Published work

Not new, but just found a digital copy of this EP art I shot for Bidwell.

New Shiverfox album artwork

Fearless Friends Tour Substream Cover

Substream Cover #2!

My second cover for Substream Music Press with Hey Monday and Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman. Click HERE to order your copy!

Andy in bandannas

Andy Bothwell, aka Astronautalis. Photographed in Court and Artemis' backyard. Los Angeles, CA.

I might just make it policy to photograph him every time he stumbles through LA.

Busy busy...

Sorry I've been so terrible at updating. We had a couple people quit at the day job, and so I was "promoted" to full time. Which means outside the 45 hours a week I've been slinging coffee, I've been slugging through mountains of backed up editing for Hide and Seek, shooting album art for Shiver Fox and Hello Astronaut, still trying to get over bronchitis, and trying to schedule out my summer into nice neat little sections.
On the 15th I'm heading out to Denver with my good friend Josh White from Umbrella Clothing to shoot a new venture with Kyle and David from Breathe Carolina. To say I'm excited to get out of LA is a huge understatement. I've been itching for a vacation, and I'm desperately in need of some time away from "work" work. I get to see Sam, and all my Denver friends, and it's all paid for.
The end of June I fly back to Montana to shoot a wedding, and depending on how the rest of my summer plans out, I might be up there for a week, or just a couple of days. It will be good to go home either way.
I have a long list of equipment I need to get eventually. I'm saving up for a shotgun mic for my camera, so live audio won't destroy it, as well as a smaller Wacom tablet that can travel with my laptop.
If you haven't been up to date on my Twitter feeds I have a lot of new photos up around the internet.
In Fear and Faith's new Myspace
Hello Astronaut's new Myspace
Of Mice and Men's new Myspace
As well as two photos in the new issue of Outburn with Eyes Set to Kill on the cover. My photos of Bleeding Through are in there as well as a photo along with a nice interview with Ramin from In Fear and Faith.
Aaaand if you didn't get your copy of Substream with Of Mice and Men on the cover, it's still out at your local Hot Topic or Barnes and Nobel. My first cover, pretty exciting!

Andy on Roller Skates...

Andy during the Hide&Seek Summer shoot. He flew in from Australia that morning, and came straight to Pollution. He slept on the couch for almost eight hours, then woke up, put on skates and started scooting around the neighborhood. This might be my favorite portrait I've ever taken.

Jaxin and Ladybird

My favorite photo of Ladybird and Jaxin from their shoot. Love these kids like family!

Sorry...

Sorry I've been kind of absent. I've just been busy/sick/exhausted/working/coughing/boring lately. I've been working on a lot of cool stuff... of course I can't write about it. That seems to be the rule. The more excited I am about something, the less I can say about it. I can say this much, "It moves". There ya go. Happy? I promise I'll be able to say something more as soon as ________ is finished being _______, and _________ decides to _________ it. Yeah.

I've been sick the past couple weeks since we finished ________. According to WebMD I have Bronchitis. According to Kyle, and AJ, and everyone else who has the same ridiculous cough, I have Bronchitis. I can't remember if I'm supposed to go to the doctor for this. WebMD says it should go away on its own if I just stay hydrated (whoops), and take some over the counter lung pills to help loosen all the gunk that's down there. Lovely isn't it? I'm supposed to go to the hospital immediately if my cough is "barking". What the hell does a barking cough sound like? They need to have audio samples of TB and Whooping cough on there. Mine is kind of "honking". I sound like someone is throat punching a goose. It's far less fun than it sounds. But as bad as this might sound, having a cold beer last night helped immensely! I think the cold, plus the alcohol, tricked my body into thinking I didn't need to cough. I might test this theory before going to bed tonight, seeing how I have to be up at 5:45 tomorrow morning to open the coffee shop. I feel like I should be better by now, and it's frustrating the hell out of me.

For you Dad...

Today on our shoot we were graced with an amazing sunset. I was shooting behind the scenes stuff and shot the hell out of the landscapes. Thought my dad would like this one!

Cool things...

This week Substream issue 19 comes out, and I shot the cover photo of my boys in Of Mice & Men! Woo, my (sort of) first cover!
Also Bleeding Through released their new album on Tuesday and I just got a congratulations call from my pal Jared for my photo being on the back of the case. So that's pretty cool.
First magazine cover and first big time photo in some album art, all in the same week.
I'm trying to decide if I should celebrate by staying in my PJ's and making a pot of coffee or getting dressed and going to get an americano at Intelligentsia.
I really just want to go back to bed until I have to head to work at 4, but momma's got some editing to tend to.

Wooo!

My "life sucks a little less" present to myself for this week is a ticket to see Foxy Shazam at the Troubadour. I've wanted to see these guys for years! Their new CD is fantastic, and I haven't been this excited for a show for a long time. Can't wait!

Jerry

Jerry Roush... he's special.

Bamboozle Left!

Hide & Seek Clothing go to Bamboozle Left 2010 from Hide & Seek Clothing on Vimeo.

Hey Mom, doing fine...

Today I got to shoot one of my favorite bands from Southern California, In Fear and Faith. We shot all day, and had a ridiculous time, and took a break in the middle and hit up Pizza Port, which was awesome. Some of the nicest guys ever. These dudes, combined with Of Mice and Men, and The Bled on their upcoming tour... damn, that will be memorable!
We Shot this at the end of the day after the usual screamer. Cody brought his dad's 64 Chevy Malibu, and it was just too awesome to not hop in the trunk.

Astronautalis for Hide&Seek

I photographed Andy again last week, but this time for Hide&Seek Clothing. It was the third shoot for H&S in one week. Craaaazy busy... I want a vacation.

I'm alive...

I survived SxSW and Bamboozle with only a bit of wear and tear.
We got a new roommate named Yuki, he's Japanese, and I think I've seen him a total of three times since he moved in.
There's a mattress in our living room if anyone wants it.
I have about 2,000 photos to go through.
I wore shorts today.
Goodnight Sunrise officially live in Southern California now! I am very excited about this.
So does Jerry Roush. I'm also excited about this.
I get to see Ok Go this week at the Jimmy Kimmel taping. Immediately after, I get to see my buddy Andy, AKA Astronautalis perform at the Bootleg Theater. Both of these things are awesome.
I'm doing a shoot tonight with Jace and Secret Secret Dino Club for Hide&Seek, Thursday I do another one with Andy. Busy Busy.
I have to figure out how to trade my Friday night shift, because Dannel got me a ticket to see Alkaline Trio... it's trade shifts or quit or something because I MUST go to that show.

There is a really pissed off Chinese woman yelling outside my house. She's yelling at a Mexican locksmith. Maybe she's just talking though. But it sounds like yelling. I can't understand what either of them is saying.

:)

Yesterday I got to photograph Something Corporate's first show back since they broke up. Also got my wireless system to work with my Ultimate Ears for the first time on my own. I had Andrew's feed, and it sounded so good to ignoring the crowd noise.

Brit

Pac Sun made a nice little video with Brit about his artist collaboration shirt. Can you spot me?

Please...

Please keep my friend Brit in your thoughts. He was hit by a car while riding his motor cycle the other day. He's having a bunch of different operations to repair broken bones, and the injuries from the accident. He's an amazing person, and hearing something like this breaks my heart. Please think good thoughts for him.

T-12 hours... oh and Mandatory Monday...

Twelve hours until I drive off into the unknown with Tom, Glen, Hannah, and Luga. Full car, good friends, good times... hopefully we don't kill each other.
I'm doing laundry, and pretending to pack my gear, but actually just eating a bowl of tofu and veggies while I check my email. Today was such a long day. I had to spend the great majority of it tied to my computer while I sent files across the country. I tried to leave once to go buy instant film for the trip and got a call right away and had to come home to resend something that got corrupted in transit. Sigh.
Yesterday was a totally fantastic shoot with Fi and Vi, a pair of comedians from England. We photographed them as American Pin Up girls, at Pollution Studios, and our shoot ended up with quite an audience! All the Pollution boys camped out on the couches with Fat Tire while we shot, it was so funny! Afterwards the boys made us some amazing vegan burritos with cactus, and sauteed veggies. A fantastic way to unwind after a long day. The photos all look great and I can't wait to get back from SxSW to edit them.
Speaking of SxSW I picked up 40 sheets of film for my Fuji instant camera for the trip. I'm really excited to see Austin and all the amazing bands and people that are out there. It's been so so so stressful getting everything ready for the trip that I don't think I ever really thought it would work out, but it did! I'm staying with Glen and Saint Motel, so there should be no shortage of ridiculous photos when I get back. I'll try to blog while I'm out there, but no promises.
See you in a week!

Mike Prim

We hauled Mike into our shoot today. Yvonne and I turned him into a Greaser and he got to act like a sissy getting a tattoo. I shot a few portraits of him just because he looked so awesome!

Reasons I'm deaf... Part 2

Tuesday night Of Mice & Men released their new CD as well. They played with The Bled, and I was a happy girl. Here are my favorites from the night.

Tino warming up...

Bert and James of The Bled having a moment...

Phil warming up

Jaxin, and Jaxin and Tino before hitting the stage

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Shayley

Jerry, AKA my new favorite front man to photograph.

Jaxin and Jerry

Jaxin and Shayley and the crowd

Reasons I'm deaf...

Tuesday I had the privilege of hanging out with my friends in Of Mice & Men and The Bled as they released their new albums with a show at Chain Reaction. Here are a few of my favorite photos of The Bled.


I see you looking at me Josh...

Hey Mom...

Thought you might enjoy this!

Special Moments with Of Mice & Men

Jaxin can almost do a double flare...

YES YES YES YES YESSS!

Implusive purchase of the week...

Tonight I am not going to the Manchester Orchestra show at The Troubadour because when tickets went on sale I was 100% flat, beyond starving artist, BROKE. Today I found out they are touring with Thrice in a couple months…. so I impulsively purchased two tickets to the Ventura date of the tour. $19 a ticket with Ticketmaster’s HORRENDOUS fees equaled about $58 total. So. Worth. It.

They’re playing a stop in Billings and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t google flights back to Montana on Allegiant. ($110 round trip)… I’m still thinking about it.

Mandatory Monday...

This is the start of a very VERY long week. I'm kind of dreading it. So I'm procrastinating and writing my mandatory Monday blog.
Today I spent most of the day tracking down last minute models for tomorrow's Glamour Kills shoot. Which was supposed to be today... but the clothes didn't show up again. Thanks UPS! Then I spent four hours at my new "job" at a coffee shop training. Also found out the shifts are eight hours, and one of them is 4pm to midnight... and the manager isn't stoked on me leaving for a week for SxSW even though manager #1 said it was cool when he hired me.
ANYWAY now I'm back home and editing, editing, editing content for a magazine I shot for over the weekend. Tomorrow's part one of the GK shoot and then I'm going south for Of Mice and Men and The Bled's joint CD release show at Chain Reaction, I was super excited about this, until my manager told me that I'd have to come in for more training at 6:30am on Wednesday. So basically that's going to SUCK. A. LOT.
Wednesday afternoon- Friday will pretty much be spent glued to my computer editing GK photos and more of the magazine content. Saturday is prep for Sunday's shoot... Sunday is a shoot day.... then...
Monday I leave for SxSW! Driving out there, that's basically the only game plan on the books. It's 24 hours of driving, I've got Glen as my copilot, but she can't drive a stick... there's details to be hammered out basically. I don't really know how the hell any of this is going to work itself out.
I'm listening to Of Mice and Men's album and Shayley's got the voice of an angel... I'm going to make a Shayley giggapet. He's precious...

I love you Jimmy Kimmel!

Funniest thing I've seen in forever!

Drake Bell...

Drake has released the photos with an awesome new myspace. So I figured I'd share a few of my favorites on here.

I want a dog...

See more funny videos and Cute Animals Videos at Today's Big Thing.

Mandatory Monday...

Today Hide&Seek released the new line, so here are the lovely look book photos. I loved this shoot, everyone was so great to work with. The next shoot will be in May, and basically it's going to be even better, bigger, and more magical... more mustaches.

Halvo

Eric Halvorsen of A Rocket to the Moon during shooting for their new music video.

Maybe I'll make Mondays Mandatory...

For posting. I really suck at updating this lately. I guess it's because work has been slow/ all my time this past week has been editing Hide&Seek photos. Saturday I did a photo booth at a friend's insane birthday party. I learned that some people on coke are really mean, while some are just really annoying. I should write PSAs for the anti drug movement. "Hi. My name is Megan. Cocaine use has been shown to lead to you thinking you're much cooler than you actually are. This overconfidence isn't attractive, and neither is screaming into the microphone you've stolen from the band while dressed like Lady Gaga. Seriously, we can all see your vagina. Don't do drugs."

Photo of me by The Cobrasnake

AJ, Danielle, and I were The Baby Shoes Gang.
I haven't been able to sleep for the last week either. I've been waking up at 9am no matter what time I went to bed. It's not conducive to me being in a good mood. Last night I was completely out cold by midnight after spending 12 hours helping to move three truckloads of grip gear at Pollution Studios. Three AM rolled around and my neighbors, with what are usually adorable British accents, decided to have a party... outside... even though it was below 50 degrees... right under my window. They stopped the shenanigans pretty soon after they started, but it didn't matter. I was awake, and my brain started doing this weird "the sky is falling" race over every possible topic I could stress out about. "How am I going to make rent? What if I don't go on Warped Tour, then what am I going to do? Should I have shot that show tonight after all? What if I pissed off that chick at the coffee shop because I didn't have money to tip her? Why isn't he texting me back? Do they not have cell service in Northern California or something? There's no gas in my car. What if I get sick? Ugh I ate too much junk today. I need to go hiking tomorrow or something. I need to edit though..." and so on and so forth... So I watched Hulu (Archer is the funniest cartoon I have ever seen in my life ever by the way) and eventually my brain slowed down to a pace that I could blank out at, and I had really insane dreams/ nightmares all night until I slogged out of bed at 11am.

I spent all of yesterday out at Pollution helping them unload multiple tons of new gear that they bought. My arms are killing me today, in a good way though. Near the end of the day Julien opened a random mystery box and discovered it was full of a couple dozen folding knives. Pretty awesome basically. So now all of us are armed and dangerous, and after a couple hours of practice none of us are any better at throwing knives. Just another day at Pollution Studios!

Ok I'm off to upload 200+ photos from Saturday's photo booth before I start getting angry emails from the guests wondering where their photos are... because that's what most of them will be doing on a Monday...

Update: You can check out all the photos HERE! I think doing a photo booth is kind of like childbirth. Right after it I say, "NEVER doing that again ever!" then I look at the photos and get all nostalgic for the party that I never really got to be a part of because I was stuck in a room all night taking photos. I think to myself, "Next time maybe I'll get to have fun!" and sign up for the next one...

Hide&Seek Clothing Behind the Scenes

Byron and I survived Zombie Prom for yesterday's shoot for Hide&Seek Clothing. I somehow managed to pull it together on four hours of sleep, after AJ and I thought it was a good idea to run around and stay up after prom until 5am. I woke up at 9am, completely awake and anxious about the shoot. Seeing how half the models were partaking heavily in Zombie Prom festivities, I was wondering if we'd have any hangover casualties or no shows. Surprisingly people showed up early, bright eyed, and bushy tailed, ready to knock out the photos. We had AJ, and Aaron from Saint Motel; Sierra, Blake, and Devin from Versa Emerge; and my friends Lili, Megan, and Mitchell. I honestly couldn't have hoped for a better shoot! This was my sixth time working with Byron and Hide&Seek and by far the most successful. We've really taken the things we've learned from the past and put them to use.
Here are a few behind the scenes photos that I liked.

Lili, Megan, AJ, and Aaron waiting while I test lights.

Sierra

Zach and Megan

Alex, Julien, and Mike of Pollution Studios. They let us invade and we love them!

Happy Valentines Day from Saint Motel

Last night was Zombie Prom, and I think it was the most fun I've had since moving to LA. Sooooo many more photos coming!