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 […]
So I just posted my first ever Kickstarter project. As I’m sure Blue Blood readers know, Forrest Black and I have been photographically documenting the deathrock scene for over a decade. We would love to do a coffee table book of some of our favorite images from this series. You can see all the info […]
Well, it is May 22, 2011 now, so it appears the zombie apocalypse I was counting on has failed to materialize. I’m going to have to get some work done and do laundry after all. Glad I didn’t do anything too embarrassing at that end of the world party. I love California and California could […]
It has been a really really really good news week. First of all, the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, or DADT, was repealed. For those of you who have been living in a cave, because you hate our way of life, DADT was a Clinton-era piece of legislation. DADT was designed to make it […]
As America gets ready to vote tomorrow, among the many ballot measures, one of the most bafflingly controversial referendums is California’s Prop 19. Proposition 19 would make marijuana legal and taxed in the state of California. Of course, the Federal government will still be of the opinion that it is illegal. This states’ rights versus […]
We’re excited to help our good fiends at Release the Bats celebrate birthday number twelve! Forrest Black and I will be on hand to have fun. We’ll be photographing a select few folks who really show off the Release the Bats deathrock vibe. If you are in California, come on out of your graves for […]
So there is a big brouhaha in Porn Valley right now because a performer has tested positive for HIV. It may or may not be someone with the nom de porn of Cameron Reid. If so, Cameron Reid has a girlfriend who was also a pornstar and he performed in both gay and straight fuck […]
I am registered to vote and I have a drivers license, but I have not received a census form in the mail. Instead, a man buzzed my security system yesterday, gave me his name, said he was from the census, and asked to enter my home. I hung up. So he buzzed again repeatedly. Eventually, […]
Mark Frauenfelder at Boing Boing reports that Humboldt County farmers are sporting bumper stickers saying: Keep Pot Illegal For the non-Californians amongst you, Humboldt County is an area in California which is sufficiently north of San Francisco that it might as well be hippie Oregon. And the November ballot here in California is going to […]