Read past news/photo updates (click link):
July 2009 - June 2011 - Paramore album art, Tegan and Sara book + more
June 30th, 2009 - Jan - Jun 2009 news
December 31st, 2008 - July - Dec 2008 news
July 23rd, 2008 - Jan - June 2008 news
December 31st, 2007 - 2007's ENTIRE NEWS!
December 31st, 2006 - 2006's ENTIRE NEWS!
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December 6th, 2006
My Chemical Romance
Traveling:
Dec 12th to 14th - Los Angeles, CA ( Comedians of Comedy )
Dec 14th to 18th - Seattle, WA ( These Arms Are Snakes on the 15th )
News:
The trip to Tampa went well. While at the venue in Tampa, Adam from Taking Back Sunday introduced me to Gerard and Mikey Way from My Chemical Romance. We did some individuals and some live photos, just like the ones below:
Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance
Mikey Way of My Chemical Romance
Gerard and Mikey w/ Adam Lazzara of Taking Back Sunday
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December 1st, 2006
Tampa/Los Angeles/Seattle trip
Traveling:
Dec 2nd to 4th - Tampa, FL ( w/ Taking Back Sunday )
Dec 12th to 14th - Los Angeles, CA ( Comedians of Comedy )
Dec 14th to 18th - Seattle, WA ( These Arms Are Snakes on the 15th )
News:
So, the travel plans have gotten crazy for December. Taking Back Sunday is flying me to Tampa this weekend for some new press/brodown photos at some festival theyre playing with My Chemical Romance and a bunch of others. THENNNN... Instead of going straight to Seattle, I'm going to Los Angeles for 3 days to shoot the Comedians of Comedy with David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Silverman, and tons of others. December 14th I'll fly from LA to Seattle and will be getting slayed by These Arms Are Snakes on December 14th in Seattle.
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November 21st, 2006
Online Store
Hey! No new photos, but I did put up an online store with a shirt, stickers, and buttons. Undies coming next week too. (yes, I know how lame I am)
shirt designed by Richard Minino of New Mexican Disaster
He's a bro, add him on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/horsebites
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November 19th, 2006
Death Cab for Cutie
Lately listening to: CONVERGE - No Heroes, Led Zeppelin boxset, +44 - When You Heart Stops Beating, Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes, Youth Group - Casino Twilight Dogs
News:
Death Cab for Cutie played Birmingham and Atlanta a few days ago and they were gracious enough to let me hangout both days and shoot photos. Thanks to Ben, Chris, Nick, Jason and Mark for putting up with me, here's a few photos. Not all of the film has been developed yet though.
Even though they practiced and planned...
Team Chunklet still defeated them in the Whirlyball rematch
Chris Walla
Death Cab for Cutie soundcheck in Birmingham at the BJCC Theatre
Death Cab for Cutie soundcheck in Atlanta at the Fox Theatre
Ben Gibbard
Nick Harmer
Chris Walla
Jason McGerr
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November 15th, 2006
Cursive
News:
Cursive played Birmingham on Monday, but Maylene and I had a meeting for Maylene's albumshoot so I had to miss the show (the Maylene stuff we shot Tuesday though and it's amazing). So I went down during the night just to say hello and get a few quick photographs.
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November 11th, 2006
Every Time I Die, Converge, Cartel, Dallas Taylor
Lately listening to: CONVERGE - No Heroes, Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies, Tanner - Ill-Gotten Gains, Led Zeppelin boxset, +44 - When You Heart Stops Beating, Melvins - Houdini Live, American Football - s/t, Thunderbirds Are Now! - Justamustache
Traveling:
Nov. 15th in Atlanta, GA (Converge)
Nov. 17th in Atlanta, GA (Death Cab for Cutie)
News:
HEY! Here is a bunch of new photographs, including the following: Every Time I Die in Chicago, Converge in Birmingham, Cartel in Atlanta getting married, and Dallas Taylor of Maylene and the Sons of Disaster/Underoath on location for Maylene's new album photoshoot.
Jacob Bannon of Converge - 2006
Converge at Cave 9 in Birmingham, Alabama
Dallas Taylor of Maylene and the Sons of Disaster,
on location for Maylene's new album photoshoot.
Cartel
Every Time I Die
Keller Harbin of Every Time I Die/Chariot, shirtless
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November 10th, 2006
Chicago trip extras
News:
Here's the extras from the Chicago trip a week ago...
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November 2nd, 2006
Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, the Melvins, Big Business, David Yow of the Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid, Ralph Cuseglio of Rye Coalition, Harvey Milk, Jon Wurster of Rocket From the Crypt/Superchunk
CHUNKLET 13TH ANNIVERSARY PARTS 1 and 2 !!!!!!!
Lately listening to: Mock Orange (discography), Scratch Acid (discography)
Traveling:
Nov. 2nd - 5th in Chicago, IL
Nov. 4th in Chicago, IL (Every Time I Die)
Nov. 7th in Atlanta, GA (These Arms Are Snakes, Young Widows)
Nov. 17th in Atlanta, GA (Death Cab for Cutie)
News:
So Henry had the Chunklet Magazine 13th Anniversary this week, it is comprised of 4 main shows: Patton Oswalt and Zach Galifianakis in Atlanta the 26th and Athens the 27th, then... the Melvins+Big Business and Harvey Milk in Athens the 28th and then Atlanta the 29th.
Below are links to both sets of photos...
Chunklet 13th Anniversary - Day 1 and 2 w/ Patton and Zach
Chunklet 13th Anniversary - Day 1 and 2 w/ Patton and Zach
Chunklet 13th Anniversary - Day 3 and 4 w/ Melvins+Big Business and David Yow
Chunklet 13th Anniversary - Day 3 and 4 w/ Melvins+Big Business and David Yow
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October 29th, 2006
Minus the Bear, Russian Circles, first Melvins show plus Patton and Zach
Lately listening to: Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist, Converge - No Heroes, Plus 44 - Lycanthrope/No It Isn't/When Your Heart Stops Beating, Tanner (discography), Mock Orange - You Know You Got It, the Melvins - (A) Senile Animal
Traveling:
Oct. 29th in Atlanta, GA (Melvins+Big Business, Harvey Milk and David Yow)
Nov. 2nd - 5th in Chicago, IL
Nov. 4th in Chicago, IL (Every Time I Die)
Nov. 7th in Atlanta, GA (These Arms Are Snakes, Young Widows)
Nov. 17th in Atlanta, GA (Death Cab for Cutie)
News:
I am in my hotel room in Athens, GA the day after the first Melvins/Big Business show. Last night was amazing and David Yow was insane. When I return to Birmingham on Monday I will have tons of photos from the two Patton Oswalt/Zach Galifianakis shows in Georgia and the two Melvins shows. Patton filmed a DVD while in Athens Friday, we went to a shooting range and shot a Thompson sub-machine gun. Last week I spent 3 days with Minus the Bear/Che,Russian Circles and the Velvet Teen in Birmingham and Atlanta. A few photos are below. Also, Pine Magazine did an interview type thing with me last week that you can read and waste 10 seconds of your day instead of working: Pine Magazine Interview
Minus the Bear
Erin Tate of Minus the Bear
Che Arthur
Russian Circles
the Velvet Teen
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October 16th, 2006
SPARTA, new Traveling, Maylene pre production
Lately listening to: Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist, Converge - No Heroes, Plus 44 - Lycanthrope/No It Isn't/When Your Heart Stops Beating, Owen - At Home With, Mock Orange - You Know You Got It, Swervedriver - Juggernaut Rides '89-'98, the Melvins - (A) Senile Animal, Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits, Rocket From The Crypt - Group Sounds, Christopher Walla - HOJ mp3s
Traveling:
Oct. 26th in Atlanta, GA (Patton Oswalt and Zach Galifianakis)
Oct. 27th in Athens, GA (Patton Oswalt and Zach Galifianakis)
Oct. 28th in Athens, GA (Melvins+Big Business, Harvey Milk and David Yow)
Oct. 29th in Atlanta, GA (Melvins+Big Business, Harvey Milk and David Yow)
Nov. 2nd - 5th in Chicago, IL
Nov. 4th in Chicago, IL (Every Time I Die)
Nov. 7th in Atlanta, GA (These Arms Are Snakes, Young Widows)
Nov. 17th in Atlanta, GA (Death Cab for Cutie)
News:
A week ago I shot photos of Sparta here in Birmingham. I shots photos of them back in April 2005 but this is the 3rd time I have tried to see them play. The first time was in November 2004, I turned my car on after filling up with gas to go to Atlanta for the show and the fan broke off and put a hole in my radiator. Didn't get to see them. Then in April 2005 they were playing here in Birmingham and the show got cancelled right after they finished loading in the venue. They loaded out and we went to their hotel rooms and just did the photos there. But this time finally everything went as planned and I got to see them play. Here's a few...
SPARTA
Jim Ward of Sparta/At The Drive-In
Tony Hajjar of Sparta/At The Drive-In
Matt Miller of SPARTA
Keeley Davis of SPARTA/Engine Down
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Maylene and the Sons of Disaster started pre-production 2 weeks ago here in Birminghamd at Synchromesh Studios. I'm doing the album photos once again which will be done after the recording, but also I'm doing photos of the whole production process. Here's a few from pre-production
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October 6th, 2006
Mastodon/Converge tour - live photos
Lately listening to: Owen - At Home With, Mock Orange - Daniels EP, Swervedriver - Juggernaut Rides '89-'98, the Melvins - (A) Senile Animal, Sparta - Threes, the Hope Conspiracy - Death Knows Your Name, Kevin Devine - Put Your Ghost to Rest, the Germs - MIA (the Complete Anthology), Norma Jean - Redeemer, the Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
News:
Here's the live photographs as promised...
Seattle to Los Angeles - on tour with Mastodon & Converge (live photographs)
Seattle to Los Angeles - on tour with Mastodon & Converge (live photographs)
Seattle to Los Angeles - on tour with Mastodon & Converge (live photographs)
Seattle to Los Angeles - on tour with Mastodon & Converge (live photographs)
CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR PHOTOS!
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October 4th, 2006
Mastodon/Converge tour - non-live photos
Lately listening to: Sparta - Threes, Blur (discography), Taking Back Sunday (AOL sessions), Texas is the Reason (discography), Patton Oswalt - 222, Kevin Devine - Put Your Ghost to Rest
Big thank you to Nick Harmer for picking me up at the airport in Seattle, you rock...
News:
Hello, So I got through all 28 rolls of film from tour and put the photographs I liked on a page. I'm going to post the live photographs I shot seperately in a link tomorrow. I'll apologize upfront for the lameness of my story telling with the images, I can't write or even speak well for that matter...
Seattle to Los Angeles - on tour with Mastodon & Converge (non-live photographs)
Seattle to Los Angeles - on tour with Mastodon & Converge (non-live photographs)
Seattle to Los Angeles - on tour with Mastodon & Converge (non-live photographs)
Seattle to Los Angeles - on tour with Mastodon & Converge (non-live photographs)
CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR PHOTOS!
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October 3rd, 2006
Tour preview
News:
I just returned home from the west coast late on Sept 30th. I have a lot of film rolls to go through before I post my tour journal from the trip. Here's a funny photograph of Bill Mastodon and Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age.
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October 2nd, 2006
Valient Himself
the hardest working man in rock music...
Valient Himself of Valient Thorr
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September 20th, 2006
Lately listening to: Sparta - Threes, Blur (discography), Mates of State (discogaphy), Melvins - (a) Senile Animal, Mastodon - Blood Mountain, Rise Against - the Suffer and the Witness, Converge (discography), Pulp - Different Class (deluxe ed.), Harvey Milk - the Kelly Sessions, Bloc Party (discography), Hope Conspiracy - Death Knows Your Name, Hot Snakes - Thunder Down Under
News:
I post alot of photographs in my archives, those years on the left that you click. I try and keep each to around 70 photographs or less, but it's only been 3 months into late 2006 and it's already full. So, I decided to make a news page and have the newest photographs posted on here as well. I'm going to go back and post some photographs from a month ago as well just so everything on the site is up to date. Also, there will be a listing of my Traveling dates so that if you live in one of the cities and want your photograph taken you can let me know.
I have a photograph in the new Rolling Stone, it's of Mastodon and it is the September 21st issue with Justin Timberlake on the cover.
The Mastodon photographs from the two video shoots are not posted below. A mini-site was made so it could be posted on news sites and such.
http://www.ryanrussell.net/bloodmountain
Traveling:
Sept. 23 Seattle, WA - Showbox (w. Mastodon/Converge)
Sept. 25 San Francisco, CA - Slim's (w. Mastodon/Converge)
Sept. 26 San Francisco, CA - Slim's (w. Mastodon/Converge)
Sept. 28 Phoenix, AZ - Marquee (w. Mastodon/Converge)
Sept. 29 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda (w. Mastodon/Converge)
Sept. 30 San Diego, CA - Soma (w. Mastodon/Converge)
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I flew to Chicago for 5 days last week and then from Chicago to Washington DC for 2 days. Chicago was just to hang out and to go to the Mastodon/Converge show at the Metro. Washington DC was to shoot Stef Carpenter of Deftones for an upcoming feature. The Chicago photographs were alright but the Washington ones were even worse.
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The Comedians of Comedy in Nashville, Tenn.
Henry owns you.
Patton Oswalt of the Comedians of Comedy / King Of Queens / EVERYTHING
Brian Posehn of the Comedians of Comedy / Mr. Show / Bernie Mac Show
Morgan Murphy of the Comedians of Comedy / Crank Yankers / Jimmy Kimmel Live
Henry and Sarah
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A few weeks ago Jacob Bannon from Converge emailed me to see if I would fly up to Salem, Mass. and shoot some press photographs before the left on tour the next day. Here's a few from the shoot plus some photographs of Salem and Gloucester, Mass.
CONVERGE
CONVERGE practice
Jacob Bannon of CONVERGE
Jacob Bannon of CONVERGE
Kurt Ballou of CONVERGE
Nate Newton of CONVERGE/Doomriders/Old Man Gloom
Ben Koller of CONVERGE/Cave In
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Baltimore-Washington Airport
Deathwish Inc.
Salem/Gloucester, Mass.
over the Appalachian Mountains
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Maylene and the Sons of Disaster stopped in for 24 hours in Birmingham so they can do some quick stuff and whatnot. Dallas and I live about a mile from each other, but we're 20 minutes outside of Birmingham. They are the band I'm closest with and I had never rode with them to any shows, so I rode down to Ocala, Flor. to Dallas's parents and then on to the show in St. Petersburg. While there a friend I had only known through business and such was down in Tampa on vacation so he came out to the show. BUT! An awesome amazing close friend lives in Tampa and slays dudes with his insane eyebrow/facial expression combo.
Portland, he works at Ferret and
designed the Misery Signals album with my photographs in it.
Steve Brooks of Torche.
Looks just like the joker.
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