ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIP SERVICE WEB MAGAZINE There is nothing more traditional to Thanksgiving than taking more than your fair share! In the storied 1621 feast, guess who brought the bulk of the grub? That’s right, the folks who shortly wound up with the short end of the proverbial stick,…
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BLOG ARTICLE – SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF EAT, PRAY, LOVE
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIP SERVICE WEB MAGAZINE Generally, messages selling the route to self-fulfillment should always be scrutinized. Often, they are about nothing more than fulfillment of the author and publisher’s bank accounts, which, so long as they’re not detrimental to the adherents, can be set aside in the Buyer…
Continue ReadingEVENT/VENUE ARTICLE – SUMMER OF SIN
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIP SERVICE WEB MAGAZINE We started our Summer of Sin with a little trip to Exxxotica Expo. If you can imagine a convention hall filled with booths about your favorite sins and sinners with various bits of stripper-licious eye-candy spotted between, quite literally about every few yards,…
Continue ReadingBLOG ARTICLE – VAMP-LICIOUS (A.K.A. YOU CAN SUCK MY NECK, ANYTIME)!
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIP SERVICE WEB MAGAZINE Anybody disappointed that the casting for Interview with the Vampire, at least in the case of Armand, did not follow the description set forth by Anne Rice in the obscenely popular novel? Show of hands? *crickets* Yeah, me neither. Sure, Armand was supposed…
Continue ReadingBLOG ARTICLE – HAVE A SPICY, SINFUL CINCO!
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIP SERVICE WEB MAGAZINE First, let it be said for the record that, according to many reliable info sources, Cinco de Mayo is not actually celebrated throughout Mexico (it’s more a Puebla thing). In all honesty, it’s a holiday on par with St. Patrick’s Day, just an…
Continue ReadingBLOG ARTICLE – A SMUT SHOOTER’S GUIDE TO “THAT GUY”
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIP SERVICE WEB MAGAZINE My name is Mich and I’m a shooter. I do a bit of fashion, a touch of live band stuff, but mainly I shoot smut. I’ve worked with some notable porn talent and fetish models and have more on the schedule into the…
Continue ReadingBLOG ARTICLE – VICES GOES GREEN
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIP SERVICE WEB MAGAZINE The old-school Irish used to head for a bit of the poteen (or poitíne). Think of it as Irish moonshine, with more kick than Sister Mary Francis on a bad day. It’s been said that poteen could cause blindness and even sometimes kill…
Continue ReadingEVENT/VENUE ARTICLE – SINGING WITH PORN STARS: LA’S NAUGHTIEST INSTITUTION, PORN STAR KARAOKE!
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIP SERVICE WEB MAGAZINE Let me tell you a little LA Story … Once upon a naughty time, a few adult performers stopped by a little, local hole-in-the-wall joint to unwind after work. It happened to be karaoke night, and they had a great time singing and…
Continue ReadingBLOG ARTICLE – HAPPY VD TO YOU, TOO! SCREWING THE ROSES AND FINDING LUPERCALIA
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIP SERVICE WEB MAGAZINE Ahhhh, can you just feel the flop-sweat stench of forced romance in the air? Almost hear the anticipation of millions of cash registers? That can mean but one thing, the whole frick’n world is about to get VD yet again this year. Oh…
Continue ReadingPHOTO RETOUCHING: TATTOO & WRINKLE REMOVAL
Our recent Lip Service costume packaging project presented quite a few challenges. Beside a rather insane time-frame to complete printing in time for a major trade show, there were a lot of photo editing and retouching issues to address in virtually all of the photos. When you have a deep…
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