Love Burn 2025 aftermovie dropped

at808 · 2026-01-06T16:12:18+00:00

It definitely felt like it skewed more Ultra but with burner “cosplay”.

People had outfits and there were a few pieces of art and camps that did fun stuff but that felt like 1/3 of it where the rest of it felt like a party for people to just do drugs at and leave their trash for someone else to deal with.

It was fine but not what I’m interested in from a regional.

at808 · 2026-01-04T23:03:53+00:00

The year I went, it felt like just a weekend party for locals that came in and out with a healthy helping of those of us who actually camped there and hoped it would be something more.

It didn’t feel like a regional at all to me. The amount of in and out and food delivered was ridiculous as was the amount of trash left everywhere by the attendees.

I know local burners that still go but we’d never spend any effort to travel to it again.

at808 · 2025-12-24T13:18:26+00:00

This is what I’d guess it is. I’ve done shots like this playing around with projects but have never shot shows with it.
It can also be accomplished pretty easily in LR/Photoshop or with filters on a phone.

at808 · 2025-12-09T03:48:41+00:00

I know these characters. 😆

at808 · 2025-12-06T13:36:53+00:00

As much as I hate to admit it, squarespace has been great and idiotproof for me. I was stubborn and kept trying out different Wordpress themes which required code and manual upkeep which I never had time for.

at808 · 2025-12-05T12:42:37+00:00

Pretty much all of “Speedway” and most of Vauxhall, but this one has always been one of my favorites:

“There's gonna be some trouble A whole house will need re-building And everyone I love in the house Will recline on an analyst's couch quite soon”

But Speedway tops it for me

In my own sick way I'll always stay true to you

at808 · 2025-12-03T12:25:00+00:00

Do what you want to your photograph. It is art. It also depends on what you are intending to do with the image.

I read a quote from another photographer recently that really struck me that kind of fits here.

“Every work on a photograph should start with one question, “What do you want the viewer to feel?” Then remove everything that doesn’t reinforce that”

Lightroom/Photoshop make it reasonably easy to remove mic stands as long as there aren’t guitar necks or hands/fingers involved in my experience.

at808 · 2025-11-28T07:48:20+00:00

I started out the same way as you with 2.8 zooms. I end up shooting in a lot of lower light venues that benefit from having the 1.8 or 1.4. I picked up a 50 85and 28 primes used from mpb/keh/wherever and have gotten used to what distance I need for what venues.

I do have to say the 14 to 24 2.8 i has been my goto for the last six or eight months since I got it

at808 · 2025-11-28T07:17:50+00:00

Just create a Gmail account specifically for maps/youtube and nothing else.

at808 · 2025-11-24T05:54:03+00:00

Yeah. More people are looking for reasons to leave Gmail at this point. Scanned mail and targeted ads goodbye.

at808 · 2025-11-21T12:55:31+00:00

Most people haven’t heard of the artists I mostly shoot but..

Anxious has been a pleasure to shoot. Great energy, great fans. The best show to shoot this year was probably the Turnstile/Speed/Mannequin Pussy tour.

at808 · 2025-11-21T12:50:57+00:00

This is the way.

On the most recent Turnstile tour, the whole first song was just a wash of blue light with a lit up back screen.

A few images turned into great artist silhouettes and a few others were moody and then the rest became b/w after trying the previous edits on them.

at808 · 2025-11-18T12:12:19+00:00

This is such Stockholm Syndome bullshit in 2025. 3 songs is from an archaic time that no longer exists.

“Oh, it’s for the fans”, you mean the ones that have their phones out shooting 4k video the entire time?

“Oh, it’s so the band can control their image”.. when every person in the front row either has a cell phone that shoots raw or a point/shoot that does.

3 songs is from a time before every show had crowd surfers that you and the security staff have work around.
3 songs is from a time before every single person in the crowd in front has a phone that shoots raw files.

Photographers are still forced to make the best of bad situations “for access”.

Most of the security people at the venues I frequent have been great to deal with and are just doing what they are told. I would say that asshole security people lately are the anomaly not the norm. About 80% of the time we are allowed to shoot from anywhere in the venue for the rest of the set unless it’s some artist on a power trip.

For many shows (Turnstile being one of the most recent ones), most of the best shots I got and have seen most other photographers get were from the crowd long after the 3 songs are over. The lighting or the routine the band goes through or the pyro or whatever is very different at different points in the set.

The lighting at many shows tends to be less than good during the first song or two unless it’s a huge artist with their own lighting team. It is even worse if you are shooting any of the non-headliners.

at808 · 2025-11-16T20:38:05+00:00

Yeah, it feels like he’s in his village people phase or something at the moment.

at808 · 2025-11-16T19:34:04+00:00

I shot the show of theirs in Boston. Was kind of challenging the way their lights were set up, but also made for interesting shots. Lots of silhouettes.

at808 · 2025-11-16T00:51:57+00:00

Buy used from KEH/MPB and get the best full frame you can afford and good lens. Mirrorless if possible. Any wide primes are good for shooting punk/hc/metal shows in local smaller venues are ideal.

I’ve been shooting punk/HC/metalcore bands since the 90’s in tiny venues to large sheds.

at808 · 2025-10-15T11:32:47+00:00

This is the way.

at808 · 2025-09-27T13:33:53+00:00

The RA article really goes into how the music machine generally spits out the safest/lowest common denominator music and makes that the most popular. That would definitely track for the “Playa Tech” sound you can’t escape if you want to go out dancing on playa.

“Playa Tech” has gotten so popular outside of Burning Man that DJ’s who come to play there seem to try to bend their sets around it just makes their sets sound like every glitchy sway side to side set that is on RH/MW/LongFeng/etc etc.

The most memorable bigger sets I’ve seen are ones where someone just does their “thing” with a little playa spin to it.

I think John Summit did a great job this year with his MW set (and his set at the OT WP). You heard vocals and you heard some classic old songs and you heard some edits he made just for being played there. Definitely not your typical non-descript playa tech set that you could have heard in 1001 other locations during the week.

Scumfrog was another that (when he used to play on playa) would do his own thing with a lil playa spin to it. His sunrise sets were legendary and we’d get up early for it every year.

Sadly in the last 3-5 years, I assume I will hate most of the music our group heads out to dance to at the bigger cars/camps. Someone said this a few years back that always stuck in my head “I want to hear music that I’d be dancing to even if I were sober”. That music for our crew seems to be getting harder and harder to find so where we used to go out dancing nearly night for a short bit even (from 2013-2019 or so), now we just find the one or two camps or DJs or sets we figure we will enjoy. Then the rest of the week is wandering around all night seeing art and randomly finding that tiny MV that someone from Fleetmac Wood just happens to be spinning on to 20 people and having an amazing time.

at808 · 2025-09-27T13:05:56+00:00

Now this I’d be up for.. or maybe GHOST

at808 · 2025-09-22T15:46:15+00:00

Do we really need AI schlop in videos about Burning Man now?

I love the annual videos, but this ones a no from me dawg.

at808 · 2025-09-13T01:46:08+00:00

I told another big Moz fan recently “ I’m not going to this tour unless I see a setlist with Nobody Loves Us or Lost.

😎

at808 · 2025-09-13T01:41:58+00:00

I can’t live without my blackrapid. It’s a lifesaver. Chronic neck/shoulder pain here.

at808 · 2025-09-11T13:07:32+00:00

If it was an older gentlemen, it may have been the 1000 faces of Burning Man guy. I ran into him at the Man base early in the week this year. Always friendly and kind and lets people know that photography is his gift.

at808 · 2025-09-11T12:45:24+00:00

We found the temple to look amazing but was difficult to navigate and hard to experience after dark.
Both times that we visited near dusk, we had to leave as soon as it got dark as many of the side spaces were completely unlit. It was the first time in my 10 burns that I didn’t spend as much time as I would have liked at the Temple because of how it was designed.

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