best camera

I've been following chase jarvis for a little while now. he's basically awesome at taking pictures. he's also really innovative and developed one of the best iphone photo editing apps currently available (it's called "best camera" and you can find out more about it here).

one of the things chase says, and I've heard other people say, is: "the best camera is the one you have with you". and it's true. my iphone actually has a pretty decent built in camera. and I find that I keep using it to document my life. and now that I can edit (I use 2 or 3 different apps to edit my photos, depending on what I'm wanting to do) right in my phone, its been really fun to see what kind of images I can get. it's kind of a fascinating way to tell a story, because the pictures are always free-spirited and fun, never taken with any sort of agenda. anyway, enough about that. here's some of my recent iphone photos:

Photo Exhibit TONIGHT!

Don't forget to come by and say hello - tonight is our kickoff evening where me and t.scott will be showcasing some of our photos - most of them birmingham-specific.

live music, chilled out vibe, just come in and say hi! crestwood coffee has beer and wine too so it's a good place to chill out before or after dinner. hope to see you down there!

Sept. 22. photo exhibit

me and t.scott will be showcasing some of our photography in crestwood coffee - our local neighborhood coffee shop, for one month, 9/15 - 10/15. and our big kickoff event is Tuesday Sept. 22, 6-9pm. I've printed up a bunch of stuff, and we'll see what you think. most of my pictures look really good BIG, so I'm kind of looking forward to seeing what over $1k in printing costs looks like. (hint - come buy something!)

I've been resistant to the idea of doing any sort of gallery showing, mostly because it has seemed like a lot of work for me with very little potential return. I really just like taking pictures, mostly just for me, of a dead and dying yet beautiful world. but, a lot of people have asked me to do something like this, and charlotte donlon has been doing a lot of footwork for it, and t.scott is going in with me, so it should be fun.

our pictures will be focusing on birmingham. expect huge, colorful, gorgeous prints of our dying city to be scattered around the shop by yours truly. I've even got a nice one looking right up vulcan's fat ass. and if that's not enough, my dad will be there showing everybody how much I suck at music.

hope to see you tuesday sept. 22. crestwood coffee.

Red Mountain Music Tour April 2010

(please forward this on to anybody you think might benefit. thanks!)

Red Mountain Music (www.redmountainmusic.com.) is currently planning a tour for April 2010 (dates open april 18-may 4). We are booking in the southeast and east coast. We are targeting college groups (RUF in particular), but are open to whoever might have interest. This is going to be a humble tour and our hope is to meet with as many people as possible, share some hymns, and maybe make some new friends. If you love nerdy hymn music, if you have musicians who might want to meet and talk and share some ideas, and if you have the space to have us, please contact brian at briantmurphy at mac dot com.

thanks!

new music (as always) in the works (I think our best yet), so stay tuned...

Brian T. Murphy
www.redmountainmusic.com

brooke opens champagne with massive wrench

gift card giver

a few weeks ago I was in atlanta for a photo shoot for gift card giver - an organization which encourages you to give them your unused giftcards (you probably have some in your wallet right now), which they then use for charity. I was skeptical of the idea at first, but it really is a pretty cool concept.

I took about 1200 photos, which were then used to make this stop-motion video. pretty cool:

Card Me. The Story. from Gift Card Giver on Vimeo.

(yes they totally misspelled my name at the end)

spots. friday. speakeasy.

that's right. we only play about twice a year now (public shows), and they are always a blast. expect two drumsets, even more robots than last time, and naked donkeys. lots of naked donkeys. gonna be crazy.

last time we started too late. won't happen this time, I promise. come on out around 9:30pm. bring your friends, the room is non-smoking now, which is an improvement. have a few drinks and enjoy some chill music.


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