Oh the good old times... Part 1

Everyone of us has a best friend. I miss my best friend horribly, so I´ll just write about her.

Fids and me got to know cause our mothers were friends. It was quiet obvious that this was a good choice, Fids Mom beeing the only Punk in town and Mom who was looked down upon for living with two men (in case you wonder: they actually just shared the rent for the house they lived in. However this was consideres scandalous on the country-side in the early 80s. However the fact that my grandfather was living together with a man himself and this not to pay the rent made it probably not easier.).

Fids was two years younger than me (about 3-4 years old, which results in the fact that we know since 22 years now) and we met when we went to Karneval all together. Fids was dressed up as a cat and i was dressed up as a vampire. At first we didn´t really like each other and I don´t think we hang out at this ocassion at all, but somehow we grew together.

We started off as two people beeing very different. She a really confident, headstrong, demanding child and I uber-shy, quiet and a dreamer. What united us was that we both were unique and creative personalities. You may call us the freaks of town. Over the years our differences faded and we fit together perfectly.

Childhood together was quiet fun. Her Mom lived in the neighborhood in the forrest about 10-15 minutes by foot so we ran through the forrests or our wild garden with the cherry tree. boy, did we do some stuff together! Not only did we write weird poetry together (an exerpt: "A swan swam in the desert, but when I finally kissed it, it only said goodbye to me"), we even trained for the case we´d get kidnapped someday (with ropes. Since this day you can feel free to call me the Houdini of Pin up. No ties can hold me down) and in later years we occassionally skipped school together ;-)

There was only one thing we didn´t agree with: She was a Take That Fan (later it became Backstreet Boys) and little me was into Rednex and not boygroups at all. But we made the best of it: We traded whatever we found in magazines despite going on each others nerves with our music-taste as, off course, we had those cds on endless repeat to our mutual distress. Fids at least had several albums at her service while I just had one. For 5 years :-D Hence Fids will forever hate Rednex and I´ll forever hate Boygroups. ;-)

Anyway: By the time I was 22 I moved out of town cause it wasn´t fun to live there. It was all too narrow-minded and there is hardly anything where I lived. Basically exactly the place to bury your dreams, get depressive, kill your creativity and get looked down upon if you are not like everyone else (when the school-class I was in from 1rst grade got split and mixed with other classes I lost all the friends I had since Kindergarten and instead got in a whole bunch of bullies. There were not used to me beeing a bit different so they tortured me at every chance) .

A few years later Fids moved away, too, however somewhere totally else than I did. We see each other on ocassions like X-Mas or eastern nowadays cause it is quiet a few hundred kilometers difference.

While I´m more of a pin up type she really has a gypsy/hippie/goth thing going on that would be ridiculous on everyone else but matches her to perfection. you could tell that we are connected in mind, cause it can happen that one of us thinks of the other and suddenly the phone rings and it´s her! We also share a talent of dreaming things in advance. Maybe running through the forrests made us witches or something. Not only are we best friends, we are sisters in mind. There is no one else with that I can philosophy about the weirdest stuff or with that I fail so hard finding anything on the world map. We mutually inspire each other!

I think I might post some more stuff about good old times and other people I have met, but let´s see. I could share my weirdest Rednex-moments or how we found those leopard-print boxers at the place of a male egyptian belly dancers and his perv vases. I don´t know yet I´m just so damn nostalgic. If you feel like doing so post something you´d like to know about cause I can´t know it otherwise :-D

what to do when you are bored

I love love love to make fun of the glamourous image models and pin ups have. Basically I was just damn bored that day so I recorded this little something...


A work-mate of mine told me to check out the 50s market in his hometown... so we went and had fun. We found the coolest café in town as well! :-)

Twittering

So now I signed up on twitter, too. Actually just so I can follow/stalk Dita von Teese ;-) However maybe anyone of you wans to add me so I have some more friends on my account?! https://twitter.com/RetroModelSari

Back to my mini-series: Last year in spring I badly wanted to do something spring-y. IT was also a perfect chance to show off my new haircut and to work with Ralf again with that I had worked 3 years or so ago.

Now I´m a rather quiet person when someone doesn´t know me, but put a camea on me and I sort of freak out. Ya know what I mean? No? Well, you´ll know when You´ve watched the video ;-)

Rock my mini.-series

This has a rather sad story: The photographer never gave me the photos. He just disappeared. Didn´t answer any mails anymore, signed off the platform where he originally contacted me and didn´t go on the phone eventhough our contract said I´d get the photos within 4 weeks :-( Now one year later it is obvious I´ll never receive them.
However in 5 years of modelling this has only occured like 2-3 times to me which is rare in comparision to other models I heard of!

ohne krimi geht die Mini-serie nicht on

In February 2008 I went to another shooting with Guchot and Majana and brought along John. Cause both of us think the original video was so much fun we did a little remake of the movie opening of "Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett". We practiced the evening before the shooting every step of the video 4-5 times - however John must have missed the purpose. He was rather surprised when I unpacked my camera in the studio and we started filming.

Oddly enough this has developed to the most popular video in my youtube channel!

 

In the present I went to another shooting today and otherwise enjoyed my day off a lot. Now we´ll eat some pizza!!!

And if continues

As Guchot and Majanas work is usually more fetish-y I felt this was the perfect chance to bring along my shiny, frilly garter-dress thingie... On the set we found a hula hoop which gave the pics a funny twist. Who should have known that years later I´d become a hula hoop fan training 20-30 minutes every day? Recently we shooted with another hula hoop, but let´s get to that later...

At the same shooting with Guchot and Majana we also wanted to do something resembling the 40s and 50s fetish-publications Bizarre and Exotique which had a lot of fetishes featured that seem rather innocent today: Corsets, Satin, Hobble skirts, extreme heels and gloves. I think we pretty much got the point of it :-)


I made myself a nice bag that I plan to use when I´m shooting tommorow. I have a matching hat to go with it so it will be very fun! I already feel how creativity is getting back to me. I feel not as exhausted as I usually do and I´m full of energy.

Yesterday I was in a store and almost bought me a few computer games for a few Euros... BUT I resisted cause if I stick on the computer only playing games I can´t do fabulous creative stuff. I can still go and do that when I run out of ideas ya know... ;-)

And the mini-series goes on

Damn was I exited when I was asked by Express TV (Express is a major daily newspaper appearing in my area) wether they can follow me to a shooting in 2007.
So I teamed up with Miss Giggles as she is the photographer with that I have worked most over the years (10 times or something?!) and we did that little feature for them.Damn were we nervous!!! Fortunetly everything went well though and we were very glad with the outcome! Last year they re-issued it when they wrote about me in the newspaper.

The stories behind

I decided to do a mini-series in which I tell about my videos cause I have my 5 year anniversary as a pin up. I don´t know if I´ll comment all videos in my channel and wether I´ll do that daily, but let´s see what happens.

It was in 2007 when I did my first video for my youtube-channel. I started the channel mostly cause I badly wanted to do shooting making offs and short movies but had problems finding someone that would actually do that for me. So I placed my camera on the table, changed clothes for 3 times till I liked what I saw on the video and started to film away. Note my ultra-long hair :-D

 

Some book Reviews

Hi everyone!

Today I talk a bit about books since I´m a big collector of books on Vintage Wear and Pin ups. My collection of Pin up books is so big you´d think I´m a bachelor in a Space Age apartment drinking Martinis. (Talking about Bachelors - check out www.javasbachelorpad.com - I hope to be someday famous enough to be featured in his "Modern Femme Fatale"-Archives)

Anyway, I here are some of my favourites:

Fashion:
http://www.amazon.de/Vintage-Fashions-1920s-1940s-Kristina-Harris/dp/0887409865/ref=sr_1_2/302-6140263-7753625?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1175666748&sr=1-2

Review: The photos are good photographed so you can see detailings and there are some close ups on the embroidery and such. Buuuuut... Don´t expect the models to be totally authentic styled though. Well, you can´t have everything I guess ;-)

http://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_ss_/302-6140263-7753625?__mk_de_DE=%C5M%C5Z%D5%D1&url=search-alias%3Denglish-books&field-keywords=Everyday+Fashions

Review: The whole "Every Day Fashions" Book-range by Dover Publications is a absolute treat! It features Catalogue-pictures from Sears for every decade and if you just can´t get enough you better get those, too:

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/302-6140263-7753625

I have the late 40s one, but Iam dying to get the rest of them, too especially since I didn´t find one page that was in the Every Day Fashions book, too so it´s really worth to invest in both ranges!

For Pin up Lovers:
http://www.amazon.de/Bernard-Hollywood-Ultimate-Pin-up-Jumbo/dp/3822862177/ref=sr_1_18/302-6140263-7753625?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175668875&sr=8-18

Review: A total absolute threat!!! There was also a Book by good ol´Bernard named "Guide to pin up Photography" that I highly recommend to Photographers and models that are getting started. It´s not available on amazon but sometimes shows up on ebay. In it he shows photos and how the light was set in a sketch. Really interesting!!!

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/302-6140263-7753625?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books-de&field-author=Dian%20Hanson

Review: I own Volume 1-2 and it is very interesting to read about the history and everything familar to pin up magazines. It is also full packed with pictures and very heavy (I guess 1-2 kg at least!)

http://www.amazon.de/Pin-up-Girls-Klotz-Burkhard-Riemscneider/dp/3822820946/ref=sr_1_1/302-6140263-7753625?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175669449&sr=1-1

Review: My very first Pin up book... It started my whole fascination for the subject. Unfortunetly some of the beautifull covers are twice in it. Nethertheless it´s a minority.

http://www.amazon.de/Great-American-Pin-Up-Midi/dp/3822817015/ref=sr_1_24/302-6140263-7753625?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175671449&sr=1-24

Review: Elvgren, Vargas, Dribben... you name a pin up artist... and you can be 99% sure he or she is in this book! It´s great to pick some favourites and to find out whose works you like the most. Highly recommended for starters.