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Check out My Etsy store. New stuff and Vintage things for sale.

2011-04-11T17:25:00.000-07:00

I have some new artwork available in my etsy shop and will be posting some vintage big-eyed goodies weekly. salty dame store

REVAMP

2011-02-17T13:12:00.000-08:00

total update/revamp coming March 2011.
While you wait with feverish anticipation:
please visit my shop

Pretty Nic! Skateboard benefit/art show in Baltimore

2009-01-21T12:20:00.000-08:00

December 16th 2008 I lost one of my very best friends. Just to prove it we had matching BFF LOL tattoos. Ha ha!
Nic died unexpectedly in his sleep, he was buried with his guitar hero guitar. That's just the kind of guy he was. I miss him every day, I miss him every hour.
Thursday when I'm on the plane to Baltimore to the tattoo show he usually organizes, I'm going to have to stop myself from texting him. I know it. It's habit.

So my point of writing this is that our mutual friend Aaron Is...has organized a benefit art show for Nic. It took me a week to figure out what I would paint. I knew the only requirement was to paint on a skateboard deck. So basically I just decided I would paint the deck FOR Nic exactly what I think he would have wanted. So I started with pink, because he was the only guy I know who can get away with wearing a pink collared shirt.
And the tattoos, because that was his life.

Finally the Jameson because as well as it being his choice booze it is also the first thing I remember us talking about. ha ha. (i don't like whiskey, but he convinced me to take a shot anyway...not like you have to really twist my arm).

So with Acrylics, Gold leaf, and some tears: I came up with my first painted skateboard! It is up for silent auction. (This means you can email me a bid.) Or you can show up at the Baltimore Tattoo show and place your bid by Saturday night January 24th. Bidding starts at $50.

I hope to see a lot of you there, to toast my friend Pretty! Nic.
If you can't make it, please in his honor tell your friends today how much you appreciate them. I did and it feels really good to know that he knew all the love I had for him.
To friends, tattoos, skateboards, and Pretty Nic Sloan
cheers!
xoxo
Megan

Salty Dame jewelry. It's here at last baby!

2008-11-12T02:19:00.000-08:00

I'm so happy to have had a chance to test some new pieces this past weekend in Orange County. So far the response in Philadelphia and here in California has been all good! Yipee!!! I will be in Chicago with a few fabulous necklaces November 14-16th, so please come by the Chicago Tattoo Arts Convention at Hyatt Regency on Wacker.
Seriously slaving away on saltydame.com and hope to share my babies with the world in the next few days. Here is a sneak peek of a few of my designs and the gorgeous Autumn modeling one of her favorite pieces. She is a dear friend and fellow jewelry designer. Check her stuff out at asmodeusjewelry.com

TURA! TURA! TURA!

2008-10-27T16:59:00.000-07:00

I'm so effin stoked to be a part of this show
put on by the one and only Mitch O'Connell

Here's my painting of Tura Satana for the TURA! TURA! TURA! show in Chicago at the Tattoo Factory Gallery.

It's my interpretation of Tura from the CLASSIC movie Astro Zombies. I thought the dress was so fabulous compared to her all black Faster Pussycat Kill Kill catsuit.

Snippet from the article in the Chicago Sun Times

additional article on Tura in the Chicago Sun Times.

article on Tura in the Chicago Tribune.

Bust Magazine Blog on Tura Show.

Here's all the pertinent info about the show.
Check out the list of amazing artists involved!!!

Thursday, October 30th from 7 to 11pm, the Tattoo Factory Gallery located at 4443 N. Broadway in Chicago presents along with Pabst Blue Ribbon,
"Tura! Tura! Tura!" a group art show happening celebrating the stunning, inspiring and kickasstastic legendary icon, Tura Satana!

Tura was born in Japan but when still a young child after WW II moved with her parents (and grew up) in our windy city, first setting up residence on the west side of Chicago at 911 South Ada St.. She attended Jacob A. Riis Elementary School and soon learned to sing and play piano. At 7 she sold newspapers at the corner of State and Van Buren where many of her customers were the dancers from Minsky's Theatre. She went out on her own leaving McKinley High School and home at 13. Tura lived briefly in L.A. performing as a singer dancer at the Tropicana Club, but came back to Chicago in early '54 setting up on the North Side on Ainslie Avenue working as a 21 dice girl. Her next job was as a Spanish dancer at the Rendevouz Club in Calumet City. Soon after, she became an stripper in the late '54 and started her burlesque career as an exotic dancing sensation earning the title "Miss Japan Beautiful. In Chicago Tura worked at the Brass Rail in '57-'58 and the Follies Theatre off and on from 1956 through 1964. Of course she toured and became famous all over the country.
Her talents lead her to guest appearances on many top television shows of the 60's including Hawaiian Eye, Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Burkes Law. Movie roles followed in Our Man Flint, Irma la Douce and The Astro Zombies, but her greatest cinematic superstar achievement was as the baddest ass Varla, the leader of 3 thrill seeking stripers in Russ Meyer's legendary masterpiece,"Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!". John Waters (Hairspray) called it "beyond a doubt, the best movie ever made. It is possibly better than any film that will be made in the future!"

Gallery owner Paul Collurafici (and owner of the adjacent Tattoo Factory) is kindly donating the space and will not be taking a commission, so all profits earned hosting the event will go to Apna Ghar, a domestic violence shelter serving primarily Asian women and children and Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a breast cancer charity. Fundraisers will include selling show posters, personal donated Tura items and 20% of the money made through sales of the art.
More excitement (as if you needed it) includes- DJing by the incredible Joe Black's Midnight Spookshow! Performances by the amazing Chicago burlesque troupe The Flaming Dames! Fire-breathers! Searchlights! Lot's of PBR beer!
And the best part?
The drop-you-dead gorgeous Tura Satana WILL BE THERE IN PERSON!

All ready the cream of the crop of the lowbrow art world have signed on to contribute jaw dropping masterpieces!
Mark Braun
Shag
Rod North
George Lindmark
Terry Beatty
Pilar Alvarez
Thorsten Hasenkamm
Jeremy Scheuch
Bill Reinhold
Brian Johnson
Marc Nischan
Vicious Velvet
Phil Cisco
Mike Maas
Frank Fruzyna
Shane Swank
Kirsten Ulve
Steve Walter
Tom Laura
Mike Noland
Lisa Petrucci
Mark Atomos Pilon
David "Netherland" Van Alphen
Stephen Anderson
Travis Lampe
Brian Morris
Mitch O'Connell
Casey Sass
Lou Brooks
Ron Murphy
Glenn Barr
Kirsten Easthope
Niagara
Megan Besmirched
Extremo
Aron Gagliardo
Tyson McAdoo
Molly Crabapple
Marcus Kuhn
Charlene Lanzel
Mister Reusch
Krystof Nemeth
Cori Carani
Fiona Smyth
Dave Dorman
Nathan Fox
Steve Ellis
James Brunner
Alex Wald
John Mulder

Also, to coincide with the gallery show, the Music Box Theatre will be screening "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" the night before on Wednesday, October 29th! More charity fundraisers are planned, a showing of some of the Tattoo Factory exhibit paintings and a Q&A with Tura before the movie conducted by Rusty Nails. The Music Box is located at 3733 N. Southport Ave.

BOWLARAMA. Bowling Pin Artshow

2008-10-20T21:36:00.000-07:00

still showing! Contact crybaby art gallery for purchasing info.
Strawberry ice cream girl. A painting inspired by the amazing ice cream sundae that I had in Philadelphia at the Franklin Fountain.

Beautiful little flower of a blog.

2008-10-03T16:22:00.000-07:00

I feel like I already maintain too many things to update. Myspace, Facebook, Inked Nation and my neglected websites. But here it goes. A brand new beautiful little flower of a blog. I think I was hesitant because I really dislike the way the word "blog" sounds. Just gross. blog. yech.
I guess I'll kick it off by selling stuff...ha ha. A girl has needs, and mine is to pay my rent. Of course I would prefer to pay Betsey Johnson, but a roof overhead is pretty important too.
So here it is. Prints for sale.