Sometimes you need to hit rock bottom to push yourself to the top.
I am going on tour with the wonderful fellows in Ocean Is Theory for a whole month.
Here are the dates I have so far, we will be in Nashville the 22nd of Jan as well and there should be another TN date the 21st of Feb.. Most of the dates (26-19th) are with Nineball and Leo:
(also playing nashville feb 8th and apparently feb 13th date is now Jacksonville, FL, not Panama City. Feb 18th is In South Carolina now instead as well.)
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[EXIT/IN] w/ Lovedrug | Nashville, Tennessee | ||
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UNION COLLEGE | Barbourville, Kentucky | ||
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[UNION COLLEGE] | Barbourville, Kentucky | ||
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TERRE HAUTE MUSIC VENUE | Terre Haute, Indiana | ||
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CROWN PLAZA BALLROOM | Louisville, Kentucky | ||
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THE MAD HOUSE | Richmond, Indiana | ||
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THE ROCK CHURCH | Portland, Indiana | ||
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THE FOUNDRY | South Haven, Michigan | ||
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THE LIFECENTER | Goshen, Indiana | ||
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FRANKIE’S | Toledo, Ohio | ||
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THE HANGAR | Otisville, Michigan | ||
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[THE HANGAR] | Otisville, Michigan | ||
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THE GEAR | Franklin, Indiana | ||
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TAKE IT TO THE STREETS | New Castle, Indiana | ||
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THE WAREHOUSE | Chattanooga, Tennessee | ||
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[FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH] – HOME SHOW | Canton, Georgia | ||
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[SWAYZE’S] – HOME SHOW | Marietta, Georgia | ||
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Murray Hill Theatre (I think -K ) | Jacksonville, Florida | ||
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[BEACH BLAZE FEST] | Panama City, Florida | ||
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[HOUSE OF TUNES MUSIC HALL] | Beauford, South Carolina | ||
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[THE ROCK SHOP] | Fayetteville, North Carolina | ||
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[NEW BROOKLAND TAVERN] | Columbia, South Carolina | ||
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[FORT JOHNSON BAPTIST] | Charleston, South Carolina | ||
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[ALL AGES VENUE] | Virginia Beach, Virginia | ||
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[THE WIRED LIVE MUSIC VENUE] | Mansfield, Ohio | ||
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[SATURDAY NIGHT REVOLUTION] | Peebles, Ohio |
Always cool to get a featured photo on a front page of a site. They used my photo of i Rival for the main photo of the “top 20 unsigned bands” compilation promo they have on their site at the moment.
Your brand is important.
You can’t build it up so much that it’s only about you, some people do that and come across as full of themselves.
You must make a name of yourself and create an image that sells. Just as you might work in an industry where you create an image for other people in order to sell them, you must create one for yourself that sells you to people who want to hire you to create images for other people.
Image is important in the web 2.0 world.
Your portfolio must represent who you are as a creative. It must represent what you enjoy doing. It has to represent YOU.
YOU are your portfolio. Your PORTOFLIO is YOU. Represent it well.
Don’t go to art school for photography.
If you go to school for anything, go for business. Or accounting. Or anything that will help the business side of things along and help you keep food on your table and a roof above your head.
The best way to learn is to go out there and do it. Learn on your own and assist other people, learn from them. Just keep rule number one in mind, see the previous post.
Separate yourself from the pack. Create uniquely.
Ignore the rules. Break the rules.
Rules are there to mold you. Destroy them and create new rules for everyone else, and then destroy them over and over again.
Do this and you will be five steps ahead of everyone else.
spotted in Iowa/Illinois/somewhere around there. Shot with Kodak Ektar 100
Jesus Corn
A few more photos from when I shot at the Utah Salt Flats. One of the neatest places I’ve ever been to, although you can see from the last photo what happens when a wind/salt storm comes your way. I’ve never had my gear in such fierce winds, it was knocking down a stand that had two vagabonds attached to the base! Check out just above the horizon and you can see the cloud of salt that had passed through in the last photo I posted.
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Paulo Dourado in Utah Salt Flats
Paulo Dourado / Salt Flats
Gear knockdown from wind