Archive for the Art Category
I enjoyed getting into digital photography, starting with an Olympus camera that we bought in Las Vegas in 2000. It took photos at 1280×960 pixels and I got both an 8MB and a 16MB SD card for it.
Cameras came and went. There were was a superslim Casio Exilim EX-Z4, a Ricoh Caplio R4 with the big zoom, my beloved Canon 300D + 50mm prime, a Sony RX100, a Canon 650D that always disappointed. I took snaphots and sometimes I tried to take art, but there was always the issue of what to do with the photos once they’re taken. Sure I had a Flickr account but there had to be more.
So I came up with the idea of doing a public photo exhibition. But it wouldn’t just be open to the public in a room somewhere, rather I’d bring the exhibition to the people! I was already used to postering both officially and unofficially for music (Darkangel & Eros, Noir) gigs and political causes ([redacted]) so it was an obvious choice. My photos would be displayed on Wellington’s walls for all to see.
I chose the photos, organised sponsorship from a printing company towards the costs, and arranged for Sticky Fingers to post them up all over town. Here’s what they looked like in place:
And here’s all six of the posters:
We left Wellington in 2001 and spent a few months touring around the USA south-west before going and living on Vancouver Island for most of a year. Then it was off to Melbourne for a couple of years before returning to Wellington. We got involved with a few others and formed Darkhabit to put on some more gigs under the Noir name.
Here’s the posters I can find. My favourite was always the one from September 11th 2003, 2 years after the 9/11 terrorist in the USA. See if you can spot the tribute.
Darkangel & Eros was our initial foray into promoting goth gigs in Wellington. We started with a live gig called Pantomime featuring FearvLoathinc but the hand-created poster for that appears to be lost.
The real intention behind Darkangel & Eros was to organise DJ nights. I’d greatly enjoyed the ones I went to in Sydney and wanted something similar for Wellington.
