Berlin’s tradition
of night life is not new to anyone.
Highlighted today is the fabulous
Queerlesque
Magazine, full of information about
queer shows, complete with a blog, images,
videos and of course, show dates. So if
you chance upon Berlin, don’t forget to
get updated with the hottest trany
burlesque in town!
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Women have often shown up in
revolutionary images. What is a woman’s role
in the revolution? Today The Pinup Blog
explores revolutionary pinups!
Visual art has always had the ability to
concretely represent abstract concepts, while
still leaving room for debate. Revolution is
one of those abstract concepts.
Interestingly, women have been one theme
utilized in order to interpret the many faces
of the concept of revolution. Today, we take
a look at the different female
representations of revolutions.
In search for pinup
beauty, I landed on
this terrific show-don’t-tell post at
LiveJournal. The post showcases some of the
most common trends in contemporary pinup art;
fantasy, neo-realism, photoshopped beauty and
interesting trending towards classic
expressionism. Take some time off for this
safe for work compilation.
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The inspiring burlesque
artist, Tiara
the Merch Girl, is also a prolific
writer on issues of race in the world of
burlesque, at Racialicious ( “a
[fantastic] blog about the intersection of
race and pop culture” ). I was ecstatic to
find The Pinup Blog mentioned in her
article,
Who’s a Pretty Burlesque Princess
Now. The article asks
significant questions about the diversity of
burlesque and its importance as an art-form
and innovator. Take a few minutes off for
some burlesqu-shop-talk, to read this
phenomenal post.
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What’s the fierce attraction to Hamish
Blakely’s stunning piece, Duel?
Last Thursday, we were introduced to the
brilliant work of Hamish Blakely. Though
Blakely creates many beautiful and complex
images and I recommend checking them all out,
the image we’re about to discuss, Duel, was
the most striking, to me, and I couldn’t wait
to examine it more deeply. So without further
ado!
Hamish
Blakely is the brilliant artist who
created this and many other meticulous and
dramatic paintings. I find these paintings
are the graphic
definition of “erotic”, with lighting,
composition and all possible effects that
create an unforgettable scene. Of course
Blakely’s subjects add more diversity to
the pinup hall of fame, which makes me
love his work even more. Pinups of
substance; Check them all out!
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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is Ryan
McGinley’s latest collection of portraits.
While sex is definitely an issue that’s
evident in McGinley’s work, there are many
human issues that it evokes. Everybody Knows
This Is Nowhere is a beautiful collection
that shows the diversity of young people,
rarely shown in the mainstream channels.
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“Fool” is surprisingly a very common word
in love songs. This year, the first of April
takes a serious turn with 10 gorgeous and
diverse pinups that sing about fools.
Today’s top 10 April Fools pinups have little
in common. They come in all shapes, colors
and sizes and sing in various styles and
genres. All of them, however, have phenomenal
talent and all will be singing songs that
have the word “fool” in them. Enjoy the show!
#10 Aretha Franklin - Runnin’ Out of
Fools
We start with the 1964 classic, Runnin’ Out
of Fools, with a young and sweet, but very
mature Aretha Franklin. It’s always
fascinating to see the alternative images
sold at the time to the public and better
yet, through an incredible performance, like
this one.
A friend sent me
Susie Bright’s fascinating sexual
politics blog. I admit, I had to go
through the gorgeously sexy pictures
(like this ridiculously pulp cover for
Orwell’s 1984) before I surfed it for
the articles. A fine addition to my
sidebar collection. A good read with
loads of eye candy for the vintage
lovers.
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The “exotic” fantasy has always existed
in the pinup realm and long before. The Pinup
Blog takes a look at the social aspects of
one of its favorite fantasies.
I love the diversity that’s offered in the
pinup world. Beautiful images are produced
with the assistance of cultural symbols in
clothing and accessories and, of course, the
diversity of the models themselves. I touched
on this subject in
my article about Palestinian pinups.
Rather than repeat what could have made a
great opening for this article, I’d like to
start with this whimsical, clever and
beautiful young woman, Natalie, who’s totally
an “exotic” pinup girl of her times.
The breasts are lopsided and frightening,
the nipples are turned at strange angles, the
hips and bum are exaggerated, and the cute
button up nose is pushed upwards and
distorted. Lisa Yuskavage gleefully mocks the
male fantasy.
Traditional pin-up
artwork may rest somewhere between the
border of illustration and pornography,
but many modern artist are trying to
help push the genre towards a more fine
art end. Pin-ups by definition are
created for mass consumption, able to be
posted up and viewed by a large
audience. The most classic images are
those of beautiful young women posed
suggestively to draw the consumer into
buying an array of products and
services.
In 2007 the Mildred Lane
Kemper Art Museum held an exhibition,
Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of
American Art and Popular Culture. This
Lichtenstein piece is what’s left of it
visually, but for you literary types,
there’s also this fascinating article
about the exhibition. This is definitly
one I’m sorry I missed.
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What will they think
of next?! Found this random pinup poster
at the the lovely retro blog, Bedazzled.
Some great puzzling finds, such as this
one. Take a look and have a laugh at the
past’s expense
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Young, gifted, black and smoking hot!
Classic African American Pinups!
Young, gifted and black, in a time where just
being so was an act of resistance. This
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, The Pinup Blog
would like to count down it’s top 10 classic
African American Pinups. Women who didn’t
have it easy and are now finally coming into
some hard-earned fame.
#10 Victoria Spivey
Blues singer and songwriter Victoria Spivey
took part in the Soundie revolution, when she
was cast by film director King Vidor, in his
first talking film, Hallelujah!. She would
continue taking roles in films throughout the
1930’s and 1940’s, but focused on her music
throughout her life.
The Pinup Blog is ecstatic to create a
tribute to the Gibson Girl. And it’s about
time, too!
By the end of the
19th
century, Charles Dana Gibson conjured up
the “Gibson Girl”. The Gibson Girl, in a
sense, was a byproduct of Gibson’s
satire work, but her beauty overpowered
the American audience and she soon
became the first national standard for
feminine beauty, in America. Her
distinct style made her iconic, and her
signature big hair and hourglass figure
are easily recognizable.
Loads of vintage fun at
Retrospace (newest
addition to the sidebar). Be it music,
television, movies, or those silly ads
from way back when, Retrospace covers it
all. Good humored and very diverse, go
have a look, and enjoy the special
Christmasy surroundings, too!
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Is an icon different than an object? Does
a contemporary female pinup artist create
differently than a classic female pinup
artist?
Last time I’ve
analyzed a specific pinup piece it was
Zoë Mozert’s Bubbles. I was looking to
see what a female pinup artist does
differently than male pinup artists. In
Mozert’s case, we came to the banal gender
outlook, in which women portray women in a
soft manner, and yet still, as typical of the
genre, the woman in the image was
objectified. Today we look at radically
different Olivia de Berardinis and her piece
Belle Du Jour (1987).
Line, Blot, Shape, Texture and
Pattern
Once again, we start at the
basics. And again we talk about the fact that
the lines in pinup art are usually
suggestive- the meeting of two color
surfaces, creates the illusion of a line.
This, of course, creates the realism, so
typical of the genre. There are, however, the
white lines in the background, which seem to
serve as a pattern. These lines have a
compositional importance that we’ll get back
to later on, but also seem to serve as a
design element, hinting of Art Nouveau, which
is quite typical in de Berardinis’ work. The
straight, vertical lines conjure up guitar
strings, and- in conjuncture- the wavy lines
may remind us of music, loosely conversing
with abstract greats such as Paul Klee and
Wassily Kandinsky.
Blots are also rendered softly, in order to
create the illusion of reality. But unlike
Zoë Mozert’s piece, de Berardinis’ work has
sharp edges that rarely blend into one
another. Something we’ll get back to in the
lighting section.
The history of Hollywood
porn, all on one page! Bright Lights
film journal features
The Wages of Skin: The Irrepressible Rise of
All-American Smut, by John Minson. A
thorough account of how 1970’s pornography
came to be. A fascinating essay about a
fascinating subject. (AND there are some
pictures, for all you avid Playboy “readers”,
too. )
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First impressions matter, and as film
makers know, one way the ultimate way to make
a woman attractive, is to give her a
dramatic, well produced entrance.
When a
sexy woman enters the room, for the first
time in a film, she can’t just come in.
Sensuous close ups and leering long shots
must be exercised to their fullest,
preferably with a singing number and over the
top sexual innuendo. Today we take a look at
gorgeous women first appearing on the screen
and the men that gawk at them.
Uma Thurman as Venus - Renaissance
Pinup
It seems appropriate to start with the mother
of all desirable women, Venus. In The
Adventures of Baron Munchausen, a fresh faced
Uma Thurman makes for one of the most
ethereal and soft entrances in cinema.
Heavily based on Botticelli’s version of
venus, the painting comes alive with sound
and motion, leaving the audience and the men
struck by a pure, but not un-sensual beauty
of a time long ago.
Molly
Kiely,
author ofDiary
of a Dominatrix,
is an in-your-face underground comics
artist and illustrator. I find her and her
work (in no particular order) fascinating,
cheeky and devilishly sexy. She’s got a
lot to say, so here’s some of it:
Everyone ought to have a colourful past
(and, ideally, a colourful present), and
mine is being an unrepentant pornographer.
I've heard all the criticism about
pornography that there is -- so boring. My
sexually explicit work is not declasse or
moronic, and I maintain that I am a kickass
feminist. In the words of one of my
admirers, my work is "seditious" and
"undermines the paradigm of Lonely Guys
Comic Porn."
And on that note, check her out!
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Sexy female
pin ups have been part of the Sci-Fi
fantasy genre since it’s creation.
Monthly magazine in the 30’s 40’s and
50’s feathered sexy half dressed woman
on their covers, usually fighting some
sort of horrible monster.
For most of the 20thcentury, the
sci-fi fantasy genre was male dominated, and
female roles were usually confined to the
generic female roles- the sexy babe or the
damsel in distress. While Tolkien and Asimov
had some more feminist female roles-
likeEowynand Dr.Susan
Calvin, those
characters where few and far in between.
Most female characters where for show, the
love interest of the brave male hero, the
sexy temptress etc.
Halloween is coming up and it’s time to
get horrifically sexy with a look at the
pinups of horror television (and one movie).
And ask a few questions about what it all
means?
Lust and fear come
together in the horror entertainment
industry. Basically, where there’s a
scary monster, you’ll find a beautiful
lady, making for a good star-crossed
lovers tale. Many times, however, you’ll
find the lady is actually the monster,
claiming archaic ideas that a woman’s
lust is a dark desire that will consume
you. All this and so much more
allegories, in The Pinup Blog’s
Halloween special.
Whether you’re an aspiring burlesque starlet,
or just want to shimmy & shake at your
leaser, Amazon is a great place to start a
burlesque music collection. Above, a few fine
finds.
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The Glasgow based alternative rock band, The
Fratellis, are all kinds of retro. From their
sound, to their costumes to the video
Flathead. Paying homage to the classic pinup,
and having a go at the classic rock chick.
Mild head banging and good cheer all around.
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The female Elvis Presley, the Queen of
Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson rocked like no
other woman. With a raspy voice and done up
finger nails, she’s a spunky blast from the
past, I thought you’d all enjoy.
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Making art in pasties is no joking
matter, but it is a lot of laughs.
Burlesque was
always more about tease than strip. I looked
far and wide and found that many burlesque
artists take it a notch higher, with more
than raunch in mind. I also found some
fantastic pieces in “family” variety shows
that aren’t considered burlesque per se, but
would have a huge audience in the burlesque
crowd. It’s artsy, it’s fun, it’s full of
thought, it’s sexy, it’s burlesque!
They’re fierce, they rock, they rap,
they’re retro, they are the diverse women of
Indie Rock!
From the poppish Pipettes, to the rapping
M.I.A, to the rocking Peaches, I bring you a
list of the fierce and divers ladies of
contemporary Indie rock. Though each act has
her unique style and statement, I can’t help
but reminisce of the days of 1980’s Blondie,
who seems to be the spiritual mother to many
of these ladies of Indie.
What happens when
the “oriental” depicts the “oriental”?
When Japanese pinup artist, Hajime Sorayama,
decides to depict an Arab erotic
fantasy, you get the fantastically
eclectic image to the left. I’ve never
seen this painting before and decided to
post, as I found it striking and it
immediately invoked my curiosity. No
doubt this is a beautiful piece, very
sensitively drawn with an eye for detail
and a wink at Sci-Fi. My initial
question isn’t really answered, but it
lingers in the mind for thought. A
little weekend intellectual stimuli for
you
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Many great finds
this week. I’d like to introduce you to
this fine nude art blog, Univers
d'Artistes (new on the sidebar). It’s
not pinup per se, but just look at
this charming by-the-way nudity, to your
left! A collective blog of nude artists
(don’t get cute! the art is
nude), Univers d'Artistes sports a versatile
collection of nude photography, in infinite
styles and formats, and also gives room for
the artists to talk about their work. It’s an
intimate peak into an intimate world.
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Illustration is without
a doubt a fine art, and that’s exactly
what American Art
Archives (newest on the sidebar) is
saying. A beautiful and vast collection of
illustration from yesteryear. It’s not all
pinups, but even a painting of a couple
has at least one woman in it. Online since 1998 American
Art Archives is a delight for Americana
lovers. Hours upon hours of happy
surfing to all!
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If your love of pinups is strictly vintage,
you’ll love Art of
Teasing (newest on the sidebar). A
beautiful collection of vintage ads,
prints and pulp covers. Just images,
quick loading, almost like flipping
through a magazine... Sans articles
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What does Elvgren’s girl next door have
to do with Masuimi Max’s tattoos? It’s all a
web of pinupology. Watch the evolution as it
happens!
The pinup girl
evolution isn't, a linear one. Like most
genres of art, each school would
interpret it differently, geography
would change the aesthetics, and post
modernism- and much more recently- the
pluralism of the internet would implode
any possibility of linearism. My goal
then, in this article, is not to create
a time line, but to follow the
evolutionary branching out of the rare
and beautiful species-The pinup.
Newest addition to
the sidebar, the humble Sex in Art gives
props to artists who talk about sex,
through their art. In their own words:
“Sex is a main topic of exploration for many
talented artists from many different skill
sets. The more we researched the more
inspired we were by how the topic of sex
(which for many is only discussed behind
cupped hands in low voices) could be so
prolific in the creation of art.”
Updated every day, it’s a great way to start
your morning!
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I’m a few months late for the party, but I
thought this was a fascinating cultural
phenomena. In the world of Second Life, you
can find all kinds of virtual
communities. So if you’re a
Second-Lifing retro buff, you might want
to check out Retrology:
Retrology is Second Life's premiere
Retro Themed Shopping and Entertainment
destination. Featuring the fabulous Pin Ups
Night Club, The Mistral Theatre, Killing
Moon Cafe, and Fabulous Shopping To Delight
Guys and Gals Alike. Grab a scooter and zip
around the Sim, enjoy the sights, events,
and party with the nicest crowd in SL.
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Palestinian women come in all shapes,
colors and sizes, with different beliefs,
different religions and different ways of
life. This isn’t a well known fact, yet. In
this article I’d like to look at the beauty
from within as well as from without.
I can’t ignore the fact that I’m Israeli and
pro-Palestinian and the reactions this
article may bring my way (or just this
sentence). Nevertheless, it’s
important to me to create a bridge, where
walls are being biult- around Palestinians
and Arabs and Muslims in general. Most
important to me, is to show off, to people of
the West, the beauty and individuality of
each woman I feature. You can’t group
Palestinians into crude stereotypes, as you
can’t group any other group of people. If you
do it, you miss out on the beautiful
diversity of the world.
“She was smart. That was a trick that she
tried to keep from people.” ~Ryan
O’neal
Farrah Fawcett dies
at the way too early age of 62. A woman
who would present herself simpler than
she really was, and was profoundly
human. There was a real person behind
those pearly whites, and I’d like to
take you behind the pinup.
Father’s day is coming up and in that
context, it’s a great time to talk about that
ever-so-taboo fetish:
Lolita.
Nabokov wasn’t really talking about
pedophilia, but the shock value seems to
overshadow the existential value of the
novel, Lolita. The cultural significance is
found between the pages of the dictionary:
“Main Entry: Lo·li·ta
Pronunciation: \lō-ˈlē-tə\
Function: noun
Etymology: from Lolita, character in the
novel Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
Date: 1959
: a precociously seductive girl”
And also found on celluloid (as seen above).
Most people find it disconcerting that grown
men may feel attracted to young ladies. Or
that grown women act like little girls, in
order to attract grown men. As a result,
culture has given rise to some interesting
phenomena.
If you’re looking
for vintage gems, CineBeats (Newest on
the sidebar) is the place to go. Amidst
the beautiful 1960’s and 70’s vintage
images, you’ll find the intelligent and
humorous writing of Kimberly Lindbergs.
The design is pleasant, the information
unique and the pinups! Oh the pinups
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I usually make my own magic lists, but I
stumbled upon The Huffington Post’s Lesley M.
M. Blume’s “6 Of The World's Most Beautiful
Older Women” and just couldn’t agree
more.
I don’t know if
I’m getting older, or older women are getting
more beautiful, but without a doubt, today,
there are numerous beautiful women who
respect their aging nature. Lesley M. M.
Blume, who wrote this list, said it
beautifully:
“...these ladies know better than to try
to look like you're 20 when you're 50. The
real trick: to look like a beautiful
50-year-old when you're 50.”
I loved Blume’s list and thought
it was right on. So in the name of
non-plastic aging and the appreciation of the
diversity of all that’s beautiful in this
world, here’s the embellished
list of 6 Of The World's Most Beautiful Older
Women:
#1 Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren, 64,
always had guts, when it came to
choosing her roles, but also taking off
her clothes. From the sweet and innocent
young lass in The
Age of Consent to to the sultry and
depressed wife of a sadistic tyrant in
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her
Lover to the tough and introverted
detective on Prime Suspect, Mirren always
carries herself with a very attractive
dignity. And of course she’s the perfect
woman to open this list, as part of the cast
of Calendar Girls:
There’s not much information about the
culture blog, Private (newest
addition to the sidebar). It’s
authors are apparently a Denmark based
band that goes by the same name. Although
Private is not strictly a pinup blog, once
in a few posts a fascinating pinup will
show up. Such is
the image to the left, from the
controversial film, The Night Porter. So if
you’re out in search of high alternative
culture, look no further!
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Nothing like a hula girl to show off your
expensive tastes. It’s the top 10 house decor
pinups!
Sometimes you
just want to show off how much class you’ve
got. No better way to do it than a half-naked
lady as a conversation piece So, in honor of all my
fellow cheese lovers, I’ve piled up some
lovely, retro decor pieces.
#10 Vintage Tin Signs
Nothing says
“class” like a tin sign. Personally, I prefer
my tin signs with vintage pinup images.
That’s where Jack
and Friends come in. It’s a lovely
world of vintage and retro home decor
gifts, and there’s an extensive
collection of classic cheesecake tin
signs. Some Elvgren, some Driben, some
Bolles and a few anonymous beauties as
well.
Newest addition to the sidebar, Walk on the
Mild side is a magnificent collection of
vintage photography, primitively enhanced to
a colorful feast for the eyes. Enjoy the
cheese of yesteryear!
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An interesting
vintage find is this site dedicated
to little-known artist Kolomon Moore.
Moore lived in the 1930’s and drew much of
the decadent city life. From the glamor
piece, to the left, to shoddy
brothel scenes. Not all pieces are as
well executed (or as safe for work) as
this one, but it’s definitely an
fascinating time capsule.
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Repulsed by portrayal of women as used in
Cinco de Mayo ecards, The Pinup Blog went on
a hunt for Sexy Mexican culture with self
respect.
It’s a little hard
to balance my feminism with my love of
pinups, but sometimes I’ve got to say
“no”. Usually when a holiday pops up, I
just Google “sexy Christmas/Halloween”
to start my search. The results for
“sexy Cinco De Mayo” kind of grossed me
out. I’d expect stereotypical images
that identify a culture, like the
glittery myspace retro pinup to the
left- the attention to detail (in what
must have been the original vintage
piece) shows a love and respect towards
it. But there’s a thin red line, between
that and the booty
shaking, “booz me up” image, next to
it. So I decided to celebrate Cinco de
Mayo by celebrating some beautiful,
respectful Mexican pinups.
In a time of great divide, I think it’s a
great opportunity to create bonds rather
than gaps. As an Israeli, having a Tunisian
Muslim friend, has made me that much more
appreciative of our similarities. My friend
sent me the video to the left, because she
wanted to share with me something she
loves. Once watching this little
collection, it dawned on me that the
ancient art and culture of Middle Eastern
belly dancing is very directly responsible
for American burlesque! Wether it’s the
tussles, the flirty nuances, or the act of
a woman in a skimpy outfit, skillfully
shaking her thang- the similarities are
unavoidable. And of course, you can’t
ignore the impact of 40’s American fashion,
on these ladies. I mean, one of these girls
is a dead ringer for Rita Hayworth! So in
honor of sexy women in other cultures, I
give you the belly dance.
Add
to Spotlight
The inspiring burlesque
artist, 
Traditional pin-up
artwork may rest somewhere between the
border of illustration and pornography,
but many modern artist are trying to
help push the genre towards a more fine
art end. Pin-ups by definition are
created for mass consumption, able to be
posted up and viewed by a large
audience. The most classic images are
those of beautiful young women posed
suggestively to draw the consumer into
buying an array of products and
services.
In 2007 the Mildred Lane
Kemper Art Museum held an exhibition,
Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of
American Art and Popular Culture. This
Lichtenstein piece is what’s left of it
visually, but for you literary types,
there’s also this fascinating article
about the exhibition. This is definitly
one I’m sorry I missed.
Loads of vintage fun at
The history of Hollywood
porn, all on one page! Bright Lights
film journal features 
Illustration is without
a doubt a fine art, and that’s exactly
what 
