I shot the lovely and talented Samba Mapangala and Nathaniel Braddock of the fabulous Occidental Brothers Dance Band International for the cover of this week’s Chicago Reader. In addition I shot Mission of Burma and Orquestra Contemporanea de Olinda for the Photo Pit page in the same issue.
Chicago cornetist Josh Berman‘s got a new record out on Delmark, and he’s playing two record release shows: one tonight at the Hideout, and another this Sunday, June 7th at the Hungry Brain. I photographed Berman in front of and inside the venerable Old Town Ale House for today’s Reader.
I photographed electronic musician Joe Hahn, stage name Protman, for this week’s Reader. Protman finds old video game controllers, including joysticks, and turns them into MIDI controllers.
It’s for the issue dated tomorrow, but it appeared online today, the same day that, coincidentally, Boing Boing posted this, a video clip featuring a 15 times larger than life, working, Atari joystick: