19 May 2011
Clyde adores film cameras! (FLICKR!!)
October, a set on Flickr.
I love film cameras! Getting your film back and not knowing what you're getting, finding those accidental overlaps and stains and splotches that unintentionally made your photos into art...ah nothing can beat film! So have some pictures I've taken with it!
Myspace Photos
Here you go, guys! Our beautiful myspace style photos. IBI is the blonde, OMO has short brown hair,EJE is the hipster who doesn't generally wear those glasses, and Clyde is the master of myspace photos.
- EJE
Btw, this is our hundredth post. Not the 100th posted, but the 100th written.
Clyde tells you how to take an "attractive" Myspace picture
So yesterday Vinyl was out in the hallway, innocently taking our press pass photos, when an idea struck us. A lovely yet terrible idea. We decided to take our press pass photos as...Myspace pictures.
Yes.
Taking Myspace pictures is a complex art and I have heard it takes many years for the 12 year olds who take them to master the art. However, back in the day of 2008 when I myself was 12, I was quite the cool Myspace photo-taker myself. Not quite a master, but dang I could rock that peace sign and too much eyeliner look. Fo real.
Anyway, I decided to share my tips with you even though it's now 2011 and pretty much no one has a Myspace anymore. So, here is how to take a "cool" Myspace picture...whatever that means.
1.) Find a place with good light and nice scenery for the background. The preferred place for hip Myspacers is usually their bathroom. Because nothing expresses the complexity of your soul quite like a toilet hangin' out in the back of your profile picture.
2.) Put on some makeup. Some frequently used looks include raccoon eyes, zombie stitches on your cheeks, duct tape across the mouth, and fake fangs. Don't forget to tease your hair and color it with marker because your parents won't let you actually dye it because you are 12.
3.) Position the camera. You want an angle that will give away just enough of your face while still looking "mysterious" and "deep". And also make your head look enormous. Try holding it at arms length above your head. This will make you look like a deranged but adorable alien and also make you look abnormally thin.
4.) Hide your face. Use your overly long emo bangs, a hand, or even a flower held inexplicably up to your eye. Holding random objects up to your eyes shows how "unique" and "interesting" you are and will also help you hide the face you're probably self conscious about if you're taking Myspace pictures in the first place.
5.) Upload and edit. After you've got approximately 465 copies of the same shot with slightly shifted angles, upload to your computer and Photoshop the heck out of those suckers. Up the exposure so that it looks like you have no nose. Change it to black and white to make you look EVEN MORE "deep" and "sensitive". Make your eyes red so that everyone thinks you're a vampire with a tortured soul. Who is 12.
So there, now you have it! Now you can go out into the world and take tons of pictures of your emo self! Enjoy!
Yes.
Taking Myspace pictures is a complex art and I have heard it takes many years for the 12 year olds who take them to master the art. However, back in the day of 2008 when I myself was 12, I was quite the cool Myspace photo-taker myself. Not quite a master, but dang I could rock that peace sign and too much eyeliner look. Fo real.
Anyway, I decided to share my tips with you even though it's now 2011 and pretty much no one has a Myspace anymore. So, here is how to take a "cool" Myspace picture...whatever that means.
1.) Find a place with good light and nice scenery for the background. The preferred place for hip Myspacers is usually their bathroom. Because nothing expresses the complexity of your soul quite like a toilet hangin' out in the back of your profile picture.
2.) Put on some makeup. Some frequently used looks include raccoon eyes, zombie stitches on your cheeks, duct tape across the mouth, and fake fangs. Don't forget to tease your hair and color it with marker because your parents won't let you actually dye it because you are 12.
3.) Position the camera. You want an angle that will give away just enough of your face while still looking "mysterious" and "deep". And also make your head look enormous. Try holding it at arms length above your head. This will make you look like a deranged but adorable alien and also make you look abnormally thin.
4.) Hide your face. Use your overly long emo bangs, a hand, or even a flower held inexplicably up to your eye. Holding random objects up to your eyes shows how "unique" and "interesting" you are and will also help you hide the face you're probably self conscious about if you're taking Myspace pictures in the first place.
5.) Upload and edit. After you've got approximately 465 copies of the same shot with slightly shifted angles, upload to your computer and Photoshop the heck out of those suckers. Up the exposure so that it looks like you have no nose. Change it to black and white to make you look EVEN MORE "deep" and "sensitive". Make your eyes red so that everyone thinks you're a vampire with a tortured soul. Who is 12.
So there, now you have it! Now you can go out into the world and take tons of pictures of your emo self! Enjoy!
18 May 2011
17 May 2011
COLDPLAYY and other thoughts about the ACL lineup
This is a repost from my blog. Because I think everybody needs to know.
Coldplay is definitely my predominant thought about ACL. If it can even be considered a thought. It's more of an echo. That keeps echoing. Coldplaaayyy..coldplaaaaay....coooooldplaaaaay.
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Colldddplaaaay |
Coldplay and Kanye West will be the Friday night co-headliners. Coldplay vs. Kanye = easiest choice of my life. Now, before I start oozing over Coldplay again, I'm going to list some of the bands I'm most looking forward to or believe I will look forward to more after listening to more of their music.
In no particular order at all, possibly even a peculiar order:
1. Bright Eyes - Why? Who are Bright Eyes? I'm not the person to ask, I just like their.. Actually, no. This isn't even the band I thought it was. I was writing about the Local Natives, who performed at ACL last year. I like their song Gorilla Manor. The Local Natives' song, that is.
2. Old Crow Medicine Show - I haven't actually listened to them either, but they participated in the Railroad Revival Tour with Mumford and Sons and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, so they have to be cool, right?
3. My Morning Jacket - I will definitely be checking these guys out. I'm Amazed played on the radio frequently a few years ago, and every time I hear it, I'm reminded of the good old days when I still rode horses (before I fell and broke my arm..). I can picture myself listening to it inside my mom's car at Sonic, waiting for my limeaide to be delivered. Oh yes.
4. Alison Krauss and Union Station - I had no idea who Krauss was until she released that famous album, Raising Sands, with Robert Plant, who was the vocalist for Led Zeppelin when he was young. Great album. Gone Gone Gone is a pretty cool song with a friggin hilarious music video. Oh, you funny middle-aged musicians.
5. Cee Lo Green - For one reason only. "Forget" You. Watch it.
6. Iron and Wine - They're lovely. Really. And if anyone has Iron and Wine CDs they'd like to lend me, go ahead, if you know who I am. If not, I'll frequent the library and Half-Price over the summer. Well, I'll do that anyway. Have a beautiful sample here, listen to Naked As We Come.
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Samuel Beam, a.k.a. Iron and Wine. |
Also (as a sidenote, because I'm not yet a devout listener to any of these bands)~ The Fleet Foxes, Arcade Fire, and Broken Social Scene (a Canadian indie rock band) will be performing as well, not to mention the tens of other bands I haven't mentioned.
These bands are not the extent of my interest, but I am neither willing nor do I have time to write about all of the bands that even remotely appeal to me. So, those are the big highlights in my mind. What do you think?
~ OMO
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