Easter Moon

Event: Easter Moon

Date: Saturday April 11th, 2009

Promoter: Fresh Culture, Neurobias, Relentless Beats, AZHC and Team Rave

Venue: Firebird Raceway

album link:  Click here

Easter moon was quite an "interesting" event to say the least.

First of all, thank you to Josh of Wacky Weenies for purchasing me, Dustin, Gabe and others those 5 dollar presales! Thank you so much for that. It saved me some time & cash.

We got there about 8-ish i think. Walked in, was disappointed in the attendance, but at 8pm there usually is not as many people as prime time. But i was expecting maybe an excited large crowd... but this is Arizona, not a Cali massive. though they tried to promote it like one...

I enjoyed watching and photographing the b-boy competition. I've never tried photographing something like that, so it was an experience. I was trying to get the coolest moves they had. Hopefully some of them were effective. There are a few in my album that are a bit blurry due to they were dancing and moving a lot, but i think some of the movement in certain images is part of the appeal of them.

Since i did not have a press pass or anything of that sort i was unable to photograph on the main stage. luckily, i was able to on the two other. Unfortunately for many arizona people, Fresh Culture had major restrictions on who was aloud on stage and such. Even people who were part of the event, like Team Rave members, were not aloud and even had to fight to receive their badges to at least get back stage. there were many squabbles, but that is not MY issue or concern. I just hope if and when another collaboration with Fresh Culture occurs, that better contracts are written up to allow Arizona promoters more control and access to their own events. Nothing ever ends up positively for you if you disrespect someone on their own turf.

I think that this album was quite an effective album:

1. I took a few good shots of the headliner Rabbit in the Moon in a "central crowd concert-like images" of them. theyre decent. i wish i had images from the stage :(

2. I have a few individual images that i might consider filing under my event portfolio.

3. I continued doing what i have been trying so hard to do lately; take pictures of new people and give them my business card to retrieve their images. I am hoping this will help me expand my image views and business.

4. I took a few images of people that i think they will enjoy their image and post.

Now to the music review:

Rabbit in the Moon did really well!

It was the second time i have seen them. This time i was a lot closer to the stage in the crowd this time so i got to see their live performance even better. They did not go on until 2am so i was pretty exhausted and cold by the time they got on.

Tech-itch was pretty cool.

Z-trip was interesting. HE is an amazing DJ, the only complaint i have is, well, i enjoyed his track selection, but every time i started getting down to a track, since he was speed mixing, he would switch away pretty quickly. I would get into a groove and get thrown into another one too quickly.

Turner & Hiet was not that interesting this time. They did better before Gabriel & Dresden @ Crush.

And good job to louder, pac-d, nexone & cyntheria, and several of my other locals. good job guys...

Oh, and i forgot, a big thumbs down to that MC from Neurobias.

Please do not ever get on the microphone when you are drunk ever again.

~Karma