I thought you said December 17, 2018.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
I know I haven’t been around here often. These days I publish books, make comic books, and uh, that’s it.
If you want to stay in touch, you can follow me on Instagram. I have four accounts: my regular Katie West account (mostly photos of Scotland, water, my face, and my cat), my private account (only for people I know offline or have known online for a loooong time), my photography account, and my publishing account.
You can also follow along with my Patreon. If I take naked photos, that’s where they’ll be posted.
I also have my personal twitter and my publishing twitter.
I also have a TinyLetter that I mostly forget about but maybe that will change at some point. You can subscribe here.
By the way, the next book I’m making is an anthology about why internet communities like early days Tumblr and LJ were so special and what sort of lessons we can take from them in order to connect with each other now. It’s called Better Then IRL and the Kickstarter launches in February 2019.
I <3 YOU ALL.
Not only will my entire tumblr now basically be an archive available to only myself, but my number one source of masturbation material will disappear.
SEX IS NOT BAD. NO ONE NEEDS TO BE PROTECTED FROM SEX. FUCK SHAME.
WHERE DO I POST MY NUDES??????????????????????????????????????
It’s like everyone forgot that I clean up real nice.
Just remembered that time someone I didn’t know said all my erotic writing was about one person in particular. Jokes on them, I was hella slutty and it was about at least ten different people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Today is #internationalbuttday2018
Get into it
There’s a lot of people in the world who make a lot of money taking pictures of beautiful babes. Often these babes remain nameless and have no choice over the images taken, how they’re displayed, and how they’re distributed to a public and who that public is. These babes have a singular value to the people who shoot them. The photographers might say things like, “Oh, she was such a sweetheart. So great to work with,” but she still is only a first name and a bust-waist-hip size.
We just think it’s a cool idea for babes to be the ones to take the images, decide how they’re displayed, how they’re distributed to a public, and who that public gets to be and we like for this entire process to be a collaborative one. Hence, BABEFEST.
Seven years ago Faye Daniels met Katie West in a hotel room in Toronto. They got naked, took photos, and then afterwards decided to get to know each other. They realised they had much more in common than a love of self-portraiture and photography. They’re both the same age and both born in September. They both use self-portraiture as a form of therapy. They both have a brother four years younger. They both worked at Kelsey’s in their youth. They both love 2000s RnB. They both drink way too much Diet Coke. They both have amazing women in their lives named Kaye, and before they met, had never heard of anyone else with that name before. They both live for pizza. They’re both interested in exploring honesty, femininity, strength, and vulnerability through their photos. They both love photo adventures with no maps and the open road. And they both have no problem ordering mozzarella sticks for breakfast.
Since then Faye and Katie have traveled together to Upstate New York, Columbus, Montreal, Iceland, and countless other road trips to shoot each other and other babes. For their latest adventure to Hawaii, you can expect gorgeous scenery, a lot of car signing to Childish Gambino, nudity in all the most appropriate and inappropriate places, and spectacular photos of a couple of babes who’ve spent nearly a decade getting very good at shooting and modeling with one another.
A muscle that needs to be worked more.
P.s. only 8 more days to pre-order our photo magazine BABEFEST! Over 150 full-colour pages of excellent photography by and for babes. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/katiewest/babefest-vol-3-hot-and-cold