Posts Tagged california
I’ve learned a few things about blogging in the past year. 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 [...]
I’ve finally developed more film!! I’ve been procrastinating on the developing front (as it’s so expensive) – the only reason I have these photos are because Aaron stole the rolls from my purse and had them developed for me. I cannot complain. Stories below. This is a double view of the lovely weather we’ve been [...]
Last night I went to Oakland in a green jumpsuit. That is all. [^ photo by Mick Frederick]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Greetings from Northern California. I’m writing to you from the back seat of the tourmobile, in the middle of a heavy rainstorm, en route to Oregon. The tour posse: Mark Growden – musical mastermind/reason why all of this is happening. Alex Kelly – cello prodigy/giggler/noise maker extraordinaire. Helena Price – record label representative/doer of business-related [...]
It was a weekend of festing. Tara and I decided that we would adventure to Pumpkin Fest on Saturday afternoon. I heard there would be a giant pumpkin, and I enjoy all food products involving pumpkin, so I figured it would be a good way to spend my time. Backed up in a surprising large [...]
After a particularly long drive, thanks to my accidental detour through some random southern California cities, we arrive in San Francisco. At 5:30 AM…. most awkward arrival time yet, especially when I have to wake my new roommate up in my new San Francisco house, neither of which I have seen or met, to move [...]
After what could possibly be the best tour weekend ever, we reluctantly say goodbye to Shaun & Margaret and depart for our next destination – San Francisco. I was particularly excited about this stop, as this is where I will be living for the next three years. It’ll be nice to catch a show in [...]
Stories + photos from my most recent trip to San Francisco. Kate and I head out bright and early to catch out 6 a.m. flight to Houston, TX. I have no recollection of it, as I passed out immediately once I was seated on the plane. Apparently free breakfast was offered to me. I had [...]
So I started this habit of jumping recently. I suppose it happened after having the epiphany that I have a lot of good photos of things that thousands of other people have also taken good photos of. The sudden feeling that my photos lacked any sort of novelty led me to the decision to begin [...]
On the way back into town to finish up the last of our San Fran projects before plane boarding time. Project #1: go to Land’s End. It’s a strange process getting out here. You go to the golf course behind the Legion of Honor, wander until you find a dirt road blocked off by a [...]
We head northward to find Calistoga, a tiny town nestled within the Sonoma Valley. Out mapquest directions don’t seem to suffice, so we decide to rely on the navigation service on my phone. We end up on Petrified Forest Road, winding at about five mph to keep from driving off the side of the mountain. [...]
[March 2009] Day four: drive everywhere we possibly can. Vista point jump. Stop 2: Some amazing beach. Can’t remember the name, but I remember that it bore some sort of phonetic resemblance to pinot grigio. So we started hiking. Random Pacific Ocean cliffside jump. Even higher more dangerous Pacific Ocean cliffside jump. I was examining [...]
Hey folks. I am writing to you from a charging kiosk in the Atlanta airport. It’s 6:38 a.m. I just ate half of a disgusting overpriced airport breakfast, a nice little reminder that vacation time is over. I have an hour and a half before my second flight leaves, so I thought I’d divulge everything [...]
So I think I’ve been here long enough to make some retrospective observations. At this point I’ve roughly categorized my trip into three segments – the first being a giant onslaught of people and neighborhoods, when I saw a million new things a day and personally met 30-some people within the first few days…. Second [...]
I feel like cramming so much ridiculous adventure into such a short period of time is really messing with my head. Everything is starting to mesh together, and I’m having trouble remembering what happened yesterday vs. last week. I’m hoping things will come back to me as I write. So yesterday, I awoke at noon [...]
I’ll preface this with an apology for the fact that my emails keep getting longer and longer. I don’t mean to do it… I just keep getting caught up in more and more random things to write stories about. So begins day one of week two. I woke up just in time to meet Dakota [...]
I feel like a lot has happened in the past 24 hours. Especially considering I woke up close to 1:00 today (yeah, that’s 4:00 Raleigh time). It’s all kind of a blur at this point (from sheer quantity of activity, not intoxication), but I’ll try and piece it all back together. Last night was fun. [...]
