Boudist recooked in 24 hours
After many years with the same design and crumbling Movable Type blogging system i’ve just converted my blog to WordPress and a new template. It’s a work in progress, the design will evolve as i customise it and add more personality. The process all happened in just a day, taking my Sunday out to convert [...]
Living between teenagers in even books
A couple of weekends ago i went to Even Books 8 in a humid Surry Hills warehouse. The book being celebrated was Living Between F@cks by Cry Bloxsome. Like other previous Even Books, there were readings, performances and drinking but they were also filming scenes to go in the feature film version of the book. [...]
Sydney Laneway Festival 2009
Another year another lovely Sydney Laneway Festival. Tame Impala on the Reiby Park stage. Tim Fite got along swimmingly with Patience and John from The Grates Cut Off Your Hands played one of the best shows of the day. As usual lead singer Nick spent a fair bit of time amidst the crowd. Jay Reatard [...]
Cut Off Your Hands over Sydney
Playing a concert on a rooftop is one of the great rock’n’roll traditions. Pioneered by The Beatles, emulated by U2, and last night continued by Cut Off Your Hands. Playing on the roof of the AM Eyewear office building in Darlinghurst it was a farewell gig of sorts for their guitarist Mikey Ramirez. It was [...]
MGMT in Sydney
Here’s some pictures from MGMT at the Hordern Pavilion on Tuesday. Unfortunately photographers were escorted from the venue after 3 songs, so i can’t tell you what the show was like. The first three tunes were a little lacklustre to my eyes – but according to the Time Out review they got better as the [...]
Embracing crappy photography
So i got an iPhone. It lives up to my very high expectations. And with Australian telco’s finally offering sensible data plans it’s relatively affordable. As well as installing lots of apps, syncing calendars and contacts, surfing the web and listening to podcasts – i’ve been enjoying taking crappy iPhonecam photos and posting them to [...]
Josh Pyke’s Guitar Boat
Ever heard of a Guitar Boat? Now you have, and that’s Josh Pyke skippering his very own. It was created for the video clip for his song "Make You Happy". Before filming one morning he boated around the water in Glebe for the press.
Sydney Zombie Lurch
A peaceful Sunday afternoon in Hyde Park disturbed by a marauding pack of zombies participating in the Sydney Zombie Lurch. View the Flickr slideshow.
Operator Please photos
Some pictures from December 2007 of Operator Please that i neglected to post at the time. These were press photos, to refresh the previous photos i did. This time they wanted something a little more sophisticated, less young and ‘cute’. Some shots were done in the studio, with props i hired from Mitchell Road Auction [...]
Catcall in a supermarket
Here’s some photos i took of Catcall and Levins (aka Sleater Brockman) the other week. As i was trying to think of locations Danny North’s Fu*ked Up photo was fresh in my mind so i thought about a supermarket. Max|m supermarket let us take over an aisle for a little while. The two of them [...]
Pussycat Dolls at Sydney Opera House
Last week i photographed the Pussycat Dolls performing at Sydney Opera House for Xbox Sounds. They appear to be somewhat like a new generation Spice Girls. It was a pretty spectacular location for a concert, in front of the Opera House, on the harbourside, rather than the forecourt. Some of the contestants from Make Me [...]
Ladyhawke
Here’s some snaps i took a few weeks ago of Pip Brown aka Ladyhawke. We wandered the streets round the Modular offices looking for interesting backdrops. I just had a short amount of time in her day of doing back-to-back press and radio interviews. It was a typical rush. I wish i’d coaxed more personality [...]
Peaches live at the Enmore Theatre
Here’s some photos of Peaches from her gig at The Enmore Theatre last night. She’s a great performer, always great fun to photograph. It was back in 2003 i first chanced upon a gig of hers in the room next to The Metro. With statuesque beautiful blonde dancers waving strap on prosthetic penises it was [...]
Holiday post mortem
It’s a week since i returned from my holiday and it feels like a fading dream. Lucky i have a few pictures to remind me it really happened. View the slideshow.
links for 2008-09-24
Banned for keeps on Facebook for odd name My old pal Elmo hits the big time over her battle with Facebook I met up with UK photographer Danny North at my gran's place in the english countryside He took a couple of snaps on his iPhone (tags: me photography) Miss Africa Australia Pageant SMH photographer [...]
Gone fishing
One more sleep till i jet across the Pacific for 14 hours to Los Angeles. For the next three weeks Cybele and I will be visiting LA, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York and London. Full itinerary on Dopplr. If you know of anything fun happening in your town while i’m there drop me a [...]
links for 2008-08-27
Shoot the Player The Australian version of the "Take Away Shows" concept. Videos of artists acoustically performing their songs in all manner of weird places. (tags: music video) Mercy Arms – Photo – Angelo Kehagias Photography Angelo's done some great work with the new Mercy Arms photos. (tags: mercyarms photographer musicphotography) The Sartorialist I hope [...]
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor under a dead horse
I took this portrait of Elizabeth Ann Macgregor the other week. She’s the Director of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art. It was to accompany an interview Time Out Sydney was doing with her to coincide with the Biennale of Sydney. I took along some lights and Craig for some assistance. After scouting around the MCA [...]
About the about page.
A sewn title from a previous blog design. As a voracious reader of blogs and a former web designer, i’ve always been an advocate for a good “About” page. The sort of page that you click when you first stumble onto a website, to give it all a bit of context. Someone once described the [...]
About Boudist
This information can now be found at the about Boudist page.
Top photographs of 2007
This bluejuice photo was my most ‘interesting‘ photo of 2007 according to Flickr. It’s that time of year when people publish their annual "Best Of" lists. There’s a massive amount of music lists, but here i’ll compile photography ones. Top photographs of 2007 from: Sydney Morning Herald photographers Time Magazine Reuters Sports Illustrated Wired Magazine [...]
Merry Christmas
Hope you’re all enjoying some time off work, devouring food and spending time with the family. These are some snaps i took for the Christmas edition of Time Out Sydney.
Australians at CMJ
CMJ isn’t the rite of passage for bands that South by Southwest is, but it’s still a popular place for up and coming artists to showcase their talents to a New York and college radio audience. It starts this week and Australians due to play include: Eskimo Joe Melanie Horsnell Midnight Juggernauts Mink New Buffalo [...]
Time Out Sydney : Out Now
The first ever issue of Time Out Sydney is in newsagents now. We’re calling it the “zero issue” since it’s a bit of a preview of what’s to come for the regular edition and it was an opportunity for everyone involved to have a test run at how the mag gets put together. That said, [...]