THE ANGRY WHALE

a web zine by columbia sc photographer sean rayford

Someone's Mom Rips Beer Bong at St. Pat's Festival - Photos

March 17, 2014
"MOM! MOM! MOM!" I could hear the chant behind me funneling through the chaos of St. Patrick's Day in Five Points, Columbia SC. I turned around to catch the end of the f...
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13 Lucky St. Pat's Moments with Humans Posing for the Camera

March 17, 2014
Sometimes the humans react in strange and awesome ways when they see me with a camera. A long time ago (think Jesus times) some Roman dude spoke about luck being rooted a...
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Welcome to The Live Music Capital of the World - Photos - SXSW 2014

March 11, 2014
"It's about to get real windy out here," says the dude carrying the leaf blower on the deck of the Javelina Bar at 69 Rainey St. in Austin, TX. It's nine am and I have to...
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36 Hours in the Big Easy - A Road to SXSW - Photos

March 09, 2014
Eight hours east of Austin, Texas - we skirt along the 40 mile wide Pontchartrain lake just north of New Orleans in a Toyota Matrix. The sunlight ricochets across the wat...
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Carolina Cryptid - Sasquatch Sighted in Upstate South Carolina

March 05, 2014
A few weeks back I took a trip into the woods near Clemson, SC on assignment for Columbia's alt-weekly, The Free Times covering a story about bigfoot hunters in the South...
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Mardi Gras at City Roots - Soda City Style 2014

March 04, 2014
As the sun crashed across the City Roots Farm near Owens Field Airport on Saturday, groups of children played on piles of mulch and raced through greenhouses like X-Wings...
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Can't Remember the Weekend - Ep. 4 - Rainbow Pooping Unicorns

March 03, 2014
The premise of this photoblog is a pursuit of rainbow pooping unicorns. Saturday morning I came pretty close, when I shot for Flo Foto, the official partnering photograph...
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"Rear Naked Choke" - Caged Chaos at the Jamil Temple

February 24, 2014
Alex Larmey, a combat engineering army officer who recently served in Afghanistan, came down from upstate New York to fight in his first MMA fight at Caged Chaos 8 on Sat...
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Henderson Bros. Burlesque Show at Trustus Theatre in the Vista

February 21, 2014
Last weekend, Trustus Theatre in the Vista hosted the Henderson Bros. Burlesque Show in celebration of Valentine's Day. I stopped by on the final night of the production...
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About Last Night - Surfer Blood, Wake Up and Small Sanctions

February 20, 2014
The last time I took a photograph of Grayson Venters of Small Sanctions, he was making funny faces floating down the Congaree River back in September. If I remember corre...
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