hoodwink

tonight was special. although it was raining and sort of annoying and a pain in the ass to get to, hoodwink was worth it. not in terms of what or who i saw, but just the feeling it gave me. like there are still bands out there that actually believe in what they're doing or playing. these were current bands playing songs by other recent and relevant current bands. new found glory playing green day, we the kings playing jimmy eat world (which i regrettably heard only a few notes of from across the way), mercy mercedes playing midtown, etc.

all the acts really showed their roots tonight - they have sort of restored my faith if you will. destroyed some of the jadedness that builds with having a life or your career function so close to the business side of things. i don't think most people get into the music industry to make money or at least they certainly don't intend to destroy all the beauty from music, but it is easier than you think it is to let happen. you fall asleep at 16. you wake up after college nd you're nearly 22 and faced with the sudden necessity that you have to "network".

what i did, i think, was latch on to some of the only facets of my adolescent life that made me feel not completely worthless - that was my interest in going shows or photography. with shows i had the community i never had anywhere else in my life. when you're 16, it's okay to feel totally compelled by certain things and obsess over them. at 22, with music, it's called being a stalker. so in order to "network" i must quell that which tells me "OMG THIS SONG ACTUALLY SAVED MY LIFE THAT ONE TIME."

and in turn, i am then to turn into one of the industry folks who make it totally uncool to get excited about anything.

trajectory of the record label employment scale:
intern: "oh man! paul mccartney came into the office last week."
CEO: "oh yeah, Paul McCartney is in CEO2's office? Well, I'm busy answering emails but I'll try and make it over before his meeting ends."

well i'm not having it. i'm a photographer. it is my "job" to be compelled, and fascinated, and outraged, and enthused, a million times over by my subjects.

news

be honest with me today.

did you see my work up at gallatin arts festival this past week? it was taken down yesterday, unfortunately. what are some of the questions you had about it? some of the reactions? aesthetically, which do you prefer, the newer collages (what i call the "sculpture" colored ones - the paler skin) or the older ones with a more "painter-friendly (yellowy)" quality. i know my titles were wrongly ordered (it was my own fault, maria was following the labels i had given & some were covered up from me re-taping the backings onto them) but if you noticed i was using a lot of song titles, band names, or book titles. does this bother people? attaching the titles of other works of art to a new piece of art?

for those curious, "andiatarocte" is the native american word for something like "lake that is closed in" and it is what the native americans called my hometown "Lake George" before the white settlers came.

i will tentatively be having some work in an upcoming gPhoto exhibition which should be on view from April 21 until May 7th. Same location, different work. i'm thinking about showing a first cut of photographs from my "images of my wandering" series/exhibit/retrospective travel photography bonanza. it's less boring than it seems, i assure you. it's more "transit" than travel, which are two words people mistakenly interchange. it's not about the destination i am travelling to but more about the similarities that come from being constantly in transit. these are places i captured not with intent (ie. going to the Eiffel Tower and taking a picture of the Eiffel Tower) but with meandering, with transitioning, interruptions on my way to perhaps, take the picture of the Eiffel Tower. except none of my photos are from France, as i've never been there. <3

we all fall like snowflakes in the sky, tonight

geoff rickly of thursday @ the taste of chaos tour, nyc. 2009

the rest of the pictures from the show, including sets from Thursday, Four Year Strong & Bring Me The Horizon can be found under the PHOTOS section of InklingsTV.