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June 20, 2012 · 9:19 am

HoZac Blackout 2012: Photo Recap

Human Eye | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/4 sec, f8, ISO 500

Rather than try to describe the ear-splitting glory that was the 2012 HoZac Blackout, here’s a smattering of the thousand-plus photos I took last month (how time flies—yikes!). For a more in-depth look, check out the 100-pic gallery here. You can also view provocative band portraits from that weekend in my previous blog post. I shot video (of questionable quality) for most of the bands, too. If any are halfway decent, I’ll (hopefully!) post them sometime in the next six months.

Cemetery | Canon 5D, 17mm, .3 sec, f6.3, ISO 500

Mentally Ill | Canon 5D, 17mm, 1/5 sec, f8, ISO 500

Screaming Yellow Zonkers | Canon 5D, 17mm, .3 sec, f8, ISO 640

Cozy | Canon 5D, 17mm, 1/4 sec, f8, ISO 800

Plateaus | Canon 5D, 17mm, .3 sec, f8, ISO 800

Video | Canon 5D, 17mm, .4 sec, f8, ISO 800

Davila 666 | Canon 5D, 40mm, 1/6 sec, f6.3, ISO 800

Video smackdown | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/5 sec, f6.3, ISO 800

White Mystery | Canon 5D, 17mm, 1/5 sec, f6.3, ISO 800

The Barreracudas | Canon 5D, 17mm, 1/6 sec, f8, ISO 1000

Ketamines | Canon 5D, 28mm, 1/6 sec, f8, ISO 1000

Pleasure Leftists | Canon 5D, 29mm, 1/5 sec, f8, ISO 1000

Teledrome | Canon 5D, 17mm, 1/6 sec, f8, ISO 800

Fungi Girls | Canon 5D, 17mm, 1/6 sec, f6.3, ISO 800

Homostupids | Canon 5D, 17mm, 1/5 sec, f6.3, ISO 800

Crowd goes crazy for Homostupids | Canon 5D, 17mm, 1/5 sec, f6.3, ISO 800

Gentleman Jesse & His Men | Canon 5D, 17mm, 1/6 sec, f8, ISO 800

Redd Kross | Canon 5D, 38mm, 1/5 sec, f8, ISO 1000; 17mm, .3 sec, f8, ISO 1000

Redd Kross | Canon 5D, 17mm, .4 sec, f8, ISO 1000

Redd Kross | Canon 5D, 24mm, 1/6 sec, f8, ISO 1000

Medication | Canon 5D, 23mm, 1/4 sec, f6.3, ISO 800

Bare Mutants | Canon 5D, 33mm, 1/25 sec, f4, ISO 1600

Estrogen Highs | Canon 5D, 17mm, 1/4 sec, f8, ISO 1000

Human Eye | Canon 5D, 40mm, 1/5 sec, f8, ISO 800

Roky Erickson | Canon 5D, 40mm, 1/4 sec, f8, ISO 800

Roky Erickson | Olympus PEN EP2, 25mm, 1/60 sec, f1.4, ISO 1250

Todd + Timmy Vulgar | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/10 sec, f8, ISO 500

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June 1, 2012 · 7:52 am

The Many Faces of HoZac Records: Blackout 2012 edition

Gentleman Jesse & His Men (Atlanta, GA) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/13 sec, f8, ISO 500

The mere thought of sifting through the thousand-plus underexposed / overexposed / blurry / out-of-focus shots I snapped at the HoZac Blackout two weekends ago was so overwhelming that I decided to ease myself into the abyss with the band portraits I took that weekend. Unfortunately, due to varying degrees of senility, tardiness, hunger, and/or exhaustion, I failed to capture all the bands that played. (Steven/Redd Kross, if you’re reading this, sorry I had to bail! Will you take a raincheck?)

In any case, here are the portraits I managed to wrangle over the course of those four days, starting with the opening-night art show and concluding with the legendary Roky Erickson (a wholly unexpected development, I might add). Incidentally, I displayed a bunch of prints at the art show but forgot to take a self-portrait that night. I also forgot about taking portraits by the time Cemetery and Mentally Ill played. I suppose if this mental lapse had to happen anywhere, what better place than at the Blackout.

In the next few weeks I’ll be posting photos of the actual performances as well as a revealing interview with the latest teen-pop sensation out of Minneapolis, Cozy. Stay tuned!