|| Prestige Classics Vienna Debuts with Rachmaninov/Mussorgsky “Songs” ||

October 19, 2010 Photo of the Week

MG Sound Launches Premium Classical Label

Our friends in Vienna have a new album that is under consideration for a  Grammy® Award by voting members of the Recording Academy.  Classical Field, Best Classical Vocal Performance.
Voting ends November 3.
To view the making of the album and listen to samples of this remarkable achievement visit:
http://www.prestigeclassicsvienna.com/?L=1.
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|| Mr. Bonzai Hosts AES Platinum Artists Panel ||

September 11, 2010 Photo of the Week

Here are some still frames from the video of The Platinum Artists panel at the Audio Engineering Society in NYC last October. You can see a 6-minute clip by clicking here.  I will be hosting another panel in San Francisco this November.  Y’all come!

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|| “Salt” on the cover of Mix, photo by MrB ||

August 3, 2010 Photo of the Week

Here is my cover photo of the director and sound crew for “Salt,” photographed during the final days at Sony Pictures Studios’ Kim Novak Theatre. You can read editor Tom Kenny’s story here.

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Hans Zimmer, “Inception” Composer

July 24, 2010 Photo of the Week

Here are two of my portraits of Hans Zimmer, whose most recent score is for the new film, “Inception.”  These photos were taken for Universal Audio, to accompany a nice interview with Hans by Marsha Vdovin.  Click HERE.

From MUSIC SMARTS, by Mr. Bonzai:
“The bummer of being a composer is you sit in the bathtub in [...]

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|| Mastering Photos @ Bernie’s ||

June 28, 2010 Photo of the Week

I’d like to take you into the Inner Sanctum of the making of music.  After months, or  sometimes years of work, musicians must finalize their album, but there is one last chance to tweak that sound.  Here they are at work during the final stages of  their recording projects at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood.  [...]

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|| The First Sunday Pizza Club ||

May 16, 2010 Photo of the Week

The event was a smashing success with many friends and family members enjoying hot Margheritas cooked and served by yours truly.  Owner/chef Peppe Miele joined us for an al fresco pizza discussion and plans for future meetings of true pizza lovers!  To see more photos of the event, taken by KamranV, click here.
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|| Mike Shipley and Jacquire King ||

April 24, 2010 Photo of the Week

Hark! Here are my photos of two talented engineer/producers: Mike Shipley (Maroon 5, Alison Krauss, Def Leppard)

and Jacquire King (Norah Jones, Kings of Leon, Tom Waits).

I photographed these gents in the studio to accompany interviews by Marsha Vdovin on behalf of Universal Audio, a fine company whose roots go back to the groundbreaking work [...]

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|| Welcome to the SuperForest! Help is on the way!! ||

March 28, 2010 Photo of the Week

In our last episode, we looked into the archives for a photo and interview with Graham Nash.   Now we meet his son, Jackson Nash, the godfather of Superforest .
Here is the credo from the horses’s mouth: “Before we can set about elevating our present society from a carbon-based one to a solar-electric one, knowing full [...]

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|| Graham Nash: Feel the Dreams ||

March 9, 2010 Photo of the Week

In this new installment from the Mr. Bonzai vaults, we step back in time to 1991 for a comprehensive interview with Graham Nash. He is an artist who has been true to his words throughout his career, and it is certainly intriguing to read these words from the perspective of the two decades that have [...]

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|| Civil War Era Cannonball Found in Hollywood Home ||

February 23, 2010 Photo of the Week

KTLA News February 23, 2010
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles police bomb squad was called to a Hollywood home Monday morning after the owners found a Civil War-era cannonball in their basement.  David Goggin says the “iron ball” was found while digging out old pipes in the basement.
The bomb squad, which was called in [...]

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