For those who might be interested in reading my intereview with our very own Pierre Fitch (yes, another "fluff" piece, lol!), here's an excerpt:
THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOX
Canadian cutie Pierre Fitch defies porn convention by taking control of his career with a hot vanity site
By: Ken Knox
Posted: 3:30 pm PST 2-23-2006
A few things to love about Canada: excellent health care benefits for all, legalized gay marriage, potty-mouthed rocker chicks like Alanis Morissette who’d go down on you in a theater, beautiful tourist attractions like Niagara Falls…and Pierre Fitch.
Unsure about that last one, are we? Well, for those not “in the know,” Fitch is one of gaydom’s most highly sought porn stars—both online and off. After starting his career in XXX entertainment at the tender age of 18 with a home-based webcam site, the Cornwall, Ontario, native (who says he “always wanted to become a porn star”) soon caught the attention of several webmasters, and was soon a top attraction on popular sites like MontrealBoysLive.com and VideoBoys.com. But Fitch had bigger plans for himself. Ever the ambitious stud-for-hire, he threw himself into an intense workout regimen, and within a year he was satisfied enough with the results of his efforts that he contacted Falcon Studios and applied to be one of their models. Within days, he was on a flight to San Francisco to film his first movie, Long Shot: Making the Game.
With his come-hither bedroom eyes and his smooth, muscular physique, Fitch easily won over video fans as well. From his work in Falcon flicks like Born to Be Bad (evidently, a very appropriate title for Fitch) to the recently GAYVN Award-nominated Through the Woods (Fitch is up for Best Actor and Best Sex Scene for his pairing with Gus Mattox), Fitch has emerged as the kind of Abercrombie-esque jock that can turn heads—and give head, too. He even won over his toughest fan—his husband, who, after previously shunning the adult industry, eventually warmed up to it enough to adopt the name Ralph Woods and film a few videos himself.
After taking a short break from the video business to let domestic bliss sink in (the two were legally married last year), Fitch is back with two new movies slated for release from Falcon this year. But he hasn’t forgotten where he came from. Indeed, with the recent launch of PierreFitch.com, the hardworking porn player has taken the reins of his career firmly into his own hands. Offering not only extensive galleries of delectable photos to drool over, but a blog, a store, and two live webcam shows a week, the site is home to all things Pierre. Perhaps most interestingly, Fitch is the mastermind behind the whole shebang, managing all the content, scheduling the updates, and taking the fall for any mistakes that might happen while he learns the ins and outs of webmaster technology.
Such tenaciousness is admirable in porn stars, who typically are dismissed, even by those who profit from them, as being one-trick ponies. Fitch, however, is helping to set the bar a little higher, showing models that it’s possible to be both desirable and industrious.
Ken Knox: OK, so first, tell me about your new website, PierreFitchOnline.com. What made you want to start your own site?
Pierre Fitch: I started my own webcam site when I was, like, 18. I always wanted to become a porn star. Then I had my PierreCam site and I had that for a little while. Then I opened up PierreFitchOnline.com and started with that website. I was working with a company, MontrealBoysLive, and they were helping me with my site, and then a little bit after that I started doing videos with a few other companies like HMBoys and some other little companies. And then after that I started working out and got some muscles and I applied with Falcon, and after that I started Pierre_Fitch.com. It’s better than going to a regular job every day. I wanted to do webcam stuff and make a lot of money. I knew when I started working with Falcon that I was going to build a pretty big fan base. I was already popular with my other sites, but Falcon helped a lot. They got my name out there, and now people are always reviewing my sites and reviewing my videos.
It seems you have a bit more going on with your site than a lot of your standard porn star vanity sites. Was it important to you to set yourself apart from the others?
Yeah, it was. I have everything on there. I have a blog, a guestbook, my pics, and I do webcam shows twice a week and add a new video every week. I think it’s cool to have a website like that so you can build a fan base and interact with them.
What I find to be most interesting is that you seem to be very much behind everything that goes on with your site. Would that be true?
Yeah, I love to be in control of everything. Like, with all my other sites before, I wasn’t really in charge. It was like a 50-50 kind of deal. Not long ago, I was with Badpuppy, and before that I was with VideoBoys, and I just got tired of giving a percentage out to people and not being able to see everything that goes on on my site, so I just said, “Screw this. I’m going to do everything on my own and learn and take it over.”
I would imagine that throwing yourself into such an endeavor would have to be a bit of a learning process. What has it been like for you, learning the language of webmasters?
I already knew how to do basic websites and stuff. The thing I had to learn was how to encode videos and get it all right. Like, when I first started shooting videos, the quality looked like crap. I didn’t really encode videos well, so I got myself a Mac computer, which made it easier. And I used iMovie to edit everything and I got a cleaner tool that encodes everything for me. And also on the message boards, like [GayWideWebmasters.com], I learned a lot from there, too. There’s a lot of things to learn there. Sometimes when I ask questions, though, I feel kind of stupid. But it’s OK. It’s good to learn.
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Read the rest of this interview here: http://www.avnonline.com/index.php?P...tent_ID=259978
