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Blue Blood is 20 Years Old, Thank You

Here is a note I am in the process of (I think) emailing to current and former members of various Blue Blood membership sites. I’ve been struggling with some Murphy’s Law technology today, so I thought I would share this blogtastically as well.

Blue Blood is in its 20th year now. Back in 1992, when I started publishing the Blue Blood print magazine from the basement of a punk rock group house in Rockville, Maryland, I intended to create something activist, something which would create subculture cross-pollination and forever alter the beauty standards. I recently got a note for a school reunion, requesting that I supply what I’ve been up to, and my first thought was that I wanted to share that with people who get it. Thank you for your patronage of Blue Blood sites. I’m going to try to think of some amazing celebrations for this and I’ll definitely try to keep y’all updated on parties, event appearances, and gallery shows and whatever else we have the resources to put together.

You are welcome to follow Blue Blood on Twitter at http://twitter.com/BlueBlood or me at http://twitter.com/AmeliaG for the up-to-the-minute stuff.

Now that you’ve treated everyone else this season, I’d love it if you would treat yourself to some Blue Blood. You can see sample images of some of our recent updates at http://www.blueblood.com/news/tags/blue-blood-vip/ featuring new additions like cosplayer Scarlet Starr, leggy art schooler Annika Amour, literal firebreather Franccesca de Struct, and mohawed tattoo collector Tara Toxic. Since my last note to you all, we have also featured shoots of many long-time favorites, including Nixon Sixx, Razor Candi, Scar 13, Voltaire, Nina Sin, Zoe Matthews, and more more more.

Also, if you are interested in the California Deathrock book and/or T-shirt Forrest Black and I created, there is ordering info on the bottom of the page with this exclusive interview with Dinah Cancer of 45 Grave: http://www.blueblood.net/2012/12/dinah-cancer-interview-45-grave/ BlueBlood.net and the forums are still open to all and update every day with news ranging from the newest controversial goth-industrial music video to deliciously excessively intellectual pop culture deconstructions of recent television shows to where to buy zombie apocalypse to shotgun rounds and everything else you crave at http://www.blueblood.net/

Love, Amelia G

—

Blue Blood
8033 Sunset Blvd #4500
West Hollywood, CA 90046
USA

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Happy (Naked Tattooed Elf Scarlet Starr) Holidays from Blue Blood’s BarelyEvil (SFW PICS)

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 🙂

Tags: barely evil, barelyevil, blue blood, blueblood, emo, goth, punk, xmas
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Happy (Naked Tattooed Elf Scarlet Starr) Holidays from Blue Blood’s BarelyEvil (SFW PICS)

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.

Franccesca de Struct Demon Apocalypse (SFW PICS)

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.

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Punk Mohawk Teen Tara Toxic (PICS)

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.

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Gothic Halloween Jen Vixen (PICS)

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.

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Darenzia & Scar 13, Armor & Swords (PICS) Not SFW

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.

Whole series, including much naughtier stuff, is available on Erotic Fandom and the Blue Blood VIP.

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Voltaire Caged Fae (PICS) SFW

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

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BlueBlood Newsletter: Deathrock Art Book, New Goth Fashion, Award Noms

This was just set to mail out to everyone who subscribed to the BlueBlood Newsletter. It occurs to me that we no longer have a way for new folks to subscribe, so I’ll have to add that to the endless to-do list. –Amelia

Here’s your BlueBlood Newsletter:
– California Deathrock Book Kickstarter http://kck.st/KKHcub
– Behind the Scenes Photoshoot Video
– Gothic.net Panel of Experts
– New Gothic Fashion Site
– APN Awards Nominations
– Blue Blood VIP Megasite $1.75 Trial Sale & $1 EBPM Combo
http://www.blueblood.com/news/2012/06/blue-blood-vip-eroticbpm-combo-deal/
More details on this super fab deal at the end of this newsletter.
– Contact Reminder: West Hollywood Snail, Model/Photog Submit

California Deathrock Book Kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ameliag/california-deathrock-book

The really big news is that a book of Forrest Black and Amelia G’s deathrock portraiture is going to be published. There are four days left in the Kickstarter pledge period and the project has already succeeded and will definitely be funded. Pledge now and Amazon won’t charge for the California Deathrock book until the pledge period is complete.

Forrest and Amelia will also thank you in print in the book, if you pledge now. Please note that, once the book is published, it should be available via Amazon and Barnes & Noble, but the retail price is expected to be significantly higher than the Kickstarter price. Cool people who Forrest and Amelia have photographed will probably be able to get the book for wholesale pricing later, but that will be around the Kickstarter amount and without the mention in the book dedication. And it would be ever so helpful and awesome if you could get those pledges in now to make sure the book is a hardcover and has the best possible art book paper and most possible pages.

Behind the Scenes Photoshoot Video
http://www.blueblood.net/2012/05/california-deathrock-behind-the-scenes-photo-shoot-video/

You can see some behind-the-scenes footage of what a nightlife portraiture shoot with Amelia G and Forrest Black looks like.

Gothic.net Panel of Experts
http://www.gothic.net/tag/panel-of-experts/
Gothic.net is continuing its series of features with a Panel of Experts interviewed on various horror and gothic-related topics. Blue Blood notables on the Panel include Amelia G, John Shirley, Will Judy, Forrest Black, Cecilia Tan, Thomas S. Roche, Ed Mironiuk, Eric Swartz, and Chad Savage.

New Gothic Fashion Site
http://www.gothic.net/gothic-fashion-style/
Gothic.net has launched a sister site for dark fashion.

APN Awards Nominations
http://www.blueblood.net/2012/05/blue-blood-sites-talent-nominated-apn-awards/
Blue Blood sites and talent have been nominated for a gajillion honors in the APN Awards.

Blue Blood VIP Megasite $1.75 Trial Sale & $1 EBPM Combo
http://www.blueblood.com/news/2012/06/blue-blood-vip-eroticbpm-combo-deal/

Thank you for your patronage of Blue Blood. Amelia G wanted to have Blue Blood offer the VIP mega-pass for a super low trial amount, which she had to get special approval from the bank liaison folks to offer. Happily the answer was yes. Recent new additions to the site have included creative works featuring Lori the Gorey, Razor Candi, Vera Baby, Dahlia Dark, Alecia Joy, Angel Beau, Meekus, and more. Right now, you can even add a trial membership to EBPM for only one more buck. Details at http://www.blueblood.com/news/2012/06/blue-blood-vip-eroticbpm-combo-deal/

Twitter News
http://twitter.com/BlueBlood
http://www.blueblood.com/news/
Blue Blood is still posting news weekly to the contributors blog and Twitter for up-to-the-minute goodness.

Contact Info Revisited:
All swag, contracts, review materials, requests for interviews, invitations to conventions, contest giveaways, photo submissions, pitches, free clothes, offers to fly the Blue Blood crew to your city, vials of your blood, etc. should be sent to:

Blue Blood
8033 Sunset Blvd #4500
West Hollywood, CA 90046
USA

Press releases about your own projects can be snail-mailed or sent to submit@blueblood.net

Models and photographers can submit via:
http://www.bluebloodphoto.com
and writers via
http://bluebloodbooks.com

Thanks!

–AMELIA G & FORREST BLACK
Amelia@BlueBlood.net & Forrest@BlueBlood.net

To stop reading the news you requested, please click [UNSUBCRIBE]

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Secret Sale Location for 50% Off Blue Blood Megasite (PICS)

Blue Blood Megasite 50% Off This Week Only
http://www.gothicsluts.com/affc/xmas2011.html

The secret sale page is hidden on GS, but that membership gives you access to EVERYTHING from BlueBlood.com with more than 120,000 high end artistic photographs of 464+ beauties. From ethereal gothic beauties to punks who like to smash things to geeky fandom costume babes to fetish deities, Blue Blood features the most stunningly and uniquely beautiful. A battalion of coffee table book and nightclub photographers have contributed to BlueBlood.com and it shows. Not to mention erotic fiction from some of the top names in genre writing and just a dab of video.

Recent new additions to the site have included creative works featuring Razor Candi, Misti Dawn and Michael Vegas, Ruby Violence, Krysta Kaos, Sierras, Angel Beau, Scar, Darenzia, Eve, Voltaire and more! At Blue Blood Secret World Headquarters Global, there are some serious fans of bright sparkly things, decorations, plentiful food, and Santa hats. Plus everyone is feeling celebratory as Blue Blood enters its 20th year.

You can sign up for half price for the next week only — as little as $4 a month — and, as an extra bonus, when you sign up, you will be given the option to add a membership to Erotic BPM as well, for only a dollar.

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[Blue Blood Newletter] Awards, Holiday Sale, Press

Here’s your BlueBlood Newsletter, 2011 Wrap-Up Edition:
– Happy New Year and a Fabulous Forthcoming 2012 http://twitter.com/BlueBlood
– APN Awards Nominations and Wins
– BlueBlood.net Re-Design
– Hustler Interviews Amelia G and Nicotine
– Gothic.net Panel of Experts
– Gothic.net Re-Design Red Carpet Event
– Marquis #51
– All Access Pass Call for Submissions
– Picture and Premium magazines
– Blue Blood Megasite 50% Off This Week Only As Little as $4 a Month http://www.gothicsluts.com/affc/xmas2011.html
More details on this super fab deal at the end of this newsletter.
– Contact Reminder: West Hollywood Snail, Model/Photog Submit

Happy New Year and a Fabulous Forthcoming 2012
http://twitter.com/BlueBlood
http://www.blueblood.com/news/
Blue Blood has so much going on that it is a good idea to follow the Blue Blood Twitter for up-to-the-minute info. In 2012, Blue Blood has a bunch of cool party sponsorships coming up, some very exciting print projects, and the launch of Blue Blood Fleshlights kicking off with the lovely lady parts of Nicotine and Misti Dawn. As we both gear up for the future and reflect on this past year, here are some of the highlights of 2011:

BlueBlood.net Re-Design
http://www.blueblood.net/
You have probably noticed that BlueBlood.net got a spiffy new look in 2011. There are lots of new articles and new conversations. Music videos, cool style, and pop culture deconstructions. Come say hello and participate in intelligent counterculture debate and hotness 🙂

2011 APN Awards Nominations and Wins
Blue Blood received a flattering number of nominations and took home half a dozen wins from the APN Awards, including Best Gothic Update for Razor Candi/GothicSluts, Best Nerd Update for Nicotine/EroticFandom, Best Site Re-Design for Forrest Black/GothicSluts, and Best Alternative Photography for Amelia G and Forrest Black. The sites received a number of other nominations for various awards over the course of the year, but it felt extra-good to be recognized in such important wins from awards run by people who really get it. The Blue Blood crew is looking forward to the 2012 awards.

Hustler Interviews Amelia G and Nicotine
http://www.blueblood.com/news/2011/12/what-is-steampunk/
Hustler magazine ran an interview with Amelia G and Nicotine in a feature on steampunk. “What the Heck is Steampunk?” was also illustrated with photography by Amelia G and Forrest Black. This is in the February issue, on newsstands now.

Gothic.net Panel of Experts
http://www.gothic.net/tag/panel-of-experts/
Gothic.net began running a series of features with a Panel of Experts interviewed on various horror and gothic-related topics. Blue Blood notables on the Panel include Amelia G, John Shirley, Will Judy, Forrest Black, Cecilia Tan, Thomas S. Roche, Ed Mironiuk, Eric Swartz, and Chad Savage.

Gothic.net Re-Design Red Carpet Event
http://www.gothic.net/gothic-net-party-red-carpet-pic/
Blue Blood sponsored the red carpet event for Gothic.net’s celebration of its dark new design. Blue Blood notables in attendance included Amelia G, Forrest Black, Carlos Batts, April Flores, Diana Knight, and Daniel Ian Essex of the Astrovamps.

Marquis #51
http://www.blueblood.com/news/2011/06/marquis-51-alecia-joy-contortionist/
Marquis #51 hit German newsstands. For this issue, Amelia G and Forrest Black did their Big in America column on the exceedingly flexible Alecia Joy. This makes more than thirty issues in a row of Marquis, the highest circulation glossy fetish magazine in the world, which have featured work by Blue Blood’s Amelia G and Forrest Black.

All Access Pass Call for Submissions
http://amzn.to/ameliagbackstagepasses
http://bluebloodbooks.com/writers-guidelines.html
http://www.blueblood.net/2010/10/backstage-passes-good-press/
Editrix Amelia G is looking for a pansexual orientation and (ironically perhaps) is still reading for a few more hetero boy/girl stories for this sequel to the critically-acclaimed Backstage Passes.

Picture and Premium magazines
Picture and Premium magazines have been running an extensive series of spreads highlighting BlueBlood.com in their glossy international pages. The Blue Blood crew has not seen the magazines yet, but have been told the layouts look very nice.

Blue Blood Megasite 50% Off This Week Only
http://www.gothicsluts.com/affc/xmas2011.html

The secret sale page is hidden on GS, but that membership gives you access to EVERYTHING from http://www.blueblood.com/ with more than 120,000 high end artistic photographs of 464+ beauties. From ethereal gothic beauties to punks who like to smash things to geeky fandom costume babes to fetish deities, Blue Blood features the most stunningly and uniquely beautiful. A battalion of coffee table book and nightclub photographers have contributed to BlueBlood.com and it shows. Not to mention erotic fiction from some of the top names in genre writing and just a dab of video.

Recent new additions to the site have included creative works featuring Razor Candi, Misti Dawn and Michael Vegas, Ruby Violence, Krysta Kaos, Sierras, Angel Beau, Scar, Darenzia, Eve, Voltaire and more! At Blue Blood Secret World Headquarters Global, there are some serious fans of bright sparkly things, decorations, plentiful food, and Santa hats. Plus everyone is feeling celebratory as Blue Blood enters its 20th year.

You can sign up for half price for the next week only — as little as $4 a month — and, as an extra bonus, when you sign up, you will be given the option to add a membership to Erotic BPM as well, for only a dollar.

Contact Info Revisited:
You probably all know this by now, but, if you still have any of the JPS.net e-mails in your address book, delete them as they have been discontinued. Do not attempt to get in touch using Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, or Beverly Hills contact info. All swag, contracts, review materials, requests for interviews, invitations to conventions, contest giveaways, photo submissions, pitches, free clothes, offers to fly the Blue Blood crew to your city, vials of your blood, etc. should be sent to:

Blue Blood
8033 Sunset Blvd #4500
West Hollywood, CA 90046
USA

Press releases about your own projects can be snail-mailed or sent to submit@blueblood.net

Models and photographers can submit via http://www.bluebloodphoto.com and writers via http://bluebloodbooks.com

Thanks!

–AMELIA G & FORREST BLACK
Amelia@BlueBlood.net & Forrest@BlueBlood.net

http://www.BlueBlood.net/

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Misti Dawn and Michael Vegas (PICS)

Blue Blood’s world famous signature counterculture couples shoots are some of my favorite parts. Forrest Black and Misti Dawn and Michael Vegas and I got together for coffee before deciding to collaborate on this shoot. I am always cautious when someone has worked in Porn Valley, even if only briefly, but Misti Dawn and Michael Vegas are both delightfully warm and genuine and drama-free. With some folks, it is a challenge to get them to stay on pleasant topics during a shoot, but Misti Dawn and Michael Vegas are all good energy, funny anecdotes, and cool business stuff they are working on. We hung out afterwards on their patio. Forrest helped with their fire trough. Then we shot the breeze about geeky stuff and conventions. And Misti Dawn sent me home with a pumpkin pie she baked herself ’cause she had made six. I only wished we had done a zillion set-ups and shot for days because these two deserve to be immortalized every which way.

FREE Misti Dawn and Michael Vegas photo gallery, shot by yours truly and Forrest Black

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Happy Halloween! (Deathrock Pics)

Happy Halloween! (Deathrock Pics)
Posted by Amelia G

Happy Halloween, everyone! Razor Candi and photographer Bodó Janos Attila did Halloween up nicely for the Blue Blood VIP this year. VIP members get to enjoy the whole shoot, but we also have a free deathrock Halloween photo gallery right . . .

( Read more )

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Rubber Bustle Dress Couture (PICS)

This is the 23rd appearance Lydia Ivy West has made in the Blue Blood VIP. Forrest Black and I shot this in San Francisco and latex couturier Polly Pandemonium was kind enough to donate this fabulous bustle dress for the shoot.

I haven’t shot in San Francisco in way too long and haven’t been there since December. I’d really like to spend some time in SF soon. I’d also like a new camera. Some new easier to carry lights. And a pony. Pony optional. I think Ivy has a horse, now that I think about it.

San Francisco wild babes are especially invited to fill out the model app at BlueBloodPhoto.com

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Alecia Joy Icons (PICS)

Alecia Joy posted to Blue Blood VIP in a set by your truly and Forrest Black called Icons. Forrest Black and I had a great time with her shooting and you all should expect to see lots more of her. Readers will be seeing some select images from this shoot in the forthcoming issue of Marquis, but Blue Blood VIP members get to see the whole thing. Here is a great anecdote excerpted from the Marquis #51 feature on Alecia Joy: recently, Alecia Joy got some metal grinding training for GrindKore from Perish, who we covered in Marquis #43. Alecia Joy is a trooper and she has the scars to prove it, because the show must go on. At a recent, “metal grinding performance [she] ended up giving [herself] a grind burn when a drunk person’s head came dangerously close. It was a reflex to pull away when [she] saw the bald head flying by, so [she] pulled the grinder away and consequently missed the metal on [her] outfit and ground two lines into [her] inner thigh. [She] finished the performance and rinsed it out, but metal shards were embedded. Alecia adds that “the owner of the club came by and gave [her] a bunch of drink tickets, but all [she] wanted was for the fire in [her] leg to subside! Part of [her] wanted to sit out the performance [she] was supposed to do after that, but [she] found that the fake blood in the kiddy pool actually soothed the burn.” Best use for a kiddy pool full of blood. Ever.

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