{"id":1512,"date":"2011-04-26T01:21:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T01:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2011-04-26T01:21:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T01:21:30","slug":"realize-the-launching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1512","title":{"rendered":"Realize, The Launching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rezasalleh.net\" target=\"_BLANK\">Reza Salleh<\/a> launched his debut album, <b>Realize<\/b>, on the 26th of November 2010, at one of the early Moonshine: A Homemade Acoustic Show venues &#8211; The Apartment Downtown, KLCC.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize2.jpg\"><br \/>\n<b>Narmi<\/b> starts the show.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize3.jpg\"><br \/>\nFirst time I&#8217;d ever seen an electric guitar at The Apartment Downtown!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize4.jpg\"><br \/>\nPedal set! Okay so not the first time I&#8217;d seen this here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize5.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe stage was decorated with Reza&#8217;s colorful photos.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize7.jpg\"><br \/>\nThis time around, I did a fair bit more documentary work &#8211; shooting who was there that night, when the other photographers were pointed at the stage. Hello orang Astro!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize6.jpg\"><br \/>\nJia Wei.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize8.jpg\"><br \/>\nCheng Vei, orang Astro jugak.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize9.jpg\"><br \/>\nA wide shot. I brought only my NEX-5 with 16mm F2.8 pancake and the Opteka 85mm F1.4, and that was enough.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize10.jpg\"><br \/>\nWhere&#8217;s Wally?<\/p>\n<p>I had never seen The Apartment Downtown so crowded! This was an amazing sight indeed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize11.jpg\"><br \/>\nAdmittedly, a still audience is much easier to take than a moving musician, especially in low light.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize12.jpg\"><br \/>\nCool shirt bro!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize13.jpg\"><br \/>\nKLue people.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize14.jpg\"><br \/>\nStanding people.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize15.jpg\"><br \/>\nReza starting a joke.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize16.jpg\"><br \/>\nTablas meant the earthy world music of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize18.jpg\"><br \/>\n<b>Asmidar<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p>Realized anything about the background?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize19.jpg\"><br \/>\nWhat, ah? Xtal asks. Why Xtal? You aren&#8217;t even black.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize20.jpg\"><br \/>\nLiy to the Fiz. <b>Liyana Fizi<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize21.jpg\"><br \/>\nMore F1.4 ISO3200 goodness.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize22.jpg\"><br \/>\n<b>David Knight<\/b> and his magic guitar and pedals bring you into another dimension, in a far more comfortable way than Radiohead would.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize23.jpg\"><br \/>\nYes, hypnotizing indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I had to run, as I had to wake up at 4:30am the next day to shoot a wedding&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/rezalize24.jpg\"><br \/>\nOf course, I did not forget to buy his album. \ud83d\ude00 Spot my mention!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reza Salleh launched his debut album, Realize, on the 26th of November 2010, at one of the early Moonshine: A Homemade Acoustic Show venues &#8211; The Apartment Downtown, KLCC. Narmi starts the show. First time I&#8217;d ever seen an electric guitar at The Apartment Downtown! Pedal set! Okay so not the first time I&#8217;d seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}