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New Band: Never Right Now

So Ken and I started a band a while ago, finally came up with a name, and finally have a song put up (more on the way). You can listen to it at one of these three fine places:

MySpace (where we’ll post shows as soon as we figure out how to get them)

bandcamp (much higher quality file, and also a free download of the song)

Facebook (so you can be our fan)

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Tennessee Valley Trail, Golden Gate National Park, California (2008)

This is the first trip I took with my new digital camera (Canon Rebel XT) back in early 2008. Went with Ken and some of his work buddies. The Tennessee Valley Trail is pretty great. You walk a relatively flat road until you get to Muir Beach:

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can we stop? now with sound! new and improved!!! BUY NOW

terrific news; my x3 fanvid set to a nine inch nails song now has sound again. yay for youtube’s workaround agreement with music labels! now i don’t have to hate them! watch here, if you didn’t get a chance: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKEvqyGOKow] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKEvqyGOKow) i’m inordinately proud of it since it took me the longest of anything film-related […]

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gilroy garlic festival 2007

way back a couple of years ago we decided to try out the gilroy garlic festival. now, i am a huge fan of garlic, and i know that farmer’s markets and food festivals ought to be really promising out here since this is such a big “ag” area with likely many local growers and sellers. […]

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hello again

digitalis, my old sketch/writing/artsy-posting catch-all blog, has moved here and henceforth is known as hieratic. this blog is meant to be a less formal, more frequently updated companion to my upcoming portfolio site. here you will be seeing the stuff i won’t necessarily post there, and likely will never put up for sale. most of […]

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sutter fort and sonoma, ’07

trip to sutter fort and wine tasting in sonoma, 2007. i don’t really have too much to say about these. there were only a few from each set i really liked. i think my newer camera is biasing me a great deal. sutter fort non-excessive use of photoshop blur to account for fixed aperture, ftw […]

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whole earth festival 2007

every spring the experimental college puts on a hippie festival called whole earth. in 07 sara and karl joined us and we explored it together. i had a lot of fun last week fixing these up in photoshop, because they were (and may be still) all so godawful. karl really blows, ya know? the acroyoga […]

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even more old home pics

my lame attempt at a family portrait. i don’t think kitsune would tolerate one the same way gidge did. heyyy it’s the goat skull joe gave us and was subsequently stolen! right after we buried it i have put this one up before but recently redid the curves on it defies explanation playing pictionary this […]

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the pig files

here are some old pictures of our guinea pigs, stark and scully. first off, a series we’re building on that showcases guinea pigs in their first and truest roles: as food animals. ok now onto kinder things… and a happy halloween from 2006:

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