Mashinka Firunts manufactures personae housed in the following cabinet of curiosities : www.mashinkafirunts.com

Over the past two decades bd miller has built a reputation for his dynamic conceptual images of such music industry luminaries as Marilyn Manson, Dead Can Dance, and Radiohead. More recently however he has turned his focus to creating photographic images purely of his own imagination.

A bearded woman is groomed by a bald girl, an armless beauty smiles seductively as she writes with her feet, half-girls, fat ladies, contortionists, and little people, this is the curious world of bd miller’s photography. It is a world somewhat familiar to those who know and love circus sideshow but it is not a sideshow that exists in any circus here on Earth. These images are not a literal documentation of sideshow. These photographs are of the circus that lives in ones imagination in those moments of anticipation. They are the dreams, nightmares, and fantasies inspired by those broken promises.

His first book entitled “Strange Girls!” is to be published later this year by Ignition Publishing.

Adriano, the merciless, is a dangerous person who should not be allowed to walk free on the streets. Other than that he had been working as a freelancer with webdesign, flash animation, illustration, comics, storyboard and production design in NY for the last 10 years. His clients included Phat Farm, Mariah Carey, Warner Brothers Online, Dancing Diablo, media balsters and others.

Recently he produced a shadow puppet adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Dr Tarr and professor Fether and is developing a series of 5 short puppet plays about cats.

At Dances of Vice he is presenting his new comic strip ‘À Nous La Liberté’, original artwork produced for the festival (20x30 illustration 'The 32 sinful days of Aimee Semple Macpherson') and cubist/art nouveau portraits of the guests. His artwork can be seen at his website:
www.theabsence.iwarp.com