‘The Monster Club’: how hand-painted animation brought a grindhouse horror classic to life
Were things really better back in the day?
Strippers
Thomas Edison filmed strippers, drug dens, animal murders, and THE VERY FIRST CAT VIDEO
Edison’s early experiments in film were often pretty scandalous even by today’s standards. There was the time he recorded his favorite body-building stripper, rather gracelessly…
Satanic strippers: Vintage burlesque performers dance with the devil
Actress Marian Martin in a Satan-themed burlesque cape. Martin actually played a dancer named ‘Pinky Lee’ in the 1943 film, ‘Lady of Burlesque‘ which was…
Sideshow girls: ‘Carnival strippers’ of the 1970s
“Ginger” Pennsylvania, 1975 Growing up in New England as I did, I found the discovery of American documentary photographer Susan Meiselas and her images of…
The Stranglers’ live performance of ‘Nice ‘n’ Sleazy’ with a bunch of strippers from 1978
Jean-Jacques Burnel and Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers on the stage at Battersea Park in London, September 16th, 1978 Back in 1977, the members of…
Senior citizen strippers: Burlesque beauties decked out and working it for the camera
La Savona, Indianapolis, Indiana (2012) Last week the death of burlesque legend Blaze Starr reminded us all of a far cheekier era of stripper–an anachronistic…
Late Capitalism’s Weapon of Cash Destruction: Shower strippers with money using ‘The Cash Cannon’
Ladies and gentlemen: The Cash Cannon. If you can get this past security at your local strip club–and let’s be honest, if your local strip…
Will pole dancing robots put human strippers out of work?
So many questions. The world’s largest computer expo took place in Hanover, Germany, last week. It’s called CeBIT (Centrum für Büroautomation, Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation), and…
T.ReXmas: Holiday message from Marc Bolan with yule log and strippers
A Christmas message from Marc Bolan, Steve Currie and Mickey Finn. Recorded on flexi-disc and made available only to fan club members in 1972. The…