Kid Robot celebrated the release of its 8″ Greed Dunny and Toy Baroness’s 29th Birthday in style with a huge bash at New York’s Knitting Factory. Artists and luminaries came out in droves to party with friends and rock out to a live performance by Spank Rock. Tim Biskup manned the turntables as hundreds of costumed Kid Robot devotees danced the night away.
Joshua Liner’s new gallery opened up last week and the place was packed with people and great work. I had a blast photographing dozens of artists that attended the VIP previews, and probably fired off more than 400 photos over the course of the three hour event.
Photographing people at galleries can be a giant pain in the ass. Most of the lighting is focused on the paintings, so you have to shoot with flash to avoid losing the detail in peoples’ faces. Luckily most galleries have all white walls and ceilings, so you can bounce the flash off of anything. I usually leave the white balance on auto and just adjust all the photos en masse in Lightroom after the fact.
Luckily, Liner had a ton of lighting (and air conditioning) overhead, allowing me to drop the ISO to 400. This was one of the easier gallery events to shoot and there was a ton of subjects to capture on film.
Get ready for a big monster throwdown, and I’m not talking Cloverfield. The Kaiju Big Battel guys are heading back to New York on February 9 for a knockdown, beat up, kickass brawl at…wait for it…Webster Hall. Okay, I have no idea how they are going to cram all that Kaiju goodness into a glorified dance club, but hell, WWE use to tape shows from the ESPN Zone.
Life In A Bungalo caught up with Dave of Kaiju Big Battel to find out more about the show and big monster wrestling:
Kaiju Big Battel has always operated of the wrestling industry. We use a lot of the fundamentals of wrestling but we never really treated it like a wrestling show. It’s more like a multimedia event that was more akin to a party than your typical indie wrestling fed. I think Webster Hall is going to be excited. I’m excited to go to that room and I think if it sells out it’s going to be a hot night and we definitely have some surprises for the show including this black box concept, and we have a musical surprise. I’m really looking forward to it.
Kaiju Big Battel: New York Blackout
When: Saturday, February 9th 2008. 7PM doors. 8PM show.
Where: Webster Hall, 125 East 11th St., Manhattan, NY
Tickets: All Ticketmaster locations and ticketmaster.com. $20. This is a 16+ event.
