Illustration Show

Starting February 25th I'll be showing some work up at the Gorham Grind, a funky little shop near the USM art college. They have a specialty drink referred to as "Rocket Fuel." Which has nothing to do with the work I'll be showing, but just as good a reason to come on by.

http://www.gorhamgrind.com/

One very long weekend later.....

New Years Eve! 2011! Why the Big Easy felt the need to specify that there was NO COVER after you're inside, I do not know. There were several signs of this nature.

There's something about a MOOG that I love to photograph.
All the members of Dreamosaic & Cyborg Trio & White Jacket Collaborative jammed together onstage for the midnight counting down ritual. There were balloons, there was confetti, there was stuff that glowed in the dark. Good times were had. I also joined the rest of the Foo Crew who had been added on to the ticket at the Asylum, and I'll be posting some of those shots as well - I got to check out Educated Advocates, very good stuff. This year saw a lot of great music all over town, and i was lucky to have a small part in it.

It was a very busy New Years weekend for myself & fellow Foos - thursday night was Sync, a 7:70 reunion show at Slainte here in portland - djs Marshall Law, Psydways and others busted out some crazy beats.......this guy was definitely having a lot of fun;

I brought in some deco for the show to up the visual ante for a bit, and thanks to trusty assistant Sam it went up easily, although getting back there to get it down has proved....logistically difficult.

Friday night I pulled double duty photographing at the Big Easy with Cyborg Trio & Dreamosaic, while VJ Foo was added to the show at the Asylum headlined by Spose, so I dashed down there for a bit as well. I'll post a few shots from Friday here soon, in the meantime you can some of the action out at both my flickr and facebook accounts. Two nights of dashing around until early a.m. hours have left me a bit on the...unmotivated side. Soon I'll also be posting about our upcoming asylum show, Outbreak, happening 2/12/11....3 different promoters are joining forces for this night of debauchery, and i can't tell you how amazing and exciting it is to belong to this community of such talented folks here in Portland.

A little story

One of the highlights of this past summer was the Nateva festival in Oxford Maine...while this summer saw my attendance at many different festivals, Nateva was just perfect. Perfect company, perfect weather, perfect music.......it set a high standard for future festivals, for sure.

Fourth of July Weekend: We arrived at the festival late thursday night and set up camp, we had a great spot and had a great night settling in.

In the morning, lo and behold, a few tents had sprouted up in between our previously spacious camp site. Once these nice folks roused themselves they explained that they were the Adam Ezra Group, they played the festival the previous night (though sadly we had not caught this), and would we like a beer?

And of course the answer was: yes, we would like a beer! And a friendship was born. Always great to see these guys in town.

http://www.adamezra.com/

This past weekend they played at the Empire so I took the camera along to see them. This Way, also a very talented Portland based group, opened for them, as did the lovely Amanda Gervaisi.

This Way:

There's just something about a man with a fiddle.

Adam Ezra:

Adam Ezra with buddy Herb, who I swear just about died of his man-crush when called upon stage for some audience participation.

As always there's more pictures posted on my flickr site, link to the right. I've been asked a few times if I post all my photos up here/on facebook/on the interwebs in general, and no, I do not. I've gotta keep a few tricks up my sleeves here, right? If in the future I actually do a photography show, it'll consist mostly of previously unseen shots.

Happy Holidays, folks! Very soon I'm going to have some actual illustration to post up here, so stay tuned.

Big Gigantic with Dreamosaic

So this past weekend was an another adventurous weekend with the Foo Crew.....Dreamosaic opened for Big Gigantic at Port City Music Hall, local musicians that are always fun to hang with & watch, so we trooped on down for their Foo Crew needs.

Hanging out in the Green Room, which is actually purple.


Dreamosaic on stage......check them out at www.myspace.com/dreamosaic


Big Gigantic....

Saxophone, Drums, keyboard. Very cool stuff. We danced our butts off. It was a good night for the Foo Crew & myself.

It's been a pleasure shooting at Port City, Portland is definitely lucky to have such an awesome venue right in the heart of the downtown area. I'm gonna change it up this coming friday, look for me at the Empire with the Adam Ezra Group.

Kimmy's Oddball

Saturday night was Kimmy's Oddball, the first annual benefit for the Open Sky Fund. Open Sky is a wonderful charitable organization here in Portland that gets musical instruments to underprivileged kids. The Foo Crew, now in desperate need of naps and, perhaps, a decent meal, were also there to provide visuals and to document the festivities.

Jordan & Amanda Kaulbach with Zig Zag

The Barefoot Truth Dancers.

Amada Gervasi

The Beat Horizon

Kimmy gets a 40th birthday striptease, courtesy of artist Che Arajj. It was a really great time, despite being overtired and overworked, with so many great musicians & artists and assorted other oddballs. Many thanks to the awesome folks at Cow Pasture Productions for including myself and the other Foos in the festivities.

If you'd like to check out some of the other performers at the Oddball, click on my flickr link to the right.

http://www.openskyfund.org/

Midnight in the Valley of the Gods

Had an awesome time down at the Arm Factory Friday night, I threw up some blacklite deco for artist Heidi Moksha's blacklite art and WYREDFUX came out to provide the soundtrack......many thanks to Heidi, the Arm Factory & the rest of the Foo Crew for a great night.

for more info on the fine folks at the Arm Factory, go here; http://thearmfactory.com/