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

CANON 5D baby!!!! This camera is the shit!!!!

I'm debating on picking up new music...I'll probably get Nikka Costa's last album (not sure if I really want to spend loot on that though) copped the latest Murs & 9th Wonder album last week on my vinyl binge...it's a banger...

Been on a vinyl kick lately here's what I got last week for $40.00...

Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Madness - Keep it Moving
Commodores - Caught In The Act
Prince - (some double live European album, the name escapes me @ the moment)
Bowie - David Live
Earth Wind & Fire - Gratitude
Duran Duran - Rio
Lee Morgan - The Gigolo
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (my brother borrowed this from me 15 years ago and I never got it back...that's ok though I've still got his Clash - London Calling album LOL)
Zap Mama - A Ma Zone
Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple
James Brown - Ain't It Funky
Miles Davis - European Tour '56 With The Modern Jazz Quartet & Lester Young (this is some beautiful stuff, all of the cats in the band are on top of there game, just killing it)
EPMD - Unfinished Business
Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
Mingus - Clown
Monk- Brilliant Corners

I still prefer vinyl over cd...

Tomorrow if I can find some time I'm going to try and get out to catch Suicide City...I want to give Billy some photos from our shoot a few months back...

My site is soooo in need of a new look...I'm sick of looking at it LOL

Have a good weekend, go take a picture of someone, something, somewhere...

Be Well
Scott =)

We need to IMPEACH BUSH now dammit! How did YOU the American Voters **I don't vote! ESPECIALLY when I don't like either candidate** let this yard ape back into office for a 2nd term!?!?! Go vote here ---> http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer

Really quick update. I'm getting ready to go pick up some film (yes I still use film!) for tonights show...I'm shooting God Forbid and Arch Enemy...Angela (vocalist for AA) is wicked hot! Hopefully we'll have time to get together and take some candids...

Sunday I'm shooting Ghostface Killah and May 2nd I'll be taking snaps of The Giraffes...

I've got some really cool shit in the works to...I'll update the blog later with that...

peace
SS

Hey,

I published a few shots from Jeru the Damaja...Have a look...

I've also got a few Dub Trio flicks I'm going to publish later tonight...

Last nights SOPRANOS was bananas! I so need to do a cameo on that show...

Allright I'm off to the record store...I've been on a vinyl kick lately, I scored some great jazz albums over the weekend...I'll post a list of what I copped later as well..

peace

Hey,

I shot Jeru the Damaja on Saturday night, he didn't start his set until 12:30 and by that time I was feeling lovely (Heinekins baby!) I got some great pics, I'll publish a few later this week...

The sunday night show w/Asobi Seksu got cancelled, there van broke down (bummed about that, I talked with there management and there going to re-schedule soon)

Wednesday I'm shooting Dub Trio...dig: http://www.dubtrio.com/

peace
SS

GO BUY THE NEW 24-7 SPYZ ALBUM NOW!! IT'S FUCKING AWESOME!!! No I'm not street team'n for those cats!

I want a new 60G iPod (black), if anyone from Apple is checking out my site hook me up! cause I'm not trying to pay $400.00 for that freeging thing...

I watched "Cinderella Man" man last night...kick ass movie...I'm gonna try and check out "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" later tonight if I can stay awake...

I shot Blackalicious, the Lifesavas & Pigeon John last Friday the 31st...I got to the show late so I missed the Savas and Fatlip's set (pissed about that) I heard Lip did a few Pharcyde tunes...

I saw Lip at the venue walking around looking like a zombie. He had that "28 Days Later" vibe working. Dude had a really bad limp or a cool walk I couldn't tell..he was rocking this raggedy hobo gear and looking like he hadn't showered in a month. C'mon now your not getting any residuals from the Pharcyde albums!?! Go cop some new gear duke and ease up on the blunts, it's not a good look...

Anyway, I knew my boy Jay was going to interview him later and I wasn't doing anything at this point in the evening except drinking beers and scoping out the honeys so I figured why not take a few snaps of Lip as well. I saw him at the merch stand while I was talking with Vurs and asked if he had some time later would he mind talking a few photos, he was like cool at least I think that's what he was mumbling...

Here's the breakdown: Jay wrapped up his 5 minute interview...Lip approached me I said "Ok lets get some shots over here by this graffiti on the wall" mind you this was the same place me and Pigeon John took photos earlier. Lip seemed ok with it at first, I couldn't really read him he was acting so fucking weird. I started getting funny vibes from him on the way over to where I wanted to shoot, like dude thought I was gonna beat his ass or something. He changed his mind and said "Nah dude I'm straight" *confused look on my face* ok, what theee fuck eva bro...I kept it moving...

I will say this Lip's new solo album is tight.

Had a chance to get together with Pigeon John and the Savas for some photo ops (they were all hella cool - always are) spoke with Vurs he was like "Damn bro, I wish you would have gotten to the venue earlier so we could have taken some photos for the next album"....We talked a little about me potentially doing some work for there next release, can't say much else about that right now...

Published new photos from the Lifesavas, Pigeon John, Cuong Vu and Manny Valera...have a look when you get a minute...

I'll be shooting Asobi Seksu (colloquial Japanese for playful sex) in Rochester on Sunday 4/09

Here's a link ---> http://www.asobiseksu.com/

Do a google and your bound to read about the "My Bloody Valentine" influence when critics write about the band, it's not unwarranted there sound does have elements of the mighty MBV in it of course, but I think there's a lot more to them than that, see for yourself, if they come to your neck of the woods go check em' out, or god forbid go out to a record store (yes there ARE still mom and pop record stores out there) and buy there new album...

I'll check in again later this week...

Peace

Hey,

I was going to shoot the CULT tonight in Buffalo, but I don't feel like driving up there. I think I'm getting a cold it must be the weather...one day it's 50 and sunny and an hour later it's snowing and 15 degrees...

I got the photos back from the Manny Valera show last week they came out great! I'll publish some later...

Looking forward to the Doug E Fresh show on Thursday...

I'm pulling a LOT of my older stock photos off the site, and the new version although not finalized with me and my brilliant web designer yet, is going to have a more simplistic look...

Allright, going to take some meds and chill...

peace

Hey,

I'm in the middle of making dinner Gnocchi and sauce (yum!) just wanted to give a quick holla...

I took some photos of Manny Valera last week (super nice guy!) it was great to see him play again, he was accompanied by a trio on these two dates...his newest album "Melancolia" is amazing! I'm going to be writing a review on it, I'll have a link up to that when it's done and a few of the photos from the shoot...you can get to his site from my links page go check it out...there's some tunes up on his site for your ears and a link to buy his albums...

The latest local phenom "Teddy Geiger" is playing a SOLD OUT show tonight and all of the TRL girls are going to be there...one of my good friends sent me an e-mail earlier asking if I was going to shoot the show...his daughter who is 6 would love a print of TG...the answer is: regretfully no...I won't be able to make it to the gig...

Making a mental note to myself to smack this guy next time I'm at his house for pops.

Of course if I was getting paid to cover the gig, I would be there with my camera bag in hand...It's ALL about the $$$$

This week I'm shooting Doug E. Fresh on 3/23 and on 3/31 I'll be snap'n shots of Blackalicious, the Lifesavas and Fatlip...

Ahh s**t my pasta is boiling over !^@$%# gotta jet....

SOPRANOS tonight people!!!

Ba Da Boom!