Octavio Arizala is known in the business as the coolest rock'n'roll pinup-shooter galore. He's got a new book out, and his website Winky Tiki has become legendary for the man's quirky sense of humor, his blatant honesty and last but not least his flamboyant and sexy photographs of - yep, you guessed it - girls!

In this interview Octavio talks to reporter Elsie Spanner and What Katie Did about his art, what it's like wading in beautiful girls for a living and his new book "Modern Vixens" that is out this fall.

When did you discover photography and decide that this was the thing for you to do? As a kid, one of my favourite pastimes was browsing over my dad's large collection of 60's "bachelor pad"  records, those images just fascinated me, specially the sexy girlies in cool outfits, I was barely 8,  but  man! By then I sure knew many ways to use whipped cream! I took some photo lessons in high school but my teacher flunked me. In 2000, I dug out the old Pentax and thought I'd give it another chance, specially being in LA, there are girls everywhere that want their photos taken. Now I do this full time…

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Your photos look very styled and well planned - how do you plan a new shoot? Do you start with an idea and try and shoot as closely to that as you can or do you work more on impulse once the set is built? Yeah, a little bit of planning goes into my shoots. I start with these impossible epic concepts then as I put it together things start changing specially coz I spent all my shoot budget at the bar the night before. So I just let things fall into place once the lights go on.