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Had the day off yesterday (company has "wellbeing days" the last couple of years - thanks Covid!), so went to Stanford's Cantor and Anderson museums. Chuckled at this Tony Oursler animated sculpture-projection which seemingly judged you as you judged other works.

It's custard night. Quiche with chevre, potatoes, and chives. And a tarte with creme pat and peach compote.

Flourless Chocolate Cake 🍫 🍰

Happy birthday! I hope you don't fall off a bike today.

Happy birthday Rob!

Happy birthday! I recommend listening to The Clash. That's not necessarily birthday-specific -- it's just always a good idea.

Happy belated Birthday.

Belated Happy Birthday, Rob! Hope it was grand.

Hope it’s a great day. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuQ88gXvzKs/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Happy Birthday, Brent!

I can appreciate lazy. I had a nice dinner at, Asa Restaurant in Los Gatos. Had a tasty New York Strip washed down with an old fashioned and an IPA that I didn't catch the name of. Not bad for a Wednesday. Have some planned excursion Saturday which is a surprise 🤷‍♀️

Mr. Polaroid (full doc)

"...you can add a (randomly-assigned) light-leak..." 🤣

I've been engaging in a bit of a photographic revisionist history/redemption arc. 2006 was a crazy year. I was working 3+ nights a week doing lights in nightclub (in addition to everything I did all day), and doing other sporadic events as well. It was mostly fun and I made enough money for it to be worthwhile. I cannot imagine doing it now. This was a time period right before LED luminaries became mainstream and most club lights were halogen or arc bulb based. This meant normal people could not operate or maintain them, so there was a niche I was able to carve out for a one man lighting business. All of that would change by the end of the decade. During this time period, I took a ton of photos. Many of them are really awful. To the point, the edits I posted were terrible. I operated under the misguided notion that cropping a tiny section out of a 5MP original (taken with a mid 00s point & shoot sensor) was a good idea. Also many of the photos were of the partygoers and in my opinion even the originals for most of those shots are just bad. In 2007, partially inspired by some scene drama, I privated ~1500 photos on Flickr and got on with my day. There's still a couple people from the mid 00s who have a grudge against me because of shots I took during that time. (There's a long story here about a garage house DJ I knew who had a very attractive and insanely jealous girlfriend. I had a photo of him ogling a go-go dancer, she saw it and got mad at him. He of course blamed me for his dysfunctional relationship.) Oh wait, I still have the relevant photos: ...but I digress. 2006 was also a significant year because it was when I bought my first DSLR (EOS 30D that I made heavy use of for entirely too long.) I bought the 30D because my PowerShot S60 died ...twice. Canon were real shitters about fixing it. I have been going through photos I took in the first half of '06, all taken with the S60. The process is slow and laborious, but it's therapeutic for me (and lord knows we all need some therapy these days.) I have been working from the original images (fortunately, I am a compulsive archivist and data hoarder), doing minimal edits and the then replacing them on Flickr. This is a process that no one besides myself will ever appreciate. Lucky for me I'm an only child and my primary audience. As I mentioned above, many of the shots are not salvageable. Using the built in flash on a ca. 2004 point & shoot while the club is full of fog is a benighted idea in the best of circumstances. I took a LOT of photos during this time period and it may well be years before I've finished this task. The following is a small sample: Spinning fire, Jan 2006. 0.4" handheld. I had no idea what I was doing. Re-cropped square but otherwise unedited. Same party as above. My friend Ed, who is a video artist and electronic musician. He has a tendency to hold still for long periods of time. 1.6 second exposure, with the camera sitting on ...some object (I no longer remember what.) I've got a long story about Ed I might tell some day. Re-cropped square, no other edits. A slow night at a Sunday event I worked in an expensive but ultimately shitty bar. 4 second exposure with the camera sitting on case. Cropped 2-3, but otherwise unedited. Same club a month later. Around that time Technics tried to compete with Pioneer in the CDJ market and made a really weird and poorly received product. They made for an interesting light source however. 4 second exposure again with the camera resting on an equipment case. Re-cropped 4:5 (my favorite aspect ratio) but otherwise unedited. Longtime reggae DJ. He's got a huge local following. I never saw eye to eye with him on a great many things (I could write a fucking book on that subject, but I won't.) 1/4 second handheld. I could hold the camera pretty steady for such a long focal length. The joys of a 5.8mm focal length... Part of the live kit belonging to Ed, the bald fella from a few shots above. Not a good photo at all, but the synth gear is too cool not to include. Sadly, in early 2012 Ed passed out drunk with a lit cigarette and burned his studio down. That was a very bad day. Alcoholism is the worst. Same show, available light. 1/6th, handheld. Re-cropped 4:5, but otherwise unedited. That blue LED Doepfer Schaltwerk was the stuff of legend. Same gig. Ed lit up by my 20mW 532nm green 3 mirror lissajous laser. 1 second exposure. No idea what I used as a tripod. Ricardo, the guy who helped me finish my Saturnine mix in 2009. Seen here in April of '06, using my CDJ and mixer combination. I could NOT find that flight case when I moved. That's somewhat concerning as it's kind of huge. Half a second handheld, cropped 4:5. All of this is the tip of the iceberg. I've probably re-edited ~100 photos at this point. More later.

Chicken tinga enchiladas

Two things: We are in a palindromic period right now. This is some local havoc. Five Corners, or as it is often known, Flood Corners, is an infamous intersection on MV. This footage is from yesterday. Check out the start, then ~10, 20 and 25 minutes in. I made it a point to not leave the house yesterday.

Had quite a shock today. My Sister in law sent me a pic of my Mom on the day of her death. This is a picture of her Christmas before last... This was her the day she died... Just 1 1/2 years later. I was shocked!

Couple "Holy Shitballs" pics. Gryphon Statement amp, the smaller sibling Gryphon Diablo integrated amp was how I got one of my cats' names (Diablo was his middle name). And a throw in: "are those speaker cables or are you REALLY happy to see me?"

RIP Sebastião Salgado https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/23/brazil-sebastiao-salgado-death