Mike Ruiz

Mike Ruiz (b. 1964) is a Canadian-born photographer, director, TV personality and former model and actor.
In 2005, he photographed a nude Miss Piggy, paying homage to the late photographer Richard Avedon's famous portrait "Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent" from 1981, in a series of photos based of famous celebrity poses that appeared in Zink Magazine.
The list includes spoofs of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Edie Sedgwick as well as Kermit the Frog as Andy Warhol. Notable is that Miss Piggy appears on all of these photographs without visible ears.
Image:Zink-2005HolidayIssue-Page134-(2005).jpg|Miss Piggy as Marilyn Monroe
Image:Zink-2005HolidayIssue-Page136-(2005).jpg|Miss Piggy doing Breakfast at Tiffany's
Image:Zink-2005HolidayIssue-Page138-(2005).jpg|Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon nod
Image:Zink-2005HolidayIssue-Page139-(2005).jpg|Miss Piggy as Edie Sedgwick,Kermit as Andy Warhol
Image:Zink-MikeRuiz-MissPiggyAndTheSerpent-(2005).jpg|"Miss Piggy and the Serpent" (2005)
Image:Richard-Avedon's-Nastassja-Kinski-and-the-Serpent-1981.jpg|"Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent" (1981)
==External links==
*Official site featuring "Miss Piggy and the Serpent"
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