And (hopefully) twice, unfortunately.
I have been in a photo contest for what feels like eternity on yobi.tv, it’s for a prize of $10,000 and a trip to NYC. I have now made it to the top three and the final two weeks thanks to the votes of wonderful folk such as yourself. One person gets eliminated per week, so one of the three will be knocked out Sunday night, then votes are reset for the next week (so I need a new vote after Sunday!).
So please, vote for my photograph by going to the following link: http://yobi.tv/yobipics/finalists/view/44
The photograph you are voting for is one I did in the Salt Flats in Utah last summer on my long Warped Tour road trip:
Keaton Andrew Salt Flats
An Horse are a wonderful Australian indie musical duo signed to mom+pop records who have toured with the likes of Tegan and Sara, Silversun Pickups, Death Cab for Cutie and Cage the Elephant. They were coming through town (town being Atlanta) and I managed to snag a quick little photo shoot with them. I mainly shot black and white film though, so you’re going to have to wait a little while for me to post more photos from this shoot. In the meantime, here’s a digital photo from the shoot. The rest will come in a later blog post, stay tuned!
An Horse
Had a photo shoot the other week with the new Atlanta, Georgia group Woe, Is Me. They recently signed to Velocity/Rise records. Here are a few photos from the shoot, seven member bands are rough to photograph!
Woe, Is Me
Woe, Is Me
Woe, Is Me
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.
My roommate Brad carved a pumpkin. Soooooo I took a photo of it and made it look even creepier than it was! Sadly the brain guts haven’t been taken out and scattered about yet, but it’s still pretty sweet.
Pumpkin
edit: Added a nice little costume shot. I was a bum and didn’t go to any halloween parties, but Brad (right) and his friend did-
Halloween costumes
They seem to be blowing up, I figured it would happen. Just today for example, I went and checked out a video review from gamespot.com on the game Borderlands and a Cage the Elephant song was playing throughout the entire review.
I did a shoot with Cage the Elephant earlier this year, was part of a Sony/Red Summer Music Guide/Mini AP magazine. I had one of the four covers, we did the shoot (stressfully!) at Bamboozle east. Had twenty minutes with the band to pull off two looks, and while it ended up being more like 1 1/2 looks, it came out well.
Here is my favorite photo from the shoot, it’s also posted on my website under the “music” section. They’re coming through Atlanta November 21st.
Cage the Elephant (www.keatonandrew.com)
