Interview with the Vampire Steampunk Demondaz...

Vaginal Mint? Anyone?

2009-11-10T13:08:38Z

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/10/femimint-hygiene-mints

Can you put them in your mouth too?

LVG visit 'Through a Glass Darkly' Thursday 12th Nov 6-9 pm

2009-11-10T12:39:45Z

Please note, we will not be at our usual place this month – we will be meeting at The Crypt Gallery, St. Pancras Church, Euston Road, London, NW1 2BA between 6pm and 9pm, to view the wonderful artwork by our member Maria and some of her friends. Following this, we will head on to a pub for an optional bite and a drink ;-)=

Through a glass darkly

November 10th – 12th 2009

Opening times Tuesday & Wednesday 12 noon – 6pm

LVG Members and Friends are invited to the Private view Thursday 12th November 6 – 9pm

The Crypt Gallery, St. Pancras Church, Euston Road
London, NW1 2BA

Featured artists: Riffat Ahmed, Lola Bunting, Nicholas Brown, Maria Elvorith,
Emma Smith

Performances by Riffat Ahmed: 7:20pm, The McCarricks: 7:45pm
Curated by Maria Elvorith

Dark and captivating, “Through a glass darkly” alludes to the idea that our understanding of this world will never truly be clear until we reach an end; until that point, we perceive life only through a fogged lens.

A selection of emerging and talented young artists explore and illustrate this idea through the varied disciplines of photography, video, painting, mixed media installation, music and performance art, all situated within the evocative setting of The Crypt Gallery.

Intricate models placed inside the walls of the gallery and beyond the viewer’s grasp speak of our dreamlike perception of reality. Photographs capture fragile and misty moments in forgotten places around England, while delicately painted nebulae and star clusters surrender unnerving truths to the attentive, revealing another dimension to the experience.
With ethereal sound and light bending and traveling throughout the gothic passageways, mysterious narratives painted in classical baroque style ask us to reconsider our initial interpretations and perceptions of this world, as the dawn and dusk of human mortality are explored in provocative physicality.

Steampunk Returns to London - Antichrist - Journey to the Centre of Hell 04/12/09

2009-11-09T11:35:46Z

This is a public service announcement.....

December 4th is not just a Steampunk event. It is an AntiChrist with a steampunk theme.
We'll have fetish, we'll have goth, we'll have industrial too. We'll also have steampunk inspired bands and acts, walkabouts and decor.

Read more about the event

Get your tickets here - earlybird prices this week only!

'In Silence' by Asli Yeniay Kizilay

2009-10-30T10:41:04Z

This brightened my inbox yesterday afternoon.

See more of her stunning artwork here. I think she has extraordinary talent and it's a pleasure to see a mediocre photo transforrmed into something quite different. I hope she does some more...she wanted quite a few photos from me.

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This Halloween Weekend....

2009-10-28T14:02:52Z

Some x-posting for some people I know...some of whom I may even like ;-)=

Friday - AC Special - I'll be on the doors there for the pre-paids (some reduced pre-pays yet to go)

Saturday D&D Special (will be on the door here too)

£1 off for all fang wearing and/or card holding Vampyres (Valid Cards London Vampyre Group, London Vampire Meetup Group and even Vampyre Connexion)

GET IN FREE! Bring along a carved pumpkin and you will and you may even win a prize for it too!

and Sunday (nothing to do with me but I like the promoters)

LVG “Crime and Punishment” Pub Crawl, Walk and Talk

2009-10-16T10:07:05Z

You know this

Please note the following for travel arrangements!

Please note that the Circle Line and District Line are either cancelled or not running a full service this weekend, making it a tad difficult to get to Blackfriars. One option is to go to Embankment and walk from there, or get a bus. Another option is to go to Liverpool Street Train Station, and taking the 100 Bus, travelling towards Elephant & Castle

Also check the TfL website for other options

Vampire Article in the Daily Star 15/10/09

2009-10-15T10:59:17Z

One of the best things about doing some modelling is getting your pix in really quality publications! ;-)=

Here also: Rosie Lugosi and Sandra Dee, and someone else I've never met or heard of! Also credits for the London Vampyre Group, Club Antichrist, Club Lash & Vampyre Connexion. No photographic credits, tut tut, mine was by Adam Robertson

Fun tho and the article is not bad. It's the wolf whistling from builders that makes it all worth it too ;-)=

“Crime and Punishment” Pub Crawl, Walk and Talk

2009-10-14T14:18:05Z

Here's a little afternoons distraction scheduled for this Saturday coming, a cross between a gentle pub-crawl and a London Historic Walk. Commencing 2 pm and due to finish for aroun 6pm but more than likely some dark souls will be heading off somewhere for afters. Starting at the Blackfriars pub, which is a place worth seeing just by itself!

This will take place around the Fleet Street, Blackfriars area of London and will be similar to our last ‘Sin In The City’ walk. There will be more pub time for socialising so, this will be a good event for new people to come along and meet others – as we walk from pub to pub Paul Reid, our guide, will give us talks on prisons, filth, murder etc, with a cheeky slant! Meet at 2pm at the Blackfriars Pub.

This event is FREE for all comers, the drinks in the pubs are not.

Hope to see some of you there. D ;-)=

An excellent way to kick off Halloween Weekend

2009-10-09T13:23:21Z

V&A Late - In the dead of Night 30th October 6 - 10 pm

Some of the LVG people will be along here and would be good to see others. These lates are great, no children....bars*, music and dancing and dressing for the occasion positively encouraged.

* Be warned the bar prices are very 'Kensington', i.e. bloody expensive.

Public Service Announcement: Dead and Buried

2009-10-08T11:53:48Z

If you went to the Cross Kings for Dead and Buried last week, it wasn't there!

D&B is this Saturday! Same time, same place...different date this month only! I'm on the door there and it's always good to see familiar faces.

LVG Monthly Meetup - Thursday 8th

2009-10-06T09:54:53Z

The London Vampyre Group Monthly Meeting

Thursday October 8th @ 8pm – 11pm

Free to all

This month will be an LVG informal meeting – no talks or quizzes, just a chance to talk, drink and listen to some music!

Meetings are held at The Plough (upstairs room), 27 Museum Street, London WC1A 1LH

Thank You Saint Dita

2009-09-30T09:17:17Z

Not only is she enhancing the cleavage of ladies everywhere but also brings out these adverts to keep the guys happy too.

Dita, we Love you ;-)=

LVG AGM - Thursday 1st October

2009-09-29T10:29:54Z

The London Vampyre Group will be holding their AGM on Thursday 1^st October at 6.30pm at Treadwell’s Bookshop - 34 Tavistock St., London WC2E 7PB (near Covent Garden). If you want to have some input into group activities.

Afterwards we have a photographer Jonathan Cole who wants to do some pictures and then a few of us will be heading off to the London Vampire Meetup in the Elixir Bar.

Please pass comment or message miss_mordredif you intend to come along as some refreshments will be provided

Attendance
Apologies ( xxxxxx)
Election of Chair / Facilitator and Scribe
Reports on 2008 - 2009:
1. Treasurer
2. Membership Secretary
3. Events
4. Magazine (Vampire Enterprises)
Elections for following Posts:
1. Secretary
2. Membership Secretary
3. Events Manager / Coordinator
4. Treasurer
5. Magazine Editor
6. Magazine Editorial Committee / Distributors
7. PR & Publicity Manager
Business:
1. Committee Structure
2. Membership – How to increase / Promote
3. Events

1. Rest of 2009

2. 2010

· Trips

· Parties

· Other

Meetings and Location
Chronicles & Literary Supplement
Bulletins
Merchandise
Media / Publicity

Please note there may be some last minute changes to the agenda

'Bite' Promo Film Short - First Edit

2009-09-28T10:09:56Z

Filming Stills - Bite

2009-09-25T09:53:46Z

You remember I mentioned some filming some of the London Vampyres were involved with last Saturday here, well there are some stills to be seen if anyone wants to have a look.

Here's a couple.....With miss_mordred

and I quite like this one too

And there is a whole lot more to be seen here....all pictures by Soulstealer.

Filming the Short for Bite

2009-09-20T16:04:30Z

...took place this Saturday just gone and gathered in a warehouse/studio in Dalston were a number of people from the London Vampyre Group, a film crew and other cast members and director and author of Bite, Kevin Jackson, due for release early October.

I must admit to running late, having realised I forgot my most important of accessories which I turned back to get...but there was much to do and be filmed and various solos were underway when I arrived so I just had to make the quick change into my vampyre persona as some of my scenes were scheduled to be filmed soon.

The studio, it has to be said, didn't look so impressive but the vampire scenes were all filmed against an black background and it was good to see some film magic take place before your eyes as there were monitors around where various people could watch the action. Against this background, with the addition of lighting and smoke, the scenes all looked very eerie and unreal from some of the stills I have seen....I hope I can get some of them soon to post.

There were a lot of people around and lots of cameras and kit. I got better acquainted with movie cameras, not having much experience with them really, and one of the cameramen gave men a bit of a talk on it. Must admit to being impressed with the calibre of people around there and everyone was really great, interesting people, there was a good vibe around the place and having lots of vampyre friends around the day was mostly banter and fun even when down to the serious business of shooting. I've been warned film sets can be boring, as you spend ages sitting around until you are needed, but the time seemed to fly by and it was interesting to watch even when you weren't needed - great to see friends transformed and look really eerie....I'll name a few friends who were there who you may know Rebecca (Miss Mordred -The Vampyre Queen) and handmaidens Louisa and Nancy (of the esteemed LVG committee), Vampyre Footsoldiers were Nick ( chaoscowboy) and Paul Ewan (he of many faces and arguably more outfits) also Martin was taking stills.

I had a few sequences to perform in, and couple of group shots, and the one which had me most worried was a dancing sequence where I was supposed to waltz with an 'innocent mortal victim' before bringing her over to the dark side. Problem is I can’t waltz and, despite having some instruction, still can’t! It turned out ok though, seemed an actual attempt at a waltz was too cumbersome to make the scene so just had to make some much simplified dancing movements and spinning around until we were both dizzy! I was reassured that the sequences looked great, despite not having seen them myself, transformed again by movie magic. The scene which needed the most takes, which sounded the simplest, was a bit of hand acting where I had to take the hand of the Innocent Mortal and gently lead her to the dark side! All the vampire roles were non-speaking roles as our scenes are supposed to be surreal and suggestive and it's a film short anyway so there is no big dialogue in there anyway.

Anyway, it was fun, good to try my hand at something a bit different...I'd like to do more acting, I did tread the boards in my youth but that was an age ago and the best thing about getting involved with projects like these is getting invited along to launch parties of which there are two, one for the book and one for the film short - to be held at the Halloween V&A late on 30th October

Shooting Saturday

2009-09-17T12:32:06Z

Next bit of media whoring coming up soon, which will also be part of a launch party 'In the Dead of Night' at the Victoria and Albert Museum Lates on the 30th October and all over the internet like a virus!

A bunch of LVG members are involved as well as other cast some of whom I understand are RSC (really stupid chaps, perhaps, anyone?) anyway I understand we will be making a film short to accompany a book launch by Kevin Jackson and will be over in a studio in Dalston for most of Saturday afternoon and early evening shooting.

I appear to have been given the role of Vampire King and miss_mordredis the Queen ;-)=, for much of a sequence I will be needed to perform a waltz, of which I have no experience whatsoever apart from arsing around at weddings and whatnot. So this week Kevin came over to my place with a lovely lady called Louise (who, he told me, dances competitively for the Oxford Blues - think like the boat race, but dancing instead). Anyway she obviously moved like an angel on acid whereas I felt much like a lumbering oaf alongside her. But I did get some basic step instruction and posturing advice.

Anyway, that's about all I know about the project at the moment but unless I fall over and break my leg, or worse fall over my dancing partner and break her leg, I'll probably tell you some more about it next week.

Wondering what do do afterwards, should be some drinks, but then whether over to Slimes* or Decadence?

* Slimes, with refurbed areas and reorganised floors is very much improved in my opinion. I've been there twice in the past couple of months and had a wicked time on both occastions.

LVG Monthly Meetup, LVG AGM and 'Crime and Punishment' pub walk and talk

2009-09-08T20:53:16Z

Thursday September 10th @ 8pm – 11pm - Free to all

This month will be an LVG informal meeting – no talks or quizzes, just a chance to talk, drink and listen to some music! Meetings are held at The Plough (upstairs room), 27 Museum Street, London WC1A 1LH

Come along to our decorated room for drinks and chat. We will have a small stall selling Gothic-inspired cupcakes and jewels

Also, a couple more dates for the diary:

Thursday 1st October: LVG AGM @ Treadwells Bookshop, 34 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden Theatre District, London WC2E 7PB.

Open to all members and those who are interested in joining. The meeting will start at 6.30pm; teas, coffees, biscuits etc provided. I will be sending out an agenda soon. We are keen to have people attend who are interested in helping out with events, committee roles, magazine editing and writing etc.

Saturday 17th October – LVG “Crime and Punishment” Pub Walk and Talk – This will take place around the Fleet Street, Blackfriars area of London and will be similar to our last ‘Sin In The City’ walk. There will be more pub time for socialising so, this will be a good event for new people to come along and meet others – as we walk from pub to pub Paul, our guide, will give us talks on prisons, filth, murder etc, with (I imagine) a cheeky slant! Meet at 2pm at the Blackfriars Pub. More info will be sent out closer to the time.

D ;-)=

XXXX Posted

2009-09-02T08:51:49Z

Terraway Industries Goggles - Both Models 'Gatling' & ' Sentinel' listed for limited period at just $99 +P&P (Sorry Etsy works in $ this is just over sixty squid in proper money) here

Nokia N86 Smartphone, supercamera, all singing all dancing, wish I could keep it but it's taken me six months to start using my sumsung soul properly, not to mention the cash I've spent on downloads, on Ebay here

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(repeat until you believe)

Alive at Night - The Event

2009-08-27T10:22:20Z

That was fun but I dont half have an ouchy head!

Proper VIP event, back suited security and huuge cameras everywhere, belvedere vodka cocktails going like tap water, mini gourmet hot dogs (wish they'd sent them round a bit more) a DJ spinning some retro pop music. I think there were a few celebs but I dont really keep up to date with such things.

It is probably a bad thing for my ego having my picture on the lanyard, a quote on the wall and being in the David Bailey photography display.

Anyone want to buy a Nokia N86 8MP? I've only just figured out how to use my phone and ungraded this year already, not sure I can be doing with figuring this new one out,

Some blurb about the event here

Alive at Night

2009-08-26T13:19:59Z

Subtitled: Where's my free bloody phone then?

Freeby tonight...going to the Alive at Night photography exhibition by David Bailey/Nokia Promo. You may recall me mentioning the shoot a couple of weeks back. Anyway here's hoping there's free drinks and I get my print by DB...free phone was mentioned too...maybe I expect too much but I hope for a fun evening in any case.

Best go tart myself up then!

EDIT: Just looked at the vid on the linky...you may see some people you know.

From the Anbarric Forge of Terraway Industries (x-posted)

2009-08-24T14:42:29Z

Goggles and guns! Goggles with guns! Terraway Industries presents the Clockwork 'Gatling' Goggle.

'Give yourself the advantage in any heated armament exchange! Comes equipped with a clockwork mini minigun capable of firing fully three .06 calibre rounds per second (at maximum firing speed some jamming may occur)! Integral aiming comes as standard.

May be quickly adapted to fire hollow point darts that can be loaded with a range of interesting and effective combat pharmaceuticals to further enhance your combat edge.'

This item is now cooling and is for sale on Etsy.

Gatling Goggle Front

Also for sale....Terraway 'Sentinel' Goggles (not listed please make contact if interested)

'These pretty goggles will protect the wearer against wind borne debris and with the protective lenses fully lowered provide a profound level of security against furnace flashes, anbarric discharge and all manner of scientific mistakes – they have the added benefit of allowing the wearer to observe solar eclipse and other solar activity while ensuring protection of the eyes.'

Both goggles have real leather straps and solid brass sliders

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Hot from the Anbarric Forge of Terraway Industries

2009-08-19T16:15:17Z

Terraway Gatling Goggles (MKII)

Terraway Industries - Proudly escalating the Steampunk arms race since 1870

Going up for sale on Etsy later unless I get a better offer.

Fear the Terrible Dawn

2009-08-19T13:32:21Z

Photo by Rachel Slater

Update

2009-08-18T16:04:24Z

Daz is making steampunk goodies....and has half a brass face and a black thumb!

Terraway Industries Products