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Tony Nelson Photography

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About Me



My Interests

Music, Photography, art, baseball, gardening, good food, roller derby!

Music:

Guided By Voices, The Kills, The Wrens, Arcade Fire, Bettie Serveert, Bjork, Bruce Springsteen, Cocteau Twins, Flaming Lips, Neil Finn, Daniel Lanois, Joe Henry, Joy Division, Throwing Muses, 50 ft. Wave, Nick Cave, Neko Case, On The Speakers, Replacements, The Who, Peter Gabriel, Spoon, Supergrass, Robert Pollard, Atmosphere, David Byrne, New Pornographers, The Hold Steady, The Pixies, The Veils, Tift Merritt, Triplefastaction, U2, Public Enemy, Tom Waits, The Walkmen, Genesis - back when they had balls, The Clash, XTC, Mazzy Star, Big Star, T-Bone Burnett, Los Lobos, Girls Against Boys, John Lennon, Alejandro Escovedo, Lift To Experience...

Movies:

Local Hero, Dead Man, Ghost World, Wonderboys, City of Lost Children, The Thin Red Line, Gattaca, Adaptation, Red, Joe Vs. the Volcano, Pulp Fiction, Something Wild, Spinal Tap, Down By Law, Miller's Crossing, Bull Durham, Raising Arizona, Married To The Mob, anything by Charlie Kaufman, David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch (except Coffee & Cigarettes - God, that was awful...), Brazil, Bladerunner, Rushmore, Lost In Translation, The Unbelievable Truth, Amateur, Hannah & her Sisters, Simple Men, Silence of the Lambs, Alien, Cold Comfort Farm...

Television:

Twin Peaks, X-Files, Battlestar Gallactica (the new one, seriously, it's good!), Deadwood... shit, I really should get cable one of these days

Books:

Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Things We Carry, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Wise Blood, The Violent Bear it Away, A Good Man is Hard To Find, Everything That Rises Must Converge, The Hotel New Hampshire, Geek Love, The Cider House Rules, And The Ass Saw The Angel

Heroes:

Irving Penn, Andres Kertesz, Anton Corbijn, Pete Townshend, Bob Pollard, Paul Wellstone, Lisa

My Blog

Photos from SXSW 2008

OK, so it’s been a year since I blogged anything here but here goes.  I just updated my website with a page full of highlights from my trip to SXSW. If I counted right I saw & photograp...
Posted by Tony Nelson Photography on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:34:00 PST

SXSW 2007

I've posted a ton of photos from this year's SXSW at my regular web site.  Here's the link: http://www.tonynelsonphoto.com/live/sxsw2007.html TN    ...
Posted by Tony Nelson Photography on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:33:00 PST

Photo Blog 2 - 1st Avenue

First Avenue in Minneapolis celebrated its 35th Anniversary last month with a party featuring several local bands that have graced its two stages. They also included a photo exhibit featuring ima...
Posted by Tony Nelson Photography on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:06:00 PST

Photo Blog 1

        From photo session for Minneapolis' Frank Theater's 2005 production of Sam Shephard's "God Of Hell"...
Posted by Tony Nelson Photography on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:20:00 PST