My name is Dean Santarinala, and I am a 20-something living in the Chicagoland area trying to find my place in the Universe. I have always enjoyed art and drawing, and along the way I picked up a camera and fell in love with photography.
My friends played a set at Chill Bubble Tea over Thanksgiving Break.
I was going to set the slideshow to some Yoo Soo Kim and Jenny Hedstrom music, but I don’t have any downloaded. Instead check out their myspaces:
http://www.myspace.com/yoosookim
http://www.myspace.com/hedstrommusic
Shot the Jay Z concert last night at Assembly Hall for the DI. I only got to stay for two songs (and 90% of that time was looking through my viewfinder while my arm got sore holding my 1D+70-200 over my head) while N.E.R.D. and Jay Z performed. It was still pretty cool nonetheless. I was having a ton of autofocus issues looking back at my photos, but I have a feeling they were my fault and not the 1D3 — so I came out unsatisfied. Blerg. Brad got some really nice shots, ‘check em out. And yeah, how do High School newspapers get credentials for this stuff? I feel old.
I arrived just in time to take pictures of the winning group at the IUB Homegrown Talent competition, Chai-Town.
Canopy Club, Friday October 23, 2009. They played on the big stage, and the lighting setup was pretty sweeeeeeeeeeet.
After a few years of photographing my friends band, Post Historic, they decided to break up and I shot their final show last month. It’s been a good time following the progression of the band and seeing them do what they love. I tried my best to sync some of the photos to one of my favorite songs of theirs, “Memory Banks of Blue,” and it doesn’t quite work the whole time, but you get the idea. Sorry for the inconsistent WB, i was a bit lazy.
Thanks Jesse, Yoo Soo, and Zach.