Ended up at sauced friday, and didn’t have time to post these yesterday. some people might say that makes me a bad blogger, but they need to get a life. The band is called, I think, The Double Clutchers. I could tell they were having fun, not a bad sound, but a lot of covers. I enjoyed it.<br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/three_guys_play_some_music/1225/0001.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/three_guys_play_some_music/1225/0002.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/three_guys_play_some_music/1225/0003.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/three_guys_play_some_music/1225/0004.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />This girl is not a member of the band. Rule of thumb: stripes = trouble. She’s not wearing paisley, that’s all I’m sayin’. <br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/three_guys_play_some_music/1225/0005.jpg” alt=”Photos” />
Posted by matt on 2009-03-14T00:00:00Z GMT
By which I actually mean there are more photos, and some of them are in focus, but after the last one here (which we’ll pretend was intentional), I was walking the fine line between blackout and just stupid, and so none of those photos are any good. <br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/pictures_until_i_was_too_drunk_to_focus/1227/0001.jpg” alt=”Photos”/><br /><br />I’m actually not sure any of these are any good, but they’re kind of fun, at least. That’s the threshold these days for blog-worthy photos, if I think someone I know will get a laugh or like it or link or somesuch, then I’ll put it up. Actually, there’s a quality threshold as well, see paragraph 1 for example. <br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/pictures_until_i_was_too_drunk_to_focus/1227/0002.jpg” alt=”Photos”/><br /><br />Wednesday was a pretty epic night, and actually it’s a good thing, because my money’s just about run out again. Time to find another jobby job. I did a pretty good job of embarrassing myself in front of girls I barely know, and some old friends in the mix too. It’s strange, the way things run in circles sometimes. <br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/pictures_until_i_was_too_drunk_to_focus/1227/0003.jpg” alt=”Photos”/><br /><br />I’ve never seen a look on Cyrus’s face like the one below, but it’s probably always there under the surface- a sort of laughing incredulity. Either that or it’s drunkface and I’m reading too much into a picture. <br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/pictures_until_i_was_too_drunk_to_focus/1227/0004.jpg” alt=”Photos”/><br /><br />Reagan always makes the best photo-faces. It’s like she’s screaming “I”M REAGAN” with her whole face. <br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/pictures_until_i_was_too_drunk_to_focus/1227/0005.jpg” alt=”Photos”/><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/pictures_until_i_was_too_drunk_to_focus/1227/0006.jpg” alt=”Photos”/><br /><br />And here’s the old friends I was talking about- Chase and Brian- I’ve known Brian since high school. He’ll probably get pissed and send me more death threats, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take to bring everyone quality photos. <br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/pictures_until_i_was_too_drunk_to_focus/1227/0007.jpg” alt=”Photos”/><br /><br />I really like this pic, for some ineffable reason. I know, I know. Shoot me. <br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/pictures_until_i_was_too_drunk_to_focus/1227/0008.jpg” alt=”Photos”/>
Posted by matt on 2009-03-13T00:00:00Z GMT
Last night was openbeta, and it was actually a really cool interesting event. I’m not just saying that, you know; a lot of talks and conferences bore the shit out of me, and I just leave in the middle of them. OK, so I stepped out for a smoke in the middle of one of the boring lightning talks, but other than that, it was good.<br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/openbeta2/1228/0001.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />This is Grant, giving his demo of Twircl, which still hasn’t launched, but is by far the coolest thing I’ve seen one of my friends come up with since art school. Twircl is a direct group messaging app that runs on top of twitter, something that the system needs.<br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/openbeta2/1228/0002.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />These are the wimgo girls, and, well, do I really need to say anything. Thanks for the pen, ladies.<br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/openbeta2/1228/0003.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />Grant kills ‘em with his presentation:<br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/openbeta2/1228/0004.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />Voltron Presents: Why they’re awesome. I need to find out if they have any staff photographer openings. Maybe they need a screwball wandering correspondent for their web side? Y/Y?<br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/openbeta2/1228/0005.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />The view from OKCCoCo:<br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/openbeta2/1228/0006.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />Afterparty:<br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/openbeta2/1228/0007.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />There was a good reason for these faces, but I can’t remember for the life of me why.<br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/openbeta2/1228/0008.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/openbeta2/1228/0009.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/openbeta2/1228/0010.jpg” alt=”Photos” />
Posted by matt on 2009-03-13T00:00:00Z GMT
Shooting in a bit of a different mode yesterday. With the digital camera. Decided film was too expensive. So sue me. I don’t think the look suffers that much. <br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/film_is_too_much/1229/0001.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/film_is_too_much/1229/0002.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/film_is_too_much/1229/0003.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />I like how even the McD’s sign is screwed up. <br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/film_is_too_much/1229/0004.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/film_is_too_much/1229/0005.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/film_is_too_much/1229/0006.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/film_is_too_much/1229/0007.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />Every time I talk about this project, people bring up the tower theatre; looking at the fron of it, I wonder if it wouldn’t be easier to just build a new one in the vacant lot across the street. <br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/film_is_too_much/1229/0008.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/film_is_too_much/1229/0009.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />The shooting yesterday wasn’t as good, as fulfilling as is was the first couple outings; I thought, walking back, that I might just give up the project and move on. But it seems like I’m onto something; the dilapidation there is a symptom of the wider economic problems. I can’t tell if it’s getting worse or better. Also, I look at the pictures, see I’m doing good work, and can hardly stop myself.
Posted by matt on 2009-03-09T00:00:00Z GMT
Momentum 09 was last night, and I was really surprised by the quality and scope and size and attendance of the show. It was packed, the work was 75% good, all stuff I’m not used to seeing in this town, and it filled a freaking warehouse. <br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/momentum_artshow/1231/0005.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />There were a lot of big open installations, a lof of big cool paintings, some shit photos (sorry everyone, but the photo showing this year just wasn’t that great, with a few notable exceptions). Hving these clouds right by the entrance set the mood for the place: it was as if someone took a piece of a real art scene out of the air of New York or Santa Fe and stuck it here in oak city, improbably and strangely. So it seemed natural to see a crib full of beer bongs and a whole room of homoerotic black fraternity induction paintings. <br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/momentum_artshow/1231/0006.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/momentum_artshow/1231/0007.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />Then there was my friend Bobby’s band, playing a pretty rad live set. If they’d had a cd available, I’d have bought one, and that’s not something I do a lot. These kids know how to rock. <br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/momentum_artshow/1231/0008.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/momentum_artshow/1231/0009.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/momentum_artshow/1231/0010.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/momentum_artshow/1231/0011.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/momentum_artshow/1231/0012.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/momentum_artshow/1231/0013.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />Then there was this womblike installation in what used to be a woman’s restroom. It was completely transformed and amazing; all it needed was some giant pillows on the floor and some mild hallucinogenic gas in the air and it would have been perfect. <br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/momentum_artshow/1231/0014.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />I didn’t know what to think of the deer. But I like the photo, so sue me. <br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/momentum_artshow/1231/0015.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />Some MC, not all that great. Nobody’s perfect, maybe he was havin’ an off night. <br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/momentum_artshow/1231/0016.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />Then there was the after after after party, which was really about four people in Jim’s apartment eating cheese and drinking french wine. I’d like to say it was a nice end to the night, but there were a couple fights on the lawn that complicated things. So instead it was kind of a haggard exhausted end to the evening, but at least it was in good company. <br /><br /><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/momentum_artshow/1231/0017.jpg” alt=”Photos” />
Posted by matt on 2009-03-08T00:00:00Z GMT
