A Clearer Shade of Black

FIRST! Lots of new stuff is on the way, almost all concert photography.  I’ve got an absurd amount of backlogged photos (and videos) just dying to be shared.  The current number of yet to be processed/published shows I’ve shot since 2011 is 34 (and counting) - I’ll be starting with the most recent shows first and working my way back, with a few exceptions.  I took a hiatus from my photography but I’m coming back...with a vengeance.  Right now my Insta is the most active (@Postlapsaria) but I’ll be posting the full show uploads elsewhere (and will link them when they’re up).

SECOND! Lately I’ve had a lot of people ask for my contact info and also a lot of people msg me on my various sites/pages which makes it tough to get back to everyone (I will, though!  Just a bit difficult while traveling) so to simplify things, I have a new e-mail for anyone who wants to reach me:

[email protected]

Hit me up there about anything your heart desires.  <3 Lots of new material coming soon that I’m really excited to finally share with the world.  :] Keep your eyes open.

A few highlight shots I took at the first Saosin reunion show featuring Anthony green (Tumblr: anthonygreenschildren) on vocals in Philadelphia - these are a *very* small sampling of all the photos I took, I have just under 2,000 pictures between the 2 cameras I was shooting with which I’m still working on processing/uploading to a full gallery and will post here when the full thing is up, so keep watching here for when that gallery gets posted.

Highlight reel of close-up front row video footage I shot at the first Saosin reunion show with Anthony Green - ( anthonygreenschildren ) - in Philadelphia, PA at Union Transfer on May 16th, 2014.  The full videos are available on my Youtube channel here in full HD: http://youtube.com/lanvids

Geoff Rickly - geoffreyrickly - talking about the origins of Thursday, telling a story and giving some meaning and background information on the song "This Song Brought to You by a Falling Bomb" before closing his set with an acoustic version of it.

A compilation of footage I shot from several different shows on The Old Danny Brown Tour, Spring 2014. Highly recommended to watch with Annotations on so you can catch some subtle moments (a few of which may be NSFW) throughout the video that I point out.  Also recommended to watch in Full HD.

Bonus points if you can count every person smoking or lighting up during the second clip and in the 4 pics that follow.  (There's a slo-mo replay of this clip at the end of the vid that makes it easier to count.)

Even more bonus points if you can catch the couple having sex in the crowd without having the annotations enabled pointing them out.  Consider it a dirty "where's waldo."

Girls rush the stage to dance and twerk to xdannyxbrownx's final song of the night, Dip, in Northampton, MA on April 4th, 2014 at The Pearl Street Night Club.  Though he finished with this song at the other shows I was at too (except for an encore of "Lonely" in Boston) this was the only show that I saw anything like this happen.  Props to the Northampton crowd.

While sorting through & processing my photos of one of Danny Brown's shows from his 2014 Old Danny Brown Tour (this particular show was at The Met in Pawtucket, RI) I found this sequence of 7 shots to be mildly amusing.  Being massively sleep deprived at the time may have made them more amusing than they really are (I especially enjoyed the expressions of some of the members of the crowd in a few of these pics) but I figured they were worth a share, even though most would typically be throwaway shots.

Commentary:

Photo 1: White Shirt Dude (henceforth referred to as WSD) crowd surfs toward stage to the dismay of crowd beneath him & entertainment of the unaffected crowd to either side [Highlights; guy with black shirt holding up WSD's foot, guy to the right with short light hair with his fist up cheering WSD on, guy directly above WSD's knee who looks utterly lost & guy on the far left in the white XXX album art shirt staring at me with a look on his face like he just realized he left the stove on or some shit.]

Photo 2: WSD gets closer, black hat guy in front row gets kicked in the head [Highlights: Guy directly below WSD's fist and the girl to the left of the guy with the gray striped sweatshirt look none too happy with their current situations; :( kinda feel a little bad]

Photo 3: WSD makes it to the stage, shares a tender moment with Danny

Photo 4: Danny looks at me while WSD attempts to climb up fully for a stage dive

Photo 5: WSD makes it all the way up & security guard on stage behind me leaps into action

Photo 6: Security guard (guy behind Danny in black coat & beanie hat) runs after WSD, WSD sees guard coming for him, inexplicably pulls his shirt over his head like a ghost costume and rushes toward opposite end of the stage for the stage dive.  [Highlights: Danny and Dopehead are pros and keep killing it throughout all this.  Also, girl in front row with puka shell bracelet just completely ducks for cover at this point.]

Photo 7: WSD *ALMOST MAKES IT* but is grabbed by security guard just as WSD attempts to leap off the speaker.  Meanwhile, Danny, now inches away & out of focus in the foreground, seemingly adjusts himself

Epilogue: WSD is led off the far back of the stage by security guard (presumably to the exit) in defeat.  I have photos of this too but they're too dark to really see much.

Fun fact: according to the EXIF data these 7 photos all took place within an 18 second time frame.

Oh yeah and I made 15 second video out of these on Instagram here set to Danny's music: http://instagram.com/p/nzACE6GkVU/#

OLD DANNY BROWN TOUR SWAG

Posting these mementos from my time on the tour while waiting for my pics and vids to finish processing.  Click-through for the full sized photo is recommended, or click here for full-res if on mobile: http://bit.ly/dannybrownswag

IN THIS PIC:

Danny Brown's 4xLP Deluxe Box Set of his record Old put out by foolsgoldrecs & for sale on their online store here: http://store.foolsgoldrecs.com/products/danny-brown-old-vinyl-deluxe (Side note: Buy this thing, it is 1000% worth it) featuring a giant lyric book, four 180g vinyl records (two of which contain the exclusive instrumentals from the album), download code card & a giant poster of the album art.

My vinyl of XXX that I brought along from home and Danny signed for me (got that shit framed)

My press passes/photo passes

Setlist from one of the shows I got afterward

Tickets for 4 Danny Brown shows - including one for the Higher Ground show in Burlington, VT but sadly couldn’t make it; heard it was crazy.

The Rockstar energy drink can makes a reappearance from my post-Boston show pic upped to my Instagram (pic here), strategically placed next to the bottle of Hennessy as homage to a lyric in the Danny Brown song "Die Like A Rockstar" - fuck yeah, triple reference.

Boston Holiday Inn room key - the key to the same hotel room my Instagram post w/the Rockstar can originally appeared in (linked above) - I forgot to return the key I guess but SORRY NOT SORRY, rudest staff/worst customer service ever, wifi that kept cutting out as I was trying to upload the highlight shots from the Boston show to submit to Complex & the most overpriced hotel room ever.  But I have your spare room key so take THAT, Holiday Inn; #rekt

Bag of Cool Ranch Doritos that I bought specifically to include in this shot as another reference - needs no explanation if you’re a DB fan.  True story, ever since first hearing that lyric I can no longer eat those things so I’ll drop that bag off at a food bank or something.  Thanks xdannyxbrownx for keeping me healthier by staying off 1 type of junk food & possibly improving someone's day slightly by donating these (do they even accept bags of chips at food banks?  If not, there’s so much uneaten good food in my house due to me being sick/unable to eat lately that this reminded me I need to donate anyway)

Parking pass for a Northampton parking lot.  Was kinda running out of souvenirs at this point.

Temporary storage for my music collection of 12", 10" and 7" vinyl + CDs, DVDs & books/other items by musicians involuntarily featured on the left side of the pic cause I have nowhere else to put them at the moment (I live in a tiny cabin in the woods, seriously), so no, my bedroom isn’t filled with garbage if that's what you assumed those boxes to be.  Viewing the pic full size helps confirm this.

A collage of a few of my shots from 3 different shows on The Old Danny Brown Tour - FULL PHOTO SETS COMING SOON!  VIDEO FOOTAGE COMING EVEN SOONER! First 5 shots are xdannyxbrownx (Dopehead featured in shot #2 - @xDOPEHEADx / Dopehead's Bandcamp)

Next 2 are Bodega Bamz - sayohla / www.bodegabamz.com

Next 2 are ZelooperZ - @ZelooperZ / ZelooperZ Soundcloud

(Last shot is a crowd surfer narrowly avoiding landing on me in Boston.  Crowd surfing guy, if you’re reading this, lemme know and I’ll be happy to tag you.)

Screenshots of thumbnails of my photos from 4 shows I shot in early April 2014.

The other night I got a bit bored & decided so I made this screenshot and labeled it at the top of each folder…keep in mind I took these screenshots with a monitor with a resolution of 2560 x 1440, a size significantly larger than average screen resolutions.  You definitely need to use the click-through link & view the full thing (http://bit.ly/processclick for those on mobile) & even then it might be too small for anything legible to show up…that’s still the resized version.

Tycho Gardens & Villa The Awake Tour April 17th, 2014 Cambridge, MA at The Sinclair

Full show review + full photo set + video footage of this night: HERE.

Stand Up, Beautiful

Brooklyn, New York

The Saddest Landscape - Live At New Alliance (Photo Set)

March 24th, 2013

Cambridge, Massachusetts @ New Alliance Studios

Full set: http://bit.ly/liveatnewalliancephotos

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