Archive for 2007

This retro series of Dana Dark was on the roof of the space I was shooting at the time. Even though it is sunset, you can just barely make out the Hollywood sign in the background in some of the images. Bizarrely enough, someone had abandoned the comfy couch and the oddly coordinated stuffed leopard up there. We just had to incorporate them in our shoot. I miss Dana and wish she could be in Los Angeles all the time. Whole set on BlueBlood.com of course.

NSFW sample after the jumps.

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I’m bushed and still on double hellish deadline, so I’ll post more about this later, but I just want to say:

Go visit Michelle-Aston.com all about my model pal Michelle Aston right now!

It is NSFW. Like you didn’t know that. ;-p

Supposedly I am weirder than Will.

I have to say that I’m awfully bummed out at the ass-backwardsness of this whole last two part season of The Sopranos. I enjoyed the show when it was about people doing a crazy job and balancing it with normal life stuff. That spoke to me.

Fueled by Ramen recording artist Cobra Starship is a very modern band. They are currently on tour, opening for Fall Out Boy, along with fellow openers Paul Wall, +44, and The Academy is . . . Cobra Starship’s name sounds like a cross between TheCobrasnake and late Jefferson Airplane. They’ve got a song on the Snakes on a Plane and the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie soundtracks, ringtones available, a Glamour Kills clothing endorsement, and impressively pimped out profiles on all the good social networking sites. They even (I’m sure ironically) cover Lionel Richie’s “Three Times a Lady” and Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean.” The CS site itself contains a sort of pseudo-ironic “typical” rockstar history, which is probably actually based on true events but liberally gilded. Band leader Gabe Saporta’s animal familiar-dictated mission is apparently teaching “hipsters to not take themselves so seriously and by telling emo kids to stop being pussies.”

I guess Cobra Starship’s genre is Self-Deprecating Post-Emo? I don’t know. The salient point for Blue Blood readers is that Xanthia Doll appears dancing her yellow-clad booty off in their new video for their long-windedly-named single “Send My Love To The Dancefloor, I’ll See You In Hell (Hey Mister DJ)” from their album, While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets. Xanthia says, “I’m so happy I’m in it! It was a lot of fun to be a part of! Just look for red hair and a bright yellow jacket and you’ll see me! Wheeeeeeeeee!!!!!!”

Xanthia’s positive attitude is a lot of fun, but I have to admit that I like my rockstars to truly own what they do. If I were more familiar with modern emo, apparently Cobra Starship’s Gabe tapped a . . .

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It seems newsworthy to mention that an online video for Marilyn Manson’s new music video is apparently going to be online for only another day or two. The new single is called “Heart Shaped Glasses” and features romantic lyrics about erotic cutting and Manson looking like he is feeling his inner rockstar. Most coverage of the video has been rather frantic speculation on whether Marilyn Manson and actress Evan Rachel Wood are actually having penetrative sex in the opening scene of the seven plus minutes long vid. It is totally irrelevent to the final product whether or not his penis was actually in her vagina, as neither is visible, but the two manage to communicate wonderful chemistry between them on screen.

When I saw the movie Seven, I kept wanting them to turn the damn lights on. It seems like it would have been much more obvious that Kevin Spacey was the killer if they hadn’t been doing investigation and forensics with flashlights, when there were perfectly good light switches nearby. I felt a little bit like this during much of the video for “Heart Shaped Glasses” when I watched it on the German video sharing site ironically enough called Sevenload. The actual Marilyn Manson site links to an IP with no real site on it and a much higher resolution version of the video. Everything is much clearer in the version on Manson’s site, although the lighting is still colored and moody. The interface on the Sevenload version is much more user-friendly though.

The video kicks off on Sevenload with the artist introducing the clip and, linked off his site, it goes straight into Manson and Wood writhing around and kissing passionately. . . .

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When Scar 13 saw this intensely erotic set shot by ForrestBlack and yours truly, she said she was in love and called Cindy B “the perfect goth girl” and coming from Scar, that is high praise indeed. Cindy is pretty darn perfect. 145 more super hot photos of Cindy B inside the members area of BlueBlood.com.

Additional NSFW sample image from this set at this link. Cindy B was on the cover of Blue Blood #2 in print in like 1993 and you can see a sample from the very first set featuring her at this also NSFW link.

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Today, I accomplished a number of things. Yesterday too. Apparently today was Wednesday or something. I feel like I missed a day, although I didn’t.

There are a number of things I need to do, people I need to get in touch with, and things I need to get out of my inbox in general. Apparently I work a lot. But never enough.

There is still a lot of smoke in the air from the fire.

This is our thirteen hundredth set for BlueBlood.com. 1,300 sets is a whole lotta sets. This series of it raining candy on Sara X clocks in at almost 200 pictures. That is a whole lotta photographs. Strong-willed, brutally honest, and of course very sexy, Sara X is just perfect for our 1,300th set celebration. Forrest Black and I had been given an artist’s palette by a four star hotel as part of another celebration of the arts. Sara X just happened to have the perfect rainbow shirt and socks to coordinate with our candy. I love it when a series of what amounts to found objects comes together like this for the perfect shoot. I hope you all enjoy our pictures of Sara X and artistically-oriented candy as much as we enjoyed shooting them.

Additional NSFW samples after the jump. Whole set on BlueBlood.com of course.

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What the fuck is wrong with people that they think:

(a) that it is practically their right to know really personal and normally private information about anyone they have ever seen a picture of?

or

(b) that somehow a picture is devalued by not having been taken within the same week that they saw it?

Do people avoid watching The Big Sleep because it came out a while ago and Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart are no longer a couple? Him being dead for fifty years and all.

Here is a quote from Lauren Bacall which I think speaks to the issue: “A legend involves the past. I don’t like categories. This one is great and that one is great. The word great stands for something. When you talk about a great actor, you’re not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It’s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but, I think it’s kind of a sickness.”

There is something of the personal in art, but that doesn’t mean that participating in the creation of art obligates one to sell one’s personal life in its entirety.

If I sounded like a feminist, would you hold it against me?

In recent years, I realize I have shied away from talking about certain topics such as feminism or sexuality or even actual products. This is kind of odd as these were certainly pretty cornerstone issues which were, not only covered in Blue Blood in the past, but were instrumental in why I wanted to do it in the first place.

I feel like feminism on the net, particularly when associated with the site genre dubiously dubbed altporn, is pretty much a mockery. The language has been so co-opted by people who don’t mean it, or even understand it, that the whole thing pretty much makes me sick. It definitely makes me want to disassociate myself from the whole thing, but do I really want to change my life and who I am because someone fake pretended to be like me? Probably not such a good idea.

One of the difficulties involved with feminist politics in 2007 is that it seems to be in vogue to attack people on a personal level, rather than to debate the issues. I see that most people deal with personal attacks by either defending their personal lives or correcting misimpressions about their personal lives. I think that people should pay attention to and debate the actual point and not deconstruct details which are merely specific to the person bringing a broader feminist or other issue up.

I think any artist has to give of themselves, to a certain extent, in order to create. But the global communication networks we live with today make it so difficult to maintain the slightest shred of privacy. Reality show programming and tabloid journalism put into the zeitgeist the notion that the world is entitled to know really personal things about anyone remotely famous. This makes me want to, not only avoid …

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I’m sure today could get a whole lot worse, but it would really have to put some effort into it.

Maybe I should post it here whenever Blue Blood gets a press mention, but I usually don’t. You all were great when I was feeling sad about one mean press bite, so I also wanted to share that I’ve been really happy about a mention we got on Dark Side of the Net recently.

Anyway, Carrie Carolin, the seemingly indefatigable editor of all things dark recently culled and updated her Dark, Goth and Horror Zines section and here is what she wrote about Blue Blood:

“BlueBlood.net – Highly recommended! The paper magazine is legendary, and its amazing companion website is worth visiting every day or two for new content. High quality articles and photos on fashion, music, and literature. Blogs, community postings, and a newswire, too. This is pretty much the center of the goth universe as it stands today. Extremely professional and high quality. Their MySpace page is here.”

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