Category Archives: Travel

May 14, 2012

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I thought about naming this post, “How Ultra Music Festival Sucks.” Seriously, why can’t Ultra do things like this? These tickets are magnetic card style, the welcome package is full-color glossy and it includes a key-chain, stickers and a pack of seeds. Yes, seriously.  A pack of seeds. It also has a booklet that covers [...]

April 5, 2012

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Hi UMF. Congratulations on your 14th year! You’ve stayed in Miami, gone from 1 day to 3 and people from all around the world come to dance and party with you. That’s pretty awesome. Before this year, things were awkward. Well, it’s still awkward but in a good way. Your weirdness makes the party better [...]

February 16, 2012

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You bought tickets to Ultra Music Festival 2012 in Miami! AWESOME! You’ll be joining 150,000 people on a pilgrimage to the greatest music festival in the world and now you just need some tips on getting there and what to expect. I’ve written a few previous guides to Ultra. You can read those if you [...]

January 11, 2012

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In 2010, I was in Miami for Ultra Music Festival when it was announced that the event was completely sold out. This was the first time that had ever happened. Following the announcement, it was said that 2011 would be a 3 day festival instead of 2 so they could accommodate more people. I promised to attend [...]

May 24, 2011

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I wasn’t planning on this post nor was I planning on taking any more than 3 photos while in Amsterdam. Something happened today and I found myself not going immediately back to my hotel after work. This was a busy trip with very little downtime so I was mostly interested in sleeping and writing. Today, [...]

May 23, 2011

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The amount of Photo Posts on this blog are beginning to exceed my regular posts. It’s clear that I’m really doing a lot more travel and a larger amount of photo taking lately. By the way, I was supposed to have my really cool photo blog online by now but I decided to buy a [...]

May 11, 2011

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In March, I purchased tickets to a San Francisco Giants game and redeemed a Virgin America credit for a flight. The goal of this trip was to see a few friends, enjoy some burritos and the California sun while taking a well-needed four day weekend and seeing my favorite baseball team crush the competition. The [...]

March 29, 2011

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While in Miami for the 2011 edition of Ultra Music Festival, I snapped over 3,000 photos with my Olympus PEN E-PL2. With me, I brought a 20mm f/1.7 pancake lens, a 14-42mm f/3.5 stock zoom lens and a 45-200mm lens for artist photos. On Saturday and Sunday, I had to change batteries around hour 10 [...]

March 20, 2011

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UPDATE: I’ve began to post my own pictures from Ultra Music Festival to Flickr in a “Miami 2011″ photoset. These photos are Creative Commons so you can use them but please credit me as the photographer with a link back to this site or the Flickr page. Thank you. You call this SEO bait if [...]

March 20, 2011

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As of this writing, Ultra Music Festival takes place in downtown Miami in 4 days and 18 hours. at 4PM on Friday, 50,000 people will invade the small downtown park and the party continues for three days finally ending Sunday at midnight. It’s my favorite event of the year. Ultra doesn’t turn out so well [...]