{"id":4416,"date":"2012-09-03T16:37:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T21:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2012-09-03T17:07:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T22:07:59","slug":"working-with-the-dead-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"Working With The Dead Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creepy kids gotta stick together, so when the dudes from dark indie band, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AstorianStigmata\">Astorian Stigmata<\/a>, asked if I could help out with a bit of photography, makeup, and filming, I was happy to lend a hand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fashionvandals.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/blog12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog1\" src=\"http:\/\/fashionvandals.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/blog12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"611\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We did two photo shoots, and while I pitched in with some of the makeup and props, they were pretty much prepped from the start&#8211;decked out in lace top hats, special FX contacts and covered in acrylic paint and fake blood. Their style is a bit of anarchy, elegance, and&#8230;.deadness, all rolled into one.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fashionvandals.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"8\" src=\"http:\/\/fashionvandals.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"644\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"http:\/\/fashionvandals.wordpress.com\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since the majority of my shoots involve pristine shots of girls in fancy dresses on bright summer days (kind of ironic, now that I think about it), setting up odd shots in a shadowy basement amidst destruction came as a welcomed change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fashionvandals.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/00.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"00\" src=\"http:\/\/fashionvandals.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/00.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also jumped on tour with them for a little while, making stops in and around Chicago. Incidentally, Chicago was basically clothing heaven for me. Sadly didn&#8217;t have a camera on hand at the time, but me and the boys stumbled upon one particularly epic store where I picked up a burlesque bustle skirt and a claw ring, but I&#8217;ll get to those in another post in the near future&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fashionvandals.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/blog3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog3\" src=\"http:\/\/fashionvandals.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/blog3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most recently I helped film parts of the video for their new single, &#8220;The Dancing Dead.&#8221; Homemade spotlights, legless dolls, mouthfuls of fake blood, glass and appliances hurled at walls and, well, just see for yourself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LdH8KGvg6r0&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creepy kids gotta stick together, so when the dudes from dark indie band, Astorian Stigmata, asked if I could help out with a bit of photography, makeup, and filming, I was happy to lend a hand. We did two photo shoots, and while I pitched in with some of the makeup and props, they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1316,1317,1396,291,500,503,840,1397,1102],"class_list":["post-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astorian-stigmata","tag-astorians","tag-dancing-dead","tag-dark","tag-goth","tag-gothic","tag-neo-victorian","tag-parasol","tag-stripes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4431,"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions\/4431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}