Flip Video is never going to give you a rock event experience- the picture is impossibly grainy, it is hand held and shaky, and the sound is awful - with a bizarre bias to recording the laughter and clinking glasses around you over the 100dB+ of stage generated music.It is really just to give you a glimpse of the ghost of a concert past, something to excite the synapses of your own memory and fire them off. Or to imagine the possibilities.
Photographs are much better records from this type of event - here you get the artist telling a story, seeing things that others didn't, and enabling anyone to hear those stories (in the ultimate of ironies) with their eyes and imagination, even though it is primarily a story of deafening walls of sound.
Luckily photographs can be deafening to your senses as well.
Share them round!
Update on gig: Speed Orange and Slabotomy raised over $2800 for the Peter Mac Foundation in memory of our friend and colleague Richard Samson. A record 300 people were at the charity gig, filling the John Curtin Bandroom to the brim.
The Flip video collection:
Walk this Way: http://youtu.be/0W-v2dmEYCA
Hate to Say I told you So: http://youtu.be/_3Pp-zn1vV8
Debaser: http://youtu.be/IPRxCXvGHmc
All these things that I have done: http://youtu.be/bnQmhviok38
Sweet Dreams & 7 Nations: http://youtu.be/FOP5ZWV0F_Y
The Writings on the Wall: http://youtu.be/lojAw5wFTE4
Bad Romance: http://youtu.be/jPTyOo9jSpk
Proud Mary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Paranoid: http://youtu.be/HbwKONhshos
My hero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Zombie: http://youtu.be/i6LDi04lWl8
Mark Broadhead's Photographs are here on Facebook.
James Pierce's Magic Leica Photographs:
