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Oliver

olivermendoza.solomodels.com

About Me

Reasons why you won't work with me.

1. i've got no money. 2. i'm not famous. 3. girls acting sexy make me blush. 4. i won't shoot you in a room covered in comic books. 5. i am neither glamorous, nor fashionable. 6. i don't have an expensive camera. 7. working with me won't get you anywhere.

Reason you will work with me. 1. imagination rules the world.

UPCOMING PROJECTS: sf Fetish Ball Gallery. Charlie Brown photo essay. Maxim Philippines. Playboy Philippines. Club Spank Gallery Show. Poison Clan photo essay. Etc. Etc. shit keeps piling up.

My Interests

Ray guns, cheap ass band posters, Russ Meyer movies, photography, illustration, graphic design, pixel monkeys, conspiracy theories, the Freemason plot to rule the world!!!, visual culture, retro-modernist art, giant robots, monkeys, Moore, Gaiman, 71 Cudas, fetish photography, pinup art/photography, lowbrow art, bad kung fu movies, cult films, sitting in a mall, restaurant, church ,coffee shop or DMV and doin 1 minute sketches, warm fuzzies, techno-organic abominations, meaningful tattoos, meaningless tattoos, my wacom tablet, Micronauts, action figures that you can take out of the packaging, the Alien plot to rule the world (which is different and separate from the Freemason plot), filling profiles with stream of conscious tidbits in the vain and possibly futile attempt to prove to people that i am worthy of their notice

I'd like to meet:

anyone i can sit in a coffee shop with and discuss the compositional overtones of the Dutch Masters. Nah. Creative souls in the bodies of real people. Artists that I don't have to talk about art with. Anybody that's down to help out, just for the sake of helpin out, anyone that can smile at a stranger, and anyone interested in helping me stock up on good karma. People with true passions, people with flaws

Music:

I get the odd feeling i'm stuck in the 80's...Depeche Mode, the Cure, Erasure, lil Billy Idol, the Police, Tribe Called Quest

Movies:

Buckaroo Banzai, Big Trouble in Little China, Ultravixen, Boondock Saints, City of Lost Children, Shaolin Soccer, Volcano High, Sixteen Candles, Shawshank Redemption, Evil Dead 2, Stormriders, Legend, Bladerunner, Neverending Story, Run Lola Run, Faster Pussycat! Kill!! Kill!! , Master Killer, Drunken Master, Five Deadly Venoms

Books:

Ender's Game, Rule By Secrecy, pop up books, books with really big pictures in em like Lowlife Paradise: the Works of Glenn Barr

My Blog

Magdalene Veen

...since i haven't posted an image in a minute, i thought i'd post this, from about a week ago.  The utterly sexy magdalene veen.Two minute shoot.  Beat that....
Posted by Oliver on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:06:00 PST

ALEXANDRIA THE GREAT

and finally, a shoot with Lisa Alexandrea.  This girl is a bundle of fucking energy.  The sweetest thing, I swear.  It's just too damn easy to shoot her.  No wonder all these photo...
Posted by Oliver on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:22:00 PST

PULP FICTION

Nikki Fiction is a badass model.  I denno...her portfolio completely did not prepare me for our shoot.  She's amazing.  ...
Posted by Oliver on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:20:00 PST

WHAT THE????? more drawing!!!!!

an old ass drawing.  I was going through a whole Kikaider phase, and at the time i was doing layouts for the automotive section of the newspaper, pouring through all these car photos.  The p...
Posted by Oliver on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:04:00 PST

Day Job samples

I don't draw as much as I used to....and if you've known me for awhile, you know all i did was draw, morning day and night.  now it's usually just for the day job, and usually it's quick.  t...
Posted by Oliver on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:27:00 PST

Melodie Gore, part one

k, i'm actually four or five shoots behind at the moment, so i figured i'd start with a shot from my latest in case ya missed it.  I got a lot of shit for this one from the car show peeps, so tha...
Posted by Oliver on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:25:00 PST

El Fight Club, starring Rob and Pam......WIP

this story needs an ending. and some more editing, i think. but still fun...... ...
Posted by Oliver on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:45:00 PST

VINROC

this is still a work in progress, as far as i'm concerned.Vinroc...and yah, you really should know who Vinroc is, wanted somethin without the usual turntables and what not, reflecting an evolution in ...
Posted by Oliver on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:48:00 PST

LOS ANGELES weekend

had a couple cancellations, but i got to meet a couple faces I'd been wanting to chill with for a good while.  Hit the HIN car show. thank god for Dion, otherwise i woulda been even testier than ...
Posted by Oliver on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:51:00 PST

Pam Rodriguez

....is the kind of model that looks amazing just  standing there.  It was hard to not just let her stand there, be beautiful, and snap pictures.  But dammit, I stood strong.  I am ...
Posted by Oliver on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:46:00 PST