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Ashod Simonian: Real Fun | 
 enlarge | Creator: Ashod Simonian
Publisher: PictureBox
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
Buy Used: $3.94
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 907825
Format: Compilation
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0971367094
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9780971367098
ASIN: 0971367094
Publication Date: June 1, 2007
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Condition: Standard used condition ie..Same quality you would find in your local bookstore.This is a new unread book that received the above wear during its handling. Has remainder mark.
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Product Description
Ever wonder what indie rockers on tour do for the other 23 hours of their day? Real Fun answers that question with over 100 photographs of musicians lounging in the giant green room that is the world--sleeping, eating, fishing and just goofing off. Photographer Ashod Simonian has traveled with scores of bands, and his dreamy, lush Polaroids capture Death Cab for Cutie, Spoon, Sleater Kinney, Pavement, Jenny Lewis, the Shins, Wilco and Broken Social Scene, among many others, in colorful images conveying not just stories but the feelings behind them: boredom, exultation, frustration and bliss. Many of the performers have also contributed essays and memoirs, making this an essential compendium of wisdom and memories from the road. Others have recorded songs for the accompanying CD. The tracks were all selected by Simonian and most are original, recorded especially for this project. All of this is well and good, but what makes Real Fun more than a scrapbook is Simonian's acute photographic instincts, his eye for detail and sense of scene: compelling pictures regardless of the subject.
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this IS what it feels like to be on tour June 19, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
i've never written one of these things before but felt compelled to after receiving Ashod Simonians "real fun". the photos Ashod was able to capture are at least as interesting as the many famous and even more forgotten subjects of this cross section of independent musicians on the road.
i've had the pleasure of being with Ashod on the road over the last few years, and his pictures bring to life all of the stories, all of the memories, just like they happend yesterday. the reason is, he was there too! he's not just some hired hand to take photos of bands that think they're cool. he has played on stage, and sold merch to no one, and to thousands, and driven the late shift through west texas. Ashod has been paid in beer too!
if someone wants to know what it feels like to go on tour... this book is it. all through the glossy eyes of a glorious polaroid!!
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