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Big in Japan 2010

Daniel Boud — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:14:24 +0000

On Tuesday night i shot Big in Japan at the Royal Hall of Industries for mixitup who were producing the event for Kirin and Ksubi.

Like last year, it brought together a weird and wonderful collection of Japanese musicians, artists and oddities.

Kentaro Shimura had an installation piece in the show

Mamoru Okuno does a performance/sound art thing by cooking up a bowl of noodles on stage with all the elements heavily amplified by little microphones

DJ Shabushabu was like a Japanese Spod.

Noise artist Hiroshi Hasegawa

DJ LakiLaki

A runway show by Yoshikazu Yamagata

Dan Single from Ksubi's dad walked in the runway show

Hiroshi Hasegawa with live visuals by James Brown

Nisennenmondai

DFA Records Art Exhibition

Daniel Boud — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:53:53 +0000

Last night i took some photos of the launch of DFA records art exhibition at Tom Dunne Gallery in Darlinghurst for EMI.

Titled “That’s Cool But Can You Make It More Sh*t?”, the show was a large collection of record sleeves, posters, doodles and polaroids from LCD Soundsystem and other DFA projects.

DFA art director Michael Vadino was behind most of the work

As it’s Splendour season the calibre of international guests was pretty high with LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, Alison Goldfrapp and Nick Valensi of The Strokes in attendance.

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy with The Strokes Nick Valensi

Lisa Gunning and Alison Goldfrapp

3 Hot Chips

Local talent was well represented too with various members of Dappled Cities, Faker, Red Riders, Papa vs Pretty, Lost Valentinos and even a Masterchef contestant.

Natalie Miller and Aaron Harvie

Sometimes these things can be pretty wanky but i encountered no jerks and everyone was quite lovely.

The show continues till August 2nd.

You can find more of my snaps at Pedestrian or Oyster or below.

Big in Japan party

Daniel Boud — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:31:25 +0000

Mademoiselle Yulia

Some photos from last night’s Big in Japan party at Carriageworks.

It was presented by Kirin and Ksubi and featured several Japanese performance artists.

All very odd, very fashionable, very Japanese.

Japanese performance artists Kathy

Kathy performed in this see-through tent filled with doves and feathers

Kathy reflect on their performance

The foyer at Carriageworks

Trippple Nippples

Mademoiselle Yulia did a DJ set

George and Dan from Ksubi

I was shooting for Kirin. Can you tell?

Daito Manabe performed with electrodes attached to their face which spasmed in time with the music

DIVA Awards 2009

Daniel Boud — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:32:55 +0000

Maxi Shield

For the 3rd year in a row i photographed the red carpet of Sydney’s drag industry awards, the DIVA’s on Monday night for Time Out Sydney.

The awards were held at The Bourbon in Kings Cross and although pretty much anything goes in Kings Cross, there were still loads of tourists stopped in their tracks, gobsmacked at the gaggle of outrageous drag performers on the street.

Dallas Dellaforce

Drag artists are always great fun to shoot. They love having their picture taken and (mostly) look amazing, dolled up to the max with elaborate make up and outfits.

See more, including the list of winners at Time Out Sydney.

UncharTED 2009 finals

Daniel Boud — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:11:31 +0000

People queue to get in at Oxford Art Factory

I photographed the uncharTED Grand Final for Peer Group at Oxford Art Factory last Thursday.

UncharTED is a band competition sponsored by Tooheys Extra Dry that offers the opportunity to play Splendour in the Grass along with a $25,000 development package. The next round offers a spot on the Big Day Out bill.

The bands that made it to the final were Foxx on Fire, The Deer Republic and Hot Little Hands.

The winner was The Deer Republic, a pop-rock act from Sydney.

To finish the night, Kram performed show the young bands how this rock’n'roll thing is really done.

Hot Little Hands

Mic and Andy

Felix and Demi

The Deer Republic

Excited Deer Republic fans

The Deer Republic

Foxx on Fire

Winning band The Deer Republic with Rosso

Kram

UncharTED has been around for 3 years now, and is part of a trend for big brands to sponsor music talent competitions.

You’ve got Virgin Mobile sponsoring Garage to V, Vitamin Water sponsoring the National Campus Band Competition, Jack Daniels sponsoring the JD Set, the discontinued Nokia Be Heard competition, Jagermeister sponsoring Jager Uprising.

Some might say it’s unfortunate the way corporations and advertisers are piggy backing on the music scene, aligning their brands with the cool, youthful and partying image.

‘Sell outs’ used to be one of the worst criticisms you could label a band with.

But in an era where no one’s making money selling music, i think it’s a positive thing there’s money being spent promoting new artists. It’s a good move putting money into young bands, not just sponsoring safe established acts.

And it’s not just the bands it supports, it’s the whole scene; sound people, lighting techs, venues, music press, designers, photographers, videographers, etc…

The only problem is, with so many different competitions, the quality of the acts diminishes.

There’s so many uninspiring, middle of the road acts out there – do we really need to give them any more attention than they deserve?

Brüno premiere and Time Out Sydney after party

Daniel Boud — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:47:21 +0000

Here’s some photos from the Sydney premiere of Bruno at the State Theatre plus the after party hosted by Time Out Sydney at Zeta Bar in the Hilton.

Shooting these things is simultaneously exciting and mind numbingly dull. Photographers queue for hours beforehand, trying to nab a plum spot in the media pen. Then it’s waiting, waiting, waiting until the talent arrives. Then it’s pandemonium.

This instance was even more hectic as all the photographers and camera crews escaped from their pens to swarm around Bruno as he swanned around the street with his white horse and greeted fans.

Richard Wilkins in an ecstatic mood

Bruno with Time Out Sydney Editor Dan Rookwood

Rose Byrne and Brendan Cowell

After the premiere, Time Out hosted an after-party round the corner at The Hilton. Sasha Baron Cohen was in attendance but i wasn’t allowed anywhere near him. While he laps up the attention in character as Bruno, he’s very private as Sasha and shuns the spotlight.

Apocalypstik and Destiny Hazzarrived

See more at Time Out Sydney and Pedestrian.

Artisan Guild and Curiosity Shop

Daniel Boud — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:54:07 +0000

Following the trend for pop up shops, the Artisan Guild and Curiosity Shop has just opened on Oxford St Darlinghurst.

Running till the end of July it’s curated by the local mens shoe label Marsu Homme and selling the wares of many of Sydney’s finest artisans including St Augustine Academy, Matt Weston, Elke Kramer, Izrock Pressings, Luke Storrier, All of Our Lives and many more.

I know diddly about fashion, but i was at the shop snapping pictures of all those that do on the opening night last Thursday.

MTV Australia Awards 2009 : Backstage

Daniel Boud — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:12:43 +0000

Before the MTV Awards kicked off i was stationed backstage in the ‘Transit Lounge’ where guests mingled before the show.

Brandon Flowers and Craig Nicholls were having a friendly chat after walking the red carpet.

Mark Hoppus from Blink 182.

Vanilla Ice and Bra Boy Koby Abberton.

The man in the hat Molly Meldrum.

The Killers before strolling along the red carpet. It was like herding cats trying to get them all together for a photo.

Rhys Darby from Flight of the Conchords looking rather Austin Powers.

That’s it for MTV Awards pics, see them all in the MTV Australia Awards photo gallery.

Sydney Barmy for Russell Brand

Daniel Boud — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:39:22 +0000

Sydney seemed in the grip of Russell Brand fever when he visited last week to perform two sold out nights at the Enmore Theatre and Hordern Pavilion.

He’s got quite the reputation as a ladies man and I got to see the effect he has on womenfolk up close at an after party Time Out hosted for him at Ivy Pool Club.

Dozens and dozens of women were all clamouring for his attention, trying to talk their way into his VIP section of the party or dance sexily in his eye shot. It was a strange scene. The next day Russell tweeted that he “felt like an exhibit in a nit wit zoo”.

Here’s Russell with Time Out Sydney‘s editor Dan Rookwood and Ivy owner Justin Hemmes.

I was stuck downstairs for most of the night, snapping pictures on a Time Out media wall.

Time Out’s current covergirl Ruby Rose.

It can get a bit dull shooting the same old photo, so if people are up for something more creative then so am I.

You can see more pictures in the Russell Brand after party gallery or at Time Out Sydney.

Mardi Gras 2009

Daniel Boud — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:08:36 +0000

My Saturday evening was spent photographing Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

It was the first time i’d photographed the parade as an accredited photographer. Previously i’d been as a spectator, toting a milk crate to get a decent view. So it was quite a privelege being able to wander up and down the parade route as i pleased.

I was shooting for some of the sponsors, so my eye was concentrating on those corporate floats, but i still captured some of the diverse flavour of the evening.

Loads more pictures in the Mardi Gras photo gallery.

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