Rotofugi Gallery - Playboy REdux

Last month, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Playboy Clubs, Playboy, along with The Warhol Museum, had contemporary artists give their reinterpretation of the Playboy Bunny. It is now being shown in the Rotofugi Gallery in Chicago.

Rotofugi Gallery - Playboy REdux

I thought I'd share a bit of my interpretation with help of the great Dean Yeagle and his icon Bunny.

Angela Marie, Cyber Girl of the Week, September 13, 2010

Angela Marie graces us with her presence as our Cyber Girl of the Week. And what a special week for her as it's also her birthday on the 14th! A very happy birthday to you indeed, Angela! I'm sure we'll see much more of this cute blonde in Playboy very soon!


Photography by Stephen Wayda

Angela Marie
Hometown Los Angeles, California
Date of Birth September 14, 1989
Height 5'3"
Weight 105 lbs.
Measurements 32A-24-34
A movie legend in the making, Angela splits her time between modeling and directing award-winning short films. " I do parodies and comedies, "she says. "Sometimes I go for seriousness and it ends up being hilarious anyway, so I think I have a knack for comedy." She casts her close friends and family in her work, including her sister October 2010 Playmate Claire Sinclair. Angela even wrote, directed and edited a short film for Hugh Hefner's 84th birthday starring Claire and Playmate Crystal Harris. "It premiered at the Mansion on Casablanca night which was  huge honor for me as a filmmaker," she says. "Hef really appreciates film and enjoyed it very much. He said 'Thank you for going through all the trouble to make that film.' It was no trouble though. It was truly a pleasure."

Jessica Gamboa, Cyber Girl of the Week, September 6, 2010

Jessica Gamboa starts out September beautifully. She has that old-school, girl-next-door look that I absolutely love. She's got lots of leg and looks taller than the 5-foot-4 stat on her page. I'll surely do a bit more research on that and get back to you! Here is the lovely, Jessica Gamboa!

Photography by Mizuno

Jessica Gamboa
Hometown Los Angeles, California
Date of Birth January 5, 1985
Height 5'4"
Weight 101 lbs.
Measurements 34C-24-34
Jessica says she feels sexy when happy, wearing heels and kissing. We feel sexy when we see her perfect body, powered by hiking, yoga and good eating. And with whom does she share that perfect body? "Someone who connects with my heart and my mind," Jessica says. "Someone who remembers to play!"

Why I Pose...Brittany Ireland

Brittany is a sweet, beautiful girl who splits her time between southern California and Chicago. She had attended the Chicago Casting Call a few months ago. And now, she's one of the girls of Playboy Live! She loves to travel the world, working out, going green and meeting new people from all walks of life!

Don't forget to check out Brittany on Playboy Live, Monday through Friday, 10pm-2am EST!

Brittany Ireland

I think that is a great question and I am glad you asked me and wanted to find out. I posed for two reasons to continue to empower women to be comfortable with their bodies and two in hopes to become a playmate one day. I have always grown up with the notion that the women of playboy are international beautiful sex symbols but people tend to forget that they are quite intelligent and business savvy in their own right. Many use their fame from playboy to branch into other areas of entertainment as well as educate young girls about the power and strength of being "ok" with their bodies. Playboy does promote fit and in shape women but i think at the end of the day with the way to reader is changing their definition of what is beautiful i believe playboy has and will continue to adapt. I am happy i posed and have always been comfortable with my body and have no problem showing the beautiful creation god made. Hey back in the day and in certain parts of the world people walk freely naked and posed around and what not among other things!

Brittany Barbour, Cyber Girl of the Week, August 30, 2010

This light-eyed cutie closes out this incredible month of August. Brittany Barbour has that very cute, girl-next-door look. I have a feeling that we'll see much more of Ms. Barbour in the very near future.


Photography by Stephen Wayda

Brittany Barbour
Hometown Sherman Oaks, California
Date of Birth January 2, 1987
Height 5'2"
Weight 98 lbs.
Measurements 32C-23-32
"Cooking in lingerie should be a requirement in the kitchen," says Brittany, who would be a welcome sight in our galley. She hopes to open her own restaurant where she'll undoubtedly be a very sexy master chef. Despite her love of great meals, Brittany has a sure-fire way of keeping her ridiculous figure in shape: "Sex is the only exercise I get!"

Erika Mayshawn, Cyber Girl of the Week, August 23, 2010

Erika Mayshawn comes to us as our Cyber Girl for the week. This beauty has been a veteran on the Playboy Girls Network scene and finally has the spotlight on her in the Playboy Cyber Club.


Photography by George Georgiou

Erika Mayshawn
Hometown Detroit, Michigan
Date of Birth May 3, 1983
Height 5'10"
Weight 125 lbs.
Measurements 32DD-26-38
Don't let her pretty face (and body) fool you—Erika has brains! "Most of my life has been about studying and doing homework," she says. All the hours in the library paid off when she earned college dean's list honors and graduated with a perfect 4.0 GPA. Those laurels helped her find a job in the fashion industry, where she works as a merchandiser and stylist. She's even started on plans to open a chain of clothing stores. "I'm not too far off from launching the online portion," she says. It's going to take a lot of hard work." We hope she stocks up on her favorite items: her sexy clothes. "You know, the ones I keep in the top drawer!"

Response to 'Should My Kid Read Playboy Magazine'?

The article from The Orange County Register is written by Marla Jo Fisher, who had recently found that her 13-year-old son and his friends were looking at internet porn. And with that, she was considering to buy him a subscription to Playboy. At first, I thought, why not? I mean, I was interested at that age. I loved classy, beautiful women. But as I thought about it more and read the article. I don't think it's a great idea, but not for the reasons that you might think. Looking at Playboy as a 'replacement' for internet porn isn't the answer. Playboy has a history. Playboy is a brand. Playboy is a culture. 

I became a teenager at about the same time when the internet blew up and just started to change our lives. When the internet entered our home, when I was about 13, I immediately went to the Playboy website, which had just about launched that very same year. I went to the website, not because there were naked girls, well, that was part of the reason, but it was Playboy. Everyone knew that Playboy was the classy magazine, and with all that we can see on the internet these days, it still is classy.

As I have said before in this blog, in my early teenage years, I was curious about Playboy. I heard of my friends taking out the magazine from the library and looking through them. In my late teens, I became a fan. I found the Playboy Mailing List when I was 15, and years later, the Playboy message boards. There I could chat with other Playboy fans as well as Playboy models to discuss everything Playboy. And then, into my twenties, I became a connoisseur. It all led me to create my own blog dedicated to Playboy. As a teen, I didn't only find the beautiful centerfolds, but learned about Playboy's history and how Hugh Hefner started the revolutionary magazine. I also found the Playboy Philosophy. Mr. Hefner and his philosophy, in some way, inspired me to go take the creative path in my life and become a graphic designer. They inspired me to hopefully create my own magazine one day.

In the 1990s, Playboy had tried to take steps to try to keep up with their 'frat-boy' counterparts, like Maxim and FHM, but soon realized that was not what they were all about. Recently, the magazine is trying to keep up with the fast rise of the internet and impending doom of the print industry. Like Marla's son and his friends have found, porn is right at your fingertips. Playboy does have Playboy TV and bought Spice TV, the porn pay-per-view channel. So Playboy has dipped its hand into porn, but to me, Playboy magazine, itself, is not porn. Having met and gotten to know a few Playboy models, it is still about that Girl Next Door today than it was in its golden years of the 1960s and 70s.

Playboy impacted me in a way that I wanted to change the world and shape it in the way that I see fit. I wanted to create a culture and a way of life. So in a way, Playboy magazine, as Reverend Roy Larson said in the Playboy Philosophy, "is a sort of bible which defines his values, shapes his personality..." For me, to replace internet porn with Playboy magazine is a bit sacrilegious. But honestly, Playboy isn't what it once was in its glory days. But it is still around and trying to catch the attention of that horny teenager. That teenager becomes a fan of Playboy, and when he grows up, he'll still be a fan. Maybe even a connoisseur.
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