MYL Chelsea's After Party Photos

I first met Chelsea at the bike prom on friday- she seemed interesting in a "you're a person with interesting ideas" kind of way, then she showed up here in the city for Made You Look and the afterparty, and turns out we're into a lot of the same things, photography and journalism and documentary work, and we're getting along famously at the party when she asks to see my camera, and I hand it over (this is after several stout rum and cokes, mind), and she runs off taking pictures like there's no tomorrow. And I don't know, something about the way I can see she's concentrating, I let her keep going with it for a while.

I'm really glad I did because she's really good. Focus is on the money, compositionally interesting, good moments, the whole bit. I asked her later, after seeing the pictures, if she had any experience. "I just shoot everything I love. Always have," she tells me. And that's exactly it folks, what I've been saying for years: shoot what you love, the rest is just technicalities.

My afterparty Shots

So yeah, despite having my camera stolen (borrowed, I guess) I did manage to take a ton of photos myself at that party. Yeah, I know, more drunk people. but they look good.

Made You Look

First off, a video:

B Boy Sequence II from Matt Mills on Vimeo.

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Then, just a few stills not in that sequence. The battle was decent, but I missed most of it, jumped up on stage with Chelsea (who you'll be hearing a lot more about in a little bit) and squeezed a spot with a view of the dance floor. Kicked some dudes bag out of the way. It was good to see the little part that I saw; the show was so small this year I wondered why they bothered. The art was all pretty decent, but nothing stuck with me. There should have been more, in more space. Bricktown wasn;t the place to have it, people. Anyway, photos:










Up next will be photos of the afterparty, which was way more epic.

BIKE PROM

I was going to be all cool and separate thes out into three or four posts, but I realized there's no reason to do that, because I've got a ton more posts coming, including a review of big truck tacos, some fliks from made you look 09, and crazy sunday with puppies. So, without further delay, bikeprom (and yes, I'm being lazy by not adding captions, but most of these are self explanatory):