» LightWorks part 2
Now Adam, the non-stop, constant working, but bad-music-playing Studio Manager of Garage Studios sent me an email late last night. The same last night that should have seen me at a gig watching Fucked Up slay the crowd……..when instead I ended up teaching… Anyways my point was an email arrived in all its silent but nerve shredding, hope dashin glory- a harbringer of torment set to wreck my world and wrack my brain. Subject title “Light Works”, opened it up and just one small innocent looking link sat in the text. I figured i knew where this was going, someone had blogged the LightWorks post and shoot thats in the previous blog- The Neon Hot Stepper flicks…. But even Jesus Christ if he had ever walked the earth would have been surprised by this one- the link took me to a mind blowing editorial that not only took the Neon Hot Stepper as its starting point but then ripped the lid of the sucker… and the absolute kick in the nuts about it is that according to the shoot date it was done last year!!! So not only did the punks steal the idea and title but they “Deloreaned it” back to last year and posted it in the past people…..the past!!!!
Pffff thats enough of the hand wringing, I knew the idea wasnt exactly ground breaking and we have used some similar techniques in the past , and hey I get that photography is all about light trails and all that but just follow this link and see how damn good they did this shoot. Its just crazy good- I cant even feel slightly annoyed cos its so great an editorial- apart from the male model- who aint really doing it…. but the colours, the gelled lights, the oh-so-fuckin-perfect trails, I’d puke if i wasnt so excited by it.
incredible light works shoot not by us…
if you missed the link (just above) check this picture, its amazing, and whats even more amazing is that I didnt take it….
fuck me its great
Now obviously none of us here at the Garage had seen this, I have spent enough time with the Spraycan Arters to realise that a straight up bite aint the steez to flex- this shocked me to see it- but in a good way. Well done kids that worked on this- and we are just gonna go off and sit back at the drawing board with a big bottle of Absinthe and see if we can conjure up some more voodoo for a fresh new idea- that hasnt already been done. Damn this thinking game is hard….
Thats all- oh and my man Jiroe is having a party tonight- should be live-o just the thing to drag me out the funk.
Final final thing i joined Twitter- DD Twitteurghhh cos i got forced into it by Adam. Go follow me and be amused by the lack of anything happening and the occasional objectionable comment.
DD.
March 12th, 2009 at 7:55 am
I honestly prefer yours. There’s no such thing as an original idea so don’t kill yourselves trying to start from scratch again. just mix it with a pregnant lady in a bikini being attacked by zombies with spraycans or whatever else is lodged in your heads. And twitter arrrrrggghhh. As they say, a picture says a thousand words but that’s got to be worth about a million twitters.
March 15th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
You know what you need?
A heavy dose of Bleach by Nirvana. At least 3 times in one day, then In On The Kill Taker by Fugazi.
I can’t tell you why, but it will make it all suddenly click into place.
March 16th, 2009 at 2:04 am
you know buddy that Bleach rarely leaves my brain or my stereo, its like i am infected, but fugazi i never did get into- in fact can complain almost complete ignorance of, probably couldnt even hum their biggest smashpophit.