If you thought raver style went out with the 90’s, you are wrong. It still exists and is going strong, as exhibited this weekend at New York’s Electric Zoo. There was a strong showing of the favorites– tons of neon, beaded bracelets and so, so much glitter. But it seems 2010’s ravers are taking it to the next level by mixing current trends with old electro staples.
I have photographed Steven Ellison, a.k.a Flying Lotus, 5 or 6 times in the past 2 years. It was during the first set of his which I photographed that I noticed Flying Lotus had certain, “tell”, as they so call it in poker. Just before the baseline is to drop through the floor, into the basement and most likely end up in the water table, he would pause as if floating Wylie Coyote style in mid air. Just hovering there above his Eve bitten clamshell which contains the soles of well worn Samiyam 8-bit beats and most likely photos of a black tee clad Thom Yorke.
A pupilometer is a device which is used by an ophthalmologist to test the response of a person’s pupil to visual stimuli. Ya know that hole in your eyeball that a friendly police officer tends to enjoy shining a light in when you’ve had 2 or 16 beers. It’s been determined that the amount of dilation of the pupil in the eye can be proportional to the amount of particular interest in a subject. The size of dilation indicates an increase in mental processes, but the speed of dilation can also be a sign of drug use or intoxication. I.e. Mr. Flashlight. HARD fest was this weekend in La-La land and I decided that this would be an opportune time to study this very phenomena my scientific self. But, with a camera flash. The following gallery I believe will duly support my early hypothesis: I believe the crowd will be very into the show and thus pupils will be dilated to reflect said peeked interest. Either that or as one police officer in attendance relayed to me, “These f#@king kids are whacked out of their GD minds”…
The spirit of a movement lies in the hearts, and in this case the costumes, of its people. We say goodbye to this year’s Movement Electronic Music Festival with a look at the crazy characters who made it special.
Today’s bloggin best…
- New Pac Div mp3, “Rollin.” Hypetrak
- Mike Posner video interview from SXSW. Elitaste
- Moby edited a book about how meat is yucky. LAist
- Pete Doherty accused of giving heiress drugs that killed her. TMZ
- Iggy Pop is gonna quit stagediving. Jam
- Paul Westerberg pens tribute to Alex Chilton. NYT
- Sleater-Kinney coud reunite, but probably won’t. Prefix