There was a very nice with vintage ads and images of Vespa, so much loved by the Italian, but the site disappeared. Then I found a gallery at flickr, that is blocked now. That’s why I’m glad for Found in Mom’s Basement had found a delightful new Vintage Vespa Images set on Flickr. There are vintage ads, photos, illustrations, posters, pin-ups images -of course, and other ephemera images collected by Huro Kitty.

Miss Tigri is a talented French painter, illustrator and designer. Her fabulous paintings of languid women have influences of Art Nouveau artists, like Alfons Mucha and Gustav Klimt, expressionist painter Egon Schiele, French comics illustrators, Milo Manara, stylists, Tim Burton and Hayao Miyazaki. (via the NSFW Erotismo Gráfico)

The London based animation director and illustrator Steve Scott has a marvellous work. He started directing animated promos in the late 90s, creating clips for many bands, including Silverchair, New Zealand’s Salmonella Dub and his own band, Telemetry Orchestra. His cheerful and colourful portfolio of illustrations, some with a retro style, includes magazine covers, ads, CDs illustration, character design and pin-ups.
His animation portfolio is also great, with commercials and music videos. Don’t miss Telemetry Orchestra’s Suburban Harmony, with a style very similar to The Beatle’s “Yellow Submarine“.

The photographer Shannon Brooke presents a beautiful retro style on his pictures of music, people, fashion, motorcycles, pin-ups and magazine covers. According to him:

There was a time between the 1920’s and 1960’s when a woman was sexy because of her style, persona, and choice to be a lady with class. I capture a retro feel of this period with a contemporary twist, my stamp.

For centuries woman with a different behaviour were called witches. Some were too clever for men, other had a strong political or religious powers, there were some of those “witches” that didn’t want to follow the “rules” dictated by society. And there were some that called themselves witches. With all those beliefs, our culture created an image of an evil and ugly witch.
That’s why I think that the blog Sexy Witch is more than welcome. As the title says, it’s a blog about sexy witches. There you will find witches of all types: elegant, attractive, pretty, cute, hot, naughty or femme fatales; real life witches; people dressed up as witches: for Halloween or fancy dress balls; fictional witches: witches in novels, plays and poems; movie witches; cartoon witches; witches in art: carved, painted, sketched and engraved: they are all here, or will be in time. I would like to add also: pin-up witches and many NSFW witch images.
By the way, I’m been always a fan of the TV series Bewitched, one the reasons why I believe in sexy witches. Don’t miss the Ava Gardner, Sexy Witch.

The last PETA campaign PETA’s ABC Campaign points to the importance of spay or neuter. The ABC (Animal Birth Control) tackles the issue of companion animal overpopulation and urges people to do their part by taking simple steps to help end this crisis.
To spread the mesage, the burlesque dancer, model and actress Dita Von Teese joined to launch PETA’s new ABC campaign. There is no doubt about Dita Von Teese’s Sexy ABC Ad (picture above), being sexy and catching our attention.

Dita knows her ABCs and just how important animal birth control is. Every year, nearly 4 million dogs and cats are put to death in the U.S. because there are not enough good homes for them. Until we all do our part to put an end to this cycle, euthanasia will remain a tragic necessity.
In her ad, Dita urges fans to “bone up” on their ABCs and, if they are considering adding a dog or a cat to the family, to adopt from a local animal shelter and be sure to get their new family member spayed or neutered.

I’m supporting this campaign, because I believe on its importance. All my (three) cats are neutered (and spayed) and never had any problems with that. They are healthy and happy. My youngest furry guy, Truffaut, was found meowing in the garage of my building sick and starved. I don’t believe in buying animals when there are thousands of those poor animals living on the streets of São Paulo. And if I can help, even with small actions like those, I will. I hope you do the same.
Bellow, a behind-the-scenes footage from Dita’s photo shoot and her exclusive interview with PETA.

Maurycy Gomulicki likes to take pictures of girls: green girls, red girls, blue girls, vixens, pin-ups and more girls. And he does great job playing with textures and colours. He also has a NSFW blog devoted to colours, I mean one colour, pink: Pink not dead!. I choose the pin-up pictures.
PS.: a pin-up naughty nurse, from his sets, to a reader that was asking for pin-up nurses.

Once more it’s time to celebrate the International Talk Like a Pirate Day. And I will do it on my way, sharing links, since I don’t have any pirate costume.
Catster and Dogster users are also participating of this special day, submitting the pictures of their furry fellows dressed as pirates, with the tag “pirate”, on Dogster and Catster.
Getting to Know … International Talk Like A Pirate Day: an interview with Mark “Cap’n Slappy” Summer and John “Ol’ Chumbucket” Baur, the founders of Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Many Books has a nice collection of Pirate Stories of digitalized books in the public domain to read on-line or download, available in many formats.
Photos from International Talk Like A Pirate Day on Flickr. Explore all the previous images or go directly to the 2007 photoset.
Pinup Pirate illustration created by the deviantART artist agrivaine (ChrissieA).

Pirate Pinup: the picture above is a self portrait by the Flickr user Danielle.
Pirates Of The Caribbean 1 and 2 in 30 seconds and re-enacted by bunnies, presented by Starz Bunny Club Exclusive, created by Angry Alien Productions.
Polite Dissent made a great list of comic-book pirates (and pirate comic books) to celebrate the day. (via Pen-Elayne on the Web)
Post Like a Pirate is a pirate translator which also posts directly on Twitter, Myspace or send by email the translated text.
Réunion de piratesses: a collection of illustrations created by several artists to a contest created by the French illustrator Delfine, on her blog, which theme was “fille de pirate” (daughter of pirate). Take a look at the illustrations and on the Hors concours illustration of the contest if you speak French.
The Pirate Pin Up Arrr Mates, the Sexiest Pirate Pinups ‘n the Seven Seas. Sexy picturs of pin-up dressed as pirates, or something like that. The picture on the top is from one of those girls, Molly Roger.

Watch the classic silent film The Black Pirate with Douglas Fairbanks at Videos with Bibi, and the special “Talk like a Pirate Day” films Dancing Pirate and Captain Kidd.
WordPress users can Piratify Your Blogs using the Text Filter Suite Plugin. It turns yer blog into pirate-speak on Talk Like a Pirate Day! (via The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire)
The YouTube profile Offcial Wench hosts 23 videos of Cap’n Slappy and Ol’ Chumbucket. The last video added, Pirates of the Burning Sea, introduces the video game, “Pirates of the Burning Sea” for the release party in Seattle, Washington on September 19th. You can watch their video Pirates And Ninjas bellow.
Pictures of The Pirate zombie pin-up model. As a good pirate she has a parrot.
And the original Talk Like A Pirate Day site. It has some cool stuff, games and many other links.

Previous posts with pirates:
Devout Dolls
Talk Like A Pirate Day
Courts métrages Annecy
Piratical and Privateering Books in English

What a lovely image: a gorgeous brunette in a “café”and a marvellous Paris Métro exit in Art Nouveau style. The enclosed exit of Porte Dauphine station with the “Metropolitain” word really exists and it was designed by Hector Guimard in1899. About the girl I’m not so sure. Maybe she’s only part of the imagination of the French artist Patrick Hitte. Hitte is specialised in cheesecake images. His pin-ups have a fresh new style with some details of classic pin-ups illustrations. More of his works at here.

Let’s put some shine on this blog with pictures of saucy girls. Vintage Girlwatchers is a site about the girlie magazine from 1950’s Girl Watcher and related. According to the description: This site exists to celebrate and preserve books and magazines about girlwatching and girl-photography from the fifties and sixties. The “celebration” includes two complete scanned Girl Watcher magazines, photography magazines – the best part -, articles about those magazines and some information about photography books. I think the articles are even more interesting than the original “Girl Watcher” magazines.

Curiously those magazines have all similar names: Glamour Photography, Charm Photography and Glamorgirl Photography. And similar images: girls in bikinis or in sexy positions and situations, most part of time. I could say it’s safe for wor, excluding the Art Photography area.