Peligrosa All-Stars

My recap for Fun Fun Fun Fest is up at Accent. My Life and Arts Editor, David Rodriguez, recapped the Saturday bands and I recapped the Sunday bands. I'll post my Saturday recap as soon as I'm done but for now, you just get to read about my Sunday.

Sunday was a mud-filled day (minus the ACL Dillo Dirt) while it rained most of the festival. Fans still gathered at the four stages with raincoats and umbrellas to get their money's worth. Unfortunately, for this writer, most of my time was spent hanging out and interviewing bands in the media tent during the rain, as I did not want to get my expensive (for a college student's budget) equipment to get water damaged.

Click here to read the rest at Accent. Also in the post is David's Saturday recap and multimedia from David, Hanlly and myself.

And for those that missed it, here is my slideshow from the Festival.

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2009 from Sarah Vasquez on Vimeo.

I was lucky enough to attend one of Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon's workshops on videojournalism during the NCMC '09 Journalism Conference. Sanhueza-Lyon currently works for the Austin American Statesman as a videojournalist and it was during this workshop that he showed us this film he produced from 2009 Austin City Limit's Festival. I was so inspired that I decided to try this idea when I attended Fun Fun Fun Fest. I carried around my camera and a voice recorder and captured audio and photos from the bands I saw.

While he's a professional and I've never done anything like this before, my result is a bit sloppy but I was proud of how it came out in the end.

I do have to say though, that after editing the audio and putting together the photos, I have a new found respect for all the DIY musicians that produce their own albums. You definitely have to have the love and insanity to put in the effort to create detailed things like this.

Will I do more of these in the future? I dunno. It was definitely a labor of love. I loved the product, but I wouldn't want to do this for every show I saw. Who knows what time will tell...

This video was originally posted on the Accent's website. However, it was uploaded on the youtube so the quality isn't that great. So here it is in the quality it was meant to be seen on Vimeo.

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2009 from Sarah Vasquez on Vimeo.

Click here to see the originally post of the video and fellow photographer Hanlly Sam's slideshow at Accent.