I have a $390 ticket that I'm trying to get rid of. It turns out that I've been having trouble finding anyone who wants it. Burning Man is getting close, and I'm staring to stress that I might get stuck with this ticket. I hear that the market for them is getting tricky, and really really don't want to be out this much money ( Read more... )

I just discovered something interesting. On May 20th in Northern California and Southern Oregon there's going to be a full solar eclipse. It's happening sometime in the afternoon.

http://kayodot.bandcamp.com/album/gamma-knife

This album pushes all my buttons in a way they haven't been pushed in a very long time. This is usually strong sign that anyone else who hears it, will completely hate it at a visceral level. The middle three tracks are sensory overload.

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This one is quite a long shot, but I've recently found myself without the ability to scan any of my 4x5 film. All I really need is a flat bed scanner that does transparencies. Would anyone in the area happen to have one I could use ( Read more... )

I think I've managed to accumulate my biggest back log of photography ever. By now it's something over a year. By now there are several reasons for this. I guess the longest lasting one has to do with how the E6 labs have getting increasingly sloppy with their work over the last few years. I've been getting film back wrinkled with scratches, ( Read more... )

Today at work a camera crew from the Discovery Channel unexpectedly showed up at cubical. They wanted me to show them the projects I'm working on, and explain them. I was so thrown off guard. Especially trying to explain things. It's so complicated. Where do I even start?

A mask I just finished painting for Burning Man.


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Awhile back I was hiking with Justin at Mission Peak (in Fremont). Look at what we came across.


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