bumbershoot : weirdness (updated)

By josh
August 30th, 2005 @ 4:30 PM events

I realize that we’ve posted about Bumbershoot pretty excessively (and are likely to continue as the festival kicks into high gear this Friday), but there are a few weird things that I just noticed about this year’s festival:

  1. What happened to the Stranger’s annual “Pizzazz!” city-wide talent show?
  2. What’s up with this year’s no cameras (”Cameras are not allowed at Bumbershoot

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7 Comments so far

  1. naiah (unregistered) on August 30th, 2005 @ 5:53 pm

    “our collective…agenda” sounds so delightfully subversive…
    Mwahahaha!


  2. Patrick (unregistered) on August 30th, 2005 @ 7:14 pm

    Thanks for alerting me on the camera thing. It’ll be my first time attending since moving here recently, and f*ck if that doesn’t make me pissed I can’t take pics.


  3. josh (unregistered) on August 31st, 2005 @ 10:27 am

    patrick: I think the camera rule is new this year and I have no idea how well it will be enforced. I think it’s really stupid. Maybe someone should organize a protest.


  4. Michael Hanscom (unregistered) on September 1st, 2005 @ 8:32 am

    I’ve just sent an e-mail to OneReel asking them to clarify just what “professional quality” camera equipment is. Sounds like a completely arbitrary and ridiculous distinction between point-and-shoots and (D)SLRs to me.


  5. David (unregistered) on September 7th, 2005 @ 7:50 am

    I haven’t been to the last couple Bumbershoots, but I attended many in years prior, and was able to take photos pretty much anywhere. Next year, people, take your best camera and happily snap away. No security person will say anything.


  6. mschuler (unregistered) on September 7th, 2005 @ 4:17 pm

    I actually got to photograph Bumbershoot this year for a local newspaper and Sara et. al. were very accommodating, but I had a number of problems with the implementation of their photography policy. In particular, the press packet said that a list of artists and their photography restrictions would be available, but it wasn’t. The staff monitoring the shows also were not informed about photography policy. Finally, I was shooting using a very fast telephoto lens (Nikon 200mm F2) specifically to remain out-of-sight but there were more than a few people with point-and-shoots blatantly violating the no-flash-indoors reg. I don’t have a problem with rules as long as they are thought-out and well-implemented.


  7. josh (unregistered) on September 7th, 2005 @ 11:52 pm

    david: they claimed that this was a “new” policy; so it wasn’t completely insane to imagine that it would be enforced.

    but as ch points out — it really was a rule that was ill-conceived and poorly implemented. I guess we’ll see how it goes next year.



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