At this point in the pandemic, everyone’s had at least one COVID birthday. We’ve all been through varying degrees of feeling lonely. And we’ve grown very accustomed to Zoom framing. I wanted to play those notes roughly, in a way that might be funny but is almost certainly depressing. Rough chuckles as a friend calls them.
» Read on »Here are 101 of the pictures I took in this misstep of a year.
» Read on »Like most ideas, I found this one roaming the vast and unpredictable terrain that exists between 5am and being officially awake.
» Read on »I first saw James Gouldthorpe’s work at the Fourth Wall Gallery in Oakland, where he was showing “Worrisome: Short Stories.” His wide-ranging influences (comics, movies, novels, music, and occasionally painters) result in works that are rich with narrative… it’s just that the stories are obscured.
» Read on »My dad coached soccer when I was a kid. He was really good at it and spent a lot of time working at it. I think he started assisting on my sister’s team, then started coaching my team. Eventually he went back to coaching girls soccer, because it was a lot more fun than coaching boys.
» Read on »Sung Kim builds instruments. They’re imaginative, oddly intuitive, and often gorgeous.
» Read on »Here is a short collection of film scores masquerading as a collection of NRP Bumper Music. For some reason they haven’t gotten in touch. » Read on »
Finally got to take my new Parabola tremolo pedal from Caroline Guitar Co for a spin (not to be confused with Caroline who works at Parabola). Here’s a test run on a song called Eleventh Dream Day Knife Fight: » Read on »
The Hearst Castle is an amazing place. Designed to look old world, it is a pastiche of various European styles, strung together without any historical context or aesthetic guidelines. I took this batch of photos on a recent visit. » Read on »
I first saw Trona driving towards Bakersfield from Death Valley. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a burned down house and decided to pull over to investigate. Swinging around the block, there were another few burned down houses, and even more that were clearly abandoned. The inhabited ones were few and far between. It seemed to be well on it’s way to becoming a ghost town, but there were still people hanging on. » Read on »
10 days, 2,600 miles, 8,600′ above sea level, 200′ below. Good times. » Read on »
Last night, I went to Heinhold’s First & Last with my Jane and my sister. Getting drinks, I noticed a sign behind the bar that I hadn’t seen before: “We welcome all Nations except Carrie.” Which is brilliant. » Read on »
I got a Lens Baby squeezy lens and wanted to take it for a test dive.
Dad would have been 71 today. My uncle’s been sharing some stories, like he does every year on this day. I’m sharing them here (as well as some of my own).
My colleague Stefan Gutermuth and I recently completed redesigning UC Berkeley’s Art Department website.
Jason Batzer was my friend. After a long battle with depression, he killed himself last week. » Read on »
Some jobs don’t work out for whatever reason, and this is one of those. However, I like the design, and wanted to post the mock-ups here. » Read on »
My friend and colleague Stefan Gutermuth and I rebuilt the French Department’s website this summer, making some substantial changes top to bottom. You can view it here.
We’ve done work together before, and most of it has been for UCB sites. This one is a step up on several fronts. » Read on »
The Cielito Lindo Apartment complex sits across Park Boulevard from me, tucked behind some other buildings. Without knowing where it is, you probably wouldn’t find it. » Read on »
Much has been made of Dave “Cracker” Lowery’s open letter in response to an NPR blog post recently. The contrast between these two points of view says a lot about the music industry, and how it earned it’s timely demise. » Read on »
Finally finished giving my lovely and talented wife’s website a redo that’s been a long time coming. Now you can finally see the images on a larger scale, sort them, browse them, and keep up with what she’s doing.
If you’re ever in Pahrump, Nevada (maybe you’re visiting Art Bell, one of the brothels near his place, or just there for a little wine tasting), I suggest you stop by the place with the Free Yard Sale sign out front. I don’t know what that means, either, but he’s got a lot of cool stuff to take pictures of.
Whew – it’s been a few months since I’ve posted any work here. Part of that’s because I’ve been working on finishing off the film (ALMOST THERE!), part of that is because I’ve been too damn busy to document what I’ve been up to. » Read on »