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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
12:16 pm	2011 & 2012 Yearly Goals Let's recap my goals for 2011: 1) Go to Rome - Did that and was there for about a week. Got some good photos and did lots of stuff. Saw all the old Roman things I wanted to see and other things I didn't know about. I think the best thing to happen from that is when I was reading a comic where the main character was in Rome, although I had read it before, this time, i recognised all the place the character was at by landmarks as I'd been there also. 2) Go to Treffen again for my 10th anniversary (and it's 20th anniversary) - I did that and did it with a vengeance. Not only did I go to WGT again, but a friend put me in touch with people there and I got my photos and writing in the 20th anniversary book that was done and got a photographer pass. I saw 20 bands and got plenty of photos, including of Chris & Cosey. 3) Use Print on Demand to make a book - I did that with my concert photos. Wrapped it up and sent it off to be published last night. It has lots of problems (I am not a graphic designer.), but this should be a good proof copy to see how it does and do some other projects including photo books of Burning Man, Unhallowed Metropolis, and maybe some RPGs I'm working on if I ever get them finished. 4) Do art for Burning Man - Didn't do this. Couldn't think of anything to do by myself, and looked around for a project to join in on but also couldn't find anything. thought about just chipping into somebodies Kickstarter BM project but that got lost in the preparation for the actual event. Maybe I'll get around to it in 2012. Goals for 2012 - 1) Work on videos/movies - Might as well get a video camera and play around with doing some video. Not sure what I'll do. If I get serious I can finish the screenplay I was working on with Anthony on our apocalyptic submarine movie parody, Das Truk. 2) Build props/costume - Steampunk seems to be in and I need a costume for next halloween, so I'm thinking about working on a Deathwatch outfit from Unhallowed Metropolis complete with lightning rifle. 3) Gothic Tea Party - This year, since my birthday is on a Friday, the idea will be to basically get people together, dressed up in my studio for a tea/absinth/dinner party, do some photo shoots, and have fun. 4) Compose a history of Oklahoma Hardcore - A possible project for that PoD books. I plan to write down my experiences as a punk rocker in the 80's and 90's in Oklahoma as well as those of others, and try to put together some history of OK's punk rock scene. This will involve tracking down a bunch of the old school OK punks (some of which live here in Seattle), getting their stories and recollection of bands and other things from 'back in the day'. I'll have to try and interview NOTA since they are the closest thing to a punk rock band from OK that 'made it' (not counting The Flaming Lips who really didn't make it as a rock band but were part of that scene). Ideally, I'd also like to collect songs from those bands and put together a CD. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
11:20 am	Tuesday in Rome Tuesday in Rome was spent with two goals: seeing the Altar of Peace and the Vatican. I jumped on the subway and came out at the Spanish Stairs which seemed the best place to start my daily wandering or Rome. From there, I walked up and down the Spanish Stair and across downtown Rome to the Altar of Peace which was right next to the Mausoleum of Augustus, but I had missed it the day before. ( Read more... ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
7:18 am	Monday in Rome Monday was my first day in Rome and I took off over the path I had travelled the previous night as it was now daytime and not raining. After seeing the Colosseum, forum, Vittorio, Trevi fountain yet again, I decided I'd probably take the subway from now on and skip that two miles of sightseeing (although I'd end up seeing them all several more times). ( Read more... ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
6:24 pm	Arrival in Rome My trip to Europe, via a near polar skirt of the darkness, managed to land me in Rome the next afternoon without ever having seen nighttime. I was awake, not wanting to really mess up my sleep schedule by napping, so after making it to my hotel and checking in, I took off towards the colosseum which was a short ways away. I found it and was met with rain and countless men selling umbrellas as tourists huddled around it for shelter. Personally, I found it much like the Seattle I had left and dismissed all sellers of umbrellas and panchos away from me. Even later when it rained even harder and I was already soaked, it was a warm rain and I only worried for my camera and iPad in my camera bag which proved to be suitable rain proof. ( Read more... ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 20th, 2011
9:25 am	Back till Burning Man Ok, I have been to Canada for Kinetik Festival and then off to Europe for Rome, Wave-Gothic-Treffen, and then a visit with my cousin and his family in Western Germany. I am now back. I took lots of photos and should be doing a write up soon. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 13th, 2011
11:08 am	New Photos A couple of months ago, I was at the Noc Noc with friends and doing some people watching. One woman stood out in her 1950's style outfit and I'm not above approaching an unknown woman as a photographer. She was dancing, so I just left one of my cards on her table. She called did call and after talking and meeting up IRL, arranged a photo shoot. Of course, I had to include guns, and also did some shots for the RPG I am writing, Flying Saucers of the SS, which is about 50's b-style sci-fi flics. Here are some of the photos: ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
9:26 am	Magazine Fetish I've always had a bit of a magazine fetish, and have just spent the morning re-organizing my collection. I like to read and collect them, especially those dealing with particular subcultures. It's almost sad to go through all the old magazines and remember all the good magazines that were out there once but no longer. It's like looking at clubs that have come and gone though out your life. I'm upset that I left all my original Mondo 2000 and Boing Boing (before the web, it was a magazine) magazines back in OK when I moved. Thankfully, I did bring my Propagandas, Industrial Nations and Permissions up to Seattle. I also still have the originals of my punk rock 'zine, Dachau, but have possibly lost to copies of Doublethink, the arts and entertainment magazine, to one of the other persons I worked on it with. I still have copies of Voltage which was the magazine we made once in Seattle. I also have random bits of all sorts of magazines I have found through the years: Dark Angel, Paranoia, mk Ultra, Meltdown, Vial (still printing I think), Sandmutopia Guardian, and a dozen random issues of magazines that happened to have interviews with Genesis P'Orridge or Coil. I've made a habit of searching eBay for missing issues almost every day (although more out of boredom than any real obsession). Things are changing now however. Print, especially for what I like is even harder to find. There are no more magazine stands on Capitol Hill. There doesn't seem to be any magazines to buy there even if there was. I'm not sure if things are getting worse though. POD is getting fairly big and while looking around I have run across several magazines that sell such (although usually at high prices). I've even contributed to one called Graceless. Then there are the PDF downloads. I've found a selection of magazines that are such. It looks like I may be getting an iPad just to read them as doing so on a laptop is unsatisfying. Their seems to be plenty of life out there but it is changing. The one thing that I really wonder about and that maybe somebody out there with some library skills can enlighten me on, is 'how are they handling citations if everything moves to the web and digital?' Webpages change and often do. News websites change stories and re-edit articles without to much thought or notice. They get moved, taken down, etc. How do we reference such information especially since serious research requires such? What will the Oxford English Dictionary do once there are no more dead tree books to show as examples of a new word? Can a PDF be treated as a book? Will there be a standard that professional websites will have to adhere to be allowed as a reference? This topic really does bug me. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
12:41 pm	Future of the Internet So, all of you out there on the old blogging software of years past, what's the future of the internet? I mean for actual content. First it was mailing lists. Then forums. Blogging such as LJ got big. Then social networking sites. Facebook is great for some things, but not actual content and coherent thoughts and stories like LJ. Where to go for such things? Seems RSS is up there and just collect all your desired blogs and such into one feed. Is that what everybody else is doing these days? (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
9:37 pm	Things I Look for About Every Day on eBay 1. Propaganda Magazines: Issues 1-4 and 7-9. I'm a 'zine whore and looking to collect and complete the series. These are all 80's issues and probably really hard to come by, but if you have any of these and feel like getting rid of them, let me know. 2. Industrial Nation Magazines: Issues 1-5. 3. Fluevog Angels Boots: men's size 8. I keep hearing good things about these boots only so I decided to get a pair, only to discover they stopped making them. Something around the 10+ eye range. 4. Current issues of Gothic Beauty: haven't bought any yet, but seriously, is there anywhere in town to buy them off the rack? I haven't seen a copy at B&N in a year or two. 5. CDs: With no more MusicWerks, my desire for new and old music is finally catching up to me. The regular music stores have next to nothing I want. The only online store I've found to be decent is Infrarot and I got tired of navigating the German and figuring out their new pay scheme. Where can I go to get some CDs? 6. Books: So far, eBay has been much better to me than Powell's. (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
7:36 pm	Getting Hit in the Head with a 2x4 I distinctly remember Spock Mountain Research Labs at Burning Man one year which is made up like a hillbilly shack and you spun a game wheel, got hit in the head with a 2x4 and then they gave you some "hyperwhisky" which was half bad whiskey and half hot sauce. It was burn night and several people and myself had gone back to that camp to find them closed. We searched around and found the 2x4 and figured out we could sqeeze through the window of their camp and pour ourselves some more "hyperwhisky" out of their container into used cups we found littering the playa, and then sat around hitting each other in the head with a 2x4 and drinking "hyperwhisky", each time thinking "Why did I do that again?". That is how I feel right now (well, a few minutes ago actually), standing around in my kitchen cooking dinner, and doing pulls off of the bottle of "Rhum Barbancourt" that I bought earlier tonight. I was actually looking for a bottle of "1 Barrel" rum from Belize (which my favorite bartender from Sun Liquor has turned me on to) but instead bought the Rhum Barbancourt as they had none of the former. I had never tried it, it was on the top shelf, and they have an older version that I've never bothered to pay for. However, I have found it to be bitter with a strange aftertaste. Simple additions of lime juice and bitters do not make it palatable. Thus, I have resorted to standing around pulling off the bottle, and when I do, each time, it reminds me of the above experience, expect without the fun or camaraderie that made it a remarkable experience. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 11th, 2011
7:44 am	Did you go to WGT back in the day? While working on Graceless magazine, I have been put in touch with some people doing a book on the last 20 years of Wave-Gothic-Treffen. They are looking for people's stories, pictures, and memories to compile and would love to hear from some Americans that went. They'd especially like to hear from anybody who was there in the chaos of 2000. Below is the call for submissions: 20 years of Wave-Gotik-Treffen Plöttner Verlag and the "Schillerndes Dunkel" team invite you to join us in celebrating the 20th Wave-Gotik-Treffen and toasting to twenty more years of the annual dark invasion of our favorite city. We will be publishing a written and visual account of the last two decades of WGT in a limited edition book. We're looking for your memories, observations, confessions, and commentaries about WGT: your first time, your seventh time, your last time, your twentieth time(?!). What was your strangest experience? Your most cherished memory? Who did you meet? What brings you back year after year? We can accept texts up to 1000 words each written in either German or English, preferably in Rich Text Fomat (RTF) - shorter texts are of course also welcome. Our aim is to present each piece in both both languages. However, don't feel limited to text. We're open to whatever 2-D form you want to present your memories in: a handwritten journal entry, a photo collage, a drawing...surprise us! We're also looking for photos made in and around Leipzig during WGT, old tickets, wristbands, and programs as well as newspaper and magazine articles about WGT. Digital photos should be submitted in a minimum of 150DPI TIFF or JPG format. When sending photos, please include a description of each photo: i.e. year taken, general location, venue, band, etc. Scans should be made and submitted at a minimum of 300 DPI. If you don't have access to a high resolution scanner, you can mail your submissions to us and we will scan them and return them to you (please include a self addressed envelope). Please contact us through email at info@schillerndesdunkel.de with any questions or for further information about digital transfers. Digital Deadline March 25, 2011 (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
8:58 pm	WGT2004 I also went to WGT in 2004 I saw Coil again... ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
8:50 pm	WGT 2001 Getting ready for WGT2011 and posting old photos from 2001. A German girl standing out side the Hauptbanhof passing out fliers for X-TRA-X, the German version of Hot Topic. ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
7:35 am	Emilie Autumn Over the weekend, I went with cupcake_goth to see Emilie Autumn. We bought VIP tickets so we showed up early, got some tea, listened to her talk and play the violin a bit, and then got in the front rows before the rest of the crowd got inside. We were upstairs in the bar which was also less crowded the audience seemed to be fairly young. (And I must be getting old as I was thinking to myself, do their parents know they're out dressed like that?) Musically, it was a bit like cabaret/circus music and I'd put it with shows like Amanda Palmer or Circus Contraption for a rough fit. Theatrically, it was burlesque for girls. Women in pretty underwear singing and doing skits while kissing other girls without any of the interruption or bother of having to take off clothes. I enjoyed it all very much. ( Read more... ) (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
12:34 pm	Titanium Sparkestra Saturday there was the fundraiser to send Titanium Sporkestra off to Honk!TX to hopefully win "best marching band" again as they did at Burning Man last year. Along with their Kickstarter fundraiser, they achieved their goals and will be going. Backing them here was the Black Rock City Hardware shooting sparks off over them and into the crowd (well, that was the intention anyway). Here are the rest of the pictures. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
6:19 pm	End of 619 So, as most people probably know, 619 Western where my photo studio is shall be closed down due to the tunnel in the next year. Everybody in there is getting kicked out as they'll either have to tear down the building or rebuild it to the state that artists won't be able to inhabit any more. So, it's probably time to start doing photo shoots there. Time to climb out on the fire escape (well, maybe not quite yet), invade the stairwells, and explore the building for places to shoot. So, this is the LJ announcement that I'm looking for models. Neo-Vic style shoots for UnMet would be prefered but I'll do other studio ideas also.* Nothing this week but anytime after that. * I still have a wonderful idea for Alice's Adventures Beyond the Grave I need to work on. (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 20th, 2010
11:47 am	What Event Should I Attend in 2011? It's almost 2011 and time to pick new goals for the year. I was wondering what I should do that I've never done before. There are several choices: -Edwardian Ball - Dance and live acts based on Edward Gorey in SF or LA. -Wasteland Weekend - Think Road Warrior re-enactment. -Goth Cruise - It's goth. It's a cruise. -Triton Festival - Another music festival on the East Coast -Other Besides that I plan to go to Rome and Wave Gothic Treffen this year as well as Burning Man and some other events I have already done. Photo ops are a consideration. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 13th, 2010
10:33 am	Doing a Gothic/Industrial Blog I've started a Gothic/Industrial blog, kascadia. Something to post short little bits of what I find on the internet. I went looking for such a thing and even asked around, but there didn't seem to be one out there. Thus, it was decided to start my own. Please go there and join the community and help me work out the bugs. Requests or suggestions for topics, offers to help post, and other communication can go the kascadia@gmail account. I was thinking about doing both gothic and industrial blogs, but that seemed too much work. Also, too many things are cross genre these days. Most of the magazines, online and dead tree cover similar topics and bands. Over the years, the entire gothic and industrial genres have sort of merged together and become one. There are those that identify with one or the other, and I'm not saying those genres no longer exist by themselves, but in general they overlap a greatly when dealing with current interests. It's mainly to keep me amused. I get to browse the internet and research for interesting things to post. Eventually, I also hope to actual generate content also. I've always had a things for doing 'zines and this seems to be the current equivalent. It's been depressing looking at all the goth sites lately and realizing that 90% of their links are cybersquatted or haven't been updated in five years. Much like how I look back through all my old magazines and remember fine titles that only put out a few issues before folding. Hopefully, I'll keep it up for long enough to do something with it (and check my pages for broken links). Another reason I'm doing this is to work through current internet technologies. Right now it's just a LiveJournal community. Soon I plan to start building links pages and other things on an actual website. Then I'll need to come up with some form of content management followed by posting it to or at least connecting all together with the relevant technologies such as LJ, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
5:39 pm	Goth Rummage Sale Sunday Stolen from alexiarnps: SeaGoth Swap Meet December 5th, 2010 4228 Stone Way N Noon to 5pm NOTE: Currently the space has no signage. Set up begins at 9am. There will be ample space for any one who wants to sell to have a card or folding table and a garment rack. This is 1021 square feet of hardwood with a full bathroom, kitchen and room for people to try on items (there will also be a full length mirror). Coffee/tea and cookies will be provided. Sellers will be responsible for their own "purse" (there isn't anywhere close to change cash, so bring plenty), but there is a secure computer onsite to accept PayPal payments. We have several people already committed to selling, including Jillian, Lisa (icprncs), Mila, Diana (Vick) and Jen (theda), Marc17, MissKittyT & Navi Cat. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
11:27 am	Artwalk! No Starfish Artwalk tonight. Everybody except for me is doing something else or out of town. I will be showing up to drink some sake at Sake Nomi, pay rent, and maybe look around at our neighbors art tonight. If you're in the area and that sounds like fun you can feel free to text me. Most everybody should be in attendance in Jan for Donald's tribute. On the other front, we are increasingly looking at a new space. Ideally on Capitol Hill. Some looking at commercial space on Capitol Hill and surrounding areas has us hopeful that something should be out there. (4 Comments |Comment on this)