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Chill season is here... the jackets were out last night...
The ladies of Chicago were showing off the latest in boot fashion and styles.
You know I do dig that action!
That... sweaters... and the pretty colors of the foilage are my favorite things about fall.
Love was everywhere you looked last night.
People were just out to have a good time.
The night started at the Green Mill Jazz Club and it just got crazier from there.
You ain't gonna believe the shot's I got of 'Big Al' the doorman from the Green Mill...
I'll be postin' them this week.
I got too many good ones to go through.
Big Al you rock man!
You are one fascinating guy.
Steppin' into the Green Mill is like steppin' back into time.
According to that compendium of all knowledge 'Wikipedia'...
"The club was once owned by "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, a right-hand man of Al Capone, who was a regular patron at The Green Mill.
The 1957 movie, "The Joker Is Wild," is based on the life of a regular performer at the Green Mill, Joe E. Lewis.
Starring Frank Sinatra, the movie is the story about how Lewis tried to leave his gig at the Green Mill and was attacked and left for dead in his apartment.
Lewis survived and continued his successful career in California.
The Green Mill Jazz Club still hosts top jazz performers and a weekly Poetry Slam."
The Ryan Cohan Quartet was playing at the Green Mill on Saturday night.
Michael Raynor was on the drums... I met him one night at the Jazz Showcase when he was playing with Solitaire Miles.
I think my friend's got a secret crush on him.
He was the band leader at the Vonski tribute at the Pritzker Pavillion this summer...
I call him Michael 'Crazy Face' Raynor because I've shot about a thousand pictures of him and he's got a different crazy face goin' on in every one I swear... I'll tell you... the guy's a 'Swiss Watch' on the drums.
Ryan Cohan was really crisp and clean and precise on that piano... he's got a light touch... really different from Willie Pickins... those guys seem to play at opposite ends of the spectrum though I dig 'em both.
Last night was the first time I had the pleasure of seeing Lorin Cohen play the acoustic bass... he reminds me of Jerry Garcia and he's got a pretty electric persona about him... he was rockin' that bass... that dude is 'The Vibe.'
Lorin was definitely 'one with his bass' last night... just resonating.
Geof Bradfield was blowin' sax and clarinet... I've seen him a couple of times and I always enjoy his playin'... I really dig his clarinet action... flawless and spirited... splashed with soul.
The night was perfect... but I was cravin' some flugelhorn action around two am.
Good flugelhornin' is hard to find.
One of the things I really love about Chicago's jazz scene is watching people I know or I've seen playing with new people in new combo's.
It's not like 'rock and roll' where a guy plays all the time with one band.
These guys move around all over the place... they play with one quartet one night and the next night they might be the band leader at a big show with a bunch of other guys.
It's cool how the 'play' changes with the dynamic of different performers all comin' together.
This week I'm gonna be hitting Solitaire Miles' CD Release Party... she's gonna have a huge band tearin' it up at the Jazz Showcase.
That is gonna be some epic jazz and I'm gonna get some great shots with pretty much no chance of arrest.
I dig Solitaire and she's a total sweetheart... if you haven't caught her singin' you've been missin' out.
For this self portrait group, with new themes every week.
This week; "Bench Monday".
& this bench Monday group
So now you've think I've completely lost it right? (You probably have a looong time ago... sorry...) So much Monday on one Monday right? Well, when MeAgainMonday chose to have bench Monday as a theme this week, it all became perfect - this is my bench Monday shot nr. 80 (planning to do 100!)!
"O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
-- title and description from "Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Have a relaxing Sunday Everyone!
Beautiful and inspirational photographers from my favorites.
1. Untitled, 2. fall is here!, 3. Untitled, 4. ladydaydream
Created with fd's Flickr Toys
Charming downtown Camas, Washington during Autumn. Small town charm north of Portland, Oregon. Shot using a vintage Canon FD 50 mm f1.8 manual lens on a Sony a6000 mirrorless body. Shot with the aperture wide open at f1.8.
I hope you had a surprisingly good weekend filled with good times, good people, good music and some good cookin'...
and of course superfluous amounts of prodigious and copious love mojo magic.
Change is in the atmosphere... I can feel it.
I'm excited.
Fall is on our doorstep.
It's gotta be my favorite time of year.
I hope you got the most out of your weekend and you're ready to have a great week.
Keep on feelin' the love!
That film look. Another of Saturday's photo session while doing laundry. Multitasking at it's best with "Adult Juice Box & an iPad 3"! L0L (the "adult juice box" reference is a Thanks to 'Heart4Whimsy' (i.e.: Susan) ) So that's what IT will be called from now on! :)
Taken with 1st with Hipstamatic then ran through Camera+, with different settings.
Hipstamatic
Lens: Foxy
Film: Ina's 1935
Flash: Off
Playlist Photos~
"You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory" by 'Johnny Thunders'
Professor Bikenstein and I have become friends.
He still doesn't like when I take his picture...
but he's come to accept my photographing of him as an aspect of our friendship.
We have some pretty deep talks about alternative energy...
the lack of a future for mankind...
conspiracies of every sort...
and what happened with the water.
The thing is... Professor Bikenstein's got kind of a bad memory.
So everytime we talk it's pretty much the same conversation.
It's kind of like that movie with Bill Murray... 'Groundhog Day' where every day Bill Murray wakes up it's the same day...
Bikenstein always seems to forget that we've had this conversation before.
I mean... he remembers me...
and then I ask him how he's doing on this pretty cool alternative energy device that he's been working on...
and it leads to the same conversation every time.
I tweak it a little bit, but Bikenstein's really consistent.
His conversational reactions to certain things I say are always the same.
'The Professor' is a fascinating guy with some really interesting ideas and a particularly unique viewpoint about a lot of things.
I've noticed that the best thing to do when I hang out with him... since he always seems to forget what we've talked about before... is to just sort of verbally observe life go by.
That way it's him and I relating to life and the street and our talks are more dynamic.
After I photograph him, he takes out his cell phone and photographs me.
Then he asks me how I like it.
I tell him it's cool and then we sit there and share commentary about what's going on around us.
Neither of us know each other's real names.
He calls me Viewminder and I call him Bikenstein.
It's interesting that when I call him 'Bikenstein' he never really reacts to it.
There's no way he could be oblivious to the comparison.
He doesn't crack a smile... nor does he seem to not like it... or say something like 'I get that all the time.'
It's just the way it is.
'Yo what's up Bikenstein?'
'Viewminda!'
We take each other's picture and then we talk.
You ever get a chance to talk to Bikenstein ask him about his alternative energy device.
He's got an astounding understanding of physics.
Tell him Viewminder told you about it.