Pepi from Bloodline Ltd has the most super cool look ever. I shot this photograph of him backstage after their show on saturday. I really want to shoot more with him.

This passed saturday The Exploited played live in Johannesburg. They have been playing punk rock since 1980 and I wasn’t even alive then. The singer honestly had the most stage energy I have ever seen in my life. The show got completely out of hand and I saw people actually getting trampled. I was pretty scared so I just hung out in the backstage and watched the show from a safe place. It was really complete chaos as my buddy, Tyrone, explains.

It was good though and I got some pretty cool photographs. You can see in the third one how much spit and sweat was flying around. I buried myself in my hoodie and am taking my camera to Nikon right now for a clean up.

Thanks so much to Nick from Punk Safari for bringing out bands and supporting the scene here so much.

Bloodline Ltd was another opening band before Exploited and these guys always get the crowd rattled up. The energy of the guys is something to appreciate even if you aren’t into the hardcore scene. Check these guys out especially live.

Fuzigish was one of the opening bands from the Exploited tour and as always they played super.

On our way to the parking lot after the aKing studio session, we ended up waiting in the loading zone for quite a while before a guard finally came to open up for us. I shot this photo of Jaco, the drummer, and think it came out super cool. I had seen a portrait of someone quite a long time ago where the guy threw his entire white balance off on purpose and I really liked the feeling of it. Obviously this won’t always work, and it won’t work for everyone, but standing in the cold concrete loading zone reminded me of it so I tried to do a similar thing.

aKing is one of my favourite bands of late and their album has been killed in my cd player since it’s release. There is just something about them that I really like and I think I really relate to their style of music. It’s always super crowded at their shows so when I found out they were playing the live at 5 in studio this weekend I had to make a plan. The boss hooked it up for me as he was doing the mixing for the live feed. Anyway, as always, I had a good time and even though the lighting is always terrible, I shot a few photographs. These two are of Laudo, the frontman. His presence is super and really different to most other bands. He doesn’t run around going crazy but concentrates on making good music. If you haven’t listened to them yet, make a plan.

I shot photographs for a nursery school and after dealing with about 88 young children, I realized that I better think SUPER carefully before we decide to take that step and plan having children. Honestly, it was absolute choas and some of the children even made it a nightmare. Haha.

In saying this, some of them were super cool to work with. I was backing up the images now and saw this one that I shot while setting up. I really like it just cause the little guy seems so confused. Funny. I really wish I could post more of the images because some of them are amazing but I really worry about the weirdos out there so I would rather keep the images between the parents and myself.

Hope you well and have a good weekend. Marcus

My buddie Greg, from Zebra and Giraffe, mailed me last night to show me the article that is being run in One Small Seed. I shot the photographs that are being run in the article and they really came out super. One Small Seed is an amazing magazine and totally worth getting. This is the second article I have contributed to and I really excited to do more for them.

Also, make sure to check out Zebra and Giraffe. I have been popping into their practice sessions and cannot wait to see them play live soon.

On my way to the office this morning I noticed the sun throwing back light on one of our plants. I thought it looked cool so I quickly shot a few photographs. What a cool start to the day. Hope you have a good one. M

I shot this skyline of Johannesburg the other day from the rooftop of my friends building during sunset. I was busy with a shoot and saw this and ran up to catch a shot. The sun goes down super quickly in winter though.

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This passed weekend was the Masters of Dirt show and it really was amazing. I shot some stuff but it really was hard to concentrate because of the crazy stuff that was going down. I couldn’t believe how good the riders were. Honestly a fun night.

I am busy working through the photographs I shot today at a really new and exciting restaurant that has just opened up in Greenside. It is called Restaurant 141 and Melon Graphics has been contracted to develop their website and I took some stills of the food and the restaurant interior today. I am really excited about this restaurant and feel that it is going to work well. The owner is well experienced and seems extremely passionate about his project and for us that is the key factor.

Besides shooting the food, I did some tasting and the flavours are amazing. I will definitely be going back to eat there. Until then, here are just 3 photographs from today as I am still working on the rest. The first is an interior shot catching part of the restaurant and the private dining area, the second is of their fishcake starter and the third is of their DELICIOUS tiramisu.

I hope you are all well as I always do, thanks for the comments and feedback. It keeps me going.

M

Seether performed an acoustic set at my friends studio today to record for Live at 5 and I shot a few photographs of them jamming. I didn’t want to get in the way much so I didn’t shoot as many as I would’ve liked to and also the lights there are really really terrible. I like these two quite a lot though.

I shot a bunch of photographs at Zebra and Giraffe’s band practice last week but its been really busy here and I am sick again so I haven’t had time to sort through them. I really like this one a lot so it is the only one I have resized quick so that I can post on it. Alan Shenton is my partner in Melon Videos and probably my favourite guitarist purely because I don’t think anyone else could have his passion and experimental drive. Here he is rocking a John Mayer signature Fender Strat.

My chest has packed up as it always seems to do this time of the year so that means no skateboarding for me for a while. Its really not that fun and laying in bed really isn’t my best thing to do. Decided to use some of the time yesterday to shoot with Dean at Skateworld in Edenvale and I am so glad I did. We didn’t shoot too much because the sun sets super quick in winter and we only got there late. Anyway, these two photos are of Dean front blunting the yellow barrier I picked up a while back. His style is so so so good. Definitely going to shoot with him a lot more in the future and know this kid is going to make it big some day.

There is just something about winter that I like. Ok, don’t get me wrong, winter in Johannesburg has it’s downers especially because it becomes so dry and brown and it looks kind of sad. I am talking about thing like how good it feels when you sleep and get all warm in the pile of blankets, drinking warm hot chocolate, cuddling with Anja and the sky. I love the way the sky is SO blue at this time of the year. Alet Pretorius actually blogged about this same thing a few weeks back and finally I shot a photo that I wanted to put up for this. Winter sunset …. amazing.