Tallulah Lee (fb, instagram, archives), the artist formerly known as Lu Lee. East Van at heart, Miss Lee always has a certain casual flair to her that I quite enjoy capturing, this time it was pink, obviously. You can’t walk down a street lookin’ like Tallulah – having a mane
Thug Dance (day 1577) I’m an East Van thug I’ve got dimes for your eyes I wrote empty lines For shoes your size. Beats’n’bustin And breakin signs, I’ve locked this hood On playing this rhyme Crack crack Break a ga-lack Break your mother fuckin’ knees Smack; my attack From Hasting’s
The first time I saw Ava Lure I held my breath as she danced her graceful heart upon her soon-to-be-discarded sleeves as one of the members of Pandora & the Locksmiths (fb, tumblr), a collective of burlesque dancers, musicians, and vocalists. Every single time from then on it keeps getting
The East Vanity Parlour (fb) is filled with some badass, scissor wielding, bike riding, updo styling babes, located in the heart of East Van’s Mount Pleasant district. I’ve had the good fortune to get to know some of these girls over the years, and when Kristi (Owner)(fb) and Sophie (fb)
Nite Mare (fb, instagram, previous posts) is a dancer in the local burlesque troop The Lost Girls (previous posts, fb), regularly causing crowds to lose their minds. I thought about laying down some sick gangster southcentral LA lyrics as an intro to this photoshoot, but decided that, after all, I
