Photos of 'An Occasion for Balloons' Performing Live at Local 506

Well... um...
This is from December 8th, 2014
so.. uh... from the end of Fall 2014 semester.

I have a good friend named, Nate Wagner (see his Rockumentary here), who does various kinds of music.
One night, his band 'An Occasion for Balloons' was performing at a local bar in Chapel Hill called, Local 506, and I was invited to the show as the photographer!

Here it is, Local 506 on a rainy night.

Yes, the venue was quite dark.
....
Not really. My t3i just cannot handle such darkness without introducing too much noise to the photo.

 Well, at least the stage was bright.

and thus began the gig of 'An Occasion for Balloons.'

This is my friend, Nate Wagner.
(You might already know that if you watched my rockumentary.)
He is the leader of An Occasion for Balloons.

He plays guitar and is the main vocal.

 This is Zach Stamper on bass.

Zach Corsa on guitar.

Justin Ellis on the drums.

and Emily Brawley as the back-up vocals


I don't really have much to say.
I was just there as the photographer that day.
So..... enjoy the photos!

The lighting was great.
I just pressed the shutter button and the pictures turned out gorgeous, somehow.

I can't wait to do more pictures/videos for these guys.

2014 Black Friday Purchases (Sony AS100V, Seagate Backup Plus Slim, and etc.)

At the end of Novermber of 2014,
it was that time of the year again.
"Black Friday"
so I bought some stuff that I needed.

 The first package that I received.

 Let's open it.

 Uh.....
This one isn't for me.
This is for my cousin.

Now this is a package for me.

 Time to unbox it.

Well... uh...
these things weren't on discounts.

I bought these headphones because the ones I was using were broken.
and I'm not really the kind of person who spends an astronomical amount of money on headphones.

 and this....

  ...is a case for an external hard drive.

 Then there came these two.

Within the white package were Sony Universal Head Mount, NP-BX1 battery, and a lens cleaning kit.

 and within the bigger package, there were...

 Hot Shoe to 1/4" converter,

 Sandisk Extreme Plus SD card and MicroSD,

 and Sony Action Cam AS100V!
I had a really difficult time choosing between this and Gopro.
Since I regard audio as one of the most important factors, I went with the Sony.

 It came with this box,

 which contained all of these stuff.

 Here's the last package I received.

 It came with this, Seagate Backup Plus Slim.

Working with tons of photos and videos made me realize that I'm going to need numerous external hard drives.
There's never enough storage space for people who work with photos and videos.


It does seem like I've spent an awful lot of money,
but thanks to the Black Friday discounts, everything other than the action cam didn't cost as much.

It even feels weird that I spent even less money on 2014 Black Friday, than on the preceding year's