Mischief in the Machine

"We invite you to enter a fairy tale world, where a malevolent Autocrat rules over a ruined world of silent labor. In this dreary landscape, small sparks of joy and mischief appear, slowly coalescing into a full-fledged celebration of all humanity's wonder and variety."

This is ancient (May 2008) but after I sent out the files, I never did anything else with them. Yet this has a particularly special place in my heart, for so many reasons.

This is the Mischief in the Machine show, featuring Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, HUMANWINE, Ruckus Muckus, and many other very talented artists. Paranoid Zen Radio granted me the great honor of photographing the show, and it truly was a phenomenal thing.

Here are a few of my favorites. More can be found on my website or Flickr.

Oh, how I cannot bear to be pulled away.

Sorry for the link heavy entry, but I want to give credit where it's due :)

Rainbow Tribe

I had the privilege of shooting the tech rehearsal for Rainbow Tribe's upcoming show, Audacity. It was my first time with them, and they were a phenomenal group of people, very talented and very sweet.

You can find more about them here.

And the water keeps flowing

So the story of this shoot:

First, love to Christina. We shot this in the upstairs bathroom of her parents house, which we were fairly certain was mostly unoccupied at the time. We were incorrect. I ran out to the car to get something and, coming back up the stairs, passed her dad, who kind of just harrumphed at me and walked passed in a huff. Well, apparently, we later found out that he was less annoyed about being woken up, and more perplexed because he assumed we were "playing in the shower together." Oh well.

Life should be full fun and laughter. I love my friends for providing me with generous amounts of both.

<3

Two posts in a month!

Thank you to Jenna for being my guinea pig #2.

So Jenna's fiance (whom she specifically told not to come by for the duration of the shoot), gave me a heart attack. I'm lying on the floor of their bathroom, totally absorbed in the shoot, with my legs hanging out the door, and I lower my camera for a second - and there's a huge guy standing over me, looking at me. I started screaming and freaking out and of course, Jenna, who didn't have my vantage point, started freaking out because I was freaking out. Thanks Craig.

Outtakes to come.

Rub a dub dub

Sooo... In light of some recent happenings (or non-happenings) in my life, I have become more adamant about doing my own personal photo work. Many know my dislike of staged photos and how I've attempted to avoid them, so part of my new leaf has involved staging some stuff, or at the very least, creating photographic opportunities rather than hunting them out.

So I'm starting out really basic. Girls in showers. How can you not love that?

Special thanks to Crystal for helping me launch this. I probably would have never gotten on the ball if it hadn't been for you :)

I love this girl. Xoxo.