Supanova 2011 preview!

In less than a week the nerd circus will roll into town for this year's Supanova Pop Culture Expo. It's quite impressive how the country has embraced it over the last few years, within four years it's gone from being a bit too uncool for the general populace to a hugely popular and busy event.

Last year I didn't have much interest in the 'Supa-Star' guests, so spent most of my time shopping and taking photos of the cosplayers, but this year the lineup is awesome. Of particular interest to me are Sean Maher (Simon Tamm From Firefly), Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto from Torchwood) and James Marsters (Spike from Buffy). Cary Elwes and Luke Perry were on the original lineup, but when they had to pull out they were replaced by Tom Felton from Harry Potter.  I'm hoping the Felts-hysteria takes some of the heat off the others, I do want autographs, but I'm not massively excited about the thought of lining up for an hour for them. There was like a ten minute line for Karl Urban two years ago, and that was well enough for me. Though Karl was super. I liked him a lot.

Anyway, because I'll be spending quite a bit of my time lining up for stuff and attending 'seminars' (horribly awkward Q&A sessions with the talent), I doubt I'll be taking as many photos as previous years. Will probably take my smaller camera in case of photo-emergency, but I won't be going out of my way.
Just in case I am a bit slack in the photo department, here are a few I was too lazy to post after last year's Supanova.

My main goal for this Supanova was to not spend anywhere near the obscene amount of money I spent on (really awesome) stuff last year, but given it will cost me over $100 just for the autographs (collectively, not individually), I may have to be realistic about how much I'll really be restricting myself. James Masters is doing a concert on the Saturday night, and the novelty factor will be high, so I already have a ticket to that. Also bought a ticket to the Supanova After Party on the Sunday night which essentially involves hanging out with James Marsters & Gareth David-Lloyd. That ticket was a wee bit expensive, but how often will that opportunity present itself? Hopefully there will be free drinks. I'd expect free drinks for the price.

I hope Ianto wears a suit.

Kiss My Camera 2011

Don't know how relevant this post is actually going to be, cause I'm not sure if the exhibition is still running, but last month was the start of the annual Kiss My Camera music photography exhibition run by WAM, as part of the WAMis. 50 photos all up, and for the first year included...absolutely none of mine. If I'm 100% honest I wasn't overly happy about it, but y'know. These things happen.

The gallery of the finalists is available to view at http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/explore/galleries/kiss-my-camera-2011-finalists. Jordan Shields won the Grand Prize with his portrait of Drapht, which was well deserved.

My submissions for your viewing pleasurez:

Jane's Addiction, Soundwave

Josh Pyke, Fremantle

Kasabian, Metro City

Operator Please, Capitol

Rufus Wainwright, Perth Concert Hall

 

Buried in Verona, Amplifier

Soundwave

I took some pictures at Soundwave on Monday, and now that they've been in the paper I can unleash them on the world. But I'm not actually that motivated to do a full post over at my usual photoblog jacintamathews.com so I'll just be displaying a couple of the boycrushes I didn't have prior to Soundwave, but definitely did after.

This is what Davey Havok from AFI used to look like:

Foul.

But, this is what Davey Havok looks like now:

To that I say OM NOM NOM NOM NOM. God bless the day that he decided to stop looking like a Thai transvestite, and start looking like a total hottie.

Jane's Addiction weren't even on my radar before Soundwave, but now Dave Navarro's torso is burnt into my retinas and it's all I see when I close my eyes. This isn't really a bad thing, but I'm sure my optometerist would say otherwise. Watching Perry Farrell slink around like a feline minx was pretty damn good too.

So yes, more pictures will be up on jacintamathews.com eventually, but I'm notoriously lazy about updating it, so don't hold your breath.