Category
frivolity
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07.29.09Thriller Zombies video
View on Vimeo.I recently posted a still photo I shot from the Thriller Zombie Walk held in Wicker Park last weekend. Here’s a short film (work in progress) on the event. Thanks to The Goblins for the soundtrack music, and thanks to Martin and Lindsay (the Zombie Walk organizers) and all of the spectacular, gorgeous zombies.
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01.12.09Field & Stream’s Bigfoot photo contest
You can view the winning entries from Field & Stream’s Bigfoot “trail cam” photo contest here. The photographs reveal fascinating and heretofore unknown aspects of the elusive and furry humanoid’s behavior. Here are a couple inspired shots by Greeley Colorado’s Erik Stenbakken–the top photo is the contest winner.
Via Field & Stream. Photo: Erik Stenbakken
Via Field & Stream. Photo: Erik Stenbakken
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11.17.08pinup test
OK, to make up for my last post featuring semi-abstract pictures of restaurant furniture, here’s some cheesecake from a recent test/portfolio shoot with the vivacious and effervescent Jen Fisher:
Jenny Fisher. Photo: Jim Newberry
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10.23.08“Eastern Shame Girl” pulp novel
"Eastern Shame Girl" pulp novel cover ©1947 Avon Book Company
While browsing at Myopic Books, my favorite neighborhood bookstore, I stumbled upon this gem–the pulp novel, “Eastern Shame Girl.” Here’s a peek at the steamy contents, from the inside flap:
Delightful and Exciting
Here is a new and different reading experience. In this volume are assembled some of the best of the classic tales of China and the Far East. Written in a graceful and beautiful style, each story is redolent of the exotic excitement and forbidden pleasures of the Orient.
The title story, Eastern Shame Girl, recounts the love of a rich young man for a girl of doubtful virtue, and what transpires when he becomes her lover and takes her away with him. The Counterfeit Old Woman tells the adventures of a handsome young man who dons female garb and introduces himself into those quarters usually reserved for women alone. The Temple of the Esteemed Lotus is the strange account of how the women who came to the temple to pray for a child had their prayers answered in a highly diverting manner.This edition was published in 1947; the book was originally published in 1935 under the much less saucy title, “Chinese Love Tales.” Here’s one of the fantastic inside illustrations:
"Eastern Shame Girl" pulp novel illustration ©1947 Avon Book Company
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10.13.08Cheapskate Halloween costume: Sarah Palin mask
For those of you who like to dress up on Halloween, but are too cheap and/or lazy to come up with an actual costume, you can download a printable Sarah Palin mask from the Chicago Tribune. Joe Biden mask now available as well (although really–whatever your political ideology–does anyone really want to trick or treat dressed as Biden?). McCain and Obama masks promised for later this week.
Sarah Palin mask from the Chicago Tribune. Drawing by Rick Tuma.
And don’t forget to vote!! Many states allow early voting starting today. Fellow independent-minded, progressive Chicagoans, here’s a ballot guide from IVI-IPO, which you’re permitted to bring with you while you vote (I’m sure you know whom you’d like for POTUS, but how about Water Reclamation District and Cook County Circuit Court?), if you’re so inclined.
