If you are interested in having me photograph your band live or in my studio, please feel free to contact me regarding rates and availablity. I am always appreciative when people send me info for shows in SF, or the Sacramento area. Guest list spots are always appreciated. Usually, when I am working with a new band doing live shots the first one is on me...provided I am listed +1 for the show, with full access.
Also, I like to have an idea of what your band is like. If I am have not worked with you, or am unfamiliar with your band then links to samples would help me to determine whether I feel I am the right photographer for you. Thanks for taking the time to check out my site. Hope to see you all play live, eventually, time permitting.
Looking forward to a great 2007
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How to make a ImagevoxStudio
Ingredients:
7 parts success
9 parts crazyiness
2 parts leadership
Method: Combine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice. Add a little caring if desired!
Heroes
"the dark is empty, most of our heroes were wrong"
Hero is like one of those words you almost always want to look up, when actually trying to define what a hero is...A hero to me can be real, or fictional...My earliest hero of recollection (Besides your typical boy answer "My dad" was probably Holden Caulfield from the Catcher in the rye...I swear....there are times during my most terrifying self examinations that I can look at myself and strongly believe I was modeled after this character..."Why DOES somebody always have to write the word "Fuck" where kids can see it..." I understood the strange logic from a very early age...My hero list is not that large...and my heroes are so for different reasons...for what it is worth...
Robert Rodriquez: This person is rightfully at the top of my hero list...the accomplishments he has achieved continue to blow me away. I would at any moment set things aside for the opportunity to learn to be a Director of Photography...or even work doing production shots during one of his films. The work, the voice, the dedication to art and family...all things I very much admire. So Robert, if by some strange turn of events you happen to come across my work at any time...please look for the potential....the dedication, drive and respect for the craft, as well as the people that make it possible...
Hunter S. Thompson: Always a legend to me...I started out very early as a writer (Wrote my first story over a hundred pages by hand at the age of 12....5 central characters, and ripping dialogue....) so it does not surprise me that writers, or story characters make up a majority of my list. I once saw an interview with Hunter S. Thompson...and because of the way in which, and the rate at which he spoke, they found it necessary to subtitle him...You know you are a baddass when even when speaking...the words reach your audience in the form of the written word.
Quote to live by...
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..."
Charles Bukowski:
For all my friends...
Charles Bukowski wrote things in a way that I could really relate to things...very real. I remember getting in a fight with the sister of a girlfriend once...over Charles Bukowski...She was attacking my character for admiring the work of a man who clearly had issues with women. I explained to her that she was exactly the type of woman that Charles Bukowski probably would have had issue with (On account of her incessant need to be the flower in every room...when the reality made her more of a toadstool peaking out from behind a dung heap...OK I am lying, she was hot...southern belle)....and I was shamefully aware of the fact that I indeed was a disgraceful example of a Bukowski fan, for even humoring the idea of slipping away with her.
Favorite Quote: You'll all have to settle for the top five...their are so many...
FIRST: "An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way." -Notes From a Dirty Old Man (1969)
SECOND:"The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does." -Notes From a Dirty Old Man (1969)
THIRD: "Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
FOURTH: "We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." -In Beauty
FIFTH: "the dark is empty, most of our heroes were wrong"
William S. Burroughs: The Godfather of a generation of incredible writers...Junky was a vivid experience I was never tempted to live, after such a brutal description...and confusing mindset, exterminator was the same...and it does not take long to realize that Naked Lunch is the purest product of the ride...To live through a William tell incident, whether in love or not would be something most could not endure. Noteworthy screenplays...Drugstore Cowboy, Blade Runner. Notable Collaborations..."The priest they called him." Spoken word with music by Kurt Cobain.
Notable Quotes: "Images. Millions of images. That's what I eat."
Seriously: My Parents...
As an adult I would like to say that both of my parents are heroes to me. They rose from incredibly suppressive environments...to prove worth to themselves...and the people that looked down upon them, and let them down through mistrust and deceitful actions in childhood. They have both suffered a number of personal losses in the past year...and in a number of ways, have become familiar again, to me.
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Hey Steve, Tomorrow is Jenna's b-day-and every year I think about what a perfect day it was, the day she was born- How thankful I am, that you and Kristen not only took video and pics for me, but that you were there for one of the best days of my life. And then there's the absolute sorrow I felt, that you both were leaving to move across the country. We miss you guys. If I can get over the time zome thing, I 'll try to give Kristen a call.
Long time is right, how the hell are you? I would love the pleasure to work with you again, hopfully soon... The shot came out great and your right i havent seen this one, so thanks for the right click! If your intretsed in working together again let me know and i will be ther! lol i look pissed off in this shot! ttys ~keya
I just wanted to drop by and say hey bro. Let me know if you're up for something in next weekend. I have to work this coming weekend after a quick trip to San Jose and can hook up if you're free then. Let me know.
well hey man tonight im drunk and lurkinn around on myspace and i gotta say i am truely honored to have a space in an angles heart and image vox....so yeah...good talkin to you man.
hate to say it, but my phone's been on the fritz for the last 6 months....kinks worked out now, but minus a lot of saved numbers. i'm working on a show in chas. now, but maybe very free soon. we'll see. you? kristen? contact?
whatz up how have u been .. i'm waiting till i get my lisence back (nov. 13) to start calling and going 2 diff. venues ... how r things on ur side of the world
