Devin the Dude, Jean Grae and others put it down last weekend at the Scoot Inn. Big thank you to Matt Sonzala for putting together a great show.

Matt Sonzala

Eyeris

Staci Russell

Invinsible

Jean Grae

Devin The Dude

KRS One came through The Mohawk Sunday night courtesy of Proper Entertainment. The harsh (cold) weather didn’t stop KRS One and the other performers from putting on a great show and it didn’t stop supporters from showing up. The event was packed. Other performers included Zeale 32, Crew 54, and Brooks City. Austin MC Bavu Blakes was the host for the evening.

KRS One

Zeale 32

Crew 54

Here is some exclusive LM footage from Tony Parker’s NBA Live 09 Celebration last weekend. Some of the guest in attendance included the San Antonio Spurs, Chamillionaire, Famous, Bun B, Play N Skillz, Trae, Question, and many others…

I recently had the opportunity to complete my latest photo project. This project involved documenting a day in the life of Austin MC, Bavu Blakes. This wasn’t just any day, as I was able to shadow Bavu the day of his Austin City Limits debut performance.

For those who may not know, Austin City Limts (ACL), is another one of Austin’s big annual music festivals and Bavu Blakes is also one of Austin’s top hip-hop artists. I met with Bavu around 8 AM, and from then on began capturing images. While Hip-Hop at ACL is a fairly big deal, having local Hip-Hop talent on the lineup shows how much of an impact Bavu has had on the music scene. Austin’s mayor, Will Wynn, provided Bavu’s introduction. He was also sure to let everyone know that he is a Bavu supporter.

The “Austin City Limits: Bavu Blakes” project can be viewed here…

http://www.ogphotographer.com/projects

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Over the weekend I had the opportunity to take part the 2008 Austin City Limits (ACL) music festival put on by C3. As it is every year, Zilker Park was home to several stages (AT&T, AMD, Austin Ventures, AT&T Blue Room, Dell, and BMI) over the course of three days. Many great performers, performances, sponsors, organizers, workers, volunteers, and fans made this another successful ACL for the history books.

One of this years performers was Austin MC, Bavu Blakes. Bavu is one of Austin’s highly respected hip-hop artists and collaborators. Austin’s Mayor, Will Winn, introduced Bavu and even admitted to the large crowd that Bavu was one of his favorite musicians. Bavu lived up the the hype and put on a great show for all those in attendance at the Austin Ventures stage. I do have photos of his performance as well as a reason for not putting them at this time, however for now, here are a couple of reviews regarding Bavu’s set as well as a post performance interview..

Alex Daniel / Austin360.com Bavu Blakes Review…

http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2008/09/27/acl_review_bavu_blakes.html

Bavu’s post performance interview with Deborah Sengupta-Stith of the Statesman / Austin360.com…

Matt Sonzala of AustinSurReal.com…

“Bavu killed that shit. I’ma make the declaration here once again that Bavu Blakes is the best performer in hip-hop. I’ve seen everyone. Probably seen every rapper ever live. 85% of them at least. Maybe 95% and Bavu Blakes is the best performer in hip-hop. Dude comes out and does a SHOW….

Bavu even came out in an Obama mask with sunglasses while his hype man came out as Hillary. Shit was crazy. Dude even did cover songs? Like he knew he had to hit them ACLers in the head so he came out in the Obama mask as the band did “Cult of Personality,” then later did “I Kissed a Girl,” (for the tween set???) and “Born on the Bayou” for Jon Fogerty who’d be playing just down the way a few hours later. Strange but it worked. “

Check out Matt’s full ACL report/review here.

I had the opportunity to photo document the 2008 Ozone Magazine Award show earlier this week in Houston, Texas. The show took place Monday night, at the George R. Brown convention center and saw performances from DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, T-Pain, B.O.B., Bun B, Big Boi, David Banner, Flo-Rida, Shawty Lo, Lil Boosie and more.

The 08′ Ozone Award show photographs can be viewed here…

http://www.luxurymindz.com/lmevents

For those who haven’t had an opportunity to witness a David Banner concert before and all that goes with one of his shows, here is our exclusive video footage of his performance at the Austin Music Hall for SXSW 2008…

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I flew out to Baton Rouge, over the weekend, with Chamillionaire and the Chamillitary camp for their Groovin’ on the Grounds concert at LSU. I was there to cover the show as well as to produce some other photo work for upcoming Chamillitary projects.

Groovin’ on the Grounds is put on by Students On Target, an organization which promotes alcohol awareness. The outdoor event takes place every year on the campus of LSU and was full of people. A big thanks to the LSU staff who had us eating right for dinner on Saturday. Wyclef was another artist who participated in the event.

Here is some YouTube footage from the show…

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