Tuesday, February 01, 2005

New Pic (Likely to be the First of Many)


This is a picture of model Alley Baggett.
Alley primarily models for Playboy's "Newsstand" special editions, such as "Playboy's Book of Lingerie," or "Playboy's Voluptuous Vixens.”
She’s never been an official Playmate, but she has enjoyed tremendous popularity in the ten years or so that she’s been appearing in the special editions, and her Web site remains very popular.
She's even had a (really bad) comic book called "Alley Cat" based on her.
She’s so popular, in fact, that an entire system of naming and cataloging the many images of her that are floating out on the Web has been created. Called “Burg’s Alley Baggett Archive,” or “BABA,” the system creates a uniform method for naming photo files (baba00001.jpg, baba00002.jpg, etc.).
Alley fans rename any new files (culled from scans and from her site) to conform to the standard, update the database, and distribute the pictures (and the latest list of babas, usually in .csv format)via Alley fan sites and newsgroups.
So clearly there are some dedicated nerds out there who are completely obsessed with her...or who are simply very fond of her, depending on how you want to look at.
For her part, Alley tends to look at it as theft, and has sued lots of people for illegally distributing her copyrighted images.
I can sympathize with her, but on the other hand, I really don’t feel like joining her pay site (though I have in the past) simply to see pictures of her. After all, I’m not interested in live chats with her, purchasing her used lingerie (which is just creepy, on both sides of the equation), keeping up on the events in her life, or making use of any of the other features found at her site.
So as long as those nerds keep pressing their luck with the illegal distribution, I’m going to keep downloading them.
The last time I checked there were well over 12,000 baba images out there.
I don’t have that many, but I do have a lot, so I decided that I should start putting them to some use apart from simply taking up space on my hard drive and various CDs.
I like Alley because she’s cute, petite, sort of exotic-looking, and, though you can’t tell in this image, is stacked like you wouldn’t believe.
I chose to draw this image primarily because I liked her eyes (especially since in the original image they were already reflecting something that looked a lot like my signature, so drawing it was a no-brainer) and the glossiness of her lips.
Since I do have so many Alley pictures to work from the odds are that you’ll be seeing a lot more of her in the days to come.
I may even – gasp! – draw some nudes. I don’t usually draw nudes, but since that’s primarily how Alley works, I might give it a shot. We’ll see.
In any case, I just wanted to post this picture and give you a little background on Alley.

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