My friend Malice got breast cancer recently and had a double mastectomy. She’s a dancer and a model and so it has not only been a horrible experience but she’s missing out on work. She has a GoFundMe you can donate to but if you want something to go with your kindness I am selling a print of a photo from an album cover to raise a little money for her, but first I wanted to tell you a little about how we met.
Malice is an iconic model in the punk world and I had wanted to take her photo forever but I didn’t know her or anything. Back in early 2013 I was in Vegas covering the AVN Awards for Hustler Magazine. Despite Hustler’s reputation, they were one of my favorite clients and sort of let me pick my own assignments. I pitched them on a behind the scenes shoot where I would photograph porn stars getting ready for the awards, hanging out in their hotel rooms, etc. I have done similar stories for Vice as and the Daily Beast as well, but let’s just say there was a lot more nudity in the Hustler article.
Anyway, as I am walking around the convention I run into Bonnie Rotten. I had actually met her a year earlier and we followed each other on Twitter and stuff and she had sort of blown up since then. I told her I was doing this thing for Hustler and asked if she wanted to be part of it. She was down and told me to come by her hotel room the next morning because she was getting her makeup done early and that would be the perfect time to do the shoot.
So when I get there Malice is also there getting her makeup done! Turns out Malice was there hanging out with Bonnie while she was off doing her famous porn star thing. I told Malice I was a big fan and after I was done shooting with Bonnie I asked her if she was down to get in a few shots. I ended up taking this photo I absolutely love of them on a couch just wearing fur coats that ended up in my book Instaxxx.
Around that same time I meet this guy who runs a record label and it turns out he had put out some records for this punk band The Dwarves. They just happen to be one of my favorite bands of all time, and most of their album covers have a naked woman on the cover. I told the guy if he ever put out another Dwarves record I would love to submit some photos for the cover which he could use for free.
Fast forward a year later and he hits me up. He is releasing an album of a Dwarves live radio show appearance called Radio Free Dwarves. They need a cover that is somehow radio themed. The art direction I get is they want to shoot in an actual radio station with a girl naked except for a ski mask. They want me to find the model and the location and shoot for free. If it was nearly any other band I would have told them to fuck off, but I just happened to be in LA, so I reached out to Brian Redban who ran Joe Rogan’s podcast studio when it was in LA and he said we could shoot there.
Now I just needed a model and I immediately thought of Malice. She’s so iconic in the punk scene and I just thought she would be perfect for it. This was all so last minute and we almost didn’t make it because of scheduling and LA traffic but we pulled it off. I think I had to pick Malice up and drop her off too. The entire budget for the shoot was $100 which I gave to Malice and she only did it for that because she was a big Dwarves fan as well.
The funny thing is after all that they didn’t even use any of the radio themed photos. The photo they used was just shot up against a white wall. There is a “brown bag” special edition record which has a VERY NSFW outtake from the shoot that is much more radio themed, but the photo that ended up on the main record, tape and CD release (plus a poster and a skateboard) has nothing radio themed on it.
I realize this is way too long, but Malice rules, we have become friends since 2013. Last time I saw her, which was way too long ago, I got to go “hiking” with her and her mini dobermans up Runyon Canyon. But yea I just wanted to do something for her and here’s a chance to do something good for a wonderful person and also get one of my prints cheap. The photo is unretouched and uncensored. They are $50 each, signed (by me) and numbered to just 13.
I posted about these on social media a week ago and they are almost all sold out but my website got hacked and so I couldn’t post about it on here so I wanted to do that and hopefully we can sell the last few copies….
Speaking of last few copies, I am on my last box of my previously mentioned book Instaxxx. It’s taken ten years to sell out, but we are so close, so if you have ever wanted a copy of that book you can get that at the same place where you can buy the Malice print, shopdbb.com.
Also, I uploaded a bunch of very NSFW 35mm outtakes from the Dwarves cover shoot to Girls of Driven By Boredom and I will donate a few bucks to Malice from every new signup to that site over the next 72 hours. Actually if any copies of Instaxxx sell in the next 72 hours I will donate a few dollars from each book sale as well.
So yeah, go get your uncensored Malice McMunn Dwarves print and/or your copy of Instaxxx here and if art isn’t for you and you just wanna see some dirty photos, you uncultured swine, sign up for Girls of DBB here!