{"id":2629,"date":"2010-10-31T00:08:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T04:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2014-10-31T00:29:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T04:29:15","slug":"janes-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/31\/janes-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane&#8217;s Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..October 2009    New York..<\/p>\n<p>13 years ago, I photographed a Jane\u2019s Addiction concert on October 30, 1997 at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. I have a large photograph from the concert hanging in my living room. A symbol of the start of my career. <\/p>\n<p>I remember the exact moment when I snapped the photo and the lyric Perry was singing. He put his leg over the monitor leaned towards the crowd. I snapped away. <\/p>\n<p>I was about a foot away in the photo pit. It was the first song. A nervous sweat poured out of me all over my camera. My finger was on the shutter button all concert. The energy from the band and crowd made me feel like I was on a wave. <\/p>\n<p>At the end of the second song Dave leaned down from the stage with a rose sticking in his hair. I heard his soft voice over the anarchic crowd and shreeking teenage girls. \u201cIs everything ok?\u2019 I nodded. I can\u2019t say it was surreal. It was unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p>I drove to Washington, DC the day after. Worrying all night if that shot came out. I picked up my film, immediately looked for that series of shoots. Walking down a cobblestone street in Georgetown and looking at the film simultaneously.  I got the shot. I remember the walk like it was yesterday. 23 and the beginning of something. Of what? <\/p>\n<p>Today I sat by the river with 2 friends. I starred at the broken wooden piers disappearing into the dark blue river. I pretended to listen to them speak. Fading in and out of a mindless conversation I\u2019ve heard the past 12 years of my life from dozens of different people. <\/p>\n<p>Their 8 years younger than me. So this conversation is new to them. Seagulls land and perch on top of the broken wooden piers sticking out of the water. From a distance they look like gargoyles a top a cathedral. Behind the bench we\u2019re sitting on, bicycles and joggers zoom by us.  Towards the side, two gay men sitting in the grass are kissing. <\/p>\n<p>My friends are babbling away as I nod. The sun is fading underneath the coastline. I wasn\u2019t sure what the future was on October 30, 1997. Twelve years later in some sense, I don\u2019t know what the future will bring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/1aaa16.jpg\" alt=\"1aaa\" title=\"1aaa\" width=\"430\" height=\"650\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1121\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/1aaa16.jpg 430w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/1aaa16-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/1aaaa2.jpg\" alt=\"1aaaa\" title=\"1aaaa\" width=\"510\" height=\"344\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1115\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/1aaaa2.jpg 510w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/1aaaa2-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\");\ndocument.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + gaJsHost + \"google-analytics.com\/ga.js' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ntry {\nvar pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-12680478-1\");\npageTracker._trackPageview();\n} catch(err) {}<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..October 2009 New York.. 13 years ago, I photographed a Jane\u2019s Addiction concert on October 30, 1997 at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. I have a large photograph from the concert hanging in my living room. A symbol of the start of my career. I remember the exact moment when I snapped the photo and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[37,154,152,560,153],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-concert","tag-dave-navarro","tag-janes-addiction","tag-music","tag-perry-farrell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6471,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/6471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}