Led by the pop-minded prowess of their namesake frontman, Ben Folds Five dispelled any misgivings about a band's ability to rock without guitars. Calling themselves 'punk rock for sissies,' the Chapel Hill natives were often grouped with the nerd rock movement of the mid-'90s, although their debt to jazz music -- not to mention Ben Folds' acerbic spin on the classic pianist/songwriter tradition -- ensured the trio a long-lasting legacy after their split in October 2000. The band also provided a launching pad for Folds himself, who continued releasing piano-based pop songs well into the subsequent years.

The group's story is, in many ways, the story of its de facto leader and namesake, Ben Folds. The son of a carpenter, Folds was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Upon graduating high school in the mid-'80s, the young songwriter drifted from place to place in hopes of discovering a good scene to sow his brainchild. Throughout a decade in which hair bands ruled the airwaves, Folds spent frustrating stints in Miami, Chapel Hill, New York, and Europe before landing in Nashville in the early '90s. In spite the fact that Nashville was a songwriter's mecca, or because of it, Folds found the city's approach to songwriting frustrating and exclusive. While producers and managers wanted obvious hits, Folds wanted, instead, to follow his own muse, and a notoriously eccentric one at that. When Folds finally drifted back to Chapel Hill in 1994 he formed a piano-based trio with bassist Robert Sledge and drummer Darren Jessee, and within weeks, the band cut an indie single that attracted the attention of Caroline.

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Their 1995 self-titled debut sold enough copies to warrant the kind of major-label bidding war that young bands fantasize about. Eventually signing with Sony, the group released Whatever and Ever Amen and continued the strenuous touring schedule that the band had become known for. Releasing the singles 'Battle of Who Could Care Less' and 'Brick' into a climate awash with soundalike guitar bands, Ben Folds Five and their witty, offbeat, piano-based music were a welcome difference and the group became critical and commercial darlings.

Inevitable comparisons to piano composers of yore such as Todd Rundgren, Billy Joel, and Joe Jackson followed, but the group fought hard to maintain their individuality. Over the next two years, Ben Folds Five kept their name in the press by releasing songs on soundtracks, as well as an album of outtakes, B-sides, and early live appearances called Naked Baby Photos.

In early 1999 they released their third full-length album, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner. In November 2000, Ben Folds Five abruptly announced their split, shocking fans and the media. However, the trio quickly announced that they would be pursuing individual projects. Bassist Robert Sledge was going to put his own group together while balancing his tour efforts with former Squirrel Nut Zippers multi-instrumentalist Tom Maxwell's group the Minor Drag. Drummer Darren Jessee also went after similar opportunities, playing club shows around New York City. Ben Folds didn't stop either, for the singer/pianist contributed 'Lonely Christmas Eve' for the Grinch soundtrack, as well as the cut called 'Wandering' for the 2000 independent comedy 100 Girls, before releasing a string of successful solo albums. The group re-formed in 2011, contributing a new track to Folds' 18-track The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective.

They made it official the following year with the release of The Sound of the Life of the Mind, the band's fourth studio album, and first since 1999. ~ Steve Kurutz • ORIGIN Winston-Salem, NC • BORN 12 September 1966.

Chasing a sunset in Iceland can be a hit or miss. Mostly a miss actually. Even though Iceland is known for it’s epic golden light that lasts for hours on end and helps us photographers create the images we all love there’s one huge factor people seem to forget when they go to Iceland. It sort of slipped my mind: You’re just a few meters south of the arctic circle. Of course the weather sucks up here! Golden light is a rare thing – even in summer! So when you plan your adventure in Iceland keep that in mind.

It will – and I’m putting my money on this – rain. But this one evening, after ‘a few’ miss attempts during my first 7 days in Iceland my hopes were up. The skies had almost cleared leaving a ton of individual clouds on all levels of the sky hanging around waiting to catch the different tones of post-sunset-glow. After arriving at our base for the night, I jumped straight back into the Defender and equipped with my Jase Boards Longboard & an Oru Kayak I was determined to get a sunset shot. I was after a skate shot really since the winds had been blowing all day and my hopes for a perfectly reflecting lake and kayak were rather low. You know a nice composition of a long straight road, trees (since there were some around for once), mountains and all nicely lit up by the golden sun.

I had done my research, I knew the road I wanted to be on. The sunset was exactly in axis with it. Maybe something with the 300mm to make the sun huge.Silhouette style well that was the idea. But watch for yourself. O O Jane Jana Dj Remix Mp3 Download here. I ditched the skating shoot quite soon. For that I was going to need a sun in the sky to light up the scene. So the next option was to get the Oru kayak out.

These are really cool foldable kayaks. They weigh around 12Kg and, when folded up, fit onto your back or into any car really. It’s like Origami for adventurists.

I’ll take a moment to thank Chris from for trusting me and letting me take his Oru Kayak to Iceland with me. If you’re in Europe you should contact him if you want one!

He’s a great guy and the official importer for Germany and has good connections to the guys in the US too. Now, back to the adventure! Since we were close to this huge lake the kayak was an obvious alternative to the skateboard and by the time I had decided to ditch the skating shot the winds hat dropped a little too. Exe Jpg File Binder V2 510 more. We put the Oru Kayak together in under 10 min and before I knew it the sky was starting to turn orange. Luckily the sunset was nowhere near done with us for that evening. As I turned around to face into the direction of the setting sun the clouds were glowing orange and the lake almost calm enough to reflect the perfection going on above our heads. There wasn’t much left to do here.

Months of preparation, organising a Kayak, 7 days of driving and waiting for sunsets to happen, finding the right spot it all came together and couldn’t have mattered less in this perfect moment. After I got what I wanted I even had the time to sit down, relax and enjoy the light show nature was putting on for us. There is nothing worse than having to put down your camera bag every. You need the smallest something. The Lumbar Pack + allows me to load both the E-M1 + + 2 lenses (mostly the and the ) and some filters, cleaning gear, straps & water. And I have direct access to everything as the bag just sits on my waist. I leave it open most of the time when actually shooting and have never seen anything drop out of it – so really a great bag converted to a camera bag.

All the remaining gear luckily doesn’t weigh that much (I’d say about 8Kg) and I’ll load that into my f-Stop Gear AJNA bag into a medium shallow ICU and if I really need to switch up the gear I’m using it’s right there and. I’ll be showing the exact setup in an upcoming episode – so stay tuned for that.

I worked off one of my presets to achieve my colour palette and general style and then tweaked mostly the tonal curve and of course the warmer colours (Magenta, Red, Orange and Yellow) in the HSL (Hue, Saturation and Luminescence) settings until I got what I wanted. By lifting up the black end of the tonal curve to ‘flatten’ the blacks a little I could reduce the overall ‘heaviness’ of the shot and make the shadows less prominent and more pleasing to look. I think a lot of people tend to overkill vibrant sunset photos. They don’t look real anymore. I purposely dulled the vibrance down a little as the sunset was too colourful for my style. I actually do this a lot when there’s a lot of one colour.

It stylises the images but doesn’t make it look unrealistic. Of course style is a matter of taste and this is just the way I like to edit my images. There’s no real right or wrong really. In the next episode I’ll be packing my camera into an underwater housing and enter 3ºC cold water wearing a drysuit as I discover the some of the clearest water on the planet while snorkelling in between the European and American tectonic plates. Stay tuned it’s going to get cold!!

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