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

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
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

Rough Sketch vs Cleaned Up Storyboard Frame

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
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
The LaLaVox Doodle Diary

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

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]
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

A Tree Frog and a Disco Bike....

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
[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. I like the Freaky Nightlights over at Alexi's blogspace too...

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

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)

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!

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