The New York Institute of Photography and their readers have selected my business card as the best, the winner.
Me? How embarrassing!
This Institute of Photography (Founded in 1910) is the world’s largest and oldest Photography School, so, actually, this award is a real honor for me.
Here is the link with the review about it and where you can also find the previous link with the ten finalists.
Tags: Ana Himes, award, business card, card, New York Institute of Photograph, NYIP
You, guys, remember this name cause Gwil Sainsbury (guitar/bass), Joe Newman (guitar/vocals), Gus Unger-Hamilton (keyboards) and Thom Green (drums), from Leeds (UK) is gonna be a very big-big-big band. Yes, trust me.
Why this name? ∆ (pronounced Alt-J), the delta sign is created when you hold down the alt key on your computer keyboard and punch ‘J’ on a Mac computer. Eheh… sweet and crazy.
You know that feeling when you find the sounds and the music you just didn’t know you were looking for? That´s what happened to me. And I loved it.
They´ve just finished their tour with Wild Beasts and Ghost Poet and now, they are preparing the uncomming debut album ‘An Awesome Wave’, out May 28th. Can´t wait to get it and listent to it in a vicious circle!
Please, enjoy with this video (directed by Ellis Bahl)
With this other one (my favourite song)
And with these other tracks I´ve found.
Have a nice day!
Tags: ∆, Ellis Bahl, Ghost Poet, Wild Beasts, X Alt-J
Hi!!
Long time ago, ups… Sorry, folks, I´ve been really busy working hard for several projects and collaborations. But… I am here again, wihoooou. And, as always, sharing good music and inputs.
This post is dedicated to the debut album of KO KO. These two guys from L.A. (who use to listent to Kurt Vile, Damien Jurado, Twin Shadow, Alberto Giacometti or Gerhard Richter), will make you feel happy, smell the summer and draw a big smile on your face. Yes, I´m not kidding! Check it out below and Enjoy!
PS: The artcover was made by Kelsey Moore. You can see more photos of her, here.
Hi, folks!!
Yesssss, I am here with a new playlist. Have a listen below, clicking on image or coping the url you can find further down.
Enjoy, please.
http://open.spotify.com/user/anahimes/playlist/7LKGJatkXdrGrSfbXHvNmv
Photocredit: Jessica Eaton
Tags: playlist
“One Got Fat” (1963) is a lesson about bike safety. This documentary features a group of children, all wearing ape masks, rides their bicycles to the park for a picnic. Along the way, each one meets a different fate on their way to the park as a result of their failure to follow specific bike safety rules. They’re hit by cars, flattened by steamrollers, falling down manholes, etc. and all but one are eliminated.
The actor Edward Everett Horton narrated the film and Max Hutto was the Photography director.
It´s truly something different, a creative and bizarre safety campaign. I´d like to find and see something similar in this day and age; everything is sooo boring… Obviously is not the most hilarious movie for kids, but I think it´d be a must see!
Tags: 60´s, Bicycle Safety, Edward Everett Horton, Max Hutto, One Got Fat
El viernes fui al concierto que Aaron Thomas dio en Conde Duque. Era un acústico, y, aunque he de reconocer que este tipo de conciertos no son mi punto fuerte, se notó que Thomas lo había preparado con mucho cariño y esfuerzo porque el resultado final fue increíblemente bonito. Tanto que, cuando acabó, mis amigas y yo decidimos que repetiremos.
Durante la hora y algo, intercaló canciones de ‘Made of wood’ y ‘Follow the elephants’ con otras joyas inéditas; entre ellas, una canción que ha compuesto para la banda sonora de una película española.
Además, trajo para la ocasión a Bernard Fanning y a Juandi, que fueron un complemento perfecto y con los que se percibía una complicidad por momentos incluso delirante.
La verdad es que fue una actuación intimista, sí, pero también dinámica y cargada de momentos donde las carcajadas llenaron el auditorio. Y es que el de Tasmania no paró de hacer guiños y de interactuar con el público. Así que… dicho y visto lo cuál (dadle al play de los vídeos que he puesto a continuación), estad atentos a su fanpage, donde irá publicando las fechas de los próximos conciertos; y ya sabéis, no dejéis pasar la oportunidad de verlo en directo.
GRACIAS AARON. Gracias por este conciertazo.
Tags: Aaron Thomas, Bernard Fanning, Conde Duque
For generations, most of the photographs housed in the newsroom archive of The New York Times — known affectionately as “the morgue” — have been hidden away from the public eye in filing cabinets and manila folders.
UNTIL YESTERDAY!! The Lively Morgue is here!
Each week, the site will feature several photos from the 300,000 sacks of negatives, ranging in format size from 35 millimeter to 5 by 7 inches. The picture archive also includes about 4.7 gigabytes worth of imagery on each of 13,500 DVDs.
In my opinion, this is the best video of 2012. Yes, it is. One hundred per cent amazing. The director of this film is Ben Strebel, Strebel also directed Crystal Fighters ‘Champion Sound‘ or Animal Kingdom ‘Sings and wonders’.
But… firstly, I´d like to write a few lines about this band based in UK, cause I am sure we will hear a lot about them.
Clock Opera are known for good remixes made for groups like the Drums, Bloc Party, Marina and the Diamonds, Tracey Thorn, Feist or Architecture in Helsinki. During the last years, they’ve taken the time to make their melodies, lyrics and compositions grow. Now, they are at last gonna release their own debut album, ‘Ways to forget’, on 9th April 2012. Finally! This is great news!
The driving force of this group is Guy Connelly, who has a special and emotionally naked voice, that you can recognize as soon you listen to any of his songs. Andy West (bass, guitar, synths), Che Albrighton (drums, samples) and Dan Armstrong (samples, synths, keyboards, backing vocals) are the rest of the Clock Opera members.
And… about the actors of the videoclip (good casting’ s work, indeed), the old lady is Ann Queensbury and the old man is Dudley Sutton.
I have to admit that I love him, so sweet… I´ve been checking his personal website and I´ve found interesting things and words, like these: “and now, at 73, I feel I am just starting out -still pretty broke but believe me, it is far wealthier to be inspired than be rich…”.
And, after watching this video, it´s probably you think the same that I did: whatever age you are, you should seize the day and the life.
I also recommend you to check out the Belongings video, directed by Aoife McArdle, and Lesson No.7, by Andy West.
Tags: Andy West, Ann Queensbury, Aoife McArdle, Ben Strebel, Che Albrighton, Clock Opera, Dan Armstrong, Dudley Sutton, Guy Connelly
Hace unos meses, hice una entrada del último disco de Future Islands. Pues bien, los de Baltimore han pasado por nuestro país y, obviamente, no podía perderme lo que presentía, podría ser un conciertazo.
No me equivoqué. William Cashion, Samuel T. Herring y Gerrit Welmers hicieron vibrar a todos los asistentes que acudieron a la Sala Boite.
Inexplicablemente y a pesar de que no tenía entrada anticipada, aparecí la primera en la sala; a oscuras, vislumbré a los grandes Samuel y William en el sofá. Me dio un ataque de tos, y, mientras me decían eso de “Are you ok?”, me puse roja como un tomate y retrocedí sobre mis pasos. William fue al camerino a por unos Halls. Gracias. Me senté a su lado y empezamos a charlar.
Sam desprende un aura especial, y en ocasiones, dan ganas incluso ganas de achucharlo como a un muñeco de peluche.
Todo cambia cuando se suben al escenario. Bestial. Juro que hasta el momento no he visto a nadie que lleve la palabra ‘interpretación’ tan al extremo.
Un grupo experimentado y entregado. Un grupo que no tiene guitarrista, ni falta que le hace. Un grupo que hace rock pero que otras muchas veces roza el punk o la psicodelia más absoluta.
Creo que las fotos que hice con la cámara analógica y los vídeos que podéis ver a continuación, reflejan la intensidad de lo vivido el pasado jueves, pero please, no dudéis en echar un vistazo a su lista de conciertos y, si podéis, id a alguno.
PD: perdón, porque algunos de los vídeos no recorran las canciones enteras, pero en bastantes ocasiones, el escenario estaba demasiado oscuro, y en otras, tuve que darle al ‘stop’ para bailar y dejarme llevar.
Tags: Baltimore, concert, concierto, Future Islands, Gerrit Welmers, gig, La Boite, live, Samuel T. Herring, William Cashion
Amazing guys and amazing cover album!
I´d like to talk about the artists who made this picture in another post, cause they have a really good stuff. So… for now, listen to The Moth And The Flame and enjoy with these nice atmospheres they create.
From Utah, USA, Brandon Robbins and Mark Garbett.
