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Need a portrait of yourself, your family, your pet dachsund? Want a photo for your holiday cards that’ll dazzle the

ornaments off the tree? Photographer and trend-setter Marina Williams invites you to ARTpool, her St. Pete gallery/boutique at 919 First Ave. N, for a professional, studio-lit photo session. If you like, you can wear items from the boutique’s vintage clothing and accessories collection during the shoot, and you’ll also get 50% off any one clothing item in the shop. After the shoot you’ll be presented with a final, high-resolution digital image on CD, and you’ll also receive two VIP tickets to the gallery’s ABC123 graphic design show in December.

Estimated value: $350.

This auction item closes Thursday, Dec. 10 @ 1:30 p.m. EST.

Final bid: $100

Bidding for this item is closed.

She’s not, seriously.  However, the pop princess DID sit down with Cosmopolitan, the magazine that knows more orgasm secrets than professional sex workers, for a fun little interview and photo shoot.  And, as you may have already guessed, The Rabid One would love to wear Ms. Perry’s cherry chapstick.

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Eccentric performer Lady Gaga bares all in the new issue of V magazine, posing for the images at a seaside shoot in Malibu on May 7th with Sebastian Faena.

“Sebastian is incredible. He’s so amazingly talented,” Lady Gaga said. “Very kind. He likes it when my nipples fall out. It’s all of the things I look for in a good photographer.”

Watch footage from the shoot and check out the topless shoot at newsoftheworld.co.uk.

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Press Release:

(Tampa, FL) Calling all country gals! The Dallas Bull is looking for thirteen lovely ladies to be featured in their 2010 calendar. With all of the attention gained from the 2009 calendar, the upcoming year is sure to be a success.
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Summer is coming up, and what better way to start it off than with a sneak peak at some new fashions? In addition to a killer photo shoot by Athena Torri, I have some exciting news about a new store opening in Tampa! Designer Raven Reda of Suspicious Package has wrangled in some great independent designers, artists and Tattoo..ers(?) to unite in a hip store on Howard Ave., called F.A.T. ink.

F.A.T. ink will have its soft opening May 1. We’ll get Raven in the studio later this month for a podcast to chat more about the specs and future of the store. Did I mention that Aleka Phoenix is finally going to have a steady place for people to buy clothing and accessories?

So to get you excited for all this news and the highly anticipated summer line from Aleka Phoenix check out the some shots from photoshoot”Electric” by Athena Torri with models Jojo & Jonathan Rosa, hair by our own Fusionista Tara at Salon 54 and makeup by Abra Molinari: Read the rest of this entry »