One of my favorite perks of working in the City is the SF MoMA. I have a membership (totally worth the cost if you go with a guest just twice in a year), and enjoy the benefits of it as often as I can. Just strolling the collection early on a weekend morning before the crowds swell, or a Thursday
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01
Apr
The Loyalists, "The Momo"
Ride the Trashheap of Sound by The Loyalists
The Loyalists played a show at Winter's Tavern in Pacifica, CA a couple weeks ago (with our friends and rad bands The Tunnel & Color TV), and to celebrate we released another song off our forthcoming second album, Ride the Trashheap of Sound. This one's a lot less
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15
Mar
Black & White Film
Several months ago, I dusted off and got back to shooting with a mid 1970s Minolta XE-7, loaded with Kodak T-Max 400 black and white film, through a 50mm lens. I think the recipe works well, I've always liked the results. I'm a sucker for this camera — I've had one since I
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03
Mar
Edward Weston Early Works at Monterey Art
I was in Monterey, CA last weekend and took some time to hit up the Monterey Museum of Art to see this show — Edward Weston: Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist.
As an amateur photographer, a fan of Weston’s work, and a native of California’s Central Coast, I am well aware of Weston’s landscape photography
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20
Feb
The Loyalists, "Shamfrancisco"
Ride the Trashheap of Sound by The Loyalists
I play the electric bass in The Loyalists, a noise rock band from Oakland, CA. We're a four-piece — bass, guitar, drums and cello (the cello player also plays guitar on some songs) — and we pride ourselves on making a pretty foul racket.
We've got a new album,
Here's a quick & dirty jam with a crappy mix. I started by sampling the bass line from Lalo Shiffrin's Bullitt theme, and went from there. The drums are canned / programmed (not sampled), and the strange, funky chorus part was made with a Dave Smith Instruments MoPho — an analog, monophonic synth.
I'm going through
I'm trying this web site thing again.
It's been a long time since I had a place on the internet that didn't use a free social media service as a platform. I'm pretty regular on Instagram, Twitter, and Flickr, and I've been using Tumblr as a "blog" platform,
