




http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9352550
A story told in glints, patinas and sea-spray, committed to a square of paper and a fading recollection. Leave this in a trunk in the attic, for your grandchildren to find.
A unique, hand-made necklace. A portrait of a tall ship amidst a clutch of chains, pearls, and tiny keys. Each component has been carefully treated and antiqued, and assembled in a graceful, yet sturdy drape. The “glass” on the ship is waterproof, yet ancient-looking, with slight oxidization around the edges.
This is a necklace that will last you a long time, barring any misadventure involving flames or industrial solvents. But really, aren’t those the best kind of misadventures?
Chain is 15″ long and fastens in front for easy handling.
Bigger photos available at Etsy.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7805214
These are immensely comfortable, supportive and tough. But they just don’t fit. They’re listed as a size US8 (women’s), but fit more like a 7.5 or 7.
The color is an odd, sueded charcoal black with black rubber sole. There is an alert symbol on the outer edge of both toecaps, a sliding webbing strap across the foot, and molded inner arch supports. These are serious business, built for hiking or asskicking!
These are high-end shoes, and retail for $85 online. This pair has only been worn about three times.
RECAP!
Size: Listed 8, actually 7.5 or 7
Color: Blacks
Materials: Leather, Man-Made
http://keenfootwear.com/product_detail.aspx?sku=5320

From vebelfetzer.
Photographer: Robert Brown
Model: Richard Hartnell
Post-Process and Concept: Eliza Gauger
From vebelfetzer.
Models: Wendy and Malia
Photographer: Robert Brown
Post-processing: Me! I am a Photoshop god!
From vebelfetzer.

I spent Saturday night knee-deep in lace and gore, screaming orders to a slew of photographers in goggles and bowlers, dabbing flour and dirt on zombies, whores, and aristocrats.
The UnMet party was a huge success.
This is a Mourner, a character class that describes a professional woman who is hired by grieving families to attend the bedsides of the recently deceased. There she stays for three days, veiled and silent, watching for signs of reanimation. At the vaguest twitch or slightest groan, she decapitates the beast with her kukri. Mourners lead lives of dignified chastity, absolutely devoted to the art of stillness and observation.
Model: Nicole Vega

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- Unhallowed Metropolis Photoshoot Party -
- 1/20 6pm until dawn @ Jason Soles’ loft -
- snacks, photos, scintillating intellect -
- http://www.newdarkage.net -
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If playing dress-up, getting your picture taken, and eating schneckens in a vintage warehouse loft sounds like a badass Saturday night, we have you covered.
By now I’ve sent most of you invitations to the photoshoot/party happening this weekend at Jason Soles’ place. I have no organized mailing list, so if anyone wants to come and didn’t get invited, let me know.
I know we have Rit and his crew rolling from Bellingham, as well as S4n and his crew, so other Hamlets who require wheels would do well to hook up with the caravans.
WHY ARE WE DOING THIS TO YOU: We’re taking photos to turn into illustrations for the book, which is an RPG set in a steampunk future London that is infested with zombies, vampires, cheap whores, inbred aristocrats and the unsavory lower class. I’ll grab the photos and manip them a bit so they look aged, then they go in the book and you all become famous RPG models. Just like…uh…
WHAT TO BRING: We need all the props, costumes and doodads you can spare. The theme is Victorian, mostly, but feel free to augment with rococo, 1700’s, and Edwardian.
Try to keep cyber and fetish influence to a minimum, this isn’t the World of Dorkness. Bring any hats, monstrous prosthetics, fake blood, fangs, monocles, wigs, feathers, jewelry, boots, scarves, bones and skulls, makeup, ribbons, parasols, corsets, oldschool spectacles and whatnot that you can. BRING EVERYTHING.
We also need technological flourishes: gearwheels, goggles, medical items, that sort of thing.
Any outfits you can put together that we are allowed to make completely filthy will make us very happy. Futurelondon is even sootier and more decrepit than it was in the 1800’s, and photoshopped filth just doesn’t have the same oomph.
Here’s the website for the book: http://www.newdarkage.net
And the photos from the last UnMet party, which was not officially a photoshoot but should have been: http://www.kascadia.org/unhallowed2/index.html
Also, woo, I get to see you if you show up. Which happens maybe once a year (because I’m a bad friend, you all live like 500 miles away, I’m busy, you’re busy, and I’m sorry).
Frankly I’m not sure what the ratio of party:photoshoot will be, but there WILL be food and tea and music and drink and dressing up and hanging out. Maybe even punch and pie. People who feel like bringing food or drink are encouraged to do so and will be thanked vehemently.
Marc17 and I are manning the official cameras, there will be other photographers present, and I’m under the impression that there are several people doing makeup and hair, including ME! If you can do your own, neato. If you’re not persnickety about having me do it (or add to/change it), even neatoer. If you can DO makeup and hair, rad.
And after the photoshoot there will be a dance-off. The loser will have to pose for the “about the author” shot in the back of the book. NUDE.
http://www.flipfloperotic.blogspot.com/
You people disgust me.