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Max Sidman

Max Sidman

Oakland, CA
Bigger than a breadbox, smaller than a supernova.
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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Music
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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Music
11
Mar

Familiar Paths, New Angles

I tend to traverse the same paths. My commute between home and work, the errands I run around town, and the tracks of my life are generally through streets that I'm very familiar with because I'm on them with such frequency. The trick is keeping my eyes open — a trick I'm still practicing most
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Photography
09
Feb
The Loyalists, "Decision Baby Makes Moustache" [Music Video]

The Loyalists, "Decision Baby Makes Moustache" [Music Video]

I play bass in a busted noise rock band called The Loyalists. We’ve been together for a while, put out two albums, played some shows. We've also spent plenty of time not doing anything. Anyway… My bandmate Colin, who plays cello and guitar and writes most of the songs, is also a filmmaker, and from time to
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04
Feb
Happy Accidents: Expired Film Fail

Happy Accidents: Expired Film Fail

Some months back, I had a few rolls of film developed, and added a few shots to the black and white film gallery. Most of these photos were shot between April and July of 2017, I finally had the film developed in early August, and then immediately left the country for a couple weeks. When I returned, I didn’t
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26
Sep
Barcelona & Bilbao | 2017

Barcelona & Bilbao | 2017

In August I spent a couple weeks in Spain, mostly in Barcelona, with a few nights in Bilbao, and a day trip to Figueres. Throughout the two week trip, I snapped about 1100 pictures with a Nikon D7200, then boiled all those down to a couple dozen keepers. This should go without saying, but these photos do not even come
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01
Aug

Los Angeles | 2017

I went to LA for a few days in July on a sort of mini vacation, to catch up with friends, eat, drink, wander around... pretty much find the sweet spot between vacation levels of lazy, and still doing cool stuff. That weekend was really hot, like 100 degrees, in absolutely dead air, where I was staying — with friends in
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Photography
26
Jun

Two Houses on Carmel Point

I spent a few days down the coast a couple weekends back, during that time I did some morning hiking through the streets and around the perimeter of Carmel Point. At the outermost edge of the Point, on Scenic Drive right in the middle of Carmel Bay, these two houses face out to the Pacific, sitting perched on low cliffs
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Architecture
28
Apr

Lightroom for iPhone & "RAW" Camera Photos

I started learning and using Adobe Lightroom in earnest recently, and part of the deal with it is included apps for mobile devices. I was discussing some of the finer points of LR with a buddy who works at Adobe, and he told me that, on newer iPhone models, the native LR camera shoots in a "RAW" mode
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