Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The Gobal Battle Of the Bands (GBOB) 2011

Near the end of the last week at Arenele Romane in Bucharest there was a big music event: The Global Battle Of the Bands, or shortly GBOB, where a bunch of bands came to sing, gain exposure and maybe "hit the jackpot". I attended it only on the semifinals, Thursday and Friday, not also Saturday on the finals, when the bands were the same (well, a subset of), the light better but the placement worse (having to fight for the photo pit with a TV crew, which had priority).

gbob
gbob
gbob
gbob
gbob
gbob

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Abigail website up

Remember my project with Abigail? The CD cover was only part of it, now the second part is public, their website is up and the members page is populated with my pics. Yay!

abigail website

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Masca at the subway

Around the Bucharest subway anniversary, Masca Theatre organized a show in the middle of the Unirii 1 station (this was the very first subway station in Bucharest):

masca
masca
masca

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...to boldly go where no man has gone before

No, is not the bridge of starship USS Enterprise and there is no captain Picard around, this is the dispatch center of the Bucharest subway, it was open to the public Saturday at the 32 years anniversary, since the first station was opened.

dispatch

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Monday, November 21, 2011

Sweet testing

Today I picked my lens ("the normalizer", if you are curious which one) from the shop, where it was taken for calibration. The light at the shop was not good enough, so I postponed any serious testing for the following day, but on my way home I passed by this window, so I had to take a "test" (night shot, hand held camera, trough a glass window):

sweets
sweets
sweets
sweets

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Tides from Nebula

Again with the help of my friends from StudioRock.ro I attended a concert, this time it was Tides from Nebula and it happened at Kulturhaus in Bucharest. The light was awful (why do they have such awful lights in pub and club concerts?) and the place was crowded with about 8 photographers, so I did what I could:

tides from nebula
tides from nebula
tides from nebula
tides from nebula

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Friday, November 18, 2011

Subway tango

It happened yesterday at the Unirii 1 subway station and it was kind of like a flash mob: they plugged the sound system, danced for about 10-15 minutes and then went away. Passengers admired them, took photos and a few of them even joined the dance.

tango
tango

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Night over Piata Universitatii

From the height of the International Hotel at a fashion show I discovered a beautiful view of the night over the Bucharest city center:

piata universitatii

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Frames of Style

Last Friday, the Intercontinental hotel of Bucharest hosted a fashion and style event called "Frames of Style", it started with a fashion show from the Thai designer Saruda Nimpitakpong:

frames of style
frames of style
frames of style

It continued with another Thai designer, Chinachan Nimpitakpong:

frames of style
frames of style
frames of style

In the interlude, master Miyuki Ueda made a demonstration of sumie painiting:

frames of style

Then the Romanian designer Irina Irmia presented the culmination of her project, Japanese Jungle Jam Trilogy:

frames of style
frames of style
frames of style

The finale was the awards of the contest happening in a fashion workshop with fashion design students:

frames of style

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Thursday, November 10, 2011