Archive for 2008

Ned Ryerson?!

New issue of Marquis just hit German newsstands, so my pals in Europe can look for it now. Will probably take a bit before it hits stateside newsstands. I do believe this is the 25th issue in a row I’ve had work in Marquis. I feel good about that because it means I can produce consistently. Maybe it’s not a fluke ;-p

So shooting this set was pretty hilarious. Bella Vendetta, Forrest Black, and I had sat around the boardwalk drinking espresso and talking about all sorts of things. Thoroughly jacked up on caffeine, we decided to shoot inside the arcade. Get that whole Barely Evil bad girl thing going. And Bella had such a cute outfit on for it. So we find a nicely-lit spot and Forrest is shooting video and I’m shooting stills and Bella is half naked. And this security guard comes over and tells Forrest that this is unacceptably naughty behavior. Only the weird thing is, he doesn’t say anything to me or Bella. So she keeps taking her clothes off and I keep photographing her doing it. The security guard is so sure Forrest must be a scary troublemaker, that he follows him around the arcade to make sure he is actually leaving. So Forrest realizes what is going on and walks verrrrrrrrrry sloooooooooooooowly. By the time, the security guard has followed Forrest’s languorous stroll to the door, Bella and I had finished shooting this fun set. Great teamwork! Whole thing on BlueBlood.com. NSFW sample after the jump.

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You can see a lifeguard truck in the background of a couple of the images in this series Forrest Black and I shot of Voltaire (miss you, girl) on the swingset by the beach. The lifeguard later came up and told us how hot he thought the swingset shoot was. It was too cold for there to be much of anyone else on the beach, so I’m not sure what he was patrolling for, but happily it was not guerrilla artists and beautiful naked tattooed hotties. Whole series on BlueBlood.com. NSFW sample after the jump.

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West Hollywood Book Fair

by Amelia G : January 18th, 2008

The West Hollywood Book Fair has received a California Park and Recreation Society Award of Excellence for three years in a row now. The Fair deserves it for throwing such a successful literary event year-after-year in the somewhat arid soil of Los Angeles.

The West Hollywood Book Fair features panels, workshops,performances, and exhibitor booths including local bookstores, small presses, literary non-profits, literary journals and arts organizations. My favorite part of the Fair was getting to see authors I know speak and discover authors I didn’t know.

The panel discussions and such were sectioned off into various niche pavilions. The pavilions of most interest to me were the Mystery, Crime& Suspense Pavilion, the Comics/Sci Fi/Horror Pavilion, and the delightfully-named Queer, Hot, and Avant Garde Pavilion. I missed the LA Noir: Crime Fiction Close to Home panel I wanted to go to in the Mystery, Crime & Suspense Pavilion. I was mostly interested because the brilliant Gary Phillips was scheduled to be speaking. I adore his gritty crime novels with characters so vibrant and real and frequently badass you want them to succeed, even as you note the ways they may destroy themselves. Heco-edited a pretty cool cocaine anthology too. I’d like to give some really great reason why I missed this particular panel, like maybe traffic was so congested from the hugeness of the event that it took awhile to find parking. But, let’s face it, a reading even in Los Angeles, even an awfully big one, is going to lay on tons of free parking and the location for this event is a really easy location to drive to. It was just the whole getting up that early in …

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Halloween in Hollywood

by Amelia G : January 19th, 2008

Special occasion nights in Hollywood generally involve a lot of party-hopping.Sure, there are the people who have to get back in their car and go tothe next event every twenty-six minutes because that is how long ittakes for the last bump of cocaine to wear off. But it really does makesense to hit as many shindigs as possible in an evening. First of all,Los Angeles is such a vibrant city with so much going on at once, atany given time, especially on a holiday like Halloween. I know I don’twant to miss a thing. The hardest thing about going out at night in LosAngeles is blow-drying my hair. And the whole having to wear pants whenoutside of the house thing. Once I’m not naked and I’m wearingeyeliner, I feel like I might as well get full value out of havinggotten dressed and a lot of my fellow Angelenos feel the same way.

Los Angeles tends to have a dress code where it is important to lookgood but not to look like you tried too hard. This means club-goers donot dress up as much here as I might enjoy. Happily, when it comes toany special event like Halloween, the dress-down rule goes out thewindow and everyone is encouraged to really do it up.

For this past Halloween, Blue Blood sponsored a whole lot ofparties, in a whole lot of cities, in addition to doing a full on mediasponsorship arrangement with the Hex Halloween event in Hollywood. My old housemates Perish and Eden Muse (pictured above and in our Halloween picture galleries), were the flyer models and Perish’s costume concept was to embody the future. “For …

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Tons more pics on BlueBlood.net

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Was about to post this in a community by request, but it appears to be read only at the moment, so you all get it.

Forrest Black and I shot this image at the Release the Bats Nine Year Anniversary and there are lots more of our images from the night on Blue Blood now.

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This is Natalie Addams‘ 4th appearance on BlueBlood.com. This Tank Girl style series Forrest Black and I shot of Natalie Addams is actually in her real life basement. It turns out that the place she lives was initially the site of a saloon and the first trolley station in Los Angeles in like 1905 or something. It is being remodeled, apparently for my personal convenience, so we would have an awesome location to photograph the very lovely Natalie in. Full series on BlueBlood.com. NSFW additional shot after the jump.

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Dangerous Toys Art Show
by Amelia G : January 15th, 2008

The vibrant Michelle Aston, as photographed by Blue Blood photog Justice Howard, adorned a giant sign in the front of Meltdown Comics as part of the Dangerous Toys art show. There was appropriately a tattoo shop next door, which you can see in my snapshots of the event. Dangerous Toys was a joint art show collaboration between photographer Justice Howard and toymaker and painter of toys Jim Koch.

I really liked Jim’s toys which seemed perfectly suitable for dressing up one’s cube at work. There were complex original pieces on display at the Dangerous Toys art show and Meltdown Comics also featured some semi-mass-produced versions of his design.

Jim and Justice worked on a few joint pieces, such as a skateboard with Justice’s photos worked into the textured design. I’d never want to skate on it, though, because they are so beautiful.

Justice decided to forgo framing her individual pieces for this particular show in order to be able to display more work. Although this creative decision, in some respects, made individual pieces come across as less important, I personally enjoyed it because I love Justice’s work, but I am very familiar with it. So getting to see so many different pieces was a pleasure . . .

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The wonderful April Flores is representing in Vegas right now for the adult convention there and not one person’s digital snapshots of the event are complete without pictures of April in there. In their ongoing coverage of the Vegas tradeshow, Fleshbot just enthused, “April Flores just lights up a room … and not just because of her fire red hair and rather prodigious cleavage.” Forrest Black and I shot this series of April in Los Angeles in a dance studio kindly provided by the famous professional pirate Mister Roberts. The kickass outfit is all April’s taste. The brilliant photography is Forrest and yours truly 🙂 Additional NSFW sample image after the jump. Full set on BlueBlood.com of course.

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I have noticed that when people on the internet talk about beating a dead horse, they usually mean that they have realized the other person is right and they are just too proud to apologize for having treated them unfairly. They can’t respond because the only reasonable response would be an apology, so they have to say that responding would be beating a dead horse or some such.

Have you all noticed this?

I have brunch plans today. I was going to touch up my hair color. I’m feeling very morbid at the moment though. And now another installment of . . .

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