Got a chance to post-process about half the pics I took at AfA, and I wanted to throw them up here for everyone to check out.
First, the rarest of the rare: pics OF me. As those who know me personally will attest, I'm not a big fan of being photographed, and I spend most of my time behind the camera rather than in front of it. But some of my friends were nice enough to share some pics of me from Saturday night:
these are both from Brian @ KULOR photography (check out his Flickr)
and these two are courtesy of the ever-smiling Moriah:
shoes? check. watch? check. weird lazy eye type look? got that too.
Now that we've got that out of the way, let's move on to pictures of some other, prettier (though not better-dressed) people.
Met this girl Stacey Saturday night - she's rad, and also quite a talented photographer herself
This band is called Black Party Politics, and they're rad. Tons of energy. You should check them out.
I know it feels weird that this is the only shot out of the whole night that's in color - but I just couldn't lose that great blue-ish hue. This girl is beautiful. Unfortunately I have no idea who she is.
The famous (or infamous?) Paul Bahou ghosted through for a sec:
I have no idea who this girl is either, but she's quite photogenic, as evidenced below. The guy in the sweet overcoat I met and he's really cool but I'm an asshole and forgot his name :/
Our hosts at Kromatic Hair were offering $15 haircuts to benefit the Our Nicholas foundation, and quite a few of the crowd took them up on the offer. This guy's shag-hawk has a rad WWII, 101st Airborne kinda thing going on:
and his friend didn't miss the haircut party either:
snapped a quick shot of the aforementioned Brian of KULOR photography, working his photobooth setup:
One of Kromatic's sexy, friendly employees (whose name I also failed to learn, of course):
you really should go there and get your hair cut, all the employees are friendly AND great-looking (that's important, you know).
this guy was videotaping all night, hopefully my constant flash-bouncing didn't wreck his video:
My good friends the Shaw sisters showed up to support me, along with their Mom - I love you all! This is Molly and Mom, Allison is somewhere in this set as well.
Ivan was doing his thing on the microphone all night, keeping everyone updated on what was going on:
More friends - big thanks to my favorite little sis Megan and our friend Vanessa for showing me love!
This is Liz. Liz's display was next to mine. Liz is beautiful, talented, and friendly. You all want to marry her. Or you would if you met her.
The interior of Kromatic was PACKED with people checking out all the great art, getting haircuts, listening to the DJ, and generally having a fucking great time!
OK, now I really feel like an asshole. I talked to these amazing girls from the Boonies dance crew for like 5 minutes, and not only did I miss photographing their dance set, I forgot both their names! :(
There's Allison! The Shaw sisters showing off some real sisterly love - or not!
This is Ivan, the man who made this all possible. I swear he wasn't this sexy in High School! It must be the beard...
More cute, friendly girls whose names I forgot. Yeah, I'm an asshole. I think we've established that already. What can I say, I was dropped on my head a lot as a child. Or maybe it was the drugs.
This guy must not have liked being photographed - he busted out the crazy eyes on me!
And we can't forget the ever-present pics of my awesome little brother Evan - including this one where he's being attacked by his equally awesome GF Ashlynn and our friend Molly:
Yeah, he broods sometimes. It's like a WB show.
Anyway, that's all for now - at least until I get to the rest of my photos, which include some great shots of my favoritest local band Inverse, along with even more paparazzi-style crowd harassment shots. Until then, enjoy!
