Star Wars Burlesque photos
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From the show in Melbourne I went to. I did not get to take photos this time or I would still be going through them. The Imperial Guard was very intimidating.
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what exactly is Burlesque ?
I don't quite understand tbh.
is it just very safe porn?
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It's nonsense, for hipsters
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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Mon 5 Mar 2012, 11:06,
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Fucking Hipsters
ruined Scotland.
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Hardfarter Following through since 1978, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 11:27,
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Having known a burlesque dancer...
It can be very NSFW but you get a grant from the arts council.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 11:08,
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So it's porn?
pretending to not be porn? I'm still confused.
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It's not so much porn
as a kind of stylistic stripping./dancing. For some reason it seems vaguely socially acceptable, which I'm almost completely ok with.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Mon 5 Mar 2012, 11:21,
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Me too
Dr sketchy (a burlesque life drawing thing) is a great laugh, and a good way to perve without feeling seedy. About 75% of the class are women.
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taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 11:25,
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Stripping with A levels
according to Mark
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Raving Homasecsyouall the hours are good but the work sucks, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 11:12,
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arty stripping that girls and hipsters like
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taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 11:15,
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^this and
Victorian cosplayers (masquerading as goths) and fucking steampunks
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Fire & Forget it's the only way to be sure, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 12:24,
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it's stripping for women who want to pretend they're not stripping, or that they're being ironic
plus munters can take part if they wear a stupid/geeky outfit
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HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 11:27,
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To me it's porn.
I don't have any problems with porn at all. But some people do so they dress it up as something else, to pretend it's not porn when it clearly is. Doesn't mean porn is bad, as with anything there's good and bad.
why pretend it's not?
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I disagree
'Porn' to me is open fannies, cocks, penetration, sex acts etc...
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taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 12:04,
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It's porn
but it looks a bit like the film Moulin Rouge, so guys can take their girlfriends
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Fishcat Difficult difficult lemon difficult., Mon 5 Mar 2012, 11:29,
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I photographed a behind the scenes
Burlesque Event a couple of years back and to say that some of the girls involved were some of the most arrogant, pretentious, grumpy, unprofessional, self absorbed individuals I've had the mispleasure to photograph is an understatement.
The constantly talked about Dita Von Teese comparing themselves to her whereas the reality was they were just very average looking women with a touch too much cellulite than anyone in that profession should have.
The flipside of this is when I did a promo shoot for a lapdancer bar, the girls were unbelievably beautiful, looked after themselves, very engaging and just really nice people. People look down on them whilst at the same time think Burlesque is art. Fuck off.
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Hardfarter Following through since 1978, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 11:38,
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Ha!
I make most of my money from photographing grumpy families who'd rather slit your throat than smile for the camera. I get jobs like these probably once or twice a year.
I do get quite a lot of requests for photographing pets though?!
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Hardfarter Following through since 1978, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 16:16,
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The difference between Burlesque & Lap dancing apart from everything, is how they get paid.
Lap dancers earn money by being nice to creeps, Burlesque dancers don't.
So when a lecherous perv hiding behind the title of "photographer" is told to fuck off by Burlesque girls, the lap dancers will politely smile.
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but... but...
only the creepiest guys are into burlesque... so aren't burlesque acts... oh, they aren't nice to the creeps, I see
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Haha!
I was shooting a behind the scenes (with a set of portraits) of a Burlesque group for their publications so it didn't involve them getting their clothes off, basically just them getting worked on by make up artists. I specialise in portrait and event work so it just means me photographing things as natural as possible. I'm just commenting on what they spoke about and how they treated the make-up artists, which was appallingly.
It was a similar deal with the Lapdancers. I work with the same duo of make up artists and they were treated with nothing but respect and unlike the Burlesque troupe, we're utter professionals in front if the camera.
Just telling it how I saw it and they may possibly be the exception to the rule but the make-up artists said they get it all the time from the burlesque girls they've worked with.
As being called a lecherous perv, I was paid £600 for the burlesque job (not including the make up artists fees) and £900 for the lap dancing job. Not bad for a couple of hours work 'perving' as you put it.
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Hardfarter Following through since 1978, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 16:13,
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