Blue Blood’s Gothic Sluts writes:

This retro series of Dana Dark was on the roof of the space I was shooting at the time. Even though it is sunset, you can just barely make out the Hollywood sign in the background in some of the images. Bizarrely enough, someone had abandoned the comfy couch and the oddly coordinated stuffed leopard up there. We just had to incorporate them in our shoot. I miss Dana and wish she could be in Los Angeles all the time.

Blue Blood’s Gothic Sluts writes:

Dana Dark is beautiful in this set Forrest Black and I shot of her in genuine vintage 40’s clothing on a vintage church pew.

Blue Blood’s Gothic Sluts writes:

Here is a flashback shoot Forrest Black and I did with Dana Dark. The shoot was for a big magazine fashion editorial, so we had to wait for the print publication to come out, before making the extended remix available to our beloved VIP site members. You always get to see the whole series, not just the images which ran in magazines. Anyway, by the time the magazine came out, we’d had some storage media issues. Happily, we’ve been able to recover many of the images more recently, plus we’ve improved our ability to scan images shot on film. So expect to see a few more peeks of lovely Dana Dark and more.

Blue Blood’s Gothic Sluts writes:

Here is a flashback shoot Forrest Black and I did with Dana Dark. The shoot was for a big magazine fashion editorial, so we had to wait for the print publication to come out, before making the extended remix available to our beloved VIP site members. You always get to see the whole series, not just the images which ran in magazines. Anyway, by the time the magazine came out, we’d had some storage media issues. Happily, we’ve been able to recover many of the images more recently, plus we’ve improved our ability to scan images shot on film. So expect to see a few more peeks of lovely Dana Dark and more.
–Amelia G

Blue Blood writes:

Senior Blue Blood writer Will Judy calls Forrest Black’s shotgun “the luckiest shotgun in the world”. What can I say about beautiful Dana Dark that I haven’t said before? Well, she looks beautiful in this gasmask and shotgun set Forrest Black and I shot of her.
–Amelia G

Amelia G writes:

Blasphemy Day is a new internet-spawned holiday like Talk Like a Pirate Day or CAPS LOCK DAY. I’m not surprised that more people added typing like a pirate to their holiday calendars than typing in all capital letters, but I would have thought more people would have gotten into Blasphemy Day.

Blasphemy Day is set for September 30, as a tip of the hat to the riots caused when a Danish newspaper ran a cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. According to the anonymously-run Blasphemy Day web site, “International Blasphemy Day is not just a day. It is a movement to dismantle the wall which exists between religion and criticism . . . The objective of International Blasphemy Day is to open up all religious beliefs to the same level of free inquiry, discussion and criticism to which all other areas of academic interest are subjected.” Noble aspiration, although I’m not sure a mean-spirited cartoon really advances human knowledge. Slaying sacred cows can be humorous (Heck, even the existence of the idiomatic expression sacred cow is pretty funny), but I have yet to hear anyone explain what the joke was in the Danish Muhammad cartoon, except maybe that it would piss people off.

I used to feel like each person’s individual relationship with their deity or deities or lack thereof was . . . well, personal. I am a fan of analysis and critical thinking, but I pretty much don’t discuss religion. I lived in Israel as a teenager and all major religions go there for debate. Or it being the cradle of three of the major modern religions. Or something like that. While living there, someone I knew complained to me about an agnostic debating him on his Christianity. He said he felt it was wrong for someone undecided to try to convince him that his religion was predicated on something he couldn’t be sure of because, if the undecided agnostic won the debate, they would have stolen his faith. His position was that his faith was valuable to him and being undecided meant nothing to the agnostic. I just did a quick Bing on the person who said that and he apparently is still losing and rediscovering his faith on a regular basis, so maybe he was actually the agnostic. Whether or not the person, who made the point on the value of faith for the believer, was an idiot probably doesn’t make the point invalid.

But then I lived in Georgia. And that totally changed my views on religious tolerance. I experienced countless people who considered themselves religious use their status as a person of faith to behave in incredibly bigoted ways towards those around them. Including me. I literally had door-to-door religion salesmen defecate on my porch. I had bakers ask me if I drank baby’s blood when I was trying to buy a bagel. (No, I eat bagels. Duh.) I had come across bigots before, but I’d never seen this level of intolerant, assumption-making, busy-body, beating-down of anybody different. I had a pretty normal punk reaction to Southern oppression in that it made me want to jump up and down on the tables, yell, and rebel. Blasphemy became utterly hilarious to me.

While kind of doing the couch tour in between Atlanta and Los Angeles, Forrest Black registered the domain BarelyEvil.com. (Do not click that link if you are at work, unless your office is totally cool with viewing naked blasphemers while on the clock.) He was amused by the idea of satanic teens and I’m a big fan of putting a site on a domain, once it is registered, so Forrest Black built Blue Blood’s Barely Evil, and we did kind of a lot of shoots involving crosses, fetish nuns, and devil girls. They were fun and creative. BarelyEvil takes a light-hearted approach to the subject matter. You can see a free devil girl gallery Forrest Black and I shot here and both those full series, in all their glory, are available in the Blue Blood VIP members area. We’ve shot a lot of different styles of devilgirls, but we did this style first with Dana Dark and later of Szandora, Scar 13, Masuimi Max, Lori the Gory, and Nina Sin, among others.

So, is blasphemy funny or mean, uncalled-for or needed, or some gray area combo of the above? Is slaughtering sacred cows a good thing or is the very expression “slaughtering sacred cows” hate speech? Are you ready to celebrate Blasphemy Day?

Blue Blood writes:

Halloween Celebration Tips Interview with Dana Dark
by Amelia G : October 31st, 2008

Dana Dark is one of Blue Blood’s online OGs. It was after staying at her beautifully-appointed home in Houston for a week that Blue Blood launched its first membership site. Dana creates beauty and warmth in every little nook and cranny of her home. Like, if there is some tiny square of wall in the bathroom, she will think of the perfect antique frame or something like that to dress it up. There are now twenty-seven photo sets featuring Dana Dark in the Blue Blood VIP area.

I’ve spent more than one holiday with Dana and there is seriously nobody who does up holiday cheer better than she does. She really gets into the festive spirit, she is fabulous at decorating, she cooks, and she is starting her own clothing line. When my guy friends look at photos of Dana, she is always the girl they fantasize about marrying…

SpookyBlog writes:

Whether you’re a closet costume designer or you just love incredibly hot goth chicks, you’ll appreciate the gorgeous pink number on Dana Dark, with its pink garters leading down to her black stockings… and all the way to heaven. If that doesn’t do it for you, then her Bettie Page bangs, adorable pigtails, septum piercing, bright aquamarine eyes and eminently kissable lips will, fer realz.