Archive for February, 2010

A slice of LFW

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Tuesday night I was at the Embassy in Mayfair for a London Fashion Week themed showcase and party featuring various artists including Cushh playing a couple songs while models were catwalking with samples from their Spring/Summer collection. A few shots from this night might pop up in here or on www.loudpixels.net at some point.

Wednesday night back to Mayfair, at Jalouse Nightclub this time, for yet another London Fashion Week party also mixing music and fashion. This time The Rotten Hill Gang were playing their mix of Rock and Rap while models were showcasing the Wealthy-Paupers collection from designer Johny Rocca. A non orthodox collection meant a non-orthodox show and the whole thing was pretty rock’n'roll. Despite the rumours, Mickey Rourke unfortunately did not join the fun as quite a few papers announced on the day. This gallery is on Flickr already, the Rotten Hill Gang and the Johny Rocca show.

Johny Rocca Wealthy-Paupers collection at Jalouse, Feb. 24 2010

Johny Rocca Wealthy-Paupers collection at Jalouse, Feb. 24 2010

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A ballad of 2 Macs

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

My MacbookPro, although pretty new, is acting slow. I decided to do a “clean install”, erasing the hardrive and reinstalling Snow Leopard. I imagined reimporting only my important settings like emails, address book etc would be ultra easy but it’s not and searches through the web, apple and non-apple sites, did not give any simple answer. So after wasting too much of my day on this I decided to reinstall and migrate my old backup in from time machine, as most answers found on the web are advising. But it didn’t leave much option and just brought back everything, mess included. Now I find myself as I was before, like taking a shower and putting your dirty clothes again. Anyone knows the secret of the true clean install without losing your email, address book, itunes account etc etc?

This was for the techie Mac, now for a far more sweet Mac, the musician one. Absolute Radio session at the Hard Rock Café with Amy MacDonald last night.

Amy MacDonald live at the Hard Rock Café London 22 Feb. 2010

Amy MacDonald live at the Hard Rock Café London 22 Feb. 2010

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Depeche Mode

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Terrible weather today, I used a bit of time for editing. Yesterday was a travel challenge with all these tube disruptions and a shoot in Kentish Town followed by Depeche Mode at the O2 Arena. I heard that it has been chaos at the end of the show for the audience to get home. I left way before the panic, in a rather empty Clipper for a nice “London by night on the river” journey back home while preparing the images for wiring to Redferns.

So some samples of the results, starting with the shoot featuring experimental rock band Foxy Shazam from Cincinnati, who supported Hole last week at the Empire. Read and hear more about them here.

Foxy Shazam shoot, Camden 20 February 2010

Foxy Shazam shoot, Camden 20 February 2010

Depeche Mode live at the O2 Arena. A gallery can be seen here. More generally, any music photo material is also  blogged & displayed on my music photography site www.loudpixels.net.

Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode at the O2 Arena, London 20 February 2010

Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode at the O2 Arena, London 20 February 2010

And finally the boat trip back home with a nice view on the impressive O2 Arena.

The O2 Arena from the Thames

The O2 Arena from the Thames

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Geek post

Friday, February 19th, 2010

I had a look at how my site looks on IE today. Well it’s not brilliant! I suppose a professional webdesigner would have done some cross-browser test before throwing the site on-air but it looked so nice on Firefox, I’ve just been a bit idealistic thinking that browser coders are all following the same standard hey. So for those who see strange things happening on their own browser please give me a shout so I make sure it will soon look great to everyone.

I’m also trying to find a nice way to allow the images to be seen at their best – which is a 24×36 ratio, same format as SLR images. I just added a link at the bottom of the page to resize to the best ratio but again it seems only Firefox is happy to comply ;) . Any suggestion welcome!

Ok I shall end my geeky post here. Not sure where I’ll carry my lenses tonight if anywhere, I heard Innercity Pirates play at Cargo and I was a big fan of them when they used to be still called My Red Cell, it is a mystery to me that they didn’t make it big considering the awesome album they had then. Oh and stay tuned this weekend for some Depeche Mode goodness which I shall post on the night after their O2 Arena show :) .

Now off to take some shots of a very very clever invention that will make a revolution for anyone who are tired of traveling with their oversized UK plugs, more on this very soon!

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Love!

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

My first proper post is all about Love, Courtney that is, which I was commissioned to photograph last night for the first show of the band Hole in UK for 11 years. A great moment considering I am a big fan and have been since early 90’s during the infamous grunge period. That was an awesome show and the crowd was vibrant of emotion. Courtney looked superb and did a show with her heart so that was a great come back for all the lucky ones we were in the intimate Shepherds Bush Empire. The images can be seen in my music photography gallery on Flickr and I already added my favourite to the collection of this site.

Hole perform NME Shockwaves Awards Show At Shepherds Bush Empire

Hole perform NME Shockwaves Awards Show At Shepherds Bush Empire

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Blog!

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Just installed this blog and customised it a minimum. And that’s all I say for a first post as I now need to pack up and run to photograph Hole playing at Shepherds Bush Empire. Pretty excited about that one as they haven’t played for a decade!

So have a look at my brand new site and if there seems to be any bug feel free to get in touch and let me know!

M.

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