Transition to Fall / Winter.

Recently with this cold spell, work on the house has slowed down. The furnace has not been turned on we remain kept warm only by a single space heater. I know this sounds sad but we are waiting for them to install a new furnace and get our eco friendly carbon foot print on. With that being said no heat is awful I woke up today with icicles on my nose or so I thought. Here is the storm that started all of this viewed from our porches view.

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As for the rest of the week our time was spent doing one of two things working or going to two amazing shows both of which played at Urban Lounge. Friday night we saw Sleigh Bells who is a harder duo with a hard metal pop sound the next night, Saturday we enjoyed The Morning Benders who has a wonderful indie rock melodic sound. Luckily I did have a camera like most times in my life and got some decent video. So the first video is a few clips of Sleigh Bells of their set.

Sleigh Bells from FatKidsGottaEat on Vimeo.

Another video below is from the next night of The Morning Benders truly an awesome vocalist and musicians.

The Morning Benders from FatKidsGottaEat on Vimeo.

Enjoy.

Sam's Dungeon + Rooms

Recently Sam, the owner of the house left to return back to his native land. North Carolina. He will not be gone for long but while he is away we can take a brief look into his cave that he has recently built out. Upon purchasing the house it was a four bedroom and two bathroom with only one bathroom working and one livable room. Now we have five bedrooms including Sam's dungeon. This is a few photos to show you how humble the owner of the home is. Sam didn't mind taking the smallest room in the house to allow more renters to decrease the total rent paid every month!

Sam's Room Take I

Sam's Room Take II

Since I have posted photos of every room in the house except two here are the other two rooms that were fully working previous to starting remodeling portions of the home. Below is a photo of Joey's room followed by the very clean (sarcasm) room that Alex lives in. One of my favorite things in Joey's room is Brett's large painting! But after all of this looking into rooms I think I have came to a conclusion...we have a lot of shit.

Joey's Room w/ Brett's Painting

Alex's Shantytown Room

Evaluating Your Workspace

Being an active working photographer means you really do need a office or somewhere you can escape to and really conduct your 9-5. The space that you need really depends on what kind of working space you need, do you shoot a lot of studio portraits, do you shoot everything on location and just need a editing station? Well for me I do shoot a lot of both studio and on location photographs. Upon moving into Sam's house I needed 2 upgrades a bigger desk and more workable space with room for art projects, film processing, and a much needed editing setup. Below is a few photographs of old workspaces from over the years and the most recent space.

2008

2009

2010

After evaluating what I truly needed in my office / studio I still shoot a lot of film so a must have is space for a negative scanner and obviously the darkroom you saw the start of in a earlier post. All these things work out to make this one of the best desks I have had plenty of room to work, a light table, scanner, and a portable mobile computer set up. The last photo is an exact 180 degree turn from the photograph of my desk. A simple room with plenty of space for room to grow if more office is needed! To see some of my recent photography you can visit http://www.ianmatteson.tumblr.com.