Wow! It’s been a ery long time since I have had a weekend this busy. Three days at an art show, concert, and a worshop. And I still had monday to recuperate. I am still pooped. I bragged a few days ago about what I was going to do. Now let me break down the impressions from those events.

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In the world of “scene” photography, Charles Gatewood is the godfather to all other photographers. During the seventies and eighties, he introduced America to a growing counter-culture. Tattooed men and women, vampires, slaves, ponies, dominants, bears, cubs, goths and still more in the varied universe are subject to Gatewood’s delighted eye. If the body wore leather, latex, rubber, or nothing but ink and peircings, Gatewood wants to recard it. With an unflinching and non-judgemental gaze, Gatewood records these subjects for books, magazines, and exhibition.

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It’s upon us, Seattle. The Fifth Annual Seattle Erotic Arts Festival comes to town March 24th to the 26th. SEAF attracts artists from all over the world. Last year’s show wonderful. This year should be better. As I understand it, the jury is tougher and the organizers are looking to display fewer images (especially photography). This should make it easier for the better pieces to find space without being cluttered by marginal presentations.

I made sure to get a festival ticket for the full three day event. That means I need to pull together a costume for the ball opening night. There will be several events during the course of the weekend, but I am most looking forward to a workshop. Charles Gatewood, pervy photographer extraordinaire, will be teaching practicing and would be pervs to take pictures of latex and leather clad models. I am totally jazzed.

To prepare, I emailed Gatewood to find out what was going to be needed for the workshop. His one line reply was “Bring your camera, lights, model release forms, and read my book, Photography for Perverts.” Done. Done, Done, And done a while back. Shit! I need to buy more CF cards for my camera. Time to make a To Do list. That date is coming quick. Guess what new gallery will be up after next weekend.

After hearing a few birdies whisper about this hosting service and that hosting service, I finally decided to make the switch. Strange-Hungers.Net is now hosted at dreamhost.com. Their rates are decent. The benefits are huge. I am gettings of storage space, bandwidth, email accounts, and other amenities. I still have some housecleaning to do, but that’s easy.

Under the site’s hood is Wordpress.org’s Wordpress blogging engine. This engine seems more responsive, has a good support community, and is much easier to maintain than Moveable Type. Wordpress has all the tools I need including a few that I have wanted for some time. Look forward to new pages – Model and email submission forms. Hell, I might even put in a store.With all this shuffling about, I even gave a few minutes to redisigning the look of the site. Whadaya think? C,mon, post a comment to the site. Let me know that you love me.