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So I haven’t been around since June 24th!  I’ve fallen off the horse a bit (again), haven’t made the time to run and been consumed with work, both at CalArts and my personal projects.  With that in mind, however, a quick recap of the last couple weeks:

Fight From Above played at the Viper Room late last month to mark the release of their first music video (which is awesome).  They were kind enough to ask me to come out and shoot it, so I borrowed my good friend Chris Charles‘ 5D Mark II and had a blast.

The Section Quartet played at Largo (finally!!!!) and I was ecstatic to see my friends rock their own interpretation of what a classical string quartet should sound like.  They were at Largo at the Coronet (since apparently the ‘old’ Largo has since shutdown (?), the same place I recently saw Eddie Izzard perform.  I was shooting up in the sound booth and committed the ultimate sin, however, as my phone fell from my pocket and make a horrible crash — it’s never happened before and I cannot express my level of embarrassment.  Unfortunately however, the gentleman in the sound booth was a complete jerk and thus I won’t be shooting there again.  My favorite shot of the night is below, Jon Brion in between stanzas.

My good friend Shana Nys Dambrot from Flavorpill asked me to shoot the Electric Daisy Carnival this year at the Los Angeles Coliseum.  There were something like 120,000 people there, which was incredibly intense.  Raves often get a bad name given the knee-jerk reactionary impression that people get when they hear the word — but events like this are really quite amazing when you take a moment to take it all in.  It was a great experience (although I nearly lost my keys there, which would have been absolutely horrid!).  I even got to shoot on stage while Kaskade was performing!

I shaved my head again the other day.  Once the temperature crossed the triple-figures mark I knew it was only a matter of time.  Southern California is a much more friendly place when you have no hair — 10-20 degrees are instantly taken away and even the hottest day doesn’t feel so oppressive!

Tonight is the 4th, the night America tries to destroy itself but never quite gets it right.  We’ll see how she does this year!