BLUEBLOOD NEWSLETTER:
– BlueBlood.com Adds Couples Section
– Blue Blood Boutique Adds Bears & Free Photo Galleries
– Sugar Click Reviews BlueBlood.com
– JaxonJagonov Reviews BlueBlood.com
– Marquis 36 and 37
– Blue Blood Launches Popular MySpace Profile
– Fatal Beauties Launches
– Call For Writing Submissions
– Model, Designer, Event Promoter calls for Portland, DC/Baltimore, Atlanta, New Orleans
– Blue Blood Gives Back to the Community
– Contact Reminder: Jps.Net E-Mails Discontinued, West Hollywood Snail
BLUEBLOOD.COM COUPLES SECTION LAUNCHES
http://www.blueblood.com/
There is now a series of exclusive interactive photo sets on BlueBlood.com, featuring real people who are actually into each other. Amelia G says in the tour, “The original Blue Blood print magazine erotic pictorials featured only interactive sets of people who would actually have sex in real life and they were photographed doing whatever they really liked to do when the camera was not there. A significant percentage of the people who posed were either married or living together at the time or later tied the knot. None of us did it for the money at the time. It was about celebrating ourselves, our choices, our sexuality, our lives. People often ask me if I shoot softcore or hardcore. I suppose Forrest and I started off shooting interactive couples and later shot a higher proportion of pinup work. But, to me, the terminology is meaningless. There is only true and beautiful versus false and ugly. Blue Blood has always been about rejecting the notion that being artistic or different somehow means you are not entitled to the rewards of the larger society. Just because you have an unusual haircut does not mean you are not entitled to love. You deserve the same love as anyone. And maybe a bit kinkier sex.”
BLUE BLOOD BOUTIQUE ADDS BEARS & FREE PHOTO GALLERIES
http://www.bluebloodboutique.com/
The Blue Blood Boutique has recently added the only thing that could be more cuddly than a Blue Blood hoodie – a Blue Blood teddy bear! The adorable lavender Blue Blood cuddly bear is made of soft, shaggy chenille which feels so nice to snuggle up with. The little hands and feet of the bear are miniature beanbag style, so it is more fun to play with the bear. The bear has a black T-shirt just like you and it is proudly emblazoned with the Blue Blood skull logo in silver metallic paint. Also, check out the free galleries of Chaotika, Sun Karma, funkatron, junkprincess, Omen, and Alexa Hex, and more on the way. If you’ve got shots of yourself in Blue Blood gear, send them on it and you could appear on the Boutique site!
SUGAR CLICK REVIEWS BLUEBLOOD.COM
http://www.blueblood.com/
http://www.blueblood.net/boards/showthread.php?t=6055
http://sugarclick.com/2006/03/16/blue-blood/
The extremely awesome hot writer Audacia Ray reviewed BlueBlood.com for hot new blog SugarClick. She called Blue Blood “Hands-down, the premier site for Gothic pin-ups” and went on to say, “Amelia G and Forrest Black have been steadily building their gothic porn empire since the print magazine Blue Blood was launched in 1992. BlueBlood.com is like the granpappy of all goth porn – it houses Barely Evil, Gothic Sluts and Rubber Dollies, which combined have tens of thousands of pictures of gothic hotties. The site also features up-to-date writings on Gothic subculture and other topics, plus a massive archive of the same . . . And the girls. Sigh. Forget spitting on it – these girls will get naked on your grave, or for that matter, Johnny Ramone’s grave . . . Blue Blood’s volume and quality of both models and photographs cannot be beat. Add that to the fact that the site is still run the way it was in the beginning and hasn’t sold out to any big-bucks temptations . . . The photos are typically nice and big so you can get up close and personal, and while some models stay quite chaste, others show you the goods . . .”
JAXONJAGONOV REVIEWS BLUEBLOOD.COM
http://www.blueblood.com/
http://www.blueblood.net/boards/showthread.php?t=6160
http://www.jaxonjaganov.com/reviews/BlueBlood.php
Some of what Jaxon Jaganov had to say about BlueBlood.com was: “It’s a great deal that gets my highest recommendation … For a long time now – over a decade – Amelia and Forrest have been steadily producing print mags and websites devoted to covering the goth/fetish/whatever-you-want-to-call-it scene and they’ve done it with the heartfelt authenticity of real fans. Their models are the real thing too – they’re tough punk babes, slinky gothic sirens and in general, they’re psycho women who’d be all too happy to take your poser face and ram it through a pane of glass. No suburban mallrats here. This is the real shit – lowbrow punk-goth porn royalty for life … Membership gets you access to one of the best collections of alt-goth-punk-fetish photographs on the web at a great price compared to other softcore photo sites and erotic art photo sites.”
MARQUIS #36 & #37
http://www.blueblood.net/boards/showthread.php?t=5568
http://www.blueblood.net/boards/showthread.php?t=6129
You need to hit the newsstand quickly if you want to get one of the last copies available of #36 before #37 hits the stands. For Marquis #36, Amelia G wrote in-depth profiles of Jax, Sun Karma, Toxic Toons, and the wild Zodiac Party. Big in America features beautiful Forrest Black and Amelia G-lensed photos of Jax, Sun Karma, Scar 13, Dana Dark, and Masuimi Max. Marquis #37 will feature Amelia G’s writing about such seemingly disparate topics Kristen Tercek’s plushes and Mistress Abigail De’Ath, as well as hot newcomers Eva Victoria and Vima, and designers Anisse and Venus Prototype. Scar 13 modeled Tercek’s Creature from the Black Lagoon plush and built a cool swamp set for it, just because Amelia really wanted a swamp. Awesome.
BLUE BLOOD LAUNCHES POPULAR MYSPACE PROFILE
http://www.blueblood.com/ms/
http://www.myspace.com/54646620
Although many members of the Blue Blood crew have had MySpace profiles since the beginning, Blue Blood as an entity never did . . . until a couple of weeks ago. The profile already has more than 15,000 friends. Thanks to everyone who already added the Blue Blood profile and, if you are on MySpace, please check it out.
FATAL BEAUTIES LAUNCHES
http://www.fatal-beauties.com
Blue Blood’s Forrest Black just finished up the kickass sexy tour for the newly launched Fatal-Beauties.com. Fatal-Beauties features high end artistic and sexy photography and a most impressive members area feature set, including blogs and forums and selecting your favorite artwork. This site is stocked full of sensual underground alternababes. Photo sets include all sorts of interesting settings and unusual and creative lighting. If you like cute tattooed girls from industrial towns, you will definitely like Fatal-Beauties.com.
CALL FOR WRITING SUBMISSIONS
There are once again opportunities for additional writers with excellent skills and lively personal styles. If you are an experienced writer and would like to do a column or occasional feature for Blue Blood, please email submit@blueblood.net with information on your past experience and areas of expertise and pitches for specific articles you might like to write. Blue Blood is looking for entertainment pieces for a mature but not necessarily adult audience. Subject of interest include music, culture, glam, gothic, gothindustrial, deathrock, psychobilly, punk, street fashion, fetish fashion, science fiction, noir, clublife, scene reports, events, conventions, rpgs, horror, etc. Please use the subject line WRITING PITCH for priority filtering to the right reader.
MODEL, DESIGNER, EVENT PROMOTER CALLS FOR PORTLAND, DC/BALTIMORE, ATLANTA, NEW ORLEANS
Travel season is coming up again and that means Blue Blood will be on the road, kicking ass and taking pictures. Blue Blood would like to hear from interesting local clothing designers and shops who are interested in getting product placement and press coverage. Event promoters in those areas are also invited to contact Blue Blood for possible sponsorships and media exposure. Among other things, Blue Blood’s Forrest Black and Amelia G are shooting for http://www.blueblood.com and http://www.bluebloodboutique.com and Marquis. Prospective models ideally are interested in both fashion and nude modeling. Models must be rockin’ one or more of the following looks: gothic, punk, fetish, good tattoos, other damn weirdo individual. Models are ideally comfortable modeling at least topless and must be clear on what your personal limits are. For models, these are mostly either paid gigs or content trade gigs if you have your own site. Please write to submit@BlueBlood.net and send a picture(s) of yourself or a link to a picture(s) along with what magazines and web sites you are most interested in appearing in, what levels of nudity and/or explicit actitivy you are comfortable with/interested in doing on camera, and say which city you are convenient to and whether you have your own site. Photos do not have to be professionally shot and do not have to be nude even if you are applying for nude work. They may not, however, feature a blurry webcam photo and a snapshot with heavy Photoshop filters applied. If you submitted to sadistintern@blueblood.net, please resubmit. Blue Blood receives hundreds of model submissions a week and it will not be possible to go through all of them, especially once on the road, so please put the city name and MODEL SUBMISSION in the subject, so your message will be treated as priority when the Blue Blood crew is in your city.
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REPOST THIS MODEL CALL TO MODEL LISTS, YAHOO GROUPS, BOARDS ETC.
BLUE BLOOD GIVES BACK TO THE COMMUNITY
If you are scraping to keep a site going which supports the scene, Blue Blood may be able to give you free hosting. Send Amelia an email inquiring with info on your site to get hooked up.
CONTACT INFO REVISITED
You probably all know this by now, but, if you still have any of the JPS.net e-mails in your address book, delete them as they have been discontinued. Do not attempt to get in touch using Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, or Beverly Hills contact info. All swag, contracts, review materials, requests for interviews, invitations to conventions, contest giveaways, etc. should be sent to:
Blue Blood
8033 Sunset Blvd #4500
West Hollywood, CA 90046
USA
Thanks!
–AMELIA G & FORREST BLACK