photography from baltimore & d.c.
I have started going through the dozens of folders of pictures I never had time to sort through properly when I took them… keep an eye on my photostream, should have lots of random shots popping up over the next week or so.
MIA friday (also my birthday!)
I like that photo. Check out some more pictures. Only one more weekly Taxlo at Sonar left, next week’s MIA show.
is a return to form for the Coens, which is to say it’s an excellent movie, but is at the same time completely different in tone than almost any other movie they have made. This movie affected me, and I really recommend it. Unique, suprising, original, yet using standard genre conventions so it feels familiar in many ways. The greatest accomplishments of the film are the character of Chigurh (played by Javier Bardem), the breathtaking cinematography by the incomparable Roger Deakins, and the momentum and efficiency of the script.
This movie is unsettling and deliberate… and for most viewers, I would imagine, unsatisfying. But I can’t think of a movie that I’ve seen in the last year that I would recommend more. Go see this movie.
last night i saw dan deacon and video hippos and a rapper named, i think, “height” do a battle set. it was really hard to take pictures since all three artists were set up at the same time, in an approximation of a triangle. i did take some pictures though.
i love the video hippos (and i realized recently that i used to hang out with one of them when i first moved to DC, but he looks totally different now!), and dan is always fun live, but i didn’t really like the format… each artist played one song, then the next would respond, and so on. it was okay but it was hard to really GET INTO THE GROOVE because they would stop, wait for the next artist to play, and then it was sort of disjointed just based on the different sounds. ah well, it’s cool to have a different sort of set up for a show, anyway.
the lo-fi social club was packed, i guess it is turning into a legit club, good for neal and peter… i know it has been a lot of hard work. Between that and the Talking Head and the Metro Gallery and 2640, Baltimore has a LOT of venues for interesting shows… here’s hoping there keeps being enough interesting bands and tours to keep all those places viable.
Sunday I saw Flosstradamas and Philly rapper Amanda Blank at the Talking Head… for a year, I’ve been saying that “in a year” Amanda Blank is gonna be huge… I think it’s finally gonna happen soon.
More pictures after the breaks, or click here for the flickr set.
Well, I have completely failed, after a year of posting to this site, to update every day as I had originally hoped. Partially, this is due to working to much (something I am trying to correct), partially just out of laziness. Expect a lot of updates in the next few days, if nothing else. And, of course, check out my flickr photostream.
Also, if you have emailed me with the contact form, I may not have gotten it… Gmail suddenly decided that mail from the form is spam. I will be upgrading that form so that it works a bit better.
