2010 archives
Ooooh 2010. 2010 has been a very unique year for me. It’s probably the most stable my life has been in at least five years – staying put in one city, stable income, relationship, 9-5 schedule – quite an adjustment for me. That said, it’s still been a year full of big changes, developments, preferences [...]
So today I was featured by the awesome folks at Photoavent – a digital advent calendar of photographers (as the name may imply). Folks were to use a photo that was particularly important to them and provide details on the process of how they got the shot. Here’s my entry. The Background: I wouldn’t say [...]
Here are some stray photos that never made their way into a particular blog post. July 2010 My bedroom window & my very round head. I think I was excited because my hair was finally long enough to put in a bun. Adventuring in the Mission. Aaron had very curious facial hair at this time. [...]
Some highlights from the remainder of Erin & JT’s epic visit to San Francisco. Burrito breaks with Aaron while the visitors slept. Climbing to the tip-top of San Francisco. (ok, we took a car for most of the way, but still.) Riding the F car through downtown – and scoring the back seat. Full of [...]
I absolutely love having visitors in San Francisco. This is for several reasons: 1) I left a lot of my best friends and family and otherwise wonderful people I’ve met when I up and moved across the country last year. Getting the chance to see them in person is really exciting. 2) It’s easy to [...]
As I explained in a recent post, I just started shooting film. Here are some more analog photos from my recent adventures. A trouble detector outside of Aaron’s apartment. Finding horse (or maybe dinosaur) jaws in Niles Canyon. Exploring some concrete factory ruins somewhere in California. More photos to come from that later. Atlantic Ocean. [...]
After a long weekend of airport waiting, flying, and shooting/editing photos until the wee hours of the morning, and attempting to catch up with lots and lots and lots of people I hadn’t seen in nine months, all I wanted to do was nothing. And what better place to do nothing than New Bern, NC? [...]
Earlier this year (probably March or so), I was stalking Raleigh news (as usual) and noticed that some friends were putting on a music festival. Not like our standard NC music festivals, which involve shitty U2 cover bands as headliners. This was a legitimate music festival, with good, independent, relevant bands. It was to be [...]
I shoot film now! I’ve been wanting to do this for a while. I’ve become somewhat bored with digital, or bored with something… I’m not exactly sure what. Regardless, I felt the urge to try something different in photoland. So, for my birthday, Aaron bought me a Minolta x-370 while we were at the flea [...]
I’ve been going to Portland a lot lately. And by a lot, I mean two times. I’ve had the opportunity to meet a ton of amazing people (I already knew Portland served as home to many amazing folk, but damn, you guys just keep coming). This includes Yogi and Party Boy. Yogi and Party Boy [...]
Hi! It’s been a while. It’s my birthday! It’s days like these where you can’t help but to spend your entire workday (other than eating cupcakes) daydreaming about how another year has flown by and how much has changed over that course of time. Let’s think about it. One year ago, I was touring the [...]
I hadn’t planned on attending Wondercon. I wasn’t even entirely sure what it was. Then, a few weeks ago, I received a note from my friend Paul telling me he was coming to SF for said festival and had a free pass for me, if I wanted it. Of course I want it. I’m not [...]
I’m back! Hooh. A few life upgrades since I last blogged. Upon entering an unexpected job hunt, I reached out to the interwebs and received an overwhelming response. I am so so grateful for all of the job leads, temp offers, support and connections. I followed my gut and landed interviews with a few of [...]
So… I realized I forgot to post any photos from February. Oops. Here are a few that are fun. MOMA. Jaguar Love. Mark Growden. Meghan & Shalaco. Laura. Ernie. Valentine’s at Dolores Park. Brandom & Lewis’ roof. That’s all for now. Hooray for catching up!
Living in San Francisco. I can explore and explore and explore and never run out of places to see or grub to eat or coffee to drink or people to meet or things to do. Still though, from time to time I really miss the road. Driving 8 hours through bumfuck nowhere, blasting mix-CDs with [...]
So. I’ve been elusive lately. (sort of) My life has been hella busy for the last few months. I have a bad habit of devoting way too much time to productive activity, and I have spread myself a bit thin. I had to put my standard activities on hold for a while – things like [...]
I think the phrase “magnetic zero” is absolutely genius, particularly as a band name. Not self-deprecating as much as just… owning your shit. After spending a few years strongly involved with the music industry, either through touring, or promoting, or actually getting paid to work in it, the phrase really resonates with what I’ve observed, [...]
So these are a bit delayed, but here are a few photos from the recent Folsom Street Fair. I felt like this year was more crowded, and it wasn’t long before I was feeling a bit claustrophobic, so I didn’t stay long, which I sort of regret. It’s a day full of great photo ops. [...]
Formal shoots are an interesting situation for me. I don’t do them that often. It’s not like they’re that different from the other shooting I do… I shoot in the same style, my photos basically look the same as they always do. I guess it’s just the idea of HAVING to produce adequate photos. Because [...]
Bowerbirds visit! Hooray! Phil and Beth are homies from Raleigh, NC (the town from which I moved to come here). They were part of a wonderful friend group who made summer 2009 the best I’ve had yet. They play in a band called Bowerbirds, and they are good. Very, very good. They were to play [...]
This has been the most interesting of weeks. Some of you may know that one of my (many) life dreams is to tour the country teaching workshops about the new music industry and building your web presence to take best advantage of evolving technologies. Some of you may also know that I’m a pretty hardcore [...]
I took a quick hiatus from my North Carolina hiatus to visit New York. I had originally planned on being in NC for an entire month over the winter, but ended up planning this mini-trek within that month. It was literally a vacation within my vacation. It’s an odd concept. Maybe you’ll try it sometime… [...]
Raleigh phase 2 was all that I love about Raleigh. My friends make adventure. This particular adventure was centered around the birthday of my dear friend Tim Lytvinenko. If you kept up with my blogs this summer, you know that Tim toured the country with me with Bowerbirds + Megafaun, and he takes care of [...]
I spent most of my month-long east-coast hiatus hiding in New Bern, the city in which I grew up and where my mother still resides. After a year of incredible chaos, I was really looking forward to nothing more than sitting down on a couch in bumfuck eastern NC, doing my work in solitude and [...]
