Forrest Black and Rachel Face and I shot this pinball bondage set at like four o’clock in the morning, after the bar had closed. Rachel Face always knows the good places to shoot.
This is her 17th appearance in the Blue Blood VIP where you can find the whole series.
Forrest Black and I shot the sexy Nixon Sixx and Tankboy in New Orleans. Because it was New Orleans, and a hotel chain I stay at whenever I can, we were able to get this awesome jacuzzi suite for less than a regular room most anywhere else. This kind of real life chemistry between real life lovers is something I feel really artistically inspired by. There is a short free gallery you can check out, just to see our photography, and the whole extended update is of course available in the Blue Blood VIP.
It is that rare time of year in Los Angeles where I actually get to wear my fuzzy tiger paw slippers. For my friends in colder climes, here is just what the doctor ordered: A naughty fetish nurse in the form of Nina Sin photographed by yours truly and Forrest Black for Blue Blood.
I have a fondness for shooting people who do more than just model. Although, of course, being a great conversationalist or whatever doesn’t mean the camera will love a person. It made it extra cool that Yolanda, whose 29th Blue Blood VIP set recently posted, designed the dress for Raven Sutherland to take off in her lucky 13th Blue Blood VIP appearance. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
forrestblack and I shot this set of Raven, but she has been photographed for Blue Blood by a bunch of photographers, including Chad Michael Ward, and in multiple cities. Forrest Black and I have shot Raven in both New Orleans and Los Angeles. I haven’t been to New Orleans in far too long, now that I think about it.
This is a shot from the sweet 16th set of Rachel Face forrestblack and I have shot for the Blue Blood VIP. I love how uber-punk Rachel comes across in this series and the swanky boutique hotel we shot these at was so amazingly cool. Despite the fact that people from neighboring hotels complained about Rachel’s appearance, our hotel was still down for sending someone to get me an iced latte when my energy started to flag. Oi oi, now that is service.
Senior Blue Blood writer Will Judy calls Forrest Black’s shotgun “the luckiest shotgun in the world”. What can I say about beautiful Dana Dark that I haven’t said before?
Molly Winters posted to Blue Blood VIP in a set by your truly and Forrest Black called Happy Halloween.
It is a glowing testament to the awesomeness of Jiz Lee and Syd Blakovich that this shoot turned out great. I hope to photograph them both again soon.
The prep for this was pretty much cursed.
Syd is a bit of a gladiator, so my initial concept was to put the two of them in armor with swords. A guy I’d done a lot of favors for in the past, and gotten armor from in the past, told me that he completely had stuff that would be perfect for the dancer body types I described to him. It turned out that the only stuff he had was some embarrassingly awful half-assed stuff he had made for Britney Spears’ back-up dancers . . . which the Britney Spears people had hated so much they stopped working with the guy. There was no way I was putting Syd or Jiz in those defective outfits, but it had been a couple years since I last got armor from this particular source and I don’t think he’d cleaned his studio in the intervening time. He was hyperventilating about something or other and so I looked through the armor myself and had an allergic reaction to the filth. It was all sort of tragic and I was going to just get a couple pieces and see if I could put something together with some mismatched stuff and then the guy all of a sudden wants a totally ridiculous price and gets really aggro and tells me he is having a very bad day. I try not to take my bad days out on other people, so that hurt my feelings, especially as I was kinda pulling stuff at this point to be polite. So I decided to skip the whole mess.
Then part of the camera broke when I took it out of the bag at the location.
All of which I would have taken as a bad omen and called it a day under many circumstances, but I was really excited to shoot Syd Blakovich and Jiz Lee and we met for coffee beforehand and I just felt like we were creatively on the same page. And, of course, there is the part where they are both ridiculously gorgeous. So forrestblack and I still did the shoot. As an artist, I could fret about this or that which is marginally different from whatever, but everything turned out really terrific. Sometimes what a shoot seems like it will be in the prep stage evolves into something different yet excellent as various factors play out and as part of the collaborative process of shooting.
This is a shot from the first set of Jiz Lee and Syd Blakovich for the Blue Blood VIP. You can check out this free Jiz Lee and Syd Blakovich gallery. More updates of them to come, plus a video interview about their Twincest art project.
Work forrestblack and I created with the beautiful Dana Dark is on Yuhmm today!
forrestblack shot this portrait of yours truly at the recent Vampire-Con. He and I shot a bunch of vampire costumes at the event. Free gallery for the perusal of those who do not let fangs get their black panties in a bunch. I also spoke on a panel about vampires and sex. Big shocker that would be my topic; what with Blue Blood and writing my thesis on it and all ;-
(Image Courtesy of Blue Blood)
Fedora is adorable in blue. Adoration commencing in T-minus . . .
Whole set in the Blue Blood VIP. Forrest Black and I had such a good time working with Fedora. This set is most likely the second of many.
by Amelia G : July 31st, 2009
I went to a fashion show soiree last night. My friend writer/gadfly Clint Catalyst organized the event for designer Jared Gold. Clint and I are both eclectic individuals and we have kind of a lot of random points of intersection. And we’ve both been doing what we do for a while.
So the most unsettling part of the shindig was trying to place who people were. This is difficult when a person could be someone I photographed nine years ago and haven’t seen in between. Or the person could be someone who did my hair once. Or the person could be someone I’ve only seen in media. There is always a risk when greeting someone on dim non-specific facial-recognition alone because they could turn out to be someone you’ve only watched on television or MySpace or someone you would shoot (not with a camera) if you had a license to kill. But a significant portion of folks there are people I know and like but may not have seen recently. So it was like a real life wetware version of one of those aging programs they use to find missing children.
One person at the event I saw and could not place was artist/designer Elizabeth McGrath. I attended her Broken Dolls fashion show in like . . .
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by Amelia G : July 28th, 2009
So I registered the domain for my name a while back, when the internet still had a bit of that new web smell. I’d been doing work more and more in the digital space for a few years then and I would end up having to pay off a cybersquatter for the BlueBlood.com domain, so it seemed sensible to register everything near and dear to me. Then nine more years went by. Some of my favorite sites have grown out of Forrest Black registering domains while drinking beer and then me feeling that, once it was registered, the domain had to have a site on it. For a long time, I just had a link to a hosted journal on AmeliaG.com, but now seemed like the time to actually put a proper site on there. Today it officially goes live.
The site has the Amelia G bio with just the broad strokes. There is a more detailed sidebar with just 2009 news about press appearances and where my writing and photography has appeared this year. I considered including a page with a gigantic lists of places I’ve been published, but, after doing thousands of pages of editorial, not to mention radio and television stuff, it just seemed like it would be a bit of a laundry list. Plus, oddly enough, when I was doing research for the site, I discovered that some of my work had been reprinted without me even knowing it. I’ve moved less as an adult than I did as a kid, but sometimes it is still possible to lose track of compatriots with moves and all on everyone’s part.
I hope people enjoy the Photography Portfolio section of Forrest Black’s and my work. People always ask to see my online portfolio and I always was reluctant to put one together before. When I say “reluctant”, I mean that the notion of editing together only forty of my favorite images, out of everything we’ve ever shot, made me effing hyperventilate. I forced my brain through its discomfort and editing a selection of images from over such a long time period turned out to be really . . .
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by Amelia G : January 25th, 2009
So, Forrest Black and I just went for coffee. Well, it was Starbucks, so he went for coffee and I went for ice water and conversation. I was just reading a thing about how Warren Buffet built his business and wanted to talk about some of the interesting ways he approached things. So we are talking about how insurance companies invest with your premiums and that is where most of their profits come from, and how Warren Buffet’s primary holding company Berkshire Hathaway actually failed at its primary business and no longer actually produces anything to do with what the original brand was about, and various other factoids which are intriguing, if you find business structures interesting.
At a certain point, I noticed some security guards hovering kind of close to me out of the corner of my eye and wondered if Starbucks had any special rules against people with purple and green hair discussing high finance. I couldn’t think of anything particularly awful I was doing, so I went back to my conversation, but there was still this sense of bad energy. The security guards went away, but people started shouting. As some of the people shouting were Starbucks employees, I assume security fled so they would not be witnesses to the people who worked at the shopping center braining someone with a coffee pot, if that was about to ensue. These security guys know where their paychecks come from and it is not making coffee-drinkers happy.
So apparently there was a customer there who wanted foam on his coffee or crema on his espresso or something like that. The chick who took the order didn’t really understand his question, so she answered kind of noncommittally on whether or not he could . . .
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2011: Produced and/or packaged writing and photography for Picture, Marquis, LFP, Gothic.net, BlueBlood.net, and numerous other web and print projects. Produced red carpet event for Gothic.net redesign party, as well as an assortment of smaller events. Nominated for XBiz award for affiliate marketing. Won a bunch of APN awards for affiliate marketing and photography. Best Alt Photographer Award, baby! Didn't get around to updating this site so often.
2010 Writing: So far this year, Amelia G has written over 100 nonfiction articles on counterculture, pop culture & human sexuality for BlueBlood.net & continues to write her sexpert fetish fashion Big in America column for Marquis magazine, now on its 49th issue. Backstage Passes, Amelia G's critically-praised rock and roll anthology, is now available in trade paperback from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your favorite independent booksellers and in ebook form from iTunes and Nook and directly from the Blue Blood Books site.
2009 Press: Star Magazine published an interview with Amelia G by Alex Burton. Her work was covered by FOX News, Fleshbot, AltPorn.net, MJsBigIdolBlog, Gram Ponante & many more cool press venues.
2009 Writing: Amelia G has written over 200 nonfiction articles on counterculture, pop culture & human sexuality for BlueBlood.net & continues to write her sexpert Big in America column for Marquis magazine, now on its 45th issue.
2009 Photography: Rolling Stone, Star Magazine, National Examiner, Marquis & Tattoo Teasers published her work in print. Fox News and Access Hollywood featured her work in video segments. Web sites BlueBlood.net, BarelyEvil.com, BlueBlood.com, GothicSluts.com, RubberDollies.com, Radar & many more featured her work online.