Monthly Archive for April, 2008

Kickin’ it in Indio: Coachella 2008

Published on April 30, 2008 in Uncategorized. 2 Comments

For those of you who didn’t make it out to this year’s Coachella fes­ti­val, in Indio, I’ve brought an all access account for you to enjoy. What a crazy three days it turned out being. It was a week­end filled with lots of water, friends, packed tents, and bike rides. Party!

Any­way, lets start…

When I arrived to Friday’s show, it was already around noon. Lunch time! This is my first meal of the week­end, com­ing straight out of artist cater­ing! And yes, that’s Lentil salad! So good!

After lunch I headed over to the Out­door The­atre to visit my co-worker, Westy. He was rid­ing around on his new bike, that is totally fresh.

Then it was time to watch the first band on my list: Les Savy Fav. They ripped.

Strut­tin’ the fields, check­ing out the art and the people:

Golf carts: the only way to go!

Saw Kraftwerk on Sat­ur­day night. This video shot was dur­ing “Tour de France.”

I also bumped into this guy:

Went to the Sahara tent for M.I.A., which was out of con­trol. The crowd swamped the place and they had to cut off access to the V.I.P. area. I barely made it in.

Sun­day morn­ing, I showed up early so we could shoot pho­tos of out bikes. Glass House represent!

And I even made it in time to catch Love and Rock­ets’ sound check. Cool bob­ble heads!

On my way to break­fast, I came across Roger Water’s pig:

Dani and Jacky came out to the Fields. Good times!

We caught some of Kid Sister’s set in the Gobi, dur­ing sunset:

The crowd was beau­ti­fully lit:

After sun­down I finally saw Mod­e­se­lek­tor (my attempts in Europe failed, so I was pretty stoked to finally see ‘em), but didn’t take any pho­tos because I was busy danc­ing. Hard. I started shoot­ing again later in the night, for Justice’s set in the Sahara tent. Young­sters swarmin’…

D.A.N.C.E.….

And the last shot of the weekend…waddup, Kavinsky?

Crass Test

Published on April 21, 2008 in Uncategorized. 2 Comments

Today was my first day off in a week and I really wanted to take advan­tage of the time, so hit up Andy about doing some print­ing. Now, I don’t have much of a back­ground in screen­print­ing, hav­ing only done it a cou­ple of times in the past, but I think this ses­sion went pretty well…but to be hon­est, Andy did most of the work while I took pictures.

I’ve always wanted to make my own ver­sion of a Crass shirt, as they’re one of the few bands from my teen years that I still lis­ten to quite fre­quently and hold close to my heart as huge influ­ences in many things such as music, art, and phi­los­o­phy. I don’t think I’ve ever learned as much from a band as I did Crass. Seri­ously. And so much that I still enjoy rep­ping them through t-shirt from time-to-time, but have become bored with the black shirt/white ink designs you often find at record stores or through dis­tros. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for wear­ing their mes­sage as it was intended, and love their use of black, sym­bol­i­cally, but who says you can’t add a lit­tle color to your punk wardrobe? Right? And since the shirts you find are all boot­legged any­way — why can’t the print­ers toss in a few col­ored shirts for the folks who’ve grad­u­ated from the black tee? Well, I took it into my own hands and printed a few on some color. Up the punx!

As for the design, it was made up of a block of the cross logo (5x4, rowsx­crosses), which we printed on a few col­ored (olive green and heather grey) shirts with red ink. Our emul­sion process got a lit­tle messed up, which we were bummed on at first but later real­ized that it might look just as cool, of not cooler kind of messed up and dis­torted. Maybe we’ll fix the screen and run a proper batch, but for now the three we did were good enough fo’sho.

Early Start

Published on April 19, 2008 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

It’s birth­day time and I got an early start:

Thirsty Lil’ Soul

Published on April 14, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

I rushed to work today in a panic, as I real­ized that the last week had been much of a blur due to being all over the place work-wise. It was one of those instances where I woke up, looked at the ceil­ing and said to myself, “where the fuck have I been in the last seven days?” And you know what? That has to be my least favorite feel­ing to have, and espe­cially in the morn­ing. I then spent my whole shower going over what I have to do, and what I was sup­posed to do last week that didn’t get fin­ished. I also thought about what I’m going to do in the near future. I think it’s time for a change, really.

So, I got into the office early and began play­ing catch-up, check­ing things off my list until I came to a stump. Yes­ter­day evening I was reminded that there is a show announce­ment sched­uled for tonight, and that the show is for next week (my birth­day to be exact, how con­ve­nient) and will need a bunch of cov­er­age within the next seven days. But the funny thing is how lim­ited my adver­tis­ing can be for this event. I can’t step on the shoes of the other shows and don’t want to invade fes­ti­val ter­ri­tory, either. So I’m cur­rently sit­ting here wait­ing for a call grant­ing per­mis­sion to move for­ward on the adver­tise­ments that I have planned.

But my wait has been some­what of a bless­ing as it’s given me the chance to catch-up in the Blo­gos­phere too, which is where I came across this new adver­tise­ment from Sony via Kit­sune Noir:


I’ve never been a big fan of foam, I’ll admit, and cringe at the thought of those gay-Spring Break-type “foam par­ties” because it just seems straight up nasty to be danc­ing around in a sea of foam, with a bunch of sweaty, naked peo­ple you don’t know…can’t shit get spread that way? But this was not so much the case with the Sony com­mer­cial — this is so cool and a refresh­ment to my mood. Every­one seems so stoked! Oh, how I wish I could be doing that instead of sit­ting here. I would of loved to been run­ning around snap­ping photos!

Any­way, my stump has passed. Keep on livin’…back to work (wah-wah).

A Day in the Mike: Work Can Be Fun, Too

Published on April 1, 2008 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

Woah, woah, woah — it’s already April? Where’d March go? I can’t believe I left the month post-less. :( I blame my busy work sched­ule and the arrival of Spring, aka the “Tour Season”.

To be hon­est, I’m not the biggest fan of talk­ing about work while away from the office, but I have decided to ded­i­cate this post to the good nights at the venue, since we just had another on Sun­day for The Black Keys/Jay Reatard show. I had remem­bered to bring my cam­era for this gig and wanted to doc­u­ment a good day and a good show, as well as the great peo­ple I work with. Plus, I’m sure many peo­ple have been curi­ous about what goes on behind the scenes…right?

This was 2nd St. when I arrived to work, some­time around 2 PM. A line had already formed, and load in had already begun. For a group with only two mem­bers, they had a lot of stuff…as well as a lot of lights! Sweet!

One of my co-workers, Justin, got this IRO recently. It’s the newest addi­tion to the Glass House bike fam­ily. We’re now rid­ing deep with four on the staff! When we get free time before the doors open we often ride around to keep things fun.

The much antic­i­pated sched­ule is posted!

2nd St. right before doors…the start of the evening for guests, the 1/4 way mark for employ­ees. The line by this time had reached near the end of the block.

Dur­ing the open­ing band, Jay Reatard, I was run­ning around the venue han­dling things and was unable to get any pho­tos, unfor­tu­nately. Here are the Keys, though:

The crowd:

The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney:

Jen laugh­ing about some­thing in the kitchen, while Cameron makes the Glass House pizza.

More bik­age out­side the venue by the tour bus.

Break down time:

The end, but not quite…my evening con­tin­ued until clos­ing time at the bar around the cor­ner after­wards, and then a brief meal. I ended up asleep some­time around 4 AM. No pic­tures were taken, sadly. Whew! What a day…