Posts Tagged ‘Mich Masoch’

My Hunger
My recent residency in Hollywood made me realize something I’ve let slip through my mind in the many years of chaos …

All the warm sunshine can make a woman’s blood taste so exquisite …

Everything you think you know about Vampires is true. Or is it? To understand the myth is to understand the concept of the Gods. This all depends upon the era, the culture, individual imagination, gullibility or faith.

The days are here where you can’t even move without vamps being everywhere. Fangs on t.v., fangs in the movies, fangs in the bedroom. Everywhere vampires. Stripped down, junior romance, bad movies. Vampires, as Stephen King said, taking Erica Jong’s phrase, were the ultimate zipless fuck.

But you can never kill the undead. And they wouldn’t be popular if there hadn’t have been centuries of amazing literature as their foundation. Be it metaphoric or whatever else that stirs you, makes you nervous, or wakes you up from your dreams.

Vampires will always be with us.

Forever.

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Hey everyone! This is Mich (writer of Lip SerVICES and editor of the LS ‘zine). Chad and I had a chance to plot and scheme together while he was here in H’wood. We shot a full photo story series for Vampyrotic (with the lovely Shauna Ryanne). In it, Chad is a rock star and Shauna a … well … an aspiring Starfucker (you will note clever use of Starfucker Fishnet along w/ the micro-mini in the shots!). As you can image, Shauna gets a bit more than she bargained for in seducing this rock n roll vampire.

In the meanwhile, here’s a little peek! We’ll add some more to our production blog as we get closer to publishing the new issue. Enjoy!

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La Carmina and her “latest victim”, Tokyo-based actor / model / stylist Sebastiano Serafini, kick-started 2011… with a blood-drenched Hollywood Invasion! Our Los Angeles trip included photoshoots, TV meetings and hosting Goth parties, such as Bar Sinister New Year’s. But a major highlight was crashing Lip Service headquarters and putting on fangs for a Steampunk Vampire photoshoot.

Our shoot was for Vampyrotic, a magazine to “celebrate our dark sanguinary desires in gorgeously captured photos and video.” We crept into Servitu, a private Los Angeles dungeon, with our mastermind photographer Mich (who took all photos in this post).

But let’s rewind a little bit. We began the day at Lip Service headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. Sebastiano and I were like spooky kids in a candy store: so many clothing samples to try on, from red furry jackets to cage skirts! We met Mickey and Bryn in the red office, and got an exclusive preview of the upcoming designs.

The behind-the-scenes tour made me feel like Alice in Wonderland. Sky-high shelves containing fabric rolls and and boxes of trimmings!

It was impossible to narrow down our clothing choices for the shoot, so we ended up taking several sacks with us (including borrowed top hats and stomper boots). Mich fitted us with vampire teeth, which you first soak in warm water, then press to your canines until they firm up and stay in place.

Servitu Studios was a funhouse of torture equipment, including restraints, medical examination chairs, rusty cages, and a “vacuum bed” that vacuum-packs a person into latex. (Sebastiano: “Should we try?”) We settled on the dark aristocratic chair by the window and filled our wine glasses with blood. Our outfits are mostly coordinated from Lip Service’s Step in Time Steampunk collection.

We changed into Nocturnal Rendezvous and Circuit City garments and climbed to the rooftop. Dusk was falling and the sky was radioactive blue. Perfect for a Power Rangers pose.

Domo arigato gozaimasu to Mich, Mickey, Bryn, Maria and everyone at Lip Service for having us as models. I’ll post more photos from the Steampunk Vampire fashion shoot on La Carmina blog, in addition to scandalous Los Angeles Gothic fashion and party photos… come take a drive-by!

† Dark Wishes †

LA CARMINA