Visiting Kat Von D's Wonderland Gallery exhibit Viva Vampira

Aug. 4, 2012 - PRLog -- Dark Letter Days, a sequential video podcast focusing on poetry, woe, and other tales from the darkened streets of Hollywood and beyond!

In this evening's program of Dark Letter Days we visit Kat Von D's Wonderland Gallery in Hollywood, California, where we take a look at Viva Vampira, a new exhibit on the life of Maila Nurmi aka Vampira in the 50's and 60's. Viva Vampira was curated by Sam Soto and came from the collection of Jonny Coffin. Highlights include one of kind bat glasses and rare photographs.

Watch it for free now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teTf3ZbevkU&feature=plcp



Maila Nurmi (December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008 was a Finnish-American actress who created the ghoulish 1950s character Vampira. She portrayed Vampira as TV's first horror host and in the Ed Wood cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space. She also appeared in the 1959 movie The Beat Generation as Vampira.

DARK LETTER DAYS is a sequential video podcast by Lorin Morgan-Richards of A Raven Above Press: featuring art, poetry and literature readings, and a special focus on Los Angeles underground art, beat, and other related stories.

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