Penniless Photographer: Basking in His Birthday Suit

How does one photographer go about getting his work noticed on Tumblr? By taking off all his clothes, of course, and posing for cinematic self-portraits. Penniless Photographer has moved on from exposing his gloriously nude body glow, but you can still check out the archives here.

Blonde Bombshell: Why Lindsay Lohan Must Get Over Her Fixation with Marilyn Monroe

A version of this post appeared in The Huffington Post.

Even before this month we had already seen Lindsay Lohan half-naked. However her recently leaked shoot for the January issue of Playboy magazine has garnered lots of attention for the actress, the first roughly related to her career since her brief stint in the fashion industry before her last stint in rehab. The world wanted to know: would Lindsay flash her legendary “fire crotch” for $1 million?

Obviously the money was a big draw to going topless, but for her much-talked about idolizing of Marilyn Monroe, the cash-strapped Lindsay did little to embrace the opportunity and make it the type of event that could relaunch her career much like posing for Playboy launched Marilyn’s career decades ago.

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