The Creators Project @ Milk Studios

I covered The Creators Project at Milk Studios last night. According to the press release The Creators Project is a new network dedicated to the celebration of creativity and culture across media, and around the world. The Creators Events series begins this June in New York City with a collection of curated artworks and installations, screenings, a panel discussion and dozens of performances by creators from all over the world. The series then moves to London, Sao Paulo, and Seoul, and culminates in Beijing with a huge 3-day Creators exposition in September.

I wasn’t able to attend the event during the day (The U.S. was in World Cup!) so I can’t comment on the  screenings and  panel discussions. When I got there I checked out some of the art installations. Lots of lights, projections, and 3-d glasses. People seemed to be having a good time(free booze). I did catch the performances of Sleigh Bells, Die Antwoord, Mark Ronson and MNDR and M.I.A..

Sleigh Bells were up first. I love shooting Sleigh Bells: lots of hair whips and strobes. My friend who I was with said “It’s just a hot girl with tattoos sing-rapping over Pour Some Sugar On Me for 45 minutes” I don’t see how thats a bad thing actually. Next up was Die Antwoord. This was the band I was here for. I had to see what all the (internet) fuss was about.  Interpol started 15 min before but I decided to skip them. I didn’t want to risk missing Die Antwoord. I wasn’t the only who was excited The crowd went crazy when they came out. The crowd barriers got pushed up to the stage making all the photogs scramble from being crushed. There was a part where my leg was caught between the barrier and the stage when I thought “this is where I break my leg.”  Yo-Landi Vi$$er , the girl half of Die Antwoord,  is what that bands about for me. White trash style hotness.  After the barrier issue of Die Antwoord they didn’t allow any photogs in the pit for M.I.A. We had to shoot from the crowd where it was  impossible to even see M.I.A unless you were up front. But a girl was nice enough to let me stand on a chair with her for a song so I could get some shots. And on the way out I caught one song with Mark Ronson  and MNDR. I took a handful of shots and got one of my favorite of the night.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, June 27th, 2010 at 11:04 pm and is filed under Events, Featured, Music and tagged with Die Antwoord, M.I.A., Mark Ronson, Milk, Milk Studios, MNDR, NYC, Sleigh Bells, The Creators Project. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.