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Johannesburg, South Africa–Two women wearing orange minidresses during a World Cup football match were arrested for so-called “Ambush Marketing.”

Thirty-six women dressed in orange mini-dresses were ejected from a stadium in Joannesburg for wearing the dresses, which had a small tag that advertised Dutch beer brand Bavaria. Bavaria is not an official sponsor of the FIFS World Cup.

The arrested women were Barbara Castelein and Minte Niewpoort, both from The Netherlands.

Dutch Foreign Minister, Maxime Verhagen, said that the South African government was using heavy-handed tactics for pressing criminal charges against the two women.

Instead of just ejecting the women from the stadium, it seems that the FIFA organizers pressured the government into making the arrest. But in doing the story has made the World News headlines and billions of people are now hearing about the Dutch beer Bavaria. Newspaper editors and TV news loves this kind of story because there are plenty of good “visuals” of pretty girls in short dresses. And after seeing this story, what red-blooded male beer drinker would not now want to now try a Bavaria beer?

So if the FIFA organizers were trying to prevent Bavaria from getting free publicity, it seem to have backfire.

Read the story and watch the video Organizers of Dutch mini-dress model scheme arrested

And the story at The Independent: Dutch and South Africans in mini-dress marketing row

Commuters ride the London tube in the buff to promote a television show.

Recently we have been experimenting with creating videos for youtube. Questions arise regarding what is acceptable content on youtube, specifically with regarding to nudity and material of a sexual nature.
Sometimes we may have images that contain nudity. For instance, we might present fashion nudes which is common in mainstream fashion magazines like Vogue, especially the [...]

A sinister-looking dust cloud from Iceland has shut down air traffic all over Europe.

A new Burger King ad has come under fire. It shows an out-of-control King rampaging through an office pursued by men in white coats.
But mental health groups are protesting, claiming the ad is offensive to the mentally ill.
What do you think? Watch the ad and see for yourself.

Here’s a link to the story on Yahoo [...]

We have previously reported that high school cheerleading coach Carlie Beck was fired from her job at Casa Roble High School for posing nude for Playboy.
For those who haven’t yet made up their minds and need more information on this weighty matter, more pictures of Carlie Christine can be found at Club Glamour.
Some more facts [...]

Carlie Beck was fired from her position as cheerleader coach at Casa Roble High School in Orangeville, California. Now hear her side of the story as she speaks her mind during this interview.
Fired Cheerleader Speaks Out on videotape at break.com

Carlie Beck was fired from her job as cheerleader coach at Casa Roble High School in Orangeville, California after her nude pictures were published in Playboy magazine. She appeared in Playboy under the name Carlie Christine as Playboy’s Cyber Girl of the Week in February 2009.

Ms. Beck was the apparent victim of vengeful parents when [...]

The latest cover of Maxim has generated some controversy. The cover shot of Attack of the Show co-host Olivia Munn by photographer Miko Lim apparently is not up to the standards of some photographers. On some online message boards, there were lengthy discussion about the cover.
Jealousy perhaps? We think that Olivia Munn looks hot. As [...]

File this under “Now I’ve Seen Everything”.
Cameras have become ubiquitous. Every since the digital camera revolution, everyone has a camera and everyone is a photographer. This Orangutan at the Vienna Zoo likes to take photographs and post them on Facebook.

Nonja, a 33-year-old Orangutan, even gets paid for her photos. Every time she snaps the shutter [...]

Here is an article from the New York Times about a photographer that makes tintypes. Photographer David SoKosh uses the 19th-century technology and civil war-era chemistry to produces his unique, one-of-as-kind images.
The New York Times
The Making of a Tintype

Here is a new website that will be of interest to photographers and anyone else working with digital images. It is called dpBestFlow.org and is the work of ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers), the Library of Congress and the NDIIPP (National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program). It was officially launched during Washington [...]

A school janitor at a high school in San Jose, California was fired for recruiting models for his modeling agency. Custodian Joe Miller, 53, worked at Wilcox High School in San Jose for 20 years. He also runs a modeling agency, Rockabilly Models.

Miller has been recruiting students as models for Rockabilly Models for the past [...]

The Roving Photographer blog is going to take on an expanded role at Laguna Beach Bikini. The original idea has been just to report where in the world the roving photographer is at any time. This is fine, but it occured to the LBB editorial board that our photographer must be quite knowledeable about travel [...]

Laguna Beach, CA–The website lagunabeachbikini.com (LBB) has passed a major milestone: it is now one of the one million most popular websites in the entire world. This puts LBB in an exclusive club with the likes of mega-corporations like Google and Yahoo. According to Alexis, Google ranks #1 in popularity and Yahoo ranks #2.
As of [...]

We added a new section to out online magazine: Scene on the Street.
Scene on the Street features street fashion photography in various cities around the world. (Well so far it is only North American and European cities, but look in the Casting pages to see when and where.) Our roving photographer observes people on the [...]

Time magazine paid photographer $31.50 for a cover photo. The April 2009 issue of time magazine included a photograph of a jar of coins for the cover story “The New Frugality”. The photo was sold through iStockPhoto.com, an online stock photography agency.
Robert Lam, the Los Angeles photographer who took the picture, is thrilled to have [...]

Only April 10th, 2009, the recent Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayer upheld a ruling of a district court that a photojournalist’s photographs were only worth seven dollars each.
The district court awarded photographer Chris Usher $157,000 for 12,600 lost photographs. The photographs were submitted to Corbis, one of the largest stock photography agencies which [...]

Google (ticker: GOOG) announced the development of a computer operating system based on its Chrome Web browser. This is a direct challenge to Microsoft’s (ticker:MSFT) dominance in the OS market. The OS will be ready by the second half of 2010.
Google’s chrome-based OS will target low-end notebook computers called netbooks. Google is already competing with [...]

Los Angeles, California–The public memorial for pop-singer Michael Jackson was held at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Thousands of fans lined up outside Staples Center. 1.6 million applied for tickets; only 17,500 were allowed inside. Others watched the live show presented in theatres. The show was broadcast live around the world.
It was a [...]