Once again, quite a substantial gap between posts but i have been pretty busy this time. Had a lot going on with regards to photography. First it was a full moon last week so me and a friend took the opportunity to go take some night pics. We decided to go to Tynemouth beach. We didnt get there til about half midnight and it was really weird to be in such a touristy, busy place and be the only people there. We were trying to find spots where there was no light pollution from the street lamps but that proved quite difficult. Still, we both got a hand full of cool shots…
Next up was a gig that i covered for NARC (www.narcmedia.com) which is a North east based music Magazine i write reviews and take pics for. The band was called Stars of The Lid (www.myspace.com/starsofthelid) who are essentially one of the fathers of the whole Ambient, minimal, drone based instrumental music movement and theyve been going since the very early 90s. The gig was held in an amazing location, a church called ‘The Church of St.Thomas the Martyr’ which is in the center of Newcastle. The band was made up of two guitarists with a range of loop pedals and keyboards and a string trio of cello, viola and violin. The band also has two projectionists and the musicians were pretty much in complete darkness until the projections lit up pretty much the entire back end of the church. A truly holy experience believe me…
And finally this morning i shot some photos for a Artist friend of mine called cat who is designing and making the costumes for a play that is going to be on at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. The play is based around mental health and music so she designed her own jazzy looking straight jacket, and today got a dancer/actress friend of hers to model it for me while i took some shots. We shot the pics in a communal artist studio space in Heaton called the Waygood which i didnt even know existed. It was such a cavernous strange building. This made for some cool shots on the strange stairways and halls. It was a really cool session and i think there is more to be done with other things relating to the play so there could be some more stuff like this up here in the future…
Well thats my photography adventures for the last couple of weeks. Ive been working on another biro drawing recently but its being a bit of a chore and taking far longer than any of the others while being a lot simpler. Still i enjoy it though. I should get it finished in the next few days and whwn i do i’ll post it up.
til next time.
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