Mildred Loves You!

Back Online at Long Last!

2011-08-14T16:09:00.013+02:00

Well, after lightening bolts caused a power outage that killed my websites last Sunday, I am happy to report that today - an entire week later - I am finally back online again! Hurrah!

(...yes, I know - but I just had to break out the vintage dancing bananas for this one...)

Now it's time to finally finish various website updates I started working on back in June, begin showing The LaLaVox Doodle Diary some love again at last - and maybe even finally manage to influence the movements of the Universe enough so that my MildredLovesYou.com domain is finally (FINALLY!!!) back in working order as well. Wish me luck!

Cheers, LaLaVox

www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html <--- the alternative MildredLovesYou.com address which is taking up the slack until things return to normal (and beyond too - for safety's sake).

Lightening Bolts Killed My Websites!

2011-08-09T09:48:00.008+02:00

My LaLaVoxBox and MildredLovesYou websites are hosted on a server system run by Amazon in Ireland. There was a major power outage on Sunday apparently caused by lightening. Since I am not well versed in server-speak I don't know exactly what's going on at this point, but what I do know is that my website has been offline since Sunday!

http://status.aws.amazon.com/

I don't suppose it matters too much, since I don't run high-powered, financially important sites - and also since I've sort of been on a mental vacation away from my websites and Doodle Diary since our big MildredLovesYou anniversary/birthday bash back in mid-June - but I still find it quite distressing!

I'll post again once service has returned.

Cheers, LaLaVox

The LaLaVox Doodle Diary

Dr. Sketchy's Berlin #18 (The Summertime Session!)

2011-07-30T17:42:00.018+02:00

Ivory Towers and Mildred Mahler have a little reminder for you... ;)

FRIENDS! FANS! BOHEMIANS!

Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School Berlin had a lovely summery outdoor session - our first-ever open-air event - planned for you, but the on-going rain here in Berlin shows no signs of stopping! HOWEVER - we will NOT be canceling because of rain; we will simply be MOVING INSIDE! (Oh, the irony...)

And tomorrow afternoon's indoor (though it was meant to be an outdoor) session will be starring the 3 Graces:

BETTY DYNAMITE, ZORA VIPERAZ, & AMBER VANILLA!!!

With UFO Hawaii spinning the tunes once again!

We hope you'll join us for a very relaxed 3-hour Life Drawing Extravaganza with three extraordinary models, drinks, our ever-popular drawing competitions and grrrrrreat prizes! (Don't forget your Art supplies)

When?
Sunday, July 31st, 2011 2:30-5:30pm (doors open 2:00pm)
Where?
At the WHITE TRASH FAST FOOD RESTAURANT Schönhauser Allee 6-7
How much?
Just measly 10 euros! (Tickets at the door)

Special thanks to our sponsors:
Held Vodka
and
Sara Horwath

Hugs + kisses,
LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com aka
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html *

* p.s.
Unfortunately the www.mildredlovesyou.com domain still remains offline to date, but the new alternative address is taking up the slack until things return to normal (and beyond too - for safety's sake).

Dr. Sketchy's Berlin #17 (The Slightly Offensive Session!)

2011-06-17T18:45:00.011+02:00

Mildred Mahler has a little reminder for you... ;)

FRIENDS! FANS! BOHEMIANS!

Dr Sketchy Berlin gets piggy, with our stars:

FRÄULEIN PLASTIQUE and MAJOR OBNOXIOUS!

And DJ UFO Hawaii will be spinning the tunes!

Again we’ll be offering the usual 3-hour Life Drawing Extravaganza with two extraordinary models, drinks, our ever-popular drawing competitions and grrrrrreat prizes! (Don't forget your Art supplies)

When? June 18th, 2011 2:30-5:30pm (doors open 2:00pm)
Where? At the WHITE TRASH FAST FOOD RESTAURANT Schönhauser Allee 6-7
How much? Just measly 10 euros! (Tickets at the door)

Special thanks to our sponsor:
Held Vodka

We hope, once again, to see you there - in spite of the nice Summer weather!!!! =D

Hugs + kisses,
LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com aka
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html *

p.s. With apologies to Mr. Gil Elvgren...

* p.p.s.
Unfortunately the www.mildredlovesyou.com domain still remains offline to date, but the new alternative address is taking up the slack until things return to normal (and beyond too - for safety's sake).

Mildred Loves You All! - ThankYouThankYouThankYou!!!

2011-06-16T19:26:00.017+02:00

It was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous night!!!!!! I can't thank you all enough for your exceptional, exceptional wonderfulness!!!! I will be blogging more about this soon, but for now I just want to thank everyone who was instrumental in making our MILDRED LOVES PINKY'S PEEPSHOW (and MildredLovesYou.com's 3rd Anniversary, and the best birthday bash I've had since I was 6 years old) evening/night/morning possible!!!! - And to everyone who came and partied with us!!!!! - And to the lovely folks who brought me extra birthday presents in spite of the fact that told them not too!!!!! *sniff!*

Also a big shout-out to Sheila Wolf for her loving review of the night over at her Queerlesque Blog. Those of you who can read German, please go an take a look!

MILDRED LOVES YOU!!!! AND I DO TOO!!!!!!!

Hugs + kisses,
LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com aka
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html *

*Unfortunately the www.mildredlovesyou.com domain still remains offline to date, but the new alternative address is taking up the slack until things return to normal (and beyond too - for safety's sake).

MildredLovesYou.com is Turning Three!

2011-05-28T11:03:00.007+02:00

On June 16th, 2008, I posted the first of our Mildred Loves Pin-Ups (originally The Monday Pin-Up) series. I consider that to have been the birth of MildredLovesYou.com; with the site-under-construction months online before that being the pregnancy of course. ;)

So (as I mentioned here this past Wednesday), on June 16th, 2011 MildredLovesYou.com will be turning three! - although we have in the meantime decided to call it an anniversary rather than a birthday... ;) And we will be starting the party on the eve of this occasion by throwing a wild burlesque bash at Pinky's Peepshow here at the Bassy in Berlin on Wednesday the 15th!

Here are the flyers once again:

And here are some photos and links that will give you a closer look at our illustrious line-up of performers!

Burlesque Performances by:

MAD KATE and ANITA DRINK!
www.alfabus.us
Mad Kate via Kamakazi Queens
Mad Kate via Bonaparte
Anita Drink @ FaceBook
Anita Drink via Eat Lipstick

CLEA CUTTHROAT!
Clea Cutthroat (Mollie Black) @ MySpace
Clea Cutthroat @ Subexistance
Clea Cutthroat via Eat Lipstick
Clea Cutthroat via Bonaparte

LADY LOU!
ladylou-burlesque.com
Lady Lou @ FaceBook
Lady Lou @ MySpace

HEDOLUXE!
www.hedoluxe.com
Hedoluxe @ MySpace
Hedoluxe @ FaceBook

Hedoluxe guest-starring in MildredLovesYou.com Pin-Up #32!

JOEY LOVE!
(wearing eye-popping creations by JOCHEN KRONIER!)
www.kronier.com
Joey Love @ MySpace
Joey Love @ Model Mayhem
Jochen Kronier @ FaceBook

Joey Love guest-starring in MildredLovesYou.com Pin-Up #34!

Hosts: FEZ WRECKER and LALAVOX!

Tune-Spinning by UFO HAWAII and CHRISTOPHER ROSE!

Live Music by THE GNAGNOS...

...featuring (in alphabetical order) -
LaLaVox, Trixie Trainwreck (aka Trinity Sarratt),
UFO Hawaii, and Yukita Bonita!

If you are within shouting distance of Berlin, Germany on June 15th, 2011 then JOIN US THERE!!!!!!!!!

Hugs + kisses,
LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com aka
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html *
The LaLaVox Doodle Diary (updated more or less daily)

*Unfortunately the www.mildredlovesyou.com domain still remains offline to date, but the new alternative address is taking up the slack until things return to normal (and beyond too - for safety's sake). I am desperately hoping that this can be straightened out at last very, very soon - especially with our 3rd Anniversary just right around the corner!!!

FaceBook Prudery + An Upcoming 3rd Anniversary Party

2011-05-25T10:48:00.022+02:00

Yesterday morning, when I went to view the current goings-on at FaceBook via our Mildred Mahler profile there, I was greeted with this bit of unpleasantness:

I see... Well... Candy-Box Rosie is actually wearing pasties and panties in this pin-up (yes, they are in pink, I know - but still), so I don't think it strictly literally violates any FaceBook prudery policies.

But I'm not the rebellious sort who enjoys going out of my way to prove a point. And I have neither the stomach nor the time for further aggravations or any ridiculous battles at the moment. So I have simply removed this image from my "Pin-Ups and Other Goodies" album at Face Book and locked that album down so that it is no longer completely publicly viewable.

Fine for me, really. It means that there will be a surprise or two for anyone who actually takes the extra effort to look at these pin-ups at our website rather than at Mildred's FaceBook profile. ...And - by the way - who out there was enough of an uptight busy-body to complain in the first place?!?...

While we're on the subject of Social Network Prudery, I might as well mention that a couple of years ago, when I was in the process of uploading our pin-ups to Mildred's now woefully neglected MySpace page, the police-bots there refused the above pin-up, and this one:

The other pin-ups were accepted without a fuss. I guess Candy-Box Rosie and Coco Delish are just too openly voluptuous in these two pin-ups. ;)

And now on to more pleasant news...

Our apparently shocking MildredLovesYou.com website will be celebrating its 3-Year Anniversary on June 16th. To kick this event off in style, we will be throwing a wild bash in conjunction with Pinky's Peepshow here in Berlin on June 15th (which is a Wednesday). Here are the flyers for said event:

I will be posting about this again soon, with links to the various artists' pages and such. And I hope I will be forgiven for adding a little reminder about this as a p.s. at the end of every single other blog-entry I post between now and then too. :P ;)

Hugs + kisses,
LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com aka
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html *
The LaLaVox Doodle Diary (updated more or less daily)

* p.s.
Unfortunately the www.mildredlovesyou.com domain still remains offline to date, but the new alternative address is taking up the slack until things return to normal (and beyond too - for safety's sake).

Dr. Sketchy's Berlin #16 (The Black Mass Session!)

2011-05-20T12:23:00.022+02:00

Mildred Mahler has a little reminder for you... ;)

(click here to see this reminder in a larger size at our website)

FRIENDS! FANS! BOHEMIANS!

Dr Sketchy gets occult! Let's celebrate a black mass with our dignified high priests:

CLEA CUTTHROAT & LULU RAFANO

(BONAPARTE DIVA SQUAD)

With resident angel, Anne Smith aka DJ Ansi, spinning the tunes!

Again we’ll be offering the usual 3-hour Life Drawing Extravaganza with two extraordinary models, drinks, our ever-popular drawing competitions and grrrrrreat prizes! (Don't forget your Art supplies)

When?
April 30th 2011 2:30-5:30pm (doors open 2:00pm)
Where?
At the WHITE TRASH FAST FOOD RESTAURANT Schönhauser Allee 6-7
How much?
Just measly 10 euros! (Tickets at the door)

Special thanks to our sponsors:
Held Vodka & Modern Graphics Comicshop

We hope to see you there - in spite of the nice Spring weather!!!! And, yes - I know I'm repeating what I said last time - but seriously! The folks who came to our Cave Woman Session in spite of the lovely weather, were very glad they did! =D

Hugs + kisses,
LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com aka
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html *
The LaLaVox Doodle Diary (updated more or less daily)

* p.s.
Unfortunately the www.mildredlovesyou.com domain still remains offline to date, but the new alternative address is taking up the slack until things return to normal (and beyond too - for safety's sake).

Dr. Sketchy's Berlin #15 (The Cavewoman Session!)

2011-04-28T14:03:00.023+02:00

Mildred Mahler and Twiggy Torpedo have a little reminder for you... ;)

FRIENDS! FANS! BOHEMIANS!

Dr Sketchy Berlin proudly presents a true legend of the German Burlesque Scene

TALLULAH FREEWAY

+ Special Guest MOTHER THERESA

with DJ UFO Hawaii spinning the tunes!

Again we’ll be offering the usual 3-hour Life Drawing Extravaganza with two extraordinary models, drinks, our ever-popular drawing competitions and grrrrrreat prizes! (Don't forget your Art supplies)

When? April 30th 2011 2:30-5:30pm (doors open 2:00pm)
Where? At the WHITE TRASH FAST FOOD RESTAURANT Schönhauser Allee 6-7
How much? Just measly 10 euros! (Tickets at the door)

Special thanks to our sponsors:
Held Vodka & Modern Graphics Comicshop

We hope to see you there - in spite of the nice Spring weather!!!! =D

Hugs + kisses,
LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com aka
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html *
The LaLaVox Doodle Diary (updated more or less daily)

* p.s.
Unfortunately the www.mildredlovesyou.com domain still remains offline to date, but the new alternative address is taking up the slack until things return to normal (and beyond too - for safety's sake).

Easter Greetings (Extra Goody #9)

2011-04-24T15:36:00.007+02:00

Mildred Loves Extra Goodies
(A Grabbag of Miscellaneous Thises and Thatses)

Extra Goody #9 - Easter Greetings

Hugs + kisses,
LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com aka
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html *
The LaLaVox Doodle Diary (updated more or less daily)

* p.s.
Unfortunately the www.mildredlovesyou.com domain still remains offline to date, but the new alternative address is taking up the slack until things return to normal (and beyond too - for safety's sake).

Le Fête Fatale no.8 / Dr. Sketchy's Berlin no.15 / Site News

2011-04-23T12:28:00.019+02:00

Tonight Lola la Voix will be partying here:

Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin is amongst the sponsors for this event, by the way...

And speaking of Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin...

Next Saturday afternoon, on April 30th, I will be co-hosting this:

FRIENDS! FANS! BOHEMIANS!

Dr Sketchy Berlin proudly presents a true legend of the German Burlesque Scene

TALLULAH - "The Ivory Woman" - FREEWAY

+ Special Guest MOTHER THERESA

Again we’ll be offering the usual 3-hour Life Drawing Extravaganza with two extraordinary models, drinks, our ever-popular drawing competitions and grrrrrreat prizes! (Don't forget your Art supplies)

When? April 30th 2011 2:30-5:30pm (doors open 2:00pm)
Where? At the WHITE TRASH FAST FOOD RESTAURANT Schönhauser Allee 6-7
How much? Just measly 10 euro! (Tickets at the door)

The flyer doesn't indicate this at all, but April 30th will be our CAVE WOMAN SESSION! Ooga ooga! And DJ U.F.O. Hawaii (aka Künstler Treu) will be spinning the tunes. ...Mildred and I will be saying a bit more about this very soon. ;)

And now for the promised site news:

Unfortunately the www.mildredlovesyou.com domain still remains offline to date, but the new alternative address is taking up the slack until things return to normal (and beyond too - for safety's sake).

In more pleasant news, Mildred and I will be updating again at last tomorrow with a nice Easter Greeting...

...And I know I promised a cooperative drawing with a good buddy as a new Extra Goody soonish in my last blog post, but time didn't allow. So it'll have to wait until after the Easter-Greeting Extra Goody. ;)

Hugs + kisses,
LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com aka
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html
The LaLaVox Doodle Diary (updated more or less daily)

Doodle Diary / Pictoplasma / Site News

2011-04-06T12:24:00.035+02:00

For my birthday last year, I gave myself a 2nd blog. This 2nd blog was meant to get me doodling again (publicly that is), but it lay unused (except for the birthday post itself) until the end of this just newly past March. I am happy to report that I've finally gotten it going again at last, and that I've posted a weeks' worth of new Creature Doodles over at The LaLaVox Doodle Diary in the meantime:

With Intent to Doodle....
Doodling Again: Day 2
Doodling Again: Day 3
Doodling Again: Day 4
Doodling Again: Day 5
Doodling Again: Day 6
Doodling Again: Day 7

And since the Pictoplasma Festival starts today, and since my Doodles have a connection to Pictoplasma from way back (some of my Creature Doodles were featured at the old version of the website and in the first Pictoplasma book, published in 2001) I've also left a nice post called Pictoplasma-Induced Trance States over there as well. ;)

But now to some actual "Mildred Loves You" news...

My mildredlovesyou.com domain remains offline to date. The entire content of the site is now (and will continue to be) located at the new address, but I am planning to get my mildredlovesyou.com domain going again too at some point. I just need to organize a new domain host. To do that, however, I'll need to write a number of emails that I haven't managed to get to yet. I'll keep you posted.

In more pleasant news, I currently have a new Extra Goody in the works (a cooperative drawing with a good buddy), and hope to get that finished up and posted by next Monday.

I also plan to finally begin continuing the Mildred Loves Pin-Ups series again at last - starting soonish! These Pin-Ups always mean many, many hours of work though, so wish me luck!!!

But I would like to get 4 new Guest-Star pin-ups finished before MildredLovesYou.com's 3rd birthday party on June 15th+16th... We'll see how it goes. Help me out by keeping your fingers crossed!!! ;) :P :* =D

Hugs + kisses,
LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com aka
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html
The LaLaVox Doodle Diary (updated more or less daily)

The MildredLovesYou.com Domain Saga Continues (Day 10)

2011-03-29T15:29:00.021+02:00

Yes indeed; the MildredLovesYou.com Domain Saga is continuing into its 10th day now. And something very fishy is apparently going on over at the company that supposedly hosts my mildredlovesyou.com domain.

I finally got my contact there on the phone again yesterday, and he said he would look into things. The domain has however continued to remain offline. Today he is simply hanging up on me (a different style of hanging up for each of my 3 calls; for call #2 I got to listen to the radio at his desk for a bit). WTF???

So, I have now moved a copy of the entire Mildred Loves You site over to my lalavoxbox.com domain. It's not completely functional yet (there will be broken links and such to be found), but all of the important stuff is already there. Here are the brand-spanking-new alternative addresses:

www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou/lolalavoix.html
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou/loreleivanora.html

It's not really time for a site-relaunch yet, since it will take me a while to edit all of my posts here at the blog so that all of the images will be visible again (and since the site was already in need of a couple of updates anyway), but at least things are partially functional again now! *whew*

And now of course I'm wondering how to get my mildredlovesyou.com domain back!!! If anyone out there has any tips, please let me know!!!

In the meantime, so that this post will have something colorful as decoration, I thought I'd go down memory lane a bit here and embed the "Girl Galleries" video I posted over at YouTube back in 2007. It's a sort of slide-show for my LaLaVoxBox illustration portfolios (including lots of early drawings of Mildred and friends) with some very excellent music by Künstler Treu and Dauerfisch. Here 'tis:

Cheers,
LaLaVox
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

A 4-Legged Mildred in Italy (+ Still Offline; Day 9)

2011-03-28T18:13:00.017+02:00

My friend Julia has returned from a little trip to Sorrento Italy and just sent me this photo:

So I did a bit of Googling to see if I could find the source of this 4-legged, pigtail-wearing Mildred on a T-Shirt. I had no luck in finding her, but I did discover that there is a T-Shirt company out there called Mildred (run by one Uncle Mildred apparently). Uncle Mildred has nothing to do with the 4-legged Mildred T-Shirt in that shop window in Italy though, as far as I can tell. Did the name Mildred become a fad thang while I wasn't looking?...

Oh, and, today is now Day-9 of my mildredlovesyou.com domain being offline. I did finally get someone on the telephone again today, but, hours later, we still remain offline. :( I'll be patient until tomorrow; but then it's telephone time again. If it weren't so much trouble to change all of the direct links to specific pages on the site that I've posted in other places on the net, I'd switch the whole damn thing over to my lalavoxbox.com domain and leave only a redirecting index HTML over at mildredlovesyou.com. Grrrrr! >:(

Cheers,
LaLaVox

p.s. ...a bit of a review of my Mildred, for your viewing pleasure...

Still Offline! >:(

2011-03-24T12:07:00.006+01:00

My brother hosts my websites, and he just did a server switch for these sites over the weekend. This has had no effect on my lalavoxbox.com site, other than making it a bit faster here in Europe. But since the domain name for mildredlovesyou.com is hosted here in Germany, the change in DNS addresses has resulted in mildredlovesyou.com going offline this past Sunday. The site is still there, it's just that no one can see it. The domain host has been alerted, and I was told that the site would go back online Tuesday morning, but it is Thursday now, and we are still offline. My more recent emails have remained completely ignored as far as I can tell (I guess they don't want to be bothered on their week-long coffee break), so all I can do now is hope someone over there will finally take the 15 minutes or so necessary to type in the new DNS addresses. Wish me luck!

a very disgruntled LaLaVox

Valentine's Day Greetings (Extra Goody #8)

2011-02-14T12:14:00.026+01:00

Mildred Loves Extra Goodies
(A Grabbag of Miscellaneous Thises and Thatses)

Extra Goody #8 - Valentine's Day Greetings
(unreleased comic book pages from 2007 revamped for 2011)

Some folks love Valentine's Day. Other's hate it. This burlesque-striptease Valentine's Day Greeting (comic-book style) is meant more for the latter group I suppose - or, rather, for the romantics among us who still can't quite manage to love V'Day.

Blood-splattered hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

p.s.
For those of you who worried, these comic-book pages are about Mildred, not about me... ;)

Happy New Year! (Extra Goody #7 + Mermaid Stuff!)

2011-01-01T15:25:00.046+01:00

Mildred Loves Extra Goodies
(A Grabbag of Miscellaneous Thises and Thatses)

Extra Goody #7 - "Mildred Presents: Lenia - from Carolyn Turgeon's book MERMAID - as a rub-on-tattoo design"

(click this image to see the larger website version)

Lenia will be available as a limited edition rub-on tattoo tucked in between the covers of Carolyn's Turgeon's book MERMAID, which will be going on sale in March of this year! I was delighted when Carolyn asked me to design it for her!

It's also fun for me to know that the artist responsible for another book-promo goody for MERMAID is none other than the legendary Easy-Bake Coven palmist, illustrator, and musician Dame Darcy herself!

I well remember my first encounter with the Dame's work - long ago - in a back corner of the comic book store Grober Unfug here in Berlin. I was fascinated by the dark and scratchy interiors of her comic book MEATCAKE, and was astounded and impressed with their fearless celebration of all things ornate, girlie, and darkly Victorian.

And so here are the main characters of Carolyn's book MERMAID as paper dolls - brought to us all by the ever energetic, enigmatic, and delightfully unapologetic
Dame Darcy!

I got to see Dame Darcy's paper dolls before I finished my tattoo design, by the way - so her take on Lenia - as well as my own style of cartoon pin-up illustrating over at MildredLovesYou.com - informed the Lenia-tattoo's design. I would however, at some point, like to do a less cartoony rendition of Lenia that is closer to the darkly luminous vision of her I had in my head as I read Carolyn's book - just for my own personal pleasure, you see...

In the meantime, here is my rub-on tattoo design once again, this time in the various color-versions I played around with a bit before finishing up the final version...

And here is the splash-page version I did for the entry to Carolyn Turgeon's website. I'm assuming this splash-page will stay there until such time as her next book is released (upon which a new splash-page with the theme of her new book will become necessary of course).

And of course: HAPPY NEW YEAR! - and all the best to all of you in 2011!

...Which brings me to the one-more-thing I wanted to mention to you before saying goodbye again for this time around...

It looks as though 2011 will be The Year of the Mermaid - at least in Carolyn's Turgeon's corner of the world. She has created a blog called "I Am A Mermaid" and has declared her intention to post something mermaidy there regularly all through the year of 2011. Let us all wish her well in this endeavor! She has collected all sorts of delights to shower us with: interviews with multitudes of professional mermaids, mermaid legends and trivia, and assorted other goodies - from all over the world - including an interview with our very own Lorelei Vanora!

Remember:
"Just because you're half a fish doesn't mean you have half a heart."

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Happy Holidays! (Extra Goody #6 + Hedoluxe's Holiday Greetings too)

2010-12-24T16:55:00.018+01:00

Mildred Loves Extra Goodies
(A Grabbag of Miscellaneous Thises and Thatses)

Extra Goody #6 - "Happy Holidays!"

...And credit of course where credit is due; Mildred's holiday outfit and greeting card were directly and unabashedly inspired by and derived from Hedoluxe's greeting card and wonderful Christmas Tree costume!

...Here are some shots from our Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin Winter Session from December 11th, so you can get a better look at this wonderful costume:

And just for fun - here's a little collection of three of Mildred's greeting cards from Christmases past:

Mildred and I hope that you and yours are having a wonderful holiday season!!!
Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Dr. Sketchy's Berlin No.11 + Salon Kokett No.6 - Sat. Dec. 11th!

2010-12-10T02:27:00.039+01:00

...We've got another of those burlesque double doses coming up for you tomorrow!

The first dose begins in the afternoon with another of our regular Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art Berlin drawing sessions cozily tucked into our usual White Trash Fast Food location. This will be No.11 of our regular sessions (making a total of 14 sessions in all since we began in October of last year - if you count our 3 special extra-sessions to the mix). I s'pose we're not doing so badly for such a young branch. ;)

Here are tomorrow afternoon's details....

Dr. Sketchy's Berlin No.11 - The Winter Session

Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin celebrates the darkest days of the year! This time with some good friends from way up North (Hamburg).

KOKO LA DOUCE & HEDOLUXE

We’ll be offering our usual 3-hour Life Drawing Extravaganza with two extraordinary models, drinks, our ever-popular drawing competitions and dangerous prizes! (Don't forget your art supplies!)

When?
December 11th, 2010 - 2:30-5:30pm (doors open 2:00pm)
Where?
WHITE TRASH FAST FOOD RESTAURANT Schönhauser Allee 6-7
How much?
Just measly 10 Euros! (Tickets at the door)

We have a special guest for this particular session as well, by the way; a bit of extra eye-candy in the form of a handsome young fellow named Kyrill Krylow. I'll be interested to see what our stars, Koko la Douce and Hedoluxe have cooked up for our unsuspecting guest... ;)

And now, on to the evening hours and burlesque-dose #2...

Lola la Voix had a lovely time jumping in as a singing emcee for Salon Kokett No.5 back in November, and will now be emceeing and singing again at Salon Kokett No.6. And our stars from Dr. Sketchy's , after spending the afternoon posing as artists' models, will knock our socks off with some wicked burlesque goodness at CCCP's newish all-night burlesque party! Doors open at 10pm:

Come and spend the day and the night with us!!!

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
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Today is Mildred's Birthday, But Not LaLaVox's

2010-11-21T12:57:00.023+01:00

Hi! LaLaVox here again - as always - since Mildred's not really one for writing blogs and such...

...None the less, it is her birthday today. Folks who know me from back in the days when I was still active at various online music forums will know which fan-nerddom of mine led me to pick Nov. 21st as Mildred's birthday.

But since she and I not only share this blog but also a FaceBook profile (under her name rather than mine), there is much confusion about the birthday issue. I get to celebrate twice a year now; once for my own birthday - which is in June, and once for Mildred's.

And then there's the issue of what folks should call me when they meet me in public. This has already been addressed in my Mildred Mahler vs LaLaVox blog entry.

But it's more complicated than just Mildred and myself. There are also Lorelei Vanora and Lola la Voix to contend with. So I've prepared this chart to clear up some of the confusion. Voilà!

Yes. I know it's all a bit much, but I've made my bed and I now intend to lie in it... :P ;)

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
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A Video Snippet of Lorelei Vanora

2010-11-12T11:22:00.040+01:00

Our DR SKETCHY'S ANTI ART SCHOOL BERLIN MEETS PINKY'S PEEPSHOW extra-session on Wednesday evening was great fun! Our models, Miss Mama Ulita & Rummelsnuff, were fabulous to behold, DJ UFO Hawaii played a myriad of wonderful South Sea and Exotica tunes for us, Christopher Rose with Trixie Trainwreck (aka Trinity Sarratt) and Luscious Lloyd were gracious hosts, the decore - provided by Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin organizer and co-host Johnny "Mulholland" Fitz (aka Matthias Pflügner) and Moritz R. - was delightful, and our audience of sketch-happy artists was lovely and talented, as always! Also - as usual - I can't wait to see the gobs of photos taken by our sneaky and wonderful photo-ninja, Nina Zimmermann!

In the meantime, here's a snippet of Lorelei Vanora's performance during the evening, which was kindly sent to me by Katja and Moritz R.. Off-camera you can hear DJ UFO Hawaii playing ukulele for us from behind the turn tables...

A Video Snippet of Lorelei Vanora (Nov.10th, 2010) from LaLaVox on Vimeo.

Thank you so much for the video, Katja, and thanks again to everyone else for making it into such a fab evening!!!

Hugs and kisses, LaLaVox
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Dr. Sketchy's Berlin Meets Pinky's Peepshow + DJ UFO Hawaii + Mermaid Stuff!

2010-11-09T15:11:00.035+01:00

Don't forget folks! We've got our special extra-session -
DR SKETCHY'S BERLIN MEETS PINKY'S PEEPSHOW
- coming up tomorrow evening (Wed. Nov. 10th)! And special-guest-DJ, UFO Hawaii, has been busy sorting through his mountains of vintage vinyl to prepare gobs of South Seas and Exotica music for us to draw to!

We will also have the pleasure of adding a couple of large tiki masks painted by none other than Moritz R. to the general decor of the evening!

SO DON'T MISS IT!!!!!!!!

Here are all of the various infos and links once again...

DR SKETCHY'S BERLIN MEETS PINKY'S PEEPSHOW

ALOHA!

Pissed off by the weather in Berlin? Then just hop on board and fly with us to the sunny Caribbean. And look who will be waiting there to see you!

MISS MAMA ULITA & RUMMELSNUFF

special guests LORELEI VANORA & DJ U.F.O. HAWAII

We’ll be offering the usual 3-hour Life Drawing Extravaganza with two extraordinary models, drinks, our ever-popular drawing competitions and grrrrrreat prizes! (Don't forget your Art supplies)

When? November 10th 2010 7-10 pm (doors open 6:30pm)
Where? At the BASSY CLUB / Schönhauser Allee 176a
How much? Just measly 10 €! (Tickets at the door)

And since Lorelei Vanora will be making a small appearance during the course of the evening, I'd like to take this opportunity to talk mermaids for a moment or two...

...The sparkling and ever-delightful Carolyn Turgeon has written a book
called MERMAID which will be hitting the market in March of next year. And to celebrate this publication she's set up an I Am A Mermaid blog where she plans to begin posting mermaid interviews and info on a regular basis starting January 1st, 2011. I love the blurb she's written over in the ABOUT section. Swim over and give it a read.

She's already interviewed Ms. Vanora (after seeing her October 20th appearance at Pinky's Peepshow; this interview will be aired on her blog sometime in January or February) and has a long list of other professional mermaids and mermaid experts who've agreed to interviews to add to the mix. It will be full of information and fun for mermaid lovers everywhere!

Hugs + kisses, LaLaVox
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Vintage Mildred Halloween Greetings (Extra Goody #5) + Dr. Sketchy's Berlin News

2010-10-31T07:38:00.027+01:00

Mildred Loves Extra Goodies
(A Grabbag of Miscellaneous Thises and Thatses)

Extra Goody #5 - "Vintage Mildred Halloween Greetings!"

I have been neglecting Mildred mercilessly for months on end once again - for lack of time! The other elements of my day to day life just keep getting in the way, and this Halloween is no exception. But I thought it might at least be kinda fun to see some early Mildred art. Better than nothing, right? So here's one of her Halloween cards from early on. The original line art is from 2006, and the color is a slight 2008-revamping of the original 2006 color.

Happy Halloween folks!

Hugs + kisses, LaLaVox
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p.s. I'll say a word or two about how insane my October 2010 has been after I return to Berlin on the November 8th. In the meantime here's a little Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin heads-up: We've got another special extra-session coming up:

DR SKETCHY'S BERLIN MEETS PINKY'S PEEPSHOW

ALOHA!

Pissed off by the weather in Berlin? Then just hop on board and fly with us to the sunny Caribbean. And look who will be waiting there to see you!

MISS MAMA ULITA & RUMMELSNUFF

special guests LORELEI VANORA & DJ U.F.O. HAWAII

We’ll be offering the usual 3-hour Life Drawing Extravaganza with two extraordinary models, drinks, our ever-popular drawing competitions and grrrrrreat prizes! (Don't forget your Art supplies)

When? November 10th 2010 7-10 pm (doors open 6:30pm)
Where? At the BASSY CLUB / Schönhauser Allee 176a
How much? Just measly 10 €! (Tickets at the door)

My Kingdom for a Grand...

2010-10-13T12:44:00.045+02:00

...And by that I mean a grand piano! There will be no grand piano, nor even any piano at all, but rather a mere keyboard, provided by Asphalt for the Let's Misbehave party on the 22nd after all, and Miss Erna Aloisia Pachulke has decided that under these conditions it would be better to stick strictly to her bilingual split-personality MC-ing and save the songs that she and Lola la Voix have been working on together for performance at some later date.

Lola la Voix will be at the party anyway of course, in the audience, enjoying performances by Mama Ulita and The Queensgang Orchestra ect, and looking forward to future appearances with Miss Erna Aloisia Pachulke (and assorted other planned stuff). We hope to see you there!

And here's a quick overview-reminder of October's Event Cornucopia!

La Fête Fatale No.7 at Goya
Friday night, Oct. 15th

Pinky's Peepshow at Bassy Club
(Schönheitstanz Berlin Burlesque Night
- with special guest, Lorelei Vanora)
- Wednesday night, Oct. 20th

Let's Misbehave at Asphalt
+ Salon Kokett at CCCP
Friday night, Oct.22nd

Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin No.10 at White Trash
Saturday afternoon, Oct.23rd

Bohème Sauvage No.45 at Heimathafen Neukölln im Saalbau
Saturday night, Oct.30th

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
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Photos by Nina Zimmermann and Schell Photo Design / Lifestyle Portrait

October's Party Cornucopia!

2010-10-11T12:17:00.075+02:00

(Dr. Sketchy's Berlin / La Fête Fatale / Pinky's Peepshow /
Let's Misbehave / Salon Kokett / Bohème Sauvage)

Well, now! Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin really had a fabulous time as the closing event for The Big Draw Berlin festival last night. The Grüner Salon was an elegant and very comfy venue, Marlene von Steenvag was dazzling and lovely - as a model and as a performer, the organizers and staff were friendly and enthusiastic, our DJ, Dr. Hirschfeld, was as fabulous as always, Anne Smith was, as ever, a sweet and delightful burlesque roadie/clean-up girl, and our audience was great! We went away smiling once again! =)

And now for those additional October event dates I promised. My alter egos and I are busy girls this month... ;)

Event no.1: First off, a reminder that it's La Fête Fatale time again. They already spread their mad decadence in Hamburg for the first time on the 8th, and now it's home to Berlin again on Friday the 15th - at Goya this time around!

Event no.2: Lorelei Vanora will be making another Pinky's Peepshow appearance at the Bassy Club on October 20th (a Wednesday, as always); this time around as a special guest of the Schönheitstanz studio here in Berlin. Lady Lou will be presenting another one of her Burlesque School Graduation events (Schönheitstanz Berlin Burlesque Night); with Betty Redcherry (newcomer), Lilly Tiger (performer), and Amber Vanilla (newcomer).

Here's the Pinky's Peepshow flyer itself. Unfortunately, due to a little info-sanfu, my name (LaLaVox) ended up making it onto the flyer...

...But of course it's actually my alter-ego, Lorelei Vanora who will be performing. ;)

Events no.3 + 4: Two days later, on Friday, October 22nd, you will have to choose between The Roaring Twenties and more burlesque. In the Roaring Twenties corner will be the premiere of the Let's Misbehave party (a Josephine Baker Tribute) at Asphalt. In the Burlesque corner will be another lovely Salon Kokett evening at CCCP.

My personal choice for the evening will be The Roaring Twenties, since my alter ego, Lola la Voix will be making an appearance at Let's Misbehave. The fabulous and delightful Miss Erna Aloisia Pachulke will be the conférencière for the evening, and she's invited Lola la Voix to sing a couple of numbers with her!

Event no. 5: A reminder not to forget that we'll be back at White Trash Fast Food again for a regular Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin session on the afternoon of Saturday, October 23rd! Dr. Sketchy's #10 - our Halloween Special - starring Lady Lou (La Fête Fatale and Schönheitstanz) and Mitzi Metzger (La Fête Fatale)! Meet us there for lots of gruesome Halloween drawing fun!!!

When?
October 23th 2010 2:30-5:30pm (doors open 2:00pm)
Where?
At the WHITE TRASH FAST FOOD RESTAURANT Schönhauser Allee 6-7
How much?
Just measly 10 Euros! (Tickets at the door)

Event no. 6: And last but not least, Bohème Sauvage No.45, on October 30th, to finish up a fabulous month of glamorous Fall events!

We hope to see you there!

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
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Ah Berlin!

2010-08-30T14:15:00.010+02:00

I'd seen this wonderful video posted around several places, but I hadn't actually taken the time to watch it until yesterday. I can tell that the maker of this video loves this city as much as I do....

Little Big Berlin from pilpop on Vimeo.

'I dedicate this film to Berlin where I have been living for 19 years now. While the architecture of Berlin is stunningly beautiful, only its inhabitants make Berlin the unique city that it is. In every corner there is something new to discover. And the best thing to do is to film it.
Filmed with my beloved Sony HC9. Edited with Sony Vegas Pro 9.The miniature effect is called tilt-shift, which originates from a particular lens that was used to photograph architecture. The miniature effect is a by-product of that. It can also be achieved by digital postprocessing.
Music: “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2” by Franz Liszt' - directed by pilpop

...Which suited my Sunday mood perfectly...

I always feel glowy and good after a session of co-moderating Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin, and Saturday's No.9 madness was no exception. A rip-snorting good time was had by all. We were treated to some truly divine insanity served up for us by Mad Kate and Juanofakind in the form of "Alien Birth":

Juanofakind approached the stage as the hugely pregnant Anita Drink, and, after a bit of tea and nostalgia, went into screaming labour pains, then proceeded to give birth right before our very eyes. Mad Kate tumbled into the world clad in a birthday suit of ripped nylons and blood (curry sauce apparently), only to terrorize first Anita, and then the audience, as she climbed her way over and through them before sprinting across the DJ desk to return to the stage for more shenanigans! It was a sight to behold, I tell ya! I can't wait to see the photos!

An audience review of the afternoon (including this performance) can be found at Jen Zeller's blog by the way. :)

And it was lovely to have Eve Blood of Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Nürnberg visiting us. We're always quite enamoured of the photos we see in the Galerie at her Sketchy's site, and are looking forward to being able to visit one of her sessions one of these days. I've never been to Nürnberg before. Hmmmm....

And Bohème Sauvage No.44 in the evening was a treat as well. It was held in this beautiful space this time around, and was terribly, terribly full:

It's funny about Bohème Sauvage. It is possible to find yourself feeling a touch of ennui at one these, in spite of all the fabulous eye-candy walking around (the dress code is mandatory, so don't expect to be able to get in in jeans). So, if you go, go intending to either swing dance or gamble (everyone is provided with some Reichsmark at the door to get things going). Or take sparkling company with you, and plan to meet more sparkling company once you get there.

You will be immersed in loveliness. It's always that oddly surreal sensation of swimming in another time; a time that never existed of course - since what you'll see there is a jumble of styles from the 1890s to the 1940s - and varying modern interpretations of these. The gambling tables are always full, and there's always a little movie theater where you can curl into cushy seating and watch silent movies from the 1920s. There are performances to see, and you can dance until dawn! I recommend staying until at least the wee hour of 4, to see the stylish couple-dancing (swing, foxtrot, tango, Charleston, etc...) mutate into a mad free for all as the night progresses.

I was delighted to see the Old Fish Jazz Band performing there again. They were fabulous at Bohème Sauvage No.41 at the Wintergarten, and were no less fabulous this time around. The New Orleans Vintage Jazz feel they jiggled our bones with really made this Mississippi girl's heart go pitter pat! And watching modern flappers dancing insanely in front of them (from the corner next to that stage that I had tucked myself into) was a bit like watching a wild fever dream from behind a velvet curtain.

Why do I love Berlin? All of this and more!

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
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Dr. Sketchy's Berlin No. 9 + Info Roundup

2010-08-23T16:59:00.057+02:00

Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin No. 9
will be featuring none other than Berlin-based
dancerwritersingerperformanceartist,
MAD KATE (of Kamakazi Queens and Bonaparte)
and her husbandbestfriendmuseinspirationpartnerincrime,
fashion designer and DJ, JUANOFAKIND!

When?
Saturday, August 28th, 2010 - 2:00-5:00pm
(doors open 1:30pm)
Where?
At the White Trash Fast Food Restaurant
Schönhauser Allee 6-7, Berlin, Germany
How much?
Just measly 10 Euros!
(Tickets at the door)

And as you know, it often happens that our Dr. Sketchy's Berlin afternoons are followed by an evening of either La Fête Fatale or Bohème Sauvage. This time around it's Bohème Sauvage again; No.44 to be exact:

And the next La Fête Fatale No.7 has been announced in the meantime as well. Hold onto your hats, Hamburg, because La Fête Fatale isn't just a Berlin event anymore! Put October 8th (for Hamburg) and October 15th (for Berlin) in your calenders, folks!

Something I never got around to mentioning here was our Dr. Sketchy's Berlin Meets the Direktorinhaus event last week. It was so well publicized elsewhere however, and the turn-out was so good, that I'm finding it very easy to forgive myself for this.

105 People attended our first “out of house” session at the elegant Direktorenhaus Art Space in Mitte - which makes it our biggest event so far! (It couldn't have hurt that it was also our only free event so far... ;-))

Special thanks to Clare Molloy, Nicole, and all of the other lovely people at the Direktorinhaus, to our rockstar models Clea Cutthroat (of Bonaparte and Eat Lipstick) and Megan Goddard, to our musical butterflies Operalesque (Johanna Blackstone + Rachel von Hindman), and to all of you who flocked to us in such great numbers, and then drew and drew and drew some more, squished in together with us in those two beautiful rooms!

The Direktorinhaus has promised us a selection of some of the photos they took during the course of the evening, but in the meantime we have a selection of what our organizer (and my co-host) Johnny "Mulholland" Fitz (aka Matthias Pflügner) has been calling his "crappy" (and what I would call his "fun") snapshots to peruse. Please click this fetching shot of The Mysterious Bucket-Headed Woman to be whisked off to his Flickr gallery of these...

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
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Rough Sketch vs Cleaned Up Storyboard Frame

2010-08-11T17:36:00.013+02:00

I am currently working on a storyboard for a TV ad for a cosmetics company ( - on the shooting-board for the film-production company producing this ad, to be more exact).

As millions of other illustrators across the planet will have noticed, the rough sketch often has a liveliness and emotional depth to it that the finished product loses during the cleaning up process.

My finished shooting-board frames are very loose and sketch-like themselves actually, but they're still cleaned-up versions of the rough sketch. I dunno. What do you think? Not that I'm unhappy with the light, open feeling of the finished frame, but it seems to me that the rough sketch for it was livelier and somehow subtly more mysterious...

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
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New Websites for Dr. Sketchy's NYC + Lorelei Vanora

2010-08-06T20:18:00.037+02:00

The new website for Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School home-base/headquaters, Dr. Sketchy's NYC - after years of big talking and months of heavy duty work - is now live! This baby has information on every single Dr. Sketchy's branch in the world! It lets you search for branches near you easily: with no more wading through 124 MySpace profiles, etc! So... Go and check it out!

Welcome To the New Dr.Sketchy's Website
Dr. Sketchy's World-Wide Branchs
Dr. Sketchy's Berlin's Branch Page at Headquarters

And I've finally gotten around to giving Lorelei Vanora a webpage of her own. Now, mind you, it really is only a single page so far, and it's simple and still under construction and all. But it is all hers, so there you go. You can see it here...

By the way: Lorelei Vanora will be appearing in Stockholm, Sweden with a group of other lovely freaks and weirdos from Berlin's burlesque/cabaret/punk scene on the 10th of September:

BERLINER NACHT @ Mosebacke (Stockholm)
Like a night in Berlin, but in Stockholm...

Here's the event page, for those of you who use FaceBook. I (and they) will add more information as the date gets a bit closer. ;)

[UPDATE! Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 - unfortunately I've had to cancel Lorelei Vanora's BERLINER NACHT performance in Stockholm this coming Friday. I hope those of you in Stockholm who I was so looking forward to meeting there will go to the show anyway. It's going to be a wild one!]

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
www.mildredlovesyou.com/loreleivanora.html
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
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A Tree Frog and a Disco Bike....

2010-07-22T19:44:00.030+02:00

Back in September of last year I discovered Adam Bowman's website of gadgets and added the "Feed the Fish" and "Taunt the Penguins" gadgets to the sidebar of this blog. Today I decided to pay Mr. Bowman's site another visit and ended up adding another member to our family of blog pets. Now you can also "Feed the Tree Frog".

And last night, Alexi Johansen, Son of Techno Viking, came by Pinky's Peepshow to see Lorelei Vanora sing, and brought his mirror-ball-mirrored Disco Bike with him. The LEDs in the handlebars make it a sight to behold at night. I'm looking forward to him posting some nighttime footage of it that will do it justice, but in the meantime, here's a nighttime photo and some daytime footage:

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
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p.s. I like the Freaky Nightlights over at Alexi's blogspace too...

Pinky's Peepshow and Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.8

2010-07-21T08:21:00.059+02:00

Every Wednesday night here in Berlin, Trixie Trainwreck and Christopher Rose present Pinky's Peepshow at the Bassy Bar - Berlin's Best Boudoir & Kool Kat Hideout. And tonight Lorelei Vanora (The Singing Mermaid) will be making her 2nd appearance at one of these tasty events. Spanish burlesque dancer and shock queen Lola von Dage (who was one of our models for Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.2) will also be performing. Much to our sorrow, this will be her Farewell Berlin performance, as she is planning to leave us for her home country quite soon.

...Here's July's Pinky's Peepshow Flyer...

And just for fun, here's shot of Lorelei Vanora's appearance with Fez Wrecker at Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.7 ("Dr Sketchy of the 7 Seas"), back in April...

Photo credits go to Dr. Sketchy Berlin's Foto-Ninja Nina Zimmermann.

Speaking of Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin - after having had to cancel our originally planned No.8 back in May, and having been absent during our Summer Break in June, we are back at last with July's new No.8 this coming Saturday afternoon. Our oh-so-lovely models this time around are Black Flamingo Burlesque Revue "sisters", Miss Honey Lulu and Trixee Sparkle.

When?
Saturday, July 24th, 2010 - 2:00-5:00pm
(doors open 1:30pm)
Where?
At the White Trash Fast Food Restaurant
Schönhauser Allee 6-7, Berlin, Germany
How much?
Just measly 10 Euros!
(Tickets at the door)

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com

[update:added Aug.6th,2010]
www.mildredlovesyou.com/loreleivanora.html

[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou/loreleivanora.html

Guest Art! (Extra Goody #4)

2010-06-18T16:30:00.016+02:00

Mildred Loves Extra Goodies
(A Grabbag of Miscellaneous Thises and Thatses)

Extra Goody #4 - "Guest Art by Matthias Pflügner and Steffi Schütze!"

The convenient thing about being an illustration or a virtual character is that you can be zapped from one place to another in the blink of an eye. Your form and texture can also be altered with very little effort on the part of those doing the altering. And the possibility you have of being in two places at the same time is easily understood by all - without discussions of Quantum Physics or multi-dimensions getting into the mix.

This is how it is possible for my creation, Mildred Mahler, to have been together with Matthias Pfluegner (aka Johnny "Mulholland" Fitz) in New York City day before yesterday wishing me (LaLaVox aka Laura Carleton) a Happy Birthday, while at the same time existing in glamorous vector realms created by the fabulous Steffi Schueltze, and replying to birthday greetings on my behalf over at FaceBook to boot. It must be quite a kick being so effortlessly multi-dimensional!

...But speaking of birthdays: www.mildredlovesyou.com had a birthday of its own day before yesterday too. Unfortunately I was so busy attending to my own birthday that I failed to celebrate this in a timely fashion.

I'm not sure exactly when MildredLovesYou.com actually came into existence - as it was only one page with a few images and the promise of things to come for the longest time. But I do know exactly when the first pin-up in the Mildred Loves Pin-Ups series (previously known as The Monday Pin-Up) began: on June 16th, 2008. Which means that the Mildred Loves Pin-Ups series just turned two day before yesterday.

I think I will try to make a bit more of an effort for Mildred Loves Pin-Ups series' 3rd birthday - since 3 is such a nice number. But luckily for me, this time around Steffi and Matthias have come to my rescue with their wonderful guest-artist portrayals of our no.1 MildredLovesYou.com gal. Here they are again, but this time in the format they were meant to be viewed in, and with added artist-info links (click to see the larger website-sized versions)...

Steffi Schuetze @
Miss Matzenbatzen's Blogspot.com + Nauck & Schuetze Illustration
Mildred Loves You! blogspot posts about Steffi Scheutze:
Steffi Schuetze, Happy Meat (aka Cecelie Ellefsen), Kirsten Ulve, and Gordon Laite
Steffi Schuetze and Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin

Matthias Pfluegner @
www.pfluegner.net + www.keingeschenk.de/
aka Johnny "Mulholland" Fitz @
Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin
Mildred Loves You! blogspot posts about Matthias Pfluegner aka Johnny "Mulholland" Fitz + Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin:
Dr. Sketchy no. 8 will have to wait!
Dr. Sketchy Berlin no.7 (Mermaid Time!)
Saturday's Berlin Burlesque Double Feature
Season's Greetings from your Dr. Sketchy Berlin Team!
Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin, Dec. 2009 + Dr. Sketchy NYC Season's Greetings
Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin - Nov., '09
Dr. Sketchy's Berlin + Site Updates

...By the way - while I'm still on the subject of Steffi and Matthias and Mildred here...

Steffi has been giving Matthias a course in vector-graphics, and back in February he asked me if he could borrow a drawing of Mildred for a vector excercise. His post about this experience (for those of you who can read German) can be found here. And here's a preview of his vectorization process and its results:

And, yes - those of you who follow this site will have recognized Jochen Kronier's alien platform boots from Mildred Loves Pin-Ups #34 and Mildred Loves Fashion #1... ;)

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
The LaLaVox Doodle Diary
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

p.s. Since posting this, I've discovered that Steffi has posted about her guest art (and about MLY.com) over at her blog as well. And she's added the preliminary sketch - as she always does. Here's a preview of it, with a link to the blog entry itself! :)

Dr. Sketchy no. 8 will have to wait!

2010-05-21T13:02:00.020+02:00

Booking acts from other countries is dangerous these days. Sooo many cancelled flights and what not (the blame going to residual volcano ash and strikes apparently). First we lost Dark Teaser (UK), and then we lost Lada Redstar (France) just this morning. Mitzi Metzger (of La Fête Fatale) was set to replace Dark Teaser, but the news of Lada Redstar's cancellation has come too late for us to do anything about it.

So, with a heavy heart, Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin has had to cancel tomorrow's session. We'll see you all again on July 24th!

Hugs and kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Dr. Sketchy Berlin no.7 (Mermaid Time!)

2010-04-23T13:12:00.021+02:00

NEWS FLASH!!! - DR. SKETCHY'S ANTI ART SCHOOL BERLIN No.7 tomorrow at the White Trash Fast Food Diamond Lounge from 2:30pm to 5:30pm!!! (Doors open at 2:00pm)

More info can be found at www.drsketchy-berlin.de of course...

...LaLaVox here again, as always. Here's tomorrow's line-up...

CLEA "Underwater Love" CUTTHROAT
FEZ "The Drowned Dandy" WRECKER
& LORELEI VANORA - The Singing Mermaid

I usually co-moderate these Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin wing-dings (and absolutely love doing it, I might add), but like Superman and Clark Kent, Lorelei Vanora and LaLaVox never can seem to manage to be in the same place at the same time. Because of this odd fact of nature, Anne Smith (who has spun tunes for us on occasions when DJane Strangelove couldn't be with us) will have to fill in for me. And what a lovely co-moderator she will be! :)

Lorelei Vanora's "look" has had a bit of an update, by the way, thanks to the ever delightful and wonderful Hedoluxe, and this update will see its stage premiere tomorrow! Big fat hugs and kisses of gratitude to Hedo! *muwah!*

And since I still haven't managed to get those little photo-collage photo-gallery-previews that I like doing up for no.4, no.5, + no.6 yet (anyone think I might actually manage to get to those by no.7?), I thought I'd do a little run-down of all of the Dr. Sketchy Berlins in this series so far - with links to each of the galleries (click the pix) - in descending order from last to first. Here we go...

Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.6 / March 20th 2010
starring Miss Julietta la Doll and Marz Star!

Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.5 / February 20th 2010
starring Nelly Farouche and Marlene von Steenvag!

Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.4 / January 16th 2010
starring Joey Love, Golden Treasure,
and secret special guest, Hedoluxe!

Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.3 / December 12th, 2009 - The X-mas Special
starring Xarah von den Vielenregen und Marnie Van Helsing!

Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.2 / November 14th 2009
starring Clea Cutthroat and Lola von Dage!

Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.1 / Premiere - 10. Oktober 2009
starring Tronicat la Miez
and secret special guest, Hedoluxe!

It's fun for me to see all of the Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin flyer-pix together like that. :) And Lorelei Vanora is already all excited about tomorrow! ;) We hope to see you there! =D

By the way...

After an afternoon spent drawing mad sea creatures with us, you can put on your fancy 1920s duds and step out for an extravagant evening of vintage charm at BOHÈME SAUVAGE No.42 at the Meistersaal here in Berlin. A wonderful time will be had by all!

And here's something to make a note of in your calender for May 12th. Le Fete Fatale's One-Year Anniversary - LA FÊTE FATALE No.6 - The Carney Cult of Hoochie Cooch! - at the Bassy Club!

Hugs + kisses!

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com

[update: added Aug.6th,2010]
www.mildredlovesyou.com/loreleivanora.html

[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou/loreleivanora.html

Easter Greetings (Extra Goody #3)

2010-04-04T22:25:00.019+02:00

Mildred Loves Extra Goodies
(A Grabbag of Miscellaneous Thises and Thatses)

Extra Goody #3 - "Easter Greetings!"

Extra Goody #3 plus - "Mildred Bunny Sketches!"

Click these images to see the larger website versions (scroll down on the website page for the sketches)...

This Extra Goody features: Mildred Mahler, flowers, and bunny ears! ;)

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Saturday's Berlin Burlesque Double Feature

2010-02-19T19:25:00.022+01:00

We didn't actually plan this. Maybe I should lie and say that we did. But no, really - it just very serendipitously came about that not only did the latest editions of Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art Berlin and La Fête Fatale end up being planned for the same Saturday (tomorrow, in other words), it just happens to be round number 5 for each of us as well.

And to celebrate this happy accident The Secret Seduction Society will be offering a 3-Euro discount off the door price for La Fête Fatale no.5 to all of our paying guests at our Dr. Sketchy's afternoon of life-drawing mayhem!

All of the whens and wheres and model/performer-details can be found at these links:

Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin no.5

La Fête Fatale no.5 - House of Haunted Hollywood

We hope you'll join us there!

By the way... Sorry about not posting about Dr. Sketchy no.4 yet. It's not because it wasn't wonderful though! We had another fabulously fun afternoon with our models and audience (I'm always on a total high after our drawing sessions together)! I simply haven't had the time to get to it. But I'll be posting about both no.4 + no.5 together then when I return - along with the typical mini-preview of some of the wonderful photos from the photo gallery.

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Valentine's Day Greetings (Extra Goody #2)

2010-02-14T16:58:00.012+01:00

Mildred Loves Extra Goodies
(A Grabbag of Miscellaneous Thises and Thatses)
Extra Goody #2 - "Valentine's Day Greetings!"

Click this image to see the larger website version...

This Extra Goody features: Mildred Mahler and hearts! ;)

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Phantasmagorey Theatre #1 - "Happy New Year!"

2010-01-01T23:07:00.016+01:00

NEW SERIES
Mildred Loves Phantasmagorey Theatre!
(Following the Obscure and Inscrutable
Misadventures of Mildred Mahler and Edith Backwater)
Phantasmagorey Theatre #1 - "Happy New Year!"
Brought to you by Le Petit Prisonnier and Mme LaLaVox!
Featuring Mildred Mahler, Edith Backwater, and ein Glücksschwein!

Click this image to see the larger website version...

Click here to see Mildred and Edith in Pin-Up #5...

Best wishes for 2010!

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Happy in Berlin in 2010

2010-01-01T00:46:00.008+01:00

Happy 2010!!! =) We just watched the New Year's fireworks from our Berlin balcony. I don't know how many of you will understand this, but these were moments of pure happiness for me.

It snowed last night - a nice deep powdery blanket that's made our street a soft sparkly white. It was delightful to stand on our balcony here and see the white street light up again and again with the colors of the fireworks shot off by the people below. I know that a number of my friends had a very difficult (or at the very least dull and trying) 2009. But I met all sorts of really lovely new people this year, and began some new projects which I'm really looking forward to expanding on in 2010. And so, feeling affectionate towards the year that has just past, and looking forward to the year that has just begun, I stood on our snowy white balcony watching the fireworks lighting up our snowy white street in this city that I really and truly love, and felt simply and purely happy. Happy in Berlin in Two Thousand and Ten!

This snippet of video shot last minute can't capture even an inkling of this, but for what it's worth, here 'tis, none the less...

Happy New Year, everybody!

Hugs and kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Naming the Mermaid

2009-12-30T14:08:00.014+01:00

Once upon a time, there was a wonderfully and lovingly decorated tiki bar called The Tabou Tiki Room along the Maybachufer here in Berlin. I brought an alter ego - a singing mermaid - into being specifically for this particular tiki bar. The bar itself has now disappeared, but The Singing Mermaid remains - in spite of the fact that she's never really had a proper name of any sort until just recently.

She's gone by the names Laura Lei and Laila Lei in the past (while performing with The Bali Ha'is and Fuzzy Love at The Tabou Tiki Room), and has more recently been called, LaLaVox - The Singing Mermaid, by others, or simply and namelessly, The Singing Mermaid, by me.

But since I want The Singing Mermaid to begin singing again at last, I figured it was high time she finally be given a real name.

Since my online name is LaLaVox, and I also have another alter ego named Lola la Voix, I decided I wanted to stay with the LLV theme for the mermaid too; wanting my mermaid to be named Loralei ...something-with-a-"V"...

About a month ago, I went to one of those baby-naming sites and clicked "V". It was on page 2 of "V" that I came across the first name in the list that appealed to me enough (that seemed "mermaidy" enough to me) that I felt the urge to go find out its meaning; Vanora.

So I clicked the "Vanora" link, and, as it turns out, the name is supposedly of old Welsh origin and means... drum roll, please... "white wave"!...

...Um... Hello? Is it a sign???

So I wrote an email to Carolyn Turgeon - whom I had the pleasure of meeting during her recent stay in Berlin, and who is currently writing her 3rd novel which is called MERMAID - to ask her expert opinion. She approved! And with her approval, it is now official: The Singing Mermaid's name is Lorelei Vanora!

Here's a little collage of photos of her from past and present so that you can get to know her a bit...

(Also pictured here: The Bali Ha'is, Fuzzy Love, and members of a Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin audience.)

And so that Lola la Voix won't feel left out, here's a collage of photos of her as well...

(Also pictured here: Fuzzy Love, Carolyn Turgeon, and Anne Smith.)

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com

[update: added Aug.6th,2010]
www.mildredlovesyou.com/loreleivanora.html
www.mildredlovesyou.com/lolalavoix.html

[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou/loreleivanora.html
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou/lolalavoix.html

Season's Greetings from your Dr. Sketchy Berlin Team!

2009-12-26T06:06:00.016+01:00

As I have mentioned here before, Matthias Pflügner took over Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin from Hedoluxe this year, and we just had our 3rd Dr. Sketchy Berlin session (aka our Xmas Special) recently. And now Matthias has drawn a very fetching portrait of us in a delightful Xmas card for the Dr. Sketchy Berlin blog...

We be: DJane Strangelove, Matthias Pflügner, LaLaVox, and Rebekka Csizmazia

Ain't we sweet? ;)

xx - LLV
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Family Portrait and Holiday Greetings (Extra Goody #1)

2009-12-24T12:53:00.022+01:00

NEW SERIES
Mildred Loves Extra Goodies
(A Grabbag of Miscellaneous Thises and Thatses)
Extra Goody #1 - "Happy Holidays!"

Happy Holidays from all of us at here MildredLovesYou.com to all of you out there in Internet Land! xoxox

Click this image to see the larger website version (and a who's who name-tag version)...

This Extra Goody features: Mildred Mahler, Edith Backwater, Cinnamon Girl, Kitty Derail, Fleur dee-bee-doo Lee, Midnight In New York, Ivory Towers, Thérèse-Constance van Ticklinckx, Copper Kitten, LaLaVox, Lorelei Vanora - The Singing Mermaid, Candy-Box Rosie, Ruby Slipped, Midnight In Paris, Coco Delish, Lola la Voix, Tamara Toffy, and Twiggy Torpedo!

Holiday hugs + kisses,

LLV
www.mildredlovesyou.com

[update: added Aug.6th,2010]
www.mildredlovesyou.com/loreleivanora.html

[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.com/loreleivanora.html

Fashion Special #1 - Alien Platforms - Nina Ricci vs Alexander McQueen vs Jochen Kronier

2009-12-24T11:54:00.030+01:00

There's been a fair amount of fuss made along the way about the outrageousness and originality of the platforms shown in Olivier Theyskens' final collection for Nina Ricci for Fall 2009, and in Alexander McQueen's Spring 2010 collection. Meanwhile, a fellow named Jochen Kronier has been quietly designing and custom-making fabulously outrageous and original platform shoes and boots in his various studios since 1994. The following is my small way of telling a bit more of the world about Herr Kronier's amazing designs... (And premiering a new series at MildredLovesYou.com while doing so...)

NEW SERIES
Mildred Loves Fashion!
(Cartoon-Pin-Up Characters as Fashion-Illustration Models)
Fashion Special #1 - "Ricci vs McQueen vs Kronier!!!"

Please click this image to see the larger website version!...

Jochen Kronier - custom-designed/custom-made costumes, shoes, props, + head-wear - since 1994

A Jochen Kronier Video Shoe Show from 2005

Olivier Theyskens for Nina Ricci Fall 2009

Alexander McQueen Spring 2010

There you go... Now you know... :P ;)

Hugs and kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

p.s. For those of you who may not already know this, Jochen Kronier (aka Joey Love) appeared as a guest star in Mildred Loves Pin-Ups - Pin-Up #34

Mildred Mahler vs LaLaVox

2009-12-21T02:47:00.027+01:00

Hello out there. LaLaVox again (as always). Recently, at some sort of party or other, a friend (with whom I was already connected at FaceBook) was telling another friend (with whom I was not yet connected at FaceBook) that I have the most confusing FaceBook profile ever.

She's right of course. But the reason for this is that I do not have a LaLaVox profile at FaceBook - I only have a Mildred Mahler profile at FaceBook.

At MySpace, on the other hand, I have one for myself (i.e. LaLaVox) and a separate one for Mildred. Unfortunately both of these remain woefully unattended to on an on-going basis. I have far too many different accounts online for my particular energy level and attention span in the meantime, and I simply refuse to add another to the list. Who has time for all this stuff anyway? I know I don't! So Mildred's FaceBook account (and this blog) will have to do for both of us simultaneously. It's not as if Mildred could be expected to help out, after all.

So who is Mildred Mahler and who is LaLaVox? Well, first of all let's clarify who Mildred Mahler is not: Mildred Mahler is not the artist who illustrates the cartoon pin-ups that grace the pages of www.mildredlovesyou.com and Mildred Mahler's FaceBook and MySpace photo galleries. That would be me - LaLaVox (surprise, surprise). And now to clarify who Mildred Mahler is: Mildred Mahler is, is my cartoon pin-up creation; the figure head for - the representative of - our Mildred Loves You website, all of the additional cartoon-pin-ups who romp there, and the peculiar mini-universe I plan to continue building around her. She sprang unannounced from my pencil one wee hour in late 2006 looking exactly like this:

My MySpace LaLaVox profile declares that I am a Gemini who grew up in different parts of Mississippi (and other Southern places), and that I'm attached. Mildred's MySpace and FaceBook profiles report to the world that she is a Scorpio and single. They may also mention that she's originally from New Orleans, but I can't remember at this point, and am loath to go and check while in the process of writing this blog entry. Whatever our differences in background, astrological arrangement, and partner status however, we both live in (and love) Berlin these days! - just so you know...

And before I say goodbye for this time around, I'd like to leave you with a little collage of Mildred's development between her impromptu premier appearance in late 2006 and this very tail end of 2009.

...Oh yeah. And here's a bit of me as well...

...Alright then. That'll do for now.

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
www.lalavoxbox.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin, Dec. 2009 + Dr. Sketchy NYC Holiday Greeting!

2009-12-20T18:10:00.029+01:00

I very much enjoyed co-hosting another Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin with our Master of Ceremonies, Matthias Pflügner last week on Saturday, December 12th. It was the 3rd in this series and our Xmas Special. DJane Strangelove was with us once again, and our models this time around were burlesque dancer, fire eater, and fetish model Xarah von den Vielenregen and Lucky Diva pin-up clothing designer Marnie van Helsing! We giggled a lot, they giggled a lot, and a good time was had by all. :)

Here's a peek at some of the pix from this time around...

Click this sneak peek collection to be whisked off to the official gallery to see more. :)

And don't miss Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin #4 on January 16th, 2010! Our models will be Hamburg's darling and delightful Golden Treasure, and the ever-so flamboyant and fantastic Joey Love (aka Jochen Kronier - who guest starred in Mildred Loves Pin-Ups # 34)! Also, a little birdie has told me that Hedoluxe (Dr. Sketchy Hamburg host - who guest starred in Mildred Loves Pin-Ups #32) will be joining us once again as well! =)

And the mother of all Dr. Sketchy branches (which number around 100 world wide in the meantime), Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School New York (invented for our drawing pleasure by one Molly Crabapple), has just had its 4th anniversary. Here's a little video holiday greeting to celebrate the occasion:

A Dr. Sketchy holiday 2009 from Spooky K on Vimeo.

Happy Holidays from Dr. Sketchy's!
Music by The Two Man Gentlemen Band
Dr. Sketchy's Animation by Smo
Video by Keith Jenson

In other Dr. Sketchy news, Matthias and I were at Le Fete Fatale's Holy Night of Naughty & Nice party last night got to meet Lorigami of Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Atlanta. As brief as our introduction was, it was fun to meet a fellow Southerner (I grew up in Jackson and Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, and Mildred hails from New Orleans) who's name also begins with "L", who's also a Gemini, and who is also involved with a Dr. Sketchy's branch. ;)

As for the Fete Fatale party last night, it was mad, bad fun and I can't wait to see the photos; especially of their gorgeous Naughty and Nice Angels, Marz Star and Lady Lou! I'm also curious to see how the photo of Anne and myself sitting on Santa Swine's knees turned out! ;)

Stay tuned for more!
Hugs + Kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Steffi Schütze, Happy Meat (aka Cecelie Ellefsen), Kirsten Ulve, and Gordon Laite

2009-12-14T16:47:00.061+01:00

I simply must sing the praises of Steffi Schütze once again (who I've had the great pleasure of finally meeting in the meantime; here's my previous post about her). She's begun doing a fashion series in her wonderful vector technique that I just love! Here are a few of my favorites from her more recent work...

I met Cecelie Ellefsen (aka Happy Meat) several years ago at one of those wonderful Pictoplasma Conferences. Her work is delightful and subtly terrifying (in a charming and disarming sort of way). If you have not heard of her before then I suggest you trot right on over to her her website and her Esty shop posthaste!

And I am a long-time fan of the very wonderful Kirsten Ulve. Her vector illustrations bowl me over again and again. Here's a small collection of a few of my favorites from along the way...

Oddly enough, when I first discovered her work a number of years ago, it reminded me of illustrations from a favorite Big Golden Book of fairy tales from my childhood. The styles are very different really, but something about the coloring, mood, and layering of some of Kirsten Ulve's work made me think back on that book of fairy tales, and made me wonder if she had perhaps been influenced by it in some way. ...These, for example:

I emailed her at the time wondering about this, and was very pleased to actually get a reply. She was not familiar with the book, she said, but thanked me for introducing her to this particular illustrator's beautiful work. The Big Golden Book in question had copyrights for 1959, 1960, 1962, was called FIVE FAIRY TALES, and was illustrated exquisitely and stylishly by a man named Gordon Laite. Here is some of the work from the book that perhaps caused me to think that Ms. Ulve could possibly have been influenced by him (though I don't know if anyone but me will see why I might have thought such a thing)...

I would like to (and intend to) blog in more detail about Mr. Laite at some point in the future, but for now I will simply point the way to two very generous Gordon-Laite-related posts at the Illustration Station blog:

Gordon Laite
pictures from The Blue Book of Fairy Tales - 1959

Gordon Laite
pictures from More Tales To Tremble By - 1968

Cheers, LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

2 Fab Vids by Frisky and Mannish

2009-12-14T15:10:00.021+01:00

I've just recently been made aware of the music + comedy duo Frisky and Mannish, and would like to share two fabulous videos of theirs that burlesque, retro, and vintage fans are sure to enjoy.

Here's a nice one for the Christmas Season. Their very own personalized take on Frank Loesser's all-time Christmas favorite, "Baby It's Cold Outside"...

And here's one that Tim Burton fans will get a kick out of; a Turn of the Century Cabaret version of The Pussycat Dolls single "Beep":
"Beep (Have a Banana)"...

Cheers, LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

p.s.
Um... And this doesn't have anything to do with Frisky and Mannish, or with burlesque, but it is a music video with retro flare, and it's also one of my favorite Künstler Treu tracks ever. So...

Treu / UFO Hawaii - FUTURA

p.p.s.
Our Christmas Edition of Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin this past Saturday proved to be yet another delightful afternoon at White Trash Fast Food, and I hope to be able to post a couple of photo-teasers of the day here soon...

Pin-Up # 34 - Guest Starring Joey Love (aka Jochen Kronier)

2009-11-23T17:33:00.027+01:00

It's up at last!!! =)

Pin-Up #34 – "Guest Starring Joey Love"
featuring Twiggy Torpedo, Joey Love, + Copper Kitten - with costumes and shoes inspired by (and derived from) costume and shoe designs by Jochen Kronier...

Click this image to see the larger website version!

If you would like to see more of Joey Love aka Jochen Kronier and his work online you can find them here...

www.kronier.com
Joey Love @ MySpace
Joey Love @ Model Mayhem
Jochen Kronier @ FaceBook

and here...

Joey Love as Grace Jones from joeyinspace on YouTube

Here's the Halloween Preview again... ;)

Hugs + kisses,
LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
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www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin - Nov., '09

2009-11-18T15:38:00.019+01:00

On November 14th I had the pleasure of taking part in the 2nd Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin hosted by Matthias Pflügner. Our models, Clea Cutthroat (aka Mollie Black) and Lola von Dage absolutely rocked our world, and White Trash Fast Food is to be turning out to be a really good venue for this event. It was a great afternoon!

My experiences at the last 3 Dr. Sketchy Berlin events have each been quite different each time. Back in May (the last Dr. Sketchy Berlin hosted by Hedoluxe), I did the artists' model gig and posed as The Singing Mermaid. Back in October (the first Dr. Sketchy Berlin hosted by Matthias Pflügner) I was in the audience drawing. And for this November edition I co-moderated with Matthias to make the experience more completely bilingual for our multi-national audience. :) It was great fun each time!

Here's a peek at some of the pix from this time around...

Click this sneak peek collection to be whisked off to the official gallery. :)

Hugs + Kisses,

LaLaVox

p.s. Pin-Up #34 is really and truly on its way over at www.mildredlovesyou.com.
I promise!
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
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Last minute Halloween Greetings!

2009-10-31T23:25:00.008+01:00

I hope all of you who celebrate Halloween are having fun doing so! The flu crept in to spoil my Halloween fun unfortunately!

I had hoped to have Pin-Up #34 finished by today, but we'll have to settle for a work-in-progress preview instead. Here 'tis (click it to see a larger version)...

I'll let you all know as soon as the finished version is up...

Cheers, LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Dr. Sketchy's Berlin + Site Updates

2009-10-26T14:11:00.020+01:00

The premiere of the new Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin on October 10th (hosted by Matthias Pflügner and featuring Tronicat la Miez and Hedoluxe) was great fun! And I'm really looking forward to the next one on November 14th (3:00pm at White Trash Fast Food once again)! If you love to draw and you like burlesque, then you simply must join us there!

And now to the site updates...

...I haven't had time to get a new pin-up finished and online yet, but I did find time this past Saturday to make some small (but long-planned) detail-updates to www.mildredlovesyou.com. One of these updates had to do with the name and regularity of the pin-up series itself.

Back in February, because of ongoing time limitations, I decided to change The Monday Pin-Up into The Monthly Pin-Up. But this has turned out to be too difficult to keep up with reliably as well - as my free-time is unpredictable and the pin-ups have become ever more elaborate and time-consuming to produce along the way.

So I've decided to change the pin-up series' name from The Monthly Pin-Up to Mildred Loves Pin-Ups (which, now that I've thought of it, seems to me to be the name it should have had all along anyway). And I'm doing this retroactively; in other words, I'm simply going to pretend that I changed the name directly from The Monday Pin-Up to Mildred Loves Pin-Ups way back in February. It's simpler and more elegant this way.

I missed my intended September pin-up deadline of course. But the planned Halloween Guest-Star Pin-Up is on its way, and the Guest Star Pin-Up that was originally planned for September will be coming your way sometime in November. Their arrivals on the front page will be announced, as always, here, and in various other as-obvious-as-possible places. ;)

Cheers, LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Steffi Schütze and Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin

2009-09-20T23:22:00.028+02:00

LaLaVox here once again... I discovered Steffi Schütze's work when someone at a very nice art and photography forum that I belong to posted one of her illustrations there. I subscribed to her blog and one day a post came up featuring Tronicat la Miez. I had just posed as The Singing Mermaid at the last Hedoluxe-hosted Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School in Berlin back in mid-May and had met Tronicat there. It was fun for me to realize that Steffi - who's work I'd been admiring so much since discovering it - had been in the audience that night drawing us.

Hedoluxe, who hosts Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Hamburg, decided back in May that he no longer wanted continue trying to host a Dr. Sketchy's in Berlin as well (he lives in Hamburg after all), and the post has now been taken over by Matthias Pflügner. And here's where Steffi comes in again. Matthias P. asked her to illustrate the poster for the next Dr. Sketchy's in Berlin; and what a delightful poster it is too:

The first Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin under Matthias Pflügner's care will be premiering on Saturday, October 10th at 3pm at White Trash Fast Food, and is planned as a regular monthly event there. I'm really looking forward to it! For one thing, I'm very much looking forward to meeting Steffi Schütze in person at last. And I'm looking forward to being in the crowd drawing once again instead of up onstage posing in mermaid garb... ;)

Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin, May 2009
Hosts: Molly Crabapple and Hedoluxe
Models: Hedoluxe, Hay Dee Sparks, Xarah von den Vielenregen,
The Singing Mermaid, Molly Crabapple, Marz Star,
Clea Cutthroat (aka Mollie Black), and Tronicat la Miez
Photos: Alan Smithee and Alan Smithee Jr.

Cheers, LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com

p.s. Although Hedoluxe is no longer hosting Dr. Sketchy's events in Berlin, a little birdie has told me that he will be amongst the models posing in October... :)

p.p.s. - [update: added Aug.6th,2010 - The Singing Mermaid now has a website]
www.mildredlovesyou.com/loreleivanora.html

[edit: March 28th, 2011]
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www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou/loreleivanora.html

Feed the Fish... Taunt the Penguins...

2009-09-20T20:02:00.014+02:00

Hello All. LaLaVox here. I've added a bit of code to our Mildred Loves You blog today. Code that I found, oddly enough, while Googling for fashion by Alexander McQueen. Googling for McQueen led me to a fashion blog that had an application in the side bar that caught my eye. I followed the link given and found my way to aBowman.com

Adam Bowman has some delightful gadgets that can be added to any webpage. I couldn't resist adding two of these gadgets to our side bar, so we have pets here now... Fish and penguins... You may feed them or taunt them at will.

Cheers,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
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www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Pin-Up # 33 - Guest Starring Julius the Python and 8E

2009-09-09T15:30:00.011+02:00

...It's definitely the most complicated pin-up I've done so far - it's been subjected to a myriad of unwelcome delays, and it's over a month late in the meantime - but Pin-Up #33 is online at last - guest starring Julius the Python + 8E!

Julius may well be the largest albino Burmese python in Germany. And she is currently “with child”, so to speak: full to brim with loads of eggs just waiting to be laid. Which is why baby pythons have been included in this portrait... ;)

So without further ado...

Pin-Up #33 – "Guest Starring Julius the Python and 8E"
featuring Midnight in Paris, Julius the Python, 8E, Tamara Toffy, and assorted baby pythons

Click this image to see the larger website version!

Photo by Shellee Luna (aka Girl Gone Mad)
@ ModelMayhem / @ MySpace

If you would like to see more of Julius the Python and 8E online you can find them here...

www.juliusthepython.com

...or here:

Julius Roll Over from 8E on YouTube.

Maintenance Part 2 : Python ---> bathtub from 8E on Vimeo.

LaLaVox meets Julius the Python, June 13th, 2009

Cheers! =D

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
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www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Pin-Up # 32 - Guest Starring Hedoluxe

2009-09-09T14:27:00.010+02:00

In July I began the first in my series of Guest Star pin-ups (there are quite a number of these planned). And our first guest star? - the fabulous Hedoluxe (from Planet Hedoluxe). He has been mentioned in earlier posts here in connection with Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School in Hamburg and Berlin. Behold...

Pin-Up #32 – "Guest Starring Hedoluxe"
featuring Thérèse-Constance van Ticklinckx, Twiggy Torpedo, Hedoluxe, and Candy-Box Rosie

Click this image to see the larger website version!

If you would like to see more of Hedoluxe online you can find him at the following locations:

www.hedoluxe.com
Hedoluxe @ MySpace
Hedoluxe @ FaceBook

...or here:

Cheers!

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Catching Up: Pin-Ups #21 to #31

2009-09-09T13:36:00.007+02:00

Hello again. LaLaVox here. Back in July I said I’d return in August to get this blog up to date with the goings on at www.mildredlovesyou.com between the beginning of the year and now. It’s managed to become September in the meantime, but that’s the way it goes... ;)

This post is to catch up on Pin-Ups #21 to #31. (Pin-Ups #32 + #33 will each get a post of their own.)

Back in October 2008 my guy and I began extensive renovations and remodeling in our neighboring apartments (turning the two of them into one), and it became impossible for me to keep up with a weekly pin-up. So I posted October/ November/ December holiday greetings and the site went into hibernation for the duration.

I returned to my Monday Pin-Up series in January 2009 with a redux version of the very first pin-up in the series (which began on June 16th, 2008). Here are January’s pin-ups:

Pin-Up #21 – "Legs Redux"
featuring Thérèse-Constance van Ticklinckx, Mildred Mahler, and Kitty Derail

Pin-Up #22 – "Siren"
featuring Coco Delish

Pin-Up #23 – "Fairy Tales"
featuring Midnight in Paris and Midnight in New York

Pin-Up #24 – "Promising Rose Gardens"
featuring Candy-Box Rosie

But in February, due to continuing renovations and other time limitations, I decided to turn The Monday Pin-Up into The Monthly Pin-Up. I did however manage to produce 3 Valentine’s pin-ups for February in spite of this new one-pin-up-a-month decision. Voilà...

Pin-Up #25 – "Three Hearts (The 1st of 3)"
featuring Thérèse-Constance van Ticklinckx

Pin-Up #26 – "Three Hearts (The 2nd of 3)"
featuring Mildred Mahler

Pin-Up #27 – "Three Hearts (The 3rd of 3)"
featuring Kitty Derail

And in March came the first honest-to-goodness Monthly Pin-Up:

Pin-Up #28 – "Ready to Swing into Spring"
featuring Coco Delish

I was optimistic that I’d be able to keep up with one pin-up a month, in spite of continuing time limitations, but it was not to be. So I closed the site from April through June. I’ve reopened in the meantime with Pin-Ups # 32, and #33 (featuring our first guest stars), but the pin-ups from the missing months remain to date in a half-finished, work-in-progress limbo. I’ll post them whenever they manage to reach completion; I do want to have a complete set after all. ;) But for now, here’s a bit of a preview and place holder for them...

Pin-Up #29 – "Rise and Shine"
featuring Midnight in Paris
Pin-Up #30 – "Ruby Slipped"
featuring Ruby Slipped
Pin-Up #31 – "Ode to Erté"
featuring Mildred Mahler and Midnight in New York

Wish me luck! :)

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
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A Brief Peek Through the Curtains...

2009-07-28T03:11:00.007+02:00

Hi. LaLaVox here. Though this blog would tend to indicate otherwise, things have actually gone on at www.mildredlovesyou.com since late November 2008, so I have lots of catching up to do here.

I won't be doing it this time around though. That will all come during the 1st week of August - only days away from now. In the meantime I would just like to say that Mildred was talked into opening a FaceBook account last month by a 5 meter long albino Burmese python named Julius (and her owner, 8E). If you have a FaceBook account and would like to join Mildred and the rest of us there, you can find her profile here.

You might also want to drop by www.mildredlovesyou.com to take a peek at our July pin-up. Things still aren't completely back to 100% working order there yet, but I would very much like for you to see our very first pin-up featuring a guest star... (Pssst... Yes, you guessed it: our first guest star is Hedoluxe - of Dr. Sketchy's fame, etc...)

See you again in August!

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
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Holiday Greetings and Hibernation News

2008-11-27T10:58:00.024+01:00

Hello again! LaLaVox here. Happy Thanksgiving to you U.S. Americans celebrating today. Kitty Derail would like me to remind you that she and other Canadians already celebrated Thanksgiving back in October (Canada - 2nd Monday in October, U.S. - 4th Thursday in November)... :P ;)

Anyway... I just made this announcement over at www.mildredlovesyou.com this past Monday:

As much as I had hoped to get The Monday Pin-Up up and running when I began the series on June 16th, this year of 2008 has not been very cooperative along the way. So we here at www.mildredlovesyou.com have finally decided to simply calm our thoughts and let 2008 be. We now intend to hibernate until 2009. We hope you'll have lovely Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's celebrations while we slumber. And we look forward to seeing you all again in 2009 - bright eyed and bushy tailed and ready for a fresh start. Hugs + kisses to all of you, LLV - Mon., Nov. 25th, 2008

This hibernation is very necessary at the moment, but I really am looking forward to getting back to things in 2009. I'm looking forward to picking up where I left off with these last two Monday Pin-Ups:

Monday Pin-Up #19 – "Glass House"
featuring Mildred Mahler

Monday Pin-Up #20 – "Treasure"
featuring Tamara Toffy

All the best to all of you!

Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year to everyone!

Cheers,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
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Dr. Sketchy’s Again + The Monday Pin-Up on Hold + Halloween

2008-10-27T04:09:00.025+01:00

Hello all. LaLaVox here. This past Saturday, October 25th, an offshoot of Molly Crabapple’s Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School returned to Berlin. It was hosted once again by the marvelous Hedoluxe (with a little co-hosting by myself this time around). Lethal Lily returned as a model and performer, and was joined by Clea Cutthroat and Mad Kate. These three treated us to much lovely artists’ modeling, shadow dancing that climaxed in flames, gorgeous stripping topped off with a bit of blood (to boot), and artfully wrapped hosiery (etc.) removed with a knife wielded with such beauty that I almost wept (Mildred would have been proud).

And so I’m really looking forward to Dr. Sketchy’s next appearance in Berlin – which is planned for sometime in January of 2009. (It’s rumored that a mermaid may be amongst the guests...)

But now back to www.mildredlovesyou.com itself...

On September 30th, I found myself forced to make this announcement:

Okay. I give up. I'm tired of making promises I hope I'll be able to keep and then can't manage to. Obviously my current life (between work, renovation activities, and assorted other stuff) will simply not allow me the time and piece of mind I need to be able to produce a weekly Monday Pin-Up. So until further notice there will simply be no more Monday Pin-Ups. Hopefully I can begin the series again at the end of October. I will announce my return on the Mildred Loves You Blogger blog (and various other places) and finally make the long-avoided official announcement at Mildred's MySpace page upon my return. In the meantime, THANK YOU to those of you who have been following my Monday Pin-Up birthing follies thus far. - Hugs and tearful kisses, LLV - Tues., Sept. 30th, 2008

And today, October 27th, I’m finding it necessary to make this announcement:

I had very much hoped to return The Monday Pin-Up series to you this very Monday, but alas, it was not to be. Life just won't allow it at the moment. And the way things look now, I may not be able to return to regular programming until mid November - although I do hope to be able to manage it sooner of course. In the meantime, I hope you'll all have a smashing Halloween this Friday! Cats + bats + hugs + kisses to all of you, LLV - Mon., Oct. 27th, 2008

A quick-fix Halloween collage has been added as a sort of greeting card for all of you lovelies out there. I wish I had time for more...

...And so my long-planned/long-avoided official Monday Pin-Up announcement at Mildred’s MySpace page will simply have to wait a bit longer (with her profile probably suffering continuing neglect for the time being as well). Mildred’s a trifle miffed with me of course, but what’s a girl to do? Duty calls.

Happy Halloween to all of you anyway! Paint the town black and orange for me!

Cheers!

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
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www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Dr. Sketchy’s in Berlin + Monday Pin-Up musings

2008-08-21T14:03:00.007+02:00

Hello all. LaLaVox here. This past Monday, August 18th, 2008, Molly Crabapple and her Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School came to Berlin. I almost didn’t manage it, but I did make it after all, and I’m very glad that I did. It was a delightful evening!

And what is Dr. Sketchy’s, you might ask? It’s Burlesque Meets Art Class - Cabaret Life Drawing. It’s music and drinks and burlesque dancers, circus freaks, and other birds of paradise. It was great fun – even if I did feel terribly out of practice...

...I only get around to doing any life drawing once in a blue moon these days it seems, and I’m not the sort of person who takes a sketchbook with me everywhere I go (to draw in parks or cafés, etc). I admire, and am a tad envious of, folks who do, but it’s just not me. Sketchbooks I’ve taken with me have almost always been left un-drawn-in. More often than not, I’ve ended up writing diary entries in them instead. I guess when it comes to most public situations I simply prefer writing pictures to drawing them.

So I draw at home and for my illustration jobs. And these days I mostly tend to draw stuff more or less out of my head - with various photos as reference (I have a huge archive in the meantime. I’m a mad and hungry picture junkie and regularly scour the internet for reference material and images that inspire me). So drawing from live models made me feel inept and slightly helpless. But it was really good to get my life-drawing chops going again.

Berlin’s Dr. Sketchy guests were Dr. Sketchy’s creator herself, Molly Crabapple, and the extravagant likes of Hedoluxe, Joey Love, and Lethal Lily, among others. It was great meeting Molly. She’s a doll. And I also met the lovely, lovely folks from Dr. Sketchy’s Manchester there. There are Dr. Sketchys all over the place in the meantime, and I’m hoping a Dr. Sketchy’s Berlin can be set up as well. This one was a one-off, for starters. I took only my drawing supplies and myself, by the way - but once there I was sorry I had not also brought a camera. Lots of people did though, and I’m looking forward to seeing the first photos begin to appear online.

But now on to more directly www.mildredlovesyou.com-oriented things...

I haven’t actually made any big official Monday Pin-Ups announcements yet (Mildred’s MySpace page has been left dreadfully neglected for the past several months). A few people have been told and do visit, but I’ve been happy enough to sort of half-hide in our little corner of the internet so far. This is because I wanted to get into the swing of things before making a big deal out of it. And I’ve been having growing pains. Many of the pin-ups have been delayed along the way, and I’ve also simply not been satisfied with most of the results of my work so far. But I had promised myself I would start the series on Monday, June 16th, 2008, and I did - just jumped right into the deep end - even though I didn’t really feel ready to yet.

But my three most recent pin-ups have taken a slightly new direction that I’m much happier with, so a big official MySpace announcement shouldn’t be too much longer in coming now. :)

Monday Pin-Up #14 – "Shock Pink"
featuring Copper Kitten and Kitty Derail

Monday Pin-Up #15 – "Three Graces"
featuring Mildred Mahler, Tamara Toffy, and Coco Delish

Monday Pin-Up #16 – "Rocking Horse Godivas"
featuring Ivory Towers and Thérèse-Constance van Ticklinckx

Cheers!

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Catching up after unexpected delays...

2008-06-25T07:50:00.011+02:00

Unfortunately our Monday Pin-Up Introductory Week turned into a bit of a train wreck just after mid-week. This was due to unexpected technical difficulties and on-going time issues. But everything is finally on-line in the meantime, and things should continue normally from now on...

Mildred Loves You!

The Monday Pin-Up series begins!

2008-06-16T10:54:00.024+02:00

Today is the very first day of The Monday Pin-Up series at MildredLovesYou.com - and from now on a new Mildred Loves You pinup will be posted every single Monday. But since this is our very first week at this, we will be having Introductory Week Pin-Up Specials every day this week, from Tuesday through Sunday, so be sure to come back for those. The regular weekly schedual will then begin immediately next Monday. And at some point or other we also plan to treat you to an Occasional Friday Special now and again; which could be anything under the sun - other than a pin-up, that is. ;) So keep an eye out for those too.

Mildred Loves You!

MLY's first blogger post...

2008-02-24T14:57:00.009+01:00

This is a test.... We've just now set up this blog, and so this is a first post to see how things will look!

While we're here though, we might as well go ahead and tell you that handmade Mildred Loves You! items are still available the Gal Institute boutique in the Chaussestrasse here in Berlin (Germany) through mid-March.

...And, that though web-carpentry at MildredLovesYou.com is not yet complete design-wise, it is already a fully functional website, with links to our online shops (The LaLaVox Shoppe at CafePress, plus Mildred shops at DaWanda, Burda Fashion, and Kay Berlin) and Mildred's MySpace pages. We hope you'll stop by and take a look. :)

...Oh, and, for those of you who don't yet know what the heck MLY is: Mildred Loves You! is a little universe of colorful characters starring three ex-pat neo-burlesque dancers and pinup girls -- Mildred Mahler, Kitty Derail, and Thérèse-Constance van Ticklinckx (all designed and drawn by LaLaVox) -- who live, love, and laugh in the delightful and creatively energizing city of Berlin.

Mildred Loves You!