by Blogbot
SuicideGirls hosted a party and model search at Hotel Vegas in Austin, TX on March 10th during SXSW. Photographer Dustin Downing was manning the SG photo booth, so we thought we’d share some of the silliness he captured with his camera over the course of the evening.
by Blogbot
Come party with SuicideGirls at Lo-Fi on April Fool’s Day. Tita, Bella, and Rydell Suicide will be hosting a special SG soiree to mark the closing night of Emerald City Comic Con. They’ll be playing all the SG movies while DJ Jay Battle spins local and old school hip-hop till last call. A guest performance by Seattle’s own Mello Drama will be the backdrop for a crazy evening with Suicide Girls from all over the world. Come one. Come all. Because the con only happens once a year! Come support local music and a few of your fave painted ladies!
Where: Lo-Fi, 429 Eastlake Avenue, East Seattle, WA
When: Sunday April 1st, 2012 – 8 PM til 1 AM
Entry: $5 before 10 PM / $7 after / 21 & over.
Advance Tix: brownpapertickets.com/event/235985
Info: facebook.com/events/284689248268082/
Tweetup: Tweet and post Twitpics / Instagrams using the #SGTAKESTHENW hashtag and we’ll include our favorite comments and pix from the night in a special post party wrap up here on the blog. And be sure to follow Tita (@Cupcakedujour), Bella (@Bella_Suicide), Rydell (@BooMockingbird), and Aadie (@AadieLee) for the latest on SuicideGirls Take The Northwest!
SuicideGirls Take The NorthWest Membership & VIP Special: If you buy a membership – which will be available at a very special $30 / 1 year price! – at the door at Lo-FI, you’ll get into the SG night for $5 even after 10 PM AND preferred VIP access (ie. no waiting in line).
by Nahp Suicide
Zoetica is a photographer, painter, the proprietress of the popular art and style blog Biorequiem, a co-founder of Coilhouse Magazine, and an occasional cosmonomad. She hails from Moscow, but resides in Los Angeles, California. She has been a photographer for SuicideGirls since 2006, and has shot more than 100 sets for the site.
How did you first get involved with SuicideGirls?
Fractal (a friend of a friend at the time, now a good friend of mine), had scouted me to model. I explained that I was actually in search of a steady job at the time, and she suggested I come in to interview for an intern position. I quickly became a design assistant and, eventually, Sean suggested I try my hand at shooting sets. For a time I also worked as the SG photography coordinator, style technician and in-house photo-editor.
What’s your background photography-wise?
I’m self-taught, having taken photos obsessively my entire life. Before digital, I took cheap little film cameras everywhere – and have seven scrapbooky photo albums to prove it!
What was the first photo you had published?
I honestly don’t remember. Probably something in one of my schools’ yearbooks or something in a zine.
How would you describe your style?
Obsessive. When I work with SGs, I often ask them to hold a pose for several minutes at a time, while I capture every nuance. In my other work, this is true as well. I look at every detail, search for secret spaces and details, whether I’m shooting a portrait, an editorial, a forest, or a steaming breakfast plate (I love food photography – I even break out a macro lens for that sometimes!). My goal is to capture the feeling of the moment, the texture, the energy. The smell, too, if possible.
What gear do you use?
Generally, I keep it simple: Canon 5D and a 35 1:4 lens, available light only.
How important is Photoshop in your final images?
It depends entirely on the image and the mood I’m after that day. For SG, I tend to stick with minimal retouching and color correction for the most part, but some sets call for a more stylized approach.
What gives you ideas and inspires you to create such amazing sets?
I feed my brain as much as time allows – good input yields good output.
What is your favorite image?
It has to be this one (see above) of Radeo, from our set called, Prisoner.
Tell us why it’s your fave and how you achieved it?
I think it still might be my favorite set of mine. There was almost no light aside from a far-away overhead fixture, and it worked out perfectly in helping us create the foreboding atmosphere we had in mind.
Is there anybody or anything you would love to photograph that you haven’t?
No – I want to shoot everything, all the time. Like I said – I’m obsessive!
Related Posts:
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Anemona
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. P_Mod
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Talena
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Lavonne
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. DarrylDarko
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Albertine
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Holley
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Dwam
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Writeboy
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. IvyLlamas
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Lavezzarro
by SG’s Team Agony feat. Rydell
Let us answer life’s questions – because great advice is even better when it comes from SuicideGirls.
Q: I have been with my boyfriend for about three years, and to my face he seems sweet. However on the internet he ignores me and has no problem talking to sluts. I tried stooping to their level, but then he gave me shit for the smallest bit of cleavage! My next plan is to add and talk to hot shirtless men, but I don’t know if that’s the right plan. What can I do just for him to ‘like’ a photo or ‘comment’ on a status update?
A: Ok where to start with this…Firstly, if he is sweet to your face that’s great, but when he is not around you, including the internet he isn’t? Doesn’t that seem like a bright blinking red flag to you? If he isn’t acting how you expect a boyfriend to act then TALK TO HIM! I have said this I think in every question I have answered for SG’s Got Problems? column. We as people need to learn to talk to each other and not just be silent and think people are mind readers.
You have a voice, use it and express yourself. Be heard! Stop changing how you think you should be and just be you. You don’t need to change who you are, how you are, unless it is to better yourself. Don’t stoop to your boyfriend’s level with the plan you outlined. It’ll just come off as juvenile and desperate. Be yourself, be proud of who you are, and if he doesn’t appreciate you and doesn’t fit in with that lifestyle, there is always a man who will.
Secondly, stop placing your self worth and self esteem on how many Facebook comments and likes you have from others on a social media network. In the grand scope of things does that really matter? I mean it’s FACEBOOK!
All I can say is voice your concerns. If they fall on deaf ears, then you need to man up and either settle for mediocrity in your love life, or go out and find someone better suited for what you need in life.
Got Problems? Let SuicideGirls’ team of Agony Aunts provide solutions. Email questions to: gotproblems@suicidegirls.com
by Blogbot
This Sunday (March 25) on SuicideGirls Radio we’ll be talking nerdy and getting the skinny on the best ways to find love online. Co-hosts Nicole Powers (SG’s Managing Editor) and Darrah de jour (SG’s Red, White and Femme columnist and resident sensuality expert), will be joined in-studio by lifecaster, SG contributor, and computer dating expert Jen Friel and her co-hort Jenn Hoffman, a writer, blogger, entertainer and entrepreneur. The pair can be seen performing together in The Dirty Truth About Nerdy Girls stage show, which chronicles their hilarious adventures while looking for Mr. Right (and Mr. Right Now) on OKCupid.
Tune in to the world’s leading naked radio show for two hours of totally awesome tunes and extreme conversation – and don’t let yo momma listen in!
Listen to SG Radio live Sunday night from 10 PM til Midnight PST on SuicideGirlsRadio.Indie1031.com/
And follow us on Twitter because we like cyberstalkers.
Join Jen Friel, Jenn Hoffman and friends for the Talk Nerdy To Me, Lover live stage show, The Dirty Truth About Nerdy Girls, on Friday, March 23 at 9:30 PM at The Little Modern Theater in Hollywood, CA. For more info visit: talknerdytomelover.com/stage-show/
by Blogbot
Artist / SG Member Name: Inks.
Mission Statement: I have always wanted to mix the classic pinup with propaganda art. I always wanted to make art that people can afford.
Medium: Ink, graphite, digital, spray paint.
Aesthetic: Beauty in simplicity, line that shows natural curves not idealized and unrealistic ones.
Notable Achievements: I have been part of over 30 shows in the last 8 years. I have had the honor of showing with artists like Erik Jones, Shepard Fairey, Dennis Brown, Hydro74, and so many other artists. I am also honored to have designed posters for the Hot Toddies, Sharkteeth, and a few other bands.
Why We Should Care: I always wanted to make art that people can afford. I don’t make art to make it rich, but to add richness to peoples lives.
I Want Me Some: You can find me at:
boardinker.tumblr.com
gorillasdontpaint.tumblr.com/
boardinker.com
by Nahp Suicide
Anemona is from Chile. She has been photographer and a Suicide Girl since 2007. She started being her own model/photographer and has now shot more than 70 sets for SG.
How did you first get involved with SuicideGirls?
I remember that the first pictures of Suicide Girls that I saw were on a website called Fotolog. I loved the concept of the webpage and the whole role of alternative modeling. Immediately I felt identified with them! I talked with a friend from college (Neftis) and proposed her to make a set, and she said yes. That’s how everything started.
What’s your background photography-wise?
I studied sound engineering at college, and there I got on a short course of basic photography. That was my first introduction to it. Then I quit my career to officially study photography at university. I left university for personal reasons, but I’ve continued my self education every day. I’m a firm believer that knowledge and perfection comes not only by theory but also through practice.
What was the first photo you had published?
Some of Mattilda‘s pictures in La Nacion, a local newspaper talking about the new phenomenon called SuicideGirls.
How would you describe your style?
I think that my personal photography style is very connected with who I am, my personal style and how I interpret the world; I would say bright colors, fresh, and playful.
What gear do you use?
A Canon 7D + 50mm + 10-22mm + 28-200mm and my very personal NATURAL LIGHT. I don’t like to use much studio lightning, I always prefer natural sets.
How important is Photoshop in your final images?
I use Photoshop basically to increase the colors – that is kind of my personal style. I also add some contrast and do a little skin retouching.
What gives you ideas and inspires you to create such amazing sets?
I really love music, so music videos are a huge inspiration to me. I love the style of Jonas Åkerlund and how he uses colors, I really do! Also Cherry has an amazing use of colors and Sean make sets with such a simplicity that’s impossible not to feel inspired by them too.
What is your favorite image?
It’s hard to choose but I would say these are some of them: Atomic in Under The Waves (NSFW), Discoquette in Transparent, Smash in Into The Light (NSFW), Belena in Lomography, Lith in Hottie Geek (NSFW).
Tell us why it’s your fave and how you achieved it?
Well, in Atomic’s “Under The Waves” set it was very difficult to do, cause the day was so cold and we had to try to shoot in waves and cold water. But we actually made it awesome. I’ve always wanted to make a set like that so I guess that’s why I really liked that one.
In Belena’s “Lomography” set we wanted to show just how she is, a very fun, colorful and playful girl, and her love of Lomo cams. I think that’s also one of the best executed sets that I’ve made.
Is there anybody or anything you would love to photograph that you haven’t? (And tell us why)
I really love to make people’s portraits and capture their style and represent that. I would love to shoot some day with girls like Carrina, Annalee, Plum, Gogo, Rambo, Pilot, JaneDoe, Discordia, Lass, BelleBane, and many more. Actually, I’m so lucky to have had the opportunity to make sets with girls I’ve always wanted to, and I hope I can continue doing it in the future!
Related Posts:
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. P_Mod
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Talena
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Lavonne
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. DarrylDarko
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Albertine
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Holley
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Dwam
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Writeboy
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. IvyLlamas
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Lavezzarro
