Previous Posts in featured
- Life and Death: BYT Interviews the Black Lips
- Will Eastman Interviews Bluebrain
- Bluebrain Interviews Will Eastman
- BYT Goes to Texas: A Showcase Preview
- BYT Interview: YACHT
- Geologist Interviews Tanya Tagaq
- Listening Party: Midnight Kids
- Interview & Tour Photos: Free Energy
- A Walk In The Park with John Davis of Title Tracks
- Interview: Long Walks On The Beach
- Get Into It: AVA LUNA
- Get Ready For G40!
- Inside the Artist Studio: Mia Feuer’s Suspended Landscape
- Gina Welch: An Atheist Jew Undercover In Evangelical America.
- What We’re Mad for in March
- 40 Years of Phase 1
- BYT Interview: Wild Beasts
- BYT Interview: Surfer Blood
- the Fam. Hemerlein Goes Behind The Scenes at the Arts Club of Washingtion
- BYT Interview: Fredrik
- Get Into It: DINOWALRUS
- Soundtrack of Our Lives: A BYT Interview
- BYT Interview: Tegan and Sara
- Mickey and Minnie: On The Rocks
- Phantogram: A BYT Interview
- Funny As Fuck: Andy Kindler vs. Ben Kronberg
- Books for Everyone, And Everyone’s Someone on Valentine’s Day
- “Socks In Odd Places” We Were Promised Jetpacks – A BYT Interview
- BYT Interview: Outputmessage
- BYT interviews Paul DeVeaux, Writer/ Producer of Adams Morgan: The Movie.
- Funny As Fuck: Interviewing Louis CK in a Snow Castle
- Inside The Artist’s Studio: Matt Sesow and Dana Ellyn
- BYT Interviews Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields
- BYT Interview: Elaine Showalter (yeah, Michael Showalter’s mom)
- Funny As Fuck: Todd Barry
- BYT <3 Magnetic Fields
- BYT Interview: Amanda Blank
- Cale’s Guide to Efficient Living: Alarm Clock of the Future
- Inside The Artist’s Studio: Andrew Wodzianski
- 2nd Time Around with True Womanhood
- Funny as Fuck: Steven Wright
- YiA 2010: How “Call & Response” @ Hamiltonian Came to Be
- Sockets Records Showcase Preview: Let’s Get Uneasy
- BYT Interview: TypeFighter
- Announcing: Year in Art 2010
- PHOTOS: Behind the Scenes @ Wale’s “Pretty Girls” Video Shoot
- BYT Blows Off: An Interview with Bob Mould and Richard Morel
- BYT’s Guide to Mid Atlantic Leather
- Hampton Goes To Hollywood
- Sculpture Garden in Fifteen Minutes
PHOTOS: ZOMBIE RAID!!!
August 17, 2009 by Dakota
a litany of photos, from ace BYT photogs Nick Gingold, Yacouba Tanou, Shauna Alexander, Sarah Montiel and Nicolas Eubanks
…
Every once in a while the I hear about these things. Mostly through facebook, but credit DC Defenestrators, a self-described “urban prankster network.” We’ve tracked these guys before during their “No Pants” metro ride (here and here), and were thusly pleased to hear about the “Zombie Raid.” Nothing like high school drama club-esque public displays of zombie walking to satisfy our desire to gawk at real-life role play.
At the BYT office lately we’ve actually been kicking around the idea of participating in a Darkon event. It really all seems like too much fun. You have to tip your hat to people getting comfortable enough in their weirdness to act it out in public. Make-up, costumes, personas, this takes organization and time, and I have respect for that. I mean shit, we at BYT were busy throwing a Kazoo Camp (wtf?!?!) themed pool party on Saturday, otherwise I definitely would have joined in on this zombie crawl.
Anyways, there’s not much of a story here, because I mean, who cares really, a bunch of kids dressed up as zombies and acted like drama dorks pressing themselves up against shop windows in Dupont. But the images that have emerged are pretty hilarious. I sent out an email to my photocore on Friday alerting them all of this event, and of course within minutes I had five photogs clamoring to shoot the damn thing. Understandably I suppose, subject matter on Saturday was slightly more sensational than a run-of-the-mill indie rock band playing DC9 on an off-night.
From my understanding of how the event went down (me not being in attendance) the zombie raid climaxed, I shit you not, at the Real World DC house, where a few zombies (looks like) actually painted the face of one of the resident Real World douche-sacks. To his credit said douche-sack appears to be wearing a green Powershift ‘09 t-shirt which, in addition to being a coalition of thousands of college kids standing up for the environment (yay green collar jobs!), actually features a photo taken by yours truly (DF -ed) as it’s graphic. The day appears to have culminated in some sort of zombie rock show, where there was certain to have been many a flailing limb.
Looking forward to the next public act of prankery, I have to suggest an infiltration of naked zombies. I mean just take a look at the naked bike riders (NSFW and NSFW), they certainly turned heads. Problem with zombies is they shed their limbs occasionally which, ew ok, that’s enough.
first up some shots from Nick Gingold:
next up some colorful zombie magic from Yacouba Tanou:
|
 |
Shauna Alexander shows up:
Sarah Montiel captures the scene at the Real World DC house (!!!):
and Nicolas Eubanks captures it all too:
Related:
BYT photocore in actioooooooon. I had so much fun shooting this event. Great job team!
August 17, 2009 at 11:40 amI wish I could have seen people’s reactions. Good show.
August 17, 2009 at 11:59 amMuch respect @ Yacouba Tanou for actually coming to the show that evening too. Chainsaw Baby, Violet Says 5, & 23 Rainy Days put on a killer performance. Stay tuned for more prank raids and shows: http://Facebook.com/TyroneNorris
August 17, 2009 at 12:02 pmAwesome pictures! I actually chose to be one of the zombies, not photograph them, but I had a blast. I was the chick in the Gothic Lolita outfit.
August 17, 2009 at 12:29 pm@Casie
Is that you in the third picture from the top?
@ marcalamari
If you mean the 3rd row down, in a black outfit and a black and white headband, then yes. ^_^
Woww, my father and 14-year-old sister on BYT. What has the world come to??
August 18, 2009 at 3:18 amI was the army guy, not a drama student, just a big zombie fan.
August 18, 2009 at 9:37 amZombies are everywhere; just look around you…
August 18, 2009 at 8:01 pmCasie – is that a Pentax on your forearm?
August 18, 2009 at 10:26 pmThat event looked like so much fun. I wish I could have gone! I’ll definitely make it out on the next one!
August 19, 2009 at 12:07 ammy favorite part of all this is the one random panda bear…
August 19, 2009 at 11:18 pm
So I guess this is what drama nerds do on the weekends… hehe.
Double A to the Ron Smith isn’t even in Zombie gear, and he was like promoting this thing heavy. FAIL.
August 17, 2009 at 10:33 am