brickbottom

This weekend was Open Studios at Brickbottom Artist Lofts, where I now live. I spent yesterday walking around, and discovered that Ron Pownall, noted and prolific rock photographer, is here. I encourage you to look at his site – he’s got some pretty awesome photos. One of the more NAPworthy details is that he worked a lot with Boston, which I guess makes sense. Brickbottom has been here for 21 years – I wonder if they did any shoots here.

Although I didn’t get a picture of it, he had a camera in the corner with what looked to be either a very wide angle lens or a fisheye lens, and you could hear it snap every 90 seconds or so. I figured if he was taking pictures of us, we could take pictures of him.

It should be noted that any photos herein containing images of Ron’s are strictly for your personal use and enjoyment. I’m not sure if it’s copyright infringement to put up photos containing his images, but I’m going to go ahead and do it and hope it’s not. He seems like a really nice guy.

I think this one looks a little like Justin:

The feel of his place was museum-like.

When I introduced myself as his neighbor, he took quite some time to tell me the story of the record cover for the Fools (see roughly center center on the wall in photo below) and how they got the free Apollo image of the Earth from NASA and digitized it and made the whole thing for like ten bucks.

On a separate note, the topic of last week’s musical interfaces lecture was the electric guitar. My favorite part was the e-bowing discussion and the stories and videos of the Gizmotron, a promising but ultimately doomed device with little wheels that bowed individual guitar strings when the buttons above them were pushed. Another wacky highlight was the Glissando Guitar Orchestrae.

Glissando Guitar Orchestrae – ‘F’ Heart Drone extract from Planet Gong on Vimeo.