petrajane.com
28 years old
Hamilton
Female
About
It started as something for idle hands to do, and turned into an obsession: petrajane.com is a scrapbook of the best years of my life. I shoot almost entirely digital, a Fuji Finepix s7000 which really doesn't get treated with the respect it deserves (i discovered it bounces when dropped on concrete basement floors - don't try this at home). I guess you could call me a freelance photographer; my guerilla paparazza gig photos have recently appeared in Pulp, Vice, Artrocker (UK), Satellite, Nexus, Waikato Times, Rip It Up, Real Groove, Sunday Star-Times, Groove Guide, A LOW HUM, and on the covers of Mole Music's 'Go With The Movers' compilation and This Night Creeps' 'Hear A Body Tone' EP.
I try to capture the chaotic, unpredictable, electrifying brilliance of The Moment - to steal some of the vital essense of each show. I love music and shows and the people that make them happen, the enthusiasts and evangelists and stage-invading zealots. I live to be inspired, enthralled and even righteously indignant. Invite me to your show, tell me to download your new demo, introduce me to your new favourite band.
The Party Paparazzi is available for hire and collaboration. I do press shots, weddings, events and parties. Let's combine powers like Voltron. If you would like to use any of the photographs from petrajane.com (high resolution versions for print are available) or propose a project, email me: petra[at]petrajane.com
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Oct 8, 2008
It's gonna be a party
The Prime Numbers are playing Contact FM's end-of-term party at the Student Union building on Friday 17th. It's $10 for five bands or so, and BYO (no drunken nudity this time, please!). Please come along, it'll be heaps of fun. Party gigs are always the best …
Sep 9, 2008
Swapping sides
The Prime Numbers played our first show at Namu's birthday on Friday. Huge thanks to Kat, Namu and Stan (who agreed to fill in on drums at a day's notice, and learned the songs in about an hour), and everyone who watched/danced/took photos/said lovely things. My …
Aug 28, 2008
What a weekend
It's going to be a busy couple of nights. Enright House's Mark Roberts is doing a lovely solo thing at La Commune this Friday evening, and Fur Patrol are playing a few doors down at Flow. Choose between loud or quiet, or hop between both. On Saturday evening, Matthew …
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watchin'
oh! brother where art thou?, vertigo, dr strangelove, blow up, the bitter tears of petra von kant, ghost world, noir, german arthouse, schlock horror, rockumentaries
listenin'
murder ballads, blues, folk, bluegrass, soul, gospel, alt-country, indie, local, underground, traditional, quirky, offbeat, singalongs, birdsong
readin'
raymond chandler, simone de beauvoir, mary shelley, percy bysshe shelley, umberto eco, dr seuss, arthur mee's children's encyclopaedia
doin'
painting with light, camping, exploring, discovering, roadtrips, picnics, dinner parties, playing paparazzi, swimming in the ocean, black coffee in bed, heckling, hijacking the airwaves, pub quizzes, social commentary, making music, learning, friend dates
likin'
photography, gigs, crafts, modern art, modernism, autumn, fog, machines that make coffee, The Enlightenment, deconstructionism, the literary turn, anomie, agency, social history, creolization, syncretism, folk music, ethnography, regional cuisine, cooking, cocktails, vintage clothing, information overload, obsolete technology, scene dynamics, situationism, oral tradition, postcolonial discourses, armchair psychology, communalism, subsistence living, symbolic interaction, existentialism, wanderlust, zines, the interwebs, nerdiness
Kat Kat Kat, Jun 6, 2007:
Shanis could also see The Sea and Cake AND Loney, Dear in the same night in Brooklyn but he is going to see Architecture in Helsinki instead. Tough call. The Arch show will probably be more fun I guess.
Jostin, May 18, 2007:
Of course! Please!
kill the zodiac, May 13, 2007:
i heard about that also, so that was a good excuse to avoid the showers for 3 days, and being a boy, I'm always looking for excuses to avoid the showers.
kill the zodiac, May 13, 2007:
It better be better than camp's masturbatory scene-fest , Liam finn masturbating into a chillie bin wasn't as entertaining as I thought it would
Contact 88.1FM, May 13, 2007:
Sux there is no ContactFM logo on the poster.
Kat Kat Kat, May 13, 2007:
Wooooooo yeeeaahhhh you will!
Sparadrap, May 1, 2007:
thanks for the kind word on my schtuff.
oh, and yay! for social networking sluttery (i added you to my flickr contacts as well)
Andre, Apr 29, 2007:
Is true. Is very true.
If only I got more tail from it.
Rika, Apr 26, 2007:
wow. thank you so much.
petrajane.com, Apr 14, 2007:
Need to add more crappy local bands to spam the place with gig posters, huh.
Oh, and you know you can edit comments with Virb, right?