ATELIERI'S ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHY -pt.2

Our second group shot from the Helsinki Burlesque Festival by Atelieri O.Haapala; The Itty-Bitty Tease Cabaret's wild evil tigresses. We look pretty well tamed in the picture though...

You can view all portraits on Atelieri's flickr.

ATELIERI'S ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHY -pt.1

One of our group shots from the Ateileri shooting at the Helsinki Burlesque Festival (as you could see in the video) earlier this month; The Itty-Bitty Tease Cabaret : Surfin' Bird.

MASTERS AT WORK

A video of Atelieri O.Haapala photographing the guests and performers of The Helsinki Burlesque Festival 2011. You can spot lovely Cherry Typhoon from Japan, gorgeus Alotta Boutté and my favorite Kitten On the Keys (from the US) getting their portaits taken. And also us, The Itty-Bitty Tease Cabaret!

Can't wait to see the results, as I know that the outcome is always very very good.

THE FAIREST OF THEM ALL

The Helsinki Burlesque Festival 2011 started today with the opening of Kerttu Malinens burlesque themed photo exhibition. She has been taking pictures on and off stage, backstage and on various locations for a couple of years.


The exhibition is at Jukka Male museo in Kaapeli.


Lola Vanilla and Lola Vanilla.

Tinkerbell and Tinkerbell.

Fiona and Fiona.

Me and me! From this shoot.

Fiona and I were both wearing lots of glitter and sparkle.
And she was also wearing a hat of her own design, of course. I wore a vintage gold lamé dress that I got form my grandmother. And my sparkling shoes too, may I add. Like I said, lots of sparkle.

There are so many amazing photos, so I really recommend stopping by!
The exhibition is open from 30.1 to 27.2, nine to nine daily.

The master herself.

THE BOUDOIR SERIES

The result of the Atelieri shoot a month back, inspired by erotic photographs from the early 1900s (my hand however modestifying the photo a bit, for internet's sake..).

These can be seen along with the rest of the series at the "Alice in Wonderland"- exhibition about contemporary photography at Logomo in Turku, as part of the design capital 2011 happenings.
The exhibition will open on Friday and run until December.

SHOOT!

I've had a weekend filled with photo shoots and also managed to sneak a show in between. Now it's time to sleep a bit, phew!

First we had an shoot with the oh-so-magnificent Atelieri O.Haapala, inspired by old erotic postcards.

Jackie mesmerizes backstage -and I have rubber arms as usual.
(Backstage and set pics by Saara Salmi.)


Today (or, yesterday by now I guess) we had an amazing late night water shoot in Yrjönkadun uimahalli with amazingly talented photographer Kerttu Malinen, who we will work with some more later on too.

Afterwards. Very wet.
Camera covering very glitter-heavy eyelids.

There will be a third fabulous shoot now on Monday night, butI think I will have to let vanity loose and family win and celebrate the Indepedence evening at home with Eddi and his boys.

THE EERIE GIRLS IN THE DRAWING ROOM - A GHOST STORY

The ghosts of Jackie O'Lantern, Vera De Vil and Tinker Bell by Marko Saari.
Make up and hair by Liina Junna.

You can see more pictures from the shoot over at the Itty-Bitty Tease blog!

MIDAS

Seems like everything my friends Saara and Marco (newlywed btw ♥) touch, or, to be more exact; photograph, turns to gold - I just love the new photos from their Atelieri O.Haapala project!




Although in this case, sideshow- and burlesque performer Missy Macabre is pretty fabulous herself already...

HELLS ANGELS

Biker chicks in 1965

I really enjoy browsing the Life galleries from time to time. Not that I am the kind of person who goes bazookas over a photo just because it's old and it's vintage, but they do have some fine sets of those, as well as newer ones, often with interesting captions or stories.

50FT. WOMAN

Dum du dum dum, it's all nice and calm but then uh-oh it happens: the attack of the 50ft woman!



The inspiration was of course this film, or more accurately; film poster:
You can catch the same number tonight at Helsinki Vintage opening club! And later at LeBonk October 1st and at Blues Trash Cabaret (at On The Rocks) on October 9th.

Photos from Psychorama by:
Rik Stavale (1,2,5), Marko Hämäläinen (3), Laura Kansanen-Stavale (4)


(Google tells me the 50ft woman also has an attacking baby! I can't tell if it's disturbing or sweet :)

My other face

Schon vor einiger Zeit habe ich angesagt, dass ich mit meiner Freundin an einigen Projekten arbeiten. Es hat ein wenig gedauert, aber hier ist eines dieser Projekte. Wir haben uns knalliges Make-up gemacht und falsche Wimpern angeklebt, dass ganze Fotografiert und dann möglichst in Originalgröße ausgedruckt (war gar nicht so einfach). Beim nächsten Treffen haben wir dann schlichtere Schminke benutzt und die Ausdrucke vor unser Gesicht gehalten. Das hat echt Spaß gemacht und die Fotos sind echt interessant geworden. Die Fotos von Lynn sind auch richtig toll geworden. Der orange Lippenstift steht ihr einfach wunderbar. Sobald sie ihre Fotos auf ihrem Blog veröffentlicht, werde ich sie hier verlinken.

Die Idee habe ich von einem Shooting mit Kristen Steward abgeguckt. Ich fand die Fotos einfach so toll, dass ich sowas auch mal ausprobieren wollte.

ENG: Some time ago I told, that I'm working with a friend on a few projects. I took some time, but here is one of them. We took photos with fake lashes and bright Make-up, then printed this in Original size (that wasn`t so easy) and next time we met, we covered our faces with parts of the prints. It was such a fun and the pictures are quite interesting. Lynn's pictures are so great, too. See looks so good with the orange lipstick. I will edit this post and tell you the link, once she posts her photos on her blog.

I stole the idea from a shoot with Kristen Steward for Interwiev Magazine. These photos were so expressive and great. I wanted to try something similar.

Testfoto mit einem Ausschnitt aus einem Magazin / Testshoot with a ad from a magazine

idea: from interview magazine | make-up and photos: Lynn | edited by: me |

P.S. Hey meine Leser, wollt ihr, dass ich meinen Blog auf englisch UND deutsch schreibe. Ich frage mich nämlich, ob das sinnvoll ist, weil viele Blogger einfach nur Fotos von anderen kommentieren ohne aufs geschriebene einzugehen (natürlich gibt es auch einige Ausnahmen). Ich möchte von euch wisse, was ihr wollt und deswegen habe ich in meiner Sidebar eine Umfrage gestartet.  Votet dort bitte. Danke in vorraus. <3

By the way guys: Do you want me to write in englisch AND german or is german enough. I wonder if anybody cares. There are many bloggers, who just visit other blog to see and comment on their photos. So I must not trouble myself translating everything. 

As you are my readers I would be great to know, what you want. I started a survey in my sidebar. Please vote there. Thanks <3

Kate who?

If only I could conjure up £300.
Mario Testino's 'Kate Moss' book which contains over 100 images of my absolute favourite model shot by Vogue's favourite photographer is being published this month.
The reason for the huge price tag is that it's limited edition (there were only 1500 copies made and each one is signed by the world famous photographer) and it includes never before seen photos of the pair as well as an actual essay from Mossy herself.

Pretty special, oui?
(Although I'd still feel really guilty for spending that much money on one book...)
So to mark the publication of the book here are some of my favourite shots of Kate Moss taken by Mario Testino, both undeniable fashion legends:

Here comes the summer...

Wahey I have just signed up up to do a National Life Guard award at my local pool this summer which I am very excited about (as well as a little bit nervous) so to get me into the swimming/summer/hopefully sunshine mood I thought I would do an image dump of a post with some lovely life guard related photos I have on my hard drive to share with you all.

I doubt I will look like any of the models do, seeing as I will be in my black speedo swimming costume complete with "go faster!" stripes and even less like some kind of Pamela Anderson doing the legendary Bay Watch slow motion running in red short shorts. But I don't think that the red short shorts are compulsory life guard attire so I'll be ok.


Sources from top- Russh January 2010, Prada Lookbook Spring Summer 2010 and the gorgeously summery editorial from Vogue Nippon April 2010 issue which was photographed by Blaise Reutersward and was modelled by Marloes Horst.

Beth Ruby