Lightning Dust

Lightning Dust at the Biltmore, August 27. Shot for Exclaim.

The Track

Backstage at the Hastings Racecourse, Summer 2009

Fine Mist

Fine Mist close-ups at the Astoria, August Discorder night. I was... almost standing on top of them.

Some Stuff

Oh, hello. I haven't updated this puppy in months, though not for a lack of activity. Mostly I've gone off on a sort of food-blogging and -photographing tangent. But here's a rundown of stuff I've been up to.


Because of Michelle-Meals, I found myself doing some writing and photography for the Food Network.



I went on a little vegan odyssey through Vancouver and finally checked out the Trout Lake Farmer's Market.


I was lucky to snap these shots of Bonnie Prince Billy at the Vogue, early spring, since he spent the beginning of his act with his back turned to the audience until all the photographers left the pit. As soon as we left he transformed into his regular old endearing self.

A Canada Day garden carnival on Victoria Drive featured a Role Mach performance, and several random (bake sale, BBQ, portrait drawing, face painting, listening, German translating, Piers Anthony reading) booths set up to raise money for the Safe Amplification Site Society. This is a portrait of Fine Mist's Jay Arner drawing my portrait for a loonie.



I documented the mating habits of the Granville Entertainment District clubbers for Discorder. Read the article by Jessica Barrett here. The whole set of photos is in a flickr set here.


I shot a couple shows of one of my new favourite local bands, Buffaloswans. I'll be following them into the studio this August to document the recording of their new album.




I shot some new promo photos for Jesse Reid on a recent trip to Ontario.


Aaaand I followed author Kevin Chong around at the track to shoot some material for an upcoming book about horse racing. Kevin and I will be blogging about the Dawson City Music Festival from the Yukon this weekend. You can find our updates here.

Monotonix

Monotonix at the Biltmore in late December. Ami Shalev's "bathing suit area": what better way to fill the void between Christmas and New Years. Allegedly some music was played by this band that night too. At the very least their instruments did about as much crowd surfing as they did.

Ladyhawk

Ever since I saw Ladyhawk performing at Transmission at the Biltmore last week I haven't been able to stop listening to them. One of the best bands to showcase the festival, they're a refreshing dose of rock in an otherwise rock-and-roll-less music scene. Read Quinn Omori's review of the show over here.

Hooliganship

Peter Burr of Hooliganship at the Cinémathèque Monday night, part of their Cartune Xprez: 2008 AMRCAN Fall Tour. They'll be back in Vancouver at the end of January for a "3-D" performance.

Decades of Deviance

Madame Mae I helped Jen Brooks with her makeup backstage while Diamond Minx took it (almost) all off at Girls on Top's "Decades of Deviance" performance at Celebrities last Thursday night. All net proceeds of the burlesque night went to WISH, WAVAW, and PACE, to help women who have suffered abuse or sexual assault, and survival sex trade workers.

Mission of Burma

Mission of Burma performed the entirety of "Signals, Calls and Marches" at their Vancouver show at the Plaza September 30.
Shot for Discorder; read Alex Smith's review of the night here.

Basketball

A wayward flash turned Basketball and their audience into a pack of zombies during their last Vancouver show at the Victory Square Block party.

NO KIDS

No Kids, no-kidding it up at the Victory Square Block Party; Labour Day.

Malaika Mud

I've been to a handful of beguiling burlesque shows in Vancouver in the past few years, but there was something special about the Fight Club Cabaret that transformed the Wise Hall into a gritty underground parlour of hedonistic voyeurism on this hot August night. The special ingredient: mud. It was an epic evening of burlesque performances and slippery mud-soaked bodies engaged in competition, and/or pleasure. The show was put on to raise funds for Malaika Millions' impending expatriation to Los Angeles. She will be missed from the Vancouver scene, but one can only hope that the mud wrestling will live on in her absence.