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Black and white, wide angle lens fun with, from top, one of many 1990s configurations of Fleetwood Mac; The Masters Of Reality with no less than Ginger Baker on drums which made complete sense, as the Masters waxed Cream-like in their eclecticism. Baker even reprised an update of sorts of "Pressed Rat And Warthog" in his spoken word ditty for the Masters "T.U.S.A." a paean to English tea preparation. I sure hope that wasn't a penis silhouetted in the foreground; and ad hoc, post-Sheryl Crow Tuesday Night Social Club members, from left South Africa's Johnny Clegg, David Baerwald (co-writer of Crow's breakthrough hit "All I Wanna Do,") Lisa Germano, and (do forgive me, I've forgotten. Readers?)
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Selita Ebanks
Veronica Webb
Sessilee Lopez
Olga
Noemie
Kate Moss (Kate Mimosa)
Jourdan Dunn
Joan Smalls
Jessica Stam
Jessica Gomes
Irina Shayk
Esti Ginzburg
Doutzen
Coco Rocha
Chanel Iman
Anja Rubik
Alessandra Ambrosio
Abbey Lee
Selita Ebanks
Veronica Webb
Sessilee Lopez
Olga
Noemie
Kate Moss (Kate Mimosa)
Jourdan Dunn
Joan Smalls
Jessica Stam
Jessica Gomes
Irina Shayk
Esti Ginzburg
Doutzen
Coco Rocha
Chanel Iman
Anja Rubik
Alessandra Ambrosio
Abbey Lee
Both sets of photographs were taken with group display in mind. The above black and white shots were taken at Red Bug Gallery in Berkeley, Calif. in the early 1970s. The owners of this pottery-candles-and-macrame hippie boutique inherited a carousel, and in their quest to restore and identify the carved wooden horses, eventually evolved into the premiere dealers of carousel art in the U.S.A. Although it's a close-up, my shot with the dark grey background in fact shows an incredibly rare 1895 specimen, one of four known Dentzel hippocampuses (hippocampi? plural of mythological sea horse) in existence. And there it was back in the day, next to the patchouli oil, hanging spider plants and incense...
The above color grouping depicts a costuming class project for someone's UCLA film class. The hoop skirted dress's model, Nancy, sewed it by hand and required suitable themed photography. Her boyfriend "borrowed" a few items and accessories from the school's wardrobe dept. and I posed them in front of a sufficiently huge Beverly Hills estate on Sunset Blvd. to convey the proper English country manor look. Yes we trespassed, but I worked quickly and the models didn't trample any petunias. The invisible irony to me was the model, normally a feisty, bell-bottom jeans-wearing, anti-Vietnam war-protesting street theatre extrovert melting so completely into this ultra-girly, demure period role.
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Maren Parusel and band playing Los Feliz' Satellite Club (formerly the famed Spaceland) Apr. 7th.
This is a compliment: if Carla Bruni had wanted to startle folks onstage as well as entertain them, she'd probably emulate Maren Parusel, she of self-professed "German Pop" leanings here in the U.S. of A. but in reality an intriguing frontperson of her eponymous band.
The band came out like gangbusters with a very strong, hard rock opening number "Artificial Gardens," not necessarily what one associates with her normal vocal delivery. (I defer to my friend Kirk Henry's proclamation on the Bruni non-belters metier, "Guys like breathy.") So there's always an edgier undercurrent afoot, like some improbably gamine Chrissie Hynde.
Photo op section: left to right, drummer extraordinaire Tony Matteuci of The Dogs, Mario Escovedo, head honcho of Requiemme Mgmt. media empire, and everyone's fave fun lovin' attorney Annemarie Sulatycky.
