YRB Kids Party Expo Birthday Show

Before you can begin to understand these photos, you need the following history lesson.

Once upon a time, there was a place called Yellow Rat Bastard. In this place lived many YRB Kids who slaved away selling knock offs and working for minimum wage. They were kind of like those guys from that movie "Kids", but with employers. Anyhow, beneath those YRB Kids lived the Rats. Black out Buddies, Fake Gringas and other basement dwellers alike. They would suffer heat stroke in the summer, they would huddle around a hand warmer or a lit candle in the winter. They'd run from giant monster roaches and kick unruly boxes who just kept getting in the way. The subway would shake their makeshift stations and rats would leave them gifts to clean up. When they were spoken to, it was either with disdain from the Children of Abraham (the Overseers) or pure hatred from unhappy customers. But despite all the hardships, there was one thing that kept them smiling and from burning the place down... loud music and each other.

It is there I met the birthday boy Derek, as well as my friends Luisa, Alveen, and of course, Chris. So I will now tarnish any presumptions that you may have thought the foundation of my career is based on. I may be a fashion photographer now, but I owned a guitar long before my first camera. Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Culo Blanco!

Band list:

SPED

Ruffian Arms

Boogie Brains

Fake Hooker

TIGHT CHOCOLATE

Kylie Minogue Video Shot on Canon DSLRs

Image from www.eventfilmmaker.com.

This music video by Kylie Minogue was directed by Joseph Kahn and shot on Canon DSLRs (probably some combination of 5DMKII's and 7D's). It's interesting to see how the 5DMKII and 7D are entering the professional realm on even larger budget videos with major commercially established musicians. Though the natural question would be, why these cameras and not the Red? Unless money was an issue, was it merely an exercise in seeing if it could be done? It's not like shooting outdoors with a full crew and tons of extras requires any kind of small, lightweight, low -profile, or mobile camera package.

In any case, it's great to see what the camera is capable of.

Unfortunately the video in its entirety has embedding disabled on YouTube, so to see it you'll need to follow this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zixQYDeRtzI

But here's a preview of the video. (Be warned that there's a lot of people in underwear, so it might not be safe for work.)

Photos: New York Red Bulls vs. Chivas USA

After a 4 game losing streak, the Red Bulls have come back in a big way. First, against Houston, lifting the Red Bulls with a 90th minute miracle goal by Juan Pablo Angel (which unfortunately I missed). Again they ran away with another 3 points by controlling possession, tight defense and a well aimed shot by Seth Stammler, which would be the difference in this 1-0 battle. There were some close calls and chances for both teams, including a own goal by Chivas which was called back on an off-sides. Here are some photos from the game:

camera settings - f/2.8 1/1000 iso:800

A Short Film About a Broken DSLR

"Leave Me" is a short film produced by DarosFilms and directed by Dustin Ballard. I think it's pretty interesting to see how a relatively new piece of technology is used in a romantic and nostalgic way. Just think, one day your grandkids might be blowing the dust off your old iPad and they'll reminisce about how you used to watch movies and play games with them on it like some kind of quaint high-tech wind-up toy.

Leave Me from Daros Films on Vimeo.