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Fleshbot: Back in 2005 we named you one of our Top Ten Hotties of the year. Has your life changed much in the years since we honored you—and if so, what's changed?
Aprella: Yes you did, and I'd like to take the time here to say "Thank You!"

My life is always changing and evolving. In the past three years I've worked all over the world from doing runway shows in France and screaming backup vocals in Italy to doing Fashion Week in LA and swinging high on aerial swing in my home town NYC. I like to keep my career and life moving. In 2007 I worked at least one week of every month out of the country. I love life on the go.

FB: You've been an artist's model, a nude model, a dancer, a singer, an actress, an activist, and probably even more things that we forgot to list. How do you make time for it all?
A: I just follow my heart and try to make the best choices I can for myself. Unfortunately I don't get enough sleep. The usual is 4 hrs or less a night.

FB: Where did you get your start as a model? Did you start as photographer's model and branch out into other areas, or did you follow a different path?
A: I was always interested in the art of photography. While snooping about camera equipment one day a photographer asked to take a test shoot of me. He then turned it over to an agency and it turned out that I was a look they needed. I was then booked for fashion runway shows and fashion editorial shoots. As I got more involved I discovered the world of couture high fashion and have since been hooked.

FB: How did you decide to model nude? Is the experience of nude modeling substantially different from modeling with your clothes on?
A: I strive to create more artistic looks with my work. I wouldn't call myself a nude model having almost never done a fully nude shoot. When I have done fully nude I am almost always covered with body painting giving the illusion that I am clothed.

With my modelling work I'm trying to create images that cause an inspired reaction be they nude and covered in body paint or beautiful high fashion. If I look at a photo and see nudity before I see creativity it's a nothing photo for me. I'm far more turned on by art clothed or not.

FB: Do you have any favorite stories from your years of modeling? Any photographers you love working with?
A: One of the funniest moments I've had as a model has to be when I was working with Gene Simmons of Kiss fame. Gene and I were in Times Square on top of The Hard Rock Café to do press for his show "Gene Simmons and The Family Jewels" Gene out of nowhere took my hand and made me grab his ass while he looked all coy with his finger over his lips for the cameras. Then the next day it was all over the celebrity gossip television show "EXTRA."

Every photo shoot and runway show carries its bag of fun memories for me. I love the people I work with and I have to mention one of my best friends, photographer River Clark as being my favorite person to do a photo shoot with.

FB: If you had to choose just one of the many areas you work in to focus on, what would it be?
A: I really wish I could pick just one thing to focus on. I'm always so jealous of those that have that one thing they love to do and they stick to it. Like my partner David Stoupakis. He's good at everything he attempts in the art world but he's known since he was a kid that he wants to be a painter and that's what he focuses on every day. For me it's just not that easy; in fact I'd say it's impossible for me to pick one area to focus on. So I guess I just focus on following my heart for a living.

FB: Do you have any upcoming projects Fleshbot readers should know about?
A: Zillions! I'll be home in NYC this Summer doing art sittings for Dr. Sketchy's and Runway shows with some local NYC lines. This autumn I'll be back on the road and am doing a ton of touring all around the world in 2008. You can keep up with me via my Events Calendar at aprella.com. See you guys soon!

· Aprella (aprella.com)

· Dirty Angels (dirtyangels.net, via afuckaday.blogspot.com)
· Thumbnail photo by Elanor Etoile @ dirtyangels.net

· Scar And The Pumpkin (TGP gallery @ gothicsluts.com, via altporn.tumblr.com)
· See also: Blue Blood Halloween 2007 (preview gallery @ blueblood.net)

· Druunatic (druunatic.dk, via Unscathed Corpse)
· Related: Interview with Druunatic (pulpmag.net)

Previously: Minimal Fetish: Maximum Heat, Human Furniture That You Can't Get At IKEA, Meet ShinyAline (And Friends): Freaks Inside

Of all the second generation alt pinup sites out there, we have a special soft (er, hard?) spot for RazorDolls: maybe it has something to do with that homespun DIY aesthetic that was so much in evidence in the "Suthern Cumfort" DVD they released a few months ago, which makes it a sexy alternative to a lot of the increasingly glossy porn sites we keep coming across. Even if things are a little more slick at RazorDolls these days thanks to a brand spanking new redesign, they haven't forgotten where they came from ... that is, a land full of smokin' hot amateur models as well as some grade-A talent that reads like a who's-who of the alt porn omniverse, including Fleshbot faves Michelle Aston, Riley Mason, Mika Tan, and Sasha Grey. Keeping it real never looked so hot.

· Razordolls (razordolls.com)

Check out what keeps RazorDolls on the cutting edge with our exclusive preview gallery, which you'll find after the jump.

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Previously: DVD: RazorDoll's "Suthern Cumfort", RazorDolls

To put things in perspective: when Jim Malibu started his career in the adult industry, Jimmy Carter was president (or maybe Ronald Reagan; we're a little unclear as to the exact chronology); the initials "ATM" stood for neither "automatic teller machine" nor "ass to mouth" since neither had been invented yet; and Jenna Jameson was barely out of diapers. But despite his august and grizzled status in the world of porn, Malibu manages to keep both a fresh perspective on his life's work as well as a finger firmly on the pulse on what the kids (and pervs like us) are into these days with last winter's release of "Pure Pussy Goes Goth", the latest in his long-running and popular "Pure Pussy" series. Considering the fact that we generally get burned out by all those boobies everywhere we look by late afternoon on a Tuesday nearly every week, the man's enthusiasm for his job is something we can all aspire to.

· "Pure Pussy Goes Goth" Review and Jim Malibu Interview (eros-zine.com)
· Jim Malibu (official site @ jimmalibu.com)
· Order: "Pure Pussy Goes Goth" (adultdvdempire.com)

As the blogger behind Sexy Witch explains, there are two kinds of witches in the world: haggard old crones that have warts on their noses and like to cook children in giant soup pots ... and hot babes. Naturally, this blog concentrates on the latter kind, chronicling the history of sultry witches in art, literature, TV, movies, and even porn. We ourselves are surprised to admit that we've found very little of this genre over the years, even though "slutty mistress of the dark arts" seems like such a natural sexual outlet. That's why you won't find too much intentional naughtiness on this page—although there is a nice introduction to "celebrity witch"/Playboy model Fiona Horne—but if you need fuel for your Harry Potter/Elizabeth Montgomery role-playing fantasies, you can learn a lot by checking it out. We promise no spells will be cast upon you unless you ask for it.

· Sexy Witch (sexy-witch.blogspot.com, via Otomano)

Previously: Stupid Horror Sex, "Necromania" DVD Preview: Opening Credits, "Blood Lake": The Search for Porn in the Bluegrass World

Finally, there's no need to have to choose between your love of antique books and your lust for hot goth babes rolling around in their panties: Shot With Desire wraps it all up in one easy-to-browse-with-one-hand package for you! We're total suckers for smut that has the look and feel of times gone by, and even more especially when it's the backdrop for hotness of the present—and Shot With Desire delivers with a cool book-like site design with pages yellowed at the corners and everything. Touted as a sort of erotic travelogue featuring "journeys to the Erotic Underground", this Down Under site showcases skater chicks, skinny punk boys, and all sorts of combinations thereof for a sensibility that has a vague retro feel while having both its feet (and other parts) rooted firmly in the here and now. Just be careful once you start going back in time via the site preview—you may never want to come back.

· Shot With Desire (paysite preview @ shotwithdesire.com)