Publicist @ the H&H

publicist @ the H & H

Wow, it’s been way too long since I posted here. I’ve been quite busy, doing a lot of freelance, shooting for Pig Destroyer, TaxLo, taking pictures at a few shows… etc. I’ll be posting alot over the next few days, hopefully.

Above is a shot of Publicist from the recent Plastic Little/JC & DLake/Publicist show at the H&H (put on by Taxlo & Rabbitfoot). Good times – Plastic Little is one of my current faves and Publicist was fun since he was obviously pretty hammered so the fact that he could play drums at all was astounding!

More images here.

juiceboxxx @ taxlo.

juiceboxxx @ taxlo 01.12.2007

Caught Wisconsin rapper Juiceboxxx at Taxlo friday – he was great! Totally animated, he flailed around constantly, did a million or so call and responses, and managed to get on every surface in the place, including the pool table, one of the speakers, a rickety table (two people had to hold it to keep him from spilling to the concrete of the lounge). Good times. I bought his collaborative LP with Dre Skull (who was DJing for him), but I left it in Simon’s car.

Here are some more photos from friday. More Juiceboxxx pictures after the break.

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New Year’s Eve @ the Ottobar.

NYE @ Ottobar 2006

New Year’s Eve at the Ottobar was a good time – a suprising amount of people showed up (suprising because I don’t think most of them like country)… will country be the next big hipster trend? Is it already and I just didn’t get the memo?

Regardless, it was fun… we also managed to get kicked out of Sonar and I even swung by Dionysus solo, since they were open til 6 AM!!! It was basically a SIN, though.

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what a day.

TaxLo 12.22.2006

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…

diplo @ the talking head last monday

diplo @ talking head 12.18.2006

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.