Saturday, July 23, 2005

more photos

The Go! Team also put on an awesome live show. Their live-only MC Ninja adds fun vocals to their instrumental music and really succeeds at pumping up the crowd. I want a Go! Team album with their new MC. I really wish I could have been closer.


Martin: scanning the crowd


Martin: contemplating life


Waiting for the El


The necessary cliche picture of train tracks.


Some backs of heads I photographed for fun while messing with focus and aperture.




The bearded man you can barely see on stage would open for each band with an awful and nonsensical poem that was intended to be amusing. It was the first couple of times, then it was just wierd.


An interesting phenomenon. As can be expected, the lines for food and drink were really long. There were also booths set up so sponsors could advertise and some political groups could attempt to recruit. One of these was a giant XBox mobile. I never saw any more then 4 people at the Xbox mobile.
A quick shot of the crowds at foodand the lack of crowds at the Xbox van right next to them.

-Brandon

Intonation: Diplo















We camped out Diplo's show 40 minutes before he started. I was sitting on the stage holding a front spot. So I got some pretty decent pictures. His set was awesome, even with the interuption in the middle when they had to replace the mixer and some bizzaare sound problems afterwards.




-Brandon

Intonation was awesome!

Some Intonation Photos. More to come.

Out Hud
Out Hud
Out Hud
Out Hud
Out Hud
OutHud puts on an awesome live show. I was really lucky to be so close to the stage. I was right in front of the stage left speakers. My hearing was temporarily gone but my photographs turned out awesome.

The masses are assembled
The Crowd at the Out Hud show

Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene was a pretty mediocre live show, but their announcement about a band member getting beaten up by four New York cops for buying weed was certainly surprising. As was the next announcement that they are now sueing the New York police department. The crowd cheered, but the crowd is retarded and would probably cheer at anything.

-Brandon

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

I just grabbed this from Martins's blog. I don't know why I enjoy these stupid quiz things, but this one seemed to be fairly accurate. Of course that isn't difficult when there are 126 questions, but it's still fun to do.

Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion || 10%
Stability |||||||||||| 43%
Orderliness |||||||||| 40%
Altruism |||||| 30%
Interdependence |||||||||| 36%
Intellectual |||||||||||||| 56%
Mystical |||||| 23%
Artistic |||||||||||| 50%
Religious || 10%
Hedonism |||| 16%
Materialism |||||| 30%
Narcissism || 10%
Adventurousness || 10%
Work ethic |||||| 30%
Self absorbed |||||||||||| 50%
Conflict seeking |||||| 30%
Need to dominate |||||| 30%
Romantic |||||| 23%
Avoidant |||||||||||||| 56%
Anti-authority |||||| 30%
Wealth |||| 16%
Dependency |||||||||| 36%
Change averse |||||||||||||||| 70%
Cautiousness |||||||||| 36%
Individuality |||||| 30%
Sexuality |||||||||| 36%
Peter pan complex |||||||||||||||| 70%
Physical security |||||||||||||||| 63%
Physical Fitness |||||||||||| 44%
Histrionic || 10%
Paranoia |||||||||||||||| 63%
Vanity |||||||||||| 43%
Hypersensitivity |||||| 30%
Female cliche |||||| 23%
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Stability results were moderately low which suggests you are worrying, insecure, emotional, and anxious.

Orderliness results were moderately low which suggests you are, at times, overly flexible, improvised, and fun seeking at the expense of reliability, work ethic, and long term accomplishment.

Extraversion results were very low which suggests you are extremely reclusive, quiet, unassertive, and secretive.

trait snapshot:
introverted, secretive, messy, depressed, does not like leadership, somewhat nihilistic, observer, does not make friends easily, unassertive, feels invisible, feels undesirable, hates large parties, does not like to stand out, leisurely, suspicious, submissive, abstract, unpredictable, intellectual, likes rain, likes the unknown, negative, weird, not a risk taker, unadventurous, avoidant, strange


I went to Chicago with Martin for the Intonation Music Fest with and stayed with an acquintance from high school. It was a lot of fun, and hopefully I'll have pictures to share in the next couple days.

-Brandon

Monday, July 11, 2005

Doctor Who inspired thoughts

I've been downloading, watching, and thoroughly enjoying the new Doctor Who. After watching episode 3 (The unquiet dead) I have decided that this world really needs more Victorian era zombie horror.

Thank you

-Brandon