One Flame in the Fire

Austin New Years Eve Circus Revue

2011-01-10T18:57:33Z

Austin rang in the new year circus style on Auditorium Shores with Circus Revue! The following photos are from the couple hours I was able to catch (there was SO MUCH going on) and include performances by CU@Circus, National Fire Performance League, Drishti Dancers, Sky Candy, Invisible Man Corporation and Erika Maasen. Circus Revue! was organized by Community Art Makers (who also built that *beautiful* stage!).

Rampage Video

2010-12-13T18:08:12Z

I almost forgot that I got a few video clips on my camera too (you’ll have to excuse the clipping audio in the club scenes as it was too much awesomeness for the little mic on my Nikon to handle):

Santa Rampage 2010 – Austin Texas from Ryan Hayes on Vimeo.

Santa Rampage 2010

2010-12-13T18:37:34Z

Saturday night hundreds (and hundreds) of Santas (and reindeer, and elves, and snowmen, and fruitcakes…) descended on downtown Austin for the annual Santa Rampage. It was, as you can see, awesome:

CircX VorteX

2010-11-18T15:33:04Z

{originally posted at aerialartsphotography.com}

Amy and I hit up the East Austin Studio Tour (E.A.S.T.) over the weekend, saw our friends Wave Farmers perform at Hot Mama’s Cafe and participated in the circus show at Vortex on Sunday night. I was blown away by the creative/talented performances by the Sky Candy students and teachers, as well as the beautiful Drishti Dancers. On a completely unrelated and somewhat geeky note, I’d like to point out that this is the first gallery of photos taken with my brand spanking new Nikon D3s (almost all shot at iso 12,800….it just amazes me how clean and sharp they came out despite the ridiculously low light!).

Airealism Presents FUN

2010-10-12T14:15:11Z

This weekend I had the chance to catch Airealism’s new show, FUN. It was the directing debut for Sam Morrison and the third show from the London-based Airealism. It was fun, indeed, though a bit bitter sweet for Amy and I as it reminded us of how much we’ll miss the aerial arts community in London when we move back to Texas later this month.

Secret Cinema Presents Lawrence of Arabia

2010-09-06T21:06:08Z

Oh, you know, it was just like any other weekend where you get to see one of the greatest movies of all time IN A PALACE! Yeah, yeah, it was a bit crowded and it didn’t match their previous BRILLIANT screening of Blade Runner, but it was great fun nonetheless.

For more information on this top secret event and all similarly amazing and equally top secret events in the future, click here

Bestival 2010 – Which artists will you see?

2010-09-03T03:59:37Z

There are a ton of bands playing at Bestival that I didn’t recognize so I pulled together a few tunes to listen to from each artist (that had content on Spotify) and made two playlists:

Bestival 2010 Live bands –> http://www.tinyurl.com/bestival2010

Bestival 2010 DJ’s –> http://www.tinyurl.com/bestivaldjs

I also created a spreadsheet at http://www.tinyurl.com/bestivalbands to rate the bands and make notes about which ones I may want to see. The full lineup with times won’t be available until Wednesday (via the iPhone app) so no way to plan a specific route yet.

Getting excited! Now to work on my fancy dress outfit…

Madam Pain’s Boudoir Circus (Photoshoot 1)

2010-04-16T02:44:10Z

{ originally posted at istoleyoursoulforthis.com }

These are the first behind-the-scenes photos of the Aircraft Circus preparing for their performance of Madam Pain’s Boudoir Circus in London this summer. These particular photos are of the characters Natalia and Natasha (Talia & Tasha).

London vs Texas Rollergirls – A Fistful of Rollers

2010-03-21T16:28:06Z

{ originally posted at istoleyoursoulforthis.com }

On March 20th 2010 the Hustlers of the Texas Rollergirls traveled to London to play the London Brawling London Rollergirls team in the A Fistful of Rollers bout. It was an intense match and incredibly close (tied at several points throughout most of the bout) with the Hustlers finally pulling ahead to win 84-63.

In addition to the bout, the Texas Rollergirls hosted a roller derby bootcamp where they trained 175 participants. On their travel blog they added, “We loved their enthusiasm and watch out America–Europe has some amazing skaters and they’re going to be gunning for us all someday in the near future…”

Roller Derby is getting big in the UK and many other parts of the world and received a huge boost in attention from the release of the movie Whip It, based on Shauna Cross’ Derby Girl, starring Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page, about Texas Roller Derby.

As a photographer originally from Austin Texas (where I’m proud to say I was a Texas Rollergirls fan!) that now lives in London (where I’m proud to say I’m a London Rollergirls fan!), I want to thank both teams for coordinating a matchup I could previously only dream of and congratulate both teams for a well played bout!

Thames Tunnel Opening

2010-03-14T04:44:14Z

The Thames Tunnel opening was a finale to London’s 2010 East Festival. The tunnel was only open on Friday and Saturday and was the first time pedestrians have walked the tunnel in 145 years. It was once considered the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ and half the city of London paid to walk the tunnel when it opened in 1843. The tunnel, which runs between Rotherhithe and Wapping and was built by Marc Isambard Brunel, took 18 years to dig and was the first to built underneath a navigable river. In 2010 it will reopen officially as part of the London Overground.