THE MAYNE THAT PACKS THA SHOTS CATCHES UP WITH THOMAS D SLCAK FOR CHYIT CHYAT. HE'S CURRENTLY TRYIN TO SELL SOME SWEET ASS VYNILS, SO GET IN THERE QUICK BITCHES!
TDSLR.COM. THOMAS D SLACK. WHERE DOES THE R COME FROM?
Haha... Okay... I'll let you in on this one... I feel it's quite ultramodern, by that I mean the 'TDSLR' doesn't stand for one thing as such. It stands for two things. Myself and the camera. My initials are TDS, and the style of camera I have is 'D-SLR' (Digital - Single Lens Reflex) - SO, when combining myself and the cam, you get TDSLR... When I was brain storming a 'name' for my business/website, I worked out the TDSLR, straight away, I knew it was 'the one'...
PERSONALLY, I WOULDA WENT WIT 'MAD TAM WID DA CAM, MAYNE'. THOUGHTS?
Haha... Class... Diggin' the new handle...
HOW DID YOU GET INTO PHATOGRUPHAH AND WHATS BEEN YOUR GREATEST ACHIEVMENT SO FAR?
Och... I was very fortunate to get a wee 'compact' camera... a point and shoot, wee Kodak thing ages ago for my 21st... It was great taking pics of mates intoxicated, things we couldn't remember, good times really, up town, camping up the highlands, holidays etc... I loved it... My infamous camera was known as 'The Tam Cam'! haha. One Christmas, my mate William, from Washington DC, brought me over a newer camera... It was like night and day, comparing the shots from my new and old cam... I knew I wanted to take this further... Chasing sharper, bigger, high-res images... After a few years, I was able to get my hands on a brand new Nikon D90!! TIDY! The first DLSR to have HD Movie mode... (bonus!) I also picked up a Macro lens... Happy days... Now I could eventually try my hand at some insect work... I love wildlife and the outdoors... So not sure if that's the right answer to the question... I just slavoured on there... haha, but yeh... it was a natural progression after taking my first snap.
Greatest achievement? Hmmm... Getting through a shoot maybe? haha! I've had a few great achievements to be honest... I'm a lucky guy... I don't know how... I've had the pleasure to travel all over Scotland with my camera, including Shetland, Aviemore and Glencoe, taking stunning shots... This I love. Planning a shot, trying for days to achieve it and getting it right... Oh happy days... It can take days/weeks to get some shots correct, working with wildlife and landscapes, things change all the time. Em... I suppose I was really chuffed having one of my photos printed in The Scotsman newspaper... Double-page spread... That was cool... I've had my work in a few other magazines and brochures. Having the chance to work with and help (some of my fav emcee's) Scottish hip hoppers... There's good guys on the 'scene'... BUT - maybe my best moment... (drum roll.....) Being on a shoot for a make-up artist, I was shooting nine, yes 9, different models... This was amaisin... getting paid to do jobs you only ever dreamed of... Bloody magic... Felt like I was on a set for FHM! Shots are minted, so it's great seeing a happy client... Oh, I also got a picture of my favourite artist of all time - 'Peter Green'. This was in Glasgow, I was SO lucky to actually meet him after a gig, I got a shot of him and my mate took a shot of Peter and I... Cheesing to say the least... Check him out, tracks called 'World keep on turning' or 'Jumping at shadows'... That's where it's at...
AS AN AVID SUPPORTER OF THE SCENE, HAVE YOU DABBLED IN MAKING MUSIK, OR IS IT STRICKTLAH BEHIND THE LENSE?
I have never made music as such... I've wrote a few raps when I was at college, years ago, and spat them when I was steaming... One of my lines were, lol: "Predicted unpredictable, like a primate, I wanna f•ck Liz Hurley" But nothing ever recorded. Thank France!! haha cringe! I had a base guitar once, but my mate Mikey pawned it for vodka. Em... I've never made beats either... It's mad, because I consider myself deeply involved in music and some-things that are going on... I've wrote a track or two with Adam Homes... Those were blues/folky tracks... I've managed a blues band years ago and I was Madhats manager a few years back too... So I do have a strong opinion about things... but I guess my strongest work in 'the scene' would have to have been behind the lens. It was good covering the Don't Flop gig, as I think it showed a lot of folk my standard... I've also chucked up tuns of videos on youtube (Tzaosirus7), not to any pro standard... I guess that's probably due to being drunken when I'm recording spitz on the streets! I've also done a few album designs... New ones coming from MOG, Nity, Wardie... So aye, I like to try and help with what I'm good at... Give things that bit better of an edge... Pro look... I try... haha
HA YOU MUSTA BEEN PISSED YOUR MATE PAWNED SOMETHING OF YOURS?
Ha... Well... the guys like a brother to me... I did get the Bass for cheap too... but aye, I was pissed off - he drank the vodka without me... haha. I think the worst part of the whole thing was him lying... saying it's in his attic etc... hiding from us when we had rehersal rooms booked etc... That was nippy... But hey, it was just a daft guitar that I couldn't play... He prob done me (and others) a favour! haha
WHAT HAPPENED WITH BEING MADHATS MANAGER THEN?
Em... I had just got my camera... Things were looking good for Madhat and we were having good times... After a short while though, I ended up thinking... (not often eh? haha). I was thinking, I had done so much promotion / management etc for other people and now I was sitting with semi-pro camera, capable of making me a decent living... If I did the same for myself, that I had been doing for other people, I might have a good chance of going somewhere... So... I'm daft about outdoors and wildlife... Amongst other things of course... But I decided to move out of Madhats... save some doe and get myself a one-way ticket to Australia and 'do the do' over there... I'm 27, so now is a good time to go for me... I plan to focus on my website and my photography, explore new lands... I'm sick of seeing it on TV and wishing it was me that was doing it... the time is now! I leave Tuesday 29th June... hohoho
YOUR SITE IS A VERY WELL POLOSHED SUAVE PIECE OF KRAFT SIR. DID YOU MAKE THAT YOURSELF?
Why thank you. Negative. I done/do all content, eg pics and text... I do all updates and maintain the site myself. But the man with the plan was 'chaswilliams.com'. A very good friend of mines. I can't do technical engineering of websites... I can design them and get them looking class... But I can't 'do the do' as such...
WHATS THE MOST DISTURBING THING YOUVE WTINESSED ONLINE?
Not too sure if I should tell? I still remember it vividly. It was rank... It involved two Asian females, a strap-on and vomit. Vile stuff... We all jumped back as if the spew would hit us! The video was called 'Puke Girl'. Enough said?
SO AS A PHOTOGRAPHAH, DO YOU HAVE ANY PROJECTS PLANNED? OR IS IT A CASE OF AIM AND SHOOT AND SEE WHAT HYAPPENS?
Hmmm.... Biggest plan I reckon is the OZ thing... If I can manage to keep a diary, do lots of travelling, and get 1 pro shot a day, I'll be really chuffed... So I guess that's a year-long project in the making... Fingers crossed it all goes well...
WHY DID YOU TAKE PICS OF THE MUFUCKIN BOGS AT THE FLYIN DUCK?
Haha... Fortunately, the camera doesn't pick up smell eh?
I thought they bogs were tidy! Cool colours and lighting... You end up seeing the beauty in mad different things when you spend half your time with your eye stuck to the lens... Did you like the shot?
I LIKED THE SHOTS, WOULDA PREFFERED THE GIRLS TOILETS THOUGH.
Haha! What were they like?
IS PETER PARKER AN INSPUHRASHON TO YOU AS A PHOTGRAPHER?
Of course he is! The angles that guy gets, he's the shit man!! Web slinging, photo snapping, hot chick suckin', bad guy punchin', tight wearing bad ass. What photographer could he not influence?
WHAT WAS THE LAST GIG YOU WHERE AT?
Last gig... em... It was a Number 9's gig... Cab Vol, Edinburgh... It was top quality as per usual... That band has it locked... Stage performance is off the hook... Go on the Bulldog and the rest of the boys! Rock on man!!
YEAH I SEEN THE 9'S WHEN THEY WHERE LAST IN G-TOWN. THAT LEAD SINGER HAS SOME FUNKY MOVES. CAN TAM THE CAM MAYNE HOLD HIS OWN ON THE DANCE FLOOR?
Haha, Steven aka The Bulldog, he's one of my best mates... We've been on the go for a good few years now... I remember in Kavos, in the year 2000, all the boys went over, mad times... But Steve did the same moves as he does on stage just now at the front of this club... Beach club or somit... it was epic... Go on Steve man... Mad shapes... haha!
Hold my own drink maybe... I can't dance... Closest you get to me dancing is like a scene out of 'Shimmy Shimmy Ya'!
WHY ARE YOU GOING TO AUSTRALIA?
Take photos man!!! Explore, adventure, get drunk, you know... Same kind of stuff I do here... The worlds tiny... And if I can make it to OZ - anyone can man... Just got to say to yourself - the time is now! I'm going on my own, so I don't have to argue or rely on anyone... Just do my thing... Queensland style!!! I'll be keeping my diary on my website as up-to-date as possible...
HOW DID YOU GET ON WITH SELLIN YOUR VYNILS?
Pish... Sold Jinx 10... Good price, but he got first pick, so he walked away with Big L's first album, Big L's last ever live show in Amsterdam, mint condition... Mef / Tical, GZA / Liquid Swords, Ice Cube / Predator... Few others... all classics... I'm throwing them away just now... cheap as chips!!! I NEED MONEY!!! haha. So aye, I've got till Sat 26th to sell them... Hopefully the SunGod will take some... GET IN TOUCH IF YOU WANT TO BUY SOME!!!! Oh aye, I sold 8 to guy in England... He got at me via the youtube videos... Had them picked up off a courier etc... mad man...
THE BEATLES OR THE ROLLING STONES?
Hmm... Beatles for the psychedelic journey... Stones for some rock n roll... 'Play with Fire'... That's the track!!
But I'd rather listen to - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - ANYDAY!!! That's my favorate band of all time man... Get them checked...
WHO DID YOU LAST PUNCH AND WHY?
Hmm.... I'm a blunt sucking hippy... So I don't really fight all that much... Grew out of it... Prob one of my mates for taking my lighter or something... Jinx or someone... haha
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME SOMEONE FLASHED YOU?
Flashed me? It was about 3 weeks ago... My friend Keenan loves to reveal his 'himself'... We were in Hamburg, Germany for my mates Stag doo (Seriously, if your a guy, go to HAMBURG!!!). I woke up on the 2nd day, bottom bunk... He was lying in a star shape on a bed across from me... Totally naked... Rubbing his man hood... We were all just like 'put it away man'... lol... First thing in the morning an that... He was rubbing his wee genie lamp... as I found myself staring at the competition, lol, I was like I recognise that thing... Or it looked familiar...? Then it came to me, it was the spittin' image for a Wizards hat! haha... He was well pleased with his new handle for the wee man... 'The Wizards Hat'... hahaha... Quality...
THANKS TO TDSLR FOR THE VYOU. HERE'S SOME OF HIS LINKS MAYNE
www.tdslr.com
www.flickr.com/Tzaosirus7
www.youtube.com/Tzaosirus7
LADIES AND GENTLERMEN, TDSLR!
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