makes me the most technically knowledgeable faker as well as the fastest in the community, but I still miss stuff and make heads a tad bit too big sometimes. In my mind the best faker is the person who has the best balance between skill, talent and imagination. On occasion that person may be me, most of the time it's probably someone else. But I'm going to keep trying!


CelebFakirs.com: Who would you consider to be the best fakir of all time?
TFP: Hopefully someone who hasn't started faking yet... because if it's one of the people who's been around so far this thing isn't really going anywhere.


CelebFakirs.com: And for the future, do you see any fresh faces that you think will go on to be the best one day?
TFP: I've seen a lot of guys, like Holden and teeceethree, unleash loads of talent in a short time, but you never know. One thing's for certain, the overall standard has gone up tremendously since I started out. There are a lot more good intermediate fakers today then there were only 3-4 years ago. Fakers are learning a lot from each other and techniques that only the "masters" knew before have become common amongst people starting out.


CelebFakirs.com: What was you're best fake ever?
TFP: I always say my next fake will be my best fake ever... hopefully I'll continue to be wrong, otherwise I must be getting worse at this. The stuff I look back on most fondly are my combos and ads, the stuff that's not just porn but also satire.

CelebFakirs.com: What has been the highlight of you're career so far?
TFP: I think for me, running a forum really added a new dimension to this hobby, I love the social aspect of this community and all the wacky people in it! In the old days we had the ABPNCF news group, but that never came close to being this nice.


CelebFakirs.com: Why the alter-ego choice?
TFP: Why not? I'm sure it represents some aspect of my subconscious that I needed to air out a bit.


CelebFakirs.com: If you could marry any celeb who would it be?
TFP: I really don't think I would ever want to marry a celeb. I would probably settle for having sex with a few of them...


CelebFakirs.com: And who would be you're bit on the side?
TFP: Oh, same as now... Hypo.


CelebFakirs.com: Do you have funny stories you can tell us?
TFP: About faking? It's always fun to impress the crap out of RL friends with the ability to manipulate their photos... it's also a great ice-breaker at work, as long as you don't use porn obviously! The funniest thing is that no one's ever catched on to why I'm so good at swapping heads in pictures.

CelebFakirs.com: Where do you see yourself in 5, 10 years time?
TFP: I may or may not be faking, if I can continue to challenge myself and find new ways to expand the hobby, I think it's quite possible I will.

CelebFakirs.com: where do you see the faking world being in 5, 10 years time?
TFP: Who knows? Depends on where the technology goes. A lot of people are talking about stuff like 3D rendering and Video being the future, I just hope I'm around to see if their right.

CelebFakirs.com: Finally.... Celebrity fakes, art or porn?
TFP: Well, it should always be porn... that's sort of the point. If it's beautifully rendered with a lot of creativity, I say it can be both.