A long time posting but I did the damn thing at SXSW this year and here are some photos. Pictured: the Dum Dum Girls, the XX, Dave Nada stagediving, me and one of the GWAR dudes, Dam-Funk, Major Lazer, Rye Rye, Haushka. This year was a lot of fun… even though it was freakishly cold!
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Last month Michael Byrne and myself covered this festival for SPIN. You can see the coverage here. We saw, among other things: Andrew WK performing classical music with Calder Quartet, the Ex, Terry Riley and Bang the Can performing In C, Saint Vincent, Vampire Weekend, Ben Frost, DJ/Rupture (several times), the xx, Joanna Newsom, Adrian Belew… and many more.
Knoxville is also a great town! So many great and beautiful music venues and every seems to be really nice. One thing that I thought was really great is all the people working at the various venues that were hosting the festival seemed VERY knowledgable about both the history of their venue and music in general. And they were super polite and friendly. Also don’t miss King Tut’s Egyptian Diner if you ever are in Knoxville… its a treat!
This saturday in Baltimore we are having a little book preview party to show off the preview version of one of the books I am working on: UNDER THE STROBE LIGHT: Club Photos 2005-2010. It’s a selection of photos I have taken over the last 5 years in clubs and at parties. The emphasis is on dancing, clubgoers, DJs and it’s mostly Baltimore oriented, with a decent amount of Philly and other stuff sneaking in.
The emphasis of the collection isn’t on artists, it’s more about clubgoers… but artists featured in the include Baltimore natives Scottie B, Rye Rye, Blaqstarr, and Rod Lee (among others) to other east coasters like Diplo and DJ Sega.
The shots in the book were taken at Baltimore clubs like Paradox and Sonar, and underground venues like the Hexagon or the Mausoleum in Philly.
The party is this saturday 4/24 at Bijon (226 W Monument St), at the corner of Monument & Howard Streets in Baltimore. 8:30-11:30pm with free champagne, music by Jay Rags, and photos and copies of the limited preview version of the book on display (and for sale). Stop by if you can!
Here are a few pages from the book (and the cover) to give you a taste:
I’ll have more details about the book on here after the show. Thanks!
I have made it a bit of a habit to post a “best of” my photos each year. These types of things generally happen in late December or early January but… This year I have been a bit too busy. All this snow has created a little respite though, so I have managed to wade through and pick my favorites.
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Just now digging out of a week of record snowstorms in baltimore. Snow days mean time to test out new things, as you (hopefully) can see above, courtesy of the excellent flickrshow javascript.
Click here to see the photo set in a more traditional format.
Last week, I shot Of Montreal and James Husband’s tour kick off in Baltimore. It was a fun show, though I was SO SICK. I apologize to anyone I spoke to at that show, I was totally delirious with fever and probably made no sense. This was one of the most grueling photo editing sessions ever, since I had to file the photos by 9am. Somehow I managed it between fever dreams and dry heaves.
Check out the full Of Montreal photo set here.
This weekend I caught the Blogtimore Fest at the G-Spot (which is apparently closing after 10 years!) and the Aural States Fest at Sonar. To me, the highlights were Sick Weapons, Vincent Black Shadow, and Wye Oak. J Robbins’ new band the Office of Future Plans was also a pleasant discovery… I hadn’t heard of them before but they were good. Sadly the freak snowstorm hurt attendance, but both nights were a great time.
Posting some never-before-seen photos from SXSW 2008. Pictured above are: 2 Live Crew, Amanda Blank, Spank Rock, and Santigold. Click here to see the whole set, and expect more blasts from the past over the next week or so.
Earlier this month I shot Deacon from Animal Collective’s first solo show, with Dan Higgs and Jason Urick. Click here to read the article on Spin.com. Click here to see the whole set.
One of my photos was published in the above book. It’s available on Amazon, but I haven’t seen it yet in person.
Monday I shot some promos for Bmore Original, a local label. This is just a preview of the set. Booman, Jimmy Jones, DJ Excel, Benny Stixx.
A promo shot of death metal band Dying Fetus. Shot for Relapse Records. Talented photographer Rob Brulinski assisted me on this shoot.
I recently started dabbling in food photography. It’s a new avenue for me… it’s challenging, but fun. This is my favorite shot so far…
I can’t accurately describe to you what this was like, but it was really fun. CLICK HERE to see the whole set. View it SLIDESHOWed.
I did still photography for the first Mz Streamz video ("Tear It Up"). They shot this the summer of 2008 and I wasn’t supposed to post these until after the video debuted, but I forgot to go back and post them after the video debuted! So here they are…
Click here to check out the whole Mz Streamz video shoot set. And here is the video:
