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The Six Guidelines that Teaches How to Become a SEO Expert

Do you think brain surgeries are hard? Well, SEO is much more difficult to understand than a mere human neurological organ. To master yourself in the art of SEO, it requires numerous years of practice. Even if you are a
 master once, not sharpening your skills time to time will definitely get you rusty. The search algorithms change all the time and you have no idea what the search engine developers are up to. You must always keep your head in the game or else this is going to not only be harder than a brain surgery, but might even go out of this world and become something of a black magic, where you have to bring back a person to life.

Now, you have to understand that no one is really each expert in this field of SEO. Like I have said, because of this ever-changing nature, it is difficult to develop expertise. So, if anyone's working for a client, you probably don't want to get their website thrown into the “sandbox.” Sandbox is a term used in the field referring to the black hole of websites. Which simply means that the website will never ever be found. That's why you have to make sure you do not make a stupid mistake, or it's going to be a very bad situation for everyone, especially you.

To prevent making mistakes I'm going to introduce to you the six guidelines that you should all keep in mind in practice.

Number one.
For minimum of a year, administer a minimum number of five websites. Linking them together is not a good idea. They should be completely separate, making no possibilities of contaminating one another.

Number two.
Take a scientific approach to your problems. Try to come up with your own theories and techniques. Test them out, note the results, make changes, test it out again, and just keep doing that. Observe how the search engines are working to bring up your websites and try to incorporate that to your SEO techniques.

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Who Wants Zombie Meat?

Mmmm… Nothing states “yum” like the walking dead. Or eating the walking dead. De-licious.

Spotted by website Pink Tentacle, here is some grayish-bluish “zombie meat” beef jerky which claims to be aged to dead perfection in the graveyard. It also claims to be “juicy”. (The fine prints points out that this is, yes, beef jerky.) Not sure how widely this is being sold in Japan, but here you go:

The packaging also asks if you have ever seen blue meat like this. I haven't, and I think pass!

Zombie meat [Pink Tentacle]

Send an email to the author of this post at bashcraft@kotaku.com.

Zombie meat beef jerkey

Lisa Katayama at 8:21 AM Wednesday, May 26, 2010

You can now dried zombie meat at your local convenience store in Japan. The packaging claims it contains blue flesh aged to perfection in the graveyard.

via Pink Tentacle

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I started using an Ipod app to track my food intake. It's great. This way, I can record my regular foods once, instead of having to remember their stats everyday. I did really well today-I wasn't that interested in food. I sucked it up and started making my protein shakes in the blender instead of trying to mix them by hand. Yes, it's more work, but the results are worth the extra work. 

I came across a weight I had recorded in August of last year-189. I can't believe how long I've been struggling with this. I've been trying (and failing) to get my weight under control for almost ten years, now. 

I can feel that this is going to be it. I feel like I've grown up so much in this past year. I feel so ready to buckle down and handle my responsibilities. I've been handling my responsibilities at home like I should have been all along, and I'm finally getting my finances under control. I'm headed back to school, and I AM going to lose this weight. I will NOT be "the fat nurse." 

I really want to get back into shows. I love musicals, and I LOVE performing in them. I don't want to go back until I've shed at least some of this fat suit. It's just too difficult to be comfortable on stage. 

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I don’t know if I should feel sorry for my best friend or not. I gave her my cold – it was nicely gift wrapped and it had a bow – under the guise of just a simple visit. Considering that I still have to blow my nose occasionally and that I’m still not completely recovered, I really don’t think she’ll be having very much fun for the next week or so. I most certainly didn’t, and she has the immune system of a carrot. She hates oranges, and I think that’s the reason why she gets sick so much. She refuses to eat anything with citric acid in it, so it’s all her fault that she’s knocked out today.

Yesterday I went for ice cream, and while I was on my way (for I decided to walk and at least try to burn some of what I would be eating off), a pair of male mallard ducks started following me. They were quite literally on my tail, and they followed me from their pond (where their mates are probably looking over chicks) to the front of the ice cream store, where I promptly closed the door in their faces. They even waited outside for a short time while I was enjoying my double scoop of chocolate, but eventually they went back to the lake and their homes. I’m glad they didn’t start following me after I came back out – while small, woodland/ frequently featured cartoon animals can be really adorable, having them escort you away from their home is really creepy. I was also afraid that the ducks would attempt to bite me if I didn’t get away fast enough. For those of you who don’t know it or have never been too close to a duck when it’s hungry and have not found out that ducks have sharp edges on their bills that act like teeth, they do. When ducks bite, they bite hard.

For some reason the male coworker I keep complaining about chooses to ignore the fact that ducks bite, and that ducks bite hard. He acts completely insane around the little waterfowls, and talks down to them as one would do with a dog or a cat, or even a human baby. He tried to promote a group a few years back that was named ‘Hug a Duck’, and he even wanted to have a ‘Hug a Duck Day’. Fortunately, no duck came close enough to him for the guy to accomplish his goal of hugging a duck, but for a while, I almost wanted to take him to a lake and bring bread. I guess I really just wanted to see what would happen.

I saw the book that my Chinese class will be doing after they finish our current one. The idea of new material after all of the time that we’d spent going over this book we have now is exciting, but it’s just too little too late for me. I’ve already said that I won’t be doing this next class with them, and I mean it. The hope of more knowledge is not worth the constant degradation that I face going in there most days. The few positive days in there are the days when we have parties and no one cares enough to make rude or sarcastic results that do nothing but belie the distance between me and them. I wish it was a different situation, and that I could enjoy it enough to at least WANT to take another year, but I don’t.

Today was spent taking care of all of the little things that decided to pile up when I went to the project place yesterday. The project wasn’t a team thing, a select few of us were chosen to go and do it, so yesterday the people around and over me thought they’d pile some previously unknown paperwork on me. I got it sorted out before I left work, however, so all’s well that ends well.

I only have 22 more days of work, and then I will quit. Those would be work days, not the actual time left before my final day, but I think I’ll stick to whichever system of counting is the shortest. It’s almost tangible, and I feel like I’m a little kid and I’ve forgotten that the end of school isn’t the first official day of summer. Like the little kid, I can’t say that I care. I am doing little things right now like cleaning up both my locker and my general work area. I found that when I was in school it usually helped to start during the last month or so of school, so that when graduation day came around, I wouldn’t be stuck cleaning while all of my friends were yelling for me to hurry up so that we could kiss the school goodbye.

I’ve been walking recently with my roommates, and it’s an attempt to walk to the places we normally drive to in order to keep ourselves healthy. Right now our current goal is to the local bookstore, but we haven’t quite made it across the major highway that it’s on yet. It’s about two miles from where we live, and with the three of us, it takes us a little while to get much of anywhere. One of my roomies was hit by a car a few years ago, and she’s never really recovered from it. The money she was given in the settlement ran out before she could get her back properly aligned, so she walks a little slower and more cautiously than the rest of us would. We have tried walking slower for her, but she wants to go at normal speed and often goes ahead of us. Go figure.

From all of our figuring, we think we’ll want to be around our goal by early fall, when we’ll be able to just spend all day walking without having to worry about how hot it could be or having to stop every thirty or so minutes to reapply suntan lotion. I’m not so sure about the timeline, though. We are getting unusually high temperatures for this time of year, so we may be able to walk as early as August. That doesn’t sound like it would make sense, but let me explain: when heat comes this early, the weather begins to cool around mid August. So, it may be closer to the end of August that we might actually be able to walk to the Barnes and Noble. The key words were ‘may’ and ‘might’.

There are times when I’ve spent a good few hours in Barnes and Noble, and I think if I found a good place come closing, I might be able to live there permanently. They have food and additional places nearby, entertainment, I’d love to get a job there, and the bus stop is near the store. All I’d need would be a pillow and an air mattress to sleep on. The biggest problem would be finding a big enough place in the store that was protected from security or anyone who’d take an air mattress they saw laying out. The plan needs a little polishing (ok, a lot), and I’ll never put it into completion, but I think it could work. The prospect would be exciting, and I’d get to read all of the books I wanted to at no cost! Ya!

It felt very odd to relax yesterday. Mondays aren’t known for being days of relaxation, so when I DO relax on a Monday, it sort of sets me off my norm. I’m having Monday- I- just- want- it- to- be- over syndrome right now and I’ve found that when I have Mondayitis, nothing really works – well, that’s actually wrong. A bowl of chocolate ice cream does that trick perfectly. I think I may need to get some, especially after writing about it in reference to the ‘duck incident’. That ice cream was very good by the way, and cheaper than I expected it to be.

I’m having steak tonight, which will be very good. Steaks usually are if they are done right, but one of my roommates usually commandeers steak cooking and we just let her. She can cook very well, but she knows how to make the steak very tender and juicy without trying very hard at all. I love steak days.

I saw this one webpage when I was at a friend’s house, and I’ve just recently gotten to look at it more. It’s a glossary for the slang that doctors use on charts, and apparently more than one doctor has been called out on the slang while they were giving testimonies in court. Just remembering some of the phrases used is enough to make anyone smile and I’d suppose they’d be the ones who’d need it the most. For instance, did you know that Donorcycles is slang for a motorbike, which is the most frequent cause of donated organs? I didn’t, and I found out a lot just by reading the slang that doctors use in their day-to-day lives.       

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The closing stages of EPT Main Events are always thrilling, but let's face it, some days are better than others. Tomorrow and Friday in the chocolate box country of the Austrian Alps, however, might well turn out to be two of the very best.

Just take a look at the top four chip counts of the last 24 players remaining here at Snowfest:

Allan Baekke – 2,687,000
Brent Wheeler – 1,361,000
Max Lykov – 1,205,000
Johannes Strassmann – 1,001,000

That is quality in vast quantity. It is going to be a bloodbath.

The icy stare of our chip-leader, Allan Baekke

Today, the innocuous surroundings of the Alpine Palace in Himmelglen were picture-postcard perfect, with warm sun blazing off the snow and a woodcarver plying his trade on the hotel steps – a scene of innocent serenity. (If you ignore the chainsaw.) But as soon as the 86 players convened in the tournament room with the intention of playing down to a final three tables, the action was brutal enough to make anyone yodel, with or without tight lederhosen.

The bubble lasted one hand, with Alfio Battisti's aces unable to hold up against Evgeniy Zaytsev's pocket threes. Zaytsev had brought a big, comedy red button with him to the table today that squealed: “That was easy!” when he pushed it. It had never been more appropriate.

Alfio Battisti sees his aces outdrawn

Zaytsev's “Easy” button

But after that moment, Zaytsev yielded the floor to four players in particular: his countryman Max Lykov, the Dane Allan Baekke and the Team PokerStars Pro duo of Johannes Strassmann and Richard Toth. Each of them were carving through this field like a chainsaw through candy-floss, with only the bare minimum of clogging to the works.

By the end, Toth had faded away, but Baekke, Lykov and Strassmann each bagged up more than a million after as comfortable a display of extreme violence as you'll ever see. The final hand of the evening was typical: Baekke (who raises no more than 97 percent of pots pre-flop) found aces at the precise time another big stack, Paul Valkenburg found kings. They each flopped a set, but Valkenburg's miracle one outer didn't come, and Baekke ensured it was his name at the top of the leaderboard overnight. (Real all about when we first met Baekke here.)

The other high-flyer is Brent Wheeler, an American who has enjoyed life in Europe (and its off-shoots) over the past couple of seasons. He went deep in two events at the PCA in January, then final tabled an IPT event in San Remo, before cashing in Berlin a fortnight ago.

Wheeler's big hand came when he got all of Sven Mol's chips in pre-flop. Mol had nines and Wheeler had jacks. That was worth about a million, and it was upward from there.

As for Lykov and Strassmann, what more can be said? Lykov is currently in the business of locking up the EPT Player of the Year title. He adds this deep run to a win in Kyiv and in a side event at the PCA. He has a very, very good chance of becoming the first two-time EPT champion.

Max Lykov. Again.

Strassmann was very disappointed to bust in 23rd during his home EPT in Berlin, and vowed to go better. He needs to outlast only one player tomorrow to do that during what is already his ninth EPT cash.

Johannes Strassmann. Again

So, head over to the chip-count page for the starting stacks tomorrow, where you'll also find the other big hitters still gunning for this one, including Jim Collopy and Nasr El Nasr. There really is no shortage of talent – and you can see where they'll be sitting on the seat draw page.

Nasr El Nasr. Again.

Then check out who won what today on the prizewinners' page, where there's another list of Team PokerStars Pros going very deep on the EPT.

Your next step is to review all today's action with the following links:

Introduction and level 16 updates
Level 17 updates
Level 18 updates
Level 19 updates
Level 20 updates

There are video blogs aplenty at PokerStars.tv. And there's a mountain of German, Dutch and Italian in the usual places.

Photography comes from Neil Stoddart. And I daresay he'll be back tomorrow. Just like us. Ta ta.

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Photographers, just like designers, often use the Internet to help promote their work.

Other than using mainstream photography and design sites such as Flickr, Behance and DeviantArt, photographers usually like to have their own portfolio. Not only is it professional, but it gives them an unlimited amount of options and ways to showcase their own work.

This compilation showcases some of the best photographer portfolio websites out there, including both HTML and Flash based portfolios.

Did we miss a photography portfolio out from this list that you feel deserves to be here? Be sure to drop a link in the comments area at the bottom of the post…

HTML/CSS Portfolios

HTML and CSS based web designs are becoming ever more popular for portfolio sites to showcase work, whether it be photography or design, traditional art or furniture construction.

The latest technologies in HTML, CSS and JavaScript/jQuery allow us to create some awesome portfolio features such as light-boxes and sleek animated scrolling effects. Another plus side with choosing an HTML/CSS portfolio is that it can be viewed without the Flash player on mobile devices, such as the iPhone, or older computers that might not be powerful enough for CPU intensive animations.

Rick Nunn

Rick Nunn uses a modern design, making nice use of  jQuery effects and some subtle grunge textures. The main navigation area of the site is located in the footer, adding a unique and interesting way to find your way round the site.

Alex Flueras

Alex Flueras’ portfolio uses a clean black and white color scheme, which causes his photographs to stand out. The typography-based navigation menu on the left side of the layout is used to view different types of his work, you can then scroll sideways to view the works in each category. A great jQuery effect is used which allows you to click on the next image which, once clicked, smoothly scrolls to the left side of the page for you.

Rebecca Ruth

Rebecca Ruth’s portfolio is based on an HTML and CSS layout, although Flash is used to create an elegant slider. The use of a calligraphy style font adds more elegance to the portfolio, and the low-opacity floral patterns add a bit of depth to the design.

Robert Dann

Robert Dann makes great use of texture in his portfolio to add depth to the overall feel of the design. He uses the same hot and vivid pink found in his logo throughout his design which helps add that little something extra to the design. The portfolio area uses a classy jQuery slider, adding a little touch of style to the site’s usability.

Maurice Krijtenberg

Maurice Krijtenberg makes use of his photography skills in his portfolio design, putting the message across that he is a photographer right from the word go. His photographic work is showcased in a photo frame; to view the next piece of work you simply click and a cool  jQuery effect kicks in to play and does its job to smoothly scroll the image sideways to reveal the next photograph.

John Morris

John Morris has gone for the elegant and clean look, which is always a good choice if you’re a wedding photographer! The minimal white color scheme works perfectly with the style of photos and makes them stand out like there’s no tomorrow. Yet again, another jQuery effect has been used, this time to add an elegant smooth faded effect to the front page slide-show.

Sandy Carson

Sandy Carson’s portfolio is another minimalistic one, making use of white-space to bring out the best in his photographic work. The portfolio pages make good use of a jQuery thumbnail gallery, allowing you to select just the photos you want to see rather than having to view them all, although you most probably will view them all anyway!

Mauro Poltronieri

The faded damask style texture used in the background of Mauro Poltronieri’s one-page portfolio adds great depth, making the site much more visually appealing. The scroll effect on the portfolio of images itself is very smooth and adds a elegant feel to the design; the images can be clicked on and opened up to view the full-size image in a beautiful jQuery light-box.

Daniel Woolf

Daniel Woolf makes use of a lovely striped images on the left-hand side of his portfolio, adding tonnes of interest to the portfolio design itself. The portfolio section of the site uses a jQuery thumbnail gallery that fits in perfectly with the sites overall design.

Sunny Shen

Sunny Shen’s portfolio uses a very limited color scheme and makes use of rounded corners to make the square-cornered images stand out well. The portfolio section of the site is slightly outdated and doesn’t make use of slide-shows or any jQuery effects, however it displays well and it’s easy to find what you’re looking for.

Buddhabong

Buddhabong’s portfolio uses some really modern trends such as repeated striped background patterns, jQuery effects and a minimalist but effective and stunning navigation menu.

Andrew Gransden

Andrew Gransden’s HTML and CSS based portfolio uses some great rollover link effects in the navigation menu which is very easy to use and find your way around the site. The portfolio area of the site uses a popular, but well used jQuery light-box, emphasizing the quality of the photography.

Paulo Boccardi

Paulo Boccardi has such a simple portfolio, yet its elegance and simplicity make it absolutely perfect for his style of work, which stands out incredibly well. The portfolio area uses a great jQuery scrolling effect, making it simple to use and nice to look at.

Arild Danielsen

Arild Danielsen’s design uses great Flash-like JavaScript effects to make the site visually appealing and interesting to use. Thumbnails of the photos are enlarged in a pretty light-box when clicked on, allowing the viewer to view the photos at a larger scale.

Clouds 365 Project

The Clouds 365 Project is an incredibly interesting project, and has a superb “portfolio” to match. It uses a fantastic JavaScript effect that makes the slightly decreased-opacity images show their true color when hovering over them. Clicking on a thumbnail reveals a bigger version of the clouds, and like a blog, allows visitors to comment on their favorite photographs.

Ivan Vanderbyl

Ivan Vanderbyl’s photography portfolio uses jQuery rollover effects that reveal the name of a particular photo, as well as when it was taken. Clicking on one of the many thumbnails displayed on the front page takes you to another page, allowing you to view a larger version of the photo.

Rankin

Rankin is a huge and very well-known photographer, having photographed plenty of celebrities such as Madonna, Lindsay Lohan, Jay-Z, Ricky Gervais and many, many more. The portfolio design itself is very simple and minimalist, using a frame to present the actual photographs in a horizontal scroll-box.

Dave Hill

Dave Hill uses great jQuery effects in his portfolio to display a selection of washed-out thumbnails down the left-hand side, followed by a large preview of the selected thumbnail.

Alexander Henderson

The sleek, modern portfolio of Alexander Henderson uses a dark gray text to make the navigation menu on the left-hand side as subtle as possible. The thumbnails of the photos stand out incredibly well because of the very limited color-scheme, and when clicked are opened up in a beautiful light-box, allowing the user to view the photos at a good size.

Flash Portfolios

Using the latest Flash technology in portfolio design is a great way to display your work a little differently to those using HTML, CSS and JavaScript/jQuery. Although almost anything is possible, expect to pay a little more for custom Flash-based portfolios (if you’re not creating it yourself). One other bad point about Flash is it can’t be viewed on all computers and mobile devices, such as some older computers and iPhones.

Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry’s portfolio is laid out tremendously well and it couldn’t be easier to find your way around the site, from locating different galleries and scrolling through the different photographs. The use of subtle noise and texture in the background put emphasis on the photos, and the bold border around the whole design finishes it off nicely.

Felipe Marti

Felipe Marti’s portfolio is definitely something that can be achieved using HTML, CSS and a few good jQuery effects, but nonetheless it is still a great portfolio. The navigation couldn’t be any easier, and the lovely desaturated color scheme makes you focus more on the photography than the design of the portfolio.

Erik Borst

Erik Borst has designed his portfolio so that each photograph has the maximum amount of space possible to fill your screen with delightful compositions and colors. The navigation is very interesting, making it very unique compared to most other sites in this compilation.

Adam Sheppard

Adam Sheppard’s portfolio has some very unique animated navigation menus on his portfolio, allowing us to interact with the design a little more than others. When you’re not purposely viewing any photos a wonderfully transitioned slide-show is playing in the background. The portfolio area itself is explored via numbers, you never know what you’re going to get which builds up the suspense making you want to view more!

Evaan Kheraj

Evaan Kheraj’s portfolio is another one that makes use of great Flash effects to make the most of the space they have, allowing us to see the photographs at the biggest size possible. As well as being able to click through the photos in full-size, we are also given the option to view the album/gallery in thumbnail views, allowing us to pick and choose the photos we want to see, avoiding the stuff we don’t want to see – a great addition for those who know what they’re looking for!

Eric Ryan Anderson

Eric Ryan Anderson’s portfolio is very minimal, making us focus every little bit of attention in us on the superb photography. Albums are super easy to find using the easy navigation, and photos can be viewed by simply sliding from one side to the other.

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A few weeks ago, while out doing some Oscar stalking with Mike, from MovieShotsLA, the two of us visited a convenience store on Hollywood Boulevard which just so happened to be selling the latest edition of fave star map “Movie Star Homes and Notorious Crime Scenes”.  So, I, of course, just had to buy myself a copy (actually, truth be told, Mike purchased it for me – Thank you, Mike!) and was absolutely floored to discover that one of the many new addresses included in the map was that of Tom Kelley’s former photography studio, the very place where a then-unknown wanna-be actress named Norma Jeane Baker posed for her now-infamous series of nude calendar photographs on May 27, 1949.  Just twenty-two years old at the time, the woman, who would just a short time later come to be known as one of the most famous movie stars in the entire world, posed sans clothing while laying on top of a drape made of red velvet.  When later asked about what she was wearing during the controversial photo shoot, Marilyn said, “It’s not true that I had nothing on.  I had the radio on.”  Love it!  Well, once I had the address of the studio, Mike and I headed right over there to stalk the place.   Yay!

Tom Kelley’s former photography studio is currently inhabited by Pictures in a Row, a production company which touts the famous history of their office space right on their website – SO LOVE IT!  The studio is unfortunately gated, but, as luck would have it – and I always seem to have the most AMAZING luck when I am out with Mike – one of the Pictures in a Row employees just happened to be standing outside of the gate when we pulled up.  So we, of course, got to talking to him and I told him about my blog and my love of Miss Monroe and asked if I could snap a few photographs.  Well, not only did he tell me to snap away, but he then asked – are you sitting down for this? – if I wanted to COME INSIDE THE STUDIO TO SEE WHERE THE FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHS HAD BEEN TAKEN!   Well, let me tell you, I just about FAINTED right there on the spot!  Did I want to come inside????  Did I want to come inside?????  OF COURSE I DID!  So, after regaining my composure, he led me past the front gates and INTO TOM KELLEY’S FORMER STUDIO.  As you can probably imagine, I was just about DYING the entire time.  The interior of the studio is pictured above and while the employee told me that the space has undergone quite a few changes in the sixty some-odd years since Marilyn was photographed there . . .

. . . the ceiling has been left largely untouched.  So, what is pictured above is pretty much the exact view Marilyn had as she looked upwards while Tom Kelley photographed her from a ten foot ladder.  So darn cool!  I really can’t tell you how incredible it was to be able to actually set foot inside of such a historically significant building onto what I very much consider to be hallowed ground. 

Because Marilyn’s calendar photographs became so incredibly famous, the legends surrounding them abound.  There are even differing reports as to why the struggling starlet posed in the first place, but according to her official statement she was behind on a rent payment and simply needed the $50 paycheck.  Apparently, after the two hour session ended, the photographs of Marilyn sat in one of Tom Kelley’s filing cabinets for over a year until Western Lithograph contacted him to see if he had any nudes he’d be willing to sell.  Kelley ended up selling the company two of his Marilyn photographs for a mere $200 fee and it was those two prints, which were entitled “Golden Dreams” and “A New Wrinkle”, that wound up in the calendar.  The calendars were then sold and hung up in men’s garages all over the U.S., but it wasn’t until March of 1952 that a newspaper journalist named Aline Mosby identified the now-wildly-famous Marilyn as the calendar’s model.   But the story doesn’t end there.  In 1953, a young entrepreneur named Hugh Hefner purchased one of Kelley’s prints and featured it as the centerfold in the very first issue of his new men’s magazine which he dubbed Playboy.  That first issue sold a staggering 54,000 copies and turned the magazine and its creator into household names.  The rest, as they say, is history.  Marilyn was so significant in building Heff’s empire, in fact, that he wound up purchasing the crypt directly next to hers at Pierce Brothers Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery so that he could lay in eternal rest with the woman who launched his career.  The area of the studio where Marilyn posed is denoted with the pink arrow in the above photograph.

Until next time, Happy Stalking! 

Stalk It: Tom Kelley’s former photography studio, where Marilyn posed for her now infamous nude calendar pictures, is located at 736 Seward Street in Hollywood.

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