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Continue reading →: In the House of War, Music, and Football
I walked alongside a blue and gold clad crowd on Shattuck and Telegraph. They did not suspect that cardinal red burned beneath my green fleece jacket. The buses rolled on through, depositing foot soldiers from across the Bay right into the bear’s den. Hibernation was over. The Big Game festivites…
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Continue reading →: St. Lawrence String Quartet
Snowflakes dance slowly up and down my face, hair rustling in the wintry wind like frost covered wheat stalks. Eyes closed, ears open, the melody reveals a white Paris in 1996. Dreams and aspirations lie unwritten on the freshly fallen snow. St. Sulpice. Les Invalides. Alive, but afraid to act,…
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Continue reading →: Editing Meteors
Eric and I spent the afternoon editing our footage from Vienna’s performance at the San Francisco Public Library earlier this month. With Jim’s massaged audio tracks, we sliced, rippled, and edited our way through 6 of Vienna’s 14 songs from the performance. Learning the nuances of Final Cut Pro has…
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Continue reading →: Berkeley to San Francisco to Hungary
Friday featured a whirlwind tour of the Bay Area Peninsula. In the morning, Rae and I headed up to Berkeley, where she practiced with her dance troupe, and I had ramen noodles at Ryowa with Edna and Erik. Following lunch, Edna and I walked over to Hearst Gym where we…
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Continue reading →: COBA Ninth Meeting
The ninth and final meeting of the year for the Camera Owners of the Bay Area user group met on Wednesday night at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. There were two presentations focusing on the Earth’s celestial neighbors, the Sun and the Moon. There were only a handful of people…
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Continue reading →: Solar Powered Charger
Backpacking poses a unique set of challenges for today’s digital photographer. How much photo gear can you carry before you begin compromising on the essentials like your tent, sleeping bag, food, clothing? Also, how many batteries do you have to carry to ensure continuous power for your digital camera, flashlights,…
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Continue reading →: Vienna at the SF Public Library
The ripples are growing larger, encircling the lake from within. Soon, the ripples will reach the river and from there the ocean. When that happens, watch out, world! Vienna Teng performed at the San Francisco Public Library this afternoon. The crowd ranged from the homeless to friends and family to…
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Continue reading →: Waking Hour Release Party 2.0
Last night, I attended Vienna’s Waking Hour Release Party at The Hotel Utah Saloon in San Francisco. The party was actually version 2.0, as there was one last year for the original version of the album. Now signed with Virt Records, Vienna went back to the studios in Nashville to…
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Continue reading →: Bottom of the Hill
There’s no time to rest. No sooner than I get back from my backpacking trip to Sykes Hot Springs that I’m back on the road, my camera locked and loaded. The loud and harsh rock sounds continue to reverberate through my now unplugged ears. Tonight, I travelled to The Bottom…
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Continue reading →: Sykes Hot Springs
Upon hearing of Maddie’s trip to Sykes Hot Springs in the Ventana Wilderness, I envisioned dozens of steaming water bubbling from enclosed rock pools alongside a raging river. This vision firmly planted in my mind, I quickly agreed to go with Maddie and the Stanford Redwood Outdoor Club to Sykes…






