Bonus Blue Blood VIP and Erotic Fandom update.
So artist Kevin Flint made an apocalyptic gun turret. So I felt compelled to put gorgeous naked people in it. Busty beautiful Larkin Love comes with the delightful enthusiasm.
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Franccesca de Struct Sunlit Vamp (SFW PICS)
I love the contrast between Franccesca de Struct‘s soft classic features and strong goth-industrial look in this series and we went with a color palette to accentuate this. This is the 4th set Forrest Black and I shot of the stunning Franccesca de Struct for the Blue Blood VIP. Members get to, ya know, see the whole 128 picture shebang of sexy goth-industrial goodness.
Darenzia – Magazine Stuff and More Blue-Haired Goodness (SFW PICS)
Continuing the theme of blue-haired beauties Forrest Black and I have photographed, from Alecia Joy‘s 13th Blue Blood VIP appearance to Darenzia‘s 39th Blue Blood VIP appearance . . . I’m pleased to be able to share this unseen flashback photo shoot with you all. Forrest Black and I photographed a bunch of stuff of Darenzia where a few images ran in various print magazines. Only print magazines, at least back then, preferred to have an embargo on publishing the full set on BlueBlood.com or RubberDollies.com or wherever, until after the print mag cam out. Only print publications sometimes take forever to actually be published. So, by the time Marquis and I think a couple other things were published with our shots of Darenzia, the hard drive with the originals had died. (I recall Marquis was one because Darenzia was kind enough to thank me and Forrest, for shooting her first Marquis appearance and hooking her up with the mag, in her covergirl feature interview when she made the cover of the magazine. I make sure to always remember kindnesses.) We recently were able to happily recover a bunch of stuff off of it, so, voila! New old Darenzia pics! We’ve also recently organized the majority (well, not all, but the majority, of our film negatives. We did that for our deathrock book project, but BlueBlood.com members may benefit as well.
Alecia Joy Trapeze PICS (SFW)
Alecia Joy‘s formal dance training is evident in this photo series. It was such a pleasure for me and Forrest Black immortalizing someone doing something so well and so beautifully. Alecia is wonderful to work with. I really want to post like a zillion images from this set because it turned out so awesome, but, with the ways Google and Facebook are 900 pound gorillas dictating how others must present things, the internet is becoming so aggressively SFW. So I feel like, if I want anyone to see my personal blogging, I need to keep it pretty SFW (other people’s W that is) if I want anyone to actually see what I create. Trust me, Alecia Joy can do really cool stuff on a trapeze. Anyway, for Blue Blood VIP members, there are 82 photographs in this series.
Scarlet Starr with Rayguns (SFW PIC)
I’m feeling really worn out, but at least I can tell I’ve gotten a ridiculous amount of things done. This series Forrest Black and I shot of Scarlet Starr just posted to EroticFandom and the Blue Blood VIP. Raygun accessories by the most excellent Kevin Flint.
Blue Blood is 20 Years Old, Thank You
Here is a note I am in the process of (I think) emailing to current and former members of various Blue Blood membership sites. I’ve been struggling with some Murphy’s Law technology today, so I thought I would share this blogtastically as well. I’m sure I will be riffing on some of these themes a lot this year. Stuff that makes me think.
Blue Blood is in its 20th year now. Back in 1992, when I started publishing the Blue Blood print magazine from the basement of a punk rock group house in Rockville, Maryland, I intended to create something activist, something which would create subculture cross-pollination and forever alter the beauty standards. I recently got a note for a school reunion, requesting that I supply what I’ve been up to, and my first thought was that I wanted to share that with people who get it. Thank you for your patronage of Blue Blood sites. I’m going to try to think of some amazing celebrations for this and I’ll definitely try to keep y’all updated on parties, event appearances, and gallery shows and whatever else we have the resources to put together.
You are welcome to follow Blue Blood on Twitter at http://twitter.com/BlueBlood or me at http://twitter.com/AmeliaG for the up-to-the-minute stuff.
Now that you’ve treated everyone else this season, I’d love it if you would treat yourself to some Blue Blood VIP: http://www.blueblood.com/ You can see sample images of some of our recent updates at http://www.blueblood.com/news/tags/blue-blood-vip/ featuring new additions like cosplayer Scarlet Starr, leggy art schooler Annika Amour, literal firebreather Franccesca de Struct, and mohawed tattoo collector Tara Toxic. Since my last note to you all, we have also featured shoots of many long-time favorites, including Nixon Sixx, Razor Candi, Scar 13, Voltaire, Nina Sin, Zoe Matthews, and more more more.
Also, if you are interested in the California Deathrock book and/or T-shirt Forrest Black and I created, there is ordering info on the bottom of the page with this exclusive interview with Dinah Cancer of 45 Grave: http://www.blueblood.net/2012/12/dinah-cancer-interview-45-grave/ BlueBlood.net and the forums are still open to all and update every day with news ranging from the newest controversial goth-industrial music video to deliciously excessively intellectual pop culture deconstructions of recent television shows to where to buy zombie apocalypse to shotgun rounds and everything else you crave at http://www.blueblood.net/
Love, Amelia G
–
Blue Blood
8033 Sunset Blvd #4500
West Hollywood, CA 90046
USA
Blue Blood is 20 Years Old, Thank You
Here is a note I am in the process of (I think) emailing to current and former members of various Blue Blood membership sites. I’ve been struggling with some Murphy’s Law technology today, so I thought I would share this blogtastically as well.
Blue Blood is in its 20th year now. Back in 1992, when I started publishing the Blue Blood print magazine from the basement of a punk rock group house in Rockville, Maryland, I intended to create something activist, something which would create subculture cross-pollination and forever alter the beauty standards. I recently got a note for a school reunion, requesting that I supply what I’ve been up to, and my first thought was that I wanted to share that with people who get it. Thank you for your patronage of Blue Blood sites. I’m going to try to think of some amazing celebrations for this and I’ll definitely try to keep y’all updated on parties, event appearances, and gallery shows and whatever else we have the resources to put together.
You are welcome to follow Blue Blood on Twitter at http://twitter.com/BlueBlood or me at http://twitter.com/AmeliaG for the up-to-the-minute stuff.
Now that you’ve treated everyone else this season, I’d love it if you would treat yourself to some Blue Blood. You can see sample images of some of our recent updates at http://www.blueblood.com/news/tags/blue-blood-vip/ featuring new additions like cosplayer Scarlet Starr, leggy art schooler Annika Amour, literal firebreather Franccesca de Struct, and mohawed tattoo collector Tara Toxic. Since my last note to you all, we have also featured shoots of many long-time favorites, including Nixon Sixx, Razor Candi, Scar 13, Voltaire, Nina Sin, Zoe Matthews, and more more more.
Also, if you are interested in the California Deathrock book and/or T-shirt Forrest Black and I created, there is ordering info on the bottom of the page with this exclusive interview with Dinah Cancer of 45 Grave: http://www.blueblood.net/2012/12/dinah-cancer-interview-45-grave/ BlueBlood.net and the forums are still open to all and update every day with news ranging from the newest controversial goth-industrial music video to deliciously excessively intellectual pop culture deconstructions of recent television shows to where to buy zombie apocalypse to shotgun rounds and everything else you crave at http://www.blueblood.net/
Love, Amelia G
–
Blue Blood
8033 Sunset Blvd #4500
West Hollywood, CA 90046
USA
Happy (Naked Tattooed Elf Scarlet Starr) Holidays from Blue Blood’s BarelyEvil (SFW PICS)
Happy holidays, everyone! I’m eating cookies and drinking cocoa (well, mocha, but that’s how I like it) and I hope you all are too.
Forrest Black and I photographed cute elfin Scarlet Starr chewing on a candy cane in a Bah Humbug Santa hat, with some candy cane striped stockings, and a good dose of red and green and silver tinsel Christmas decorations. I just love holiday sets. These two images are safe for work (not that you are probably working today, but you know what I mean) but none of the links I’m about to give you are. There are some very nice naughtier free pics of Xmas Scarlet Starr in this free BarelyEvil gallery. The whole series appears in the Blue Blood VIP and on Barely Evil 
Happy (Naked Tattooed Elf Scarlet Starr) Holidays from Blue Blood’s BarelyEvil (SFW PICS)
Happy holidays, everyone! I’m eating cookies and drinking cocoa (well, mocha, but that’s how I like it) and I hope you all are too.
Forrest Black and I photographed cute elfin Scarlet Starr chewing on a candy cane in a Bah Humbug Santa hat, with some candy cane striped stockings, and a good dose of red and green and silver tinsel Christmas decorations. I just love holiday sets. These two images are safe for work (not that you are probably working today, but you know what I mean) but none of the links I’m about to give you are. There are some very nice naughtier free pics of Xmas Scarlet Starr in this free BarelyEvil gallery. The whole series appears in the Blue Blood VIP and on Barely Evil
Franccesca de Struct Demon Apocalypse (SFW PICS)
I’d like to introduce you all to Franccesca de Struct. This is her first appearance on the Blue Blood VIP. I met her at the Ludovico Technique show at Bar Sinister. I was yakking with lead singer Ben Vanlier on the smoking patio and she came up to compliment him on his show and I just had to interject that I’d very much like to photograph her. And, so, Forrest Black and I had a really cool time photographing her. In addition to being beautiful and having amazing personal style (those horns are hers), she is well-spoken and fun. Stay tuned for some fire-breathing (literally!) in a few weeks.
Punk Mohawk Teen Tara Toxic (PICS)
Forrest Black and I just photographed the amazing Tara Toxic for the first time. With her individual punk style and DIY clothes and her mohawk and general gorgeousness, we will definitely be shooting her again. Her first appearance in the Blue Blood VIP and Barely Evil is a somewhat Tarantino-inspired punk mohawk schoolgirl crossbow series. Cool sculptural paintings in the background are courtesy of the talented Kevin Flint. Whole series in the VIP as always.
Gothic Halloween Jen Vixen (PICS)
This is Halloween Jen Vixen‘s 15th appearance in the Blue Blood VIP. This makes 777 live images of her lovely self. Read, write, execute, baby! Whole series in the VIP members area. I feel like Forrest Black and I did a good job capturing Jen’s personality in the many shoots we have done together. She can go from repose to exuberance very quickly, in a super fun way. Anyway, this series appears in its entirety both at BlueBlood.com and GothicSluts.com.
Darenzia & Scar 13, Armor & Swords (PICS) Not SFW
Note to those who like babes with armor and swords: If hypothetically your models are not experienced with swords and armor and hypothetically your lights use electricity and hypothetically one of your models wants a glass of water, for heaven’s sake, have them both PUT THE SWORDS DOWN FIRST. Forrest Black and I did this shoot to promote Tony Swatton’s armor and such to 40,000 Folsom Street Fair revelers. (I am such a dork. I just googled to doublecheck that it is Fair and not Faire. I got it right the first time, but still.) It ended up being a kind of expensive favor, given what it turns out it costs to repair electrocuted pro lighting packs. But, hey, Darenzia and Scar look hot and Scar did a nifty job on both their makeup and now a bunch of cool images exist. Second shot here is goofing around during the light test. Darenzia can look disturbingly good while picking her nose.
Whole series, including much naughtier stuff, is available on Erotic Fandom and the Blue Blood VIP.
Voltaire Caged Fae (PICS) SFW
Voltaire always has this romantic bit of beautiful mournful fae glamour. Even in the middle of a party. So I wanted to photograph her in this sort of a setting for a long time. This set has been an even longer time in between shooting and publication because some copycat photographer badgered Voltaire into telling him where this shooting location is. So he could shoot her in the same spot. No idea how his stuff turned out, but it bummed me out at the time. Anyway, I’m over it now, so you all get some more beautiful images of Voltaire with her blonde dreads with the pastel accents. A happy ending. This is Voltaire’s 24th appearance in the VIP, with more to come.
Check out the Blue Blood Contributors Pages for my favorite nude shot from this set. (I wanted to keep this post SFW.) Or, of course, check out the whole series and 1954 others, 23 of which feature the lovely Voltaire, in the Blue Blood VIP
BlueBlood Newsletter: Deathrock Art Book, New Goth Fashion, Award Noms
This was just set to mail out to everyone who subscribed to the BlueBlood Newsletter. It occurs to me that we no longer have a way for new folks to subscribe, so I’ll have to add that to the endless to-do list. –Amelia
Here’s your BlueBlood Newsletter:
- California Deathrock Book Kickstarter http://kck.st/KKHcub
- Behind the Scenes Photoshoot Video
- Gothic.net Panel of Experts
- New Gothic Fashion Site
- APN Awards Nominations
- Blue Blood VIP Megasite $1.75 Trial Sale & $1 EBPM Combo
http://www.blueblood.com/news/2012/06/blue-blood-vip-eroticbpm-combo-deal/
More details on this super fab deal at the end of this newsletter.
- Contact Reminder: West Hollywood Snail, Model/Photog Submit
California Deathrock Book Kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ameliag/california-deathrock-book
The really big news is that a book of Forrest Black and Amelia G’s deathrock portraiture is going to be published. There are four days left in the Kickstarter pledge period and the project has already succeeded and will definitely be funded. Pledge now and Amazon won’t charge for the California Deathrock book until the pledge period is complete.
Forrest and Amelia will also thank you in print in the book, if you pledge now. Please note that, once the book is published, it should be available via Amazon and Barnes & Noble, but the retail price is expected to be significantly higher than the Kickstarter price. Cool people who Forrest and Amelia have photographed will probably be able to get the book for wholesale pricing later, but that will be around the Kickstarter amount and without the mention in the book dedication. And it would be ever so helpful and awesome if you could get those pledges in now to make sure the book is a hardcover and has the best possible art book paper and most possible pages.
Behind the Scenes Photoshoot Video
http://www.blueblood.net/2012/05/california-deathrock-behind-the-scenes-photo-shoot-video/
You can see some behind-the-scenes footage of what a nightlife portraiture shoot with Amelia G and Forrest Black looks like.
Gothic.net Panel of Experts
http://www.gothic.net/tag/panel-of-experts/
Gothic.net is continuing its series of features with a Panel of Experts interviewed on various horror and gothic-related topics. Blue Blood notables on the Panel include Amelia G, John Shirley, Will Judy, Forrest Black, Cecilia Tan, Thomas S. Roche, Ed Mironiuk, Eric Swartz, and Chad Savage.
New Gothic Fashion Site
http://www.gothic.net/gothic-fashion-style/
Gothic.net has launched a sister site for dark fashion.
APN Awards Nominations
http://www.blueblood.net/2012/05/blue-blood-sites-talent-nominated-apn-awards/
Blue Blood sites and talent have been nominated for a gajillion honors in the APN Awards.
Blue Blood VIP Megasite $1.75 Trial Sale & $1 EBPM Combo
http://www.blueblood.com/news/2012/06/blue-blood-vip-eroticbpm-combo-deal/ 
Thank you for your patronage of Blue Blood. Amelia G wanted to have Blue Blood offer the VIP mega-pass for a super low trial amount, which she had to get special approval from the bank liaison folks to offer. Happily the answer was yes. Recent new additions to the site have included creative works featuring Lori the Gorey, Razor Candi, Vera Baby, Dahlia Dark, Alecia Joy, Angel Beau, Meekus, and more. Right now, you can even add a trial membership to EBPM for only one more buck. Details at http://www.blueblood.com/news/2012/06/blue-blood-vip-eroticbpm-combo-deal/
Twitter News
http://twitter.com/BlueBlood
http://www.blueblood.com/news/
Blue Blood is still posting news weekly to the contributors blog and Twitter for up-to-the-minute goodness.
Contact Info Revisited:
All swag, contracts, review materials, requests for interviews, invitations to conventions, contest giveaways, photo submissions, pitches, free clothes, offers to fly the Blue Blood crew to your city, vials of your blood, etc. should be sent to:
Blue Blood
8033 Sunset Blvd #4500
West Hollywood, CA 90046
USA
Press releases about your own projects can be snail-mailed or sent to submit@blueblood.net
Models and photographers can submit via:
http://www.bluebloodphoto.com
and writers via
http://bluebloodbooks.com
Thanks!
–AMELIA G & FORREST BLACK
Amelia@BlueBlood.net & Forrest@BlueBlood.net
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