|
Showing posts with label photo feature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo feature. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Bear in Heaven at Tomorrow Never Knows Fest 1-16-13 #originalphotos
Monday, October 8, 2012
Midnight Circus Rocks the Parks Photo Filled Feature #photos
Midnight Circus is a Chi-town favorite and we've been fans for decades. They performed in Daley Plaza as a centerpiece of Chicagoween for years. Check out some of our past, photo filled coverage here. Back in the day, Midnight Circus founders Julie and Jeff worked on a movie, with Dug (my location sound engineer husband), and we've enjoyed checking out their work ever since.
Now the next generation is taking to the stage, too. Jeff and Julie have a son who is now rockin' the hat tricks, clowning and partner acro. We hope to interview them soon for our ongoing video series on How Creatives Parent and How Parents Create.
My daughter was in awe of the girl on Spanish Web who seemed to be all about being mighty, just like Sagezilla. Sage started learning Spanish web herself last year, and lyra, too, like the tiny but mighty kid on the hoop.
The juggling/acro duo was quite fun.
And the adults were digging this one even more than the kids!
Circus GangNam Style!
Midnight Circus did a colorful, creative mix of classic circus arts and the latest YouTube sensation.
Come check 'em out and don't put off getting tickets. All of these shows have been selling out. Proceeds benefit the Chicago Park District! How cool is that?! You can be well entertained and help out an amazing, underfunded, Chicago resource at the same time.
Click here for more details and to order your tickets.
Shows run every Saturday and Sunday through Oct. 21st and rotate to different parks. Click here for the schedule.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
TONIGHT Final Show--Bat Honey-Ironwill Tate Adult Puppet Show #photos
We thoroughly enjoyed checking out the adult puppet show, Ironwill Tate, on Sunday night. Bat Honey is from Missoula, Montana and they're just swingin' through Chi-town for 3 shows only, on their cross country tour. Come on out and see 'em tonight. We'll have HD show clips coming soon.
“Ironwill Tate” is a fantasy-filled puppet extravaganza for adults. The show features over 40 handmade puppets utilizing ancient and modern puppetry styles. In “Ironwill Tate” we follow a family on the last leg of their cross-country road-trip. At the wheel is Tate, the father and fanatical schedule keeper who decides what they will and will not stop for. Drunken zoo animals, dying wizards, and giant robots vie for the family’s attention, but Tate will stop at nothing to keep that pedal down. This main narrative is the springboard for a series of vignettes woven throughout. It gets strange, folks.
Bat Honey is comprised of Britt Juchem and Ariel Gregory. Britt and Ariel began their career as stop motion animators. Veteran Los Angeles model makers for film and television, they have been collaborating for over ten years.
*Show contains language and adult intellectual themes and content
Catch their final Chi-Town show TONIGHT on the north side at Portage ARTspace!
- Event:
- Start:
- End:
- Updated:
- Venue:
- Address:
Please come to portage ARTspace to see our road-trip odyssey Ironwill Tate. The show starts at 7pm at portage ARTspace, 4837 W. Berenice Ave. Chicago, IL 60641
This past weekend, Bat Honey performed at Southside Hub of Production, a cool, Hyde Park art gallery Saturday and Sunday night, where an eclectic audience brought pot luck food and wine to share. Their 1910 space is full of gorgeous wood work and wabi sabi, salvaged furniture. Check out their upcoming events here. They're planning openings and events for artists' month in October, so check out their main site and calendar of events.
Check out our past Ironwill Tate coverage here.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
ChiIL Live Shows Sunday At North Coast Music Fest #photo filled recap
Here are ChiIL Live Shows' Shots of Sunday at North Coast Music Festival 2012
Sunday highlights were Chi-town's own Mathien, pictured below.
Mathien even got the "shreddy shirt boy" sighting seal of approval!
We really dug seeing Rebirth Brass Band from New Orleans again this year (we also shot them opening for Dumpstaphunk at the after party at Bottom Lounge Sunday night).
Official NCMF After Party Rebirth Brass Band, Dumpstaphunk, Lou Dooben, DJ RC
Even security got in on the squirt gun fun
We also checked out the vendors including the Chevy street team. I told them I'd just won a week loan of an Inferno Orange Camaro SS and they said, "What are you doing HERE, girl?! You should be out driving that convertible!!!!!"
We did see a number of families and kids Sunday.
More highlights were Van Ghost, Big Boi and Pretty Lights.
The Van Ghost girls, and Jennifer Hartswick (Trey Anastasio Band) in particular, just killed it with their stellar vocals and horns. Sure there were some state of the art DJs & super stars at NCMF, but we chose to go old school and focus our lens predominantly on the musicians playing actual instruments and singing instead of the Mac/ scratch fever crew.
Of course we also shot a lot of the creative, costumed crowd like this cow boy below who's out standing in his field.
We wanna see a band named SLUTHAT next year..... Whose with me?!
It was great to see familiar faces from the music industry/press world/blogosphere like Michael Berge, Michael Raspatello, Amy Ravit Korin (AKA: Interactive Amy) and August Forte!
We hit the fest early Sunday afternoon with the plan to shoot most of Mathien's 2:30 set, then hit IndigoSky. Unfortunately the media/photo pass SNAFU screwed up our shoot schedule again. With no separate press entrance, I had to wait behind hundreds of festival goers to even get in, and then security gave me a hassle again about bringing in my gear.
Year 1 we had lanyards/all access. Year two we had a photo pit wrist band which wasn't ideal, but passable. This year, we were approved for two media credentials, but someone had the brilliant idea that GA tickets would suffice.
We were unable to shoot Friday at all, since security wouldn't let me in with my pro-camera gear and I had nothing to prove I really had press clearance. I tried for over an hour to get someone on the walkie to get me in with my gear, and finally left in disgust. I'd taken the el down and couldn't very well just ditch thousands of dollars in cameras outside the gate. We were bummed not to catch King Khan & the Shrines, Knife Party and STS9.
Later that night I e-mailed all my contacts on the fest production end and they assured me I had clearance to bring in a camera as press and that the gate fiasco was a mistake. Yet we had the same issue again Sunday with security and were held up at the gate so long we missed shooting all of IndigoSky and just caught Mathian's final song after literally running across to the far side of the fest. Grrrr.
Saturday went smoothly, aside from wasting shoot time in a mass of GA at the main gate and long lines for basics like portalets and water. Every other major music fest we cover has a press area with free water and uncrowded toilets so press can work more efficiently. It's a no brainer really. Lollapalooza's press lounge is great, with a plentiful water and iced tea, private toilets, chairs for interviews, a free happy hour, swag, and more. Unless things change for the better, this may be the last time we take the time to cover North Coast. They seemed bent on making it as hard as possible for me to do my job and get good coverage for our readers!
Then I ran into one of the NCMF producers I've known for years, who FINALLY kicked me a guest wristband. I still couldn't get any pit photos like we usually run here, but it was a big improvement over nothing. Check out our extensive NCMF 2011 coverage where I shot pit photos from dawn to dusk every day of the fest.
That said, we'll be shooting stills again and catching Mathian's whole set at Reggies Rock Club this Saturday. Come on out and check 'em out. They're excellent. Mathien's on at 7pm sharp, so come early. ALL AGES.
Here's the scoop:
TRIBAL SEEDS
From San Diego, California, award-winning reggae group Tribal Seeds have become known for their spiritually driven, refreshing rock vibe they have infused with the roots style of reggae music.
BALLYHOO!
A rock band with punk energy and pop, reggae grooves, Baltimore’s BALLYHOO! are a fun, fan-loving powerhouse.
MATHIEN
Till next year NCMF....
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)