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10.31
Does anyone else not like the changes I made on the homepage last week? Curious to hear opinions...
Yes, I know it's a wreck in I.E. on the Mac, sorry (switch to Safari or Firefox fer chrissakes, I.E. Mac is deprecated).
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10.30
Eighth notes again. I love that! That hasn't happened since last April.
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10.29
These two gentlemen are the hypnotic folk punk duo that is Devil's Flying Machine.
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10.28
Paul Metzger, of the seminal band TVBC, is seen here playing his banjo with an e-bow in the wee hours of Slumber, adding small pleading notes to the sleepy if thousands jam.
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10.27
Have a closer look at Aaron Molina in this photo. His eyes are a wierd optical illusion. He's really looking sideways (toward the camera), but he also seems to be staring blankly ahead at a random point.
Slumber is Aaron's brainchild. He wanted to perform the music he makes with Christian McShane to a roomfull of people in the proper mode for it. If you've listened to if thousands, you know that a lot of their music is best enjoyed after you've turned out the light for the night. You drift off with it, and getting up in the morning is hard if you've left the CD on repeat.
The Slumber audience was encouraged to bring pillows, blankets, and peejays and spend the night. 12 hours of music with visual projections. Sets from Al Sparhawk and Paul Metzger (at the same time), Cloud Cult, A Whisper in the Noise, and many many others. By 3am or so Aaron and Christian had the dozy audience all to themselves and they played for the remainder of the night.
Veni. Vidi. Dormivi.
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10.26
This is from last week's Semblesque performance in Duluth. Look here for a close up of their faces.
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10.25
Black is the new black. Ask Karla.
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10.24
One of my photos on the wall at Slumber. Quiet music to sleep to all night long. Tired now. More on Slumber later.
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10.23
From the Keep Aways show at the Red Lion.
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10.22
Devil's Flying Machine is what you get when you mix Christian McShane with Charlie Parr... a sort of raging hypnotic roots music... an angry folk punk drone. It's something to hear.
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10.21
More flames. The photo is completely unretouched. It's wierd, actually, the flames. They only appear in my photos when I'm shooting Trampled By Turtles. Yea yea... I know what you're gonna say, but what you don't know is that Sammy was sitting in with the Turtles at the time I took that picture.
Spooky.
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10.20
Semblesque is a dance company in Duluth which features Jill Hall, who I know through Cloud Cult. She invited me to photograph a few performances of Do Your Own Reasearch, a vaudvillian take on Gonzo Science featuring music by Craig Minowa.
Christian McShane of if thousands and Devil's Flying Machine gave me a fun little relic to play with:
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10.19
This is the view from the stage at Lucé in Duluth. I wonder how many skulls the sawed-off aluminum bat (in the neon letter "U") has seen.
In case you missed it, Sunday's Opus was great.
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10.18
This photo was taken at the Norshore Theatre. Maria was being a ticket-ripper for the Semblesque performance.
After the show we headed down Superior Street. "Turtles are playing Lucé," I suggested.
"Oh, that's all you need: more pictures of them on your website," she replied.
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10.17
Accidentally uploded a .psd instead of a .jpg by mistake and left for the day. Sorry 'bout that.
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10.16
Bandaged fingers and steel guitars. His percussion section consists of tapping his boot on a board with a mic under it. Chris Whitley is something to see. This was taken a couple minutes after this shot.
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10.15
This is a stained-glass window at Sacred Heart Studio. Marc Gartman, whose band The Language of Our People recently recorded an album there, mentioned to me last week that he's considering this image for its cover.
(The band was renamed no wait wait, and Marc did not use this, or any, of my photographs in the CD. I guess he's a tease.)
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10.14
Flames were everywhere at the Cabooze last weekend. This was shot on the same night as this.
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10.13
Spotted this on a bulletin board at the Montana Coffee Shop in the Warehouse District. I hope many people saw today's Doonsbury and looked up the webpage mentioned in the cartoon. A startling piece of writing and an eye opener to anyone who still believes the war is going well.
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10.12
Many of the interesting things that happen with trails and streaks in photos are happy accidents. This one, on the other hand, was quite intentional and involved a slow exposure, a muted flash, and a careful flick of the wrist. Multiple attempts failed before I got the shot.
Anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing Trampled by Turtles perform would find this a fitting metaphor.
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10.11
The guy standing against the wall is Eric Pollard, the lead singer and drummer for The Dukes of Hubbard. He also plays drums for The Language of Our People (later renamed no wait wait).
The other day an "Atheists Make Lousy Suicide Bombers" bumper sticker prompted a conversation between us on the causal relationship between religion and terrorism. He maintained that "dying gloriously" to spill the blood of an oppressor (perhaps the ultimate demonstration of faith) is a part of all religions, not just Islam.
"But in Islamic culture, this tendency is far higher," I countered.
"That's just because they're poor," he replied.
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10.10
A spontaneous shot while making images of The Dukes of Hubbard last night in Dinkytown.
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10.09
Zak playing at the MAC in Duluth Thursday night.
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10.08
This was taken in the basement of the 400 Bar before a show. Strung out from weeks of touring, stress and "the lifestyle," he appears vulnerable here. Moments later he dashed upstairs and laid down two hours of muscular slide/steel blues.
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10.07
Saw this guy while sitting in the bank drive-thru and got the shot only because the camera was already powered up and ready on the seat next to me. He was in my line of sight for two seconds, maybe three tops.
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10.06
He thinks the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. She thinks he wasn't worth her Grandson's life. I kept my mouth shut and ate my breakfast.
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10.05
Some guy hosing down the parking lot with a powersprayer outside my office window.
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10.04
The entrance to our local neighborhood Hells Angels looks especially imposing under cumulonimbus mammatus clouds which are, ironically, nicknamed angel butts.
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10.03
Hung out with Christian McShane today and enjoyed two films from the Sound Unseen festival: Low in Europe, an excellent documentary on (you guessed it) Low; and Moog, about the inventor of the synthesizer. Christian invited me to the first one because he knows I'm a huge Low fan, and I invited him to the second one for obvious reasons.
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10.02
Seen through a window from the outside, looking in.
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10.01
I really like this shot of Marc Gartman accompanying Low onstage at Greenman last July.
The presidential debate tonight was actually mildly entertaining. Kerry was impressive. Before tonight I was just voting against Bush. Now I'm voing for Kerry. Same difference, but I get to feel better about it. The best moment in the debate was Bush reminding Kerry "don't forget Poland!" I was rotflmao.
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