Friday, November 20, 2009
Get Faced
Posted by Alex Woodward @alexwoodward Google on Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:09 AM
- On Aug. 29, 2009, I had my photo taken. Zack Smith, chronicling the faces at Carrollton Station that evening, set up a makeshift photobooth — a "portrait lightbox," as he called it, and framed two shots: one normal, the other "whatever." Smith, a noted photographer, educator and drummer for Rotary Downs, wanted to document the faces of the post-Katrina revival of local music. The three bands that played that night (Smiley with a Knife, Big Rock Candy Mountain, Caddywhompus) are post-K creations — band members are either lifelong citizens, collegiate stakeholders, or out-of-towners-turned full-blooded New Orleans romantics.
- The faces make their Smith-shot debut at NOIR Fest III, 10 p.m. this Saturday at Blue Nile. Here's how Smith explains the project:
One projection will be showing all of the 1st shots, and the 2nd projector will be showing the 2nd style of shots. Each set of images will be on a dissolved loop so that each face melds into the other as we go along. Psychedelic? Yes. Transformative? Yes."
- Here's Gambit's rundown of the musical portion of the evening:
- The New Orleans Indie Rock Collective added Ruston, La., folkies Giant Cloud and Lafayette's GIVERS to the second night of its annual showcase. Fresh from a string of tour dates with Dirty Projectors, the GIVERS send rainbow waves of shining Afro-beat, sing-along psychedelics and colorful dance-pop. Hurray for the Riff Raff and Loren Murrell also perform. Tickets $6. Weekend passes $9.
- The two-day music showcase kicks off 10 p.m. Friday at One Eyed Jacks with MyNameIsJohnMichael, Gamma Ringo, Vox & the Hound and One Man Machine, who returns to New Orleans (along with tourmate and Orleanian compatriot Silent Cinema) after spreading the New Orleans gospel on an East Coast tour.
- Note: Homeboy above? Not me.
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