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In 2009 New Zealand photographer Talia Stephens launched Miss T Pinups with a photographic style that celebrates femininity and form with a hint of tease. The Pin-Up Files has a quote:
When I first started out I felt like people didn’t take me seriously because I was fairly young. But it turned out to only be a barrier that I set up for myself. Confidence is key – if you believe you can do it, others will too.
Personally, I just love the jokey tone of this photo.
io9 is a site I visit on occasion, but I hadn’t seen this collection of apocalyptic pin-ups from Russian illustrator, Andrew Tarusov before the Antihippy mentioned them in the comments of last week’s post. I’m grateful, because they are very good indeed.
Apocalypse Tomorrow is a 2012 calendar with a goofy take on the end of the world. It doesn’t look like the calendar is available in print — maybe Tarusov should make desktop wallpaper-sized versions of these images.
Fair warning: a few of the ladies below are NSFW.
Canadian artist Yue Wang has an incredible talent for portraits, as a glance through her gallery will quickly reveal. Many of these are superb interpretations of fantasy characters, such as Princess Mononoke, Aragorn and a bunch of videogame protagonists.
Her version of Jessica Rabbit is utterly stunning.
My new favourite fan-art mashup comes from James Hance by way of Boing Boing and puts Tank Girl in the Star Wars universe. I liked it so much I bought the T-Shirt.
According to The Pin-Up Files, Florida based photographer and artist, Al Abbazia, creates pin-ups with a unique twist.
I have always been in love with art. I traded in my charcoal and brushes for a camera and computer five years ago and haven’t looked back.
Here’s looking forward to the summer.
According to The Pin-Up Files, Elizabeth Austin was drawing before she started kindergarten and pin-ups were definitely her first love. Her paintings do have a gloriously retro feel, apart from the ones that look like cats.
But here’s Lilith
According to The Pin-Up Files, the pin-up art of Rolf Armstrong was a combination of brilliant lighting, vivid colours, superior craftsmanship and beautiful models – his vivacious, spirited ideals of American femininity.
Here’s a sample
Viktor Hertz has come up with an idea for a seried of honest logos. The IMDb one, below, is probably the one most appropriate for me, but some of the others are much, much funnier.
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