{"id":808,"date":"2007-02-07T02:31:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T02:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=808"},"modified":"2014-01-23T20:02:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:02:01","slug":"muse-bah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"Muse, Bah!"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n26th January 2007, Muse Bar, The Weld, Kuala Lumpur. An upcoming place for live performances.<\/p>\n


\nZiel<\/b>!<\/p>\n


\nI tried to capture the flare and ghosting, inspired by Ahmad Saiful<\/a>‘s Olympus E500 flare-ful shots. Open wide, F1.4!<\/p>\n


\nI don’t usually like to capture performers looking at me as if I was doing street photography, but some people think it works, so I offer this version.<\/p>\n


\nDragon Red<\/a>! With a twist…<\/p>\n


\nSlyde was missing, and Adam<\/b> had to rap…<\/p>\n


\nManshaan was still on drums for one of the most explosive acts in the scene.<\/p>\n


\nFiller bassist!<\/p>\n


\nNo turntablist either. Everybody was busy. But it made for an interesting set, including covers of The Cure – Love Song<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nSurprise, Amil<\/b> raps and sings!<\/p>\n


\nGuest screamer.<\/p>\n


\nAnother surprise – Adam plays bass (and looks like a cross between Melina of Tempered Mental and Aru of Koffin Kanser.)<\/p>\n

Both Adam and Amil kept time, and didn’t miss notes or words. Awesome. The Dragon Red Trio looks like it could work.<\/p>\n


\nOpen mike – Raffique plays more.<\/p>\n


\nRaffique and Aishah.<\/p>\n


\n“Where is she?<\/i>”<\/p>\n


\nAishah and hot drunken chick Diana (who has a deejay sister who tells laaame jokes on stage; anyone who has seen her emcee for Jamasia gigs will know.)<\/p>\n


\nAlex Wong<\/b> of Singletrackmind<\/b>, owner of the place (left) singing his English version of Peterpan – Mungkin Nanti<\/i> with Manbai<\/b>, the soundman.<\/p>\n


\nYes, the guy who sang Ilhamku<\/i>. He’s hilarious on stage. He also sang a powerful version of Search – Fantasia Bulan Madu<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I’d show you videos, but there are a few reasons why I don’t:<\/p>\n

– my video recordings are not steady, especially since I try to shoot pictures with my other hand
\n– you can hear my camera clicking away
\n– okay, so really, when it’s a song I want to record, the uh… enthusiastic crowd<\/i> sings along, spoiling the video.
\n– okay, so really, my voice is nearest. Not only do you hear my funky-orange-juice-influenced singing, you get to hear my wrong lyrics<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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\nClick on image for larger view. I managed to snap this at 50mm F2.2 ISO100 and 1\/2th of a second. Yes, a half of a second<\/b>! That’s over 5 stops (and this was standing up without resting on anything, with the funky-orange-juice in effect!) Okay, so pointing up always<\/b> increases stability.<\/p>\n

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\nClick on the image for the original 1.5MB file<\/b>, uncompressed with EXIF data for all to see. The thumbnail is a 100% crop, this time at 50mm F1.4 ISO400 and 1\/2th of a second. I usually don’t get such sharp pictures at F1.4 (though being at infinity there might be some exceptions.) Contrast was lowered in camera because I like it that way and makes for more fun post-processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

26th January 2007, Muse Bar, The Weld, Kuala Lumpur. An upcoming place for live performances. Ziel! I tried to capture the flare and ghosting, inspired by Ahmad Saiful‘s Olympus E500 flare-ful shots. Open wide, F1.4! I don’t usually like to capture performers looking at me as if I was doing street photography, but some people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-music","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2732,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/2732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}