SDJMG show at Tango Del Rey 4/20/09- Part 1
I've been working feverishly on photos, and I'm doing some new things starting with this blog post. I changed my galleries link on my website to go to my newly created pro Flickr account, so I'm working on getting all my Picasa galleries up there, which is going to take a while since I have about 200 of them to upload. Instead of uploading the photos to this blog, I'm going to start linking directly to where they live on my Flickr account, which should make it easier to see EXIF data as well as get to the full galleries. If anyone has a nice and easy workflow for this, I'm all ears. I'd much rather shoot and process photos than wrestle with HTML- I'm having trouble configuring Flickr to play with GoDaddy's Quickblogcast. So if this post gets mangled, this new workflow is why.
Since I don't want to ruin a full post about Monday night's festivities, I'll split it up into bite-size pieces. I'm also going out of order here, since I still have to work on getting Menomena and Zimbeat photos up, but I wanted to get these up first.
Monday was a fun night, with the San Diego Jazz Musician's Guild show happening. I had a dozen of my jazz photos on display, and I won't bore you with all the issues I had with getting them to show-ready, but it was a bit of an ordeal. It was over 90 degrees that day, and my mats were bowing and ungluing. I did get everything done by the time people started coming up to see them, so it worked out. People seemed to like the photos and I got a lot of compliments on them, so I'm definitely happy about that!
The show was organized by several people, but Karin Carson was the main lady keeping it all together. This was her first event so it wasn't 100% smooth, but I think she did great and next time it should go even better. She even found time to sing with the jammers at the end of the night.
In between the main bands, she gave a presentation on the Guild and how she got to where she is in the jazz community.
Just before her speech, Ted Washington gave everyone a taste of his poetry. I took the time to sit down, relax, and chat with some friends who came out to support me, so I got to hear his stuff.
I think poetry works better on the printed page, but it was interesting to see it delivered visually and verbally. Inflection and body language make up a large part of meaning, and I think my interpretation of his work might be different if I had a chance to read it first. In my excited/nervous/sweaty state of mind, I couldn't really give him my undivided attention, but I'm sure I'll catch another reading of his at some point.
Up next will be the posts on the two main bands of the evening, the Jazz 88 All Stars and Daniel Jackson. Stay tuned!
Since I don't want to ruin a full post about Monday night's festivities, I'll split it up into bite-size pieces. I'm also going out of order here, since I still have to work on getting Menomena and Zimbeat photos up, but I wanted to get these up first.
Monday was a fun night, with the San Diego Jazz Musician's Guild show happening. I had a dozen of my jazz photos on display, and I won't bore you with all the issues I had with getting them to show-ready, but it was a bit of an ordeal. It was over 90 degrees that day, and my mats were bowing and ungluing. I did get everything done by the time people started coming up to see them, so it worked out. People seemed to like the photos and I got a lot of compliments on them, so I'm definitely happy about that!
The show was organized by several people, but Karin Carson was the main lady keeping it all together. This was her first event so it wasn't 100% smooth, but I think she did great and next time it should go even better. She even found time to sing with the jammers at the end of the night.
In between the main bands, she gave a presentation on the Guild and how she got to where she is in the jazz community.
Just before her speech, Ted Washington gave everyone a taste of his poetry. I took the time to sit down, relax, and chat with some friends who came out to support me, so I got to hear his stuff.
I think poetry works better on the printed page, but it was interesting to see it delivered visually and verbally. Inflection and body language make up a large part of meaning, and I think my interpretation of his work might be different if I had a chance to read it first. In my excited/nervous/sweaty state of mind, I couldn't really give him my undivided attention, but I'm sure I'll catch another reading of his at some point.
Up next will be the posts on the two main bands of the evening, the Jazz 88 All Stars and Daniel Jackson. Stay tuned!
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