I didn’t take many pictures of cosplayers at Arisia, but here are the better ones:
You can find more pictures of cosplayers at my cosplayer album:
Category Archives: Art
Pictures from the Smithsonian National Zoo
I posted more pictures from my trip to Virginia and Washington DC in August. This time, they are of the Smithsonian National Zoo.
Maryland Renaissance Festival
I went to the Maryland Renaissance Festival back in August. Here are some of the pictures I took:
Here is the full album:
Rock Against the TPP Concert – Boston (10/7/2016)
I went to the Boston Rock Against the TPP Concert last Friday at Spontaneous Celebrations. It was organized by Fight for the Future and a host of groups including the Massachusetts Pirate Party. Two more are coming up.
Here are some of the pictures I took:
I showed up late, so I didn’t get pictures of every band, but I did record some of the performances. Here are some of them:
Bell’s Roar
Foundation Movement (Sadly they are all out of focus)
Taina Asili y La Band Rebelde
Evan Greer
Mirah
Eroc of Foundation Movement
Debo band
The Finale (Get Up, Stand Up)
Tanya Donelly 9/30/2016 ONCE Somerville Concert
On September 30th, I attended the Tanya Donelly concert at ONCE Somerville. Starting were Hilken Mancini and Chris Toppin formerly of Fuzzy. I want to thank ONCE owner, JJ Gonson, for being completely and totally cool about people bringing in a D-SLR camera with a big lens. She is one of a kind and you should check out the concerts and food at ONCE.
Tanya Donelly played with various friends whose names I don’t remember. I took many pictures (below) and recorded two videos. All images and videos are CC BY-SA 3.0, so do whatever you want to do with them, but I appreciate being attributed.
Send Me Your Next Nightmare
and another one from the Swan Song series, that I couldn’t find on the album set for the life of me. If you know it, please share.
The pictures:
Hilken Mancini
Chris Toppin
Tanya Donelly
Friends
The photo album you can look through
Lush Concert Videos
I attended Lush’s Boston concert at the Royale Boston. They remain one of my ten favorite bands and a band that I had never seen in concert before. It was a fantastic show. Tamaryn was the opening act.
Based off a photograph of a playlist someone else took, the playlist was:
- Breeze
- Kiss Chase
- Hypocrite
- Love Life
- Thoughtforms
- Light from a Dead Star
- Undertow
- Lit Up
- Scarlet
- Etheriel
- Nothing Natural
- For Love
- Out of Control
- Ladykillers
- Downer
- Sweetness and Light
Which should have been enough, but they were willing to play a first encore which I recorded:
- Lost Boy
- Desire Lines
- Leaves Me Cold
And a second encore with only the song Monochrome:
I recorded parts of other songs, but I only recorded these four completely. I posted two of them on Twitter:
Here is some of what you are missing of @lushbandtweets at @RoyaleBoston #lushband pic.twitter.com/Q7Kc9tPgkf
— James O'Keefe (@jpokeefe) September 16, 2016
More of what you are missing not seeing @lushbandtweets tour again. #LUSHband @RoyaleBoston pic.twitter.com/ZSGbumQKwu
— James O'Keefe (@jpokeefe) September 16, 2016
The pictures I took left much to be desired, but I cannot expect much from an iPhone 5s, even from being near the front side. I missed my D-SLR.
.@lushbandtweets starts playing @RoyaleBoston #lushband pic.twitter.com/OfbDM8nXgd
— James O'Keefe (@jpokeefe) September 16, 2016
Here are pictures of Tamaryn I posted to Twitter. The are impressionistic.
More from @TAMARYNmusic performance before @lushbandtweets at @RoyaleBoston #ImpressionismRules pic.twitter.com/NnWIGbbRFX
— James O'Keefe (@jpokeefe) September 16, 2016
.@TAMARYNmusic playing before @lushbandtweets at @RoyaleBoston #ButForABetterCamera pic.twitter.com/zbfjDGAH4c
— James O'Keefe (@jpokeefe) September 16, 2016
I think I managed the right mix of dancing, singing to the music, taking pictures, recording video and holding my wife who was kind enough to attend it with me.
Intersections: Anila Quayyum Agha
We went to the Peabody Essex Museum recently to see the Rodin exhibit and found this single room Intersections exhibit:
Their website describes it as:
Intersections: Anila Quayyum Agha is an immersive single room installation that bathes the visitor in a geometric array of light and shadow. Inspired by traditional Islamic architectural motifs, Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha’s laser-cut steel lantern conjures the design of the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, a historic site of cross-cultural intersection where a thousand years ago Islamic and Western cultures thrived in coexistence. Agha, an internationally renowned, award-winning artist, creates mixed media works that engage topics ranging from global politics and cultural multiplicity, to mass media and gender roles.
Here is a slide show of all of the pictures I took:
Boats of Boston Harbor
Here are a few choice pictures I took of boats in Boston Harbor. They are from the ferry ride to Georges Island for the Pirate Picnic 2016.
Here is a slide show of them all:
Spiders
From near:
And farther away:
Public art
Public from around town. On walls:
And people:
And even sculpture:
