Your Moment of Bohemia

As part of my gig with Bohemia--the literary journal I am fortunate enough to staff on--I will be writing a weekly blog assignment here catered to our fans/friends/bohemian followers. The rest of the staff are poised to write, as well, so feel free to visit http://bohojo.wordpress.com/ to check out my fellow staffers in all their glory!

For me: sometimes I will write on certain topics and other times, I'll post some fiction I've been working on so keep checking back weekly for that! :)

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Whew! Just finished my round of articles for the upcoming issue and I can't wait for our annual proofing party to see just how high the bar has been set yet again. :) Seriously, our staff is awesome!

One of the perks of being able to work on such a great publication is the artists we meet out in the community. My first music interview was with Beautiful Disturbance. I was so nervous meeting them because I knew they had been travelling and had acquired a pretty good fan base, so I had my work cut out for me. I managed to get a tape recorded in about an hour and all the questions answered that I could possibly have. I worked for a few days shelling out the piece that made it to print and was even more ecstatic that they loved it as much as I did. When our release party rolled around, they played an acoustic show for us that totally made my night!

They, honestly, are some of my favorite people. So nice and down to Earth and just humble in how insanely talented they are. I really can't wait to see what happens with them next because they deserve every bit of notoriety that they get.

Yesterday, I had the privilege of helping out with their first music video. Love had a school project that involved shooting such a video and the BD crew was pumped and ready to make that happen! We met around lunch time at Legacy Cafe & Art Gallery (because James--the owner--is a Bohemian friend and all around awesome person) and the band up in front of the shop.

Yours truly was tapped to run the PA system. Woot!

Not as hard as it looks because Lord knows, I wouldn't have been able to do it if it was.

 
The band got to do full takes of the song since our crowd wasn't as unruly as was expected. Though, that's not to say they weren't noshing it out in the street (safely) because they were definitely rocking just as hard as the band was.

View of the rocking from my seat.

And, of course, the crew (Love and his buddies) took some pauses to get their shots set up. The three of them were all over the place and got a lot of really interesting angles.

At the end--after all the shots were done--the crowd, band, and filmmakers got together for a big photo group shot that was taken by some of Love's classmates/friends who were in the area and stopped by. It was a great moment in BD history and I feel so lucky to have been a part of it.

Taking a moment :)

I think that day exemplified what I love about Bohemia and our mission. We get to be a positive medium for these bands and artists and showcase them in such a way that displays our own art: Artists furthering Artists. There's no other way to put it. I meet so many people that are just hungry in this area for new sounds and new sights and new reads and Bohemia gets to be one of the sources to combat that starvation.

In turn, we get to really know the people whose stories we tell. We can help them out with future projects and they willingly help the Magazine out when we are in need.

It's a great community and I'm so lucky to be a part of it.


*Kayla*