Showgirl

I had a wonderfull surprise in my mailbox this morning! Another photo from my shooting with Elisabeth Hackmann that we had about a year ago. I love it! Elisabeth made the headwear and the feather bustles herself!

Rockabilly Ruhrpott online auf Spiegel TV!

Guten morgen!

Heute bin ich aufgewacht und wollte nochmal schnell auf Facebook schauen um zu sehen was es neues gibt bevor ich frühstücke und mich für das Shooting mit Lucky Lola fertig mache! Und was sehe ich da?

Ich dachte erst, jemand postet da einen Scherz, aber ich habe nachgesehen und JA ICH BIN AUF DER ERSTEN SEITE VON SPIEGEL ONLINE! Und ich habe weiter nachgesehen und JA, DIESES WOCHENENDE ZEIGT SPIEGEL EXCLUSIV ROCKABILLY RUHRPOTT ONLINE!

Wenn ihr als 8 Jahre altes Material einer dickeren Sari sehen wollt ist das eure perfekte Chance. Ganz im Ernst, es ist eine wirklich sehenswerte Doku über Rockabilly Kultur im Ruhrpott.

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Good morning,

today I woke up and just wanted to check my Facebook before having breakfast an preparing for my shooting with Lucky Lola and I really thought someone was kidding when posting the above picture. So I checked and YES IT IS TRUE THAT IAM ON THE FIRST PAGE OF SPIEGEL ONLINE (If you are not familiar, this is a big deal in Germany)" Und I checked further and YES THIS WEEKEND YOU CAN WATCH ROCKABILLY RUHRPOTT ONLINE IN ITS ENTIRETY ON THEIR WEBSITE!

If you´d like to see 8 year old Material with a bigger Sari in it this is your perfect chance. Seriously, it is a great documentary about Rockabilly Culture in the Ruhrpott area.

Grace and Glory - Tearsheets

Hello everyone,

my printed copy arrived and here are my photos :-)

 

Photos & Retouch by Satin Paula Kopczynski

The book "Grace and Glory" is available on Amazon

Grace and Glory - a book by Paula Kopczynski

Hello everyone,

I had the pleasure to work with Paula during two occasions, so when she asked me whether I wanted to see a preview of her newly released book "Grace and Glory" and whether I wanted to write a review about it I was on board immediately! 

I have to tell the funny and slightly weird story on how we got to know each other first. A few years ago the lovely Anne-Marie Morschek, designer of the lovely Shop Fräulein Valentine which happened to be in my neighborhood had a flyer in her shop window where someone was looking for models for an upcoming vintage styling book. As I am always on the look out for fun shooting I sent an email to the email adress stated on the flyer, along with some og my most beloved photos and I got an reply from Paula. 

It was something along the lines of "Is there any chance you happen to know my father?". After inquiring I found out that YES I had shooted in her dads studio with one of his photography students a few years back. What a fantastic and highly unlikely coincidence! so off course we were shooting for the book "Rock ´n´ Hair" together and the rest is history ;-)

Anyway, Paula has taken some amazing photos of beautifull retro ladies and gentlemen, both at studios, outdoors events etc etc and has put a collection of those into her new book "Grace and Glory". A few previously unreleased ones of myself are in it too, in case you wonder.

The book summary states: "As a creative, free spirit, she dedicates this book to her passion fervor for the mid-century. She combines the self-conception of the modern Lady and the contemporary masculinity with the glamorous look of that period. Those men and women are self-confident and in proper-style. They know what the want and they know how to style themselves. To collect all these images, Paula traveled throughout the world. The photos were shot within Europe, US, Australia, South Africa and Russia in between 2009-2014. She varies between using analog and digital cameras. The book is mainly shot with a digital medium format camera, as well as, 50's analog camera, and polaroid. The round about 200 photos show the rockabilly scene, the 50's, vintage, PinUps, Burlesque, HotRods, Car races ... and much more!"

On 164 pages you get to see beautifull people at beautifull places and amazing cars, so if you have a soft spot for those things (and let´s face it, who hasn´t?) it is really a book you should consider buying. Personally I allways love to look at other ladies and get inspired by their hair, make up, clothes etc... It probably says a lot about the quality of the book by stating that I have ordered a printed copy for myself ;-) I will make sure to post some photos of old me once it as come :-)

Another photo from the Shooting for "Rock Rooms" and "für´s herz"

Photo an Retouch: by Natascha K. Art and Photography

Table: by Rock Rooms

Bag and Clutches: by für´s herz

Documentary "Sari - The German Pin up Girl" is online NOW!

You can watch the Documentary "Sari - The German Pin up Girl" here NOW!!!And you can find all the dresses worn during the filming here.

I am no Banana Joe

Hello everyone,

a few weeks back i got to work again with Elisabeth Hackmann. We got to do a lot of photos together and here is Part 1 of the shooting. It was a lot of fun as always - we have been shooting on and off for, I think, 9-10 years now....

An Afternoon with Reflection Design

Hello everyone,

I am wayyyyy back with my posts because technically I have a lot of things to post about, but shooting every weekend and working all week makes it nearly impossible to catch up. However April will be less busy in my calendar so my blog will be busier ;-) Anyway I wanted to share those little gems that I did with Reflection Design a few weeks back! I hope you enjoy them :-)

The weather is terrible, I have a migraine.... Spring Photos anyone?

 As the sun still refuses to shine I put up some Bonus Picknick Pics from my Shooting with
Bea Burin-Herbst today.

I will post some more this Weekend! Now I just gonna crawl back to bed and lay still.

 

Swinging

Hello everyone,

 

as you may or may not know May 1st is a public Holiday in Germany... I spent it in the way I love spending Holidays the most.... Shooting :-) Enjoy Part 1 of the photos by Bea Burin-Herbst Fotografie

 

 

 

 

Seriously.... she provoked me!

By die Elster

Naughty Girl: Peony Black

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who´s the naughtiest of them all?

The queen, at home, went in front of the glass and said, looking-glass, looking-glass, on the wall, who in this land is the fairest of all.

Then it answered as before, oh, queen, thou art fairest of all I see, but over the hills, where the seven dwarfs dwell, snow-white is still alive and well, and none is so fair as she.

When she heard the glass speak thus she trembled and shook with rage. Snow-white shall die, she cried, even if it costs me my life.


Thereupon she went into a quite secret, lonely room, where no one ever came, and there she made a very poisonous apple. Outside it looked pretty, white with a red cheek, so that everyone who saw it longed for it, but whoever ate a piece of it must surely die.

 by Tajana´s cosmos

How to buy me - well, my picture that is ;-)

Hello everyone,

die Elster has finally put her calendar up for sale! If you want one you can shop it here... Just in case the world does not end in December 2012 you should get one. And off course Xmas is just around the corner and nothing says "I want to spend time with you" as obvious as a calendar.

Additionally she liked the picture she took of me and Peony blck so much that she figured she sells them as prints! You can buy your own female communication print here

Feather Fan Bunnies

The Zombie Pin up Photo I posted fpr Halloween might trick you into believing that die Elster can only take scary photos.... but this is absolutely not the case which my co model Peony Black and I show in this one... peony can be seen as undead Easterbunny in the Zombie Pin up Calendar ;-)

For the one that has every thing...

Hello everyone,

Just a little promo for an upcoming Zombie Pin up Calendar by die Elster that includes me as well.

With Xmas just around the corner this  could be the VERY thing to give the strange lady or gentlemen in your life that has everything else already :-) Once it is online for sale (on Halloween) I will make sure to post a link to it. Just in case the apocalypso is not beeing danced in December 2012 you really should consider starting 2013 with undead chicks... ;-)

Two lovely photos by Irene

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Necklace by: AbARTig

Yes, my blog has been a little quiet. I had some time off and really made use of it, doing nothing but RELAX :-D

When I grow up..... Part 2

... someone will kiss me every day.

I actually made the nose and the ears out of Latex myself :-)

Man eater? No, Matroschkas!

Hello everyone,

when I was 17 someone looked at me and said "Ah, you´ll become a vamp and man eater!" This route was never something I considered (I turned out to be the opposite). But Matroschka eater? Well, that´s something else!

Bon Appetit!
Sari

Hello everyone,

I am sure you still remember the green dress I wore on "Guten Abend RTL"! Here´s another lovely piece from Anne-Marie!!! <3

available here: http://de.dawanda.com/shop/fraeuleinwunder (the dress, not me off course ;-)

Valentines Day is surely improving!

1989: My grandmother died

1999-2003 and 2005 - 2006: the "oh no one will ever love me" depressions (most of us have been there I guess) 

2004: a fight in snowy streets including me beeing thrown down on the street and me giving a guy  the first and only slap I ever gave.

2007 - 2010: Yay at least I have a sweet boyfriend eventhough he doesn´t do anything on V-Day

2011: a paper heart from a gay friend

2012: a valentines day breakfast, a plant that will hopefully blossom soon, 3 cards (ok, two were from children:-), 3 roses and a little bag of candy from unknown sources and John wants to get some chinese food for us tonight!

Iam thrilled to actually have sort of a REAL Valentines Day for the first time in my life!!! (though the paper heart 2011 was very very sweet, too!)

If you have someone to love, LOVE! 

If you don´t: Things will evolve and get better little by little!