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Archive for November, 2008
hollywood drive-by

Hollywood Boulevard, from Sally Fay’s car on the way to Laurel Canyon.

sugar’s anniversary party
avocadian geometry from me to you

Prepping a print for shipping to my latest Etsy customer. Hurray!

all eyes on etsy

My print’s in a treasury of eyeballs. (Don’t look at the page too long if you don’t want to get spooked.)

abarackraham

Posters by Ron English. Tearing by Anonymous. Photos by me.

i am trying to break your brain

(Lift. Westin. Pittsburgh. Ouch.)

djs at HARD haunted mansion

Dan Oh, 2 Many DJs, Keith 2.0, Justice, DJ Mom Jeans, DJ AM, Daedelus. Lots of fun. All for Prefix.

news room

Shh. By day I’m secretly the Lois Lane of business travel. Don’t tell the musicians.

i’ve got a green japanese teapot

And I brew South African honeybush tea in it at night, and vanilla mint in the morning. The quiet life is good in Echo Park these days.

michael c hsiung now on etsy — buy! buy! buy!

I met Michael at a dress-like-a-rockstar party once. I was dressed as Jane Birkin and he wasn’t dressed as anyone, so my friend Rachel (aka Equal Rachel, aka Girl with Butterfly Fingers) decided he was unintentionally dressed as James Iha, but that conversation took place while I was out of the room and I spent [...]

friendly fires at the el rey

I always like it when I get to shoot visiting compatriots, even if they do always ask what’s wrong with my weird half-Essex-half-LA accent. You can see more pictures on NME.com and see video interviews on Laura’s NME blog.

i have a show tomorrow night

It’s Sugar‘s anniversary party and I have prints on the walls. They’re all pictures I’ve taken at Sugar over the past year and you’ll like ‘em. 3022 Sunset Blvd in Silver Lake, sevenish.

utata front page for me and alice glass

I love getting the Utata Front Page, because I like it when Greg writes about my pictures and says things like “passion is never abstract, though it’s often indecipherable.” (Alice Glass shot at the HARD Haunted Mansion hallowe’en party in Los Angeles, for Prefix.)

more HARD haunted mansion
HARD haunted mansion

Lots of gorgeousness at the Shrine Auditorium… more to come. (Full galleries on Prefix.)

lykke li, friendly fires, grand ole party and mae shi on nme.com

I have a bunch of shots from the Lykke Li/Friendly Fires/Grand Ole Party/Mae Shi show at the El Rey on NME.com at the moment. The gallery’s here… …and some other shots are with Laura’s excellent write up and video interviews here. Enjoy!

lykke li at the el rey

I always enjoy shooting Lykke Li. This one was a long day, but lots of fun and some nice pictures. (For NME.) She had Friendly Fires join her for a song:

alice glass: the coolest, according to the NME

NME’s annual cool list has Alice Glass from Crystal Castles at number one. I’d wanted to shoot her for ages, and finally did last week for Prefix at the HARD Haunted Mansion crazed hallowe’en rave of doom at the Shrine Auditorium. Really difficult, really fun. (For more, go to Prefix.)

i was an eskimo for halloween

A screenshot from my upcoming melodramumentary, When Air Conditioning Attacks! Outside, SoCal Hallowe’ens are actually warm enough that all the girls at the HARD Haunted Mansion rave costumed as Sexy Girl In Lingerie and Sexy Girl In A Bikini (and the one brave boy dressed as Sexy Michael Phelps, with little more than eight gold [...]


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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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