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thing, with the big oopsy face, and the, you know,

skirt being blown up by the wind, or the dog's

got a hold of the dress. Or you know, those

kind of crazy, almost unbelievable situations. The Monster Pinup Calendar

was sort of a collaboration of ideas where, you know,

we kind of had this idea -- well they had the

idea originally to do, you know, monster pinups. You know, there's a number of

different ways we could shoot it, and a number

of different loos that we could give the calendar. We sort of all

agreed that we wanted to keep it more

Elvgren-painting inspired. Obviously there are liberties

being taken with the way that they're dressed

and their overall look. Elvgren didn't do a lot

of Halloween themed, or monster themed kind of stuff. There was a little bit

of that in his work, but we sort of took

that and ran with it. You know, I had done like

zombie pinups before. I've done a couple of zombie

calendars -- things like that. But they were always

shot on location, it was very zombie specific. The freedom of this

calendar allowed us to sort of go

and try new things. When it was first proposed to

me that we were have a werewolf in the calendar, I thought,

OK, why not make zombies sexy and get that concept. You know? And a lot of these other

things are going on here, and get how we're

gonna make them . Sexy I just could

not imagine how we were gonna take

a beautiful girl, cover her in hair and tattered

clothes, and make that sexy. But In the end, you know

with the way everything came together, she wasn't overly

hairy but it still translated, you know, in the look that

it was definitely a werewolf. Just that whole

composite background, we gave it a nice creepy

sort of background, but with her, sort of,

knee-up on the rock, and was doing this very

provocative type of pose. [INAUDIBLE] women I've

ever seen, I have to say. The ghost shot was one that

we had to use our heads up front while doing

the actual shoot. You know, how are we

gonna create the illusion of her floating

through the air, you know, and actually

being a ghost? We went ahead and decided

to actually just have her standing, doing

her poems and then I did separate shots of

her from the knee down, just sitting on a

stool with her feet sort of dangling out in a few

different angles and whatnot. And then from there, it was

just sort of making sure that those angles matched up

with the way she was standing and everything,

you know, looking as seamless as possible. With the demon shot -- that's

the one where the young lady is sitting on the chair,

she's got [INAUDIBLE]. That's directly inspired

by a Gil Elvgren painting. The pose. The whole, you know, holding

the pumpkin out and everything. I kind of enjoy, in

that particular photo, is having her face

on that pumpkin. You know, creating the

jack-o-lantern with her face. So for me, that was one of the

things I was most proud of. Making it have that, sort

of, inner glow with her own face on the jack-o-lantern. This was a tough [INAUDIBLE]

for me to do because of, you know, kind of

exploring new territories. They wanted me to put my style

into it, but at the same time, I sort of wanted to make

sure that the calendar was a little bit distinct

from my normal, you know, kind of everyday pinup style. I think we were hugely

successful in doing that. You know, the calendar's got,

sort of, my signature style, but at the same

time, is of at least a small departure from

what I normally do. A lot of what I actually

learned in doing this calendar has started to, sort of

filter into my daily work with my clients, and

models that I work with. [MUSIC] -So there's a long

history of hearses. They have motorcycle

hearses, they started out with the horse-drawn

carriage hearses. It's a very, very long history. -Paired up with death, but

they're a beautiful car. Each hearse is

totally custom built. -Everbody likes to call

them a hearst with a t. Pretty much 90%

of the population tend to get that

wrong, and it just digs into the bottom

my soul, but I'm done correcting people in it. If they can't read my

shirt then that's alright. -You get a lot of funny

looks from people, you know? Especially driving

through downtown Portland. You know, people look to

see a hearse, and a hearse, and a hearse, and you

can just watch heads turn and people are always trying

to figure out what's going on. -We are as Coffin Cruisers

-- we're in our ninth year. There was another club

prior to that, and just like any type of club you're

going to have differences of opinions and that's kind of

what happened with the old club that morphed into the new club. -People start

hearse clubs so you can be around people that

have the same interest. There's lots of other

car clubs -- you know, corvette clubs, mustang clubs. -So we've had a pretty good

membership over the last several years of, you know,

anywhere between 9-13/14 people, and just like other

cars, they come and go. They break down and go

away, and typically that's how we lose most of our members. -My dad, he wanted

one ever since he was in the third grade,

and my mom wanted one since she was in high

school, and they came to me and said, how would you

feel about having a hearse? And I said as long

as it's white. -For me it was the horror stuff. For some reason, ever

since I was a little kid I remember seeing like a hearse

going by, and it's like, oh that's sweet. What is that? It just had -- it was a

slow funeral procession with motorcycle police escorts, and

it was just amazing to see all the traffic at a

dead stop, and let this nice long procession go. -Right there in

your face with it. You got all that Detroit

steel right there. I wanted one and I refused to

drive a minivan by all means, you soccer moms are out. -What makes a

hearse different is they have a purpose, a very

specific purpose, which is to take those

that have passed to their final resting spot. You're talking about

a 7,000-9,000 lb. vehicle that hold two

people and a dead person, and is typically

about 20-22 feet long. They're hard to miss,

so they're fun to drive. -When we have different car

shows -- things coming up, or different events

for Halloween, people will contact the

website, and then I try to get in contact with them, see

how many cars they want, if they want to

be all tricked out for Halloween type

things or whatnot. I remember we actually did

a wedding at the [INAUDIBLE] cemetery that they wanted

the bride and the groom to come up with the bridesmaids

and groomsmen, all in hearses. That turned out really well. My hearse is a 1970

Cadillac Miller Meteor. It's -- I'm the fourth owner. It's been owned

by two mortuaries. It's specific purpose,

it appears to have been mostly a

children's hearse . It's painted very light

color, it's beige, so that's a little unusual. It's usually a

children's-related hearse. And it shows a lot

of evidence of having hauled a lot of small coffins. -Well, my mom's not

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