Azrael Arden was already one of my favorite altmodels on the planet, before doing this interview. I love her ever-changing creative styles, her cute expressions, the way she poses, and the enormous pussy cat tattoo over her pussy.

But it is even better to find out that someone is extra terrific after finding out more about her. I have used Special Effects on my hair before, but I just heard of 50 volume peroxide for the first time from Azrael Arden. She also got her altporn model start in a more adventurous way than most. I look forward to seeing what kind of fashion design this talented girl does in the future.

Check out APN’s exclusive interview with Azrael Arden and find out everything you need to know about kitties who can knock you out, CraigsList adventures, where you can see her naked, and what she surprise costume she is going to wear for Halloween.



How did you get started modeling?

The first site i was ever on was in 2004 and it was called K.O kitties.com it was a wrestling/scratch fight site. We came up with the name Azrael and it basically stuck…forever. aha. I then answered a craigslist add…yes craigslist! I don’t advise anyone to do that, as it is very dangerous. Well i got lucky and met up with two guys from hoboken and we started azraelarden.com. I then became really busy with finishing school and decided I couldn’t keep up with the content updates. Then in 2007 I joined burningangel.com, because shooting for a site with 200 something girls is way less time consuming than having your own site. I met so many awesome chicks and got to do so many things through them..its just a great company to work for.

Do you have any fashion or hair tips for how other models might try to vary their style as impressively as you do? What sorts of things lead you to learn how to mix up your style so often and so well? I especially want to know how you got that great shade of blue!

Well every year as I get older I am changing my style. Each year I am being inspired by diff types of people or diff trends in fashion. I try to stay in style and follow the rules of fashion while being my own person at the same time. I actually am a fashion designer shh! ..anyone who wants blue hair.. You have to strip your hair to a light yellow or white. You must do this or it will look muddy! Use a bleach packet w/ a 40 or 50 developer. Then use a dye called special effects..they come in all kinds of awesome colors and they stay! I used fishbowl for my turquoise hair.

Who are some of your favorite photographers?

There are so many good ones…I once did some really pretty pictures with michelle star, Hiam bargig is fantastic of course, bob coulter dont even need to mention he is fabulous we all know that…the lovely brenda has taken some great photos of me and other burning angel broads, Chris jaime Took the infamous whisky n me .foot in pussy photos…o and destro damus takes the best ass photos ever. my ass looked like a fuckin peach.

Who are some of your favorite fellow models?

I am known to be friends with a few burning angel models! so I am partial to them of course! I’d say my burning angel friends make an all star team! Mayhem, Morgan mae, Draven, Jessie Lee, Joanna, Whisky, Bella Vendetta…and my girl crush..who i hope to shoot with soon…*wink wink nudge nudge* Miss Genocide.

Where has your work been featured? Altporn sites, magazines, videos, books, clothing catalogs, or anything like that? Where can fans find you?

*takes a deep breath* ook… sites- Burntfilm.com, Burningangel.com, Crazybabe.com, Nakedhappygirls.com, bombshellbrats.com, drivenbyboredom.com..check out backseatconceptions.com i have done some really fun stuff for them..I pop up in random tattoo magazines, i think i was in bizarre once..and some playboy related stuff…I’m in the burningangel book..I kinda lost track..but if you google my name some interesting shit should pop up. lol

Why don’t you use your full name Azrael Arden on all the sites you are on?

I think I do they just show me as Azrael sometimes. Im all over the place I lose track of stuff im on I’m terrible lol

What are some of your favorite sites/publications?

between you me, and the rest of altporn.net…I love free porn sites. lol. Sorry! I also really love random peoples fashion blogs..and lolcats. aha

Any appearances we should be keeping an eye out for or projects you are hoping to work on or anything of that nature? What is next for Azrael Arden?

Keep looking at burning angel…there is some sweet content to be put up! I also Randomly do youtube video blogs..I need to make new ones i delted my old ones because I looked awkward.

Do you know what you are going to be for Halloween yet?

yes.. I am going to be a sexy woodland elf. Don’t judge me. I’ve been a god damn cat for 5 years..trying to break the mold.

Be sure to stop by Azrael Arden’s APN profile and say hello.

Draven is still one of my favorite girls on Burning Angel. In this update, she has that neon pink nail polish which just pops off the screen with the colors in this photo set. She is so adorable. I think photographer Destro Damus is credited on all my favorite Draven sets, so he might be my favorite photographer who shoots for Burning Angel. A lot of favorite things going on here. Fuck Me in the Bathroom also just posted an interview with Destro Damus which I’m planning on watching soon. I’ll tell you all about it.

Everyone knows Amelia G runs the Blue Blood empire and also does some of the photography and writing for it. Here on APN, we’ve featured photographs she has shot for Blue Blood many times and we’ve mentioned her writing once or twice. (You can also see the interview we did with Amelia G five years ago — Ed.) I write for APN and I have all the old Blue Blood print magazines from the 90’s in plastic bags with cardboard backing, so I thought I was pretty aware and I still found a lot on Amelia G’s new AmeliaG.com site to both inform and entertain me. In addition to running the business end of Blue Blood and working as an editor for many projects, Amelia G has had hundreds of photo sets published and thousands of articles. Amelia G has done writing and/or photography for all the major adult publishing houses including Playboy, Penthouse, Flynt, Crescent, Magna, and AVN, plus niche magazines including Marquis, On Our Backs, Skin Two, Tattoo Teasers, Fetish, Extreme Fetish, $pread, and of course Blue Blood. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Erotica, Best S/M Erotica, and Best Women’s Erotica and dozens more books. But she still took time out of her busy schedule to give APN this exclusive interview.

APN: Blue Blood magazine in print was really ground zero for jump-starting the whole altporn genre and you’ve managed to maintain a top ranking for Blue Blood for more than sixteen years. To what do you credit your remarkable success and longevity?

AG: Thanks. I always hope the universe will smile on me for hard work and doing the right thing, and sometimes it does. A big advantage Blue Blood had in coming to the web is that the magazine was always subscription-driven and we had free sites for the community for years before we launched our first membership site. We actually had paid members before we had even actually launched the first pay site because we tested out a banner rotation for a few minutes and people saw it. I really appreciate the support we’ve gotten over the years and try to really put a lot back into the scene and into having really great creative work on all my sites.

APN: Okay, so, in your bio on your new personal site, your thesis subject really jumped out at me. You wrote your thesis at Wesleyan University on vampire legends as a paradigm for aggressive human sexuality?

AG: I sure did. Kind of funny that it seemed sort of shocking, and outrageous, and possibly frivolous to be writing about that sort of topic, at a school like that, but it actually did turn out to be relevant to my job. The name Blue Blood is sort of a play on words with the blood for vampires and gothic spookyness and the blue meaning erotic as in blue movies, but the blue blood phrase overall connoting a certain tastefulness and strength. Especially in 1992, when I founded Blue Blood, it was very common for alt-identified people to feel like they had to accept second class citizen status. So the strength aspect is really important to the core manifesto for me. The most important message I would like readers or members to get from Blue Blood is that purple hair or tattoos or having kinky sex or otherwise living flamboyantly does not mean you are not entitled to the rewards of the larger society.

APN: Didn’t the magazine have some bloodplay in it as well?

AG: The very first issue of Blue Blood, my friend Fish wrote a how-to article for safe bloodplay. Fish is a tattoo artist now and he was a military medic then, so he’s educated on the subject, but we got so many angry letters about that article. Blue Blood magazine even showed condoms in shoots and the article was about how to do bloodplay safely, so I’m very safety conscious, but some people just do not understand that it is not the extremity of a sexual practice which makes it unsafe. Unfortunately, in the internet distribution channel, we’ve been forced to move away from anything with blood in it.

APN: How does publishing on the internet instead of in print change whether you can have bloodplay?

AG: A lot of people get all caught up with definitions of genre based on what is and is not shown, but what can be shown in media is very dependent on distribution channel. For example, it did not used to be possible to show penetration in a magazine and be distributed on any newsstands outside of adult bookstores. Online, penetration makes no difference in where something can be seen. By contrast, if a web site accepts credit cards for memberships, they are likely to run into difficulties having any blood content. We’ve had to remove photo sets which showed only topless nudity where the girl was playing with blood made of vanilla-flavored corn syrup and food coloring because it was deemed extreme violence. If you watch Skinemax or cable channels like that, you can’t see penetration, but every other flick is a horror-themed excuse to douse topless women with fake blood. So it is not really that some distribution channels allow more and some allow less; they are just different.

APN: So is publishing on the internet harder or easier than in print?

AG: I love magazines. I still contribute to print projects and still create print projects. I love getting to hold a finished magazine in my hand. But the wonderful thing about the internet is that it is possible to go directly to the people who get it, without having to go through some distributor who hasn’t cracked an adult magazine in twenty years and thinks having tattoos is something that only teenagers would do. Despite a few restrictions on things like bloodplay, I find the internet easier from a distro standpoint. I think it is harder from a community standpoint. Back in the all print days, there used to be a lot of events where publishers would get together and we all traded quarter page ads with each and that is less the case for web publishers in this demographic.

APN: How do you feel about how altporn has evolved?

AG: Well, for one thing, I prefer the expression counterculture erotica to altporn, but I think altporn has definitely become the term for subculture-infused erotic media. In some respects, things are much easier today because being offbeat and being naked on camera have both been really destigmatized most places. In some respects, things being easier means that there are a small percentage of people who decide they want to make altporn who don’t really have the sense of community or individuality which would once have definitely been there. Most people in it are cool, but it has become more difficult to recognize who I have things in common with now, because, for example, there are people who just dress a certain way to be accepted and they don’t really care about personal freedom or get what it is all about.

APN: Your personal pics section on AmeliaG.com is really funny and I spotted so many famous people with you in there. Is your life basically a twenty-four hour party where you go from Hummer limo to book reading to art show to nightclub to fab afterparty?

AG: When I actually do take a moment to go out on the town, I like to make it count. I’m really a workaholic, but I think a gallery of like fifteen shots of me holding a camera and seventy of me sitting at a computer would have been less entertaining than eighty-five of me having fun.

APN: My favorite part of your new AmeliaG.com site is the professional photography portfolio you have on there. I love that you have members of the Misfits, Genitorturers, and Marilyn Manson in there with altstars like Voltaire, Bella Vendetta, and my future wife April Flores and it somehow seems all of a piece. How do you choose who you are going to shoot?

AG: As an artist, it is really important to me that my work be seen, so I like to have an idea of where a shoot might be published. A few hundred people a week apply to appear on the various Blue Blood sites, including BlueBlood.com, BarelyEvil.com, GothicSluts.com, and RubberDollies.com in particular, and there is a submission form on BlueBloodPhoto.com. I, of course, publish other people’s photography even more often than my own on BlueBlood.com etc. and there are only so many hours in the day, but I do photograph select people from the Blue Blood apps. I do take commissions from publications, record labels, and such. In general, I most enjoy photographing people who have a certain spark, star quality, individuality, personal style, and passion for self-expression. Hotness is good, but there needs to be hotness with unique self-expression. After all, I think avoiding just conforming to someone else’s aesthetic is important to being alt.

APN: Thanks so much for your time. Congrats on the launch of AmeliaG.com. It looks fabulous, it is fun to look at, and it is really informative.

AG: Thank you for the interview and the kind words.

Xtra.ca “Canada’s leading source for gay and lesbian news” has some entertaining coverage of the recent fourth-annual Feminist Porn Awards, featuring video interviews with Madison Young, Jiz Lee, and NoFauxxx’s Courtney Trouble. Congratulations to Courtney for bringing home the Most Deliciously Diverse Cast award for Roulette, as well as all the talented winners who demonstrate what is great and creative and sexy in the alt world.

You can see more of Xtra’s video coverage on their YouTube channel.

If you are looking for some hot stuff to check out, here are the winners of the 2009 Feminist Porn Awards:

Movie of the Year:
Champion | Shine Louise Houston- Pink and White Productions

Indie Porn Pioneer:
Madison Young

Most Deliciously Diverse Cast:
Roulette | Courtney Trouble- Nofauxxx Productions

Sexiest Dyke Movie:
One Night Stand (Pour Une Nuit) | Emilie Jouvet – Hysterie Productions + Fatale Media

Hottest Kink Movie:
Perversions of Lesbian Lust Vol.1 | Madison Young – Madison Bound Productions

Steamiest Trans Scene:
Crash Pad Series 2- Unlocked | Shine Louise Houston – Pink and White Productions

Sexiest Straight Movie:
Intense Desires | Eli Cross – Lennox Films

Hottest Mature Couple’s Movie:
Bill and Desiree: Love is Timeless | Tony Comstock – Comstock Films

Most Sensual Softcore & Golden Beaver Award for Canadian Content:
Man of My Dreams | Mimi Balfour – Cleopatra Productions

Steamiest Educational Series:
Red Hot Touch Series | New World Sex Education

Heartthrob of the Year:
Dylan Ryan | For work in Strap-on Motel, Sex Mannequin, Crash Pad Series Volume 3, Champion, Perversions of Lesbian Lust: Volume 1 and Lesbian Life: Real Sex San Francisco.

Heartthrob of the Year:
Tyler Knight | For work in Chemistry 4 and Intense Desires

A while back we told you about the April Flores BBW pussy mold gallery show, where she and curator Carlos Batts assembled something resembling the Magnificent Eight of pop-culture artists to add their creative interpretations to the original plaster molds of April’s beautiful vagina. The molds were made by Topco as they cast the world’s first fully fuckable realistic BBW pussy sex toy directly from April’s amazing body. Well, Amelia G and Forrest Black, from Blue Blood went to the gallery show and interviewed Carlos Batts, one of the artists named Misha, and April Flores about the art and it’s inspiration. It’s nice to see cool people we know from the static internet as they are in real life. Here is the video:

Here are some photos of some my favorite pieces that were in the show:

Jim Mahfood: Gold Teeth

Misha: Our Lady of the Labia

KozynDan: Passing Tuxedo Felines on the Journey to the next Dimension

Rob Griffin from 420Girls know how to make something look like a good time. Brooke Banner usually just seems like a regular pornstar, but, in this 420Girls set, Rob Griffin captures so much personality. Brooke Banner looks totally fuckable and human on 420Girls. Not at all like the airbrushed porno girl she comes across like elsewhere. Even her tattoos look like she has more of them. I wonder if other sites she appears on airbrush her tattoos out normally. Whatever the case, 420Girls makes it look fun. I wish they updated more often, but I guess stoned people sometimes take a while to get around to things.

Lexi Belle always looks cute as a button to me, but I’ve never found her that alt, even though she has appeared in work from both BurningAngel and BlueBlood. I enjoy scenes and sets featuring her because she always seems to have a fresh energy to get into what is going on. Whether she is supposed to be being nerdy or party bad girl, she makes her sexual response come across new and not jaded. For 4/20, it seemed like today would be a good day to share these shots by Rob Griffin from 420Girls.

San Fransisco Bay Guardian’s intrepid Juliette Tang continues her journey into the altporn world, to paraphrase their description. In her endeavor to explore the world of AltPorn, she has been conducting a series of profiles and interviews, and we really enjoyed the opportunity to talk with her about our favorite genre. Her latest interview with AltPorn.net’s own Cutter Smith covers a wide range of issues and topics. Cutter did have input on a number of questions from a lot of us over here, but we do agree about his ‘veritable encyclopedia of altporn knowledge’ and we’d love to hear your feedback on the interview too.

We’d like to give credit and thanks to Athena Hollow and her GeekGirlsOnline as well at sexy and talented model/photographer Mette Th13teen, as they chose photos from our features on you two and your sites to illustrate the interview.

APN is proud that our man Cutter Smith was recently interviewed and subsequently quoted in an article in the San Fransisco Bay Guardian, titled Hipsters and the emergence of altporn, which was written by Juliette Tang. It’s an interesting article that brings up a number of issues and gets perspective from several people involved in the genre and we recommend you take a moment and check it out. It’s an entertaining and hopefully informative read. If you have any thoughts, we’d love to know, either here or there. Here is a little excerpt, from Cutter’s portion:

Blue Blood editor/writer Amelia G did an interview with their popular model Dana Dark for BlueBlood.net. There are apparently 27 sets of Dana Dark on BlueBlood now. That’s a lot of photos of one good-looking Bettie. The interview is mostly about how she decorates her house and sews. It sounds like she is as fine a homemaker as she is fine-looking. I still would have liked the interview to have had a little bit more about sex in it. I kind of remember a BarelyEvil interview from some time back where she said she’s bisexual and likes it hard, but I guess I just wanted to know more details now. Still looks sexy with a pumpkin.