Blog Post: Frank

[ofyourdeath.livejournal.com]

Limited Edition Photo Sets 1 and 2
posted by Frank on Apr 6, 2010 05:45pm


Hello Friends,

It's time to unveil the first 2 installments of our limited edition photo set. My intention with these prints is to allow you to own a small portal into the creative life of the band over the past year.

From my eyes to yours, moments you may hear on your stereo later this year but would otherwise have never been witnessed. It's an experiment in slowing down the speed of sound, allowing you to view the action months before hearing the reaction, and time to imagine what these images will sound like. I hope you enjoy viewing these memories half as much as we did making them.





Print #1 is entitled "vocalocity", it is an image of Gerard taken in the spring of this year laying down vocal tracks in Los Angeles. There is something magical that happens when Gerard enters a vocal booth, some of my favorite images I've ever captured are of him doing just this. He has the rare ability to convey emotion, ideas, and movement through his voice and It happens to please the ears quite a bit...he sings well...get it?

Print #2, "timing is everything". This image is of my favorite guitar player, Ray Toro, laying down tracks in Los Angeles around thewinter of '09. The amount of passion and intensity Ray puts into every note he plays is matched only by his level of skill. He makesengineers duck and cover and guitar players weep with envy. In the real world he's a nice guy who likes gadgets, but when there's a guitar involved, Ray Toro is a god.

These photos are very limited and, in order to cut down on slimy Ebay-ers, will only 1 of each print will be available per person. You can buy 1 of either print for $30 or bundle prints 1&2 for $50. If you are a registered mychemicalromance.com user you will be notified before anyone else and recieve first crack at obtaining these prints. (*hint hint if youre not, sign up now!)

Check back next month for installments 3 & 4.

Until then, peace, love, and anthropophobia. xofrank

Comments

[spuzz.livejournal.com]

I get the impression that Frank kind of likes Gerard and Ray.

[yekith.livejournal.com]

He's a little bit of a fangirl, isn't he? xD

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it, right? HMMM. CURIOUS.

Also

[spuzz.livejournal.com]

anthropophobia

Re: Also

[fleurdeliser.livejournal.com]

THIS.

[(Anonymous)]

Why would you wish someone anthropophobia? That's mean. :(

[strobelighted.livejournal.com]

I wish those images were bigger. I couldn't even tell there was a person in the first one.

[spuzz.livejournal.com]

Gerard is not a real person anyway.

[thebiologicshow.livejournal.com]

zing!

[thatscraptastic.livejournal.com]

I think they're too expensive, unless they're poster size.

[(Anonymous)]

Even at poster size they'd be too expensive, sry2say. They're kinda crap photos.

[yekith.livejournal.com]

2 words: too expensive (and save these were made kinda blurrier only for the previews...I'm not interested, I liked some of the ones posted for free a lot more)

Now I'm hopping I don't like any of the future pics! :P

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

Frank is still his band's biggest fan, I love it.

Note about the price: it's actually very reasonable. If you've ever been to a gallery to purchase prints, they can easily go for at least twice what they're charging for these. And remember that you're not just paying for the print itself, but everything that goes into it, specifically the printing materials, which are not cheap, and the time, which Frank has put a lot into especially with the hand stamping and the signing. This isn't to say everyone has to like them and want to buy them, but the price is nowhere near out of line (and this is from someone who can't really afford them right now either). I'd honestly be surprised if there's any decent profit from them at all.

Apparently I have opinions.

[yekith.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not saying whether it's worth the price, just that it's generally expensive as in: no-way-I-can-pay-that-for-a-picture expensive. xD

At least since they're very limited (I think it'd been said it would be only 200 of each, right?), I guess only people who can really afford them will buy them. Having more of them would end up with lots of kids spending what they don't have in them -no matter whether they actually like them- just because Frank took them (we know it'd happen). So, the limited factor -besides adding value for collectors- will be also good in that sense.

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

Idk, I guess I just see a big difference in "too expensive" full stop, and "too expensive FOR ME" and a lot of what I'm seeing around is the former. The latter clearly applies to you, and honestly me as well, but there is a difference between the two that isn't coming across in a lot of what I've seen.

[yekith.livejournal.com]

Oh I know, some are even saying they're not worth that price. I just said "too expensive" cause that was my first thought about the amount itself, without relating it to anything. With the dollar/peso quotation (1 dollar= almost 4 pesos!) that's quite a lot for me. :/ But as I showed in my last line above...I'd love to buy one if I could, and I'm hoping I don't like any much because I know I can't (also have no way to buy online)So far, I liked some of the ones posted for free a LOT more, though.

[kidsxheroes.livejournal.com]

"Note about the price: it's actually very reasonable. If you've ever been to a gallery to purchase prints, they can easily go for at least twice what they're charging for these. And remember that you're not just paying for the print itself, but everything that goes into it, specifically the printing materials, which are not cheap, and the time, which Frank has put a lot into especially with the hand stamping and the signing."

THANK YOU! Man alive :/ I was expecting these to be a lot more but im happily surprised with the price. I guess if you haven't shopped around for prints/art before it might seem over the odds to some people. Now i sound like a condescending twat /o\

[panicitstiffany.livejournal.com]

the photos dont look very good O__o
even if they are limited and you could maybe get more money out of them in the future....

[patentpending.livejournal.com]

These are not very good. I am actually suffering a case of the motts looking at these right now.

[shinetheway.livejournal.com]

Can I just flail for a minute that there are people complaining about the price in Frank's blog? [eyeroll] I mean, for crying out loud. That's just tacky, people.

Personally, I was dreading something a lot worse than fifty bucks for the pair. I've seen photography art lithographs go for two hundred plus, easy. Fifty bucks, though, I can fit that into a budget.

I actually kind of like the blurring effect in the previews--it goes well with the whole "speed of sound, slowed down" theme Frank seems to be developing. It's art, anyway, not a glamour shot; I already know what Gerard and Ray look like. [grins] I wonder that if these prints sell well, if maybe we'll get more art from other members of the band? Gerard, obviously, but who knows what kind of visual art interests Ray and Mikey might have.

[yekith.livejournal.com]

They're too expensive to me cause I can't afford them and I'd ratehr spend my money in something else if I had it, not cause they're not worth it. I don't particulary like these two much but that's a matter of taste of course. Now, the best comment at the blog was one asking why they aren't FREE. LOL, do this person want Frank to send a print to each fan for free? xD

And when will they stop asking how to buy them? Don't thay read the whole blog, which says a message will be sent to all members of the site? And we do get to SEE them for free! Also: "are they at least signed?" *rolls eyes*

[shinetheway.livejournal.com]

I saw that one! And really, there isn't enough o.\ face in the world. Have they not read anything Frank's posted lately? The blog posts, the twitter pictures, *this post*, nothing? Yes, it's being signed! No, you can't buy them yet! No, you can't get the price reduced if you whine like a five year old that hasn't had enough sleep. This is a product of Frank's hard work and artistic talent, no less than the music he creates, he deserves to earn a fair price for it.

I'll probably buy them if I can work my budget out, but I've been good lately so we'll see. I expect the next lot will be Frank and Mikey, so I want to get the whole collection if I can. But even if it's just shots of the studio, he's got a great eye for color and contrast, and some of those shots are just gorgeous as well. (I'm such a sucker for art. My walls are covered.) I really can't wait to see more.

[yekith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think the inability to read is a constant in the fandom! I don't think Frank will be in any pic, though, since he's the one taking them (well, save he sets the timer?)I miss his face...

[jamethiel]

I like the photo of Ray. In the first one of Gerard, he could have used either a smaller aperture for more depth of field or just focused it on the mic/Gerard (it's focused on the amp[?] at the front of the pic at the moment) and decreased the shutter speed/increased the exposure to get the same effect--would have been a better photo, and given more of a sense of movement.

[chameleongirl79]

I love you, you're my favourite ♥

[kidsxheroes.livejournal.com]

Art prints can sell from anything up to $300, even past that, usually in runs of 100 - 500 pieces. I don't find these horrifically expensive. Hell, two of my own art prints would rack up $40+ (/cool story bro) so, yeah. Those are my thoughts on the matter :/

And i like the pictures. Thats my other though.

[anightmare.livejournal.com]

These photos blow. Does he really need the money?!

[symmetry.livejournal.com]

The price is pretty good, I just think the pictures are pretty lousy. It's a neat idea but I just feel like it's one of those things were a person plays around with settings on a camera, thinks the picture looks weird and cool, and calls it an art print.