The magazine is here! My Bruise Cruise Festival photos made it into OOR Magazine, the longest running and #1 music mag in the Netherlands.
They used more photos for the article written by festival attendee Bram van Schaik, but they featured this one of BC co-captain and Turbo Fruits' front-man, Jonas Stein. (Click on the photo to see more of the articles that are featured this month including, Santigold, Philip Glass, and musician/cover model Jack White.)
Thank you Michelle Cable, Jonas, Bram, OOR, and everyone who helped to make the Bruise Cruise Festival happen, behind the scene, and part of it!
"Learn something new! This is where everything is going to go. On the computer in over a year." Recently overheard from a middle-aged woman in a bookstore predicting the future of the internet...
Maybe someone missed the boat on that one? Speaking of missing the boat, the Bruise Cruise is done and over! Clearly I made it back safe, and am just now attempting to put words to the experience. I want to go back!
How did I got on the boat in the first place? January 26th (my birthday) I got a call from SPIN Magazine saying I had WON their grandprize!! Needless to say, it was a great birthday present.
So here's a little bit of music to listen to while watching the slideshow of Polaroids I took while onboard the cruise. Personally I believe every band should have an obligatory song containing lyrics of "la la la" in some repetitious manner as to increase the audience's drunkest member's ability to participate in singing along.Thee Oh Sees fulfilled this need for me and so much more. Listen to my unofficial Bruise Cruise anthem, a song that's so catchy and danceable. Thee Oh-Sees - I Was Denied by hells-belles
Then press the play button below to view the slideshow. (Make sure to maximize the show in the bottom right hand corner.)
These actual Polaroids were taken with an SX-70 on The Impossible Project's Push! film. It needs a ton of light for the images to be clear, and responds really well to being heated to "push" the intensity of the colors. I found the tiles by the pool were great for this as they retained a lot of heat.
Here are some of my favorite images from the cruise. (Obviously not Polaroids.) I'll do my best to narrate:
Why were the creepy animals always put on my bed?
I was hoping to photograph people here...
and here, too. Pina coladas got in the way. It's a good time to admit that I know my limits with alcohol. For this reason, I don't drink at all under normal working circumstances. However, a free trip to the Bahamas is not a normal circumstance. I'm allowed to have fun, too. ;-) Although, I did learn my lesson. Some people get drunk and regret things they've done, I got drunk and regret not taking specific pictures.
This was my travel companion, Aly. She knows how to dress well and offers me direction in that area. On the last day I packed everything and then put on some comfy clothes. She saw me and said, "Are you wearing your yoga clothes? **Sigh** I guess it's okay, it's the last day."
Here are a couple more of Aly wearing some of her vintage finest:
"I'm on a boat!"
LIVE MUSIC/BAND MEMBERS:
Tyler of Surfer Blood
The Black Lips
Ty Segall
Jacuzzi Boys
Strange Boys
Turbo Fruits
Everyone loves the Vivian girls
Bass guitar overboard
Every lounge act drinks like a fish, right?
And this happened:
Get Ready...
Get SET!
Elevator Par-tay in full effect!!!
Captain Booze Cruise.
A lively bunch :)
CONGRATS to these two! They got engaged on the cruise! Watch it here.
And now, more photos! Please feel free to comment about which outfits would be best!
Outfit # One. With and Without jacket
Outfit #2
Classic tourist dress made hip with the cotton belt.
Me with a Flamingo
Aly & Me
I have to admit with my normally yogic balanced brain it's been quite some time that I've been this swept up in the current of excitement. An important lesson I've experienced through my practice has allowed me to recognize that it's not that yogis find a way to permanently relax, it's the the ability to create the capacity to relax DESPITE all that is happening. Exciting events and happiness can be just as (if not more) distracting as their opposites. No need to judge for or against that which arises. Enjoy each experience as it is, an opportunity to learn about ourselves. :)
What a day! I am very grateful to Aly Gore and Liam Milano, as well as Daniel Millay. Today I relinquished my camera to "model" a bit. More photos soon, but for now enjoy this silly one from today's shoot:
Me photographed as I re-enact the "Jack and Rose moment."
