Still in North Dakota, fighting hackers, playing cards with my parents, over-eating. I fly back tomorrow.

Server issues (on launch day, of course) kept me busy most of the day, so I didn’t process that many of last friday’s taxlo photos. Here are a few.

Annoyingly, they also kept me from spending much time with my grandmother, OR going to shoot guns with my dad. Hopefully I can do both tomorrow- it’s my last day here.

I also want to try and take nice portraits of my parents and my grandmother. Yesterday I discovered that my mom is sensitive enough to the pre-flash of my SB600 flash that she always blinks if I use it in auto-exposure mode. I can’t discern the preflash from the main flash, be she obviously can since she blinks every time if I have it on. This might explain why Neena always blinks, too…

Last week was pretty fun. Dave Nada was there, so it was a good time. He is probably my favorite DJ, I never fail to have a good time when he spins and he always plays something unexpected.

Not as good a time as these guys, though.

More photos soon. I have a lot of free time at my parents.

Last monday I shot Diplo at the Talking Head. It was the last Taxidermy Lodge (TaxLo) night at the Talking Head – also probably the last time I’ll ever go there. While I never went to Taxlo there much, I went to TONS of shows there over the years, both in it’s current incarnation, and when it was the original location of the Ottobar. It will be sad to see the place go.

It was a fun night overall – packed, with a lot of people who never seemed to come downstairs, too. Carla managed to make it out, and Joe, and even Abby, Kara, Peter, and Abi! All my friends managed to get in even though there was alot of drama about it selling out. The door guy eventually had it with people asking Cullen or Simon to get them in, so he just yelled at everyone to beat it.

Eventually, it thinned out a bit – Diplo kept it going til after 3AM, after which all the people that didn’t have to get up at 8AM for work (that means, not me) went to some fancy afterparty. Who says there isn’t anything to do in Baltimore on a monday?

Here are the rest of the pictures.

A few weeks ago, I went into the studio to take pictures of Pig Destroyer recording their new EP, and I have slowly been processing them. I like several so far, but the studio setting isn’t the perfect place to capture them, I don’t think.