conjecture+ by Victoria Potter | vancouver photographer and chief complainer /// chillin’ on gunpowder

Thank the seizue-inducing strobe light for external flashes! I would have been utterly screwed (as others have lamented) when it comes to stealing some snaps of euro favourites Simian Mobile Disco.

Luckily, Meg and I had our respective SB-600 and SB-800s, and they saved our bacon. The full set has been uploaded to Flickr. There are 23 photos in all; view them all here.

The set was insanely impressive. I’ll link up my pending review for Consumable Audio here once it’s posted.

As far as I’m concerned, Blogger is far superior to WordPress.

Reasons which have lead me to this conclusion:

• Design templates in HTML (CSS and I don’t get along)
• Blogger has better ready-made design templates.
• Drag and drop visual editing is much quicker and offers more visual control.
• Options for visually formatting the site without having to code.
• Having a custom domain is free, versus the $10 WordPress charges per year.
• You have the choice of enabling Google Analytics quickly and easily.
• You can enable Google adWords almost instantly on non-pro style accounts.

What’s keeping me at WordPress then, you ask?

One thing: my .ca custom domain.

This is the eternal piss-off.  I did all the work of manually re-creating every entry of my fashion blog [WordPress version, Blogger version] since Blogger doesn’t have an import system, which was fine. I spent the time doing it, and after all that work, I can’t publish to a custom domain.

The problem lies with my domain provider’s DNS server requirements. Google provides you with one DNS server (ghs.google.com), when my .ca provider requires two. My provider won’t budge on this, according to their support reps.  Google has yet to respond to ANY of my requests for help.

So, I feel I’m rightfully pissed. I’ve tried monkeying with the DNS address, to no avail. I’m tired of having my blog offline during these experimentation periods, and the lack of support from Google is actually baffling. Do they not want customers for this service?!

At this point, I’m still willing (and ready) to migrate officially and permanently to Blogger.

If anyone from Google (or who knows more about this DNS stuff than I do) can help, please let me know how I can fix this debacle.

My photos from the Metric show last Thursday!

My review for the show is officially posted on Consumable Audio.

My complete photo set is located here, including photos of Emily’s DJ set during Metric’s official after party at Republic (Granville Street).

Metric performs tonight at the Commodore Ballroom! Get hyped!

I’ve got a media pass for this one, so keep your pretty eyes peeled for the photos (tomorrow-ish).

Time: 8pm, 4/17/20087

Place: Commodore Ballroom (Granville Street)

Official After party: Republic (Granville Street) ft. Emily Hanes DJ set!

UPDATE:

Metric concert photos here!

It’s been a damn long time, but today I actually felt good coming in on a Monday morning.

Perhaps it was the fact it wasn’t raining. It could have also had something to do with me actually eating breakfast this morning.

Though these were definitely contributing factors, the real reason for the dance-drive was Chromeo’s Fancy Footwork album.

Yeah.

It’s got to be a special round of tracks when you can feel truly awesome about making a complete ass of yourself in your non-tinted car for anyone to see.

If you haven’t yet heard these tracks, get them.

Chromeo Myspace

Official Chromeo site

Photo credit: lastnightsparty.com

Tony, Tyler and Jason opened up for Chromeo at the Commodore Ballroom.

I love the Commodore for its epic lighting. The results of said epic lighting are demonstrated below.

Complete 1/2 Alive DJ photo set on Flickr

On Friday, I had the pleasure of attending the Chromeo show at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver. Tyler, Tony and Jason opened, as well as Paul Devro; who had what felt like the longest DJ set of all time.

Chromeo finally came on, and were magnificent. Dave1 is one hot tamale…I pretty much wanted to jump on the stage and attack him the entire time.

Their sound is perfection when played live; “Tenderoni”, “Fancy Footwork”, and “Bonafide Lovin” were the highlights for sure.

There was no photo pit, so Meg and I got crushed against the stage while shooting. I consider us lucky that we got any good shots, since everyone was pushing, moshing (I got kicked in the head at least once) and going apeshit.

Overall, I’m happy with the results and thrilled I finally got to see Chromeo live. My fingers are crossed that my pass gets approved for the Pemberton Music festival where they’re playing as one of the headliners!

Full Chromeo photo set on Flickr

Chromeo on Myspace

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Tonight, Meg and I are off to take some photos of Chromeo at the Commodore (Vancouver).

For this, I owe Tony a pony.

I’m not sure how this will turn out (I’m thinking of looking for a knitted pony scarf…don’t ask…it’s a long story)

I’ve also been told by some reputable sources that there are extra tickets on sale at the door for the sold out show, so get your buns out there now if you want to party down tonight.

There is an official Chromeo afterparty tonight at Republic, but that would mean you have to actually go to Republic.

If you’re still itching to use your dancing shoes after the party, get down to The Modern in Gastown for OMG! WTF? Presents: KELLEN & IXARA! instead.

Things will be better there, I promise.

For those unfamiliar, the OMG night is commandeered by Vancouver’s own Sex Attack (a fantastic threesome of DJs), only with a little extra Kellen and Ixara seasoning. These ones will not steer you wrong, plus I heard The Modern has great bathrooms.

UPDATE:

Chromeo concert photos!