kawan's birthday 2018

End of February. Winter doldrums were getting kicked out for some spring energy. I ate before I went, something I don’t even remember, and then there was a lot of food and booze when I got there, always a good sign. It was a most excellent party, with dancing and champagne and every single person there was really rad. Which makes sense, since Kawan is one of the raddest dudes I know.

Lighting conditions were mixed, again, but most of these were salvageable. The middle black and white I could have balanced but I liked it better black and white. The last one there was no way I was getting that right.

I fell in love with the little hallway. Kawan’s apartment/studio is one of those Escher spaces, that don’t make sense unless you draw a floor plan out. We have a lot of those here in SF. But the hallway, with the mirror, was like a perfect photo warp zone. I could shoot there all day Practically did, the party went on for quite a while.

Posted on 2018-04-24T08:11:42Z GMT

dinner club at allies (with special guest mabel)

I think this was february? (checks date in photo metadata, without which I would only know it was “sometime in the past”) yep for sure february. the 19th. There was lasagna and a dog and stories. I may be being slightly silly.

These are black and white because they don’t work in color. mixed LED and CFL bulbs is my suspicion. I don’t go in for the whole color masking acts of god thing that some people do. As the saying goes, Ain’t nobody got time for that.

Posted on 2018-04-23T01:34:00Z GMT

to the top of mt diablo

phone blogging, sorry if these are a little weird. we woke up hungover this morning, but sophie went out for coffee and said ‘we should go for a drive.’ i instantly texted back ‘mt. diablo’. it’s been on my todo list since roughly 2015 (whenever Charlie mentioned it in his newsletter back when there were like three people doing tinyletter).

so we had some at-home breakfast burritos, watched the rest of the movie we paused, and then headed out. it’s about an hour drive, lots of twisties, lots of bikes on the road to the summit. i’m tempted to bike it myself. only a 10% grade ;)

so here’s today.

Posted on 2018-04-22T02:47:20Z GMT

night in the city and the cat

The cat comes first, of course.

That single light in the middle is an extension cord, that seems to be powered. This lot has been vacant since at least 2010. what the hell was it powering?

Posted on 2018-04-20T06:26:01Z GMT

damaris' birthday 2018

This was something like two months ago? Shortly after I got back from Irvine, anyway. It was Damaris’ birthday, and there were a bunch of folks over at their house to celebrate. Really fun time.

Missed a couple days’ blogging there. It’s interesting how easy it is to fall out of the habit of doing this thing. Something I have to push myself to do. I know, I’m being lazy with these, but the lighting was super mixed and tricky, so here they are in black and white.

Posted on 2018-04-19T08:29:49Z GMT