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If I took photos tonight, it would look something like this

crazybobbles — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:10:35 +0000

Tonight I saw Lisa Mitchell play at the Borderline. I arrived late since i had stuff to do at work, was too lazy to do the whole smuggling malark and ultimately they took my camera away.

I have been smuggling taking my camera to gig for over 2 years. There have been some crazy moments, nearly getting caught with it, getting caught in the middle of it and having to delete my photos (only to recover them back home), all sorts of crazy stuff. It was crazy how at the end of each gig I managed to somehow get a photo taken for that gig. These days it’s all photo passes but looking back, it was just crazy knowing the things i did to smuggle haha (still not sharing all my details.. just in case haha).

Anyways… the year before wasn’t exactly a “challenge” or a requirement to take a camera to the gig, but it was always more interesting to try, and when i was doing 365 last year, it was “critical” that I took a photo of the gig I went to (because I didn’t have much time to take photos of anything else). So last year was quite an intense one. Fortunately I somehow managed it each time!

Anyway, a few friends have asked me would i pick the show or shooting the show as my number 1. I hesitated for a bit, but my answer was definitely the show, the hesitation somewhat came from the 365 motivation of ensuring you have a photo taken each day (and i wanted to make sure each photo summarised the day, so a gig in the evening usually was it). Now that I no longer am doing 365, it was only a matter of time when I had to stop. So yeah… feels weird. But at the same time opens that restriction i have when i goto gigs (yes i groan a few times when i dont think ill be able to sort myself out with a photopass haha).

So what does this mean to you? NOTHING! Man I keep making my posts goal orientated for the readers, like why are you reading it? But as I promised, more ramblings now. I probably won’t ever catch up to any gigs I’ve shot lately so you just have to check flickr out to know what I’ve been up to!

… that’s about it.

Oh and i just realised tonight wasn’t the night i didn’t have any photos for a gig, the Antlers was another one, though this one I did take a lot of photos and videos (brought my gorillapod with me) but my memory cardz failed on me turning videos and photos into unusable files, grr.

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A picture can paint a thousand words

crazybobbles — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:24:15 +0000

However if you use ascii art you can probably reduce the number of the characters needed and get something pretty decent. Not really the point but I thought it was quite a fun way to start blogging again. So hmm, where to start? Hiatus ahoy! Probably should tell you what’s been happening with life and such but it’s probably a bit too premature to explain it all just now. It’s good news mind, I have pretty much told a majority of folks around me but haven’t properly said or announced it because it’s not exactly official (mmm nice to explain so much and so little at the same time).

Anyways, the result in all this is basically I don’t have time to ramble on. Given that people are very used to microblogging rather than full on blogs (or rambles as such). I thought i’d keep things more in style of a tumblr slash photoblog type blog type thing. Dunno if people who subscribe to this even read this anyways and it’s better to have updates with less words than no updates at all right?

So yeah, not been gigging much, one of my goals for this year is to actually go to less gigs so I’m kinda fulfilling that. Not to say that I’ll be going to gigs like a normal person (how much do you think is an average count of gigs per year? 30?) I will pretty much be ploughing the venues at every given free opportunity.

So yes, quick update… uhm, photos.. There’s one of Depeche Mode, was fun shooting at the o2, but way too hectic for a Sunday with no Jubilee line, though i still managed to watch Personal Jebus live, good times. More photo spamming to come!

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Owen Pallett live at Union Chapel

crazybobbles — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:58:05 +0000

Owen Pallett live at Union Chapel, this show was ten times better than his previous Union Chapel one. I think with the album was more rehearsed, and the fact that we’ve all heard Heartland made this show enjoyable. The highlight was definitely when he played Lewis Takes His Shirt Off. Some skillz on the violin.

The beginning of the show was pretty lulz, apparently there’s a bar! :O Videos ensue…

Oh i was too lazy to label them all, you’ll figure it all out

Click here to see the video

Yeah it’s a slew of videos, will upload some more videos photos afterwards.

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152 Gigs

crazybobbles — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:17:31 +0000

It’d be right to say 2009 was definitely a year of gigging, given that over 40% of the time I’ll be at a gig (no doubt shooting)

Spent several painful nights jotting down all the gigs I’ve been to in 2009. The statistics side was the best bit out of it, I managed to calculate a total of 381 sets for the entire year out of the 152 gigs. May strangely being the one where I gigged the most.

The most visited venue was strangely union chapel (though I love that place so much ) and the most visited band was… uhm… I haven’t worked it out yet…

But yeah, this photo was taken as my second to last 365 shot. It just got so delayed after the damn gig list! Sorry folks

Oh and here’s the spreadsheet of the gigs, enjoy spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tUlX-uDuEpLNOAoYsjzW16w&a…
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Who would have thought Borderlands could be so addictive

crazybobbles — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:29:15 +0000

Haven’t been posting much on the blog but will hopefully get back on track with this bad boy. Right now i’m ploughing through a game called Borderlands which is sort of a first person shootemup mashed in with RPG. It’s very addictive and has got me off going on Mac land for a while (play it on Windows 7 you see!).

But yeah… i have loads of posts to update with, mainly those conclusive 2009 posts and uhm… yeah… should be updating this a bit more when i have the time. For now enjoy this photo of my Katamari t shirt. I’ve ended 365 last year and feel ever so relaxed that i don’t need to shoot something everyday nows. Though my poor camera feels every so neglected

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Holiday photos: Ghent

crazybobbles — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:27:08 +0000

Thought I’d share some holiday photos from Ghent, knowing that I have venice photos to upload means I need to get all these Ghent ones sorted before moving on! Ghent was an awesome holiday so there’s no need to neglect that bad boy, anyway, here’s the photos:

Hand over monuments

Tilt shift photography madness

Some negative space action

Nic’s buzzer

More gritty photos of windows and doors

My favourite kind of photography…. food!

More bokeh action

Just weird… barbie doll chandelier

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Venice and Icecream

crazybobbles — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:16:25 +0000

No idea when i’ll start uploading these badboys like crazy but i thought i’d start you guys off with this.

This was probably one of my simple pleasures during venice. The rule was, if i see a place that sells ice cream… i buy an ice cream.

The rule was good.

More venice antics later
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Cufflinks of Doom

crazybobbles — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:51:02 +0000

Pretty much the literal name for these bad boy cufflinks. I don’t know why, but I always thought cufflinks were the sign that someone is growing up. Not the first paycheque, or the first time they’ve opened up an ISA account for their savings and what, it’s all about the first cufflinks for their business or dress shirts. No more of that pre buttoned shirt crap business malark (well… that’s not true but you know what I mean).

Anyway, they make me look pretty menacing, plus the design is pretty timeless so it’s an overall win ^_^

But yeah, this will be my last photo before I head off to Venice for the weekend. Will obviously be taking my camera with me so there will be plenty of photos to share after I come back ^_^
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The Sounds at Electric Ballroom

crazybobbles — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:09:12 +0000

The Sounds live at Electric Ballroom, lead singer Maja really knows how to get a crowd going. This was a pretty ace show with Matt and Kim supporting and the fact that photographers got to stay in the photopit to enjoy the show ^_^ This show was nice and pumped, was nicer hearing the set after their latest sophomore album, Crossing The Rubicon was out. The highlight was most likely when they brought up a dude on stage to play the cowbell but he was all kinds of horrific in terms of whacking the cowbell in beat, I think he was a bit too excited. Lots of posing, jumping and dancing on stage (lame review i know! but hey, i hate writing with so little time available)

So yeah, Matt and Kim were fun! Their show was ecstatic and they were super enthusiastic and happy. Kim told us how they had a hotel for the night and she’s totally going to get some haha. Highlight was when they played The Final Countdown!

Click here to see the video

And here’s the photos for The Sounds, BOOYA, so many photos!

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Tickley Feather at Cafe OTO

crazybobbles — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:24:26 +0000

Tickley Feather live at Cafe OTO. Really enjoyed seeing them live, the atmosphere was chillaxing and the music was soothing and quirky. Singer Annie Sachs was lovely throughout the show, giving away free DIY instruments to the crowd, telling us funny anecdotes and evening singing about my socks halfway through a song ^_^. The audience were in giggles during the intervals with Annie’s crazy sense of humour and eeir vocals. Was definitely a great show. More photos..

It was nearly 2 hours to get there, but after the show, it was totally worth it. Good times