***** !!!UPDATE!!!*******
Thanks for the Premium Account and the points!! Time to give the points to hook someone up since someone hooked me up. Karma is good. So is magic. That still leaves me points to help with donation pools and stuff! Woot!


Enjoy your additional months sweetie!!!

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Trade me for a llama. I give away a lot of llama's. Far more than I have received. I would also enjoy more llama's. Just saying...

Soooooo gonna be appearing at Phoenix Comic Con May 23rd to May 26th with five exclusive prints featuring Angelica and Lindsay from the cosplay group XX. Two will never be online cuz they involve a bit of nudity. So if you are going to Phoenix Comic Con look for me at the Pop Culture Paradise booth and buy a print! Pics come from this series:



Some more artists I admire!! Go give them some love:

is an artist in Spain who does killer stencil art. He did one piece based on one of my photos I think is fucking kick ass! Fuck yeah!



is a local artist here that I did some work with in Cali last year. He loves Masters of the Universe and Conan and does a lot of paintings that are about childhood nostalgia that I like most:



Please support these great artists!!

Speaking of which...

Sets to Download! Help support art! Thanks to everyone who has purchased these so far! It doesn't inform us as to who purchases stuff so I can't thank you individually, so thanks in advance! Drop me a line for requests!!!

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Here's some more artists I enjoy on this site!

At some point RayPelesko will draw one of my photos!!! Excited!! His attention to detail and how he captures expressions is fantastic!

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My friend Jim Hanna is a local comic book artist and I usually run into him at conventions. He has a new graphic novel coming out through Arcana!

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Mr. Hesterman doesn't use this site as much as he should. He's a cool local photog we hang out with a lot. Good people, exceptional photos!

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Jim also shot me as a zombie!! Good times!:



And just cuz she one of my fave people, here be Magic Alex. She rocks! And also needs to be more active on this site! RAWR!

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So there are others I want to promote in future posts! I will do this more often as I love supporting this site and those who have supported me! As always, I will trade you a llama for a point! Also, I use points I receive in donations to give them to others (or get myself a new premium account though lately I generally give them away too fast to accrue enough to give away premium accounts for myself or anyone). Please support these great artists!!

Speaking of which...

Sets to Download! Help support art! Thanks to everyone who has purchased these so far! It doesn't inform us as to who purchases stuff so I can't thank you individually, so thanks in advance! Drop me a line for requests!!!

****FULL SETS ****






****ZIVITY SETS****



****ARCHIVES AND MINI SETS****

Wanted to promote some peeps whose stuff I dig. Up first, that rotten son of a bitch Raymond Prax ([link]. Don't go fave his stuff or nothing, he wears novelty shirts. Yeah, yeah, I get it, you've been to the Grand Canyon:



Cluedog ([link]. Love her art!! She draws the most adorable girls (with and without clothes) and is a master of expressions.



Neopiko ([link] also draws adorable girls. If only some of them were real.



Marco Schnitzler ([link] is a photographer from Germany I have noticed recently. Great stuff. Really adore his pics of blue-eyed beauty Nadine who is absolute perfection:



Vincent Pizarro ([link] is an amazing colorist. As a comic book fan I am well aware of how much a colorist can make or break a great piece of art. I'd love to see what this cat could do with a full comic. I am especially smitten with his Velma piece with Supajoe ([link]:



Scott James Prebble ([link] has always been one of my favorite people on this site since I first found it. Scott's exceptional work speaks for itself so I'll just let you check it out:



So there are others I want to promote in future posts! I will do this more often as I love supporting this site and those who have supported me! As always, I will trade you a llama for a point! Also, I use points I receive in donations to give them to others (or get myself a new premium account though lately I generally give them away too fast to accrue enough to give away premium accounts for myself or anyone). Please support these great artists!!

Speaking of which...

Sets to Download! Help support art! Thanks to everyone who has purchased these so far! It doesn't inform us as to who purchases stuff so I can't thank you individually (though I know some of you like Darth Marlan and Fangled-Robin), so thanks in advance! Drop me a line for requests!

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****ZIVITY SETS****



****ARCHIVES AND MINI SETS****

So regarding these premium download images or sets. Deviant Art only informs you when something sells, whether it is a print or a puzzle, however they do not notifiy you who purchased them though. This makes it hard to thank the buyers. So I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has purchased photos, sets or prints over the past few months. Trust me, I definitely appreciate it and would thank you on your profile if I could!! Thank you so much!!!

Sooooo tried something different this last set. Basically a contact sheet. Initially my idea was that I would give a sneak peek at the sets so that the rest of the images are a surprise. Obviously I can't post every image or it sorta defeats the purpose of posting sets but I wondered if some people were hesitant to purchase entire sets since they don't know what they will be getting. Because even though people have been buying the sets it's the single images made available at full size that are downloaded most. So feel free to share your thoughts on that.

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The Sie ist Idaho set is the second where I made a contact sheet. I did the same for Beverly's "A Spalsh of Color" series but it was just a 10 pic mini set. If people like the contact sheet approach I will do it that way always. The other ones generally gave a sneak peek of four images and to fit the square format I created the images end up being cropped. I figured that way if people buy sets they are pleasantly surprised by the contents.

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These are all the sets I have on Zivity to make them available to people who aren't on that site.

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These are sets of pics that are either a smaller number of images from much larger sets that I have never edited completely but could possibly finish up if their is demand. Or stuff from my archives that for whatever reason I never posted here or possibly anywhere on the web.

Anyway, gonna try and get as much editing as I can done tomorrow before Poker Night cuz I think we are having Poker Night tomorrow. And I am exhausted.

Leave me comments for when I awaken!

Thank you so much for the latest Daily Deviation!!! Maja Stina and I both appreciate it greatly!!!! Rock on Deviant Art!!!



My utmost gratitude to

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for recommending me and to everyone who faved and commented!! Cheers!!


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Too early for a new journal!!! So updating this one!!!

Went exploring today with the mighty, sweet and beautiful Lindsay from the cosplay group XX. She is ready to do a shoot unlike anything she has ever done before. So waiting for Angelica to respond to see if she will do the shoot with her!! Really excited. We scouted for locations and did some test shots today. Probably not for the public's eye but we shall see... Be excited!



Here's a tiny hint of things to come:

Seriously, wtf? LOL I find this sucker every day on the Internet somewhere. If not Facebook, then on Tumblr or some weird blog or on Instagram. What is it about this photo?

I took it with my phone. It's my ex-girlfriend Kat with two other models, Ally and Irene and it's just a silly behind the scenes thing with booty. Is it just the fact that it's three really nice asses? I mean, with so many photos on the Internet I wouldn't have expected this iPhone pic to get so much attention. Sometimes it made me mad but I have come to accept it. Don't get me wrong, I like booty LOL

I want honest answers:

Why you do you love it?
Why do you hate it?
Can people accept Instagram as a legit art form?
If someone like myself, a legitimate professional photographer, takes Instagrams (mostly behind the scenes stuff) does that count as part of the overall artistic experience?

Like to me, these are far better examples of my work. A lot of time, effort and care went into these as far as the look, feel and lighting. It's slightly disheartening to see something of quality get less attention than a photo meant to be a behind the scenes pic and nothing more.



By the way, needing a new Daily Deviation soon! If someone wants to recommend me, preferably not with Human Oreo Bootygram LOL

So 2012 was equally a terrible fucking year and an awesome year. Sometimes at the same time. Had a long time now to think about everything that happened and finally started looking back at what I did in 2012. Here are the best images and highlights of one of the weirdest years in my life and continuing now with August through December 2012!!!



Some of those Instagrams that apparently break Instagram's rules. Oops.

Also, spent a night at the strip club with Irene and Gwen. You have no idea how much fun that was. Wow. I was stunned speechless for the first 30 minutes, it was so crazy!

So Beverly Zoey introduced me to this cool hair stylist Ever Flores and we did some bomb fashion style photos. Also, Beverly got slinky!



My friend and fellow photographer Jim Hesterman AKA Furious Ideas also has a band called the Jerk Officers. One night Ally and I went to see them. Drunken hilarity ensued. Ally videotaped me talking to our cab driver. He was quite amused. "It's not like Neil Armstrong is gonna care." LOL

Also did a sexy shoot with Ally posing in front of a ton of my Polaroids and Fuji's!!



One night Tarah came over to edit pics with me and we ended up taking slinky Instagram pics. Life is beautiful sometimes. We also got to edit a bunch of the pics from our "Chick Habit" video shoots earlier in the year...



Crazy Ferret Studios helping out again by making the lightsabers glow in my nerdy shoot with Angelica and Lindsay from the cosplay group XX.

Obviously by this point Kittin and I went from being best friends to dating. Just gonna say I wish we had just stayed best friends.

Spent an awesome afternoon and evening hanging out with the lovely Gwen Cassidy. We met up with my buddy John Emslie who shoots for Hustler and Met-Art. Then we took pics and silly Instagrams.

And Beverly Zoey is adorable as always. Gah.

And it all started to go downhill LOL:



One of the sexiest shoots I ever did with Angelica from the cosplay group XX. Need to edit more of these some day...

Downloaded this cool app for the iPhone called 8mm Vintage Camera which makes videos look all retro and grainy. This tiny little vid with Kittin which was posted to my Tumblr shows why I totally adored that little stinker.

Not gonna lie, I think the quality of my work was really deteriorating by this point LOL however I talked to Plush and she doesn't mind if I sell the images we shot from this series with Kittin. So that might be happening soooooooon. But the black and white pic of Kittin is still my favorite I shot of her. We split up in early November and I was pretty devastated. Everything went shitty.



Shot these hot black and white pics of Ranie Mae and her friend. Most were too HOT for Deviant Art and went to Tumblr...

Fortunately I was able to meet Alex in late October. She has become one of my closest friends and she is just adorable and awesome. She found me on Facebook through a mutual friend and thank goodness.

Brian Pulido from Chaos! Comics (creator of Lady Death and Evil Ernie) introduced me to LA-based artist Luka Fisher who ended up painting on some of my photos of Bonnie Apricot. This particular image is going to be the album cover for the next release from the band Feral Kizzy.



Everything went to HELL!!!! My last shoot with Kittin and Irene and Ally came over. I shot an Instagram of their booties which to my eternal dismay has been posted ALL OVER THE FUCKING INTERNET!!! GAH. It annoyed me that Kittin was in it and that people kept removing my watermark. Oh well, fuck it though. The past is the past and I live for right now and the future.

Did however do a solo shoot with Irene Savona that shows off her entire tattoo. Sadly due to the circumstances and everything that happened after I never edited any of them except this one...

During my total breakdown after splitting with Kittin, Plush Suicide came over and I mostly just cried and let her sort through our most recent photo shoots and come up with sets for Zivity. Some I managed to edit and she took the pics and edited the rest herself. She left a little note behind when she left that said, "Kyeri <3's Tate" which was so sweet. Thank you!!!

So while I had no place to live and bounced from couch to couch, my computer completely fucking crashed. I pretty much assumed, "Well it's over, life just fucked me completely now." However a fan rebuilt my computer and saved all my data. Then a friend purchased me my first ever legit copies of Photoshop and Lightroom. I still was a fucking wreck and didn't feel like shooting but I did start editing some old pics including this one of Kayla Stone from over the summer. Since I lost all my plug-in's and actions I basicaly had to start from scratch. In some ways it was a good thing....



So playing in Photoshop and experimenting I decided I wanted to edit some pics for someone I really loved and cared about deeply so Ariel Shay was the obvious choice. I looked through all the pics from our trip to England and settled on this one. Also, was deeply obsessed with Julian Cope and the Teardrop Explodes at this time. And drinking myself into a stupor every single night.

So Ally finally convinced me to shoot pics again after four weeks of just moping and drinking. We met with her friend Kimber and I shot the two of them. I hadn't been eating well and I think the excitement got to me as we only shot for about 45 minutes before I got dizzy and sick and had to lay down. But I promised them that I really had fun and was grateful to them for helping me and caring about me. In fact, I can never repay Ally for everything she has done for me since November. She has probably done more to help me than any one person ever has and I am eternally grateful <3

And then Lil Jesika, whom a few months earlier I had helped out with a test shoot, messaged me asking if I wanted to shoot with her for fun. I said, Of course! and we shot a bunch of slinky pics in public. She's a little sweetie.



Started shooting in a new space which would ultimately become the Imagination In Focus Photo Studio and Art Gallery. Two of my oldest friends in this industry came to shoot in there before anyone else. Thank you Brittany and Angela!!! <3

Had an incredible, psychedelic, spiritual two day adventure with the enchanting Alexandria K and the second day involved an awesomely fun photo shoot. Things started to turn around at this point. She's incredible and one of my most favorite people right now!



Lindsay from the cosplay group XX came to shoot in the new space as well and "For Science, You Monster" is one of my most favorite photos of 2012. We also did her first ever implied shoot which was a tribute to Christine Keeler in the 1960's.

One of my pics of Ranie Mae in a Ladies of Metal Calendar for 2013! Woot!

And shot an incredibly HOT series of pics of Ally being slinky in my bedroom. Goodness gracious!



Zivity sets with Plush that went up before the year ended and a couple more of magical beautiful Alex just because. All is right with the universe again...

And now all my pics are back out of storage!!! Yee haw!!! And now that I have done that I can start posting all the pics I have edited recently that I have not been posting on the site to make pulling the pics out of storage easier. Rock n roll! See you in the future, it's gonna be brilliant!

So 2012 was equally a terrible fucking year and an awesome year. Sometimes at the same time. Had a long time now to think about everything that happened and finally started looking back at what I did in 2012. Here are the best images and highlights of one of the weirdest years in my life and continuing now with May through August 2012!!!:



Was friends with Kati Starr forever and finally got a chance to shoot. Was my way of thanking her for helping me through some hard times <3

Did this nerdy style impromptu shoot with Gwen one afternoon and the pics were just hella popular on Tumblr. They still keep getting re-blogged. And amusingly, some grown adult male with a Lilo and Stitch Tumblr was terribly offended that we used a Yoda stitch plush for a nude photo shoot. Some people are very strange.

So after the Avengers movie there was this movement online that suggested Nick Fury was lying and Agent Coulson was not dead. So this was my contribution to the "Coulson Lives, Fury Lies" movement and Paris from the cosplay group XX was more than happy to help. Then Clark Gregg, the actor who played Coulson, actually posted the image on his Twitter!!! We were stoked. Paris also made me a Batman blanket and gave it to me that day. Thank you sweetie!!!! Miss you!




Over the summer I did a number of shoots for a company in Beverly Hills and got to go to L.A. a bunch of times and have mad, crazy adventures. Was really excited to meet and work with the most adorably cute redhead Elle Alexandra. She so rocks! Also met tons of cool peeps working in the adult biz. Got to explore neat places in LA and go shopping and drink and eat mad food. Also got to drive a Jaguar!! Experiences I will always cherish.




Once again snagged free passes to the Phoenix Comic Con. So last year I brought Ally Joykill and Tarah McDaniel with me. Ran into my old friend Jim Mahfood, the comic book artist responsible for the Clerks comic and others. He used one of my images of Beverly Zoey for an art piece that is going in some LA business in their lobby. Still need to follow up on that so I can get a pic of it hanging on the wall. Was quite an honor. Very stoked sometimes for the things I get to do because of that damn camera.



Paris with the Batman blankie she made me!

I had my second contest which was a Sci-Fi theme. Turn any of my photos into a sci-fi themed piece of art. Got lots of great entries and this one by MD-Arts was the winner!

Did a cool retro shoot with Ally stripping in my friend Melanie's cool retro bedroom! That was a great day! Melanie I have known for decades and she is an old school kick ass punk chick!

Also shot Paris in her cute little rave outfit. She's adorable and sweet!!! <3



Spent an awesome day with Paris and Lindsay from the cosplay group XX shopping for comics and taking photos! We're nerds LOL

Woke up early and went exploring with the mighty Kayla Stone one day. Drank a lot of coffee and found some neat places to shoot all retro style in Phoenix!



Lindsay from XX loves TRON so we did a TRON themed shoot and Crazy Ferret Studios helped us rock it by adding the glow!!

In fact, I hang out with the XX girls a lot and also did a nerdy fun shoot with Angelica and Paris together and then one with Angelica and Lindsay together! They are all beautiful, sweet, genuine and love comics and pop culture!!

I adored Beverly Zoey with her pink hair and did a number of really sexy and cute shoots that also for the most part remain unseen...



Tarah McDaniel also comes over a lot and we have shot a lot of sexy pics that remain mostly unseen...

Oh lordy. Beverly Zoey used to tease me all the time about getting a "grown up" phone so in August I finally relented and bought an iPhone and quickly became obsessed with Instagram LOL That same day I celebrated and took Beverly Zoey and Ranie Mae out to dinner. They were the subjects of my first Instagrams. Soon enough I would take Instagrams that Instagram did not like and removed. Bastards!!!!!

In fact, shortly after joining Instagram this particular meme hit the Internet and it was pretty obvious who it was about. That made my fucking day!

So 2012 was equally a terrible fucking year and an awesome year. Sometimes at the same time. Had a long time now to think about everything that happened and finally started looking back at what I did in 2012. Here are the best images and highlights of one of the weirdest years in my life and continuing now with a very busy month, April 2012!!!:



My shenanigans with the Amateur Allure Ferrari during the Phoenix Forum somehow ended up written up in Phoenix Magazine. Oops. Got great e-mail's from the AA website owner going, "What the hell Tate?!? I get blamed for your trouble making!" Sorry brother!



One of my fave photos I ever shot of Ally Joykill. She's a Star Wars nerd. And I turned her on to Wesley Willis!! "Vampire baaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!"

Also, shot more of Tarah McDaniel for our unfinished "Chick Habit" video... Lots of cute pics from all those shoots!

Brittany was a model I shot a few years ago who took a break and came back last year and started shooting again. She's a serious sweetheart who has helped me a number of times when I needed food or something. Even during the times she wasn't modeling, always stayed in touch with me. You rock sweetie!!



Totally appreciate the irony of shooting in a Project DARE t-shirt completely stoned. Also decided that Ally has a completely fetching behind.

Held my first ever contest!! Had DevArt folks re-interpret Beverly Zoey as a zombie!!! KingBradders won the contest and I still owe him his prize. Trust me, brother, I will not forget. You might wait for a bit but it will be worth it! Promise!

Also shot the band Element a440 who at the time included porn star Ranie Mae! Always adored that girl. We have had a lot of adventures over the years.



Shot Tarah McDaniel for Recycled Rascals and got to meet Milissa from Charitable Heart who is also a sweetheart. She bought me a vintage Brigitte Bardot movie poster!! <3

Alice Wonder brought over her tarantula who freaks some people out but I thought he was cool!!



One of my fave EVER shots of Tarah McDaniel is actually a screencap from our "Chick Habit" video! Sooooooooooooooooooooo beautiful.

Submitted a pic of Ally to an Iron Fist Boots contest and came damn close to winning! Regardless, got us tons of new hits and followers so it was all good.

Did my first shoot with Lori who is one of the most adorable things to walk the face of the Earth.  Awww, I miss you. I miss being called "Bear Bear" silly goose!!! <3

Erica-Lyn came to shoot with me again after not seeing her for a long time and we got some seriously sexy pics. Plus more of Klarra Kush showing off her booty whilst taking bong hits at Kittin's old apartment.



After a couple days showing Lori how to edit in Photoshop and having adventures we did our second shoot and I covered her in gummy bears. One of my favorite shoots and days of all time. <3

So 2012 was equally a terrible fucking year and an awesome year. Sometimes at the same time. Had a long time now to think about everything that happened and finally started looking back at what I did in 2012. Here are the best images and highlights of one of the weirdest years in my life beginning with January through March 2012!!!:



Awww, started shooting with Tarah McDaniel a lot more. She is undoubtedly one of my favorite models of all time. Check her out in "The Hangover III" which opens in May!

Celebrated my four year anniversary of shooting both Kayla Stone and Errrlinda AKA Evievasive and did so by pairing them back together for the first time in four years.

Shot one of my favorite Fuji instant series with Beverly Zoey. 20 awesomely sexy implieds.



Took my first trip to Portland, Oregon where I got a tour of the Dark Horse Comics offices with my old friend Patrick Thorpe who is an editor there...

Kensi Dyan, a model from Nebraska whom years earlier I was supposed to shoot for FTV Girls and talked her out of it, came to visit me and we finally met face to face and had a four day drunken adventure LOL

Shot one of my MOST fave Beverly Zoey sets ever. Her playing with make-up in the mirror of a fancy bathroom. Also shot my favorite set with Plush using a creepy giraffe mask. Sadly, Zivity turned down that set



LOL Beverly wanted to do a mermaid shoot in the bathtub. Sadly the fabric she got was literally sprinkled in glitter and it got EVERYWHERE. Also the fabric pretty much disintegrated in the water. Silly goose.

Took a photo shoot of Beverly Zoey from 2011 into Photoshop and paid tribute to one of my favorite artists of all time, painter/illustrator Robert McGinnis. Love how it turned out.

My old friend Tru came to visit and I shot a bunch of gals naked for his Cifer Crew in LA. I wouldn't wake up when he arrived so he literally broke into my house LOL There's a video on You Tube!



Was hired to shoot Ava Leon and Ally Joykill (formerly Allyson Wonderland at the time) who turned out to be both HOT and funny. Ally has become one of my best friends in the whole world.

My friend Zombie Chas made Beverly into a zombie and I made a little documentary about it on the Canon 7D called "Zombify Zoey" which can be found on You Tube as well!!



This rather naughty shoot with Felicia and Shannon was interesting in that it caused some drama that first got me to realize Kittin liked me. Another model saw that Felicia and Shannon were shooting with me and she tagged my Facebook saying, "I love you Tate!" So when I didn't respond to it she texted me so I would respond in the presence of the two gals. She knew these two girls and I imagine they didn't exactly get along so I think she meant it to be snarky. You know, girls can be catty. So I said, rather harmlessly, that I loved her back. Well, the next morning when I texted Kittin she was MAD and it was because of the Facebook post!! I was kinda confused but since I was kinda falling for her, figured she might be feeling the same toward me. Anyway, that was the day Ally and Ava first came over and at first I was grumpy and didn't want to shoot but they charmed me with their sarcasm and sense of humor. So it was literally two really intense days in a row. LOL this is what my life is sometimes like. Crazy, stressful, fun, silly, shitty and naughty. All in a 24 to 48 hour period.

You can pretty much see why I adored Ava and Ally right away. They were funny and HOT and spontaneous. I'm glad I gave them a shot when I was totally not feeling like shooting at all since Kittin was mad at me.



Some screencaps of the "Zombify Zoey" documentary I did with Beverly Zoey and Zombie Chas!

My first time shooting Ally Joykill without Ava or Alice Wonder present LOL

Tarah McDaniel and I started a sexy music video called "Chick Habit" which remains unfinished. I need to get a legit copy of the editing software. My trial ended

A simple lighting test but always one of my fave pics of Kittin. And no, we are not friends or talking to each other, but enough time has passed that I don't care anymore so I can look at that time without animosity or sorrow. When I look at that period there are two photos and a bunch of Instagrams that really stand out. This is the first.

The first marijuana themed shoot I did with Klarra Kush over at Kittin's apartment. I adore Klarra immensely. She is a true character and a good friend. Amusingly, I met her at a very strange party a few years ago. Lordy, that's a tale in itself.



Ally and Alice Wonder the night we went out for dinner at Blue Water Grill, this fancy schmancy seafood restaurant in Scottsdale. We shot after dinner and this photo had us in hysterics.

Irene Savona, pretty much the one model I have been shooting the longest now, with a bunch of sexy naked Fuji's we shot the night she came to the house I was caretaking in North Phoenix for half a year...

So that was the first three months. And then things got weird...

Still got about 1000 pics to pull out of storage. Wish DA made that task easier...

So changing my Tumblr into a music blog. Totally stuck on the name. I like "The Unheard Music" except I was using that for my ongoing secret erotic art project that I shelved last year and too many people who have seen the photos will think I will be putting fuck pics online instead of music. Same with "Three Chords and the Truth" cuz I have used that too often to describe my approach to photos. For years the Tumblr has said "I belong to the ( ) Generation" as a description but Blank Generation is too obvious. I do consider myself part of the Blank Generation though.

Somewhere in my music library is the right title. It just sucks I used so many of my favorite titles and themes for photos. Or other people already have used them for their blogs. "What We Do Is Secret" is too LA. "Kill Yr. Idols" is too NY.

Anyway for now the stupid thing is still called "Gah. It's All True." I actually got that word "Gah" from Yardley. She used it in texts all the time. I found it was a great word to use to avoid answering questions I didn't feel like answering.

Glad my final shoot was with Yardley. Back in those days it was fun. Was good to see her again. Was hoping to also shoot Roxy one more time but oh well...

Alright well, see you on Tumblr!!

This guy stole one of my photos:

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All his pics are stolen. Possibly one of yours?
I know a few picture thieves on this site. I also know a few of the admins. You can wipe the EXIF data but I got the originals with my camera serial number.

So the Hearts & Bones Photography show Jen Deveroux threw last night was an amazing event.



We partied like totally crazy. Good times with old and new friends including Raymond Prax, Tage Michael, Tish Parker, Ally Joykill, Tarah McDaniel, Chris Walsh, Joey Couture, Thomas Irwin, Jim Hesterman, etc., etc. Some of the pieces I displayed have never been shown online and will be soooon. Here's some of the other ones I showed at thee show or are from series I showed at the show:





More soooooon!

So about 50 to 75 of you know about the truth. The rest of ya will just have to chalk it up to another episode in my increasingly bizarre and stressful life.

But when I put my pics into storage I saw a way to take advantage of a bad thing and turn it into a good thing. One thing that has been hard to keep up with over the years is the number of comments, faves and watchers I get on a daily basis. As most of you know, I do try. I am pretty friendly and like to respond back to everyone. I see this as a chance to make certain that the people who watch me the most get watched back. It gives me a chance to try and thank as many people as possible too.

Also, over the years, pics have gone in and out of storage and often are not in my gallery in the order they were posted in. Which personally frustrates me. OCD or something. But when you un-store something it does not automatically go into your featured folder. You have to move it there and then it places it right at the top, not in the location it was when you initially posted it. Trying to move them is not easy on this site, especially when you have 3000+ deviations. This gives me a chance to put things back in order from oldest to newest.

It also gives me a chance to offer more full size nude images to download. They will range from 80 points to 150 points depending on what they are. Once this project is complete I will offer more complete sets to download as well. You can really help me out by buying some once in awhile. It will help feed me and keep me from having to go get a part-time job. I'd say 50% of my day is taken up with editing photos. It's time-consuming and frustrating sometimes. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't do it if I didn't like it but...

However, as I un-store deviations I will not be including any pics of Kittin Von Kat. This includes her girl-girl shoot with Plush Suicide from Suicide Girls. I would be willing to consider selling her photo sets to anyone who notes me and asks about it. Despite having found someone else, I'm still pretty pissed off with her and I am sure she is as well. But she's still slinging my photos online for cash so I might as well do the same. I just ain't gonna give her any free promotion.

Plush however is a sweetheart and could also use some extra income. I'm sure a lot of you assume this lifestyle is always glamorous and rewarding and sometimes it can be. Two years ago I left the job I'd had for 11 years to do this full time. And let me tell you, sometimes I have STARVED. I had to live in a car for 2 weeks. Some of those nights I managed to find couches to crash on. Thank god for my models and photographer friends. But it was still a scary time. Right now, despite a few issues, I have hope and faith for the future.

Anyway, I have a paid gig tonight which will give me money to mail something off that is sitting here collecting dust and hopefully pay my phone bill. I have also shot and edited a ton of new stuff you haven't seen. Coming soon.

Most of you who commented on my last journal got a note from me explaining what is really happening. I'll try to hit the rest of you up tonight.

Not much longer now...

Whenever I decide to return I can finally organize these fucking photos. See you sometime in the future...

I really flipped out hard last night. I get a message basically saying my photos make someone feel bad because the girls are so beautiful. And I have been dealing with running this art gallery and studio and even though that is being funded, personally I am struggling to find money to eat. So I just said, "Fuck this." I can't do this gallery, try and edit pics online for little or no reward and somehow find money to eat. Something had to give so I decided on all social media. So pics here are in storage, my Facebook's have been deactivated and I am gonna try and use the free time to get some kind of additional income.

Anyway, sorry. I have to survive.

It really bums me out that some people see these photos and it makes them feel bad about themselves. There's more to life than beauty.

Hey! Trade me points for llamas!!! A lot of peeps I have already given a llama to when they gave me a point try every week. LOL DevArt only lets you do it once. NEED POINTS!! Gah.

So I shot with Bree Addams who has been one of my fave models for years! She is soooooo cool. I am super pleased with these photos. I was up hella late working on them and listening to 60's garage punk. I had the flu last week and today it seems to be returning. Sucks. Gonna try and edit if I can, no promises. Had a bunch of stuff to do at the Studio tonight and now I just feel beat.



Maybe I can use the down time to catch up on thanking peeps for faves and whatnot.

But first, gonna check if they finally said who is directing the next Star Wars flick. Sick of waiting for that news already.

Well some of the work I shot in the past was for "adult sites" and I have always provided tame examples without providing links to the site in accordance with Deviant Art's rules. Unfortunately, someone must have been upset by this because I just had four images pulled.

HOWEVER, Deviant Art contacted me and said it's not the content but the website watermark on the site that breaks the rules so I can re-submit the images as long as I REMOVE the website watermark. So let me do that real quick LOL.

And the website owners have given me permission to use the photos as examples of my work so long as I do not try to make prints of them or profit off them. Which is why I just like to provide one or two tame examples for people to check out. It's funny how Zivity, Suicide Girls and GodsGirls aren't considered porn despite using the same billing system and system for directing traffic as the porn sites.

I wonder if people who like to be moral watchdogs realize they aren't really harming and/or helping us when they decide to police the web. Honestly, anyone who tries to undermine someone else strikes me as sad. But thanks for the heads up, now I can remove all watermarks before the other images get yanked. Fortunately I don't have a day job so I have a lot of free time LOL

So I slept til 3 PM but I feel good. I was soooo amped up from the show yesterday I couldn't sleep. I did three shots of Crown Royal XR and drank some Jack Daniels on the rocks and still was up til 8 AM feeling hyper. Last night's repeat of the Abstract show with artists Dash Hobbeheydar and Luka Fisher was stupendous. We had a visitor from the Mesa Museum For Youth who promote a lot of art. And one of the biggest individuals in the art scene in AZ came and wants to use our venue for something she holds monthly and I agreed immediately!!! We had somewhere between 100 and 150 visitors. And celebrated at the end with fancy champagne. Good times.

And Alexandria K. sent me a list of 20 something photos she likes and would like to see edited. Oh boy. So much to do, so little time LOL

She's hot stuff:



So maybe over the next few days I will be editing a lot. Or very little and just relaxing.