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Book Review: Houston Rap

Book Review: Houston Rap

Book Review Houston Rap By Peter Beste & Lance Scott Walker Reviewed by Tom Leininger Rap is a window into life. Whether it is …

Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2014/02/book-review-houston-rap.html

Rap is a window into life. Whether it is the life of the East Coast, West Coast, Dirty South or Houston, the music is speaking the language of the area, each in its own dialect. Houston rap is a melodic with slow rhymes. Peter Beste and Lance Scott Walker tell the story of the rise of rap music in Houston, Texas in riveting words and pictures. If you have a passing interesting in music or modern culture, owning Houston Rap is a necessity.

February 20, 2014
It’s the 2013 Gathering of the Juggalos Infomercial

It's the 2013 Gathering of the Juggalos Infomercial

It's that time of the year again, the time in which Insane Clown Posse have released their homespun infomercial for the horrorcore duo's annual Gathering of the Juggalos, held this year from August 7 through the 11.

via Gawker: http://gawker.com/its-the-2013-gathering-of-the-juggalos-infomercial-765758372

It’s that time of the year again, the time in which Insane Clown Posse have released their homespun infomercial for the horrorcore duo’s annual Gathering of the Juggalos, held this year from August 7 through the 11.

July 15, 2013
Nikki Sixx: One Step up from the Abyss, Part 1

Link: Nikki Sixx: One Step up from the Abyss, Part 1 « The Leica Camera

There was always a camera in my hand. Even to this day. Even when I’m walking from the tour bus to the dressing room, I have my Leica in my hand, even though I know there is rarely a good shot there. But the other day I was in Dawson Creek, Canada and there is nothing out there. There was this one shot of one of our trucks full of gear backing up into the arena and there was nothing but vast vacant nothingness behind it. So I got this shot. I was so glad I had my camera

May 7, 2013
After Unflattering Viral Photos, Beyonce Now Banning Pro Photographers

After Unflattering Viral Photos, Beyonce Now Banning Pro Photographers

How do you solve the problem of professional concert photographers snapping unflattering photos of you during your live shows? One way is to ban them

via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2013/04/22/after-unflattering-viral-photos-beyonce-now-banning-pro-photographers/

There are no photo credentials for this show. Local news outlets, including print and online will be given a link to download photos from every show. They will need to register to access the photos

April 23, 2013
Who Shot Rock & Roll Official Trailer

Who Shot Rock & Roll Official Trailer – A Photo Editor

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/04/15/who-shot-rock-roll-official-trailer/

Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Khalil Hamra, Muhammed Muheisen and Narciso Contreras were members of the team that contributed to the agency’s coverage of the two-year-old conflict

April 15, 2013
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Post Sign at Concert Asking Fans to Put Away Phones & Cameras During Show

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Post Sign at Concert Asking Fans to Put Away Phones & Cameras During Show

If you’ve been to a rock concert recently you may have been distracted by the swarm of glowing screens held aloft by audience members. Well, the Yeah Yeah

via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/yeah-yeah-yeahs-post-sign-at-concert-asking-fans-to-put-away-phones-cameras-during-show/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+laughingsquid+%28Laughing+Squid%29

PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THE SHOW THROUGH A SCREEN ON YOUR SMART DEVICE/CAMERA.

PUT THAT SHIT AWAY as a courtesy to the person behind you and to Nick, Karen and Brian.

MUCH LOVE AND MANY THANKS!

YEAH YEAH YEAHS

April 9, 2013
Who Has the Most Exclusive Backstage Pass?

Who Has the Most Exclusive Backstage Pass?

Nick Zinner, guitarist for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, shares with us some of his behind-the-scenes photography of the band.

via The 6th Floor Blog: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/who-has-the-most-exclusive-backstage-pass/?partner=rss&emc=rss

we asked the guitarist Nick Zinner to send us some of his most recent pictures of the group’s performances and travels

April 2, 2013
Portraits of Metalheads by Jorg Bruggemann

Link: Portraits of Metalheads by Jorg Bruggemann | Feature Shoot

Photographer Jorg Bruggemann’s book ‘Metalheads’ begins with a Susan Sontag quote: “It’s good because it’s awful.”

January 23, 2013
photo-eye Book Reviews: True Norwegian Black Metal

photo-eye Book Reviews: True Norwegian Black Metal

True Norwegian Black Metal. By Peter Beste. Published by Vice, 2009. True Norwegian Black Metal Reviewed by Tom Leininger _____…

Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/03/photo-eye-book-reviews-true-norwegian.html

I am not an expert on Norwegian Black Metal. This review will deal strictly with the book True Norwegian Black Metal, as I read and processed it over a number of days. Clearing my mind in this manner gave me the space to think about the work, and just the work, on the printed pages. It is not the music or the musicians, but Peter Beste’s interpretation of them that I am coming to grips with.

March 22, 2012
The Sorcerer and the Girl

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February 24, 2012
Rock and Roll Shooting With 80 Megapixels by Bjarke Ahlstrand

Bjarke Ahlstrand:

These are only very low resolution copies of the actual images, which are full size 10328 px x 7760 px = 80.1 megapixels. I promise you, if you look at this image in full resolution, you can see every detail, every tiny ink stroke on his tattoos, every hair, all the … Well, I’m glad I’m not shooting fashion or doing retouching, because the files coming out of the IQ180 are huge. Around 90 mb as raw files, and if you save them as 16 bit tiffs (you have to import them via the CaptureOne raw converter software for the best results), they turn out as 480 megabyte files… Heavy cameras demand heavy computers, and my iMac I5 with 8 gb ram came to its knees a few times.

August 9, 2011
Laura Levine: New York Rocker

Laura Levine: New York Rocker

“I’d always been into music—printing up fake press passes and sneaking my camera into concerts since the day I first picked up a camera,” the …

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/08/laura-levine.html

“I’d always been into music—printing up fake press passes and sneaking my camera into concerts since the day I first picked up a camera,” the photographer Laura Levine told me. “Typical New York City kid. I worked for all of the usual suspects—Rolling Stone, Creem, Trouser Press, Spin, Sounds, the New York Times—and, later, the record labels. But the publication I ended up working most closely with in the early eighties, during its brief but crucial existence, was the New York Rocker.

August 2, 2011
Very bad late '90s hip-hop cover art

Very bad late ’90s hip-hop cover art

An academic appreciation of very bad late ’90s Hip-Hop cover art. (thanks, David)

via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/10/very-bad-late-90s-hi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag

June 10, 2011
Meet Dr. Doom: Pentagram's Bobby Liebling Returns | SPIN.com

Meet Dr. Doom: Pentagram’s Bobby Liebling Returns

Forty years ago, with his band Pentagram, Bobby Liebling invented a style of fiendishly heavy metal that hardly anyone heard. He spent the ensuing decades in a haze of hard drugs and big trouble. Now, with the genre he spawned on the rise and a young wife

via Spin: http://www.spin.com/articles/meet-dr-doom-pentagrams-bobby-liebling-returns

Forty years ago, with his band Pentagram, Bobby Liebling invented a style of fiendishly heavy metal that hardly anyone heard. He spent the ensuing decades in a haze of hard drugs and big trouble. Now, with the genre he spawned on the rise and a young wife and baby boy in tow, Liebling is feeling the first rumblings of success. Here’s where things start to get weird.

April 19, 2011
Merry Christmas!

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December 25, 2010
Insane Clown Posse: Stealth Evangelical Christians – Boing Boing

Insane Clown Posse: Stealth Evangelical Christians (bonus: Juggalo Buffet Hut)

A one-two punch for you Boing Boing readers in the juggalo department. First, a faux video ad for Buffet Hut, which perfectly mimics the production style of actual, official “Gathering of the…

via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/15/insane-clown-posse-s.html

No television cameras were there to record the scene, but people around the state and beyond in offices and family rooms still followed every word. The medium? Twitter. Half a dozen reporters for mainstream Connecticut newspapers and television stations clicked out reports of up to 140 characters on iPads, smart phones and laptops.

October 15, 2010
Die Antwoord's $O$ album drops Oct. 12, the Amazon description is somethin' else – Boing Boing

Die Antwoord’s $O$ album drops Oct. 12, the Amazon description is somethin’ else

So, Die Antwoord’s $O$ album comes out Tuesday October 12. The item description over at Amazon is hilarious. You have to read this. I’m guessing Ninja typed this in himself, and is havi…

via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/11/die-antwoords-o-albu.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

“This photograph of the most dramatic event of the Holocaust requires a greater level of responsibility from historians than almost any other,” Dr. Dobroszycki said, “It is too holy to let people do with it what they want.”

October 12, 2010
Lynda Carter dancing with 'KISS' – Heavy Discussion

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August 10, 2010
Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой – Boing Boing

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March 1, 2010
Epically bad teen Christian rock band becomes internet phenom

“Shine” by Final Placement from sharity world on Vimeo.

via: Epically bad teen Christian rock band becomes internet phenom Boing Boing

February 24, 2010