# bd\-studios\.com > bd\-studios\.com is the art and publishing studio by luke kurtis, featuring solo and collaborative work in poetry, art, music, and experimental creative projects\. Generated by Yoast SEO v28.2, this is an llms.txt file, meant for consumption by LLMs. ## Pages - [About](https://bd-studios.com/about/): bd is the art and publishing studio by luke kurtis - [Contact](https://bd-studios.com/contact/) - [Privacy](https://bd-studios.com/about/privacy/) - [Shop](https://bd-studios.com/shop/): The bd Library is where you can find our Artists’ Books, Poetry Books, Zines, Music, and other publications\. - [Blog](https://bd-studios.com/blog/): A place for news about our projects, conversations with artists, random notes from luke kurtis, and other updates\. - [Jordan’s Journey blog archive](https://bd-studios.com/journey/): The Jordan’s Journey project was launched in January 2012\. All posts from the original blog and the short video series have been archived here for continued research and reference\. ## Posts - [The rumors are true \(or, how one thing becomes another\)](https://bd-studios.com/the-rumors-are-true-or-how-one-thing-becomes-another/): A new remix album from luke kurtis, reimagining “a harras” through ambient, industrial, and synth\-pop textures\. - [I don't know what to make of this\.](https://bd-studios.com/i-dont-know-what-to-make-of-this/): I have no memory of approving this\. ## Products - [Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South](https://bd-studios.com/shop/southern-gothic/): \Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South\ is an anthology like no other\. Featuring over 15 stories and poems by new and veteran authors, the writing reflects a diverse range of Southern experience\. From the post\-Katrina New Orleans of Rose Yndigoyen's "Long Gone Girls" and the deep\-rooted family of Hardy Jones' "Visitin' Cormierville" to the racial tension of Eryk Pruitt's "Them Riders" and Shane K\. Bernard's "The Phrenologist," the anthology represents a new interpretation of the long\-established Southern Gothic genre\. Each story is paired with original art by Nathan Mark Phillips\. Phillips' images pull at the underside of the stories and bring a thoughtful level of interpretation to each work\. Poking at the heart of Southern distinctiveness, these writers and artists make a bold statement about the south in the 21st century\. \[wpcode id="23571"\] - [Startling Sci\-Fi: New Tales of the Beyond](https://bd-studios.com/shop/startling-sci-fi/): \
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For generations, the science fiction genre and literary fiction have been perceived as irreconcilable\. \Startling Sci\-Fi: New Tales of the Beyond \attempts to prove otherwise\. These 13 stories are boldly literary while employing unmistakable characteristics of the sci\-fi genre\. Jhon Sanchez's "The Japanese Rice Cooker" and Daniel Gooding's "Crow Magnum Xix" toy with readers' expectations by defying traditional storytelling techniques while Eve Fisher's "Embraced" and David W\. Landrum's "The Priestesses of Light" are intricately constructed character studies\. Rob Hartzell's "The Dead and Eternal" raises profound concerns about modern technology though Adam Sass's "98% Graves" takes an optimistic view of the future\. Every story is accompanied by Stefanie Masciandaro's vibrant, hypnotic illustrations which simultaneously evoke the days of sci\-fi pulp paperbacks yet remain firmly grounded in 21st century digital techniques\. This anthology will take you beyond what you thought possible in science fiction\. \ \ \ \
\[wpcode id="23571"\]\ - [Erotica by Brian Centrone](https://bd-studios.com/shop/erotica/): \
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\Erotica\ by Brian Centrone features seven stories for every sin\. Join Centrone on a jaunt across the pond in "Mates," travel with him on the high seas of "Lost," sneak into the locker room together for "Team Player," then slip into a parked car for "Making the Grade\." These classic collected tales will leave you panting for more, and Centrone delivers with two new stories\. Visit a frat house in "Getting What He Wants," and see who's looking for fun on "Chubstr," before reminiscing about escaping to the island of "Boracay\." But don't worry if you forgot to take pictures\. With artwork by Terry Blas, Alan Ilagan, luke kurtis, and Rob Ordonez you'll have plenty of visuals to remember this adventure for a lifetime\. \[wpcode id="23571"\] \ \ \ - [\(This Is Not A\) Mixtape for the End of the World](https://bd-studios.com/shop/this-is-not-a-mixtape-for-the-end-of-the-world/): by \Daniel M\. Shapiro\ Daniel M\. Shapiro’s \\(This Is Not A\) Mixtape for the End of the World\ is a collection of prose poems inspired by the heyday of MTV pop music videos\. The poems distill the juxtaposition of sunny materialism and Cold War trepidation that define so many music videos of the 1980s\. Shapiro chips away at nostalgia while clinging to what makes his source material so catchy\. A series of artworks by Stephen Tornero accompanies the poems\. Much like the period’s music, the bold excess, bright colors, and festive abstractions stand in contrast to the decade’s underbelly\. \
”Like the light that reaches earth from a dying star, whether celebrity or celestial body, Daniel M\. Shapiro’s poems from \(This Is Not A\) Mixtape for the End of the World radiate a brilliancy that lingers long after you’ve put this collection down\."\ \
—Jennifer MacBain\-Stephens author, We’re Going to Need a Higher Fence\ \”Shapiro reminds us we are all owners of a lonely heart trying to outshine the drummer’s hair and forget we cannot sleep\."\ \
—Jennifer MacBain\-Stephens author, \We’re Going to Need a Higher Fence\\ \”This book is for the auditory what ekphrasis is for the visual\."\ \
—Kenning JP Garcia author, \So This Is Story\\ \[wpcode id="16740"\] - [Angkor Wat: an instrumental album](https://bd-studios.com/shop/angkor-wat-an-instrumental-album/): by \luke kurtis\ \Angkor Wat: an instrumental album\ by luke kurtis is an instrumental version of \the spoken word album\\. These original ambient electronic tracks were composed as background music for each poem\. With this instrumental version, you can read the book out loud along with the background music for a truly immersive poetry, photography, and music experience\. \[wpcme\]\\\ \<\!\-\- \[button button\_text="Listen Now" url="http://smarturl\.it/angkor\-wat\-album\-ins" new\_tab="yes" type="small" alignment="left" bg\_color= "" hover\_bg\_color= "rgba\(29, 233, 182, \.25\)" color= "\#000000" hover\_color= "" border\_width= "3" border\_color= "\#000000" hover\_border\_color= "\#1de9b6"\] \-\-\> ## Portfolios - [Early web projects](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio/early-web-projects/): These early web projects \(1999–2003\) explore poetry, music, photography, and performance through hand\-coded HTML experiments\. Influenced by Fluxus and mail art, they reflect foundational steps in merging text, sound, and image — a restless curiosity that continues to shape bd’s independent publishing and interdisciplinary practice\. - [The Yoko Archives](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio/yoko-archives/): Hand\-coded in the late ’90s, The Yoko Archives was an ambitious online resource dedicated to Yoko Ono’s art, music, and writings\. Blending design, editorial curation, and archival vision, the project stands as an early bd publication and a signpost toward the independent publishing practice that defines bd today\. - [synthesisis](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio/synthesisis/) - [muse](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio/muse/) - [Iceland](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio/iceland/): More than just travel photography, these works consider travel itself as art as well as a platform for multimedia exploration\. ## Posts \(JJ\) - [Seen \& Unseen: The Inner World of \Sahkanaga\](https://bd-studios.com/jj/seen-unseen-the-inner-world-of-sahkanaga/): A portrait of Walker County as I have never seen before\. - [Georgia Backroads: "We Are One People"](https://bd-studios.com/jj/georgia-backroads-we-are-one-people-out-now/): My new essay explores my ancestral ties to slavery\. - [Georgia Backroads: "The Language of History"](https://bd-studios.com/jj/georgia-backroads-the-language-of-history-out-now/): I have a new article out in the current issue \(Summer 2014\) of Georgia Backroads\. - [Georgia Backroads: “Polishing the Gilt Easel”](https://bd-studios.com/jj/georgia-backroads-polishing-the-gilt-easel-out-now/): My new essay tells the history of crayon portraiture along with some family history from northwest Georgia\. - [Georgia Backroads: “A Man of Most Simple and Attractive Manners”](https://bd-studios.com/jj/georgia-backroads-a-man-of-most-simple-and-attractive-manners-out-now/): Researching this story took me all the way to California\. ## Categories - [Studio](https://bd-studios.com/blog/studio/) - [Writing](https://bd-studios.com/blog/writing/) - [Elsewhere](https://bd-studios.com/blog/elsewhere/) - [Encounters](https://bd-studios.com/blog/encounters/) ## Product categories - [Zines](https://bd-studios.com/product-category/zines/) - [Music](https://bd-studios.com/product-category/music/) - [Postcards and Prints](https://bd-studios.com/product-category/postcards-prints/) - [Poetry Books](https://bd-studios.com/product-category/poetry-books/) - [Wears and Wares](https://bd-studios.com/product-category/wears-wares/) ## Categories \(JJ\) - [People and Places](https://bd-studios.com/category-jj/people-places/) - [The Journey](https://bd-studios.com/category-jj/journey/) - [Connections](https://bd-studios.com/category-jj/connections/) - [The Art of Genealogy](https://bd-studios.com/category-jj/art-of-genealogy/) - [School Days](https://bd-studios.com/category-jj/school-days/) ## Portfolio Categories - [photography](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio_categories/photography/) - [design](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio_categories/design/) - [writing](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio_categories/writing/) - [video](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio_categories/video/) - [performance](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio_categories/performance/) ## Portfolio Tags - [photography](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio_tags/photography/) - [nature](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio_tags/nature/) - [landscape](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio_tags/landscape/) - [abstract](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio_tags/abstract/) - [design](https://bd-studios.com/portfolio_tags/design/) ## Optional - [Sitemap index](https://bd-studios.com/sitemap_index.xml)