During November each year, “Movember” is the event responsible for the sprouting of handsome moustaches on thousands of men’s faces around the world. Armed and dangerous with glorious facial hair, we also raised awareness and funds for men’s health issues, specifically prostate and testicular cancer. The images here are from our Moustache Movember photoshoot on Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Enjoy.

Thank you to all of those who attended and donated their time and love. We couldn’t have done it without you.


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Shot some friends to raise awareness for Moustache Movember this past Wednesday. Here are several of the shots from the event. I want to thank Allyson Six, Bud Thorpe, Chantal M, Crystal C R, Dan Dukels, Danman Sardella (& Sharkbot), Leanna Banana, Mike Galinat, Paul Foisy, Stephen Van Norden, and Tim Golden for stopping in & supporting us by having their photo shot as well as with cash donations. We had a lot of fun & will be doing further Moustache events in the coming months to prep for next Movember.

If you would like to contribute to the cause, please click here to donate.

Thanks again everyone.

Sweet lovely death
I am waiting for your breath
Come sweet death, one last caress

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Leanna Banana in natural light.

HMUA: Leanna Banana

“Where did they come from tonight, who came along for the ride?”
- Glenn Danzig, Misfits: ‘Hollywood Babylon’ 

and you set them on fire until
all the trees are smoldering
red and orange and yellow

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Leanna Banana, spying through the forest, amidst the debris.

MUA: Leanna Banana

“Lions in the storm, holding their own.
“Sky is coming undone, the hunt has begun.
“But I’m unafraid”
- Jennifer Charles, Elysian Fields: ‘Lions in the Storm’ 

I wanna live
with a cinnamon girl
I could be happy
the rest of my life
With a cinnamon girl.

A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night
You see us together,
chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon girl.

Ten silver saxes,
a bass with a bow
The drummer relaxes
and waits between shows
For his cinnamon girl.

A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night
You see us together,
chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon girl.

Pa sent me money now
I’m gonna make it somehow
I need another chance
You see your baby loves to dance
Yeah…yeah…yeah.

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Model/HMUA: Leanna Banana. Photographer: Andrew Gibson

Every time I see this woman, I get the jelly legs.

The colour of my dreams
if I had dreams
they would be you
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A portrait of Leanna Banana. She will be coming to visit today, so I am excited. Have a whole bevy of things planned for her stay, including a shoot of my friend Scott… Which will prove to be interesting.

MUA: Leanna Banana

“White light goin’ down to my brain
“hey, don’t you know it’s gonna make me insane
“White heat, down to my toes
“Lord have mercy, white light had it, goodness knows
“forget it”
- Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground: ‘White Light / White Heat’ 

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan’s men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you’d return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)


- Mad Girl’s Love Song, Sylvia Plath

For everyone death has a look.
Death will come with your eyes.
It will be like terminating a vice,
as seen in the mirror
a dead face re-emerging,
like listening to closed lips.
We’ll go down the abyss in silence.

- Cesar Pavese, Death Will Come With Your Eyes

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A library or a mausoleum? The spires of books, all seemingly older than dirt or a least covered in it, left Ruth feeling minuscule in both stature and importance. Synovia couldn’t possibly still be haunting these tunnels any more, yet there was a lantern burning and a book laid open upon the table. ‘Sanguinis e rosam.’ Blood from the rose. That was an interesting title, perhaps Ruth would find what she was looking for after all. 

A sudden gust brought darkness to the room. The darkness was thick as the deepest shadow and had depth and substance. This was preternatural in nature. Stark fear and uncertainty filled Ruth, and Ruth knew this fear… she had felt it before. She was paralyzed. “Whoever you are, I am sorry to disturb…”

Model & MUA: Leanna Banana

“It is time…”
- Black Francis, Pixies: ‘Stormy Weather’ 

“Don’t cry for me after I am gone. Cry for me now.”

- Marlene Dietrich

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Saturday, before dawn, as sheets of rain were readying to soak us through. Sheets. It was a deluge, terrible & fantastic.

MUA & Muse: Leanna Banana

“It was cold, and the person beside him had faded badly.
“Legs apart his eyes lit up.
“The sky’s gone out!”

Peter Murphy, Bauhaus: ‘Exquisite Corpse’

Orgasm Addict.

orgasm |ˈôrˌgazəm|
noun
a climax of sexual excitement, characterized by feelings of pleasure.

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Truth is revealed in dreams. This is today’s Secret.

Muse & MUA: Leanna Banana

“I’m a teaser
“I’m a virgin
“I’m a one night stand
“I’m a drug
“I’m your slave
“I’m a dream to find
“And we’ll make love together”
- Jennifer Charles, Lovage: ‘Sex (I’m a…)’ [A Berlin Cover] 

There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.

- Bukowski

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Sometimes we all feel a little over-exposed.

MUA, Muse, confidante: Leanna Banana

“You’d use my body, you’d use my mind
“You’d use my talent if I was that kind
“Don’t exploit me, please don’t use me
“Don’t exploit me, please don’t abuse me
“Don’t exploit me, please just leave me alone”
- Keith “Monkey” Warren, The Adicts: ‘Don’t Exploit Me’ 

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In time, lost within a dream, visions come unto me. I wade through, searching for what I cannot find. It is most certain that when I end my quest, my struggle for discovery, what I am looking for will find me.

Leanna Banana MUA & Pearls. Muse.

“Love flows… 
“minds time. 
“Oceanic.
“Dissolve me.
“His own light, now it’s gone. The thirst came on, and it came on in waves. He would dream of cells swollen with water. Blank memory washed away, swallowed whole through eyes and teeth.”
- Aaron Turner, ISIS: ‘Hym’ 

She never mentions the word addiction
In certain company
Yes, she’ll tell you she’s an orphan
After you meet her family

She paints her eyes as black as night, now
Pulls those shades down tight
Yeah, she gives a smile when the pain comes,
The pain’s gonna make everything alright

Says she talks to angels,
They call her out by her name
Oh yeah, she talks to angels
Says they call her out by her name

She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket
She wears a cross around her neck
Yes, the hair is from a little boy
And the cross is someone she has not met,
Not yet

Says she talks to angels,
Says they all know her name
Oh yeah, she talks to angels,
Says they call her out by her name

She don’t know no lover,
None that I ever seen 
Yeah, to her that ain’t nothing
But to me, yeah me,
It means everything…

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The secret is out, & it’s no surprise, this femme fatale shall be my demise.

EVERYTHING: Leanna Banana

“It’s nice to take a narrow man and hold in a heaven
“Grab it hold of for lamb”
- Buzz Osborne, MELVINS: ‘Shevil’ 

“You feel just like velvet.”

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And I walked in… tick tock, the clock struck ten. I surveyed the room and found only one thing kept my attention. My eyes returned to her, enthralled. It was a train wreck waiting to happen, the crimson on her lips, the curves down her body, the dress as it fell. She locked eyes with me, little did I know she knew she had won. “Hello, mistah, I think y’re lookin’ for me.” Words had never rung so true in my head. I followed her into the dark, into the little hole we’re they kept those that were running from their life. She let me see a moment of what I thought was happiness. Never did I suspect that there would be more to it than that.

“A life time of fucking things up fixed, in one determined flash” - Trent Reznor

She leaned in and whispered in my ear: “I know what you’re running from. I know what you fear.” I tried to make my escape, but it was far too late. Her teeth sunk into my neck, the only thing I could feel was deep sultry ecstasy, a tell tale sign of the kiss. Her tongue licked closed my wound, but not before I could feel warm crimson vitae drift down my neck. She wanted me to know her crime, what she had done. She stumbled back, pursing her lips to enjoy the last remnants of my blood. I was left there, done, uncertain if I could go any further. Next to me she sat, looking at me with love and vitriol. “Thank you for saving my life tonight, I’m Nikki. If ever I see you again, it will certainly mean your death…

“I can’t wait!”

And now back to our scheduled programming… It’s Secret Saturday. This shot was from my most recent shoot with Miss Leanna Banana.

HMUA: Leanna Banana

“Unrequited love’s a bore, and I’ve got it pretty bad
“But for someone you adore it’s a pleasure to be sad
“Like a straying baby lamb with no mammy and no pappy
“I’m so unhappy but oh, so glad”
- Billie Holiday: ‘Glad to be Unhappy’

L’araignée.

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Secret Saturday.

“Let me in your living door
“Let me in, knock knock I said, who’s there
“Well, it’s me the reaching hand
“And I’m coming after you
“I’m coming after you
“Coming after you”

- Alice Cooper: ‘Return of the Spiders’

“In my dreams I’m dying all the time.”

- Moby, Porcelain

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Oh, another from my birthday. This set of Miss Banana is really quite good. We were calculated with all of our shot choices & focused on taking the shot until it was right. We were finished shooting about an hour early, but it was such a good use of our time. My favorite shoots are the ones where I get in sync with the model and we breeze through. Leanna & I have shot together so much that all of our shoots go quick, with few shots & maximum enjoyment. I’m working to get to that place with all the models I have the privilege of working with.

Styling & Muse: Leanna Banana 

“Went down the hill, the other day. My soul got happy and stayed all day.”
-Richard Melville Hall, Moby: ‘Natural Blues’