Courtesy of On The Record, the best of The Irish Times‘ look we’re cool we have blogs, comes the genius that is FestivalShirts.net.
The only t-shirts you can wear to a festival this year and still expect to come away from it with everyone thinking you’re really cool, they come in bright but not attention-seeking colours with such genius captions as “If this is your t-shirt I slept in your tent”, “Don’t take drugs. That’s stealing” and “What Music?”
So other blogs have their caption competitions or their fluffy links, but this is as close as you’re going to get to a regular feature around here. I did it once before, and I may well do it again, but there is as yet no planned schedule.
Like the last installment, this one will follow a mainly musical theme.
I started by looking up a performance I saw on Later… with Jools Holland again:
I think I quite like Shy Child. Their mySpace page has some other nice songs. I particularly like The Volume and Summer.
After hearing The Avalanches’ Frontier Psychiatrist (above) on the radio a while back I looked them up. It’s quite a display of their sampling skills, and I think their Since I Left You has the potential to be quite the Summer song. Their myspace page is here.
When I originally heard Frontier Psychiatrist, I at first thought it might have been Messiah J & the Expert, and for that (if no better) reason, here’s Something Outta Nothing:
There’s more on their website and myspace (particular attention is drawn to Superfamous Supertune and All the Other Girls)
That was fun. My first gig with a photo pass, and in the pit.
I was asked on Thursday by Nine Lives to shoot their support slot for Billy Talent at the Ambassador.
From what I heard, it’s very rare that an unsigned band like them, used to playing Scout Halls and birthday parties gets picked to play support at a gig like this one.
Previously the biggest crowds Nine Lives had played to were around 300 or so. The Ambassador holds 1250 people, and was sold out last night.
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If this isn’t all over the internet yet, it soon will be.
Forget tags and keywords, folders and files. This is how photos should be organised:
I recommend Ramshackle by Beck
According to flickr, I’m now a pro photographer.
Of course, what it doesn’t tell you is that this simply means I’ve paid them €20. Why?
This payment got rid of the maximum number of photos (previously 200), gave unlimited uploads (previously 2GB a month, which I never managed to meet) and unlimited sets (previously limited to 3). Making some more sets and organising my photos there a little better is fast moving up my list of things to do (after the exams).
In related make-me-very-happy news, Nine Lives, a band I took photos of at the skatepark opening are playing a support slot at the Ambassador in Dublin on Saturday night, and asked me to shoot it for them. Having only taken photos at a few gigs in small clubs, this’ll be the biggest venue I’ve ever shot at, and the first one with a pit in front of the crowd to protect photographers from moshing teens.
Roll on Saturday!
P.S. may have some more photos here soon.
Today while browsing on a site that had absolutely nothing to do with photography, there was an Amazon banner ad down the bottom offering me lenses.
So it knows I like photography, so what?
Amazon already knows what I want, now they just want to convince me to buy from them with low low prices.
Before everyone goes screaming Big Brother and putting on their tin foil hats, I’m not at all worried by this. In fact it leaves me with positive feelings. This can only be a good thing.
Last couple of shots from the Flickr Dublin meet (almost a month ago now). These ones from inside the Pro Cathedral.
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