Happy holidays, everyone! I’m eating cookies and drinking cocoa (well, mocha, but that’s how I like it) and I hope you all are too.
Forrest Black and I photographed cute elfin Scarlet Starr chewing on a candy cane in a Bah Humbug Santa hat, with some candy cane striped stockings, and a good dose of red and green and silver tinsel Christmas decorations. I just love holiday sets. These two images are safe for work (not that you are probably working today, but you know what I mean) but none of the links I’m about to give you are. There are some very nice naughtier free pics of Xmas Scarlet Starr in this free BarelyEvil gallery. The whole series appears in the Blue Blood VIP and on Barely Evil 🙂
Happy holidays, everyone! I’m eating cookies and drinking cocoa (well, mocha, but that’s how I like it) and I hope you all are too.
Forrest Black and I photographed cute elfin Scarlet Starr chewing on a candy cane in a Bah Humbug Santa hat, with some candy cane striped stockings, and a good dose of red and green and silver tinsel Christmas decorations. I just love holiday sets. These two images are safe for work (not that you are probably working today, but you know what I mean) but none of the links I’m about to give you are. There are some very nice naughtier free pics of Xmas Scarlet Starr in this free BarelyEvil gallery. The whole series appears in the Blue Blood VIP and on Barely Evil 🙂
If the world doesn’t end by midnight in Los Angeles, I am heading over to celebrate Speedy Tomato’s birthday at David J. Schow’s place. Then tomorrow, I go to San Francisco. If the world ends, at least I won’t have to put on pants.
I’d like to introduce you all to Franccesca de Struct. This is her first appearance on the Blue Blood VIP. I met her at the Ludovico Technique show at Bar Sinister. I was yakking with lead singer Ben Vanlier on the smoking patio and she came up to compliment him on his show and I just had to interject that I’d very much like to photograph her. And, so, Forrest Black and I had a really cool time photographing her. In addition to being beautiful and having amazing personal style (those horns are hers), she is well-spoken and fun. Stay tuned for some fire-breathing (literally!) in a few weeks.
Wow, I just saw someone I’ve known and liked for 25 years brag about telling someone who complained about the economy that she couldn’t be as fat and ugly as she is, if she had really been hurt by the economy. I didn’t even see the interaction; he thought it made him so awesome he should repeat it.
Put aside the whole science thing where you are more likely to be fit eating organic wild salmon than Ramen noodles . . .
With the election over, I was really hoping that my friends on both sides of the aisle would stop saying such awful and close-minded things with such regularity. Is it so wrong that I think people should care about the issues and not just trash talk the other team, treating politics like a drunk sporting event?
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I think this is probably the most chagrined I have ever looked coming out of a voting booth. I am so glad this contentious, divisive, Kang and Kodos, total bummer of an election cycle is over. Hopefully, some of the gajillion California referendums will go a good way. Mostly, I am really glad this is over. I am looking forward to my friends going back to discussing music and books and art and sex and photography and pop culture and clubbing and cool business ideas and writing and basically topics we’d all really enjoy talking about.
I think this is probably the most chagrined I have ever looked coming out of a voting booth. I am so glad this contentious, divisive, Kang and Kodos, total bummer of an election cycle is over. Hopefully, some of the gajillion California referendums will go a good way. Mostly, I am really glad this is over. I am looking forward to my friends going back to discussing music and books and art and sex and photography and pop culture and clubbing and cool business ideas and writing and basically topics we’d all really enjoy talking about.
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I think this is probably the most chagrined I have ever looked coming out of a voting booth. I am so glad this contentious, divisive, Kang and Kodos, total bummer of an election cycle is over. Hopefully, some of the gajillion California referendums will go a good way. Mostly, I am really glad this is over. I am looking forward to my friends going back to discussing music and books and art and sex and photography and pop culture and clubbing and cool business ideas and writing and basically topics we’d all really enjoy talking about.
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So Justin Bieber claims that his laptop and camera were stolen during one of his shows. He says it has “a lot of personal footage” on the stolen items. The image below is purportedly of his pop star cock. Is circumcision uncommon in Canada?
Internet sleuths feel that the ridiculous little hip tattoo on the image matches a ridiculous little hip tattoo Justin Bieber apparently actually has. It was reportedly inked at Son of a Gun Tattoo when he was sixteen. Given that I think I could draw that little bird in flight freehand — and I don’t, ya know, draw — I’m thinking the presence of the smudge on his hip is not disproof of Photoshop. The general build looks right. And it is shopped well, if it is a Photochop.
But seriously, I call astroturf, whether or not that is Justin Bieber’s penis. I find it very difficult to believe that the best-managed pop star in the world had a dick slip . . . by accident. Yes, kids, most celebrity sex tapes are presented as stolen because fame-obsessed prudes everywhere disapprove of flashing your junk on purpose. Even though they totally want to see it.
Don’t get me wrong. I am really impressed by the way Justin Bieber is managed. And I am really impressed that, unlike a lot of insecure talent, once he started becoming popular, Justin Bieber didn’t run off with the first smooth talker to whisper in his ear — Justin Bieber continues to dance with the one who brung him. And that has made his popularity enduring and means everyone in the deal is a winner. No point in getting Jesus tattoos and then whipping out your penis and waggling it to the world, if you want to keep your religious audience who like your wholesome image.
But, if you have a nice cock, hey, doesn’t the world need to see that? So, uhm, yeah, it is totally lame that some disrespectful person stole Justin Beiber’s laptop and camera and showed everyone how well-hung he is. That must be, like, totally embarrassing.
Queue Biebis Bienis Benis jokes.
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Forrest Black and I just photographed the amazing Tara Toxic for the first time. With her individual punk style and DIY clothes and her mohawk and general gorgeousness, we will definitely be shooting her again. Her first appearance in the Blue Blood VIP and Barely Evil is a somewhat Tarantino-inspired punk mohawk schoolgirl crossbow series. Cool sculptural paintings in the background are courtesy of the talented Kevin Flint. Whole series in the VIP as always.
This is Halloween Jen Vixen‘s 15th appearance in the Blue Blood VIP. This makes 777 live images of her lovely self. Read, write, execute, baby! Whole series in the VIP members area. I feel like Forrest Black and I did a good job capturing Jen’s personality in the many shoots we have done together. She can go from repose to exuberance very quickly, in a super fun way. Anyway, this series appears in its entirety both at BlueBlood.com and GothicSluts.com.
Note to those who like babes with armor and swords: If hypothetically your models are not experienced with swords and armor and hypothetically your lights use electricity and hypothetically one of your models wants a glass of water, for heaven’s sake, have them both PUT THE SWORDS DOWN FIRST. Forrest Black and I did this shoot to promote Tony Swatton’s armor and such to 40,000 Folsom Street Fair revelers. (I am such a dork. I just googled to doublecheck that it is Fair and not Faire. I got it right the first time, but still.) It ended up being a kind of expensive favor, given what it turns out it costs to repair electrocuted pro lighting packs. But, hey, Darenzia and Scar look hot and Scar did a nifty job on both their makeup and now a bunch of cool images exist. Second shot here is goofing around during the light test. Darenzia can look disturbingly good while picking her nose.
People often make comments about how Forrest Black and I have perfect lives. Our standard joke about this is that, when you work in the chocolate factory, eventually you just don’t find eating chocolate nearly as fantastic. I did study at Ceran in Spa, Belgium for a summer, however, which gave me a permanent taste for Belgian chocolate truffles, above all other sorts of chocolate. Before you start asking about Swiss chocolate, I spent part of the preceding year in Switzerland and I emphatically felt that there was nothing all that special about Swiss chocolate. Fortunately, I have never worked in a chocolate factory, so I still like eating delicious things. I even like just the scent of some desserts.
But I am a the kind of girl who likes some bitter in her sweet, so I’m really dark chocolate all the way. Meaning Swiss confections never stood a chance versus Belgian ones, in winning the heart of my taste buds (should that make any anatomical sense.) There used to be a really great place to get Belgian truffles in Georgetown when my family was stationed in DC, but I only got to go there a few times and I have no idea if it is still there now. Fortunately for my waistline, I have no idea where to get good truffles in Los Angeles. Anyone want to advise me on what the name of the place in Georgetown was or where is the best place somewhere in Silverlake, Hollywood, Westwood, or Beverly Hills to get Belgian dark chocolate truffles?
This funny Cheeky Lift Girl advert for Cheekybingo is totally making me crave truffles though. Sometimes, when I maybe waited a little bit too long to eat, and I’ll be waiting in a restaurant, where I can see food I want . . . well, I think about how thin yet powerful the veneer of civilization truly is. And, of course, I’m always partial to punk rock behavior. So I am especially amused by the idea of snarfing just a taste off the serving tray in the elevator.
The talented creatives at Frontroom designed the tasty Cheeky character icon above and some of their video advertising and other collateral. I’m not sure if they did the Cheeky Lift Girl bit, starring serious theatrical actress Hannah Boyde. Hannah Boyde does look a bit . . . well . . . cheeky, in her bio pic for the Activated Image theatrical company.
It kinda puts sand in my grits that, in the UK, you can see fun videos for a bingo company during popular TV programs like Jeremy Kyle Show. But, in the USA, we’re all prudish about gambling. Unless it is in Vegas. Or a State Lotto. Or a Native American reservation. Or maybe a Biloxi offshore riverboat. But that’s why we have YouTube. I give you the humorous stylings of Cheeky Bingo – Cheeky Lift Girl:
So, hypothetically, if I were to get this shirt and maybe wear it untucked over a blue tank dress (I already have) which sort of matches the blue pinstripes . . . would I look at all like a rodeo clown? Forrest Black suggested that this could be a pitfall of this particular shirt, which I had been kind of planning to purchase, so I need some second opinions.
I’m doing something where large black T-shirts (with potentially lewd or obscure artwork) which someone gave me for free to promote their thing would be . . . non-ideal. And the last time I bought business casual clothes I was not hiking every day, so none of my current stuff fits.
Voltaire always has this romantic bit of beautiful mournful fae glamour. Even in the middle of a party. So I wanted to photograph her in this sort of a setting for a long time. This set has been an even longer time in between shooting and publication because some copycat photographer badgered Voltaire into telling him where this shooting location is. So he could shoot her in the same spot. No idea how his stuff turned out, but it bummed me out at the time. Anyway, I’m over it now, so you all get some more beautiful images of Voltaire with her blonde dreads with the pastel accents. A happy ending. This is Voltaire’s 24th appearance in the VIP, with more to come.
Check out the Blue Blood Contributors Pages for my favorite nude shot from this set. (I wanted to keep this post SFW.) Or, of course, check out the whole series and 1954 others, 23 of which feature the lovely Voltaire, in the Blue Blood VIP
