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Archive for September, 2008
the hives at street scene

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I woke up that morning (after two hours’ sleep) freaking out scared that I wouldn’t get a jumping-in-front-of-the-sign shot of The Hives. Even before I was scheduled to shoot them, I’d been afraid for months that I one [...]

now available for stalking
hot chip on nme and prefix — street scene and “my piano”

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Not very good picture from Street Scene for NME.com. Really, really good new song on Prefix — “My Piano“.

chris t-t: we are the king of england (new video)
goodbye, studio eliza fay babygirl

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } No more: bamboo natural light by the bucketload in every room (see above) “my favourite band is whoever’s sleeping on the kitchen floor this week” Oso built-in party with every shoot Stay tuned for the newness.

justice are really hard to shoot

Justice are a challenge to photograph, because they basically stand with only the tops of their little French heads visible. Throw in a stage that’s six feet off the ground, photographers who are climbing on things in front of everyone else and then holding their cameras as high as they can above their heads, and [...]

Street Scene on NME.com

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dengue fever at street scene

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Dengue Fever are fun. They sound like this: (That would be a scene from Naughy Bodies Be Good, obviously.)

disco vampire weekend at street scene

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The Zarabanda Stage at Street Scene had very… disco lighting. I think I like it. (The photo goes with Laura’s story on NME.com)

street scene photographers

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I like meeting other photographers. I learn a lot from talking to them or just watching them, of course, because even though I started doing this 12 years ago I didn’t really think much about it until this [...]

ankles of the energetic and famous (at street scene)

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Street Scene in San Diego was a lot of fun. More pix at some point, but here are some shoes. (Does It Offend You, Yeah? and Diplo, both of whom induced some of the most energetic dancing of [...]

countessian etsy back in action — buy! buy! buy!

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Go get ‘em, kiddos: countess.etsy.com.

happy birthday to my dad…

…who is basically the best dad ever, and I’m a rubbish daughter who took herself off to live on the other side of the world and then sends bad Photoshop jobs in lieu of proper presents.

fuck yeah fest departing from countessian towers

After Fuck Yeah Fest, all our houseguests departed in a sleep-deprived flurry of hugs, amps, and competitive comedy. The tour bus is an old school bus converted to run on vegetable oil, and somehow made it through an east-coast-and-the-south Fuck Yeah Tour earlier this year. Kim (of Matt & Kim fame) said she lasted three [...]

more fuck yeah fest: matt & kim and the mae shi

Two of the most fun bands during one of the most fun days in the entire history of Echo Park, or music, or my life. You get the idea. Thank God for cookies and hot dogs and Vicodin and iced coffee and whiskey and loose dresses with pockets*, without which I’d never’ve made it through. [...]

jude among the violets on etsy finds

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I got an email a little while ago from an Etsy admin, and this is what it said: “Hi there, “I just wanted to let you know that we are featuring this item in Thursday’s Etsy Finds, Etsy’s [...]

21st birthday in portland, oregon

That was years ago, and how times’ve changed.

LA scavenger hunt 2008 afterparty: Dan Deacon & Monotonix, hangar 1018

Monotonix on a dumpster. Dan Deacon making kids square dance. Hangar 1018 full of a lot of people with brand new tattoos, no eyebrows and drag makeovers. Hurrah. (Shot for Prefix.)

team eat your asshole alive

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } They have their own website now, at teameatyourassholealive.blogspot.com. You will be astounded at their LA Scavenger Hunt 2008 dedication. I added up their points at the Dan Deacon/Monotonix scavenger hunt afterparty, and was amazed. Tattoos. Hickeys. Sex. Iguanas. [...]

fuck yeah fest: no age, trash talk, strange boys, brother reade, paint it black, mika miko, etc, at the echo and the echoplex

Yep. It was fun. More another day when it’s not five in the morning. (Shot for Prefix.)

fuck yeah fest house guests

Everyone’s favourite Canadian band Fucked Up came to stay with us for a few days for Fuck Yeah Fest. They were excellent houseguests and we invite them back soon. Some My Little Ponies who’d hit hard times slept in the back yard: Steven from Microcosm Publishing slept behind the sofa: Sometimes Sophia stayed over, too: [...]

n*e*r*d at the shrine auditorium

Security like girls and let a lot of them back stage. Pharrell likes girls and lets a lot of them on stage. Girls go nuts. I take pictures.

sweat + flash = monotonix

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } (And hair. A lot of hair.) They’re playing on top of a dumpster, no less. It was pretty caved in afterwards. Sorry, Hangar 1018. The night before they played (yeah, the whole band) held aloft by the crowd, [...]


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Rachel started taking pictures as a kid in deepest Essex. Now she shoots in Los Angeles and has a funny half-American accent.

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