my kind's your kind

a diptych made up of two polaroids i took in colorado a while back.

trying to loose the world inside

i wonder if i could be your mirror

cannon beach shot on tz artistic film with an sx-70

life's been crazy these past couple weeks -- moving, traveling, etc. -- and this little blog of mine has suffered. i never did get around to posting my usual seasonal mix. it seems a little late to fix that now, so i'm gonna cheat and just post a set that i put together last weekend. you can download it from soundcloud, should you feel so inclined.

(UPDATE: I took the mix off my soundcloud to make more room for other bits and pieces. you can still download the mix by right clicking here.)

in the free fall i can feel the blues

two more diptychs that made themselves:

things change but it feels the same

the very talented megan holmes lent me a medium format camera a couple weekends back for a trip to the oregon coast. when i got the film back, some of the images i made just seemed to so clearly fit together. i'm not even sure how it happened. i have a couple more that i'll get up soon.

bordering on imperfection's license

i have this stash of photos on my phone that i never do much with -- beyond occasionally looking through them and feeling nostalgic. for a while now, i've been wanting to do something interesting with the images. this is a first run at that: a triptych using three photos i took while i was in seattle last fall.

for a while, things were cold

these are that last few polaroids i took over thanksgiving weekend, stitched together as diptychs. the second one is a combo of softtone film (on the left) and 600 film (on the right).

come on, sunlight - a fall 2011 ep

fall's nearly over, which means it's about time i posted my seasonal ep. it's a little bit longer than ususal, and there are a few songs on here that'll probably overlap some with my year-end list (which'll be up here in the next few weeks), but i tried to keep them to a minimum. anyhow, hope these beats get your feet moving. (you can download the whole mix by clicking here, or you can grab it bit by bit by right clicking on the song titles.)

vanessa - grimes


nuclear season - charli xcx


212 - azealia banks


beat and the pulse - austra


mellow doubt - diamond rings covers teenage fanclub


sunlight - the one am radio


what becomes of the broken hearted - jimmy ruffin


nervous lonely night - jessica lea mayfield


love, love, love - of monsters and men

to the end i'll never know

near kate's house, there is this ridge filled with palm trees that always pulls at me. it seems so right. it seems like i ought to live within walking distance. it reminds me of the way birds rest on telephone wires, all spaced out just so. anyhow, my diptyching continues, again with two softtone polaroids taken with a specrta system. if you look really hard, you can find kate, somewhere in here.

it's always good to see you again

i'm not sure if it was the steely sky and the light it threw on everything, or if it was just the tug of nostalgia for a place the reminds a little bit of home, but last weekend, as i walked down echo park avenue in los angeles, i felt this need to take pictures of nearly everything.

pictures of palm trees and telephone poles, of mission-style homes and sloping streets full of bouganvilla. and also, apparently, of unicorns stuck to store fronts. (i spent the weekend wondering what sort of store pastes an angry unicorn head above its entrance. my last night there, i found out: a store selling 80s and 90s work out clothing. obviously?)

amanda's work with diptychs has been rolling around my head lately. both of these images were shot on softtone polaroid film with my spectra system.

i watched all afternoon

a few weekends ago, while we were driving to st. johns under a blue fall sky, casey and i decided it didn't make much sense to do anything else besides keep driving until we hit sauvie island. we needed a couple pumpkins, anyhow. i made a quick stop for a roll of medium format film on the way. here's some of what was waiting for me at blue moon camera last week, pulled together in three diptychs:






(the right-hand photo of the first diptych will be in blue moon's december show. credit to casey for right-hand photo in second diptych.)