Make Your Escape, Live at RöcBar

Well about a week ago I received a message from a friend of mine about an upcoming show his band was playing and that for being supportive I was going to be put on the list. I thought, "Since my two loves are music and photography, I will combine the two."

I will be posting some of the pictures here, as well as a link to the complete set, as well as the band(s) profile(s).

I got there at 7pm expecting them to go on at 8. Once arriving at RöBar Corey told me that they were pushed back until 10pm.

This ended up being a happy circumstance since other than my friends band, the first band was the only decent one in the bunch.

These are a few shots of the first band, InnerState.





























































http://www.myspace.com/innerstateonline

Then prompty at 10pm Make Your Escape went on. It was nuts the way the crowd reacted to them.
During every other set people were scattered around and and had their attention elsewhere, but upon hearing the first notes from MYE everyone seemed drawn in.

(Update months later.)

Okay, I thought I had posted this but I guess I didn't... my bad.























http://www.myspace.com/makeyourescaperock

Prepping for a shoot.

Yesterday I was woken up by a phone call from a local girl asking for a photoshoot to get some photos on her new website.
I was a bit hesitant when she said she wanted to have the photos by Friday. I accepted her offer, and instead of setting it up and shooting yesterday as a responsible and intelligent person might, I took the procrastinators route and told her that shooting Thursday would be best... so I could keep sleeping of course.
While going into work I decided on a location I really like and have used in the past. I called the Houstonian Hotel, Club, and Spa and told them about my ideas for the shoot. After speaking to a few people at the Houstonian they offered me a guest room for the day.

It's a fairly nice room, plenty of room for storage of gear, as well as changing and just plain old relaxing.

Pictured here is Room 334, it has some pretty nice furniture, good lighting, a flat screen, and iPod dock, and just an over all elegant feel.
Oh, did I mention free WiFi?!

Okay, I just got a call from the girl and she is on her way, that means I'm going to post this and update it later when the shoot is over.
Wish me luck!



Update 2:15pm

...still waiting...

She was supposed to be here at 1pm
:(




Update #2 2:42pm
She jsut sent me a text saying
"Hey sorry im scared to drive in the rain so im waiting for it to let up a bit until i drive"
I think I'm going to just go home and eat the $50 room charge. At least I got to blog.




Update #3 2:50
Okay, after about 2 hours of waiting, we are postponing until tomorrow.
More updates then.


Last Update
Never showed. Never rescheduled.


-Mr.B

The Burning Couch

Well, it's been some time since I have posted on here, and for that I apologize, yet.... I feel no one really reads these accept perhaps Brad.

Anyway, onto the story.

I got a call a few nights back from a friend of mine that pretty much is summed up by this one sentence, "Hey, come over; we're burning a couch."

I was of course upset. From the utterance of that phrase, ideas were racing through my head about what I could d to set up a shoot with said couch.
Well, I got lucky as there were in fact 2 couches and they were waiting for me to get off work before lighting the other. Upon hearing this, I told my friend on the other end of the line, to put on some corduroys, a decent light colored button-up shirt, and to wait for me.

I got to my friends at roughly 3:30am and announced that not only did I need the aforementioned items that e also needed lots of water and a fire extinguisher. It was at this point that my friend learned he would be siting on the couch while it was ablaze.

After returning from WalMart with 12 gallons if water we proceeded to soak the middle of the couch with a great wattery devide, and the left half with lighter fluid. We took some test shots for focus, and white balance and other various things and were then ready. We set the lighter to the couch and...... nothing. For some reason it wouldn't light. After a few tries we got the flames going, waited until the desired volume of flame and I told him, "Okay, go sit on the couch."


I like to think it was a good effort by all and I am very happy with the final image.











Ryan Crowe
4am, Katy, Tx

this image on flickr


This is why I love 4am shoots.

-Mr. B