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Stephen Charles Photography: Incense The Goddess

Sean Patrick Coon — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:54:05 +0000

Check out Stephen’s work at CharlesMedia. For more shots ofIncense the Goddess, hop on over to our flickr set.

The local business sponsors who helped us pay Stephen and the rest of the DMP media crew were Get Fit MAT Pilates and Manny’s Universal Cafe, both located in downtown Greensboro.

Elizabeth Lemon Photography: Maf Maddix and Luse Kanz

Sean Patrick Coon — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:58:05 +0000

Maf getting reflective.

Luse telling you what!

For more shots of the performance, check out the DMP flickr set. To see more of Elizabeth Lemon’s work, visit her blog.

The local business sponsors who helped pay Elizabeth and the rest of the DMP media crew were Get Fit MAT Pilates and Manny’s Universal Cafe, both located in downtown Greensboro.

Stephen Charles Photography: Bron G

Sean Patrick Coon — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:48:19 +0000

Bron G opened the night at Studio B and simultaneously shut it, shut it down.

Check out Stephen’s work at CharlesMedia. For more shots of Bron G, hop on over to our flickr set.

The local business sponsors who helped us pay Stephen and the rest of the DMP media crew were Get Fit MAT Pilates and Manny’s Universal Cafe, both located in downtown Greensboro.

Elizabeth Lemon Photography: Antigravity Animated

Sean Patrick Coon — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:28:21 +0000

Antigravity Animated rocked his set with DJ Nincompoop 17000 as the headliner of the May Soundbombing event, put on by DMP and Psyoptic Records.

I would go as far as to say that the present is stupid.

For more shots of the performance, check out the DMP flickr set. To see more of Elizabeth Lemon’s work, visit her blog.

The local business sponsors who helped us pay Elizabeth and the rest of the DMP media crew were Get Fit MAT Pilates and Manny’s Universal Cafe, both located in downtown Greensboro.

What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear

Sean Patrick Coon — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:42:31 +0000

A while back I wrote a post about how I imagined Creative Commons might play a role in our project over the long haul, particularly in regards to how we might contribute to building community. As I often tend to do, I imagined on a grand scale, outwardly hoping that people, both locally and around the world, would find our media useful and merge it into their own works of art.

Well, I’ve yet to hear back about anything as grand as a French mashup, but on the local front, I do get calls, quite often, regarding the use of DMP media from the artists themselves. Can we send a photo to a newspaper to run in an article about the band? Can I use this image on our upcoming album? My answer is simple: give attribution back to our independent photographers and you’re good to go.

Earlier today, I stopped by The Green Bean to get my mid-afternoon drink of choice and I caught the following on the upcoming events wall:

This was the first time I caught one of our shots being used in a local show poster. Check out the solid attribution for Kevin Belton, added as an element of the poster design itself.

No calls to me, no direction needed.

It doesn’t hurt that Dan Bayer (of The Raving Knaves) is part of DMP’s core team, I’m sure he influenced the process, but how about that CC license love?

Tito, get me some tissue.

We’re still wheeling about, doing shows when we can, figuring this all out as we go, but it’s nice to see part of the plan of local artists cross-promoting local artists coming together here and there.

Oh yeah, if you’re in the area, be sure to go check out the show!

Kevin Belton Photography: Crystal Bright and The Silver Hands

Sean Patrick Coon — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:12:17 +0000

DMP was lucky enough to record some CBaTSH tunes while capturing their eccentricities in a pixelated form.

Check out more of Kevin’s work at his flickr page.

Often Awesome Benefit Show

Elizabeth Lemon — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:05:13 +0000

An outpouring of heartfelt passion was seen Tuesday night as the Often Awesome Army assembled to raise money for Timothy LaFollette and his fight against ALS.

The event occurred at the Green Street Club in downtown Greensboro. Donations were collected, raffle tickets sold and seven local bands came and performed for a wall-to-wall crowd, showing their support for Tim and Kaylan. Halfway through the show, Tim gave a moving speech where he asked for one more favor: keep spreading awareness for ALS.

Photo by Elizabeth Lemon

All Aces Media shot video and the dotmatrix project recorded the show to create a compilation album. Both the video and album will be available shortly. All Aces is also currently working on a web series about Tim called, Often Awesome The Series.

Thanks to everyone who came out and made this wonderful night possible, especially Michael Sileno, who organized the entire evening.

Photo by Elizabeth Lemon

Michael Sileno introducing Josh Neas

Photo by Mark Smith

Photo by Elizabeth Lemon

Chris Jackson of Citified joins Josh Neas for a song.

Photo by Mark Smith

Treason and DJ Royale

Photo by Elizabeth Lemon

“if you love hip hop…”

Photo by Elizabeth Lemon

Social Life giving it their all.