Dita von Tease is the new model for Wonderbra, which makes perfect sense and personally I encourage artists to make sponsorship deals that are related to their craft (I would). She stars in a new advertisement for Wonderbra so naturally I had to check it out.
The first time I watched it I was very distracted -- not by Dita -- but by the music. Something didn't sound quite right about the horn section. Then I realized that the big band music you hear once Dita starts dancing is not performed by real human musicians. It's all computer music controlled by midi instruments.
Our friend Shaboobie Boobarella of Pink Flamingo Burlesque was interviewed by Stephen Quinn on CBC radio's "On the Coast" program (stream or download below). Also in the interview is Shaboobie's grandmother, Misty Morningstar, who was a burlesque performer back the heyday of Vancouver in the 1950s.
Shaboobie tells us how her family inspired her to become a burlesque performer and how her grandmother taught her to shimmy when she was a little girl. Misty Morningstar talks about the Vancouver nightclub she performed at as a chorus girl in the 1950s and how she met her husband and gave up burlesque to raise a family -- though she still religiously wears fake eyelashes to this day....
Burlesque Magazine is a free digital magazine that launched earlier this year and I want to give it a plug here because I hope it does well so that I can continue reading it in many future issues.
The second issue has an interesting interview with Amelia Kallman who recently moved to Shanghai with Norman Gosney to start China's only burlesque club. "The Chinatown" is housed in a former Buddhist temple that was built in the 1930s. The club was designed so that when you enter "you walk into a movie of Hollywood's version of Shanghai in the 30s and 40s."
I am envious.
You can download the first and second issue of Burlesque Magazine from their website, http://www.burlesquemag.com/ or sign up with your e-mail address to get each issue delivered to your inbox.
Oh yeah... and they have lots of sexy photos of lovely burly-Q gals!
The Photoshop of music has arrived. Just as Photoshop has given photographers the ability to make anyone look beautiful, new software called Melodyne can touch up any music recording to make it flawless.
Direct Note Access is a shocking new technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time in audio recording history you can now identify and edit individual notes within polyphonic audio material. This new software can identify pitch, timing, note lengths and other parameters of melodic notes within chords. What we could only do with MIDI files previously, we can now do with regular audio files.
For example, you could record yourself playing guitar and later change a major chord into a minor chord with a click and a drag of the mouse.
Our friend Shaboobie Boobarella of 
The Photoshop of music has arrived. Just as Photoshop has given photographers the ability to