Dave Stagner

livin every dae as though yer deid

dave — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:42:44 +0000

The new Feng Shui Ninjas album is completed! The official release date is our cd release show on July 2 at Convergence, but you can buy it NOW from Bandcamp.

livin every dae as though yer deid by Feng Shui Ninjas

flying

dave — Mon, 09 May 2011 13:40:13 +0000

This is from a shoot I’ve been planning for a long time now. Stephanie Engebretson is a wonderfully photogenic dancer – full of dramatic motion, and beautiful as well. I’ve been wanting to get her on a big stage with studio strobes rather than theatrical lighting, to get higher resolution images. Taken at Patrick’s Cabaret in Minneapolis.

Rosie Palmer

dave — Sat, 07 May 2011 16:54:26 +0000

Rosie Palmer performing at the Nomad World Pub with the Gypsy Nouveau Cabaret. Sometimes, the timing of a photo is just right.

Surviving

dave — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:10:31 +0000

A near-final mix of the music for “Surviving”, as performed by Kalila Indivar of Smiling Lune at Patrick’s Cabaret, part of the Kinetic Kitchen series.

“Surviving” is one piece of a full production, “Dancing with Death”, part of the 2011 Minnesota Fringe Festival.

Surviving 110426 mastered by TropeStorm

Muddy muses

dave — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:16:26 +0000

I shot this photo several years ago, and recently took a couple of stabs at re-editing it to strengthen the image. Here’s where it is for now.

Flickr, Lightroom publishing, and links

dave — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:22:49 +0000

Annoying problem I’ve discovered… I use the Publish feature in Lightroom 3 to synchronize my Lightroom contents to Flickr. The problem is, if a change is made (even a tag), it breaks any links from outside Flickr back to the image.

I really hope they can fix that soon.

POW! STRAIGHT TO THE MOON!

dave — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:55:24 +0000

A quote sticks in my mind. I believe it was Arthur C Clarke who originally said it, and I’m paraphrasing, but this is the gist of it… “The only thing more amazing than how fast we got to the Moon is how fast we left it”.

I’m from the tail end of what I think of as the Apollo generation – those of us who were young and impressionable when people were actually landing on the Moon. In 1969, I was four years old. Some of my earliest television memories were watching the moon landings. For friends slightly older than me, it was a galvanizing experience that stays with them to this day. But now? My wife, born in 1970, is too young to remember moon landings. Many of my friends were born after the last human being left the Moon. For my children, Moon landings are as distant and remote an experience as WWII is for me.

What happened? Why did we take that first, tentative step off of Spaceship Earth, then jump right back in and slam the door behind us?

Lizzy

dave — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:44:21 +0000

Lizzy at Ryan’s birthday, 2009

Selkies

dave — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:42:31 +0000

From “The Selkie”, part of the 2010 Minnesota Fringe Festival.

Must-see films

dave — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:38:07 +0000

A conversation with a friend who is teaching a film appreciation class got me to thinking about movies that I consider must-sees. I’m going to try to draw up a list here. List will probably be updated regularly, and I’ll keep it in alphabetical order rather than some sort of ranking.

Star Wars – A New Hope / The Empire Strikes Back / Return of the Jedi
Lord of the Rings – Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / Return of the King
Fight Club
The French Connection
The Wages of Fear / Sorcerer
The Godfather / The Godfather Part II
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Easyrider
The Producers
Blazing Saddles
Metropolis
Spider-Man / Spider-Man 2
The Incredibles
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Matrix
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Vertigo
Psycho
North By Northwest