it’s been too long…

too long since i’ve posted anything here and too long since i’ve been out skateboarding.  i didn’t actually go skating last night but i did go take some photos of friends skating.  (my first skating photos since high school).

i have a lot of great things in the works, i’ll share more soon.

sorry i’ve been away for so long.

i’ll try not to let it happen again.

here are a few new polaroid photos.  the bottom one shows our bird feeder which i recently fitted with a contact mic hooked up to my digital recorder in order to record the sounds of the birds picking up and eating the seeds…  really beautiful texture. more on that later.

http://unrecnow.com/dust/audio/s5m.mp3

(download here)

it has been beautiful in portland over the last week. lots of sun and lots of old friends passing through town.

here are a bunch of photos i’ve snapping while walking around and a bit of music that i recorded as part of my ongoing online collaboration with devin underwood.  i can’t wait to hear what he does with it.  i hope that he can find a way to fit something in there.  it is just one track of baritone guitar but wound up being pretty dense.

it looks like the rain is on it’s way back to us. hope everyone has a good week.

bare branches + a rare mostly cloudless day in portland.

hello december.

fall is in full effect in portland.

just thought you should know.

here are a few short video clips strung together along with a little synthesizer melody.  the video was all taken on the buchineko toy camera while clamped to my sun visor in the car.  i love the super 8 quality it’s video has.

who needs HD?

in other news a few web sites posted little blurbs on my nanopedal this weekend. one of which was the make magazine blog. they went on to also talk about a few of my other projects that i’ve posted here.  thanks make!

a great new photo blog called (not)common people also ran a little profile on me and posted a few of my photos.

the internet was really nice to me this weekend.

thanks internet!

the rain is back in portland. here are some photos from around town this afternoon. there were some amazing clouds out there today.

a series of photos taken around portland today with my new buchineko toy camera.

after sitting in the hot sun eating our vegan corn dogs we were more than happy to retreat to the cool dark basement of the board of trade building for our wednesday night music session.  don’t get me wrong, i love the summers in portland.   just sometimes it’s nice to have someplace to cool down and work on creative things.

here are little random bits of stuff that we recorded tonight all stuck together…

if you don’t have flash you can listen here.

otherwise….

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just some photos of the narrow areas between the morrison bridge and the surrounding buildings .  i really like this part of industrial southeast portland.  i wonder what will happen to this part of town as portland grows… it’s already changed quite a bit in the last few years.  i kind of hope it stays as is for as long as it can.

my good pal adam played drums at two great shows tonight as a member of imaad wasif + the two part beast.  i love this photo of bobb at the top. it looks like a ghost bobb is coming out of his body.  the photo on the lower left is of a chandelier at the crystal ballroom the others are from mississippi studios.

it’s always nice to see old friends and even better if you can also catch a good show… or two.

just back from a really fantastic show at holocene. it was such a great line up…. windy & carl, white rainbow, christopher willits and benoît pioulard.  i really enjoyed the sets everyone played.  it was a special treat to see windy & carl.  there was a while back in the late 90’s where i went to sleep to their records every night for months.  such beautiful soundscapes.

thanks go out to christopher willits for putting me on the guest list. all of his stuff is always great.

it was a nice sunny day in portland today.  it was the perfect opportunity to get out of the photo studio and do some painting… buffing graffiti that is.  back in the late 90’s when i lived in olympia, my friend  avalon kalin and i had some long discussions about graffiti-masking (what we called it before we found out that ‘buffing’ was the correct term).  avalon’s ideas on graffiti masking later became the basis of a film called  the subconscious art of graffiti removal (excerpt) by matt mccormick.  the part of graffiti buffing that always intrigued me the most was the possibility that you could covertly paint these abstract geometric shapes in areas that were routinely graffitied and see if someone would then buff your buff.  is graffiti only objectionable to property owners if it contains words or identifiable shapes and pictures?  

i have yet to try this experiment out even after 10 years of pondering.  maybe i will get around to it someday are report the results back here.  until then you can check out the buffing archive blog that i am a contributer to.

tonight was the second monday in a row that i went out to valentine’s to see friends of mine play experimental music.  i kind of like this new ritual.  my friend george and his band chen santa maria came through portland on tour on their way back to oakland.  it was great to see him. it had been years since the last time i saw him.  

my friend adam (white rainbow) played as well.  he told me afterward that he just wanted to play ambient house for everyone that came… that’s exactly what he did.  

pretty great.  

off to bed.

what a nice night.  i don’t think that i’ve had a monday night feel so much like a friday in recent memory.  it was nice to see so many people our riding their bikes and enjoying the sun the last few days. i know it’s sure not to last, but i am really feeling like the warm weather has made it to portland and it makes me happy.  after playing music tonight matt + i walked down the street to valentine’s to see pete swanson + grouper. here are a few photos of pete.  i think that they look much like his set sounded tonight… one sound smearing up against another with textures coming in and out of focus.  too bad my camera battery died.

let’s hope the rest of the week goes as well.

they have slowly been tearing down the big old union pacific railroad building down under the bridge.  it looks really sad right now.  after work today i took a little drive around there and took some photos. it looks like business as usual down there except for the big piles of rubble and metal skin of the building has been pealed back to reveal it’s skeleton.  i was able to get some like angles of the fremont bridge as well.

we attended a great show tonight by efterklang from copenhagen, denmark. there was lots of drumming, singing and clapping along… not at all what i thought it would be like based on their first two records but after seeing them live i wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.

if they are coming to your town, it would be worth it to go and support them.

it was a beautiful sunny day in portland today with tons of fantastic fast moving clouds in the sky.