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Buzznet AFI Community Round-up! 11.06.2009

New album, new video, new tour... our boys are back and members of Buzznet's AFI community is filling the site with their photos, videos and journals about the band.

This week, we've had a lot of photos and tour blogs from AFI's US tour, including tour videos by Jade Puget and photos from our own PanasonicYouth/Mark, who couldn't wait for them to reach California and is following them on tour in the Midwest.

AFI News: AFI Announces New Tour Dates & Contest

On the heels of the release of their new album, Crash Love, perennial rockers AFI have announced a new string of tour dates, taking them throughout the West in January. Also, wrap your head around the new contest Buzznet is sponsoring...AFIles Contest

AFI will be using a Canon G10 camera to document their tour. It's a total mystery what the band will be taking pictures of. At the end of their tour, they are going to go through all the entries in this group and 1 person will win AFI's camera with all the unrevealed pictures they are taking on tour. You can enter the contest or view/vote on entries here.

AFI's Tour Blogs - Jade Puget has had his camera at ready to give us glimpses of AFI's tour. See them and a lot more on AFI's official Buzznet profile

Follow PanasonicYouth on tour with AFI!

In Transmission With AFI: Tulsa 11/03/09

AFI performs @ Cain's Ballroom 11/3/09

In Transmission With AFI: St. Louis, 11/04/09

AFI performs at The Pageant in St. Louis, Missouri 11/4/09

AFI 'Crash Love' Signing In Kansas City 11/5/09

Buzznet photographer Jane Bush caught up with AFI @ The Pageant St. Louis, Mo. 11/04/09

Before leaving Los Angeles for the next leg of AFI's tour, Hunter Burgan dropped by DJ Rossstar's Punk Rock Show as a surprise co-host

MalloryBV blogged about seeing AFI at the Ulalume Festival in Columbia, MD and got a pretty unique shot of Davey Havok

Newcomer Alaska came for the AFIles contest and is treating us to her great photography. Go say hi!

AFI fans are great artists! Check out this awesome drawing of Davey Havok by havokisthecure

AFI alumnus Geoff Kresge hit the stage with Tiger Army for the 2nd annual Octoberflame Festival.

Last but not least, being on tour doesn't stop Hunter Burgan from analyzing Joe Jonas With Demi Lovato, Ms. GaGa And Natalie Portman

The Community Round-up is a new semi-weekly feature from the AFI Community Music Guides. If you see some cool original AFI-related media on Buzznet, please let me know so I can include it!

Shalua's kittens need new homes

We're looking for homes for Shalua's kittens (now grown cats). Our city is so overcrowded with homeless cats (there're a dozen running loose on our block from the same source as the ones we rescued) that we couldn't find anyone to adopt them and the shelter automatically kills everything that's dropped off because they're overcrowded and cannot find homes for the cats they already have. Every home we had lined up has fallen through... they decided they didn't want more cats, someone gave them an adorable kitten and they didn't want another, someone wanted an outside cat because the coyotes ate hers (FUCK THAT).

Unfortunately, my evil cat-hating home nurse (who didn't like my 3 old cats sitting in the living room) instead of turning my case over to someone else, simply stopped coming to change my IV (causing my IV to go too long without a change and rupture one day in my kitchen. I'm considering suing the shit out of them at the moment) and called animal control saying I had "unhealthy cats", because she thinks my having any cats at all is unhealthy in my condition. Passive aggressive much? (In case you missed the back story, I have Lyme Disease, yes I was bit by a tick while camping, they didn't catch it in time, I have to take IV antibiotics every day until I die, basically) So now I suddenly have to find them homes NOW.

They're sweet cats, and they need INDOOR homes (without dogs), 2 of the brothers are pure white and go limp when you pick them up (like rag dolls). One of them is EXACTLY like Shalua, but bigger. The other 3 brothers are grey, black and tabby. They like to roll on my wool carpets from Afghanistan (smell like sheep I guess?) and chase furry mice. They are all extremely people oriented, but shy of large men and loud noises.

If you know anyone in Southern California who has been looking for a cat and thinking long term about what adopting one is going to mean (not going off to college in a year and planning to dump them on the 'rents, moving to Peru as a foreign exchange student, marrying some girl with a rottweiler) I could really use some help right now...

Concert Photography = Srs Bsns

I've posted blogs about "predatory" artist contracts and shooting restrictions in the past...

First Three No Flash, Oh yeah and give us all your pictures for free…

The dying art of gig photography: Today's concert photos strangled by restrictions

as well as one's about other artists who afforded greater creative freedom to their fans...

NIN relaxes policy on audience cameras/recording equipment

and an ongoing current discussion on Flickr's concert photography group

Photography releases are a pressing topic both to concert photographers, and managers trying to protect the band but ensure that they receive press coverage and high quality promotional material is run when they release a new album and start a touring cycle. Most releases I've seen simply state that photographs will be used for editorial purposes only... Some limit use to one publication and require permission before any photos are used elsewhere (still, for editorial use. I've only encountered one of those).

I have never been presented with the following but was aware of it's existence with several other bands, and was dismayed to find out another band under the same management, who I intended to photograph, is now using this contract on their new tour.

Note: Without a model release, in the US I am already only able to use photographs of a person for editorial (news) coverage and possibly limited print sales. In no case could I legally use their images on commercial products or advertising, print t-shirts or other merch etc. That's even without having a photo pass to a concert.

PHOTOGRAPHER RELEASE

Dated:________________________

I, __________________________________ (name of photographer) hereby agree to the following with respect to the photographs that I will take, or cause to be taken, of the musical group collectively known as (BAND NAME REMOVED)("you") on the date ______________, 2009 (the "Photos"):

1. I have the limited right and permission to use certain Photos that have been approved by you solely in connection with one (1) article about you contained in ________________________________ [State name of publication].
The Photos may be used only in an article, publication or other medium initially disseminated to the public within one year of the date of this agreement. I shall have no right to otherwise use or re-use the Photos in whole or in part, in any medium or for any purpose whatsoever, including, without limitation, promotion, advertising, and trade, without your written consent therefor.

2. I hereby acknowledge that you shall own all rights in the Photos, including the copyrights therein and thereto, and accordingly, I hereby grant, transfer, convey and assign to you all right, title and interest throughout the universe in perpetuity, including, without limitation, the copyright (and all renewals and extensions thereof), in and to the Photos. I agree that you shall have the right to exploit all or a part of the Photos in any and all media, now known or hereafter devised, throughout the universe, in perpetuity, in all configurations as you determine, without obtaining my consent and without any payment or consideration therefor. I understand that you will give me appropriate "photo credit" where possible. I understand further that all aspects of said "photo credit" shall be determined by you in your sole discretion and that failure to a ccord said "photo credit" shall not be deemed a breach of any obligation, express or implied. I further grant to you the right to use my name, likeness and biographical xxdata in connection with the distribution, exhibition, advertising and exploitation of the Photos. I will, upon request, execute, acknowledge and deliver to you such additional documents as you may deem necessary to evidence and effectuate your rights hereunder, and I hereby grant to you the right as attorney-in-fact to execute, acknowledge, deliver and record in the U.S. Copyright Office or elsewhere any and all such documents if I shall fail to execute same within five (5) days after so requested by you.

3. You may assign my rights under this agreement in whole or in part.

4. I hereby waive all rights of droit moral or "moral right of authors" or any similar rights or principles of law which I may now have or later have in the Photos. I warrant and represent that I have the right to execute this Certificate and that the Photos are and shall be new and original with me and shall be capable of copyright protection throughout the universe, that they do not and shall not violate or infringe upon any common law or statutory right of any party, or constitute unfair competition and are not now and shall not be the subject of any litigation. I shall indemnify and hold you, and your employees, officers, agents, assignees and licensees, harmless from and against any losses, costs, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses arising out of any claim by a third party which is inconsistent with any warranty or representation made by me in this Certificate.

5. This Certificate contains the entire understanding of the parties and will be governed by the laws of California in the United States of America applicable to contracts entered into in California in the United States of America.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have signed this Certificate effective as of this ______ day of ___________________, 2009.

ACCEPTED AND AGREED:
By: __________________________________________ ________________________________
Photographer Print or Type Name Here
(BAND NAME REMOVED)
By: __________________________________________
An Authorized Signatory o/b/o (BAND NAME REMOVED)

While this may indeed protect the artist (except from criticism over the contract!), there is no reason under the sun that any photographer in their right mind should sign this contract.

Even if you're not a professional photographer, just a fan of the band, and are dying to be able to photograph them with a real photo pass, you need to realize that:

1) You would not own any rights whatsoever to the photos taken at this show.

2) You could not post any of these photos on your personal website, myspace, or anywhere else.

3) You could not use any of these photos in your portfolio (if you wished to someday be a professional photographer or show your work.)

4) You could not print them out and give them to your friends and family.

5) You could not use them as reference to do drawings or painting based on them, or allow others to do so.

6) They could be published on websites/magazines without crediting you.

7) They could sell a poster or other merch with your images without paying you a fee or even crediting you as the person who took the photo.

8) They can use your name, photo and personal xxdata (including commercially or for advertising purposes) without your permission or compensating you.

9) If someone infringes on the rights you've granted them via this contract (example: you got a fan in one of the shots and they don't bother to get a release from that person before printing a poster, so they get sued) YOU are responsible for the legal fees/damages resulting from the lawsuit.

10) In the US Copyright lasts for the lifetime of the owner plus 50 years (70 years in some other countries). You may love a band, but the band's MANAGEMENT is the one administering this, and 10-15 years from now the person holding the rights to their material might not even BE the band, or anyone who you want to support in any way (example: Trent Reznor lost the rights to "Pretty Hate Machine" because of a bad business manager. Would you want your photographs potentially supporting someone other than the band?)

The only way to make these contracts go away (and hopefully be replaced by ones that respect both the band and the photographer) is if you DO NOT SIGN THEM.

Spin EARTH copyright FAIL

http://75.101.210.210/tos

"As a SPIN Earth registered individual/user you may submit content. User submitted content includes videos, photos, text, and comments and are collectively referred to as "User Submissions." For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, submitting your material, for good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which you hereby acknowledge, you hereby grant to SPIN Earth (SPIN Media, LLC) and its affiliates a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide license to edit, telecast, rerun, reproduce, use, create derivative works from, syndicate, license, print, sublicense, distribute and otherwise exhibit the materials you submit, or any portion thereof in any manner and in any medium or forum, whether now known or hereafter devised, without payment to you or any third party."

Seriously, I can sign up to your site, write reviews/posts or blog photos, and you'd be able to print them in your magazine and elsewhere FOR FREE, FOREVER?

Just no.

Websites need to stop pulling this crap, and keep their "use" of your posted content to that necessary to publish the site... which used to be the norm for user agreements... instead of exploiting their users for the possibility of adding to a media archive they can use as free crowd sourced content down the road on their other projects/sites.

AFI's Jade talks tech with EQ Magazine

Jade gets down to the nuts and bolts of songwriting and getting good sound for Crash Love with EQ Magazine in this new interview. Check out the entire interview online here.

AFI's Jade and Hunter talk to UltimateGuitar.com

AFI's Jade Puget and Hunter talk to UltimateGuitar.com about Crash Love (and their songwriting process for it), choosing producers, their solo projects (Blaqk Audio and Hunter Revenge) and of course, what they look for in a guitar (a couple of the quotes might be mixed up on this part when they have Hunter talking about a new Gibson Cloud (YUM!) that Jade later refers to planning to bring on tour :)

Jade - "I’ve always loved shredding but I haven’t tried to bring too much of it to AFI ‘cause it’s not really appropriate. It gets corny if you do it too much. There’s only one other AFI song in the 11 years that I’ve been in this band where I’ve really shredded. And that was a couple of records ago. It was a song called “Dancing Through Sunday” on our Sing the Sorrow album. So I think doing it rarely makes it more impactful. So if all of a sudden you go a few years and all of a sudden you do another solo, it’s a rarity. So it’s not like, “Oh, he’s doing another solo.”

Hunter: "Let me interject this – as for basses, I had Fender send me just a variety of stuff and I have over 20 basses in my collection. I brought everything to the studio and I would sort of do shootouts between things and it ended up coming down to this brand new stock P bass that Fender sent me that sounded better than everything. Even like these basses from the ‘50s and stuff. So I ended up using that on almost everything."

Great stuff... along with an interview with Adam recently by one of his gear sponsors about drum tracking on Crash Love, it's always nice to read more about the song writing process and musicianship by the guys in the band who don't hppen to be the lead lyricist/vocalist :)

You can read the entire interview here on Ultimateguitar.com

Davey Havok talks art with Juxtapoz Magazine

Davey Havok shares photographs of his art collection and some insight on being a musician with Juxtapoz Magazine. He also shares some tidbits of info about AFI's upcoming tour and gives advice for young artists and musicians.

Read the interview here on JUXTAPOZ Art & Culture Magazine.

You can find the "Deluxe Premium" CD bundles of "Crash Love" he mentions in the interview, containing 12 limited edition prints by Camille Rose Garcia, each inspired by a song from the album, in AFI's webstore.

To see more art inspired by the music of "Crash Love", check out the Flickr group for AFI's UK fan art contest that was announced on Veronicasawyer.com last week.

I'm seeing AFI in 6 days...

I just needed to post to say I am ridiculously excited to be seeing AFI at their Album release party next week.

I am not posting with capslock, because capslock is wholly insufficient to express my feelings about this.

Please imagine me standing on my chair squeeing with excitement. If your pets are running about the house as if hearing some hypersonic whistle, they are probably hearing me.

Oh, and there's a chance I may be taking photos.

And I get to stay over at Mark's house and play with Moo.

I have no words left, so I'll just wave my arms emphatically.

Muse to feature on New Moon soundtrack

In an interview with Zane Lowe, Muse states they’re likely to feature on the soundtrack to New Moon - the latest installment of the Twilight series.

Singer Matt Bellamy revealed: “I spoke to the director yesterday (and) he wants the track I Belong To You, the sort of vaudeville piano track. He wants a rendition of that but the only thing with the new film is they want the songs to be exclusive to the film. So he’s asking if I mind doing, or if we mind doing an alternative version of it.”

Asked if they were up for it Matt said: “I think it’s alright- if it was one of the main tracks on the album I would never do it. But it’s actually one of the weirder tracks on the album. (It’s) one of the can't believe we got away with it kind of tracks. I think it might be worth giving it a go cos it’s a track that might not get played live very often… one of the obscure tracks off the album so it might give that track some life that it wouldn’t have otherwise.”

Muse’s hit Supermassive Black Hole featured in the first Twilight film- giving the three piece exposure in the States.

Dom from the band said: “It’s opened it up in some kind of way, millions of people listening to Supermassive Black Hole that have probably never heard our band before- which is not a bad thing.”

He added: “They have all gone bloody vampire mad over there seriously, it’s crazy!”

MTV2 will be broadcasting the interview between Zane Lowe and Muse tonight at 10PM.

"Interspersed with their videos plus the new tracks live, we got Muse on the brown couch and Zane found out all about their future plans."

Sourced from: http://www.mtv.co.uk/film/twilight/news/154660-exclusive-muse-for-new-moon-soundtrack

Do you think the song fits with New Moon's storyline? If you're a Muse fan how do you feel about their music being included on the Twilight soundtracks? Do you see the benefit to the band of greater exposure, or does it just make you RAGE WITH THE FURY OF TEN THOUSAND SUNS?

I've seen 163 of 239 films

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show

(x ) Grease

(x) Pirates of the Caribbean

(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest

( ) Boondock Saints

(x) Fight Club

( ) Starsky and Hutch

(x) Neverending Story

(x) Blazing Saddles

(x) Airplane

Total: 8

(x) The Princess Bride

( ) AnchorMan

( ) Napoleon Dynamite

(x) Labyrinth

(x) Saw

(x) Saw II

( ) White Noise

( ) White Oleander

(x) Anger Management

(x) 50 First Dates

(x ) The Princess Diaries

(x) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Total so far: 16

(x) Scream

(x) Scream 2

(x) Scream 3

(x) Scary Movie

( ) Scary Movie 2

( ) Scary Movie 3

( ) Scary Movie 4

(x) American Pie

(x) American Pie 2

(x) American Wedding

( ) American Pie Band Camp

Total so far: 23

(x) Harry Potter 1

(x) Harry Potter 2

(x) Harry Potter 3

(x) Harry Potter 4

(x) Resident Evil 1

(x) Resident Evil 2

( ) The Wedding Singer

( ) Little Black Book

(x) The Village

(x) Lilo & Stitch

Total so far: 31

(x) Finding Nemo

(x) Finding Neverland

(x) Signs

(x) The Grinch

(x) Texas Chainsaw Massacre

(x) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

( ) White Chicks

( ) Butterfly Effect

( ) 13 Going on 30

(x) I, Robot

(x) Robots

Total so far: 39

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

(x) Universal Soldier

(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events

( ) Along Came Polly

(x) Deep Impact

( ) KingPin

( ) Never Been Kissed

(x) Meet The Parents

( ) Meet the Fockers

( ) Eight Crazy Nights

(x) Joe Dirt

(x) King Kong

Total so far: 46

( ) A Cinderella Story

(x) The Terminal

( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie

( ) Passport to Paris

(x) Dumb & Dumber

( ) Dumber & Dumberer

(x) Final Destination

(x) Final Destination 2

(x) Final Destination 3

(x) Halloween

(x) The Ring

(x) The Ring 2

( ) Surviving X-MAS

(x) Flubber

Total so far: 55

( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle

(x) Practical Magic

(x) Chicago

(x) Ghost Ship

(x) From Hell

(x) Hellboy

(x) Secret Window

( ) I Am Sam

(x) The Whole Nine Yards

(x) The Whole Ten Yards

Total so far: 63

(x) The Day After Tomorrow

(x) Child's Play

( ) Seed of Chucky

(x) Bride of Chucky

( ) Ten Things I Hate About You (Heath Ledger!!!)

( ) Just Married

(x) Gothika

(x) Nightmare on Elm Street

(x) Sixteen Candles

( ) Remember the Titans

( ) Coach Carter

(x) The Grudge

(x) The Grudge 2

(x) The Mask

(x) Son Of The Mask

Total so far: 73

(x) Bad Boys

( ) Bad Boys 2

( ) Joy Ride

( ) Lucky Number Sleven

(x) Ocean's Eleven

( ) Ocean's Twelve

( ) Bourne Identity

( ) Bourne Supremecy

( ) Bourne Ultimatum

( ) Lone Star

(x) Bedazzled

(x) Predator I

(x) Predator II

(x) The Fog

(x) Ice Age

( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown

( ) Curious George

Total so far: 80

(x) Independence Day

( ) Cujo

( ) A Bronx Tale

(x) Darkness Falls

(x) Christine

(x) ET

(x) Children of the Corn

( ) My Bosses Daughter

(x) Maid in Manhattan

(x) War of the Worlds

(x) Rush Hour

(x) Rush Hour 2

Total so far: 89

( ) Best Bet

( ) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

(x) She's All That

( ) Calendar Girls

( ) Sideways

(x) Mars Attacks

(x) Event Horizon

(x) Ever After

(x) Wizard of Oz

(x) Forrest Gump

(x) Big Trouble in Little China

(x) The Terminator

(x) The Terminator 2

(x) The Terminator 3

Total so far: 99

(x) X-Men

(x) X-Men 2

(x) X-Men 3

(x) Spider-Man

(x) Spider-Man 2

( ) Sky High

(x) Jeepers Creepers - ("where do you get those peepers")

(x) Jeepers Creepers 2

( ) Catch Me If You Can

(x) The Little Mermaid

(x) Freaky Friday

(x) Reign of Fire

(x) The Skulls

(x) Cruel Intentions

( ) Cruel Intentions 2

( ) The Hot Chick

(x) Shrek

( ) Shrek 2

Total so far: 112

( ) Swimfanit

(x) Miracle on 34th street

( ) Old School

( ) The Notebook

( ) K-Pax

(x) Krippendorf's Tribe

( ) A Walk to Remember

( ) Ice Castles

(x) Boogeyman

( ) The 40-year-old Virgin

Total so far: 115

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring

(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers

(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King

(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Total so far: 121

(x) Baseketball

(x) Hostel

( ) Waiting for Guffman

(x) House of 1000 Corpses

(x) Devils Rejects

(x) Elf

(x) Highlander

(x) Mothman Prophecies

( ) American History X

( ) Three

Total so Far: 128

( ) The Jacket

( ) Kung Fu Hustle

( ) Shaolin Soccer

( ) Night Watch

(x) Monsters Inc.

(x) Titanic

(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail

(x) Shaun Of the Dead

(x) Willard

Total so far: 133

( ) High Tension

( ) Club Dread

( ) Hulk

(x) Dawn Of the Dead

(x) Hook

(x) Chronicles Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

(x) 28 days later

(x) Orgazmo

(x) Phantasm

(x) Waterworld

Total so far: 140

(x) Kill Bill vol 1

(x) Kill Bill vol 2

(x) Mortal Kombat

( ) Wolf Creek

( ) Kingdom of Heaven

(x) The Hills Have Eyes

( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman

(x) The Last House on the Left

(x) Re-Animator

(x) Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness

Total so far: 147

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace

(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones

(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith

(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope

(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back

(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi

( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage

(x) Ewoks The Battle For Endor

Total so far: 154

(x) The Matrix

(x) The Matrix Reloaded

(x) The Matrix Revolutions

(x) Animatrix

(x) Evil Dead

(x) Evil Dead 2

( ) Team America: World Police

(x) Red Dragon

(x) Silence of the Lambs

(x) Hannibal

TOTAL: 163

Now Add them up and... Put "I've seen --- of 239 films" in the subject line and re post it

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