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Material support…. [UPDATE]

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MATERIAL SUPPORT

I’ve been asked a number of times if I’m going to release my videos on DVD. I’ve considered it, but I don’t think it would be worth the time and effort, because I don’t foresee the demand being greater than the effort to master and set up menus (and I guess produce extra footage?). They would most certainly have to be a DVD print-on-demand scenario. I’ve released them in HD format for free, and it’s fairly easy to download them and burn them to disc.

One way you can help future video production, I’ve just added an amazon Gift list page here. Check it out and if you’ve enjoyed the work I’ve done, think that there’s potential for more, think about buying an item ranging from $12 to $1,200 and have it shipped directly to me. There’s also the donate button over there somewhere —–>

In 2012 I have two video projects that I’m working on. One is essentially a series of monologues, much like my lectures but with better camera work, editing, graphics and the ability to retake a shot. They’ll run maybe 10 minutes? a piece, and therefore will be a little more suitable for YouTube (people complain about the hour long lectures being “too much”).
The other would be a series of video interviews.
I don’t want to say more than this, because both are in early stages of writing and development. I still have some more testing/learning to do.

NPI Conference – “Towards a New Nationalism” – Photos

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The conference was great, but a long day. I know they’ll be posting videos of the conference, for a small fee if I’m not mistaken, at NPItv.com.

The titles of the talks from the website, I’ve added links to personal pages or most relavant, then a link to their book, if available:

Sam Dickson — The Idea and the Ideal of the Ethnostate
Alex Kurtagić — Masters of the Universe – Mister
Keith Preston — Mass Immigration and Totalitarian Humanism
Byron Roth — Multiculturalism and Ethnic Activism – The Perils of Diversity
Richard Spencer — Why HBD is Necessary
Tomislav Sunić — Prospects for a Real Nationalist Right in America – Against Democracy and Equality
James Edwards – Obama and the “R Word” – Racism Schmacism
Jared Taylor – White Identity: Why We Need It – White Identity

I had the best seat in the house, though I was only able to move once to get a different angle. Here are a few select photos from the NPI Conference…

Richard Spencer

Richard Spencer, host and Executive Director of the National Policy Institute

Keith Preston of AttackTheSystem.com

Byron Roth, author of "The Perils of Diversity"

 

 

Matt Parrot, James Edwards, Jared Taylor and Richard Spencer

James Edwards and Jared Taylor

James Edwards of The Political Cesspool radio show

Jared Taylor of AmRen.com and author of "White Identity"

Tomislav Sunic, who has written a number of books and hosts a great podcast

Sam Dickson, notorious lawyer and speaker.

Sam Dickson, lawyer and speaker.

 

 

NPI Press Conference – photos of James Edwards, Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor (Video Update)

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UPDATE:
NPI has just released the video of the press conference:

The description:

On September 9, 2011, the National Policy Institute held a press conference entitled “The Majority Strategy” at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Richard Spencer — “The Majority Strategy”
James Edwards — “Obama and the ‘R Word’”
Jared Taylor — “White Identity: Why We Need It”

With each new election cycle, the Republican leadership becomes ever more convinced of its need to “reach out” to Hispanics, Blacks, and other minorities, or else risk irrelevance and defeat.

The votes of America’s historic majority—namely, European Christians—are either taken for granted or treated as of lesser value.

The reality is that in multicultural America, Hispanics and Blacks are exceedingly unlikely to vote Republican, not to mention embrace “conservative values”.

In place of outreach to the unreachable, Republicans would be wise to instead broaden their existing White base. Complimentary to this would be a dedication to immigration policies that stem the influx of Democrat-voting Third World migrants.

The “Majority Strategy,” developed mostly by Brimelow and Steve Sailer at VDARE.com, is the path to victory for Republicans. It also would ensure that they could bequeath to their children a country in keeping with the traditions of their ancestors.

ORIGINAL POST:

The theme of the press conference held at the National Press Club was “The Majority Strategy”, and was organized by NPI. Executive Director  Richard Spencer described it as a sort of “coming out party” and it is also tied to the day long conference they’re having at the Ronald Reagan Building tomorrow.

Richard Spencer also runs AlternativeRight.com.
James Edwards hosts The Political Cesspool and author of “Racism, Schmasim“.
Jared Taylor runs American Renaissance and is the author of “White Identity“.

I’m not going to post a report, as they’ll be posting the video online and you can see what they had to say for yourself. You can check out NPItv.com and NPIconferences.com for details.

This blog is just really a place besides facebook and flickr to post the “best” photos from the event. I took about 185, was only really happy with about 20 of them, and I’ve cut those in more than half to post here. All 20 can be found here.

This was the 2nd time I’ve tried shooting this type of thing, the first being Ayaan Hirsi Ali from April of this year. I sat on the front row this time, so I was able to make better use of my 20mm prime lens. I also was able to move around a bit more. I still don’t have an external flash, so this was all shot with available light. Not too much of an issue with the f/1.7, but the zoom lens is a little harder to wrangle without decent lighting.

Also, I have to say that without Adobe Lightroom I might have had 1 of the 185 that were presentable.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali at JHU in Baltimore, April 5th, 2011

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(crossposted from my post at Secular Perspectives)

Last night my wife and I attended the talk given by Ayaan Hirsi Ali at Johns Hopkins University for their Foreign Affairs Symposium series.

We brought a copy of Infidel in case she would be signing books, and though the announced she would at the beginning of the talk, at the end they cancelled it.
The talk was enjoyable, though slow to start, and she is generally soft spoken and showed a sense of humor at times. The auditorium at Mudd Hall was pretty packed, and she received a rather nice round of applause at the beginning and end. I saw a few atheists from the local community, and stopped Bill Creasy from the Baltimore Secular Humanists to say hello as I was packing my camera up by the exit.
At points, I saw my wife daubing tears from the corners of her eyes, and others a large smile on her face. In the Q&A part, one Jew (two people who stepped up to the mic made sue to identify themselves as such, so I use their identification) made some rambling statement about god, the torah and Ayaan “trying to make believers reject god”. Her reply began “First of all, I find god to be very boring.” to which my wife burst out in uncontrollable clapping. Ayaan took pause, smiled and thanked her (and the few others that joined in).
Another questioner, who stuck in my craw, decided to try to take a smarmy potshot at Ayaan. In her talk, she stressed the importance of questioning things, and he said “Given the theme of your talk, I want to know what things you’ve been hesitant to question at your place of employment?” He was referring to the conservative think-tank American Enterprise Institute. It wasn’t even a real question, it was a childish political swipe… he might as well have stood up and said “I’m a liberal, I don’t like conservatives.” Then adjusted his diaper and sat back down.
Her answer was terrific, starting with “I have never hesitated to question anything.” The day she joined, at lunch, she asked “Is it a problem that I believe that homosexuals should be able to marry?”
“No.” was the response.
That same response was given when she stated she believed in euthanasia and a woman’s right to have an abortion.
“Those are all fine, they are your beliefs.” her fellows said.
“Then what am I supposed to believe?” she jokingly asked.
The questioner, not satisfied, decided that if she hadn’t hesitated before, that he needed to tell her not to hesitate in the future. His hatred for the conservatives at the think-tank seemingly taking precedence over.. oh, I dunno, discussing women’s rights in Islam – the topic of the conversation.

All the the quotes above are from memory, as I did not record the event.

I just recently purchased a new camera, and tried not to be annoying while taking photos. There was a professional there, and others, so I didn’t feel it was out of line.

My very own blog…

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It's me.

I’ve archived here years of myspace blogs, the last few months of facebook notes, and I’ll be adding a few things here and there – dated to the time it occurred.

I’m now porting this blog over to my personal facebook account, and it should show up on my twitter feed, though I don’t like twitter, other people I like DO, and I want them to know I’ve posted something here. I’m on freindfeed as well, but it’s all too much and since it has my twitter, facebook and blog feeds, it’s going to be very very redundant.

I’ve put everything in a category, at least one. “MySpace Archive” and “Facebook Archive” are self-explanatory.

As of this writing, I have the following categories:

Archivalist : Stuff I scan/document.

Arty : Um, art stuff. Things I or others do.

Bibliophile : I, book nerd.

Blog Notes : Just shit like this – who fucking cares.

Boorish : Me ranting, i.e. “commentary” and “sophistry”.

Crafty : Projects around the house. Sewing, sawing, silk-screening, building.

Design : Design projects for Underworld Amusements, freelance design that won’t scandalize the client, etc.

Outside My House : Vacations, events, etc.

Quote : Things other people have said, with or without commentary.

Skeptic : Things having to do with skepticism, atheism, critical thinking.

Slaughter House : When I pretend to be a professional photographer.

Two Cents : Much overlap with “Boorish”, but quieter.

Underworld Amusements : Notes on my projects that aren’t important enough to go on that site.

I suppose if I start adding things from the past, I’ll add a category called “Historical Revisionism“…

I’ve “tagged” only a few of the posts here, I suppose future postings will have them, and maybe I’ll get around to the backlog of items. I’ve always been terrible at documenting my work. I’ve had one or two websites about me, but nothing public. It’s been a tightrope walk, owing to the fact that I do freelance work and have a “straight job”.  I haven’t gone out of my way to hide my opinions, I just haven’t gone out of my way to publicize them in a public way like this. Take, for example, the description of  “Design” above… I won’t be posting all my freelance work here because some of my clients wouldn’t like it. Some of them have had no idea of my interests outside of graphic design. That’s a good thing. It may not be a secret, but most politically vocal graphic designers are on the left.

Obama X-Press - Snow Balls, Food Stamps, Newport

Obama X-Press - Snow Balls, Food Stamps, Newport

I consider myself a secular conservative… a “little ‘l’ libertarian”. I disagree with libertarians on a few points – death penalty being one of them… it’s not used enough.

Well, we’ll see what happens. This way I have control, and I can push my thoughts out from one location.

I will do my best to restrict posts to something worth sharing. You may disagree, but luckily for you it’ll be really easy to ignore it all.

This is me, some 13 years ago. I was in an industrial/performance group called URILLIAsekt, and the performance was called “Lycanthropy Ritual”. I don’t know if I’ve gotten more weird or less.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn0be_CXIT0

This blog is found at kevinislaughter.com, but .net and .org get you there as well.

Slaughter House I

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Sunday morning I’m woken up to the news that my friend Jen is sick, really sick. Not “about to die” or some exotic disease, but sick enough that she can’t come over to the house to shoot.

As some of you know, my wife Dave (UK pop culture reference for Ida) and Jen do pin-up photography under the name “CatFight“. They had a shoot booked for the day and, well, no photographer. The girl is suppesedly very busy and hard to get booked, and she was driving an hour and a half to get to the house.

“I can do it.”

You see, I’m a giving kind of person who feels that self-sacrifice is the highest good. I offered to set aside my selfish interests for the day and give my time to others…
I’d just bought a pretty decent new camera. I have a retarded number of friends and acquaintances that are good photographers. I also have a retarded number of books, magazines, etc. of photos and illustrative depictions of scantily or not-at-all clad females. None of those mean I can actually take a damn worthwhile photo myself. Do I have any natural talent?… maybe… do I have technical knowledge?… well… not really so much.
Okay, bullshit aside, I took some pictures on Sunday and I think they came out pretty good. Ida and I picked a new name for our work, as 1/2 of CatFight is not a fight at all. Since I didn’t dare speculate who, between Jen and Ida, was the Cat and who was the Fight, we came up first with “Slaughter Family Photography” and at the last minute changed it to “Slaughter House”… and no, I won’t be making a myspace profile for it anytime soon.

The shoot, including make-up and hair, setting up the backdrop, the modeling, changing lights, etc. lasted from about 2 to 7pm. I edited the photos until about 11pm.

Ida and I settled on 4 images to work with, and I edited them all differently. I didn’t do too much digital plastic surgery, and I think the model isn’t thrilled that I left curves where she doesn’t want them. Specifically the bump made by the elastic band of her underwear. I like that myself, that’s why I left it.

We forgot to have her sign a model release…that was stupid.

The model’s name is Mona deLux.

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Ida and I may do some more shoots, but as of right now I’ve got too many things doing on to dedicate too much time to the pursuit. Either way, it was a novel way to pass the day and I did something I’ve never really done in a serious manner before.

There is an awful lot to learn and study, and I have hada  great respect for photography for quite some time. I chalk up most anything I did get right to beginners luck, and anything I got wrong to bad equiptment (hey, if I ain’t gonna take credit for the good stuff, why take blame for the bad? it’s only fair…)