Because it was still in the drafts-folder. This is a lost post from past winter. M. I hope they found him.

new ones

Just a little reminder about tomorrows Wasted Days Fest at Tüwi. I have a couple new photographs to hang up on the wall, I’m psyched.

Please check out the website for all infos on tomorrow and tell your friends about it. It starts at 7 pm, there’s Glühwein, food, more photographs, a couple of bands, Flo from Sex Jams spins records and drinks beer….it’ll be magic.

See you there, say hello!

analog gang / by marisa vranjes

Oh. This is not going as planned. I only wanted to do pics from on-the-road, and now this is turning into a little website where ideas are being discussed and links to other websites are dying to burst out onto the surface. And that is very cool!

Here is a website I found through a friend of mine’s band named Pilots. Their promo-pictures were done by Katharina Reckendorfer, who is part of analoggang. I went to their website and was quite excited. Fuck digital, eh? Uhm, unless it’s a camera-phone and it let’s you post a photoblog on-the-go. Right!

Check out their website at analoggang.at. And check out Pilots, too. Playing their first show on 26 October 2009 in Vienna.

I like polaroid, but I also think it’s a bit overrated. When aesthetics define an entire genre and nothing is left to imagination or innovation I tend to get wary. You know how it goes. Point a camera on stacked chairs, add polaroid-filter, hey presto: Instant “arty” photo that conveys “a sad emptiness”.

This is polaroid ’09 though. Great stuff!

edit: Let me clarify this. My “problem” with the polaroid aesthetic is the LOOK. That it’s an often easily replicated look that cynics recreate so easily. It’s actually the same with that Terry Richardson guy – his photos are this thing, a Vice-thing, an aesthetic, a look. And yes, even though I too work with Vice it doesn’t mean I have to lick every sweaty ball that dangles out of it.

I didn’t attack people that pay their hard-earned money for film and photo-development, that take photos out of the pure enjoyment of it.

But, having said that, I like the DIY-aspect of it.

So, I somewhat salute you steampunks with a fly i found peeking off the wall of a building society.

God I love that word, too. That is my fetish I guess, confusing people with british words.

Wasted Days is a one-day fest organised by the nice folk behind Dendritic Shows and Flirt With The Koteletts. They have been organising gigs for the past year and are celebrating their anniversary with this fest.

There’s gonna be bands playing (detailed info below), a photo-exhibition, vegan food, DJs and that’s not all: I think the most charming thing about this is the mix-tape trading-box! You can bring your own mixtape, leave it and take another one. This is genius! A zine will also be produced exclusively for the fest. God knows what else will happen! This all sounds like the good times of 90s-emo and I fucking love it.

Bands: September Malevolence, Decibelles, Einszweidreivier, Werner Kitzmüller Trio. More to be confirmed, I hear.
Exhibition: Andi Dvorak, Andrej Jafarau, Daniel Eberharter.
DJs: Not sure yet, but I know for certain that Turbopete of Sex Jams fame will spin some records, possibly with a couple of beers under the table and under his belt. Yeeeh!

So, here’s the flyer, designed by Bernie from FWTK. More infos will follow. I am dead excited, this is gonna be awesome. Check out the website for all infos on all bands and to keep up to date.

WASTED DAYS FEST

incidentally i’m pleasantly surprised about the iphone’s shutter-speed.