It was hard to make this video happen because working on it was giving me the hugest spasm of shyness. Fortunately, Forrest Black and I still managed to bust it out. So now you can see behind-the-scenes footage of what our nightlife portraiture shoots look like, as part of the Kickstarter for our California Deathrock […]
I’m excited that I had Cecilia Tan’s Kickstarter book project up on my screen when I went to run some errands, planning to write it up when I returned. It just got funded in the past hour! On Kickstarter, the creative person doing the project only gets any of the funding if the project hits […]
On Thursday,October 6, the new-ish Mission Street Good Vibrations location hosted a party for the collaborative effort between Jamye Waxman andEmily Morse, “HotSex: Over 200 Things You Can Try Tonight!” Their hip and informative book is 240 pages of playful suggestions that offer couples respite from boring sex– light bondage, threesomes, perhaps a new position […]
The Hollywood location of Hennessey + Ingalls is a sleek bookstore, designed to make you want to pick up some extra coffee tables. They always have a tasty selection of illustration, photography, fashion, architecture, and graphic design art books. Tonight, Hennessey + Ingalls is hosting a special signing event with Marilyn Manson and Shia LaBeouf. […]
I (and a host of interesting creative folks, including various other Blue Blood contributors) am on the Gothic.net Panel of Experts. The most recent interview question, which we both answered, was What was the first movie or book or television show that scared you? The answers are varied and fun. Some other Blue Blood notables […]
As a creative person, I’m a lot more likely to own intellectual property than, ya know, tangible physical real world property. But, damn, Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde have been sentenced to jail time. In addition, banker Carl Lundström has been sentenced to jail time for financially backing the site. Given how […]
My October has been hectic, so I’m just now getting to sharing with you all some more nice press my Backstage Passes anthology has been receiving. Rebecca , writing for Dirty Sexy Books, writes: “Sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll are the big stars in this erotica collection, including some bondage, bloodletting, and other interesting […]
My Backstage Passes anthology has been receiving some nice press this week, so I thought I’d share. I’m so used to the speed of internet press at this point, that I am chomping at the bit with the turnaround time for print and for a project which requires more in-depth reading for journalists to cover […]
I’ve been thinking about fellow Wesleyan alum Tristan Taormino lately because she was the original catalyst for my Backstage Passes anthology. Tristan is very prolific, but one of her most recent projects is the book Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships. If you are in an open relationship or considering some […]