Wednesday, March 31, 2010

write up in The Deli Blog! ...and 3 shows in the next 3 nights!

So guess what!! Photon Dynamo and the Shiny Pieces was featured in The Deli Magazine Blog about our show at the DIY Bushwick Music Festival! Others featured in the article include, The Guitars, and one of my personal favorites: LOWRY! Here's the link:

http://nyc.thedelimagazine.com/node/1251



And speaking of Lowry, their residency continues at Spike Hill this thursday with Ivan and the Terribles, with whom I will be playing bass because Chris Denham is super busy and awesome. hopefully I will do the band some justice in his absense. So:

Thursday April 1st at Spike Hill, free!
8pm- Ivan and the Terribles
9pm- Lowry

Also, TONIGHT! Ten Antenna will be playing at Hannah Fairchild's CD Release Party at BAR 4; 444 7th Ave in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Super Excited to hear Hannah's cd, she's an incredible singer songwriter, and tonight will be playing with a band for the first time!

8pm- Debbie Miller
9pm- Ten Antenna
10pm- Hannah Fairchild



So if that's not enough, I will be playing a solo set at Piano's this friday for Dexter Scott's EP Release Party.

8pm- Gillian Visco
9pm- Dexter Scott

The next few days are gunna be rad and i am so looking forward to them =) hope you can make it out!

Sunday, March 28, 2010

rainy days, mondays, always get me down

yea i know its not monday, but it may as well be. shoots are getting cancelled left and right because of this random rain. i decided to go to the diner this morning, but forgot it was sunday and that the diner would be PACKED with people. i may as well not have taken up a table just for myself when theres groups of people waiting to have brunch or what have you.

i finally saw the Shining for the first time last night. they had a midnight showing at the IFC center so me and ivan went and it was awesome!!! only i wish my stupid narcolepsy hadnt kicked in at the most important part. huge chunk of the film i was nodding in and out. its so frustrating because my mind is like.. "dont you DARE fall asleep!! what are you doing!!" but it doesnt matter, im out.

anyway, i shot yesterday in Battery Park for a film with an SVA student named Daniel Bello. Its a pretty cool idea, im just a girl walking around the park and all this crazy weird shit starts happening. we were supposed to shoot today, but the weather got in the way.

this week is looking CRAZY busy, (but what week doesnt). Ive got a Ten Antenna Show, playing bass with Ivan and the Terribles, and have a solo show three nights in a row. And I have three different shoots three days in a row. Then of course work at FAO, and easter is on Sunday (?!) and HOPEFULLY me ivan maria frank and margot will finally be able to go check out that Tim Burton exhibit at MoMa. been dyinggg to see it.



The above picture is from my new music video that director, Kevin Slack, directed. You can check out his blog here: http://tinyurl.com/yae4l27 . There's some screenshots pulled from some of his footage. Here's some more:





I'm gunna wait a while to post some other things. There's so much to report on these last few months. They've been incredible and exhausting. but there's nothing better than killin yourself for the dream. What better way to spend your time?

Friday, March 26, 2010

change of direction.

so i sounded really depressed in that last entry. i still feel the same but at least im unemployed. =D no more stupid job!

in the past few months ive done a ton of independent and student films, and shot a music video with director Kevin Slack! I'm going to be documenting such things like this ...if i can keep up with it. its been a crazy february and a crazy march, and i just hope it keeps getting crazier because im doing what i WANT and it amazes me how many people miss out on the amazing opportunity to follow your dream and your passion. what else is there to do??

so for now, I will post a link to a review that was written about my most recent CD, Flotation Device, which I recorded with Alberto Amaya in September 2008. It was released October 8th, 2009. And now I have a whole new batch of songs to record, so hopefully there will be a new cd in the works soon!

http://www.madeloud.com/review/gillian_visco_flotation_device

i will try and keep up with this as much as i can. i have so much to write about the last 2 months.