Shade Rupe's interview collection "Dark Stars Rising," featured Divine,
Alejandro Jodorowksy, Tura Satana, Udo Kier, Teller, Richard Kern,
Gaspar Noe, Johanna Went, Dame Darcy, Dennis Cooper, and other key
players of outsider artwork. Shade was the Programming Director for the
26th Annual Olympia Film Festival with guests ranging from "Nothing
Lasts Forever" director Tom Schiller and "Holy Mountain" producer
Robert Taicher to underground filmmakers Lisa Hammer and Dame Darcy.
Shade has appeared on television several times on Bravo's 100 Scariest
Movie Moments and 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments and 13 Scariest Movie
Moments to a winning ride on an episode of the popular Discovery
Channel game show Cash Cab. In 2013 he performed as background talent
in films ranging from Ryan Murphy's The Normal Heart to John Cameron
Mitchell's Happyish starring Philip Seymour Hoffman.