Blue Morris Blog - Burlesque
Retro Patterns
- Published on Monday, 09 February 2009 22:09
- Category: Burlesque
Being involved in burlesque I'm often on the look out for clothes from the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Sometimes thrift stores just don't have what you need.
I have found a couple of websites that sell old sewing patterns from the last one hundred years or so. I can't vouch for any of them because I haven't yet ordered anything from them--I still have to persuade one of my friends who actually knows how to sew to make them for me.
Folkwear has the smoking jacket pattern I have been eyeing for a while.
The Aging Rockstar praises Pink Flamingo Burlesque
- Published on Friday, 18 July 2008 16:45
- Category: Burlesque
The Aging Rockstar, aka Baron S. Cameron, raved about the Pink Flamingo Burlesque's Festival Show in his YouTube video podcast.
He paid tribute to all the burlesque dancers in the show, especially the incredible Shaboobie Boobarella, and then had this to say about the band:
"The orchestra... wow! Remember that "Family Guy" [episode] when Peter wishes he had a soundtrack for his life and everywhere he goes there's music playing... if I had to pick a band that would play the music wherever I went, it would probably be the Pink Flamingo Orchestra.
"They really were freakin' fantastic!"
The review of our show starts 5min53sec into the video....
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Randy Robots of the Pink Flamingo Burlesque
- Published on Monday, 07 July 2008 15:14
- Category: Burlesque
Our most recent show, the Vixens from Venus, was a great success, complete with a giant five-foot crescent moon, aliens, costumes and live music. One of my favourite acts was the Randy Robots. Our friend and photographer Greg McKinnon took these great shots at the show.
The Randy Robots routine featured Shaboobie Boobarella and Valentina Virago.
Pink Flamingo Burlesque - The Stripper
- Published on Wednesday, 04 June 2008 11:42
- Category: Burlesque
Thanks to our friend, Erin, we have a video of the Pink Flamingo Burlesque with Shaboobie Boobarella performing to "The Stripper."
Flash Gordon and Sci-Fi Research
- Published on Saturday, 24 May 2008 13:43
- Category: Burlesque
The next Pink Flamingo Burlesque show is going to have an outer space theme so I've been doing research on science fiction movies, especially old ones. Aside from watching the most obvious film for this research, Barbarella, I also came across a website of Public Domain Movie Torrents. The site has plenty of old science fiction films including the Flash Gordon series.
I'm not a big science fiction fan, but with titles like Attack of the Giant Leeches, this site is hard to resist and it has proved to be a great source for research and inspiration for our upcoming space themed burlesque show.
The most popular torrent seeded is Oasis of the Zombies: "An expedition searching for treasure supposedly buried by the German army in the African desert during WW II comes up against an army of Nazi zombies guarding the fortune."
It's great to see technology like Bittorrent which is most frequently used for illegal file sharing being used to legally share media that might otherwise be forgotten.