Redfern Riots Anniversary

I was dropping around to see my friend yesterday and as i stepped out of Redfern station i saw a whole group of Aboriginals standing outside the police station with flags, banners and screaming protests. It was the anniversary of the Redfern riots, the riot that broke out due to the death of 17yo T.J. Hickey, originally blamed on police but an inquest proved otherwise. Of course today, most of the Aboriginals living in Redfern's 'The Block' still blame the police and gather yearly to remember the day with protests.
Afterwards, i kinda just wandered around taking photo's randomly for a while. Here's some of the better ones i took during the day. Oh and if you haven't noticed, i'm single so i don't celebrate valentines day... I hope you all choke on those chocolates (bitter singleness coming out).

Dirty Double & Dawn over Oxford St

Because i was soo late getting home on saturday, i wound up sleeping till about 8pm, then leaving the house around 11.30. Saturday night i only really had on one shoot, I was taking pics for 'Dirty Double' the DJ duo up at Havana on Oxford St. Afterwards, i dropped by Brighton Bar afterwards to hang with Maxi, Kate, Willis & the rest of the rockers for a while. We wound up going for a bit of a pub crawl and until about 5-5.30 when i met up with Heywire and we made our way over to Spice @ Kings Cross. On the way i was stopped by a lady who was pointing out how nice the sky looked... So i pulled out my camera and took a couple of Snaps. We spent a chunk of the morning at Spice before heading back to Sam & Heywire's place where we polished off 2 bottles of wine. Then at about 1pm, i was picked up by my parrents to go to a photo exhibition (while still somewhat trashed... wearing a flashy purple shirt & dark glasses).

5 Shoots For Brag

So last friday was pretty full-on. Wound up doing 5 shoots for brag. First stop was at The Annandale Hotel for some indie rock. Then it was onto The Lewisham Hotel for 'AbductionX', a death metal night (though the music there was just too angry for me... Yes i know i listened to that stuff all the way through high-school, but i just can't handle it anymore. Don't get me wrong i still like heavy metal, but death metal is just really violent music). After all that it was off to Kings Cross for a couple more shoots. I knocked The World Bar & Melt Bar out of the way quickly before heading down to The Brighton Bar on Oxford St to catch up with friends (and to see Shea before she wen't back to Melbourne). After that i went back up to The Cross to take some pic's at Parliament. Unfortunately, there weren't many people and the venue closed early. Oh well, because of the early closing we wound up going back to my friends place to Kick-on. I didn't actually get home till around 1.00pm saturday arvo.

Live show's this week.

On Monday i was tipped off that Evanescence where going to be playing at a filming for MTV's The Lair... now i don't really like the band (frankly i think they're a bad Lacuna Coil rip... plus the lead singer from Lacuna Coil, Christina Scabbia, is much hotter than the chick from Evanescence). Anyway, i was just going cause of a particular statement in the notice i saw... "Free Booze"... I was sold. Unfortunately, no cameras allowed so had to keep it in my bag. But that just meant more time to enjoy the free Jager and Red Bulls. Afterwards i wound up going for a drink with 2 Swedish guy's and an English guy who i met at the show, we went for a couple of J's after that too... trust me to meet the smokers.
Tuesday was kind of quiet, but on Wednesday i was up at The Annandale Hotel for Jäger Uprising. They had on Talons, Beau Monde & The Wireflys... Yes, you guessed it, i was there for Beau Monde. And as usual they girls had an amazing live show. Looking forward to their next gig at Candy's.

Brag Shoots & Lookin Good

After the house parties i quickly ran over to oxford street and shot the 3 venues i needed to do for The Brag... Bright'N'Up Bar, Middle Bar & Ruby Rabbits. After knocking those out of the way i was off to Lookin' Good @ Candy's Apartment for their 3rd Birthday celebration. As always my boys Sam Serene & Jay Smalls had the back room pumping, but this month they had a special guest DJ Trinity (Who runs the Loose Kaboose nights). Also someone, cannot remember who, took one of the best shots of me i've ever seen (second from last). Awesome night, everyone and everything was just Lookin' Good. Oh and Zhenya, thanks for letting me occupy floorspace for that brief period.

House Parties are always fun

Went to Penny's housewarming last saturday arvo, and it was well worth it great food, great people, jelly shots & jelly wrestling ;) No joke i have pictures (if you happen to be a softcore porn company interested in buying the pictures just contact me via email). Anyway, after spending most of my evening there i was taken up to another house party in Kings Cross by my gorgeous friend Aliya. This one was up in a decent sized apartment above the streets of the cross. I was only able to stay for a little while as i still had a few shoots to do for Brag.

Strange Karma Private Gig & Fashion Show/Nightclub

The boys are heading off to the USA with a chance to go big. But before leaving they decided to have a private gig for the fans. They rocked up the little studio we were in. Unfortunately i had to leave early to go to a job in the city, i would've liked to hang the rest of the night with everyone. Oh well, Best of luck in America boys!!!
So after that i made my way into the city for Fowl Play, wasn't early enough to get any good shots of the actual catwalk (swimsuit models ;) But i did get some funky party shots... and yes that last one is a person in a pink elephant suit, and no it had nothing to do with the night.

Art Gallery & Charity Nightclub

Last thursday i went up to Gaffa, an art gallery on Crown St in Surry Hills. I was shooting for 2threads, we had been invited by one of the exhibitors (Ravi with his 'Love Letters Written For Free' exhibit). There where a few good exhibits in there and i drank my share of wine.
After that i went up to Lady Lux in Kings Cross for a chraity event, "Musicians Making A Difference". Where we had a group of local sydney djs and promoters getting together for a good cause, and some good music of course.