Pancake Reverb

2010 In Music: Through My Lens

2010-12-16T21:23:00.000-08:00

Blonde Redhead at The Warfield and the most amazing lighting design in the world by Jonah Strauss.

Geographer playing The Fillmore with Stars. I took this after sound check while Nate was tuning his cello.

The XX at The Fox Theater.

I waited all night, in the freezing cold to photograph Deadmau5. When he got on stage it was behind an elaborate set up that blocked the view of everyone in the press pit. So I photographed my friend Menace next to a fan with a mouse head and called it a day.

Die Antwoord, Treasure Island Music Festival. Shocking. Uncomfortable. Inappropriate. Amazing.

Arcade Fire at The Greek Theater. I couldn't begin to see over the 11 foot stage, so the security guard let me stand on the barrier. I had the best view in a house of thousands.

Film School at The Independent. A wonderful come back, by a wonderful band.

Light Asylum at Milk Bar for 120 Minutes. Thank you Marco.

Muse at Orancle Arena. I shot from what seemed like ten miles away from the stage. Still a spectacular light show.

Kill Moi at Bottom of The Hill. Ryan singing 'Januaries'. Still one of my favorite songs.

The Strokes at Outside Lands. Stangely, the most brutal press pit I have ever been in.

Empire of the Sun at Outside Lands--proved I can dance while taking photos.

Al Green at Outside Lands. He threw roses to the crowd over the top of the press pit. It was raining rose pedals on our heads.

K.FLAY at Harlot for my monthly Eclectic Live event. Female rap hero of 2010 fo sure.

Wolf Parade at The Fox Theater, with my #1 Wolf Parade friend Chloe.

Free tequila+hand cuffs+rockstars in drag= No Bunny at Milk Bar.

The Northern Key playing Bimbo's at Noise Pop. A proud moment for Tricycle Records.

Mike Deni from Geographer singing with Mirah, Kacey Johansing and Thao Nguyen at Noise Pop. Probably my #1 music moment of the year.

Ghost of Saber Tooth Tiger (Sean Lennon playing with Cornelious) at Noise Pop. I was standing next to Yoko Ono when I took this photo. Katherine and I ate her cookies after the show.

The National at The Fox Theater (also my favorite record of the year).

dear santa.

2010-12-08T16:52:00.000-08:00

Last year I asked that the democrats control our political system and my gift only lasted a year. So this year I'd like something more tangible. That's right, hard goods.

1. Wii fit.

2. SXSW Badge

3. Vintage Style Turntable

4. Canon Telephoto Lens / 300mm

5. New Stylish Glasses

*I'd also settle for a month of rent and a plane ticket to Italy. But that is a worse case scenario.

Thanks santa. you rock!

NYC in July: cross processed Holga Film that sat in my purse for 2 months:

2010-09-01T16:16:00.000-07:00

2009 Year in Review: Chronicle of a Rock Photographer

2009-12-30T16:03:00.000-08:00

Paul Stanley of KISS at Oracle Arena

Jarvis Cocker at The Fillmore

The Blacks, a very sad farewell.

Mos Def at The Paramount

Little Boots, playing Perez Hilton's party after Lady Sov pulled a no show

Lilofee at The Independent

Rodrigo Y Gabriela, The Fox

Eryka Badu, The Fox

Silver Swans first show at Great American

Les Savy Fav, Closing Night of Noise Pop

Victoria Legrand (Beach House) singing with Grizzly Bear at SXSW

Wallpaper played my party at SXSW, Arjun the drummer wore this panda suit.

Dinosaur Jr. at SXSW with my BFFs at my side.

Off With Your Head!

2009-11-01T15:09:00.001-08:00

Halloween is a magical time to make and capture art. Although I captured these images with my camera, the true artists are the staff at Bottom of the Hill that created these amazing sculptures. Cindy Sherman meets Hans Belmer and Marquis de Sade? Totally Surrealist. Totally amazing.

Halloween and my favorite photographer

2009-10-31T11:59:00.000-07:00

His work is the spookiest around. Joel Peter Witkins has been an inspiration to me from the time I first started making art. I once heard him speak and it was incredibly inspirational to hear the words of a man that has the power to take the most disturbing content and make it beautiful. Here are a few of my favorites. Happy Halloween.

Sometimes, inspiration comes looking for us

2009-09-04T15:01:00.000-07:00

I explored this marina with a painter friend, who later changed the style of his painting to emulate the weathered and chipping paint on these boats. Sometimes, we go looking for inspiration. Sometimes, inspiration comes looking for us.

flight.

2009-07-16T00:05:00.000-07:00

Ashland Airport July 2009

writer's block

2009-06-11T15:56:00.001-07:00

I secretly took this photo years ago of a friends desk. This is polaroid transfer made from a slide. 1998.

light painting a broken heart

2009-02-08T16:02:00.001-08:00

I was reminded today in my friend Ryan's blog, of the old technique called light painting. He was actually writing about Pablo Picasso light painting a bull:

But, it reminded me of my art school days, experimenting with different techniques. Spending long hours in the dark room. It also inspired me to dig through numerous boxes of photos to find this:

I was 24 and broken hearted. and considering what a heartbreaker Picasso was, these images compliment each other perfectly.

cyrus

2009-02-01T22:18:00.000-08:00

we were both standing on the sidelines of a music video shoot.

this is cyrus.

abstract.

2008-12-20T01:23:00.000-08:00

this is my friend piper standing in a photobooth. She is the one that named me pancake. we have matching tattoos on our necks.

this, is an overexposed "pizza by the slice" sign. no photoshopping.

this is a designer lamp, hanging in an overpriced store on Valencia street.

this is the remnants of my friends tag on the bathroom stall at 330 Rich.

this is a time lapse exposure of the building directly across from the Starlight Room.

hide and seek

2008-12-15T23:24:00.000-08:00

..with Coco

LiloFee

2008-12-03T12:52:00.000-08:00

I really love this band.

pancake reverb

2008-12-01T17:09:00.001-08:00

I have the word "Pancake" tattooed on the back of our neck. I don't see it very often, but I know it's there. In the same way my passion for art and photography is always there. Much like an echo of sound, a whisper, a reverb.

These are from artschool: A phone, shot with an old polaroid land camera and some expired film; a BW from a series of dead tulips on terrecata slabs; and a van dyke contact print from a 4x5 negative. All of them were experimental. I was far more adventurous ten years ago.

I shoot with a digital camera now and process my work through a computer. But, like my tattoo, this art will always be a part of me and my journey as an artist.

Museum of Jurassic Technology

2008-12-01T16:56:00.003-08:00

One of my favorite places

(to go with Andrew.)

thank you nabakov

2008-12-01T16:47:00.000-08:00

My drives to Ashland, Oregon always inspire something artistic. Something about the bare and minimal landscape appeals to my eye. This trip I was feeling especially creative. I am also reading Nabokov's autobiography Speaking, Memory (which apparently he translated from Russian while he was also in Ashland). It was a strange coincidence that made me even more sensitive to its meaning and inspired by its poetry.

It begins with:

the cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existance is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

If it is true that great art inspires other great art, I have Nabokov to thank for this series.

passenger seat 2.

2008-12-01T16:40:00.000-08:00

I love the combination of speed and the shutter..the abstraction. the blur. the distortion of color. So here are some photos from my drive to Oregon. I just finished editing them.. and even though I have tons of "work" photography to do..I try to do projects like these to remind myself I am among other things, an artist.

soundtrack: The Beatles box set 1967-1970

"ass in the air"

2008-12-01T16:38:00.000-08:00

There is a certain part of one's life that lives on their hard drive. For me, it is my photos, my music and the remnants of my graduate program in which I studied post modern feminist art (i.e. Cindy Sherman).

So when I went to my friend Cliff's last night to retrieve the recovered data from my old hard drive I was hardly surpised, when the one file that should cause an error message, was actually a Cindy Sherman image I titled "ass in the air".

Still there was the brief moment, before I was able to explain to him the image was an art piece I wrote about in school, that we both stared at the screen and burst into laughter. Because really, what are the chances, of all the 88,000 files recovered, this error message should be created.

Passenger seat 1.

2008-12-01T16:35:00.000-08:00

put me in the passenger seat

and I will make art.

neon nightlight

2008-11-30T20:46:00.000-08:00

neon nightlight photo set

another friday night well spent. all I need for a good time.. some cheap wine and a Canon 20D