The Official Unhallowed Metropolis Photoshoot Party (edit: fixed links)

Originally published at Gibberings. You can comment here or there.

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- Unhallowed Metropolis Photoshoot Party -
- 1/20 6pm until dawn @ Jason Soles’ loft -
- snacks, photos, scintillating intellect -
- http://www.newdarkage.net -

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If playing dress-up, getting your picture taken, and eating schneckens in a vintage warehouse loft sounds like a badass Saturday night, we have you covered.

By now I’ve sent most of you invitations to the photoshoot/party happening this weekend at Jason Soles’ place. I have no organized mailing list, so if anyone wants to come and didn’t get invited, let me know.

I know we have Rit and his crew rolling from Bellingham, as well as S4n and his crew, so other Hamlets who require wheels would do well to hook up with the caravans.

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS TO YOU: We’re taking photos to turn into illustrations for the book, which is an RPG set in a steampunk future London that is infested with zombies, vampires, cheap whores, inbred aristocrats and the unsavory lower class. I’ll grab the photos and manip them a bit so they look aged, then they go in the book and you all become famous RPG models. Just like…uh…

WHAT TO BRING: We need all the props, costumes and doodads you can spare. The theme is Victorian, mostly, but feel free to augment with rococo, 1700’s, and Edwardian.

Try to keep cyber and fetish influence to a minimum, this isn’t the World of Dorkness. Bring any hats, monstrous prosthetics, fake blood, fangs, monocles, wigs, feathers, jewelry, boots, scarves, bones and skulls, makeup, ribbons, parasols, corsets, oldschool spectacles and whatnot that you can. BRING EVERYTHING.

We also need technological flourishes: gearwheels, goggles, medical items, that sort of thing.

Any outfits you can put together that we are allowed to make completely filthy will make us very happy. Futurelondon is even sootier and more decrepit than it was in the 1800’s, and photoshopped filth just doesn’t have the same oomph.

Here’s the website for the book: http://www.newdarkage.net
And the photos from the last UnMet party, which was not officially a photoshoot but should have been: http://www.kascadia.org/unhallowed2/index.html

Also, woo, I get to see you if you show up. Which happens maybe once a year (because I’m a bad friend, you all live like 500 miles away, I’m busy, you’re busy, and I’m sorry).

Frankly I’m not sure what the ratio of party:photoshoot will be, but there WILL be food and tea and music and drink and dressing up and hanging out. Maybe even punch and pie. People who feel like bringing food or drink are encouraged to do so and will be thanked vehemently.

Marc17 and I are manning the official cameras, there will be other photographers present, and I’m under the impression that there are several people doing makeup and hair, including ME! If you can do your own, neato. If you’re not persnickety about having me do it (or add to/change it), even neatoer. If you can DO makeup and hair, rad.

And after the photoshoot there will be a dance-off. The loser will have to pose for the “about the author” shot in the back of the book. NUDE.