The Photo Shoot Has Been Shot (and we’re all still alive)

Checking into the brand new ultra sleek Thompson LES, we were met with an uncommon sight. They were using paper and pens. WTF, you ask? Their internet was down and hadn’t returned even when we finally checked out. I was pretty sure Diva’s head was going to explode. At midnight, when I wanted to watch more burlesque, my internet starved friend dragged me to the corner sweet shop where we could at last connect to WiFi.

Other than the internet issues, everything went amazingly well. Everyone looked insanely hot. Sexy, seductive, and all sorts of glamorous. The Slipper Room was a stellar backdrop for this project; so very NYC, so very burlesque. Their Floor Manager, the super sweet and super tall, Ken Ball, worked the lights, the music and kept us out of trouble. He didn’t even snicker once. At least not that I heard. Thanks Ken. I’ll tell you one thing, I may be an attention whore but that’s only until I get on stage under bright lights and then I freeze like a deer in the headlights. That I am sure my photos don’t reflect my nerves is a tribute to our team.

For making us all sorts of beautiful and glam, I want to thank Stormy. She’s not only a make up artist but a performer and when I get details about her shows I will post them here. She just turned a sexy, rocking 50. Happy birthday, beautiful Stormy.

Our hair stylist extraordinaire was the fantabulous Danny K. He is a true professional, did wonderful work in record time, pitched in with make up – all done with a bright smile. Thanks Danny for a job beautifully done.

The buxom and beautiful, Jezebel Express, was our stylist and she managed to have us contort our bodies into uncomfortable positions that looked sexy and classy and smoking hot. Well those of us that needed help, that is. Some of us seem to be naturals. Ahem, Dacia, Lux, Jamye and Riese. These women can work a stage, let me tell you.

darren Mayhem was super helpful, smiling through all the madness. Ms. Mayhem helped to assure that there was no mayhem on our set. Stacie’s able assistant on this shoot, she is also a wonderful photographer in her own right, so go and check out her flickr page for yourselves.

And Stacie Joy. What can I say? True to her name, she is a joy to work with and a consummate professional (and she likes my boobs a lot). You’ll have to wait and see the photos from this shoot but please go and look at her flickr page for some examples of her wonderful work.

Of course, all our pin ups were a delight to work with. Everyone was on time, even Rachel. After reading all Twanna‘s twitter indicating her tendency to always be running late, we made her sleep in our room so that couldn’t happen. And cause she’s so adorable and I love being around her.

As for modeling, I’m probably not going to quit my day job. If our pre-shoot dinner was any indication, modeling is not in my blood but a delicious steak and mashed potato dinner at Azul followed by chocolate for dessert at The Cocoa Bar sure was.

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Updates & Thanks

We started this blog a week ago and in that time we have had some spectacular results – thanks to all of you. Go check out the Sponsors and Friends – Our CommUNITY page to see all the amazing people who have supported us either by giving us funding, or products or by posting about us and helping to keep the buzz going.

Our CommUNITY (a phrase I have learned was coined by Lochai and which I love and am adopting) is vast and diverse as you can see by perusing that long list of people who have made, and continue to make, this project not only a reality but to make it successful. I have discovered many new and wonderful writers on that list and become reacquainted with old friends. Please pay a visit to all our friends and sponsors. By supporting each other all of us become better and stronger.

So, in the past week we have had over 8,000 hits and been linked on 42 blogs plus 12 of our own. We have sold a lot of days and calendars and we want to continue our efforts and sell every day.

Who should buy days? Everyone! Companies that want their name seen every month of the year should be one day a month. If you have special sales to promote, you can even include a promotion code for a specified time period. Bloggers who want to mark their blogiversaries. Readers who want to share in the fun and excitement and as what one writer, Rebecca Deos, says of our project, “You become embedded in something that becomes a cultural icon.” Rebecca also suggested we make available some signed copies of the calendar and indeed we intend to do so.

Our amazing sponsors have provided us with a lot of their fabulous products. Anyone want a NaughtiBod? We have several to give away. A Vergenza MK-1? Something bright and hard and shiny by Njoy? A sleek, elegant compact for your condoms (you know you should be using them and with plenty of good lube like Sliquid Organics Natural) from JustInCase? Keep your eyes on this page and we’ll let you know how you can win. But all of you are already winners. You’re part of this growing, welcoming commUNITY, you care about what happens within it and you want to and will make a difference.

I’m a pin-up!

Some New York City Sexblogger 2009 Calendar buttons for your website, your sidebar, your links page, your forehead – wherever!

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(I’m the only pin-up boy, but that “I’m a pin-up girl” above
was my favorite one, I had to make one for myself.)

You Gotta Be In It To Win It

Just as added incentive to help us help Sex Work Awareness, we have been lucky enough to have Lochai bestow upon us one of his photographs, Curves. This is not just any photograph. It is a museum quality print exhibited at the World Erotic Art Museum and signed by Lochai himself.

How do you enter the raffle to win this stunningly erotic photograph? You buy a day or two or three or a week on our calendar which you can personalize with your message up to 80 characters. Have a business you want to promote? Buy a day every month and remind people of your brand or store or product all year long. Have a blog and want to advertise your blogiversary? Pick that day and we’ll post your URL. Want to say “I love you” to your significant other on their birthday? Do it on our calendar. Have a special event in 2009 that you want everyone to remember? We’ll print it on our calendar. Each day you purchase is one entry in the raffle. The deadline for buying days and for the raffle is October 1st at midnight EST. We will pick and notify the winner on October 2nd and announce it (or not depending on the winner’s preference).

So buy your days here. We’ll email you back within 24 hours and record the days you want and the message to be printed. You might win this beautiful photograph while benefiting a good and often overlooked cause.

Pirate Pin Up

Masuimi Max Pirate Pinup – Photo by Laura Byrnes

Here’s a look for anyone bold and wenchy enough to recreate it. All you need is a hat, black pumps and a red ribbon. If only I didn’t already have my outfit picked out. Oh well, maybe next year.

For Your Nymphomation

I spent the other morning on the phone with the lovely Vera of ForYourNymphomation.com who has generously offered to provide us with her amazing Rolling Toy Trunk. Thank you so much Vera. We will be raffling it off at our launch party and I will be buying a pile of tickets because I must have it. Must have it.

Vera, awesome sponsor that she is, is offering our readers and supporters a 15% discount on online orders. Just use promotion code SEXBLOGCAL when you enter your order.

So keep your toys in order, support sex workers and get to see more of your favorite NYC sex bloggers by buying a calendar and some days to personalize now!

Welcome

Welcome to the NYC Sex Bloggers 2009 Calendar Project. What started as a little idea in my head, grew wings and flew thanks to the many amazing people in our community and beyond.

“How cool would it be to do a blogger calendar and sell it to benefit a good cause,” was the little thought that blossomed. Everyone I asked couldn’t wait to participate or assist with time, suggestions, money and all manner of support.

In the end, twelve of NYC’s most dynamic literary and sex positive women -writers, sex educators, film makers, and ordinary women – joined together in order to support Audacia Ray’s Sex Work Awareness Project. We are some of the New York area’s best and brightest, and we want to see the stigma associated with sex work and workers removed.

We are:

Audacia Ray

Desiree

Diva

Elizabeth Wood

Jamye Waxman

Lux Alptraum

Mariella

Rachel Kramer Bussel

Riese

Sinclair Sexsmith

Tess Danesi

Twanna A Hines

In our limited edition 2009 calendar we will be “taking if off” at the Slipper Room. All profits from the sale of this calendar will go directly to Sex Work Awareness. The poses will be fun and flirty and burlesque themed, with no graphic nudity. Think costumes, corsets, pasties and g-strings.

Stacie Joy, whose specialty is burlesque and New York nightlife, is our amazing photographer. We also have the cooperation of two wonderful graphic designers, Sinclair and Jack, working together to make this project a smashing success.

We’d like to offer everyone, businesses, readers and fellow bloggers, the opportunity to join in the fun and excitement, as well as promote yourselves. That means for $30 you can buy a day in our calendar and personalize it. If you’re a business think about buying one day each month and being remembered all year. If you’re a blogger you can have your blog url on your day, or if you’re a reader, any personal message – you can wish us luck or send a greeting to your favorite blogger or celebrate your birthday or anniversary – up to 80 characters will be printed on your day. That $30 includes one pre-ordered calendar (shipping is extra) with all funds in excess of our expenses going directly to Sex Work Awareness. You can purchase as many additional days as you like depending upon availability for $10 each. Since this is a 2009 calendar, we are on an extremely tight schedule and can only sell days through October 1st, 2008. We hope you will consider this a fun and creative way to promote your blog or just as a way to share in the pleasure and excitement this project has been bringing us in our effort to make our community and world a better, more sex-positive place to live.

Before I let you go and buy your days and calendars there are some people without whose help and support this project would have remained only an idea.

Thank you Njoy, Sliquid, Vergenza, The Slipper Room, FreeFoods NYC, Good Vibrations, OhMiBod, JustinCase, AAG, Catalina, Jack, Calico, and all the above bloggers for everything you’ve done. I feel truly blessed to live in this dynamic and welcoming community, to know all of you and to consider you my friends.

Now go and buy your days and calendars, give us some incentive to “take if off.”

Much love,
Tess