FaceBook Prudery + An Upcoming 3rd Anniversary Party

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).

Mildred Mahler vs LaLaVox

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

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

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]
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

Last minute Halloween Greetings!

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

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

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

...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]
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

Pin-Up # 32 - Guest Starring Hedoluxe

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

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]
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

A Brief Peek Through the Curtains...

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)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Holiday Greetings and Hibernation News

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]
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