R.I.P Tonic?

It seems that Tonic is closing and because I'm feeling tired and belligerent I'll write this as an epitaph:

The first time I went to Tonic, I shot some dudes' klezmer band.

A few years later I shot These Are Powers:



Somewhere in between I forgot where Tonic was.

The dudes' whose klezmer band I shot still owe me money.

These Are (Still) Powers

So got the film back after switching labs, and I'm disappointed with the results. Poor scan quality (looking at the negatives there's clearly more information there), and some of them had hypo-stains drooled all over them. To be fair, the little man behind the counter said they would be low res scans... but still a capital "M," Major, captial "B," Bummer. So the side-by-side comparisons might not be too worthwhile. Project abandoned.

I wonder though, what they process B&W with because I remember getting very nice, soft results with Ye Old Art School Standby D-76.



We'll try again this week with some Ilford ASA 3200 when Knife Fight plays Union Hall on Saturday night. No hyperlink to Union Hall. If you don't know where it is then...

Those Are Not Powers; These Are Powers

More from your new favorite band: These Are Powers at Tonic on 3/8/07. I should be able to do some nice side-by-sides once the film portion comes back from Duggal (I switched labs after Baboo fucked up again).



Most exciting was a successful Gordon Parks moment:



I was looking for an example of the zoom 'n' shoot that he did to link to, but I couldn't find one. Oh well. More of these on Flickr.

Playing Catch-Up Yet Again

It feels like I'm primarily using this Blog-thing to catch up on releasing stuff from last year, and feel a little lame about it -- I really only had two resolutions this year:

1) To make crisp decisions.

2) To make sure I didn't bitch out and carry my camera At All Times (emphasis mine) no matter how heavy it got.

Neither have been lived up to with any sort of regularity.

Anyway, this is Anna from These Are Powers from November of last year when they opened for The Fall. Sadly, I only saw their set because of an outstanding comittment to work at 6 AM the next day. These things happen. I'm pushing for the 7" cover with this particular one.