kaiju big battel

If someone said to you, "Do you want to see a bunch of grown ups in furry mutant costumes wrestle in a cage at some place down by the Gowanus Canal? I hear they have tacos too." And your answer was, "Umm, no." Then I don't think we can be friends.

My eyes nearly exploded right out of my head.

Scenes from the Kaiju Big Battel at the Yard in Brooklyn

200 disappointed guitarists

I was so looking forward to Rhys Chatham's US premiere of the Crimson Grail for 200 electric guitars at Lincoln Center Out of Doors. But unfortunately rain and electricity don't make a great combo, and after tornado warnings and a torrential downpour (that had better "pressure" than the shower in my apartment) the show was canceled. Oddly enough, once I found a place to huddle out of the rain after a soaking, and once I got over my disappointment that the story I came to tell wasn't going to happen, I settled in and found that the group melancholy was an equally interesting story unfolding.

88Boadrum

Lately I've really been seeking out non-club shows to go and see, I think the visual stories are so much more interesting...and frankly I'm sick of the same cycle of the same venues with the same lighting I've shot 25 million times before with the same challenges. All the shots look the same. Plus I just got a fisheye lens.

On 8/8/08 at 8:08 pm, 88 drummers (rock drummers with full kits) gathered on the Williamsburg waterfront and played together for 88 minutes.

awesome color, literally

If you take as many pictures as I do, you end up with a few shots that are your favorites of the moment. These are the shots where you look at your LCD and think, "Yup." These are the shots that make you take better pictures next time.

My current favorite is this one.


Partly it was because this was a great show and the atmosphere reminded of when I used to enjoy going out on a weekend and listening to weird music and hanging out on street corners talking to weird and enthusiastic people. Look up Awesome Color and go see them, it's a good show.