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| Model: Niche Unique Corset: Athanasia Fashions Photo: Don McCaskill |
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Why the change to the layout of the site? Good question. We have, from time to time, tried to add a feature to GGotW that would allow for more images and a cooler way to display them. This display is called LightBox. It uses java to create a pop-up of the image and the ability to change from one picture to the next without having to use the back button. Simply click on the right side of one image to go to the next, the left will take you to the previous image. Clicking the X at the bottom, or simply anywhere off the picture will take you back to the regular site.
Vampire Diaries
Kevin Williamson (Scream, Dawon's Creek) and Julie Plec (Kyle XY) will executive produce and write.
IESB talked with My Chemical Romance lead singer Gerard Way At the Spike TV Scream Awards 2008 about the comic book that he he writes, UMBRELLA ACADEMY.
in “Breakfast in the Flesh District,” her candidly hilarious, autobiographical one-woman show about working in the Tenderloin’s strip clubs as a self-styled vampire.
Ms. Willis, who embraced goth the second she saw Tim Curry’s “sweet transvestite from Transylvania” in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” used to write great articles on the ironies of goth fashion, like “Lord Damien Stark’s Makeup Tips for the Bleak” (originally printed in Ghastly Magazine):
“Whiteface should create the illusion that you really are that pale, and not that you have a bunch of makeup from Walgreens caked all over your face. Done badly, Gothic makeup can look painfully stupid. After spending money on a decent base, take the trouble to apply it evenly. It’s appalling how many Goths overlook something so basic and vital to their entire aesthetic. Equally bad and unfortunately just as frequent is the tendency to overpowder and the tendency to end one’s pallor at the jawbone. I can understand someone having difficulty with liquid eyeliner, but some mistakes are just inexcusably stupid. Don’t make them.”
I just wore black, but Danielle Willis was a Satanic blood fetishist who had her own 19th-century phlebotomy kit, permanent fangs dentally bonded to her eyeteeth and serious drug problems. I once teased her about her decorative penchant for red velvet chaises, heavy curtains, ball-and-claw side tables, stigmata and other forms of morbid opulence, saying that they didn’t necessarily mean she was goth, just Italian. She clocked me pretty hard.
THE origins of contemporary goth style are found in the Victorian cult of mourning.
“Victorians had a joke when women got into fashionable mourning dress — they called it ‘the trap rebaited.’ ” Ms. Steele said, showing me one of the highlights of the F.I.T. exhibition: a 1905 Victorian cult-of-mourning gown by Desbuisson & Hudelist that was off-the-shoulder, had a plunging neckline and was covered with matte-black sequins.
Don McCaskill of NightShadows Photography and his wife Sue McCaskill of Ravenwood Photography are gearing up for the annual Goth Shoot in Victoria, Canada, currently set for the 26th. This is a large group shoot they do every year. Inviting as many models and other photographers as possible. Last year there were three models and three photographers and a make-up artist, but a lot of great images.
This year they're hoping for a much larger gathering of models. If your interested in being a part of the shoot, and can get yourself there, contact Don, and he'll add you to the contact list he's building.
I'm a human pet:
But nothing had prepared her for the reaction of the bus driver who allegedly told the self-styled Goth and her boyfriend: "We don't let freaks and dogs like you on."
Miss Maltby and her fiance Dani Graves were so angered they have complained to the bus company of being "victimised".
Going walkies: Dani Graves and girlfriend Tasha Maltby were allegedly barred from a bus
"It is definitely discrimination, almost like a hate crime," 19-year-old Miss Maltby said yesterday.
The music technology student had this defence of her lifestyle.
"I am a pet, I generally act animal like and I lead a really easy life," she said.
"I don't cook or clean and I don't go anywhere without Dani. It might seem strange but it makes us both happy. It's my culture and my choice. It isn't hurting anyone."
The bus driver, however, has obviously not been listening.
He has repeatedly refused to allow Mr Graves, 25, and his "pet" on to his bus in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
Last month, with Miss Maltby on a leash as usual, the couple tried to board a bus at the bus station.
The driver, who was off duty, was standing near the door.
Mr Graves alleged: "He shoved me off the bus. He called us freaks and he called Tasha a dog.
"He said, 'We don't let freaks and dogs like you on'.
"He basically grabbed my T-shirt and slammed me backwards.
"I got a bit angry and called him a fascist pig."
In a separate incident, police were called when the driver, who has not been named, refused to allow other passengers on board after the couple ignored his orders and sat down.
The couple, who live on benefits in a council house and plan to start a family, have been friends for years.
They started going out together in July and became engaged in November.
Paul Adcock, of bus company Arriva Yorkshire, said: "We take any allegations of discrimination seriously.
"Mr Graves has already contacted us directly and as soon as our investigation has concluded we will inform him of the outcome."
What is probably the largest Gothic music festival gets started in 5 days in Germany. The 17th Wave Gotik Treffen starts May 9th and runs through May 12th in Leipzig, Germany.
annual event, including Australia's Dandelion Wine Sweeden's Militant Cheerleaders On The Move and Mexico's Hocico, who should be celebrating Cinco de Mayo today. The States is well represented by a total of 11 acts, including Emilie Autumn and London After Midnight.
She became a cult figure among B-movie buffs and some say she inspired the character of Morticia Addams on TV's The Addams Family in the 1960s.
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A new Halloween Shoppe has opened in downtown Victoria and we thought our readers should know about the amazing deals that they have. Its right next door to A Buck or Two in The Bay Centre and is owned by them, so you know they have good deals, like feathered wings $15.
June 16th, 12pm, Beacon Hill Park, Victoria.
If modern-day Goth-dom had a birthplace I would have to say it was England, probably somewhere on the streets of London. Now the home of Whitby welcomes back it's childe to celebrate for the weekend.
Whitby hosts the Whitby Goth Weekend twice a year, this year its April 27 & 28 and then again in October on the weekend of the 26th & 27. Last years events included a Church service by the Rev. Marcus Ramshaw, who is a goth himself.
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Goth in its simplest form is a counterculture. A group of people who feel comfortable within each other's company. There is no specific thing that defines what you need to do or be to fit into the Goth scene (except of course the implied black clothing). People in the Goth scene all have different musical tastes, follow different religions, have different occupations, hobbies, and fashion sense.
Most people become Goths because they have been spurned by 'normal' society, because the way they want to live their lives does not fit in with how most people are told to live theirs. Goths are free thinkers, people who do not accept the moral rules of society because they're told: 'This is just how it is' or 'this is what God says!' This kind of free thinking and rejection of dogma earns only rejection in today's society.
However, because of this rejection from 'normal' society, Goths have banded together to associate with other free thinkers. This has a beneficial effect on both the individual and society as a whole. For the individual they have a sense of belonging, and friends they can associate with. For society it removes one more misfit filled with rage from society's streets.
This of course is not the case for all Goths. Many Goths today are Goths for a variety of other reasons. They like the music, or the clubs are better, they have Goth friends and join in with them, or they just like staying up late at nights and Goths are the only ones awake to talk to.
Andrew & Sarah
by Don McCaskill
Many stereotypes of Goths exist these days. It seems everyone has their own way to define 'what is Goth'. From the stereotypes based on clothing to music right up to the stereotypes of all Goths being Satanists or part of some kind of cult. Categorically, all of these are false.
The gothic sense of humour is highly developed, and often leans toward the satirical. Quietly laughing at the more idiotic and less tolerant factions of society that seem to think yelling out of cars at us makes them cooler. Goths have learnt to laugh at themselves and see society in a much different light. They have had to, and it is a trait most would not give up.
Most Goths have realised that fear is only a reaction instilled in us by dogmatic propaganda, and once you realise there is nothing to fear from the topic.
Goths often revel in the fear given to them by society as a whole. Often the behaviour exhibited by society to them based on society's perception of them from stereotypes and rumours are a constant source of entertainment. Of course, most of the rumours are totally unfounded; Goths are people like everyone else, however, when you already have a reputation, going for the shock factor is often far too tempting to see how much society at large is willing to believe (or deduce) with only a little encouragement.
History of Goth
Modern Goth started in the early '80s as part of the punk subculture (which is a rejection of most societal values, and anything considered part of the 'norm'). The phrase was coined by the band manager of Joy Division, Anthony H Wilson, who described the band as 'Gothic compared with the pop mainstream'. The term stuck, and as punk eventually died, Goth survived and became its own subculture.
The punk clothing and hairstyles mellowed, and the core 'rejection of society' attitude alone lived on in the gothic subculture. Over time this itself has been modified to be more of a 'no more blind acceptance of society's values' as opposed to rejection because it was there to be rejected (and because you could get away with it!).
Sarah & Jessi
by Don McCaskill
Unlike the punk subculture that spawned it. There even exists a class of mature Goths, still following the scene around even past their '20s and into their '30s and beyond.
Hence, for someone without any substantial knowledge of the culture to be making such assumptions is purely ironic, seeing that most of Jamaican youth are still in the process of finding themselves. Being able to identify with a group or lifestyle gives you a sense of self.
- Marla Miller
We've updated the Rules for submitting to Goth Girl of the Week, and are getting ready to make our first Profile. We'll surprise you with it in the next week or two.
A sequel to the 1987 vampire cult classic, Lost Boys, has been slated to begins shooting sometime in the next few months. Filming will take place in the San Diego, CA area.
