tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70598440373589194972024-03-05T08:01:15.402-08:00The Official Blog of Joel Adams ArtOriginally the Art of Joel Adams blog, I had at one point posted so much to the blog to promote Carrie Leigh's NUDE magazine, I suggested that it become the Official blog to the magazine.. After many wonderful years as such, the blog has come back to me. My Art site is currently being revamped and when it is done, I will be moving all blogs over to that site... EnjoyJoel Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897819724873957268noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059844037358919497.post-16833961470563061542012-06-30T17:11:00.003-07:002012-06-30T17:11:56.571-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Now that this blog is no longer needed to promote Carrie Leigh's NUDE Magazine, Carrie suggested to me that I take the blog back... back in the beginnings of the magazine I had been using the blog so much to promote the magazine that I suggested it be used as the official Magazine Blog. So now it has come around full circle.<br />
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There are those subscribed to this that will be uninterested in my work and I am sure my followers will drop... It happens.<br />
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To those who stay around. I will try to keep it interesting.
New and noteworthy, I will be appearing at The San Diego Comic-Con July 11-15, with most of my family there doing signings. I may post Comic Con updates from the show for any who may be interested in the insanity that is a comic con.
The image posted above is a quick red pencil drawing I did of my friend Nikki. My go to model. More to come!Joel Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12897819724873957268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059844037358919497.post-80547741409627387402012-05-27T05:39:00.000-07:002012-05-28T13:18:50.661-07:00Carrie Leigh’s NUDE Permanently Preserved by the National Library of Australia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We have received word that all issues of <a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/Nissues.html">Carrie Leigh’s NUDE</a> magazine
from 2007-2011 have become a permanent holding of Trove, the <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/27231537?q=carrie+leigh&c=article">National Library of Australia.</a><br />
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to the Smithsonian and other national libraries, the Trove serves as
the preeminent repository of information for Australia, including rare,
valuable, and significant works. As such, the national library is a
cousin to the world’s national galleries, endowing immortality on the
works collected.<br />
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The following artists, models, celebrities, and writers are featured in these issues:<br />
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<b>Premiere Issue
Fall 2007 </b><br />
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Sydney Brown<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Kim Weston<br />
Calvato<br />
Joel Adams<br />
Nick Ash<br />
Dave Rudin<br />
Perry Gallagher<br />
Jim Ladd<br />
Richard Frischer<br />
Antoine de Villers<br />
Joris Van Dahle<br />
Stan Malinowki<br />
Norbert Guthier<br />
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<b>Winter 2008 </b><br />
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Olga Safonoff<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Guenter Knop<br />
Rene Jacobs<br />
Patricio Suarez<br />
Leonard Nimoy<br />
Joel Adams<br />
Perry Gallagher<br />
Francis Keating<br />
Anthony Guerra<br />
Elena Vasilieva<br />
Richard Frischer<br />
Nick Ash<br />
Werner Branz<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
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<b>Spring 2008 </b><br />
<br />
Roxanne Ramirez<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Perry Gallagher<br />
Lucien Clergue<br />
Michael Helms<br />
Antoine De Villers<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Kim Weston<br />
Joel Adams<br />
Wolf<br />
Craig Srebnik<br />
Pascal Renoux<br />
Francois Benveniste<br />
Yvan Teule<br />
Art Zilo<br />
Norbert Buthier<br />
Vincent Wolff <br />
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<b>Summer 2008 </b><br />
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Chanon Finley<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Guenter Knop<br />
Mark Sadan<br />
John Tisbury<br />
Theodore Mann<br />
Joel Adams<br />
Sascha Huttenhain<br />
Lee Jones<br />
Sylvie Blum<br />
Kim Weston<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Bryon Paul McCartney<br />
P. Miller<br />
E. E. McCollum<br />
Jeff Graves<br />
AJ Carrington<br />
Anthony Gordon<br />
Mike Cary<br />
Ginnie Lau<br />
Fanny Cheuk<br />
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<b>Fall 2008 </b><br />
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Alicia Marie Clark<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Dan West<br />
Francois Benveniste<br />
Elena Vasilieva<br />
Danny Luna<br />
Robert Wuhl<br />
Madeleine Vite<br />
Joel Adams<br />
Wolf<br />
Nick Ash<br />
Stuart Levine<br />
Eric Wallis<br />
Francis Keating<br />
Chip Willis<br />
Guenter Knop<br />
Pablo Sanchez<br />
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<b>Winter 2009 </b><br />
<br />
Anastasia Esper<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Gigi Stoll<br />
A J Khan<br />
Mel Ramos<br />
Joris Van Daele<br />
Isobella Jade<br />
Marc Hoppe<br />
Joel Adams<br />
Don Sanders<br />
Sylvie Blum<br />
Pauline Adair<br />
Christophe Vermare<br />
Ruby Dee<br />
Norbert Gutheir<br />
Kim Weston<br />
Brooke LaBrie<br />
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Spring 2009<br />
Sydney Brown<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Darren Phillips<br />
Gabriele Rigon<br />
Dan West<br />
Michael Siu<br />
Sharon Waxman<br />
David Le Beck<br />
Joel Adams<br />
Tom Lane<br />
Chip Willis<br />
Antoine de Villiers<br />
Deborah Anderson<br />
Franchesco<br />
Gary Mitchell<br />
Lloyd Rosen<br />
Guenter Knop<br />
Frances Willey<br />
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<b>Summer 2009 </b><br />
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Ria Alexander<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Christophe Vermare<br />
Gary Breckheimer<br />
Kim Weston<br />
Joel Adams<br />
Stuart Levine<br />
Eric Wallis<br />
Ralph Gibson<br />
Michael Siu<br />
Danny Luna<br />
Carlotta Champagne<br />
A J Khan<br />
John Tisbury<br />
Dale Merrill<br />
Matthew Scherfenberg<br />
Ming-Shiun Wu<br />
Nathan Appel<br />
Glen Larsen<br />
Jan Murphy<br />
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<b>Fall 2009 </b><br />
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Anniversary Issue<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Elena Vasilieva<br />
Chris Henry<br />
Perry Gallagher<br />
Minon<br />
John Tisbury<br />
Mikhail Palinchak<br />
Henry Asencio<br />
Andre J<br />
Richard Tallent<br />
Joel Adams<br />
Gary Mitchell<br />
Veronika Kotlajic<br />
Vernon Trent<br />
Igor Vasiliadis<br />
Guenter Knop<br />
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<b>Winter 2010 </b><br />
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St Merrique<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Dr. Carla Johnson<br />
Christophe Vermare<br />
Waldermar Zagorski<br />
Peter Le Grand<br />
Nad Iksodas<br />
Joel Adams<br />
Wendy Levin<br />
Stuart Levine<br />
Scott French<br />
Igor Vasiliadis<br />
Michael Barnes<br />
Stephen Haynes<br />
Xerxes<br />
Dominique Lacour aka Crazydoc<br />
A J Khan<br />
Datura Noir<br />
Kim Weston<br />
Dave Levingston<br />
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<b>Spring 2010 </b><br />
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Austin Dawn<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Francois Benveniste<br />
Jan Murphy<br />
Thomas Doering<br />
Mitsuo Suzuki<br />
Sarah Ellis<br />
Antoine de Villiers<br />
Markus Richter<br />
Joel Adams<br />
David Le Beck<br />
Gary Mitchell<br />
Dr. Carla Johnson<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Gavin O’Neill<br />
Gabriele Rigon<br />
Nad Iksodas<br />
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<b>Summer/Fall 2010 </b><br />
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Lesya Yegorova<br />
Carrie Leigh<br />
Claire Jean<br />
Susan Eckert<br />
Joel Adams<br />
Nad Iksodas<br />
Lela Rae<br />
Eric Wallis<br />
L. Anne Enke<br />
Dr. Carla Johnson<br />
Perry Gallagher<br />
Thorsten Jankowski<br />
Candace Nirvana<br />
Vitaly Vasilieva<br />
Elena Vasilieva<br />
John Tisbury<br />
Kevin Marple<br />
Olaf Ernst<br />
Michael Ian Goulding<br />
Dario Infini<br />
JW Purdy<br />
Marcello Pozzetti<br />
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With a saddened heart I have to announce the closure of NUDE magazine as a quarterly publication.<br />
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More at our <a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/Nabout.html">Publisher's Page </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059844037358919497.post-23741781768638970452011-08-22T06:00:00.000-07:002011-08-22T07:07:37.485-07:00NUDE Artists on Exhibit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0MgrzoVcZdPnwcmHLvVIrpwBwr21T_P4ue2hDRJFchmBMXjZwrMR7QaSkNGFqPhX6yZDkjN7cC2Htd37Zus5PP9qLWqZGWYJN_8vIW7YuziKf_GBS6y9BU0jPbkYazQWvr6LXSn79Bf4/s1600/193.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0MgrzoVcZdPnwcmHLvVIrpwBwr21T_P4ue2hDRJFchmBMXjZwrMR7QaSkNGFqPhX6yZDkjN7cC2Htd37Zus5PP9qLWqZGWYJN_8vIW7YuziKf_GBS6y9BU0jPbkYazQWvr6LXSn79Bf4/s640/193.JPG" width="424" /></a></div><br />
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Artists featured in <a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/CLDefault.html">Carrie Leigh's NUDE</a><br />
Vitaliy & Elena Vasilieva<br />
are currently exhibiting at the<br />
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in the Ukraine.<br />
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The Exhibit is titled "No Art."<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059844037358919497.post-85738685173270346132011-07-19T18:33:00.000-07:002011-07-30T20:07:21.155-07:00The Next Generation of NUDE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/clgallery001.html"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSPsK7AthXjJ68LLh-29oOTohhni-Boup7wd9nn2k9p0hyhlYUJ1Muo07kGH629nLiQsm-bY7RF6aJadCBuZXEdJNBYnFLz-nDvUH9wX9paznyIHU7FUnApcWhxDjMriGyv0143PYQOf4/s320/boorders.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/clgallery001.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXqHjRMZCsGw3lryLSyTswatx89RwckvrHMH9rx4BGvEi-PrdWRrcppBVgp6rSeDSSjNIs2hzRjwhp4yaEedXGMIINWGZDx_naVLlWEZByUE1SIDNAKUcGTucOqDkx18YMF5p8keAQ2VI/s200/bordlaunch.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />
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Four years ago Borders Books in Hollywood held a Launch Party for Carrie Leigh's NUDE magazine. This event put us on the map. As we bid a fond farewell to the American bookstore institution, we want readers to know we have been in the process of reinventing NUDE.<br />
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Even American institutions must change with the times or die; unfortunately, Borders did not change. Sadly, Borders is liquidating all their stores. Barnes & Noble has already closed over 1,000 stores in the past few years but remains in business due to the NOOK. Financial statements from the first quarter of 2011 reflect 75 percent of revenue came from NOOK sales.<br />
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As we have spent the past four years creating a market for our publication, we now find the existing delivery system, i.e., the major bookstore chains, is quickly becoming extinct. As we mentioned a couple months ago, our present distribution contract will expire this month. Look for more on this in another post.<br />
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We have taken some time to consider all options and to weigh where the future of NUDE should take us. Stay tuned. A new generation of NUDE is in the works and will include a choice of options for our subscribers.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">View Carrie Leigh's NUDE <a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/Nissues.html">here</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">View NUDE art blog <a href="http://joeladamsart.blogspot.com/">here</a></span><br />
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Enough is enough.<br />
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From now on, when you click on a copyrighted picture on this blog, you will be taken on a visit to the NUDE website. No more free downloads. It came to our attention yesterday that copyrighted images from this blog has ended up on pay sites. <br />
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"I don't mind sharing my art," Carrie said. "I have not previously protected it from downloads as I don't mind someone showing it with proper credit. But when my art is stolen and sold on Internet pay sites without my consent, it hurts everything I have worked for. It hurts me and my models when this happens."<br />
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As the glut of pirated music and images drives legitimate sources out of business, it concerns us to learn where images go that are posted on not-for-profit blogs. Our stat counters show every download, and sometimes a visitor comes and downloads hundreds of images. For what purpose? Some create electronic portfolios for their own use, but now we have proof some of the downloads are pirated images to be used for commercial purposes without even a credit to the artist or artists.<br />
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The website of the <a href="http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php?content_selector=piracy_details_online">Recording Industry of America</a> says, "Copyright law protects the value of creative work. When you make unauthorized copies of someone’s creative work, you are taking something of value from the owner without his or her permission." Not only is this a clear breach of ethics; it violates U.S. law. Criminal penalties can run up to five years in prison and/or $250,000 in fines, even if you didn’t don't download music and images for monetary or financial or commercial gain. <br />
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<blockquote><i>Online music theft</i> is "commonly known as <i>piracy</i>, but that’s too benign of a term to adequately describe the toll that music theft takes on the enormous cast of industry players working behind the scenes to bring music to your ears. That cast includes songwriters, recording artists, audio engineers, computer technicians, talent scouts and marketing specialists, producers, publishers and countless others.<br />
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"While downloading one song may not feel that serious of a crime, the accumulative impact of millions of songs downloaded illegally – and without any compensation to all the people who helped to create that song and bring it to fans – is devastating. One credible study by the Institute for Policy Innovation pegs the ANNUAL harm at $12.5 billion dollars in losses to the U.S. economy as well as more than 70,000 lost jobs and $2 billion in lost wages to American workers." </blockquote><br />
The site shares legal precedent regarding the piracy of copyrighted images online. In Playboy Enterprises v. Russ Hardenburgh, Inc., 982 F. Supp. 503 (N.D. Ohio 1997), it was decided that:<br />
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<blockquote>"Distributing unlawful copies of a copyrighted work violates the copyright owner’s distribution right and, as a result, constitutes copyright infringement. . . . . [Unlawful distribution occurs where] [f]iles of [copyrighted] information are stored in the central system, and subscribers may either ‘download’ information into their[computers] or ‘upload’ information from their home units into the central files . . . ." </blockquote><br />
So there is no need to question whether online theft of copyrighted images is indeed art theft. It is, and in the United States it is a felony to steal art. Within hours of notifying an Arizona-based pay site that they were in violation of U.S. copyright law, the site removed artwork pirated from Carrie Leigh that initially appeared in print in <a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/">Carrie Leigh's NUDE magazine</a> and was later published on the official blog.<br />
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I don't mind visitor downloads of work for personal use. But it is another story with the pay site pirates who take our work for commercial purposes and make money on it without even crediting the photographer. There are also those who pass off others' work as their own work. Piracy is art theft, and it is unethical and illegal and hurtful to all of us, each and every artist, when it occurs.<br />
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I realize some will shrug and say, "Then don't post your work online." That's like saying, "If you don't want to be hit by a drunk driver, stay at home and don't go out on the highway." This is, after all, the Information Superhighway.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059844037358919497.post-68270385691644395912011-05-13T14:50:00.001-07:002011-05-13T14:50:31.455-07:00Pippa NUDE? She's not the first...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju-qkywujYXpAGGfK_BpX4ZgaJBJXmYyJ7HSO881AREdqH1Shxh_Qp4WUJPakBP2BXYATy_C3P6R21Yn7YGD6m3q5uHydxIRJ4UcArZGNaW3kNtRGM8mAxbezwzWGiI0a_d64XiajIZMk/s1600/_1012734b-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju-qkywujYXpAGGfK_BpX4ZgaJBJXmYyJ7HSO881AREdqH1Shxh_Qp4WUJPakBP2BXYATy_C3P6R21Yn7YGD6m3q5uHydxIRJ4UcArZGNaW3kNtRGM8mAxbezwzWGiI0a_d64XiajIZMk/s640/_1012734b-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Buckingham Palace Nude" by <a href="http://www.murphysfocus.com/">Jan Murphy</a></div><br />
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The Duchess of Cambridge's family should not have upset the Queen with their embarrassing photographs of James and Pippa. These images of the Royal relatives just this week appeared on the Internet in the United States in various states of undress.<br />
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<a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/Nissues.html">Carrie Leigh’s NUDE magazine</a> exposed the Royal Family long before the Royals exposed themselves. The Queen was home and didn't say a word. The nude was photographed in front of Buckingham Palace with the police in the background watching.<br />
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Why is everyone up in arms now?<br />
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The Spring 2010 issue of Carrie Leigh's NUDE magazine features an exhibit of female nudes shot on Royal Ground by London photographer <a href="http://www.murphysfocus.com/">Jan Murphy</a> as a statement of artistic freedom. Ms. Murphy shows her nude model wearing white gloves for presentation to the Queen, who was inside the Palace at the time as the flag is flying.<br />
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According to Carrie Leigh, "I wish I had the opportunity to do what Jan Murphy did. It makes quite a statement to shoot nudes with a world landmark like Buckingham Palace as a backdrop." <br />
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In conjunction with Carrie Leigh's NUDE, Murphy and her nude models elected to shoot at<br />
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Long before all this, Queen Victoria had a passion for nude art that is now the subject of <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/7228202/Queen-Victorias-passion-for-nudity-goes-on-display-in-new-art-exhibition.html%20">Victoria & Albert: Art & Love,</a> an exhibit at The Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace that opened March 19. <br />
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The Spring 2010 issue of Carrie Leigh's NUDE is available for sale <a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/Nissues.html">here</a>. Order your Royal Nudes today!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059844037358919497.post-11072531638173729932011-05-07T21:46:00.000-07:002011-05-07T21:46:02.127-07:00A Mother's Day Message from Carrie Leigh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiixm6q8ukDovWo1y-b02IjTcmpjX3ZcRKsK6lQ09p1T72N883952s1fj_IN1WS3YvaGr9INpfqclv28mnacfpsT-pU3udyvHnNv87pTj7T-odGGwD6uV0671VkfHhB-tnhKEJqdq6Hwio/s1600/Scan+1%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiixm6q8ukDovWo1y-b02IjTcmpjX3ZcRKsK6lQ09p1T72N883952s1fj_IN1WS3YvaGr9INpfqclv28mnacfpsT-pU3udyvHnNv87pTj7T-odGGwD6uV0671VkfHhB-tnhKEJqdq6Hwio/s400/Scan+1%255B1%255D.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/">Carrie Leigh</a> as a model</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Everyone knows that everything changes in life.<br />
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Once I was a model who had the opportunity to work with some great photographers. Now I am a photographer who has the opportunity to work with great models. When I was a model I loved to be published in print; now I am a print publisher. Once I was single; now I am married with children.<br />
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My history reflects change, but one thing that has never changed is that I have one and only one mother. <br />
The common denominator among everyone in the world is that we all have a mother. Times change, and people change, but today is the day to spend time with your mother or, if you can't be with her, reflect on what she means to you.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059844037358919497.post-18192175332208921842011-04-15T06:56:00.000-07:002011-06-01T09:02:09.928-07:00An Announcement from Carrie Leigh<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/clgallery018.html"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542602359775935426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWuSt2uuW7DbXd6WkXMmUqzhbJlo2y2mU0jwz1HQlIuIIAWmu50biCcq0WkjnEb2Id9LBz45zNPBaq_0ldeTkUnJOtCWXTov2E1Y1gnG9NfEsNlGHQh3eEO4JMjzwrKqzAJew-GBVmgSM/s400/Picture+749-Edit_.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 304px;" /></a>Our cover model for the Summer/Fall 2010 issue of <a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/">Carrie Leigh's NUDE</a><br />
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</div>Times are changing for those who love print and collect.<br />
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As everyone knows, the publishing and book store world is suffering extremely hard times and only the strong will survive. Our solution was to terminate our existing distribution contract and to sign with a larger, more financially secure company.<br />
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In the process of our change we discovered, in our distributor's warehouse, small numbers of past issues of <a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/Nstrbckiss.html">Carrie Leigh's NUDE</a>. As these are only available on e-bay and Amazon for extremely high prices by those looking to make a large profit on the collectable factor, we have decided to sell these issues in our store. We have priced them according to quantity available. All are in mint condition and still shrink wrapped.<br />
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And best news of all! We have added a National and International Shopping Cart to help you save on the shipping!<br />
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<a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/Nstrbckiss.html">Check it out</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059844037358919497.post-77223005108934213172011-04-01T22:24:00.000-07:002011-04-02T14:22:17.826-07:00Happy Birthday, Gary!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJcRFNtKGNqhk_gUfc4wQDG1WN1amCCI_vjLpSH-B9wMItMDhjrkd4K2TcPFNEwxZXYXWir7i5r6FvZBla883Mvw9_cGeEdbcUUgovLC6sDMvY1FEnTGRmmh5tTB4S5yA3Imnjy5ND15A/s1600/balloon_06.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJcRFNtKGNqhk_gUfc4wQDG1WN1amCCI_vjLpSH-B9wMItMDhjrkd4K2TcPFNEwxZXYXWir7i5r6FvZBla883Mvw9_cGeEdbcUUgovLC6sDMvY1FEnTGRmmh5tTB4S5yA3Imnjy5ND15A/s320/balloon_06.gif" border="0" height="320" width="217" /></a></div><br /><br />Today is my husband Gary's birthday, and I would like to recognize the wonderful things he has done in this time for civil rights, the fine art world, and his family. As someone who enjoys working behind the scenes, he seldom steps forward to allow us to recognize his achievements. On this special day, I want to acknowledge Gary as a great humanitarian who has tirelessly served others.<br /><br />Happy Birthday, Gary, I love you and appreciate everything you have done and everything you do so very much.<br /><br />CarrieUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059844037358919497.post-23558650877394407062011-03-28T10:13:00.000-07:002011-03-28T10:13:11.625-07:00Happy 80th Birthday, Leonard Nimoy!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Actor and photographer Leonard Nimoy turned 80 on Saturday. We at Carrie Leigh's NUDE magazine wish him a Happy Birthday and many returns of the day.<br />
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Carrie Leigh's interview with Mr. Nimoy, "The Artistic Journey," is published in the <a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/Nissues.html">Winter 2008 issue</a> of Carrie Leigh's NUDE magazine and available online <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.lilz.net/blog/Winter2007Cover.jpg%22%3E%3Cimg%20alt=%22%22%20border=%220%22%20src=%22http://www.lilz.net/blog/Winter2007Cover.jpg%22%20style=%22cursor:%20pointer;%20float:%20left;%20height:%20249px;%20margin:%200pt%2010px%2010px%200pt;%20width:%20194px;%22%20/%3E%3C/a%3E">here</a>.<br />
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NUDE cover model <a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/">Austin Dawn</a> will celebrate her January 13th birthday all this week, and why not? When you're young, you are entitled!<br />
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I have or should i say <span style="font-weight: bold;">had</span> a Facebook page that I used mostly for business reasons, and keeping in touch with fans and letting them know what I was working on. This past Tuesday, I posted to my page the new cover to the upcoming issue of NUDE because I have a new piece of art in it. I added a link to pre-order the issue and I made the cover my profile picture for the day.<br />
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I woke up Wednesday morning to find my profile picture was gone. I immediately went to my email and found a message from Facebook stating:<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">"You uploaded a photo that violates our Terms of Use, and this photo has been removed. </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1290151318_0" style="font-style: italic;">Facebook</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> does not allow photos that attack an individual or group, or that contain nudity, drug use, violence, or other violations of the Terms of Use. These policies are designed to ensure Facebook remains a safe, secure and trusted environment for all users, including the many children who use the site.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page at </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=wphotos" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1290151318_1">http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=wphotos</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;">."</span><br />
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So I followed the link to see if there was anymore information to help and got this:<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">The image was the cover of the new issue of NUDE. I'll give it that it is one of the sexier covers that Carrie has shot, but was there anything to censor? Even though I had viewed the image many times now, having worked with it to put it on the Carrieleigh.com website, I had to pull up the image again to really look at it. This cover is going to sit on shelves at Barnes and Noble and Borders. It will be up on Amazon.com. Maybe Carrie missed some "naughty bit" that could not only get the image pulled from Facebook, but hidden from display at the book stores.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"> I looked at it carefully. I blew it up huge on my monitor like a pervert hunting for some bit of naughty, but I found nothing. All I can figure was that maybe the person who viewed the image looked at it quickly as a small image and, at a glance, thought the model was naked. So, Wednesday night, I posted the image again as my profile pic, but this time I added in the description asking that before anyone thinks to remove the image to examine it because it did conform to Facebook's "terms of use".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Thursday morning I woke up and immediatly turned on my laptop to make sure that it was still there and, "whew", there is was. I got up and out of the house, arrived at work and turned my computer on, went to Facebook and... gone... no explanations, just the same form letter. What I didn't mention before is with the form letter and amongst the terms of use, it basically tells you that they will not tell you what images they remove or why.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">This frustrated the hell out of me. I am not a sit down and just take it. I make calls, I write letters, I try to get and answer... but you can't with Facebook. No way to really contact anyone. No emails for sure. I was to then forced to just sit and take it while someone played judge and jury with the images on my page. Facebook's own Gestapo of censorship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">I wasn't done, I got a little hot-headed this time and I added, right on the image, below the image, and in big enough type to read at a small size, I wrote asking to please look at the image before taking it down again. Maybe not as friendly as that, but that is the gist of it. Then I went on about my day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Well, it didn't take a day for me to find out if they would ignore my message and take it down again. Around 7pm, I went to my Facebook page and... it was gone... but this time it was not just the image that was gone, the Facebook censors deleted my whole account. I was in shock. I had been on Facebook for at least 2 years and the page had become a huge business tool for me. I had over 2000 friends and customers on the page that are now gone. I have dozens of sites that now link to a blank page on Facebook where people would be looking for me, and all because some "Censor Nazi" would either not look carefully at the image, or has standards that are even more puritanical that of the Facebook terms of use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Let me just add in here that the page I had with Facebook was completely set to private so the only way you could see anything on my page would be to be on my "friends" list. I do this intentionally for these reasons because as an artist who does nudes and work that may be risque for some, I want to make sure that only the audience I chose can see and no children can have access.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">This is not my first run-in with censorship on Facebook, I guess. I have had artwork of nudes removed. Tastefully done artistic nudes, but it didn't seem to matter. If I drew a nipple, it was gone. I guess if it is not Titian or Michelangelo, it is then naked and not art. This doesn't explain the magazine cover though, and there seems to be no-one to ask "why?".<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">See the <a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/SumFal2010/Default.html">preview</a> of this issue</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059844037358919497.post-52428475682846284932010-11-05T13:36:00.000-07:002010-11-05T13:36:26.888-07:00YOU ARE THE FIRST TO KNOW!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgggcyqkCNgYjZ8Bp_NKGboTGgfOcjpGrkReymXkhCn1OsZnb9fPLveqeX4bvkRalJ6Fd4uZmw8h8ftVI7nFBQQVI88ITwluZY-66IxF3E82-zj9mW3NGHiINlcTYfLZO4th40rgoju5kg/s1600/nudevol3num4CVweb(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgggcyqkCNgYjZ8Bp_NKGboTGgfOcjpGrkReymXkhCn1OsZnb9fPLveqeX4bvkRalJ6Fd4uZmw8h8ftVI7nFBQQVI88ITwluZY-66IxF3E82-zj9mW3NGHiINlcTYfLZO4th40rgoju5kg/s640/nudevol3num4CVweb(2).jpg" width="492" /></a></div><br />
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The cover is here for the next issue of Carrie Leigh's NUDE magazine due out in early December. All the information is here http://www.carrieleigh.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059844037358919497.post-69353886681069621682010-11-01T13:01:00.000-07:002011-06-01T09:04:46.110-07:00Cover Model Merrique<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/clgallery018.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJb5twyzyWQ6EQ7XW_dK7ooINnHNptGhDE_zeRXutW6WA9lUxoS2h2tN8GHzeas-34bdi_G-OIjtNY5QbzXkAyhkIRsaBzcp3322i0FRUyYkazal16wWJpUFcieokn172AW_emUtG4-3E/s640/St.+Merrique" width="480" /></a></div>St Merrique, cover model for the Winter 2010 issue of <a href="http://www.carrieleigh.com/Nissues.html">Carrie Leigh's NUDE</a>,<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is really amazing to watch as "Empires" are crumbling on the magazine rack, one magazine that wanted to be different, wanted to be classy, and wanted to be in and of itself, a piece of art, grow like Carrie Leigh's NUDE has.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Each issue of NUDE features a well known established model who has worked with a variety of photographers. With so many amazing models to choose from, we are turning to our audience for suggestions as to who you want to see on the pages of NUDE. Please send your suggestion as to who should join should join such greats as Charlotta Champagne, Veronika Kotlajic, Sarah Ellis, Datura Noir, and in our next issue, Candace Nirvana.<br />
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Carrie Leigh’s NUDE is an international art quarterly founded in Los Angeles, Calif., in 2007 by Carrie Leigh Publishing Group. The publication has no advertising and is funded by subscriptions and bookstore sales. The magazine has grown into an internationally recognized brand with fine art photographer Carrie Leigh now one of the world’s top female publishers. Leigh was the First Lady of the Playboy mansion in the 1980s.<br />
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NUDE is printed on a sheet-fed, plate printing press on heavy matte satin paper.<br />
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In August 2008 NUDE was one of the fastest growing publications in a suffering magazine industry. In November 2008, NUDE launched its first annual contest. Winners are announced in the Summer issue.<br />
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The magazine has published numerous fashion and fine art photographers, painters, and other artists, including Kim Weston, Leonard Nimoy, Mel Ramos, Franchesco, Stan Malinowski, Ralph Gibson, Henry Asencio, Craig Srebnik, Joel Adams, and others. NUDE has published interviews with popular culture icons such as Theodore Mann, Robert Wuhl, Ruby Dee, Sharon Waxman, and Jim Ladd.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059844037358919497.post-58090311876036072962010-08-23T14:39:00.000-07:002010-08-23T14:48:11.649-07:00Found in Our Distributor's Warehouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVm6x2J1TK6iKbVNkRwfVei3XP9Li1_nlkv_Fn7PBL2GlMc837jdkrVviVtKiDi16zImmOebH9GH1gdtm9-bEGWFKOIcC_CDwq83aVnJ-s3CikLrxLVcWwpKmUTTj4Nnwt0uxEIljUVNM/s1600/firstCOVER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVm6x2J1TK6iKbVNkRwfVei3XP9Li1_nlkv_Fn7PBL2GlMc837jdkrVviVtKiDi16zImmOebH9GH1gdtm9-bEGWFKOIcC_CDwq83aVnJ-s3CikLrxLVcWwpKmUTTj4Nnwt0uxEIljUVNM/s640/firstCOVER.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our distributor recently found boxes of all the past issues of Carrie Leigh's NUDE in a warehouse, and copies of all 11 issues are now being sold at </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Carrie+Leigh%27s+NUDE&x=15&y=18&ih=16_2_0_0_0_0_1_0_0_1.72_168&fsc=-1">Amazon.com</a><span style="font-size: small;">. The first issue sold out and used copies now sell on e-bay for as much as $197. Such overpricing of her art quarterly was not what Carrie intended. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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I would like the art community to stop for a minute today to reflect on the passing of one of our great photographers, Heman Leonard. He died Saturday, Aug. 14, at the age of 87. For those of you who do not know who he was and what he did, you can read his obituary <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-herman-leonard-20100816,0,7645918.story">here</a>. He photographed iconic images of jazz greats such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and Frank Sinatra. Google his name, look at his art, and you will see why he was one of our greats.<br />
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Six months ago we began an interview with him that was never completed. As an artist and a publisher, I felt that he should share his life with us at NUDE but that was not to be.<br />
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