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The air couldn't have felt better in Union Park for the first day of the Pitchfork Music Festival. The format of not having bands play all day the first day was perfect, it's nice to see the headliners sans really full porto-o-potties and there were far less people passed out for you to trip on. Seriously, those people are like land mines. Anyway, we will, of course, be bringing you in depth coverage and reviews of Pitchfork. But, here we thought we would give you a little eye candy. Here are some photos from Day 1.
See lots more pictures after the jump...
Slint
GZA (Cappadonna was incredible)
Sonic Youth
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These are some of this shittiest pictures I've ever seen. I hope you don't do this professionally.
Could they have given away more photo passes? chui - look at all those photographers.
Guest #1 - Step away from your keyboard until you've had your morning coffee.
No kidding Julene, as soon as Sonic Youth started playing they all stood on this platform and blocked our view!
Guest #1, let me know if you want to buy any.
I'm sorry, I have to agree with Guest #1.
Be sure to tag your photos Chicagoist on Flickr and share them with everyone. I'm living vicariously through the photos for Pitchfork this year.
And I don't care how bad they are, I've been in the pit and understand that people hit you, block your view and sometimes digital cameras don't work so well in low-light conditions.
those sound like excuses to me, julene. i've been in plenty of crowded press pits in my days. people who know how to take photos make do. people who don't, don't.
these shots are terribly framed, which marks a failure of vision. these shots are terribly lit, which marks a failure of technical skill.
honestly, you'd be better off just grabbing pictures from flickr, because i know scores of amateurs who took pictures less laughably awful than this without the benefit of a press pass.
at some point chicagoist, you're going to have to decide if you want to be a serious presence on the web or just show shitty operation that gets the facts wrong, fills your posts with typos, and post terrible terrible photography.
just a thought.