Miss Tigri is a talented French painter, illustrator and designer. Her fabulous paintings of languid women have influences of Art Nouveau artists, like Alfons Mucha and Gustav Klimt, expressionist painter Egon Schiele, French comics illustrators, Milo Manara, stylists, Tim Burton and Hayao Miyazaki. (via the NSFW Erotismo Gráfico)
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The London based animation director and illustrator Steve Scott has a marvellous work. He started directing animated promos in the late 90s, creating clips for many bands, including Silverchair, New Zealand's Salmonella Dub and his own band, Telemetry Orchestra. His cheerful and colourful portfolio of illustrations, some with a retro style, includes magazine covers, ads, CDs illustration, character design and pin-ups.
His animation portfolio is also great, with commercials and music videos. Don't miss Telemetry Orchestra's Suburban Harmony, with a style very similar to The Beatle's "Yellow Submarine".
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The photographer Shannon Brooke presents a beautiful retro style on his pictures of music, people, fashion, motorcycles, pin-ups and magazine covers. According to him:
There was a time between the 1920’s and 1960’s when a woman was sexy because of her style, persona, and choice to be a lady with class. I capture a retro feel of this period with a contemporary twist, my stamp.
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For centuries woman with a different behaviour were called witches. Some were too clever for men, other had a strong political or religious powers, there were some of those "witches" that didn't want to follow the "rules" dictated by society. And there were some that called themselves witches. With all those beliefs, our culture created an image of an evil and ugly witch.
That's why I think that the blog Sexy Witch is more than welcome. As the title says, it's a blog about sexy witches. There you will find witches of all types: elegant, attractive, pretty, cute, hot, naughty or femme fatales; real life witches; people dressed up as witches: for Halloween or fancy dress balls; fictional witches: witches in novels, plays and poems; movie witches; cartoon witches; witches in art: carved, painted, sketched and engraved: they are all here, or will be in time. I would like to add also: pin-up witches and many NSFW witch images.
By the way, I'm been always a fan of the TV series Bewitched, one the reasons why I believe in sexy witches. Don't miss the Ava Gardner, Sexy Witch.
The last PETA campaign PETA's ABC Campaign points to the importance of spay or neuter. The ABC (Animal Birth Control) tackles the issue of companion animal overpopulation and urges people to do their part by taking simple steps to help end this crisis.
To spread the mesage, the burlesque dancer, model and actress Dita Von Teese joined to launch PETA's new ABC campaign. There is no doubt about Dita Von Teese's Sexy ABC Ad (picture above), being sexy and catching our attention.
Dita knows her ABCs and just how important animal birth control is. Every year, nearly 4 million dogs and cats are put to death in the U.S. because there are not enough good homes for them. Until we all do our part to put an end to this cycle, euthanasia will remain a tragic necessity.In her ad, Dita urges fans to "bone up" on their ABCs and, if they are considering adding a dog or a cat to the family, to adopt from a local animal shelter and be sure to get their new family member spayed or neutered.
I'm supporting this campaign, because I believe on its importance. All my (three) cats are neutered (and spayed) and never had any problems with that. They are healthy and happy. My youngest furry guy, Truffaut, was found meowing in the garage of my building sick and starved. I don't believe in buying animals when there are thousands of those poor animals living on the streets of São Paulo. And if I can help, even with small actions like those, I will. I hope you do the same.
Bellow, a behind-the-scenes footage from Dita's photo shoot and her exclusive interview with PETA.
Maurycy Gomulicki likes to take pictures of girls: green girls, red girls, blue girls, vixens, pin-ups and more girls. And he does great job playing with textures and colours. He also has a NSFW blog devoted to colours, I mean one colour, pink: Pink not dead!. I choose the pin-up pictures.
PS.: a pin-up naughty nurse, from his sets, to a reader that was asking for pin-up nurses.
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Once more it's time to celebrate the International Talk Like a Pirate Day. And I will do it on my way, sharing links, since I don't have any pirate costume.
Catster and Dogster users are also participating of this special day, submitting the pictures of their furry fellows dressed as pirates, with the tag "pirate", on Dogster and Catster.
Getting to Know ... International Talk Like A Pirate Day: an interview with Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summer and John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur, the founders of Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Many Books has a nice collection of Pirate Stories of digitalized books in the public domain to read on-line or download, available in many formats.
Photos from International Talk Like A Pirate Day on Flickr. Explore all the previous images or go directly to the 2007 photoset.
Pinup Pirate illustration created by the deviantART artist agrivaine (ChrissieA).
Pirate Pinup: the picture above is a self portrait by the Flickr user Danielle.
Pirates Of The Caribbean 1 and 2 in 30 seconds and re-enacted by bunnies, presented by Starz Bunny Club Exclusive, created by Angry Alien Productions.
Polite Dissent made a great list of comic-book pirates (and pirate comic books) to celebrate the day. (via Pen-Elayne on the Web)
Post Like a Pirate is a pirate translator which also posts directly on Twitter, Myspace or send by email the translated text.
Réunion de piratesses: a collection of illustrations created by several artists to a contest created by the French illustrator Delfine, on her blog, which theme was "fille de pirate" (daughter of pirate). Take a look at the illustrations and on the Hors concours illustration of the contest if you speak French.
The Pirate Pin Up Arrr Mates, the Sexiest Pirate Pinups 'n the Seven Seas. Sexy picturs of pin-up dressed as pirates, or something like that. The picture on the top is from one of those girls, Molly Roger.
Watch the classic silent film The Black Pirate with Douglas Fairbanks at Videos with Bibi, and the special "Talk like a Pirate Day" films Dancing Pirate and Captain Kidd.
WordPress users can Piratify Your Blogs using the Text Filter Suite Plugin. It turns yer blog into pirate-speak on Talk Like a Pirate Day! (via The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire)
The YouTube profile Offcial Wench hosts 23 videos of Cap'n Slappy and Ol' Chumbucket. The last video added, Pirates of the Burning Sea, introduces the video game, "Pirates of the Burning Sea" for the release party in Seattle, Washington on September 19th. You can watch their video Pirates And Ninjas bellow.
Pictures of The Pirate zombie pin-up model. As a good pirate she has a parrot.
And the original Talk Like A Pirate Day site. It has some cool stuff, games and many other links.
Previous posts with pirates:
Devout Dolls
Talk Like A Pirate Day
Courts métrages Annecy
Piratical and Privateering Books in English
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What a lovely image: a gorgeous brunette in a "café"and a marvellous Paris Métro exit in Art Nouveau style. The enclosed exit of Porte Dauphine station with the "Metropolitain" word really exists and it was designed by Hector Guimard in1899. About the girl I'm not so sure. Maybe she's only part of the imagination of the French artist Patrick Hitte. Hitte is specialised in cheesecake images. His pin-ups have a fresh new style with some details of classic pin-ups illustrations. More of his works at here.
Let's put some shine on this blog with pictures of saucy girls. Vintage Girlwatchers is a site about the girlie magazine from 1950's Girl Watcher and related. According to the description: This site exists to celebrate and preserve books and magazines about girlwatching and girl-photography from the fifties and sixties. The "celebration" includes two complete scanned Girl Watcher magazines, photography magazines - the best part -, articles about those magazines and some information about photography books. I think the articles are even more interesting than the original "Girl Watcher" magazines.
Curiously those magazines have all similar names: Glamour Photography, Charm Photography and Glamorgirl Photography. And similar images: girls in bikinis or in sexy positions and situations, most part of time. I could say it's safe for wor, excluding the Art Photography area.
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The American photographer Mark Velasquez has a fabulous portfolio. His pictures goes from portraits people from California to Costa Rica documented while going about their daily lives to eccentric, stepping outside the accepted norm of what constitutes beauty, high fashion, and basic common decency. For me his best shots are under projects, which contains pin-ups photos.
Well, that's only part of his work. There are much more on his Flickr page, more than three hundreds pictures with catchy colours divided in 29 photosets to appreciate.
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I'm a fan of Heroes, however, I don't follow the activities of the actors - gossip and entertainment blogs aren't my cup of tea. The beautiful picture of Hayden Panettiere for Vanity Fair was found while I was searching for pin-ups. She made a series of pictures dressed as a pin-up for an editorial and the cover (I think) of the magazine in February. The image bellow is from Televisionista.
In June she was in the Entertainment Weekly editorial The EW 100: TV portrayed as a 1950's high school girl. The images are very cool too as you can check here, but I prefer the pin-up version.
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Go-go Amy is the "merchandise" site of the pin-up model and burlesque star Amy, I guess. She is "now out on the road with The Brothers Grim Sideshow doing burlesque on the OZZFest Tour." While she is away take a look on the galleries with pictures of modelling, published work, performance and behind the scenes. The site has no nudity, so it's probably safe for work - it depends of where you work. (via erotismo grafico)
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The image of PEZ to me is related to something cheerful, funny, almost puerile. I'm glad someone removed those images from my mind, surprising me with The Sexy Side of PEZ. This side of PEZ uses sex to sell it to adults, as a lot of other stuff we know, using images of pin-ups. Or I must say, it used. Oh, what a pity.
The PEZgirls were a creation of Edward Haas to help to sell "new" flavourful candy with oil of peppermint to adults and smokers, because the oil of peppermint was considered a luxury item. Haas hired young and beautiful girls to sell his product. They were dressed in stylish trousers and grey jackets and attracted a lot of attention.
Between 1940's and 1960's PEZ commissioned many artists to create graphics for their print advertising and signage. The image of the PEZgirls changed from the girls with stylish clothes, to the pin-up illustrations with a beautiful smile, inspirad in the creations of the pin-up masters Vargas and Elvgren. The sexy PEZgirl above was a creation of Gerhard Brause, "The Michelangelo of the 50's". (Urban Retro Lifestyle)
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The gorgeous pin-up above is part of one of the projects of the Russian photographer Irina Davis. The cheerful American pin-ups of 1950's were considered politically incorrect, decadent and flat-out immoral She explain in her own words this project:
By photographing exclusively Russian immigrant women in traditional all-American pin-up poses, I am inventing my own genre of Russian pin-up. My concept is to portray pure beauty, femininity and sexuality, not to objectify but to empower. To those who identify the clues in my work, hidden to most non-Russian eyes, I am telling the story of a crisis of Russian national identity, and the frustration and confusion of self-identification with the Old Country, the New World and a diaspora caught between them. My goal is to bridge the gap and seduce the spectator with alluring imagery, trapping him into empathizing with a foreign element.
Her other projects include children's portraits at orphanages in European Russia, capturing the scenarios of isolation and distance, and portraits with a natural style, probably trying to capture the visual culture diversity of her country. (via Sex and Blogs)
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Eldon Dedini was an American cartoonist best known for his works to magazines as The New Yorker, Esquire and Playboy. But early in his career, he was an editorial cartoonist for local newspapers, and a story man for Walt Disney. At ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog post Eldon Dedini's Satyrs and Nymphs there is a nice video interview with the cartoonist, made by Ken Kearney in 2005, and several Dedini's cartoons of satyrs and nymphs to Playboy. I wanted to post other illustration, but they are all probably NSFW.
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It's very easy win a link from Bibi's box: you just need to post pretty images of pin-ups. I won't be able to resist. I noticed my weakness some minutes ago, while I was having a very interesting conversation with my buttons about if I was going to post about Datajunkie's The Science Fiction Art of H. W. McCauley or not.
Harold W. McCauley painted dozens of covers for various science fiction magazines and drawn several hundred interior story illustrations. But before starting to work in this area, he already was a science fiction fan. It wasn't so hard to him joining the two passions. The clever artist also married with one of his beautiful models, as he said in the interview. The sample of five covers of Imaginative Tales and drawings to Other Worlds and Imagination show that probably he was telling the true.
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The American illustrator John Held Jr. is most known his several works for cover of magazines like Judge, College Humor and Life. In addition to his archetypical flapper illustrations, during the same time Held also did cartoons in a 19th century woodcut style, in a bit of satirical nostalgia.
His other works included woodcut cartoons and faux maps to The New Yorker and comics. Merely Margy is one his creations: it started as a cartoon and become a comics in 1930.
His cheerful works were the subject of a delightful post at ASIFA Pinups: John Held Jr.. It's illustrated with few of his covers to Life and illustrations to articles. His pin-ups aren't the kind of pin-up I enjoy, per example the gorgeous woman illustrated by Alberto Vargas, that was also the subject of other ASIFA post (Playboy's Alberto Vargas - NSFW). However, his illustrations are remarkable and I enjoyed them. According to Stephen Worth, His style and subject matter defined the "Jazz Age" of the 1920s.
More about him here, here, here, here.
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Through the magical lens of the photographer Viva Van Story, the old golden times of pin-ups images still alive. Her timeless bright images show us a burlesque universe of naughty and sexy women. Her nostalgic cheerful pictures with vibrating colours make of her portfolio site a worth place to visit. BTW, it contains some NSFW pictures.
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The twins Vera and Barbara Duffy, aka "Gemelas Poubelles", aka "Les Maids Mecontentes", and most known as Fifi and Bibi Poubelle are burlesque performers and luchardoras. They starred a series of pictures as French maids, luchadoras, in the dream land and films. It's just a small part of their site. One of the nice pages to explore is Les Luchardoras that has a vast collection of pictures of their performances at Lucha Va VOOM! and other events. (via Pez)
PS.: just a funny curiosity: the pretty French word poubelle means trash can.
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Pin-ups are always pretty and give a much better look to this blog. That's why I needed to post new illustrations of lovely girls. After several posts of George Petty & Alberto Vargas it was time to post about the third best known of the Art Deco era pin-up artists, Enoch Bolles.
Bolles was a versatile illustrator who also worked extensively in the advertising industry, creating hundreds of attractive color illustrations for products ranging from bread to cigarettes. His most widely reproduced advertising illustration is the "Windy Girl" for Zippo lighters.
According to American Art Archives, which has an extensive gallery with images of his works, he worked exclusively as a cover artist, painting oils for Film Fun, Screen Romances, Stolen Sweets, Gay Book, Judge, Titter, Cupid's Capers, Live Stories, Tattle Tales, Gay Parisienne and other magazines.
I wasn't the first to remind about the fantastic work of Bolles this week. IWR posted about him before, pointing to the Flickr set to the Bolles biggest fan. He uploaded thirty nine not so know covers and other illustrations of Bolles with a very good definition. Few more illustrations at this page.
More Art Deco era pin-up artists: Vintage Pin-Up Calendars, George Petty & Alberto Vargas, George Petty's Ridgid Tools Calendars, Erotic Art & Pinup gallery, The Pin-up Page, The Painted Anvil, Italian pin-ups site, Erotic Art and Pin-ups for Christmas.
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