VANEspace

Check out and join the Vane Myspace Fam.

Also dont forget about the GreenLantern Folk&Stress event at Roxy tonight. (look at post below for details).

GreenLantern*Folk&Stress*Roxy*VANE

On August 31st, the Vane Family and Guerilla Man Promotions bring you the one and only DJ Green Lantern, aka the Evil Genius, at Roxy nightclub. Our own DJ Folk will be opening and it should be a jolly good time for all. Pre-sale tickets are $30-$40 (our apologies, but superstar DJs like to get paid) and doors open at 9pm.

I'm running out of stickers!

I got harassed by the police for that one. the didnt really understand what i was doing. I had to pull out my American Passport to not get arrested.

Thrive*Koultures*VANE

The Vane Movement has now arrived to the Treasure Valley! Vane gear is now available at ''Koultures Urban Fitters,'' an awesome new shop out in Boise, Idaho. Thrive magazine released an article about the store's grand opening and about our brand. Check out the piece they wrote up

Big ups to Erin Ryan at Thrive & the boys at Koultures!

Get off your ass and go check out the store!
Koultures Urban Fitters
1755 Broadway Ave.
384-0700
10 a.m.-9 p.m., seven days a week

Muslims should carry special I.D.

Somthing sad i came across today. What's even worse is that 1,007 adults represent the whole population of America.

"Almost four in ten, 39%, advocate that Muslims here(America) should carry special I.D."

Really now? Why carry I.D.? Maybe they should just get the I.D. number tattooed on their arms, wouldnt that be more efficient?


Stand the fuck up!

Healing Through Music

I got recruited to shoot back stage a ballet event yesterday and my initial feeling on this was like “fuck me!!, why the fuck would I wanna shoot ballet” Its part of the job, if I cant find a photographer to do it, I have to do it myself. I get there, go back stage and see about 40 kids ranging from ages 8-21, just running around trying to prepare before the show, instantly I was intrigued and didn’t mind being there. I start shooting the kids and find out that half of the kids there are from the “Music and Ballet School of Baghdad”. This school has been open throughout the war and is known worldwide. Music teachers from all over the world come here to teach.

While I was shoothing a 9-10 year old Iraqi kid comes up to me and is like “do you have love for ballet?” I really didn’t know what to say to that. My immediate response “fuck ballet, ballet is for fags” haha, but I didn’t say that. I turned it around and told him that it really doesn’t matter whether other people like it or not, what matters is that you do.

So I finish shooting and I’m about leave when I hear this amazing voice coming from the auditorium. It literally pulled me back in and made me sit down. It was a 14 year old girl who was just stunning and sang so professionally.

I ended up watching the whole show and was amazed at how talented these kids were. I was expecting a half ass lame grade school production show. But this blew me away. I have no words to describe how amazing these kids performances were. I sat down and watched ballet, WTF, never thought I would do that.








After the show I asked myself who these kids really were. Are they kids of privileged parents paying great amounts of money that kept the school open? Well it turned out that the school was open to anyone who was talented enough to be selected. Social class didn’t matter and there was no fee to go there. The show was appropriately titled ‘Healing through Music’.






Interesting image huh?

Black and White

Rupert, the picture editor for SKIN and my roommate, met Christopher Anderson today. Chris was a photographer for VII for 6 years and the moved to Magnum, one of the best photo agencies in the world. We hired him to shoot some stuff for SKIN and NOX. They went out for some food and drinks and when Rupert got back I was curious to know what they had talked about. He told me everything from what camera he uses to where he lives in New York. Although what he was telling me was interesting, it wasnt something that I already didn’t know.However, at the very end Rupert ask him why he was a war photographer. It is a common understanding that some photographers are addicted to shooting conflict just because of the rush they get of being in the zone. The excitement, the spontaneity, the danger. Chris said that it wasn’t about that for him. It was about clarity of the mind. He said that when you’re in a war-zone everything is black and white, there is either death or life. You think about how not to die, or you are dead and you don't think it all. However when your in regular, real life there are so many grey areas that you think about. How to pay bills, your family, car broke down, bullshit like that. When you in the middle of a war you don’t think about any of that, and it clears your head. Your addicted to that feeling. He said that’s why he shot war.

I thought that was the most interesting thing he had said in their meeting. I don’t really care about where he has traveled the world, where he is going next, who he is married to, where he lives, what camera he uses...etc. I’m interested in the way a photographers mind works. Why they do what they do. It helps me understand why I do what I do.

Now that there is a seize fire I was thinking about going to Beirut and shooting. I didn’t wanna just go there and not know what I was planning on photographing. So I’m going to wait a little bit and shoot Ramadan in Lebanon. Ramadan starts September 20somthing. Whenever that is I think will go over for a couple of days.


(The images displayed are some of Chris Andersons photographs from Beirut)

Leavin The Mark

After work (vane) festivities!



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Lone Libra ... reporting live from the BK

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A few weeks ago, I attended the 6th Annual Siren Music Festival, sponsored by the Village Voice, everyone's favorite quirky, alternative publication. Held at Coney Island, Brooklyn (my hood!!) this year SirenFest drew in a record crowd, as hipsters of all shapes and sizes descended upon the creaky boardwalks of this national landmark. My main reasons for going: it's practically next door to me, it's FREE, and they had some great bands performing: the Scissor Sisters, She Wants Revenge, and (one of my favorite bands) the Stills. And the kick-ass MisShapes DJs (who rocked our world at our last Vane party at Stereo) were spinning all day and all night in between acts.



Pictures taken by Inna Kats. Check out the full list of performers, as well as official events photos at http://www.villagevoice.com/siren/2006/06_eventpics.html.

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