josh [email] said at 5:15 PM 09-17-2006: i thought that guy was funny too.
it depends on the DJ, there are 3-5 DJs i guess. there were 3 bands this time too. it's 3 rooms of stuff. i like dave nada the best, he plays dance stuff and baltimore club i guess mostly.
the main taxlo djs tend to play "the (indie) hits" but this time one of them was playing some techno-esque stuff
josh [email] said at 5:49 PM 09-17-2006: everyone seems to think it used to be fun back inna day but now is pretty lame. i only ever went once or twice back inna day, and it WAS a lot of fun. now it seems to be mostly for the youth... most people there are underage, i would guess.
zack [email] said at 6:27 PM 09-17-2006: ahhhhhhhhhhh. well, I'm sure you'll know the really awesome place to go. Not that I have any idea when the next time I'll make it over there is, since it looks like I am too broke to do SPX this year.
craig [email] said at 11:26 AM 09-18-2006: The peeps definitely look younger in this second round of pictures. I was thinking the same thing as Zack, it looks like it might be fun, but I was also wondering how much of it was the way you shot the pictures. I love the lighting in all of these.
josh [email] said at 11:36 AM 09-18-2006: thanks! yeah lots of young dudes/girls this week. last time it rained so maybe it was just the alcoholics that made it out
craig [email] said at 11:59 AM 09-18-2006: Clubs are so hot or miss. Sometimes there's a great crowd, and sometimes it just sucks. Those pics remind me of a club I used to go to here in Phoenix.
abby [email] said at 3:35 PM 09-18-2006: taxlo isnt actually fun at all, its pretty dismal and upsetting. josh manages to make it appear fun and dynamic and throbbing through his great abilities. be assured that it is none of those things, unfortunately!
another tragedy of baltimore club life is the lack of an awesome goth night.
marcia [email] said at 5:19 PM 09-17-2006: i love the one of the bartender pouring the drink with the blue whirly light blur. that looks great. is that a drag shutter where you have the flash, and then the shutter stays open for a moment of two adfter afterwards, or does the shutter open first and then the flash happens? (i forget what the latter is called)
josh [email] said at 5:51 PM 09-17-2006: im manually doing a drag shutter - i set the camera on full manual and set the shutter to somewhere between 1/30 and 4 seconds, depending on the lighting situation.
marcia [email] said at 5:54 PM 09-17-2006: so, you're saying the flash goes off first and THEN the shutter stays open? i have been hearing about the opposite affect--having the drag shutter open for a moment or two BEFORE the flash goes off. do you know what i'm talking about? i thought there was a name for the pre-flash drag.
josh [email] said at 6:38 PM 09-17-2006: there are names for both i believe. dragging the shutter is when you set your camera to have a longer than sync exposure, in order to capture ambient light. you may be thinking of curtain sync, which is when the flash fires after the shutter curtain is at it's midway point of moving across the film plane?
marcia [email] said at 6:43 PM 09-17-2006: yeah, i have always done normal drag shuter in darker places--like bars, etc--but a friend of mine was talking about the other type of drag...anyway, i'll look it uip. i'm kind of interested in it when it comes to motion before the picture is taken, not after.
josh [email] said at 6:51 PM 09-17-2006: motion before the flash fires, you mean, right? motion before the picture is taken i think would be impossible to get :)
max [email] said at 12:23 PM 09-18-2006: It's called rear curtain sync, and is an option on fancier cameras. The way to do it on old manual cameras is to set a 1 second or so expsosure and then manually fire the flash with your finger towards the end of the exposure. It's a bit tricky to get hang of it, but the effects are nice if you do. For these types of pictures where the motion is chaotic, it doesn't really matter which style you use, but for objects traveling in a specific direction, rear curtain sync is better. It makes it so the blur is behind them versus in front of them.
max [email] said at 12:27 PM 09-18-2006: Also, a lot of newer automatic cameras have this feature built in. It's called night setting, or has a picture of a face with a star or a moon above it. It matches the flash exposure to the ambient background exposure. Fun to play with.
josh [email] said at 10:23 AM 09-19-2006: oh, no, not at all. jim got me this gig and he is way more dedicated... the portrait a day thing? no way i could stick to that. he's way more of a real photographer than me.
josh [email] said at 10:22 AM 09-19-2006: found me through flickr! flickr is an insane networking tool - this guy who photographer kara got a gig with nerve via it.
max [email] said at 10:15 AM 09-21-2006: Hey Josh, there is a toy I used to love when I shot band photos.
http://www.nikonusa.com/large.php?productNr=4766
I think you have a nikon. It allows you to do full auto flash, but hold the flash off camera for different lighting angles. I really like it for those slow shutter, wide angle portraits. I'll try and dig up some old images for you.
josh [email] said at 10:20 AM 09-21-2006: yeah i have a flash cable but i don't use it at taxlo because i need one hand to hold all the free jack and cokes
cullen stalin [ url ] said at 2:52 AM 10-11-2006: Et tu, Brute? Kara why you gotta hate... any party is what you make it. Crowds change and tastes change but i hate to see my friends saying bad things about something i put a lot of effort into. I think people let stereotypes and preconceptions color their experiences, we've brought a lot of new music to the table in the past year, and i wish people would have more of an open mind and understand that in order to sustain something on this scale you can't just have the 40 coolest people in the city at the party every week. There are going to be douches and there are going to be 17-year-olds and that's what enables us to bring awesome DJs and bands and play weird shit to a huge room every week.
Josh... thanks for taking awesome pictures, i hope there will be more in the future!
christian [email] said at 2:26 PM 10-11-2006: i think telling people who have been to taxlo many many times since its inception that their opinions are just stereotypes and preconceptions is pretty silly, cullen. i also think you should know better than to take offense at these opinions coming from the people they are coming from. your friends are not necesserily your target demographic for these events. really, you know that for the most part they arent. you said it yourself: "There are going to be douches and there are going to be 17-year-olds and that's what enables us to bring awesome DJs and bands and play weird shit to a huge room every week." thats the crowd you have to pander to to make what youre doing consistantly successful, and kudos to you for pulling it off. but it is what it is, not something most of us mid-late-20somethings that you know socially want to be at on a regular basis
every 6 months or so i give taxlo another go, and its fun enough knowing what to expect. im especially keen to keep giving it a whirl when you're saying youve "brought a lot of new music to the table in the past year" if indeed you have, but does this mean "music released in 2006" or "different than the same same same type of stuff that everyone expects". MIA and diplo showing up at the talking head is AMAZING but that wanst planned and isnt what youre talking about here is it...
i lost my train of thought but i hope you get my point without being offended, theres nothing here you should be bummed about
josh [email] said at 8:35 PM 10-11-2006: yeah i tend to agree with this. taxlo seems like it is a great time for the younger kids who are, after all, the target audience. also, older "club kids" type people love it too, i'm sure. if i wasn't taking pictures i wouldn't probably go except to just support friends like dave nada or if a artist i liked was playing... that doesn't detract from the fact that putting it on and being successful is a hard thing to do.
cullen stalin [ url ] said at 12:54 PM 10-11-2006: If he rolled with Peter he'd have a good time... that's a man with the proper attitude towards dance parties. Even if we don't play much Front 242 these days.
cullen stalin [ url ] said at 1:28 PM 10-11-2006: 1) I think they toured fairly recently
2) Peter likes them whether they've broken up or not
3) There are plenty of bands that broke up a decade ago that made awesome music, does anyone strictly adhere to a policy of only listening to bands that are active?
craig [email] said at 1:53 PM 10-11-2006: Hells no. Most of the music I love is from the 80's or 90's including Front 242 and loads of other industrial bands.
