Hawthorne Heights in Costa Mesa

Thanks to Dave, he got me a ticket to see Hawthorne Heights (with Anberlin) in Costa Mesa tonight. So many bands in the past three days, it’s intense. I’ll try to take pictures, since I failed to do so myself on Friday.

Update: The tickets we got from Dave were free. He ordered four, and got four extra. When we got there and tried to get them scanned, they got denied. After 40 minutes, the ticket booth said that the tickets we had were reported stolen. Fortunately, there were some other people there that we knew had two extra tickets. How’d we get the other two? Someone had three extra tickets, and was selling them for $10/each. Of course, we were skeptical, so I asked him if we could use the tickets, get in, then pay him inside the gate. Fortunately, it worked out, and we saw Anberlin play three more songs before Hawthorne Heights.

I had my camera out, and a girl the row in front of me asked if I could email her some pictures since she didn’t have a camera. I followed up on that when I got home linking to the ones I uploaded to a Flickr set, including another link to our band’s Myspace in hopes that she’d come and hear us live next Tuesday. (More on that later.) Hopefully she’ll tell her friends, too!

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Depends how you look at it November 16, 2009

Silas and I were supposed to meet up with other photography classmates for long exposure photos from Cow Canyon Saddle by Mt. Baldy Village1. That didn’t happen. Once we got to the turnout on Glendora Ridge Rd, we just saw a sign and a road leading into an RV park. There wasn’t a mention of Cow Canyon [...]

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Rx Bandits at The Glass House November 13, 2009

November 12, 2009 — A photo I took of the Rx Bandits rocking out at The Glass House (Pomona, CA). More to come, of course. Thanks to Cathy and Chase from Sargent House for the photo pass (again)! View on Flickr

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Bill November 10, 2009

I didn’t ask Bill to pose or smile. I liked his second portrait, but that wasn’t as sharp. Boo me. Reflections of myself and Bill’s dad (upper left) was deliberate. Taken inside his dad’s garage, and hopefully soon to be his recording studio. View on Flickr

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A gift of film November 10, 2009

Jon Swanson emailed me last Friday and asked if I wanted any color Fuji 35mm film. He didn’t tell me how many rolls he had in his possession. Most importantly, he didn’t want a dime. I asked him how much he had, but he persisted that I give him a number. I requested eight rolls of 200 film1. [...]

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One of my first prints November 5, 2009

I tried to get this scanned print as close to the real thing as possible. I cropped out the white borders since they weren’t clean. I didn’t write down how I exposed this in the enlarger – shame on me, I guess. Lastly, since this was our first assignment, our teacher hadn’t shown us contrast filters [...]

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Caffeine at 7pm was a bad choice. 0 minutes ago

The story behind our failed expedition to Mt. Baldy for long exposure photography -- http://bit.ly/5LktA 1 hour ago

Band rehearsal over. Gotta head to Samy's for a cable release. Long exposure photography tonight at Mt Baldy. 10 hours ago

It's been a fairly quiet day with Twitter SMS turned off. I think Ill do that every weekend, or something like that. 1 day ago

@mmschuster90 It usually doesn't work out they way you intend. Feel better. =/ 1 day ago