(pictures of me from the book)

First off on Saturday the 22nd:
Celebrate the launch of Ed Fox’s latest TASCHEN book, Ed Fox, Vol. 2 at his book signing and release party!

Meet the models, shoot some pictures and have lots of fun! Large prints from the book will be on display and available for sale. Many models confirmed to attend, including Myself!

Saturday Oct. 22, 2011
7PM-10PM
La Luz De Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667

Watch ED FOX II book trailer

The 9″X12″ book includes a 60 minute DVD!
Click HERE to purchase an autographed book with FREE shipping anywhere in the U.S.

Then on Sunday the 23rd:
Join me for an event I am extremely excited about! I will be the Guest Storyteller in the debut night of Glory Stories at the iO West Theater!! I will be telling true stories based on suggestions from the audience. The improvisers will then perform scenes and games based on the story I told. I am really excited about this and hope you can come out and share the night with me!

Admission is only $5.00 and it’s 2 for 1 admission if you come wearing something kinky.
Special giveaway prizes provided by The Stockroom and Sportsheets!

Sunday, October 23, 2011
iO West Theater
10:00 PM in the Main Stage – tickets are $5
6366 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 962-7560

HOPE TO SEE YOU AT ONE OR BOTH EVENTS!!!

Please join me this Sunday for an event I am extremely excited about! I will be the Guest Storyteller in the debut night of Glory Stories at the iO West Theater!! I will be telling true stories based on suggestions from the audience. The improvisers will then perform scenes and games based on the story I told. I am really excited about this and hope you can come out and share the night with me!

Here is how the iO West describes the show:
“Glory Stories is a kinkalicious improvised comedy show inspired by the raw & brutally honest monologues provided by our special guest storytellers… all of whom are Los Angeles based professionals working in the adult entertainment, fetish sex, and kink industry.
After hearing our guest’s fearless tale (based on an audience suggestion)- an eclectic blend of iO West’s bravest and sexiest improvisers will perform scenes & games exploring and exposing the story’s parallel truths & beauties as we discover all the ways we all relate to anything and everything.

Join us and see your hottest fantasies come hilariously to life right on the iO West Mainstage. Featuring a special sexy celebrity guest storyteller every show!”

Admission is only $5.00 and it’s 2 for 1 admission if you come wearing something kinky.
Special giveaway prizes provided by The Stockroom and Sportsheets!

Sunday, October 23, 2011
10:00 PM in the Main Stage – tickets are $5
6366 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 962-7560

The Joint is a one love eatery and music venue located at 8771 W Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90035, open from noon-2am daily. They are founded on the princpals of bringing food, music and community to neighboring friends and those that are just passing through.

The music and the atmosphere of the evening will make you feel like you are in Jamaica. Dream Pleasure Tours will be there to make the evening extra special with a drawing for a super door prize (think travel coupons), and some goodies to give away! You can talk to me or someone from Dream Pleasure Tours in person about all of their great trips and events. Of course, make sure you spend some time meeting other Dream Pleasure Tours customers while you’re there. Maybe you will find another couple to go on vacation with!!

We can also tell you all about Circus Erotica, the signature Hedonism II event in June 2012.

Everyone’s welcome! The Joint is located at 8771 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035.

Come out, have a drink with me, DPT and everyone at the Joint!! FUN!

I am honored and thrilled that I have been invited to participate in The Pleasure Chest’s 40th Anniversary Celebration this Thursday, September 29th! I, along with my sheros and scene mates Nina Hartley and Belladonna will be performing!

Here are the details from The Pleasure Chest Site:

Thursday, September 29th 7-11 PM

Gloryhole is a peek behind the red curtain, giving guests a chance to mix and mingle with the sexual glitterati. Equal parts tease and sleaze, Gloryhole will let the curious see what goes on after hours at one of Los Angeles’ most storied locations, on the very same floor where Joan Jett once shopped for leather gear and 70s gay porn movies were made. Given the nature of the entertainment, the party is invitation only. To RSVP, please send an email to gloryhole@thepleasurechest.com.

The night will include:
An XXX Gloryhole installation- Gaze through a voyeuristic portal into the extremes of human sexuality
Dancing with the Pornstars- Shake your booty with your favorite erotic entertainers & live DJs
Polite in Public photo booth- Take fabulous photos at our portrait booth
Kinky Crafting- Make pervy paper dolls with your free Pleasure Chest Activity Book
Spanking booth
Sword swallowers, stiltwalkers, strippers & maybe even a monkey!
Free cocktails from Cougar Juice Vodka

Appearances by:

Belladonna
April Flores
Nina Hartley
Kitty Cadillac
Damon Holzum
Mistress Mary & Sir
More TBA

Then I saw Nancy Upton’s pictures. I thought they were brilliant because with the use of her body and food she made a satirical statement on the contest and the company behind it. I loved that her pictures mocked the sentiment that fat people eat (even slather ourselves in) unhealthy food all the time. I do not believe she was insulting the other serious contestants at all. On her blog, she encouraged votes for other women who really wanted to win the contest several times.

I think it is actually funny and very telling that Nancy won the contest. AA should see that the plus sized community is a serious community and could have used this, or perhaps even the backlash that my experience caused last year, as reasons to really try to understand the potential of treating plus sized women with respect, and how that could go a long way in helping their struggling company. The addition of more sizes could have been done in a much more considerate, responsible way.

As far as the mention of my experience in the open letter from American Apparel creative director Iris Alonzo, I think it is a year and 4 months too late to acknowledge what happened to me. I am surprised that they were even aware of my situation, because I was never responded to or contacted by anyone from American Apparel last year. I also highly doubt that they “don’t recall the name of the confused employee credited with saying that” because I was at their Downtown LA headquarters meeting with their showroom rep specifically to work on my plus sized clothing line. This woman (whose name I DO remember – Maggie P.) was well aware that I was meeting with her to find pieces for my plus sized clothing line. Her disinterested attitude during the entire meeting makes it hard to believe that she “was sadly uninformed.” And during our meeting, the only piece of clothing I was shown that went up to a size 3XL was a Men’s t-shirt. That was an article of clothing that was hardly inspiring or appropriate for the sexy, flattering clothing I to hope to create for plus sized women.

I applaud Nancy and think it is great that she made such a huge statement with her opinions and pictures and continuing an important dialogue!

**Special thanks to my friend Lillian Behrendt!**

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Carlos Batts & April Flores Announce Free, Intimate Art Exhibit Opening at Studio Servitu on Friday, July 29

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Los Angeles, CA — Monday, July 25, 2011 – The artist/muse team of Carlos Batts and April Flores have decided to invite the public to a very intimate look at their lives through the announcement of a free photography and art exhibit, to be held at downtown Los Angeles’ Studio Servitu on Friday, July 29th.

Carlos Batts will be exhibiting work from his series of non-digital photography collages, an ongoing series that originated from mixed media collages as well as a creative approach to darkroom techniques. The exhibit will feature Batts’ abstract cubist photography, a style which can also be seen in his film making productions.

A brief glimpse into Batts’ art photography collages can be seen on youtube.com/cbattsfly, a response to years of inquiries as to whether or not his work was made on Photoshop. Batts, who constructs one-of-a-kind negatives to produce each unique print, has embraced incorporating digital technology in his creative process, which is evident in his new film Artcore, which was shot entirely on the Kodak Zi8 and is now available on tlacult.com.

April Flores, best known for being a muse and model to artists, directors and photographers around the world, has recently stepped behind the camera to document herself during a difficult time in her life. As a way to deal with the physical and emotional pain of her recent miscarriage, April turned the camera on herself as a cathartic way to cope and grow from the experience. More about Flores’ photography series can be seen at her blog at http://fattyd.com/blog/2011/07/05/diary-of-my-miscarriage/. April Flores will be exhibiting this series of deeply personal self-portraits in conjunction with new photo-collages by Batts.

More information about the exhibition can be seen at http://twitter.com/fatty_d, http://fattyd.com and http://carlosbatts.com .

Although the exhibition is free to the public, visitors are asked to RSVP for the event, which will be from 7pm to 11pm at downtown Los Angeles art/dungeon space Studio Servitu, located at 800 McGarry Street, LA, CA 90021.

Reservations to be placed on the guest list can be made by contacting Studio Servitu at studioservitu@gmail.com. For all media and interview inquiries, please contact Kelly@ThePRSMGroup.com.

The event does require an RSVP to either studioservitu@gmail.com or my email fattydelicious@gmail.com.

PRESS RELEASE

Carlos Batts x April Flores Photography & Art Exhibit Opening Date Friday July 29th

April Flores Exhibiting Self Portraits

April Flores is best known for being a muse and model to artists, directors and photographers around the world. Recently April stepped behind the camera to document herself during a difficult time in her life. As a way to deal with the physical and emotional pain of a miscarriage, April turned the camera on herself as a cathartic way to cope and grow from the experience. You can read more about this photography series on her blog at http://fattyd.com/blog/2011/07/05/diary-of-my-miscarriage/. April Flores will be exhibiting this series of deeply personal self portraits in conjunction with new photo-collages by Carlos Batts.

Carlos Batts Art Exhibit

Carlos Batts will be exhibiting work from his series of non digital photography collages. This is an ongoing series that originated from Batts creating mixed media collages as well as using a creative approach to darkroom techniques. He creates abstract cubist photography, a style which can also be seen in his film making productions. Batts constructs a one of kind negative to produce each unique print.

A brief glimpse into Batts working on his art photography collages can be seen on youtube.com/cbattsfly. After many years of being asked if his work was made on Photoshop, a brief sequence of his process has been uploaded and shared. Batts has embraced incorporating digital technology in his creative process, which is evident in his new film Artcore. Artcore was shot entirely on the Kodak Zi8 and is now available on tlacult.com.

Carlos Batts x April Flores Photography & Art Exhibit
Date: FRIDAY July 29, 2011
Location:: Studio Servitu
Time: 7-11pm
RSVP:
studioservitu@gmail.com

visit:

Carlosbatts.com

fattyd.com

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 7:02 AM
day 2
doctor: im…im going to be straight forward with you. it looks like you are having a miscarriage.

the embryo is only 6 weeks and 3 days. he makes me feel like a fraud. like i have been living a lie and leading everyone on to be happy for me and to think i was carrying a baby

i’m bleeding into the tub looking at the big deep red clots coming from inside me wondering…. was that the tissue that was supposed to be my baby. the tissue that was to grow and become the person i would love like no other.

yesterday i felt like super woman. today i feel like a failed woman.

i feel like i am being punished for having two abortions. my mom says that God is not a punishing God and to not think that.

i wish they made vicodin for sadness

two days ago i was looking at my us weekly magazine, identifying with the women on the “baby bump watch” list pictures. envisioning myself wearing a long flowy floral dress holding my stomach as the wind softly blew my hair to make me look like fertile sexy WOMAN

part of me feels like i want to have sex with anyone and everyone. like i want to be careless and in stark contrast to the protective, inverted version of myself i had become in the past two months.

i want to drink and get so drunk out of my mind. have sex with random strangers.

tonight i ate some mexican cheese and had coke. i had caffeine. the thing that i had not had but craved like mad in the past two months. it wasn’t that good

all of me wants to be reckless but 1/2 of me wants to stay pure.

i think that the baby is up in heaven with my father. my sister agrees. but what gave this fetus a soul? did my other two aborted fetuses have souls too? what about them?

i keep hearing names and i was so used to considering every name i heard. now every name i hear makes my heart sinks a little

i go onto miscarriage message boards and the women have little banners counting the days since they lost their baby. one says i love you even though we never met. i am not sure i feel the same way. did i love the fetus that was growing inside me? the thing that was making me see my life and make me examine the woman i am and the woman i needed to become? i am not sure. i know i was in love with the ideas of what could become

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:21 PM
day 3
i was so foolish to think that the bleeding would be over last night. this morning the cramps and bleeding are back strong. i am expelling huge blood clots or the lining of the uterus. two times i have felt clots coming out and tried to make them land into the toilet but they fall to the floor before i can sit on the toilet. blood is splattered all over the bathroom floor and running down my legs.

i am in shock. i look at the clots and wonder if any of them contain the cluster of cells that was the fetus. i just stand there with the blood running down my legs and stare at the bloody mess. i touch each clot, feeling around but i am not sure what i am looking for. it is sort of beautiful in some way. i feel so much physical and emotional pain but i feel like it is real life.

in a rage of anger i tell my husband that i wish he was going thru this and not me. i know its mean, but right now i feel like no one understands what i am going thru. i am so angry at the doctor for giving me zero warning of the physical and emotional pain that was ahead of me. i wish he could have just taken everything out at once while i was in the ER or in his office. but i get it. that is a separate procedure. i have medi cal and it was the friday afternoon 3pm before the long holiday weekend.

i am going to have to go thru this naturally. let it all pass. the only thing that gives me strength is knowing that so many women have gone through this before me. i am feeling their strength inside. i am also feeling so compassionate about the women who have suffered through more than one of these.

i’m tired of going through a pad every few minutes so i decide to just sit at the edge of the tub and let it come out. the bright red of the blood against the white of the tub fascinates me. my small window less bathroom fills with the strong mineral scene of the blood. carlos is furiously cleaning the bloody floor and toilet with lysol wipes and the room smells like blood and lysol.

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:37 PM
it hurts so much. i think i am having contractions. it feels better if i walk around. i remember when my dog Joy was in labor. she was walking around a lot too. smart bitch.

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:54 AM
day 4
i have stopped taking the prenatal pills i have been taking since january. i dont know if i want to continue taking them or if i even want to try again.

i am documenting the blood that is coming out of my body. i want to do a blog and post my experience with the bloody pictures on my site. i know it will not be received well by most people. is it crude, in bad taste, too graphic, just plain wrong? yes it is all of those things. but i dont care. it is real. it is what happens to real women all the time. there are tons of highly graphic and sexualized images of me online already. which i am totally and completely proud of. but if that is ok, then why cant these images be ok? it is what is happening to me. it is real. this happens to many women. i am documenting what i am going through. and i am doing it for the selfish reason of catharsis. documenting the blood dripping down my legs onto the floor and onto my bathtub eases both the physical pain i am feeling at the moment and the emotional pain i feel when each thick clot leaves my body. instead of focusing on wondering which clot contains the embryo of my never developed dream i am focusing on how visually stunning the red blood looks against my skin. so what? i have used sex and sexual images to make statements before. these images are in no way sexual, but they are real and this is what real women go through. if one end of the spectrum can be expressed, then why cant i express the other end of what i am going through. i am not doing this for reaction, i am simply and purely expressing what i am going through in all its raw forms. looking at this through an artistic perspective gives me the distance that i need. doing it this way is the only thing that is preventing me from crying my eyes out like i did on day 1. i dont want to cry. maybe this is the only way i can feel that i can have a certain control over a situation i really have no control over at all.

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:08 PM
day 5
i am pissed off!!! i was supposed to see my doctor today for a follow up exam and i was brushed off by his idiot staff because he was too busy. i am so frustrated…. beyond words. i would like to know that everything has passed the way it should have. the bleeding has pretty much stopped.

i have been reading things online that have helped. a great article i read said that the body knows how to take care of itself.

last night sitting in my dark apartment looking out at the 180 degree of los angeles seeing all the fireworks illuminate the sky, hearing all the whistles and booms from the fireworks, i felt so small. i felt small the way i do when i am standing staring out into the ocean. it felt good to feel so small. i felt like i was a part of this living, breathing city i love to hate. i felt connected to the world. somehow in that smallness i found comfort laying on my bed in my husband’s arms.

i am sad that i had to go through this, but also grateful. this experience has made me stronger. it has brought my husband and i closer together. i have perspective. he and i have gone through so much and in the end we always support each other, coming out stronger as individuals and as a team. true partners in every sense of the word. i am in no way happy that this happened but like all my struggles i have survived through, i am a different person. stronger. more of who i am supposed to become.

Here is the info from the Dr. Sketchy’s Los Angeles Branch site:
We’re aiming to mount the World’s Biggest Dr. Sketchy’s at the epic Ink-n-Iron festival in Long Beach, California from June 10-12, 2011. The price of admission ($35 for one day, or $70 for all three days) includes everything the festival has to offer including hours and hours of Sketchy hijinks in the historic Queen Mary’s beautiful Queen’s Salon. You’ll also enjoy hot rods, pinups, burlesque, art, fashion, music, and tattoos galore. Come draw with us, or pose for us… or both!

See you there!

I would like to congratulate my great friend Oriana / Ashley Blue on the publication of her memoir Girlvert. She is an amazing person and friend and I am very proud of her!

Come out and celebrate her hard work and fabulous book at XXX Nite: Book Release party & show celebrating the release of GIRLVERT a Porno Memoir by Oriana Small aka Ashley Blue! This Wed June 1st at Largo 8pm! There will be many performances including a reading from the book by yours truly. The $20 cover includes a complimentary copy of book, an exclusive swag bag and a chance to win an Ashley Blue cyberskin toy! It will truly be a night to remember!

Buy tickets here.

Buy the book here.