1) Don’t ever write posts about how you’ll “finally start blogging again.”

2) Film shooting and my style of blogging does not mix. Don’t get me wrong, I love film and I will continue shooting with it, but film rolls take weeks to finish and develop, and I like to document every detail of my life as it happens. That and stories just aren’t as fun to tell when they’re written two weeks late. I need to start taking digital photos again for this blog to actually work like I want it to.

3) Just because I’m not traveling around the country doesn’t mean I’m not seeing things worth sharing.

That’s all I’m going to say about that. Here is a blog. With photos.

This week was a good week. For one, our team at 1000memories (did I mention I have a wonderful job now? I can’t remember) finally shipped a rad project we’d been working on for a while. Second, I got a new camera AND lens. I have literally been dreaming about this gear for months.

Everything arrived just in time for me to photograph a little shindig we hosted at our office on Friday night. It was great getting some of my favorite folks together under one roof (or on one porch).

Afterwards, the team (+ a few others) headed to karaoke in Japantown. Aaron and I watched, as we both hate the idea of singing karaoke with a passion we cannot explain.

Tiffany, one of our attendees, mentioned that she was hosting a Lomo double exposure walk through Chinatown the next day. Considering it was just down the street from my house, and I wanted to grab a peek of the Lomo store under construction at Union Square, I was in.

(You can learn more about Lomography here.)

I couldn’t help but snap some photos with my digital. I’d share my film shots, but, you know… they’ll probably be ready in a few weeks.

We ended the hike with a little tour de Lomo store, which will open in Union Square this fall. I can’t wait.

By that point I was completely spent and went home to sleep until Sunday.

Today Aaron and I went to Oakland to hang with Tara and her cat, Dexter.

We stopped by the Temescal street fair for a bit, moreso to eat Bakesale Betty’s fried chicken sandwich and strawberry shortcake.

After one last quick stop by an abandoned building on the UC Berkeley campus (bc we clearly did not have enough adventure for one weekend), we were again spent and headed back to San Francisco to call it a weekend.

On another note, I hung out with two other cats this week.

Malfoy, our temporary office cat…

and Olive, who is temporarily living in my apartment/sitting on my bed staring at me right now.

Ok, that’s all for now.

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I was voluntarily kidnapped on Saturday and taken to a few places I would have never otherwise found, including a random bulb of waterfront land in Berkeley, and a middle school.

I tagged along to this bulb of note with friends Mark and Cherry. It was a bit of a drive, then a bit of a hike. I ended up losing them along the way, as I was too distracted by the surrounding plant life to pay attention to anything else. Eventually I found them, and subsequently found myself in the middle of what appeared to be a waterfront pirate birthday party.

Fast forward. I’m in a middle school on a Saturday night. Also normal?

I am here as a spectator for a juggling and unicycling festival, hosted by Frank Oliver. One of their finale shows happens to take place within this middle school. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but while watching the rehearsals, I found myself quite emotionally invested in the efforts of many young performers who seemed to be debuting their tricks on this stage tonight. Many of them were attempting a new, more difficult trick for the first time, failing over and over in their rehearsal attempts, but sticking with their intent in hopes that for the final performance, they will pull it off that one time.

The show itself was full of surprises and hilarious entertainment. The performers were so creative and talented! I now find myself a fan of juggling and unicycling and all things related.

I finished the night off lurking the middle school grounds with Mark + Alex Kelly, playing around with the lighting.. and here’s what we came up with:

And so ends another normal Saturday.

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