Concert photography cohorts and I plan to get out as many nights as possible in July to take photos at Boston concerts. I’ll be curating it daily throughout July via Exploit Boston. So far I’ve lined up complimentary admission every night in July for participating photographers at the following Boston, Cambridge and Allston music venues: The Middle East Upstairs, The Middle East Downstairs, Church, The Lizard Lounge and Great Scott.
If you’d like to get involved, let me know! I wrote about the photo project at sooz.com previously and you can also sign-up on the event page at Facebook. Obviously this is for people who are (most likely) not pro concert photographers. No one is getting paid for the photos outside of free admission to the club. It’s fun.
Michael created a humorous masterpiece of screenshots from The Big Lebowski movie and added LOLcat style captions: The Big LOLbowski. If you’ve seen the movie, prepare to laugh … for days.
I’m moving to Watertown on July 1st so a friend and I wandered around my new neighborhood and then took a walk through Mount Auburn Cemetery. It is one of the best spots around Boston to take photos. Click on each thumbnail to see a bigger photo or view the slideshow at Flickr.
I thought it would be fun to try to see live music every night in July for thirty days of concert photos. But then the voice of reason reminded me that I’d probably be dead after the first week. I’ve nudged a few friends to participate and we’re looking for more conspirators. If you’d like to participate, send me your Gmail address so I can add you to the “Boston Rocks July 2008” shared calendar. I’ll be making note of the photo adventure (links to everyone’s blogs, tidbits about upcoming shows, the photos, etc.) over on Exploit Boston!.
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The awesomeness that is Podcamp Boston is happening July 19-20 for year number three. I’ve helped out each year running the registration+info desk with Steve Sherlock. It’s an inspiring event. This year, a small fee ($50) is being charged to help insure that everyone who signs up is committed to going.
Beyond the participant sponsorship, Podcamp Boston is also looking for companies to step up and help cover logistical costs including the venue. Christopher Penn, Podcamp co-founder and lead organizer for Podcamp Boston found a great venue at Joseph Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School. If you’d like to help make this event happen, please do. This is a good opportunity to be visible to hundreds of social media savvy mavens and people interested in digging in and learning more. If you have any questions about the event, email me!
Betahouse, the coworking space that I work out of, had a one year anniversary party a couple weeks ago. I’m not all that savvy about the electronic music world, but the two “official” party DJ’s that played music that night were very good. They were so good that the handful of us that made guest DJ mixes didn’t get to add our music into the evening. But all is not lost, thanks to Muxtape. Here’s the mix of rock and roll awesomeness that I put together for the party.
Several years ago I conspired with The American Repertory to invite Boston area bloggers to a performance at their new Zero Arrow Theater in Harvard Square. It was a fun excuse to get out to see something I rarely seem to do: theater!
Thanks to Nicholas Peterson at A.R.T., they’re inviting bloggers to this Sunday’s (7pm, April 6th) performance of the U.S. premier of “ELECTIONS & ERECTIONS: A Chronicle of Fear and Fun.” Tickets normally cost $39 for the Sunday performances; but bloggers get a complimentary ticket in exchange for blogging about the performance (good, bad, indifferent).
If you’re a Boston area blogger and you’d like to join us on Sunday, April 6th at 7pm, sign-up on the Upcoming.org page. If you don’t use upcoming.org, send me an email with the URL of your blog. We might meet up for drinks after the performance.
A.R.T. has a blog that will probably start percolating again sometime soon with tidbits about their latest show.
Earlier I was catching up with Acquia’s blog and found this post by Kieran Lal. He rounded up a bunch of feedback about Drupalcon Boston that some of the (850+) participants posted on their blogs. After spending a solid eight weeks jam packed with work helping Kieran and the rest of the Boston organizing committee bring that event to life, it was very cool to read how much people enjoyed the conference. And it was an excellent reminder that I am really happy that I’m working with Acquia on events beyond the Drupalcon Boston event. Kieran was amazing to work with/for. He is the most organized, focused (and somehow still friendly) person I’ve ever conspired with. Not to mention he put up with me pestering him at practically all hours of the day for two weeks leading up to the conference. True awesomeness.
“Well, that week just flew by. This is the most time I’ve spent in front of my computer all week.”
“Big thanks to the following folks for hospitality, logistics, and generally making it a great week: Kieran Lal, Jeff Whatcott, Robert Douglas and Jay Batson from Acquia; Gary, Jose, Al, and Robertson from the Knight Foundation; Leslie Hawthorne — the source of all good Summer of Code things; Moshe, Jamie and the rest of the local volunteers; Matt Cheney and Neil Drumm; Tobby, Jonathan and Nik (MDW); Morten, the King of Denmark; D Mak; Christefano and Lee; Cary and the rest of the hockey posse; the Lucky’s Lounge mob; Mike Meyers; Eric Gunderson, Alex Barth and the absent Bonnie Bogle from Development Seed; Pierre from the World Bank (I don’t hate the bank); Lisa Williams and Ben Melançon; and, of course, the all-powerful Sooz.”
