Max Sidman

Max Sidman

Oakland, CA
Bigger than a breadbox, smaller than a supernova.
20
Dec

Weekly Photoset: December 20, 2018

After months of deactivation — and a couple of years after removing the app from my phone and iPad, which essentially removed it from my daily life — I deleted my Facebook account this week. So, just a heads-up: if we were connected there, we’re not any more...or rather, we won’t be for much longer, as it takes 30
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10
Dec

(Bi)Weekly Photoset: December 10, 2018

I blew it last week and failed to post The weekly batch of photos, so here’s a short collection from the last couple of weeks. No black and white — these are all color, all made with the Fujifilm x100f in my Oakland, CA neighborhood. (Also, just a heads up — I finally published a gallery of pictures from my trip
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25
Nov

Weekly Photoset: November 25, 2018

I had most of last week off work, which offered a break in routine, as well as the opportunity for a short road trip in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The upshot of all that is a weekly photoset that’s a bit heavier than usual. This week’s set also features some pretty vivid color shots among the standard
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19
Nov

Weekly Photoset, November 19, 2018

If there’s a theme to this photoset, it’s traversing the Bay on BART. I made a couple trips between Oakland and SF last week, and captured these images along the way. I’ve been working on photographing people more lately. It’s not something I’m super comfortable with, and like most of my photography, regardless of subject,
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12
Nov

Weekly Photoset: November 12, 2018

Last week was a rough one. It’s been difficult to escape the fires that have effected the whole state — we’ve gotten shitty air quality in Oakland, but compared to what folks in Butte and Ventura Counties have been going through, rotten air quality is, in the immediate term anyway, not much more than an annoyance. I mean, I’
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06
Nov

Weekly Photoset: November 6, 2018

I set a Sunday deadline for myself to post a weekly photoset, and I blew it right outta the gate. I should have posted these images two days ago. But that’s life these days — I’m busy, and sometimes things fall by the wayside. Better late than never, I guess…
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28
Oct

Weekly Photoset: October 28, 2018

I haven’t been posting to this site enough — to the blog or the photo galleries — but that doesn’t mean that I’ve got nothing to post. I take photos almost daily, either with the Lightroom Mobile camera on an iPhone 8, with a FujiFilm x100f that I have on me most of the time, and sometimes with a
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18
Jun

Oaxaca and Puerto Escondido, Mexico | 2018

Film & digital photos, May, 2018.
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04
May

Electric Wizard

This is English stoner doom band Electric Wizard, live at The Warfield in San Francisco (April 30, 2018), complete with crushingly high volume and seizure inducing video accompaniment comprised of flashing, brightly colored psychedelic artwork superimposed over biker movies and Satan worshiping smut films from the 1960s. It all worked really well together. These three photos were taken with Lightroom
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25
Mar

New Sounds: Late Night Old Man Jam BS

When I’m not holding down the fuzzed out, fucked up low send in The Loyalists, I have some occasional musical inclinations that lean toward something different. I started work on this mellow little joint last year, and got lost along the way (not that there’s much to it to get lost in, but that’s just how life
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