Monday, December 17, 2007
- - - > KColl photos online at URB.COM! Urb Magazine!! Weeeee! < - - -
So 2 weekends ago I shot photos for Urb Magazine, based out of Los Angelas, CA. Of course, thats the home of a booming DJ scene right now with acts including Franki Chan, Steve Aoki, Them Jeans, LA Riots, and Afrobots to name a bunch.
I covered two parties they sponsored for the Art Basel festival in Miami, FL.
MSTRKRFT / LA Riots @ The Pawn Shop 12.07.07 <view my flickr gallery>
Moby / Princess Superstar / Afrobots @ Studio A 12.08.07 <view my flickr gallery>
"URB is one of North America's longest running and most trusted independent music magazines, covering emergent hip-hop, indie and electronic music and the lifestyles that surround it. Launched on the principle that what was occurring beneath the surface and outside the range of mainstream eyes and ears was worth celebrating and documenting, URB remains the vanguard for what’s next."
With that blurb off their "about me" page being said, I'm very excited that my phttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifhotos are included/associated with their magazine and website. Hopefully I'll be working with them real soon again!
My photos can be viewed by going to and clicking Media -> Image Gallery near the top right of the page or by going directly to http://www.urb.com/media/images/. Take a look!
Also, Marc De Jesus, the flagman in Gym Class Heroes, has been using my photos as his default ever since the Official Fallout Boy Afterparty at Firestone on November 1st. Neat!
screenshots:
I covered two parties they sponsored for the Art Basel festival in Miami, FL.
MSTRKRFT / LA Riots @ The Pawn Shop 12.07.07 <view my flickr gallery>
Moby / Princess Superstar / Afrobots @ Studio A 12.08.07 <view my flickr gallery>
"URB is one of North America's longest running and most trusted independent music magazines, covering emergent hip-hop, indie and electronic music and the lifestyles that surround it. Launched on the principle that what was occurring beneath the surface and outside the range of mainstream eyes and ears was worth celebrating and documenting, URB remains the vanguard for what’s next."
With that blurb off their "about me" page being said, I'm very excited that my phttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifhotos are included/associated with their magazine and website. Hopefully I'll be working with them real soon again!
My photos can be viewed by going to and clicking Media -> Image Gallery near the top right of the page or by going directly to http://www.urb.com/media/images/. Take a look!
Also, Marc De Jesus, the flagman in Gym Class Heroes, has been using my photos as his default ever since the Official Fallout Boy Afterparty at Firestone on November 1st. Neat!
screenshots:
Labels: afrobots, art basel, fallout boy, franki chan, gym class heroes, kcoll designs, la riots, miami, moby, mstrkrft, orlando, princess superstar, studio a, the pawn shop, urb magazine
Saturday, December 15, 2007
- - - > Photos for URB MAGAZINE and Music Loves Fashion! MOBY / Princess Superstar / Afrobots @ Studio A (Miami / Art Basel) 12.08.07 < - - -
**special thanks to URB, Music Loves Fashion, Jeff Duke & Adam Frankel Production, Jason Swartz of ALLIANCE TALENT INT'L, and Jessica Johnson from theCompany for hooking me up and making this all possible!!**
REVIEW by Melanie Gapany
Tucked into a city block in the heart of downtown Miami, Studio A is your typical Miami nightclub, with a decently sized dance floor and an impressive display of liquor gathered around a circular, freestanding bar, modern décor, and a large stage. The bartenders are well apt in entertaining their crowd with fire blowing and bottle tricks. Unlike Miami nightclubs, there is no line to get in, its nice and cool inside, there are people dancing and the lineup for the evening is incredibly diverse.
It’s midway through the night and the entire room is a thriving mess of sweat and movement, packed with an eclectic mix of people that you can only find in port cities. Holy Ghost! and Princess Superstar have both finished amazing sets, and pumped the crowd full of energy. But now there is a small framed DJ wearing a large brimmed blue sunhat at the tables, casually sipping what one must assume is a screwdriver. He dances almost as intensely as the people on the floor. He is the man behind everyone’s current state of madness…the reason why no one can really stop dancing. He is Moby. The same Moby that has released pop chart hits such as ‘South Side’ and soothing lullaby melodies such as ‘Porcelain’, behind the decks, expertly wooing the crowd into frenzy.
Moby’s biography is a timeline of incredible achievements almost as diverse as the pop star himself and if this performance was any kind of a preview of what listeners can expect from Moby’s new release Last Night, due out in March of 2008, then listeners can expect something that is much more dance oriented than any of his previous releases. Much more indie, way less pop.
Despite the high price of drinks and lack of parking, everyone seemed incredibly pleased as the night ended with the Afrobots who, much like Princess Superstar, were able to effortlessly mix rhyming skills over intense beats. At the close of the night, Studio A cleared out quickly, and it was back outside for more downtown Miami traffic and heat.
TOP 20 photos of the night!
Labels: afrobots, art basel, holy ghost, kcoll designs, miami, moby, music loves fashion, princess superstar, studio a, urb magazine
