first listed,
February 2008
Bizarre Life, Volume 1,
Number 6, two ebooks on CD
Bilife Publications
[Leonard Burtman], 1968
with bonus material
two
versions:
a digital replica (with two missing pages)
and
optimized
for ebook viewing
Bizarre Life, Volume 1, Number 6
We've previously listed Bizarre Life 1, 2, 8, 9 and Remix, an anthology containing select features from issues 5, 10, 11, 14, 15 and 17. The current offering consists of material that we have not previously presented in any form.
Several original pictorials show attractive models resolving household conflicts while wearing stockings and high heels. The two missing pages from my copy are the first two pages of a photo essay relating to a Drag Ball.
There's
lots to read. In letters and snapshots, readers describe their
preferences and experiences. Bizarre Life Remix 1 presented
“High Heel Tyrant”, Part I from Bizarre Life 5. Bizarre
Life 6 has the second and final installment with similar
photographs. Both an anonymous short story and what appears to be the
first episode of “Miss Marchant's Diary of Discipline” are
introduced by tasty Gene Bilbrew illustrations. The essay titled “The
Exotic Influence of Clothes” is illustrated with photos of women
dressed in leather and rubber.
Bizarre Life was probably the first full-sized, lifestyle magazine, and many esoteric interests are explored in issue 6, including cross-dressing (voluntary and not), dominant females and domestic discipline. Rubber and leather fetish attire as well as corsets, stockings and high-heeled shoes and boots punctuate pictures and prose.
BONUS MATERIAL: To compensate for the two missing pages, a pictorial from 1972 is appended to both versions. Spike heels and taut stockings in a discipline scenario occupy 30 pages in the optimized ebook. The supplement demonstrates the improvement in Mr. Burtman's quality after moving to California.
The magazine is presented in two ebooks. The page-for-page digital replica shows the monochrome layouts with minor modifications to obtain larger pictures. Page sequence has been revised slightly for convenience and continuity. Adjustments to the tonality of photos and retouching of specks provide a viewing experience superior to that of reading the paper pages.
A
second ebook presents each photograph and illustration on more than
180 separate, wide ebook pages that fill the screen from top to
bottom. Intended to minimize the need for zooming and scrolling, the
optimized version sometimes repeats an enlargement of choice details
beside the original photograph or on the following page. The
optimized format makes the most of the photography in this pioneer
publication of esoteric lifestyles.
These are the 155th and
156th vintage fetish ebooks we have offered on ebay.
PROCESS
I
scanned each page at 600 dpi grayscale (covers in RGB color) and
reduced the resolution to 155 dpi. I adjusted the tonality of the
photos and corrected specks and blemishes. These ebooks could be
considered a better read than the original because the monochrome
adjustments brighten and enlarge the images and disclose detail.
The .pdf files are 68 mb and 41
mb.
The
scans were assembled as a book in a publishing program. Then, the
file was exported to Acrobat .pdf format. Acrobat files are opened in
Acrobat Reader, available without charge for both PC and MAC
platforms at adobe.com. You can run an image viewer or video program
at the same time you flip through the pages of an ebook in Acrobat
Reader. Reader allows zooming and rotation. If you prefer paper pages
to desktop images, Acrobat allows you to print .pdf pages.
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The content of Bizarre Life, Volume 1, Number 6 is in the public domain. The scans of the pages included in the ebook, and the ebook design and presentation are the property of 30th Street Graphics and are used with permission. All rights reserved.