Just posted this in a community and thought I’d post it here too 🙂
I am also casting for folks who want to create this type of striking artistic image in Los Angeles this week. Details are in my LJ at http://amelia-g.livejournal.com/321161.html. You can read about the magazine appearance of this image on BlueBlood.net now and see the whole series on BlueBlood.com.
Our lovely models here are Nixon Sixx, Tinka, and Vampirabat. Couture and kitty both courtesy Antiseptic Fashion.
There is a lot of talk on this one site I occasionally post on about model safety. Whenever I see a model or photog in the scene giving advice, the topic of safety comes up.
Now I don’t object to a model bringing along a friend who will make him or her more comfortable, so the escort thing does not inconvenience me. Lots of people, especially hobbyists, are just shy and feel better (and thus pose better) with a familiar face around, so that’s all good.
As a photographer (and a woman), I have definitely shown up at a few shoot locations over the years where I did not feel safe. In one case (for a trade shoot), I made an excuse and got the heck out of there. In another (for a paid shoot), I shot one setup super-fast, paid the model, and got the heck out of there. I’ve had models attempt to touch me inappropriately, but I’ve never had anyone fail to back off when told to cut it out. I’m wracking my brain right now and, with the thousands of people I’ve shot, I can only think of three times offhand where I was on a shoot and genuinely scared something bad could happen to the point where I felt I should go. And nothing bad actually did go down on any of those occasions.
I remember hearing about that bondage model a year or two back who got assaulted and murdered. But no one I knew knew her. I know a number of models who have had the same experience I have where occasionally someone will start to touch them inappropriately, they tell the person to stop, and the person stops. There are some scary people out there, but I don’t think they usually do their scary stuff during a photo shoot.
So my question is, with all the fear-mongering about potential rape and murder, does anyone here personally know anyone (model, photographer, MUA, stylist, anyone) who has been physically assaulted in any way on a shoot?
If you are a serious costumer, I can provide you with some killer images and possibly both magazine and site exposure. (Magazine coverage depends on whether I end up shooting enough different pirates. Arrrr!) I am shooting an erotic pirate series. Please get in touch if you would like to be part of it.
Requirements:
You must be able to do an extravagant and impressive look.
You must have access to extremely high quality pirate costumes which fit you well.
Access to a nifty pirate location a plus.
Although this is a trade shoot, there may be some budget for costume and location for truly spectacular stuff to work with.
A minimum of topless nudity is required. Comfort with full nudity is preferred.
All body types are welcome.
Preference for models with more unusual and striking looks.
You must be in Los Angeles or Orange County during the coming two weeks.
We are looking to create the most artistic and striking images possible, so we are looking for a select few models who can really bring something extraordinary to the table.
Details:
I’m looking to shoot this week for European fetish magazine placement. I could finish the job with work I have on hand, but I’d kind of like to shoot some folks I have not shot for fetish magazines before. I would ideally like to shoot in Los Angeles, but San Francisco would be possible with enough good models and locations.
The magazine generally gets the images first, but you should expect to ultimately most likely get tears and promo for your personal projects and web-ready content. You will receive a copy of the magazine when Forrest Black and I get copies in and you will receive content for download within two weeks of each set being published on BlueBlood.com/RubberDollies.com/etc.
Requirements:
You must be able to do an extravagant and impressive look.
You must have access to high end and unique rubber or leather clothing or armor. Corsets and big boots are also a plus.
A minimum of topless nudity is required. Comfort with full nudity is preferred.
You must be in Los Angeles or Orange County this coming week.
We are looking to create the most artistic and striking images possible, so we are looking for a select few models who can really bring something extraordinary to the table.
Refer to Forrest Black’s and my work for an idea of what sorts of people we prefer to shoot in general. We have shot for all the important European fetish magazines, including Marquis, Skin Two, and Secret. Although Forrest Black and I have shot dozens of magazine covers, these specific tears are intended for inside pages, although the future can always bring more good things.
A few things to keep in mind: It is highly likely that you and/or the clothing designer will get significant press coverage from this. I can only use local models for this specific gig and that means Los Angeles or an easy drive from Los Angeles. If you are not sure what high end fetish fashion or rubber clothing is all about or if you are unsure of your nudity comfort levels, I’m really only looking for glamourous enthusiasts on this one.
To submit, please message me here or email submit@blueblood.net with the title FETISH MAGAZINE MODEL. Please indicate where pictures of you can be viewed, what city you are near, what your nudity comfort zone and interests are, what type of fetish fashion you have available, any location suggestions you may have, and whether the designer would like some press coverage as well if possible. If you have any special reasons for wanting to shoot or other information you feel is relevant, please feel free to include it.
HIGH END FETISH CLOTHING DESIGNERS, PLEASE ALSO FEEL FREE TO GET IN TOUCH.
EVERYONE PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REPOST THIS MODEL CALL TO APPROPRIATE PLACES.
I can leap tall buildings in a single bound, but doing my laundry regularly and remembering what day and time what is planned for is fucking beyond me.
by Amelia G : September 1st, 2008
So apparently, while I wasn’t paying attention, best-selling author Tucker Max challenged Nick Denton’s huge blogging empire’s flagship Gawker to a $10,000 bet over the likely domestic gross of his upcoming movie and Gawker declared Jihad on Tucker Max over everything. Not in that order.
Full disclosure: I have drunk beer with Tucker Max and I’ve shaken hands with one of the Rudius Media bloggers. I have partied in Vegas with large portions of the Gawker staff, enjoyed Gawker’s hospitality in Austin, and shaken hands with Nick Denton. I think it is fair to say that I don’t have a horse in this race because I genuinely like and enjoy the work of people in both camps.
Now, Fleshbot is the main Gawker blog I read with any regularity, although, given that I quoted ValleyWag earlier today, obviously it is not the only one I read. So I don’t know how I missed the Gawker flagship’s 20 entries this month about how much they loathe Tucker Max. I worried that I might be being too rough on Joshua Todd and Buckcherry earlier this week, but, damn, compared to Gawker, I am sweetness and light and the personification of all that is gentle.
I wrote a thing a while back where I praised Tucker Max’s writing and general brilliance, but I mentioned that he was coy in his stories about use of cocaine. Tucker Max is very sensitive to people having misimpressions of him and he explained to me that it was important to him that he was about hanging out with beer and hot chicks and not about hookers and blow and that he felt beer and hot chicks were more fun. I’ve . . .
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by Amelia G : August 31st, 2008
Tim Faulker at ValleyWag summed up the Hans Reiser trial best, saying, “There’s nothing funny about a murder trial. Unless there is.”
It has been a while since we did any sex trial coverage at Blue Blood, so I guess we’re due. So here is the set-up. Hans Reiser is a well-known but unpopular Linux programmer. Well, he is probably a Linux programmer, but there are bitchy San Francisco tech scene rumors that he actually hired cheap Eastern Bloc coders to do all his work for him. At any rate, there are some Linux file systems which bear his name, whether or not he earned it. And, let’s face it, the SF tech world has a rich history of dudes who take credit for other people’s work. I don’t think most of those people are murderers, so that is not, in and of itself, damning in a murder trial. Given that Hans Reiser went off to college after 8th grade, I’m thinking he probably at least supervised his Russian coding teams. I’d say that he was not on trial for whether he deserved his personal kudos, but he actually kind of was. His attorneys William DuBois and Richard Tamor repeatedly alleged that Han Reiser was only on trial because people hated his personality so much. Heck, his lawyers pointed out that they couldn’t stand the guy. I’m not sure whether I’d choose to be represented by counsel who disliked me so intensely, but Hans Reiser admits he is a little iffy in his choices on who to associate with.
Apparently, whether or not one wishes to mail order, Russia has bride catalogs where marriage-minded gentlemen can flip through and select the woman of their dreams. Hans Reiser started dating one . . .
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by Amelia G : August 30th, 2008
Full disclosure: I kind of liked that Buckcherry song “Crazy Bitch” when it briefly played on the radio in Los Angeles. Not sure if it played elsewhere or not. As I recall, Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up” only got airplay in limited markets, so not sure if the word bitch impacts distro. Given that their label Eleven Seven Music is some sort of Warner subsidiary or other corporate term meaning a certain kind of backing, I guess they might not have had that much trouble with distro in 2006, but I didn’t note it at the time, so I don’t know. New factoid I learned today: Apparently, Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue is at least the nominal president of Buckcherry’s label Eleven Seven Music, which was founded by longtime music industry guy and master of marketing innovation Allen Kovac, a man who can probably think of the way to backdoor distro, even if a major label backer is gunshy. (Now I get why Motley Crue would tour with Buckcherry. That Nikki Sixx is smart. One of these days, I need to get with the program and start collecting royalties off of people who wish they were me.)
Although the “Crazy Bitch” song has some lyrics about enjoying an insane lover’s cat scratches, Joshua Todd has reiterated in various interviews that he does not actually like it when groupies come up to him and trying to put scratches all up and down his back. Seriously, people need to think about what they are doing before they start putting marks on someone with extensive body art. Yeah, they may be more likely to be into it, but they may also be stressed out about damaging their skin decorations. Additionally, even touring musicians, who look like they like to hang with the ladies, may . . .
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by Amelia G : August 29th, 2008
“Most of us are just living a lie
That’s why we get fucked up every night”
–Buckcherry, “Too Drunk To Fuck”
Please forgive me, but I like to fantasize that my dirty glam rockers are never too drunk to get it on. Well maybe occasionally, if it makes a really good story. But I can’t help wondering if Buckcherry don’t have some kind of problem with women. I don’t mean that I suspect they might not be thoughtful feminists. When, circa 600BC, I masturbated approximately 80,000 times to the “Welcome to the Jungle” video, I never once fantasized that Axl Rose would be perfect for a relationship. Or even an interesting dinner conversation.
The reason Motley Crue did an album like Girls, Girls, Girls is that the job of properly utilizing a pole while dancing is very similar to the job of being a dirty glam rocker. They felt an affinity. Whatever else one might think about the Crue, I don’t think anyone wondered whether they feared the vagina dentata, or worse yet, were frightened of the boobies. As a teenager, I saw Vince Neil ask the New Haven Coliseum (it could have been the Hartford Civic Center, but I think it was New Haven) who was the best piece of ass in the building. I was vaguely unsettled when the biker next to me appeared to be offering up his girlfriend and I went back to my dorm room and wrote an ethnomusicology term paper about how I wouldn’t fuck Vince Neil with someone else’s pussy, but, damn, that was some fine showmanship and entertaining rock and roll.
The thing is that good music should transport one and good musical showmanship should go even further towards that goal. I think the only Motley Crue video I ever masturbated to was “Looks That . . .
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Since I started using Google calendar, I keep thinking things are earlier than they are. Showing up days early sucks. This is starting to freak me out.
by Amelia G : August 27th, 2008
My pal editrix Abby Ehmann always knows where the good party is. (Often she is the one throwing it.) A few years back, the Blue Blood crew exhibited at the late lamented BondCon event in Las Vegas. (BondCon was purchased by the fine folks at Kink, so hopefully they will relaunch it.) The BondCon show was held overlapping the same time as the Adult Entertainment Expo, which Forrest Black and I have occasionally attended over the years to do press coverage on happenings in the adult video world. Immediately prior to these two shows was the Internext show, which SpookyCash sent us to. (SpookyCash is far and away the leading affiliate program in its niche and facilitates people with popular sites being able to make some dough promoting naughty sites from Blue Blood and friends.)
So anyway, after a couple weeks in Vegas, I was all tuckered out, but Abby Ehmann told me that Paul Nathan was hosting a suite party and I really needed to go. This coming weekend, on Saturday August 30 and Sunday August 31, Paul Nathan will be emceeing Perry Mann’s Strippers & Hustlers Ball in Las Vegas. Perry Mann has been throwing the Exotic Erotic Ball in San Francisco for nearly three decades now and this month his crew is headed for Vegas. The weekend’s festivities include performances from Scooter & Lavelle, Drummer KC, D’Amato, all-female Motley Crue cover band Girls Girls Girls, Gen XX (a sort of stripped down electronica version of The Genitorturers), and Gilby Clarke. (Everyone always mentions that Gilby Clarke was in Guns n’ Roses, but I played his Kill for Thrills Commercial Suicide CD endlessly when . . .
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If someone you know does something terrible to someone else you know — but they do not do it to you — does that change your view of them or relationship with them?
Like, if you are friends with someone, and they do something really awful to someone who did not deserve to be treated that way, how do you react? Do you feel less of a bond of friendship with them or trust them less? Do you figure it was someone else’s situation and has no bearing on yours? Do you try to ignore it but keep it in mind? Do you try to maintain the relationship, but minimize placing trust in that person?
I fucking hate it when I pay other businesses to do something and they somehow manage to shift responsibility back to me via incompetence.
I’m sitting here doing math I already paid someone else to do and it kinda sucks.
So Blue Blood is running a contest right now where members of the (free) forums can win the lovely gator which the lovely Clint Rexx is holding in this photograph I shot with Forrest Black. I posted on of the images from the series in a community and someone actually bothered to create an entire LJ account for the sole purpose of freaking out that Clint didn’t seem like he took being “goth” seriously enough. They seemed offended that I would shoot his smile or that he would sit near Hollywood Boulevard stars for Guns n’ Roses or David Bowie.
I really think it is important not to take oneself too seriously.
I really think it is important to smile whenever possible.
I really think there is no point in picking a subculture existence and wearing it like a fucking uniform.
As an artist, rather than trying to conform and be all ubergoth, I make every effort to immortalize a sense a play.
(Image Courtesy of Blue Blood)
So I’m sitting here all dressed with my eyeliner perfect for my friend Sabrina‘s birthday party.
Only problem is that her party is next week. DeathKnight’s fire carnival was this weekend. But yesterday darn it.
I just started using Google calendar and I really really don’t think I’ve gotten the hang of it.
You ever get ready for something on the wrong day or at the wrong time?