A Little Mental Yoga

Okay, so I realize it's been a while. I actually can't even remember what I last wrote about (probably something uninteresting)... Oh, right... Sasquatch. Well, I have better news this time! I may not be going to see NIN/JA, of Montreal, and AC, but this June I will see Alessandro Cortini's band Modwheelmood (he's from NIN)!

That's my sexy guitar in the background ;D

He's also got another side project called blindoldfreak. The first album "1" was really nice, definitely worth checking out!

But moving on from music... This weekend, I did a sketch of Rob Sheridan's "Broken Robot Girl" photograph. He's just about my favourite artist and I love robots (so does he!!!) so I really couldn't resist. If I'm violating some copyright that prevents me from reproducing this in any way... Sorry, I'm just a big fan of your work ;D And I can't wait to see the next photos in the series. Anyways, here it is:

I know I don't have the face right at all, but it was really fun to draw.

Aside from that stuff... things have still been pretty chaotic... Some mixed up feelings about things which I will not go into detail about. Bleh... A teenage life ;)

[currently listening to: Purple People (Christmas in Space) - Tori Amos]

Seattle at Night

I was going to be retarded and call this "Lights in Seattle" but I decided to spare the world, and think of something relatively normal that would not reflect how low I really have gone. [Which is pretty low, in case you were wondering].

So here, behold, are my great efforts to create somewhat decent images with my not-too-decent camera. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating, and they're really not that bad, but I need a new camera. Seriously. [Captions on top as usual]

Ferris Wheel

I played with this one on PS a bit more than the others, just to make it look more interesting.

Not quite dark yet.

Twirly thing.

I'm not too found of the stuff at the bottom. It would be nicer if I could zoom in a bit more, but my camera's not talented enough.

I wanted both the ferris wheel and the merry-go-round to spin at the same time, but the world was against me. Once again.

Funny angle, but it actually looks pretty neat...

I keep thinking of orange and lemon slices when I look at this. I wonder if something's wrong with me.

One of my favourites.

Sorry, I'm out of creative captions. Not that any of the others were particularly clever...

The day I discovered "painting with light". O god.

I love this.

The light looks like little bits of confetti... XD

Again prints of all these photos are available...
Have a nice day.

[currently listening to: Group Four - Massive Attack]

Lights in the Sky

For those not aware, NIИ is currently on their Lights in the Sky Over North America tour, and making their stops throughout the US and Canada. Tomorrow night marks the 5th performance of the tour. Just a few days ago [July 26th], the first "official" day of the tour, they stopped in Seattle, and I got to see the most amazing band ever preform live! :o)

Set-list:
999,999
1,000,000 [!]
Letting You
Discipline [!]
March Of The Pigs [!]
Head Down
The Frail
Closer [!]
Gave Up [!]
The Warning
The Great Destroyer
Ghosts 1 [!]
Ghosts 25
Ghosts 19
Piggy [!]
The Greater Good
Pinion
Wish [!]
Terrible Lie [!]
Survivalism [!]
The Big Come Down
Ghosts 31
Only [!]
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like A Hole [!]
Echoplex [!]
The Beginning of the End
The Good Soldier
Hurt [!!!!]
In This Twilight

We got there a bit late, so we missed most of Crystal Castles' performance. And frankly I'm not too upset about that... I do admit to liking two of their songs [Crimewave and Alice Practice], but they kind of scare me.

Anyways, NIN was AMAZING. They played lot of my favourite songs [and I have to say, Year Zero is now finally starting to grow on me] and the light show was spectacular. Apart from there being some idiots in the audience, it was an awesome night.

Since I'm very talented, I took my camera in with me and got some kickass pictures....

Robin, Josh, and that nine inch nails guy..... whatshisface... oh, right, Trent ;o)

Alessandro, Trent, half of Robin, and you can even sort of see Justin [far left].

Justin, Alessandro, Trent and Robin.

Straight from the crowd.

He lost an arm. Poor guy.

Why does Justin always stare up at the sky?

Nevermind.

Terrible Lie, I think...?

Trent showing off his awesome guitar skillz.

Survivalism, with a live 'music-video-like' visuals. We got to see a lady pee, people walking around, and creepy closeups of Trent screaming. Yay.

Love the lighting.

I guess they decided it's cool to hide from the audience behind a screen for half the show.

Pink.

Head Like A Hole, or The Hand That Feeds or something weird like that.

Pink again...?

Bow down before the one you serve....

Echoplex.

That ends my album of amazing pictures. Please contact me at amazingphotography@anna.sapek.com to purchase full size prints of any of the above shown images..

..[not]

Oh, by the way, I'm renaming the site as "Pretty Hate Machine". Stay tuned to watch me screw up my website again!

[currently listening to: Man That Your Fear - Marilyn Manson]