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Blink of an Eye
 photos: Stephen Wayda
 and Kevin Wilkes
 video: Jon Leone


By Rob. Walton


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"As long as my model has good energy, I'll have good energy." That's the sunny forecast Blink-182's drummer Travis Barker projected before he began his stint as a photographer-for-a-day in Playboy's famous Santa Monica photo studio. Fortunately, the model was his soon-to-be Playmate wife Shanna Moakler, Miss December 2001, who has enough sexual energy to power a Marshall stack. But neither star of MTV's new reality series Meet the Barkers is a stranger to nudity. Since he and his Blink bandmates ran naked through L.A. in their "What's My Age Again?" video, Travis knows just what it takes to perform well in the buff. Fortified by Red Bull and Shanna's sexy poses, the pierced and inked punk rocker powered through a grueling five-hour shoot.

Clearly in love with his shapely subject, the bad boy broke character to gently fiddle with Shanna's feather boas and plant constant kisses on her lips and nipples in between rolls of film. And when Playboy's makeup artist scolded him for mussing up his muse, Travis stepped in to personally touch up Shanna's lip gloss. But his overly attentive methods worked: Shanna looked longingly into her photographer's eyes, even when the camera wasn't aimed at her.

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