...and about 300 other REALLY sweaty people. Seriously, if you were there last Friday at El Corazon for this show, you know what I mean. I think I came out of the club 5 pounds lighter, and I drank so much water!
Despite the extreme heat wave that the club endured, it was an awesome show! I have only seen The Maine play once before, and that was at a huge event [JBB this past December] and I can say that I really do enjoy them live. They have an energy that I don't see very often…

Just letting you know that Jessie Gracic is an amazing musician who needs to upload new songs to her Myspace--or just make more music in general. We hung out with our good friend, Joe, yesterday, and jammed for a few hours (I pretended that I knew how to play the bass and had fun even though I suck). I took about 550 photos (srsly) and am going to make a stop motion movie once I obtain Final Cut Pro, but for now I just have some stills to share.



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And the Award for the most Fall Out Boy esk title goes to..... COLLEEN! Such an honor, guys! Well, Kelly called me out a few weeks ago to write some blogs and again last week. I posted a lame blog about twilight tattoos. COOL.

Guess ya'll found that to be... well, expected. So, here I am, summer fans. I am blogging away because, well, I have once again started a 52 week photo blog on my Flickr. Now now, I am not as brave as Kelly doing the whole 365 EVERY DAY... mainly because I'm lazy…

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I haven't posted anything in awhile [sorry Kelly!!], and I totally apologize.

I have a TON of photos for your enjoyment. I have been going to shows and not editing/posting my photos. SORRY!! Don't hate, I promise I'll get better!

But anyways, there's a bunch of them up now on my flickr ranging from...

Emery...


to Friday Night Boys and Cute Is What We Aim For...


to the always strong Classic Crime.


Seriously, Seattle has some of the best venues and local bands ever.
So we know that Amber…

I was going to wait until a few more photos surfaced, but the ones I took will suffice for now. This was the first time I was able to use my 50mm f/1.4 USM lens at a show, and I can't even express in words how much of a difference it made--even WITH sand in the autofocus mechanism (don't ask), the photos looked at least five times better than the ones I have taken with my 50mm f/1.8. Maybe the $125 cleaning is worth it afterall... Moving on.

The El Corazon website lied and said that the show…

I've started a 365 photo project on Flickr, and most of the time I have spent online these past few days have been on that site. Sorry for neglecting you, RCA.

If you are at all interested in seeing my progress with this project, check out my 365 set on Flickr. In the meantime, I will be posting on here more now that school is out and I'm all caught up on my sleep. Watch for many-a-blog from Colleen as well!

Happy summer, everyone!

Sorry for the lack of updates for the past few days; I had finals up until this morning, but now it is finally summer! Time to join Colleen and the rest of the Washington state schools in summer vacay. Too bad the weather hasn't gotten the memo that it's supposed to be SUNNY now. Pfft!

Anyway, I had a little photo shoot on Saturday night with a few of my roommates, and I want to share my favorites with you guys. We went to the abandoned TUBS building on 50th in the U District and pretty much just went crazy.…

Another amazing show, and another amazing album. The Classic Crime have a strong fanbase here in their native Seattle, WA. They are one of my personal favorite bands, both on CD and live, and if you came out to their CD release show on April 6th then you know what I mean! Great guys, and great music.

So I was there, camera in hand, and took some pictures. It's another reason I love them, they shoot great live shots. So head on over to my Flickr to see more! I'll be uploading them as…

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There hasn’t been very many times in the last year or two that I could honestly say I was proud of the Seattle scene. There’s no denying that our scene had hit rock bottom. Between some of the largest local bands breaking up and kids just not going to shows, some would go as far to say we don’t have a scene anymore. Slowly bands have been making a return and more bands have been formed, but one band that has stuck it out is Moneta. This amazing band made its debut in early 2007 and…

Hey everyone, I know it's been a couple of weeks, but I'm back with photos from London and Cambridge, England for your viewing pleasure.

I fell in love with London, and if you ever have the chance to go, DO IT DO IT DO IT. It's the most expensive country in the world, so don't expect to do very much shopping, but if you eat at Mark's & Spencer's (basically a grocery store chock-full of delicious ready-made food) for every meal of every day you should be alright. Plus, the Tate Museum of Modern Art is free admission, and there…

Well, dudes and dudettes, I finally sucked it up and went to a show last night, but I could only stay for There For Tomorrow due to the fact that I had to study for the finance quiz I had this morning. To make up for the fact that I couldn't stay for long, I took 150 pictures of There For Tomorrow, and I put about 25 of them up on my Flickr. The lovely Jasenka Gracic's boyfriend tattooed the manager of the tour in the upstairs of the venue, but that's another story.

The lighting at El…

Is everyone enjoying the Olympics so far? Watching bobsled after bobsled flip over on that icy track has... well, made me want to ride a roller coaster, but it has also scared the living hell out of me. Seeing peoples' heads slide on ice at 90 miles-per-hour sends chills down my spine.

Local speed-skater Apolo Ohno had a couple of intense races tonight, and he took home the bronze medal! Woot woot. I think I heard the announcer say that he now holds more medals than any other winter Olympics athlete, and that this is his third Olympic games. Wow.…

Photo courtesy of Tim Willis

Just some quantum mechanics to tickle your brain cells.

Back in October 2009, I went to a show at the Marlboro Rec Center in Marlboro, New Jersey as the photographer for Jersey Shows (not to be confused with Jersey Shore... there weren't any guidos to be found.) I was originally there to shoot for my good friends Solfege Radio. My camera died right after there set. BUMMER. I found an outlet near the door and sat for the next few bands. I heard Matt of Danimal Records say that the last band was about to hit the stage and I should take some photos, so I unplugged my charger,…

As a few of you may know, I went to Europe over the summer and took LOTS of photos. Most of them are on another computer, but I edited the ones I took in Barcelona, Spain. There are some artsy ones, but most of them are just snapshots that I took while wandering around the city.

You can see them all on my Flickr page, but here are a few that I thought were especially interesting:








..and a glamour shot…

I got a new 50 mm lens for my camera (my other one broke), and I thought the Lydia show would be a perfect place to break it in. Unfortunately, as you probably know if you have ever tried taking pictures at El Corazon, the venue's lighting is really bad, but I did what I could.

He is We was almost done with their set when I got there, so I didn't get to take any photos of them. Maybe next time.

Anarbor was after He is We. I'd never heard them before, but I liked them! They definitely had…

As my hometown went to Warped Tour 2009 @ the Gorge, I spent my August 15, 2009, at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey. This show was unlike any competition I've been to . This show was The Battle of the Bands, New Jersey edition.

The top 8 bands from all over New Jersey competed in this finale of the battle. My friend and I endured a long trek to Sayreville... a long traffic'd Garden State Parkway. If you know me, you know that one thing I hate with passion of 3 firey suns is traffic. Why? I can't…

I have to leave for work in six minutes, but I haven't posted anything for a few days so I thought I'd check in.

Jessie and I had a little mini photoshoot a few days ago, and after we took some serious photos we went a little crazy with the black eyeliner. This was the result:



Incidentally, this is the only photo I have edited so far because I have been working nonstop since I got back from LA, but it made me lololol so I thought I would share.

Sorry, Jessie.

Real update later!

I took promos of Cavalier the other day. My computer crapped out midway through editing.
Mind you, I don't take band promos. They needed somebody to snap pictures on short notice.



Click for large version.

Most of them are from this park in Auburn, but it got dark and we needed some indoors ones. We got into the hospital their lead singer Stephen works at. We knew that taking pictures in hospitals is illegal, and I hope no government officials are reading this. But whatever. I don't like the coloring in this, but…

What an adventure last weekend was. The guys in Hexxus and I went out to the Edmonds waterfront to take some promos, and they ended up getting really, really messy in the process.

First we took some normal shots, which turned out the best:





Then came the sand/seaweed/Value Village jackets. I really wish we could have taken some more photos with this, but the sun was going down and the only place we could think of to take pictures was knee deep in the Puget Sound. Unfortunately, that didn't work…

The photo portion of the site is not completely finished yet, so I am posting my photos on the blog instead. Hoorah.

This is the series I did for my ART 140 (basic photo) final project. My friend, Tim Willis, suggested I go to Discovery Park to take photos because my original idea failed miserably, so we went up on Tuesday night to explore. I'd say I am pretty proud of these...

Jessie and I will be going out and taking promotional photographs (that sounds so official!) of Cavalier today, so keep an eye out for those!

Actually, it sounds like Jessie is going to be calling the shots on this one, but maybe I will take pictures of buildings or squirrels or something while she is doing her thing. All I know is that I have not gotten the chance to officially break in my new camera, and this sounds like a perfect opportunity.

On that note, if you need promos then shoot me an email... I need to…