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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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What are your favorite picture posting communities and sites?

Where do you like to see photographers or models post beautiful images, either on LJ or on other sites?

Die Young Stay Pretty
by Amelia G : January 9th, 2008

The thing I love best about photography is the way it can capture and preserve a moment.

Most of my ephemeral moments have gone unrecorded. When I got to college, it was my twelfth school in twelve years. Moving that often gave me many qualities I like about myself, but it also meant that there were so many people, so many communities, so many adventures, and so many times in my life which evaporated with nothing to show they ever took place. Just my memories with no one to share them with. People who do not move can at least have conversations about “remember when . . .” but my friends and compatriots were scattered across dozens of countries.

I always loved when people showed me their photo albums and yearbooks and explained the most important images. Oscar Wilde once famously said, “After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see them as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, which is the most horrible thing in the world.” Oscar was speaking of absinthe, but pictures are a lot like the green fairy that way. Sometimes a flattering photograph represents a loathsome situation and sometimes a hideous photograph is a reminder of something wonderful.

I reminded myself of what is most important about a photograph, while going over the scans for the two most recent photo galleries by Forrest Black and yours truly. These galleries are bittersweet. While I was going over the final edit to put the pictures in the BlueBlood.net system, one of the people pictured instant messaged me to tell me she had just had a nasty break-up with the guy, also pictured, who she was . . .

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For a long time now, I have been trying to figure out what defines success. How does a person know when he or she is successful? I have finally found the answer. If I can pay someone else to go have a bad time for me and write about it, I have officially arrived. Go team!

valiskeogh rules and gave me a paid membership on the LJ ship. Thanks!!!

Is it wrong to have a fetish for dangerous machinery?

So Forrest Black and I were shooting our pals Individual and Superna over at our other pal’s house. The pal whose house we were shooting at happened to be the illustrious David J. Schow of Texas Chainsaw Massacre fame. So, naturally, he had a chainsaw handy. While we were waiting for Individual to get ready, I just had to shoot something of Superna wielding DJS’s chainsaw. I had to. Not only is the rest of this series on BlueBlood.com now, but there are almost a thousand photographs of Superna lensed by Forrest Black and yours truly. I’m really pleased with this work.

There is no safe for work here, but there is another sample from the series in the forums on BlueBlood.net after the jump.

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The glorious Rachel Face has performed with punk band One Day War, so here she is representing in a couple of images Forrest Black and I shot of her. Whole set on BlueBlood.com of course. Ya know, you can get a membership to BlueBlood.com for as little as $6.66 and then you’d be seeing new stuff like this every day. Additional NSFW sample shot after the jump

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