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JBP's 8th Cheesecake Queen: Asia DeVinyl


Asia DeVinyl
     Java's Bachelor Pad 8th Cheesecake Contestagain brought out a bevy of the pin-up beauties to compete for the coveted crown. But only one gal  can claim the title of Cheesecake Queen.That gal is the sultry Asia DeVinyl. With her vocal fan base, DeVinyl came away with almost 30% of the vote. As with all our Cheesecake Contest winners, we like to learn all about them.
     Here now is an exclusive interview with Asia DeVinyl as well as a selection of her pin-up photos.




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(Interview from February 2007)

Java's Bachelor Pad: First, congratulations on being named the latest Cheesecake Queen. You took the lead early on and never looked back. You really have some devoted fans. What do you attribute your success to? 

Asia DeVinyl: That's it exactly! My fans! I call them The Asia Army, they are incredible! I owe everything to them. But I really had no idea what great voters they were until this contest! 
 

JBP: I always like to ask gals where they got their start. When did you start modeling and what drew you to pin-ups? Who are your influences? 

AD: I started modeling when I was 16, and immediately fell in love with it. How could I not? Playing dress up all day long, and getting paid for it? Too good to be true! I did my first Pin-up shoot about 6 years ago, but I have always been a fan of Pin-up. My Grandmother was a huge influence on me growing up. She was always very "put together" with perfect hair, makeup and nails. She loved the glamour of classic 1950 Hollywood, and has always carried herself with poise and grace. I inherited it from her! I also look to Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Brigitte Bardot, Rita Hayworth, and Jayne Mansfield for inspiration! Now THEY were women!
 

JBP: Besides pin-ups, you have a Goth/Fetish side to your modeling. How do these different types affect one another? 

AD: Really, the crossover was very natural for me. The Goth and Fetish is where my soul is, but my heart is with Pin-up. Does that make any sense? I just brought the two together, and ended up with a very "Bettie Page meets Patricia Morrison" feel in the beginning. It just felt right. I still consider myself a Gothic/Fetish model, and find that flowing between that and the Pin-up world to be quite comfortable. Why limit myself to only one genre, if I can identify with more than that? That may be why my fan base is so strong, my photographs can appeal to more than one group of people. 
 

JBP: You have a "bad girl" attitude in your photos. The "don't mess with me or you're going to get hurt" look. But underneath it all there's a come-hither stare. You remind me of Tura Satana in that way. Talk about the "Asia Attitude." 

AD: Funny that you should mention Tura Satana, I recently befriended her via myspace! She is a very nice woman, and I was so honored to be able to express my appreciation for her work to her personally! I guess the "Bad Girl" attitude is just what I can convey onto film the most convincingly. I could try to do the Cheesecake smile, but it just isn't very believable! And it is so funny to me when I meet a fan for the first time, and they say "Gee, your so nice. I thought you would be a bitch!" I guess I feel the most powerful when I get in front of the camera, and it shows. I turn into this wild ravenous Man Eater! A photographer once told me to "make love to the camera", and I've been doing it ever since. Oh how I would have loved to have met Russ Meyer! I think we would have gotten along famously!
 

JBP: You are also a gal who is not afraid to show off your curves (and you've got some great ones). That was the great thing about 50's pin-ups. They had figures. It seems modern pin-up modeling is the last bastion for gals to be buxom and curvaceous. What are your thoughts?

AD: This is a subject that comes up quite often, and I even blogged about it last May. I love my curves! I cant imagine what I would look like if I lost a ton of weight so that I could look like "everybody else." That would be scary! I think mainstream men and women today are totally brainwashed into thinking that you have to be 5'10" and 125 pounds in order to be sexy. It just isn't true! If I were a man, I would want a woman that I wasn't afraid to break! 
 

JBP: Talk about some of the photographers you've work with. Les Slenning? Marco Patino? Who are your favorites? 

AD: Oh how I love my photographers! If I were rich, I would buy a huge compound, move them all in, and just shoot all the time! Les and Marco would be the firsts to move in, (Well, actually, the first to move in would be my darling husband/photographer Joe DeVinyl!) along with Steve Diet Goedde, Roz DeMinion, Simon Thorpe, Kevin Hundsnurscher, Stahlwolf, Frank De Blase... That list doesn't even cover the photographers that I still want to shoot with but haven't had the chance to as of yet, nor does it include all of the clothing designers that I love, or the makeup artists, or the hair stylist, or all of my model friends that I just couldn't live without! We would have a full house, for sure!
 

JBP: What's next for Asia DeVinyl
AD: I just submitted some photographs for a horror film called "Behind The Cross" that will be shot in Helsinki, Finland. The images will be shown in the beginning of the film, and I play the part of a murder victim! The photos are extremely graphic, of my dead and bloody body in a bathtub. That was a fun shoot! I will also be shooting for Badland Beads, Black Kat Kustoms, Goth Rosary, and Zombie Kitten very soon! And of course, I cant WAIT to shoot for Sugar Kitty Corsets when my prize arrives, its going to knock everyone out!
 
 

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