Does your "Dream Job" involve naked women?

The title of this post actually refers to a lucky bastard named Mark Frazier. Mark is a professional artist and one of his skills happens to be bodypainting. Surprisingly enough, my dream job does not involve nude women. Well, maybe there's some way to make that happen as a TV/movie producer, but that's a long, long time away.

He's a veteran in this field -- with numerous Playboy covers. You've seen his work most recently on the cover of February 2008 with Tiffany Fallon as Wonder Woman, but my personal favorite is October 2005 with Sara Jean Underwood and Victoria Thornton painted with Oregon State and Arizona State jerseys respectively. Oh yeah, he also paints girls for most of Hef's Playboy Mansion events. Are you already looking up airbrushing lessons online?

One of my responsibilities for Playboy's Super Saturday Night (our party during Super Bowl weekend), is to get all of the bodypainting taken care of. It was pretty much a no-brainer to hire Mark for this year's festivities. So I'm operating as his co-pilot/navigator (whichever has less responsibility) on this project. I have to give him direction for designs and revisions and pass them back to the rest of the Super Bowl event team. I also have to supervise on-site -- which means I have to make sure the bodypainted designs are applied correctly (translation: in between running around and doing everything else at the event, I have to pop in and make sure the naked girls are painted with the right designs). Arizona nudity laws mandate that the girls must wear latex thongs and pasties, so it's not quite as x-rated as some would hope.

Bodypainted girls with Usher Raymond IV from Detroit in 2006 & Bodypainted girls from 2007 in Miami


The process started with Mark sending us a few of his mockups. Unfortunately, that didn't fit with our theme -- so we had to go back to the well a few times. Mark has been fantastic with his correspondence and you can see the evolution of designs below. I can't give away the theme, but I can tell you that one of the girls will be a bellhop and another will be a French maid (more below).






Two girls will actually get to wear a small amount of clothing that's not made out of latex. It's pretty hilarious that I had to buy a French maid hat and Bellhop hat. I'll probably throw away the rest of the French maid costume -- it's not like I'm gonna wear it.

So the next step is picking the models with my co-worker Kaki. I didn't help out with this last year but apparently some of the requirements are no "saggy boobs", no visible stretch marks, and no "bumpy nipples/areola". Please keep in mind that I DID NOT make these up -- so don't get mad at me for being a shallow asshole (a girl came up with them!). Katie Ludwig from OneSource Talent had auditions for models and Kaki and I will review the pictures this week. Sounds good to me.

If you can't get to SSN '08, I'll be covering all of the events for my blog. Stay tuned!