Back Online at Long Last!

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!

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!)

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!)

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!!!

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!

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

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!)

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!)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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...