Branding and Marketing photos for Altec Lansing

Throughout 2010 I have been working on creating some marketing and branding images for Altec Lansing (your iPod speaker dock--they probably made it). I took this set in July, my subjects are a group of dynamic and talented dancers--part of a DC-based dance crew called "Urban Artistry."

These are some of my favorite images from the night, please enjoy the photos, but please do not copy, reprint or republish. Thx!

(I recently went into Best Buy and saw one of my images on the side of the Altec "MuzX" headphones... )

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All photos copyright Dakota Fine Photography. It is unlawful to print or use any of these photos without expressed written permission. In usage, all photos must be credited "Dakota Fine for for Altec Lansing." For inquiries about purchasing full rights for print without credit, please contact Dakota Fine at dakota@dakotafine.com.

Tormenting the Tea Partiers

So there are some things that happen in Washington, DC. Things that happen nowhere else. I mean, apart from the lawmaking and the Air and Space Museum and all that other crap. No, I mean there are sometimes protests unlike anything seen elsewhere in the United States.

On August 28, 2010 hordes of conservative middle-Americans swarmed upon Washington DC to witness the wails (and woes) of Glenn Beck. BYT set out to show these partisan ponces how the locals felt about their presence in our fine city. Dressing as a pregnant devil and holding a sign that read "I Want A Sandwich" seemed the best way to befuddle these cretins -- we were met with a mixture of confusion, hostility, and... oh yeah, sandwiches (seriously, we were well fed).

Amazingly, we were picked up by a spate of awesome media sources scrambling to pick up on the ludicrousness of the event. The Huffington Post called us their "favorite attendee," Wonkette said we "baffled folks," and even the Atlantic Wire decided we were such an interesting story we deserved full coverage!

3 photos in Washingtonian Magazine this month!

I got three half page photos into this month's issue of the Washingtonian Magazine, "Great Dates."

The photos are of three separate locations to go out in DC. The first is of The Velvet Lounge, a popular late night spot to see all kinds of local indie bands. The second is of the Fatback party at Liv, and the third is of Josephine Lounge, just off of K St downtown.

Click here to view as a PDF.

Happy (and a very BYT) 2010 Everybody!!

DF09_12.31_NYE2010-118, originally uploaded by DAKOTAFINE.

Had the utmost of fun this past New Years Eve celebrating with friends at BYT's New Years 2010: A Space Fantasy party at the Capitol Skyline Hotel.

Special effects provided thanks to Target LED headlamps I purchased for about $6 (thanks to Erica Denny for the tip!).

Thank you DC! (It's almost like I'm from here... ;)

Jeremy Furstenfeld for Yamaha Magazine

Tear sheets of the Yamaha Magazine spread I did of Jeremy Furstenfeld, drummer for Texas Rock Band Blue October.

Check out the Yamaha All Access 360 website for the interactive feature!

"In the top echelon of D.C. night-life photography sits Dakota Fine, photo editor and chief shooter for the Web site Brightest Young Things."

I was profiled by the Washington Post on June 28th. The title of this post is the first sentence of their profile of me.

You can link to the full article here.



Also, my photo of my good friends U.S. Royalty was in print in the Washington Post last week...

My photo of Yelle, Japanimated!!!

Yelle - Dyptique, originally uploaded by DAKOTAFINE.

So I was backstage at SXSW at the Perez Hilton Party... and I see French pop-star, Yelle across the room. I waved to her meekly thinking to myself how excited I was to see her again, after all during her last visit to DC, we had really hit it off during our photoshoot and my photos ended up on her site.

Anyways, from across the room, she exclaims, "Da-kooooo-ta!" in her unbelievably cute French accent of course. Turns out she remembered me... and even recognized me! I was like, "you remember me?" And her response, "of course!" Highlight of my year probably.

Well, over the course of our conversation she asks me whether I had seen the Japanimated version of the photo I took of her and her bandmates for DC fashion designer DURKL. Turns out someone from abroad has animated my photo!

It wasn't until a few months later that someone forwarded me the link to the website, but here it is (tokyobanhbao.com)... the internet, as my mother said, is unbelievable.