I copped the new Helmet album on Tuesday, I've been a HUGE fan of there's for the longest time...Meantime is the shit...that album still sounds just as killer now as it did back in the early 90's

I'm shooting them on the 1st...stoked for that

Monochrome is there best album since Betty...this record has a great vibe to it, actually it sounds reminiscent *without duplicating* the bands earlier work on "Born Annoying" and "Meantime"

I was just checking out my schedule for the rest of the month, might shoot Rock City Morgue later tonight, Sean Yseult formerly of White Zombie plays with this band...on the 24th I'm shooting Fatlip and on the 1st I'm covering the Warped tour...the lineup is bananas...

So far on the 1st I've set up shoots with w/Angelo Moore aka Dr. Maddvibe, Bullet for My Valentine, The Sounds love this band!, The Casualties and The Bouncing Souls it's going to be a craaaaaazy day, should be a lot of fun...

Hey,

It's wicked hot here in upstate NY...thank god for AC and Mountain Dew

I put up a few Busta b&w's. I'm going to add some color shots to the gallery as well...

Also published a new Manntis gallery. They were having a REALLY good time in these photos :^)

Check out there site they have mp3's and a few videos you can stream...cool band

Finally caught the JC flick "Walk the Line" last night, wow...he was THAT dude

Did you catch Entourage last night?

So is Vinny hosed or what? 12.5 million and ya' blow it, principals my ass!! Brokeback-MF'ing-Aquaman!!

How lucky is E getting to do a threesome with his squeeze? I hate that guy ;)

I'm thinking this Dana chick is going to be the rival agent to Ari and make things very interesting...

One of my faves

Man, I need an agent NOW...I dig the whole freelance thing, it's got some plus sides but there are also times when it's an absolute pain...

I got an e-mail earlier from sideonedummy looks like they're going to use one of my photos for the new Casualties album...cool

It's funny cause I was just thinking about this band...I was looking at the line-up for this years Warped tour and it's stellar, looking forward to shooting that...

I think I'm going to cover the Family Values tour as well, actually I could give a s**t about most of the bands on that bill with the exclusion of the Deftones, I've seen them a myriad of times but never gotten proper photos of them...

Got my Busta photos back today, they look good I'll try and publish a few later tonight...

I shot Busta Rhymes on Saturday at the Music Fest...I'll publish photos from that later this week...

Ya know, I don't get parents who bring there 7 and 8 year old kids to a Busta show, actually looking around some of the kids could have been younger than that, well at least the one who got lost and the parents were asked to pick her up at the side of the stage *she couldn't have been any older than 5*

It was appalling watching the kids singing along to some of his new tracks word for word all of them clearly with no understanding of the word Misogyny...I'm all about exposing your kids to music and culture however there should be limits to what they are listening to at certain ages...

When I was 10 and bought my 1st album *with my own money*. I remember vividly bringing that record home and my mom seeing the cover and her saying verbatim "Hold on a second, lets just give that a listen together" she shared in the experience, mom didn't dig there look at all, but she thought the music was hella cool...

I was going to shoot She Wants Revenge in Buffalo tonight, but I'm going to pass and cover the Buzzcocks on Wed instead...

Be Well
Scott

I never had the opportunity to meet this cat, but I've admired his work and ability as a photographer. He had a great eye, and his images made me want to step up my game...

Mpozi Mshale Tolbert, Photographer, DJ artist has died in Indianapolis at the age of 34.

R.I.P.

I'm currently at home contimplating the meaning of life...

Actually I'm debating on shooting Mastodon and Lamb of God tonight, *shrugs* not really in the mood, and it's not like I'm getting paid to shoot them I'd just be doing it for fun so I think I'm going to skip it and catch dinner and a movie instead...

I'll be shooting Dope on Wed the 5th...

I found some cool Sonny Rollins shots I took a few years back, I'll try and publish a few this weekend...

Be Safe
Scott

I published a boat load of new photos from my Suicide City shoot on Friday...

Local zine ran one of my Inherence photo's this month *b&w band photo*

Got to the Suicide City shoot last night, band wasn't ready..hung around for 3 hours while they put on makeup, finally got to it at 11:30..the shots came out amazing of course...the band is a lot of fun and down for anything, they gave me all the time I needed with no drama...

Handed Billy a few 8x10's from there last shoot, he dug em' of course...Billy's one of the coolest cats

I need more coffee!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey,

I've gotten a few e-mails asking what kind of gear I use...I've talked about this before in other blogs and will bore you with that later *don't feel like talking about it now, but we'll cover the basics*

Finally got some new images up for you to check out...

This cat is one of the theee nicest guys you could ever meet, also one of the illest Hammond B3 players EVER!

Here's a few shots from The BellRays show last week.

There new slab of wax gets my vote for Rock album of the year...

Published a new Mindless Self Indulgence gallery on the site.

I'm not that stoked with these shots, a few of them came out cool *the one where Jimmy knocked over the bass player and she's laying on the floor is tight*...anyway I had this jerk off in the pit with me shooting digital and he had a HUGE flash on his EOS 1D overexposing some of my shots (that's what Photoshop is for though huh?) I used Illford that night as well and I can never get a decent shot with that stuff *shrugs*

I'm shooting Suicide City at the Montage this Friday...this building is hella cool, it has an old theatre in the back with a myriad of balcony seats, esbestos and shit falling from the ceiling, it's got a very "Escape From New York" vibe to it (you remember that flick right?) there's also some cool dressings rooms in the building that they used back in the 50's, broken mirrors and a spooky industrial feel...should be a blast.

I'm Audi, but before I go let me introduce you to one of thee funkiest drummers on the planet...

I've been having a blast shooting all week...

I'll run through a list of stuff I've been doing next blog...

Go cop the new BellRays cd it's awesome!

I put up a few b&w photos from the She Wants Revenge shoot. I've got some color photos on deck that will get added to the gallery later...

Ok kids,

So you want some insight?

You want to be a wildly successful photographer, have your images seen in all of the coolest magazines by 100's of thousands of people?

Shoot all the killer bands?

Hang out and chat with your musical heroes between backdrop changes...

Make wedges of money?

Meet hot chicks *never happens lol*

Get flown 1st class all over the world and shoot in exotic locations...

Ya Da Ya Da Ya Da...

Well Uncle Scott is here to share a lil story with you. It's not all fun and games, on occasion you have to deal with assholes of gargantuan proportions, for example Jason Koransky *editor* of Downbeat

see e-mail below and start at the bottom and read your way up it's more effective that way, enjoy: Oh, and please feel free to send hate mail here ---> jasonk@downbeat.com

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From: scottstewartphotos@hotmail.com
To: jasonk@downbeat.com
Subject: Re: Rochester International Jazz Fest 2006
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:24:35 -0400


LOL Pardon me? Did you even look at the pictures I sent you, or are you still harping on the Chick shot? Man you need to let it go.

And as far as hiring me again - get over yourself - you never hired me to begin with. The bottom line is this...I needed a photo pass and you got me one, 2 years in a row. Thanks for some great memories...Sucka!

So are we on for next year?

Just in case were not, go F**k yourself!


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> From: jasonk@downbeat.com
> Subject: Re: Rochester International Jazz Fest 2006
> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 13:26:45 -0500
> To: scottstewartphotos@hotmail.com
>
> Scott:
>
> Sorry to have not gotten back to you sooner. The photos were not good
> last year. I don't think that we can hire you to shoot again. I just
> don't trust that you can provide us a decent shot.
>
> -Jason
>
> On Jun 7, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Scott Stewart wrote:
>
> >
> >> Hello Jason,
> >>
> >> How are you (hope everything is going well)
> >>
> >> It sucks that we didn't vibe last year with that Chick Corea photo.
> >> however, I'm glad that Frank DeBlase was able to get his Chick photo
> >> published in the zine (he's a great cat)...and I'm sure he's living large off
> >> that $75.00 you paid him.
> >>
> >> Anyone covering the fest this year? Oh and btw I'm attaching a myriad of new
> >> photos I've taken, they kick ass.
> >>
> >> Peace
> >> Scott Stewart
> >>
> >> www.scottstewartphotos.com
> >>
> >> cell: 585-802-7134
> >> office: 585-486-0395
> >> e-mail: scottstewartphotos@hotmail.com

This is a little weird my Dad's B-Day was yesterday on 6.06.06 and he turned 66...Got em' a Frank Sinatra cd and my daugther made him this really groovy B-Day card (the kid is a prodigy)

I'm going to try and publish a few She Wants Revenge shots when I get home tonight...

SS

I just looked at my shooting schedule for June (this month is going to be craaaazy!)

Summer is in full-effect...F' yea!

I also want to try and get to this new X-Men movie over the weekend..I'm hearing great stuff about it, I've been a fan for-eva n' eva. I was the biggest comic book nerd when I was a kid, still am actually I just don't buy them half as much as I used to...

This VH1 Supergroup show is comedy. I just caught a preview and Evan was beating down "The Mouth" Sebastian Bach it looked like he spit on the dude *shaking head* un-real...who in the hell put this band together?...hil-freeging-larious

What Up Party People!?!

I hope your doing well...

I've been looking through a lot of my abstract photos of travel, architecture and random craziness....MAN there is some really cool stuff I would love to get up on the site...

Last weeks shoot with She Wants Revenge actually I wouldn't even call it a shoot. Justin didn't feel well and wasn't into it at all...It's gotta be rough getting your photo taken and signing girls breasts all the time...anyway I got the b&w shots back from the lab and they look ok, they could have been a LOT better if both members of the band were cooperating. I'll put up a link to the story once it's been published.

I'm shooting Wycliffe Gordon tonight, actually I need to call this cat to make sure everythings set...

I'll check in later this weekend...

Cheers
SS

Congrats to Michael O'Neal he won the Vernon Reid print "It's in the mail bro, ENJOY!"

To everyone who entered and didn't win, don't sweat it, you can always go to my merch page and BUY a print lolololol ya' cheap ass beeaaatchs!! or just hang tight cause when my new site is up and running I'll be giving away a 20g iPod with a cool Coop case (Scott Stewart Photography edition SUCKAS!!!) this thing will be packed with tons of my favorite albums and remix's...I'll have more on that later...

I'm doing a shoot this Friday with "She Wants Revenge" I'm stoked for that...there debut album is awesome, sounds a lot like the music of my youth...

Allright let me get back to the lab and finish these prints...Have a good week, I'll check in again soon...

peace
Scott =)

Ok, I've never done this on the site and since I'm such a hella cool guy lol...I thought this would be groovy.

*drum roll* So for the 1st time eva I'm giving away a gorgeous 16x20 b&w print of Vernon Reid (no digital mess!) printed from the negative in the lab on Professional Kodak paper...

No questions or cheesy q&a required just be the 10th person to e-mail me at scottstewartphotos@hotmail.com and YOU WIN!!

For those of you who didn't know, let me just put this out there for ya' - The Sabres are winning the cup this year...

SABRES!!!!!!!

I just found out about the Legendary Photographer William Gottlieb passing...

William Gottlieb, whose iconic photos of jazz legends such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong helped to define the image of jazz to music fans worldwide, died Sunday, April 23, at his home in Great Neck, N.Y., of a stroke. He was 89.
Gottlieb first used a camera in 1939 to illustrate his weekly jazz column ?Swing Sessions" in the Washington Post. He was paid for the writing, not the photography, and since the film, flash bulbs, and cameras (Speed Graphics and Rolleis) were bulky and expensive, he typically made only three or four exposures a session. He learned to shoot very carefully.

The photography paid off. It enhanced his column, later helped him become an Air Force photo officer in WWII, then clinched a job on DownBeat, where many of his images of the likes of Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie were first published. While at DownBeat, Gottlieb was an exceptional ?man on the street? reporter, letting the artists tell their stories through his articles such as his ?Posin?? column (after which today?s ?The Question? column in DownBeat is modeled).

Gottlieb left the jazz scene in 1948 to produce educational filmstrips, eventually as president of University Films/McGraw-Hill. He also wrote and illustrated 16 books, mostly for children. One of his Golden Books, ?Laddie The Superdog? sold more than 1 million copies.

Upon retiring from McGraw-Hill in 1979, Bill published his old jazz photos as The Golden Age of Jazz. The New York Times predicted that Gottlieb ?seems to be entering the golden age of William P. Gottlieb.?

His jazz images have since appeared on more than 350 record album and CD covers, on two dozen posters, and a like number of postcards and T-shirts. They have been in hundreds of books, magazines, calendars, TV documentaries, and even in major motion pictures as background atmosphere or used to re-create a historic site.

Meanwhile, exhibitions of the prints have appeared in more than 160 venues, from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm to the Navio Museum in Osaka, Japan.

Some of Gottlieb?s photos, starting with Duke Ellington, were acquired by the National Portrait Gallery: and his images are the basis of four US Postage Stamps. In 1998, DownBeat presented Gottlieb with our annual Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 1995, the Library of Congress, using funds from the Ira & Leonore S. Gershwin Fund, purchased all 1,600-plus of Gottlieb's jazz images ?for posterity.?

To view Gottlieb?s collection on the Library of Congress web site, go to:

I'm listening to this new Prince album "3121" and...um...I...

I was supposed to shoot Ghostface tonight in Buffalo for Verbicide...however that is not happening...I got a call from my homie yesterday, the dude who was going to write the story and he didn't get into any details, just said it's a "no-go"...I guess Ghostface doesn't need anymore press for his "Fishscale" album, it must be blowing up *shrugs* what-thee-fuck-eva

I'll be @ The Giraffes on Tuesday and I got some other cool s**t coming up...I'll give you the skinny on that later...

It's beautiful here in NY, I'm going out to enjoy the weather...

peace
SS