Ryan McGinley is the American photographer who was recently named the 2007 Infinity Young Photographer of the year. His work is beautiful, young, and exciting. He’s said he would love high school students to see his photographs and be inspired by them, so, I am sharing them with you!
He has a lot of photographs from various Morrissey shows:
THIS and THIS are both fantastic articles about him, and you can view more of his work HERE.
Last night I saw Au Revoir Simone! ….and Favourite Sons and Voxtrot. I really came for Au Revoir Simone, though. I first heard “Through the Backyards” over a year ago on a marc jacobs employee’s myspace….seriously…haha, and then it was love…..
(Heather, Erika, and Annie of Au Revoir Simone)
So let me just run through my pre show mess…..walking to the black cat from the U Street meto station……was hell. It was pouring. I had an umbrella (dudleykins douchebag the teddybear), but it was from when I was five, so it was very very small….poor Brigitte got completely drenched, but she was such a trooper. Snaps for bridge! And on top of the the black cat was soooo coooold. Pneumonia time!
Au Revoir Simone came on first. The girls were looking adorable as always!! They played mostly songs from The Bird of Music:
(heather and erika)
Sad Song
A Violent Yet Flammable World
Dark Halls
Night Majestic
Through the Backyards (damn the people who cannot appreciate music and wouldn’t shut up.)
You can probably see why they are one of my favorite bands (i’m partial to girls with keyboards). After their set, I remembered I had brought my Pretty Pretty Princesses coloring book on the metro as entertainment, so I frantically ripped out a blue haired princess named Carly and gave it to Annie! All of the girls loved it!
(Annie + Carly forevaaaa)
Favourite Sons was next…I had listened to a bit of their music before the show and wasn’t impressed at all…but they were amazing live!!! At times I thought the vocals sounded super wolf parade-y.
And last was Voxtrot. Their music is pleasant, not super original, but they put on a great live show. They were fun.
This one is The Start of Something and I apologize for the shit quality, but it was like 11:30 so we were just about to leave for the metro (which closes at 12) when they started playing it!
Going home was like happy hour on the metro….we met some interesting people. Drunken tourist trash from Louisianna looking for bars….a sweet book worm…..and that random Italian man shaking everyone’s hand. (who I swear I saw again today).
Fun night!
OH, check out Melissa Lawson’s flickr page for more photos of the show! they are awesome!!
thank you melissa!
Sunday night I saw Architecture in Helsinki for the second time. This time it was at the 9:30 club, though. Even at a bigger venue it still felt like a small dance party. My moves were excellent. Both times I’ve seen them have been INCREDIBLY fun! Go to one of their shows and dance….like REALLY dance…break a sweat! I don’t understand how you can see them live and NOT dance…but there are always people who manage not to. Why see them live if you’re not going to dance? Okay enough with the dancing:
Cemetary! all the videos are shaky. apologies. I was enjoying myself.
Debbie!
Like it Ar Not
Lazy!
Sorry I didn’t get Heart It Races….I was….in the zone. So as you can hear, most of the songs they played are from their new album Places Like This….which won’t come out until August. But you can get it. If you look hard enough. It’s verrry good.
Another thing I love about AIH is their choice of opening acts….(last time it was The Blow). This time it was Black Moth Super Rainbow (!!) and Santogold. I was already a fan of black moth but I was new to Santogold….and I loved them…Their music is like, harder M.I.A….they were great.
Black Mother Super Rainbow:
Sun Lips
Cool projection!!! (the film included clips of richard simmons…perfect)
Santogold:
And, during their set…..SPANK ROCK CAME ON STAGE! haha, he was wearing an art in the age tee. Yayyyyy.
After the show was really fun too. Erin and I got to chat with (and…touch) Cameron Bird and James Cecil. James appreciated my sweaty-ness, because he said we should sweat at AIH shows. We tried to persuade them into playing our sweet sixteen…..I think we got somewhere. Cameron said if we stalk them hard enough they would. We’ll see what happens. We got a really cute photo with the both of them but unfortunately it’s on Erin’s camera and she’s in Florida. I will rub it in your faces at a later date. The girl from Santogold loved my mask. I enjoy mingling with drug addled twenty somethings named Max.
Jad Fair of Half Japanese has a series of drawings called “The Moods of Elvis”. They are entertaining and the colors are fantastic!
For more Jad action, visit his site:
Oh! New hair:
and visit my flickr, it’s super updated!
MOCAdc’s June show is WAR. This is a really fantastic multi media show. It isn’t just another artists-against-war kind of thing, it truly is a study of art and war. However, it does focus primarily on anger with the war in Iraq.
MOCA is a really amazing place that values freedom of speech and expression. Artists could submit absolutely anything related to war, no matter what! I really appreciate having a place like MOCA right in DC.
There are essays, films, photographs, paintings…..everything. The show is up and running and ends June 30th. It’s located in Canal Square in Georgetown. Please go and show your support for this wonderful gallery and show:
http://www.mocadc.org/index.html
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other news:
-me minus six inches of my hair, going down tomorrow at 3. hahaha. I know this is the most important news of your weekend.
-architecture in helsinki is playing sunday night at the 9:30 clubbb. It’s going to be colorful and sweaty.
-voxtrot and au revoir simone, tuesday night?, the black cat
-the french kicks this coming friday.
-if you haven’t been to the Hirshhorn recently, maybe now that you have all of this free no obligation summer time, go poke around the museum and be sure to check out what’s playing in the BLACK BOXXX. It’s a psychadelic film by Takeshi Murata:
“Takeshi Murata (American, b. 1974) takes “found-object” images from feature films and digitally re-works and re-joins them in a technique that might be called electronic painting. Each short hallucinogenic film involves thousands of individually rendered alterations and can take up to a year to complete. The effect is like visual quicksand—as viewers sink in deeper and deeper, they cannot recall what visual shifts led from one to the next.”
-Sometimes when I find myself doing nothing during the summer I wander over to the natural history museum and see one of those Imax films. Right now there is one called Cosmic Collisions playing. A 3D Imax trip to space? That almost makes me as excited as the thought of the PURPLE LINE.
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I hope you are enjoying your summer…..I sure am.
rave onnnn.
