Fellow

Fellow

Johanna
This duo is called Fellow. Jake and Johanna are also husband and wife and we followed up this band shoot with a wedding session. I love how everything from this day came out! We photographed in Visalia and all the parks were shedding leaves. It didn't look at all like California.

Glamour Kills ad in AP

This ran as a two page ad in the January issue of Alternative Press. I photographed Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low during their set at the Fort Lauderdale stop of the Glamour Kills Tour. I don't think I've ever been this nervous to take a photo. They stopped playing, brought up the house lights, and I ran out on stage as Alex posed while the crowd was screaming so loud I couldn't hear myself think! Talk about a high stress work place. Thanks to Kris, Courtney, Matt, Kyle, Marky and everyone who helped make this photo happen!

If you haven't seen it, see it.

Wired had this amazing making of video for The Fantastic Mr. Fox. I can't imagine what working on that film must have been like! If you haven't seen it yet, make sure you do, it's incredible!

More video magic...

If you've ever been curious about how grand Saint Motel are live you can watch an entire concert over at JVTV Online! Definitely a great way to pump a bit of music into your Friday. What are you waiting for? Click HERE now!

See an Exclusive Behind-the-scenes Video from This Providence!

I shot all the footage in this behind the scenes video from the This Providence for Keeping on Without You. I gave it to Luga and Christian and they polished it and made it into this jem that is now on Seventeen.com!

See an Exclusive Behind-the-scenes Video from This Providence!

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Are you KIDDING me?!

This puppy is up on Petfinder.com. He's a Cocker Spaniel Boston Terrier mix! CUTEST THING EVER OH MY SWEET GOD! I need to volunteer at a shelter or something.

Sometimes I find these things...

Every once and a while I poke around on the websites and blogs of my friends. Before I know it I'm watching amazingly ridiculous videos of my friends Andy (Astronautalis) and Jacques (Bleubird)...

astronautalis mr. blessington's from alex saavedra on Vimeo.

clean yo' plate! bleubird and astronautalis celebrate thanksgiving from alex saavedra on Vimeo.

One day we'll travel and make a book about cats...

Amazing...

And there you have it...

More exciting things I can't yet talk about!

I was just hired to shoot a super conceptual project with an amazing band! I'm super excited, it's been in the works since way back in May, and I can't wait to see it finally come to fruition.
We're going to be building sets, using a lot of composite techniques, and some crazy lighting. I'm definitely going to be doing another behind the scenes doc for it. Just goes to show how much patience plays into the game. This will be really fun!

WTF

Ok Go's new video makes me smile a ridiculous amount. I can't wait for their new album!

If Work Permits

The Format- If Work Permits

So the wind that blows across your room
Carried cheap perfume onto your dresser
It rained for jewelry and for credit cards
Two tickets to a film I don't remember
One day you'll kiss your rabbits nose, pick up the phone
To find I've been turned over
And you'll grab that piece of gold
Only to find that the smell has taken over
Now all the things you had, they aren't the same...
As what you hold

I'm standing in a room,
It's filled with older folks pleading "baby listen"
And I scream as loud as anyone,
But when asked to make a point I tend to whisper
Now highways turn to tidal waves
They're asking me to export all of your insecurities
But that wind that blows across your room
It's gonna set the sails, and send me back to you

Sometimes, when sailors are sailing
They think twice, about where they're anchoring
And I think, I could make better use of my time on land
I'll drink less
'cause lord knows I could use a warm kiss
Instead of a cold goodbye
I'm writing the folks back home to tell them
"Hey I'm doing alright"

It's a shame what your father did to your brothers head
He smashed it with a telephone
And your mother got scared and locked the door
You were only four, but lord you remember it
So now you're scared of love
I'm here to tell you loves not some fucking blood on the receiver
Love is speaking in code
It's an inside joke
Love is coming home

Sometimes, when sailors are sailing
They think twice, about where they're anchoring
And I think, I could make better use of my time on land
I'll drink less
'cause lord knows I could use a warm kiss
Instead of a cold goodbye
I'm writing the folks back home to tell them
"Hey I'm doing alright"

Yeah I'm doing just fine
And if she seems as lonely as me.....
Let her sink.
Let her sink.
Let her

More fun.

When I was on Warped my friend Kristine asked if I could do behind the scenes photos on this video... I am SO ridiculously bummed I was out of town. Mom you should watch this. I think you'd dig this band.

Rewards...

This week is non stop meetings, phone calls, shoots, booking more shoots, shooting shows, doing interviews, interviewing for a job that I'm not sure I want as much as I need it, phone calls to agencies... I'm running on fumes. So after we interviewed and photographed The Jakes tonight, I rewarded myself by putting my camera in my bag and just watched Fun's set. No pictures, no working, just watching. I love the little things some nights. Their set was so perfect and intimate, it brought me right back to a full tank, and I'm ready to attack the rest of the week.
Hey my birthday is on Tuesday... I totally forgot. Here's my wishlist of nerdy books I guess. I also want a Boston Terrier, and a pair of Toms shoes... and... um... a hug?

Dabe had another sitting...

Dabe Allen, had another sitting for his photography geek sleeve and did another time lapse. This is just so damn cool!

What a weekend...

Dear Saint Motel,
Why are you so damn much fun?
Love,
Megan.

Ugh.

Today nearly killed me. I just got home at 1:30am, and left the house at 6:45am to drive to Visalia.
So that roughly equals a 19 hour work day with 7 hours of it spent driving in the car. Did I mention that I did all of it on 3 hours of sleep... I would like to sleep forever, but I don't see that happening as Bassett and I have to pick up Stu Brown from Pasadena tomorrow at around 8am and take him to breakfast... Then I have to edit about a million Hide&Seek white wall photos, and somehow figure out how to spring Courtney from the GK tour so she can get away from it all for a couple hours.
I am so in need of a break from this weekend.

Maybe he's rich and I should get his number...

One of the sites I used to frequent in my work procrastination was ModBlog over at BMEzine. My white ink chest piece was even featured on it once. I stopped by to check up today after not browsing it for a few months. While I find most of the tattoo work on BMEzine really beautiful, I've never ever been a fan of neck tattoos*. Necks don't usually age well, and I'm a big proponent of people getting tattoos that will look good as you skip on down that path into middle age. But this? I just don't understand why you'd get this as a tattoo. I really hope he's got one hell of a trust fund tucked away somewhere. I totally don't think people should be denied work because they have tattoos (tasteful ones of course) but I wouldn't even hire this guy to mow my lawn**!

* Let the record state (mom) I WILL NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER tattoo my face or neck!
** Let the record state that I don't have a lawn, I have a weird cement patio that extends all the way from the door to the sidewalk.

Timeline for the weekend.

Saturday...
Pick up Kyle from Glamour Kills at the airport
Head to House of Blues to do some portraits for the Glamour Kills tour
Shoot as much of the show as I can
Go up the street to The Roxy for Saint Motel's Black and White homecoming show!
Go back down the street to House of Blues and find the after party
Try my best to avoid drinking anything...

Sunday
Wake up at 6 (IN THE MORNING) to drive to Visalia
Shoot promos for a duo called Fellow as well as their belated wedding photos (Awwwwww!)
Drive all the way back to LA, then to HOB in Anaheim to do live photos for Glamour Kills

SLEEEEEEEP!
Monday
Do another shoot
Take Kyle back to the airport so he can fly home to New York and tell everyone I didn't kill anyone.

Tuesday
Edit until my eyes fall out.

Behind the Scenes in Florida

Here's a little time lapse I made of our Glamour Kills Clothing shoot in Florida

Hey Monday

I photographed Hey Monday for Glamour Kills Clothing the other week in Florida. Here's a pretty good aftershoot screamer from their session.

Tour Managers

While in Florida I had the idea to start a new portrait series. While I work mostly with bands, I wouldn't be able to do so a lot of the time if it weren't for the hardworking people who manage these bands on the road. Too often I feel that people lable tour managers as "jerks" for simply doing their job. They make a living making sure the band is all where they're supposed to be, at the venue, in the bus, as well as making sure the band gets paid and is kept safe. I've been meeting so many great tour managers lately that I feel they deserve their own series in my portfolio. In Fort Lauderdale I had the privilege to begin the series with Duncan and Courtney. Duncan was managing Hey Monday, and was cracking everyone up during our time shooting the band. Courtney on the other hand was someone I met this summer on Warped Tour while she was managing 3oh!3. Without her help there's no way the shoot with the band would have gone so smoothly. She's a badass and a fellow 6' lady, we're going to start a club or something.