Coachella 2010 - Day 2

If you check out one band from Coachella make it Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros (check out their track titled "Home"). No idea where these guys came from, but they stopped the show with their act. They laughed, dance, sang and crowdsurfed with more enthusiasem than any other band I've ever seen...

Click the "read more"  link below for photos of Edward Sharp, MGMT, Major Lazer, Portugal the Man, the XX, and lots more...

Coachella 2010 - Day 1

Plenty of bands that I expected to be good on day 1 (Passion Pit, the Avett Brothers, Jay Z), but also some pleasant surprises...

Iglu&Hartly - http://www.myspace.com/igluandhartly (listen to "this city" or "dayglo")
Jets Overhead - http://www.myspace.com/jetsoverhead (listen to "heading for nowhere")
Hockey - http://www.myspace.com/hockey (listen to "learn to lose")
Yeasayer - http://www.myspace.com/yeasayer (listen to "ambling alp")
Deadmou5 - http://www.myspace.com/deadmau5

LCD Soundsystem

Click the "Read more" link below for photos of Jay Z, Passion Pit, The Avett Brothers, Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer, and more...

2 Quechua Grils, 8000 Miles, Cusco to Santa Fe

Between filming the surf documentary Capture,  Hungry Eyes, and this recent video 2 Quechua Grils, 8000 Miles, Cusco to Santa Fe for Kickstarter this last month in Peru has been much more video focused than I anticipated. Still lots of time to photograph, and the continued process of learning and experimenting in the video world has been a good challenge.

The following video isn't anything flashy, but was made with the hopes of raising money to help 2 young Quechua weavers make the journey from their home in the sacred valley, to the International Folk art Market in Santa Fe.


Pleased to see the project is being featured in the "Recommended" section on Kickstarter as one of the staff picks.


More about the project from the Awamaki newsletter: 


One of our main projects is working with an association of indigenous women weavers from a very rural and poor community called Patacancha, about one hour away from where I am living. Two of these weavers have been accepted (among only 125 other artists from around the world) to participate in the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, New Mexico. (http://www.folkartmarket.org/) We need to raise money to send them there!

Sending these weavers to the market will make a huge difference in their community. The village where they live consists of only 250 families and is situated high in the mountains at 12,600 feet (4000m). Houses are made of mud and thatch, and the community only got power, road access and a middle school within the last ten years. Most of the women in the village have only third-grade education, and they only speak Quechua, the indigenous language in Peru. They don't have access to markets and they are frequently exploited by traders who buy their weavings at unfair prices.
If we can send these two weavers to Santa Fe, Awamaki can...[click 'read more' for photos and rest of text]