Soft-Core Cultural Event Promises to Focus on Accomplishments
I try to keep you abreast of major cultural advances hereabouts.
Accordingly, I bring news of the first Quest Oktoberfest, a bikini roundup/artistic event scheduled for Oct. 13. The site is secluded Oak Meadow, just a dirt road from Lake Wohlford in the backcountry of North County.
The rules are disarmingly simple: 15 “dazzling bikini-clad beauties” will be available to have their pictures snapped all afternoon.
After the bikini shoot comes the two-hour lingerie shoot.
The bikini shoot is $20. The lingerie shoot is an additional $10. Photographers must be at least 18.
The bikini wearers-- including a former Dallas Cowgirl and the reigning Miss Seagrams and Miss Orange County Hawaiian Tropics--will answer questions and discuss their lives. They will compete for a scholarship to acting school.
Richard Novick, executive editor of Escondido-based Quest Photography magazine, says the event is meant to improve the local stock of both bikini models and bikini-model photographers.
“We want the models and the photographers to meet each other in a relaxed, pastoral setting,” he said. “That way they can explore how they can help one another in their respective career paths.”
Novick hopes it is the first of many such events. Quest, now preparing for its fifth bimonthly edition, uses a lot of amateur “glamour” photography.
Is there a chance the Quest Oktoberfest models will go au naturel ?
“That’s not something I think a person can reasonably anticipate.”
What about skeptics who might say the event is just meant to make a buck by luring a bunch of drooling guys with Instamatics?
“This is not your usual bikini contest in a bar or the beach,” he said. “We want to focus on the accomplishments of the contestants.”
See, and you thought nobody cares anymore about art for art’s sake.
Developing a Bad Reputation
Here and there.
* Talk about image problems!
Proposition M, the developer-backed growth initiative on the San Diego ballot, may have big trouble if the developers take the lead in pushing it.
A building industry poll finds 61% of voters say developers can’t be trusted, 40% say developers “make me mad,” and 82% say developers would “destroy our environment” if left unchecked.
* Supervisor Brian Bilbray, quoted in the Escondido Times-Advocate about the statewide environmental initiative, Proposition 128:
“I think this is called ‘Big Green’ because attorneys are going to make a fortune off it.”
* Ten fashion photographers from Germany and their models have been here since Labor Day shooting for European catalogues.
* Pucker up.
The Hotel del Coronado is among the “200 Best Places to Kiss in Southern California” in a new travel guide for the romantically inclined.
* Five weeks before the election, the Mike Gotch for Assembly campaign doesn’t have a telephone number or a campaign headquarters. (He’s got a desk at the Democratic Party headquarters.)
Swinging Sense of Humor
It pays to advertise.
Ad placed by Andy Andreiko in the Lantern, newsletter of the Santa Fe Country Club, Solana Beach:
Just recently heard about an operation that can insure a consistently reliable, repeating, uncompromising tournament-tough (golf) swing. Willing to give 10% of my earnings when back on tour to anyone having information leading to operation by a competent doctor.
Andreiko may be joking.
He once placed an ad in the Pennysaver looking for a “good-looking” woman 39 years or older who also owns a golf cart.
He asked women responding to the ad to enclose a picture of the cart. He got several replies.
