Bamberdost "Nowhere"

This made me feel a way when I shot it. I don't know why. It reminds me of RKO, classic Hollywood or something...

Sobriety has reinvigorated my love of photography. The few thousand dollars worth of glass in my camera bag be damned, I'm shooting RAW through a disposable camera lens.

When I sent the new songs to my best friend Bryan he told me Nowhere is the single. It drops June 6. I didn't have cover artwork for it but now I do. As I was laying it out in Photoshop I had a thought... Should I add a splash of color? I consulted our fans, the goths responded because it was 2 AM and we're all vampires.

...they determined that it should be in color. OUR GOTHS HAVE SPOKEN. Lyric video is all ready to rip. It's so cool to basically have a focus group of my rhythm sections wives and kids, some pals, some fans. I'm confident that they're not blowing smoke up my ass.

It's also cool to have thirty six hours in a day. These photos are from around Clifton / Bloomfield / Nutley / Carlstadt. Nothing special, Canon M200, a lens that looks like an Oreo, and Photoshop. Scroll down, look at all of em.

Believe it or not I never really knew or gave a shit how a camera worked. As a kid I had a point and shoot, prime lens, Waldo was in the bottom corner of every picture. Most of my pictures were blurry because I was too close. I got more into video than stills, went to school for film. I never saw a dark room besides Ghostbusters II when Vigo tries to murder them. As a kid I just assumed they were under some kind of heat lamp because the light was red.

I came up in an unfortunate time where analog was mostly on the way out. First recording studio I was ever in, I saw a reel to reel but we tracked to a DAT tape. Shortly after that, ProTools took over the world and all of that SPDIF DAT stuff went out the window. I saw film editing bays in college, a year or two prior some students were shooting on film but we were shooting on Hi8 or DV tape, editing NLE.

In sumnation, shooting photos and videos with this Oreo lens has given me a much better understanding of aperture (since I can't change it), ISO, and shutter speed. Look out.