Bye Bye Day By Day
When I first moved to Richmond I was trying to make a Driven By Boredom movie. I told this girl in one of my photo classes about it and she introduced me to her boyfriend Dave Stewart who was also making a similar movie. I really liked what he was doing and I started running their website for a while. I also gave them all my footage… about 30 hours of footage… about 2 minutes made it into their film Teenagers From Mars… They then made a second film, Teenagers From Uranus, which a few clips became huge on youtube. Anyway, Dave and his partner/director/editor Will Carsola are moving to LA to make it as huge stars or something. I just happened to be in Richmond the day before their party and I ran into Dave at a bar and he told me about his party. I decided to stick around so I could take some photos and see a lot of people I hadn’t seen before. When I got there I realized Richmond has a hell of a lot of talent, aside from Day By Day I ran into two of the best illustrators I know, some pretty well known musicians and a bunch of people who are just doing good shit for Richmond. Richmond as a city seems to be fighting the art community tooth and nail, but it is good to see that some people are fighting back still.
Anyway, when I got there the place was just packed and although it was good to see people I was not having a great time… but then around 1 am the bartenders poured everyone in the bar champagne at which point everyone started pouring it on everyone and throwing the glasses at each other. Dave and Will jumped up on the bar for a photo and the place just went out of control. The fact that Soulja Boy came on at that very second helped too… After that the bar became a mad house. People were jumping on tables and off booths. People were spilling beer on each other and silly string was sprayed all over the place. It was the most fun I have had in Richmond since I moved to NYC. I am so glad I stuck around for it. Also Richmond Magazine was doing a piece on Day By Day and their photographer didn’t show up, so they hired me to shoot a ton of photos of Dave and Will…. So if you notice that half the pictures are of two insane bearded men, that is why. Richmond is going to miss you guys… Photos go here.
same old people doing the same old thing…
can’t say i miss it one bit.
honestly Crystal it was the most fun I have had in Richmond in probably two years… way more fun than the last party I saw you at in NYC.
that is cool then. when i was in richmond a few weeks ago it was just a bunch of people standing in an alley behind a party doing nothing.
i actually had fun the night i last saw you but only because the people i was with are really rad.