Friday night was the Noisebridge Open House Party. Noisebridge has had a physical space for a year now. After a year 83C Wiese Street is dead, and we’re in a new location at 2169 Mission Street. The art gallery featured photography by httf, Rubin Abdi, Joachim Pedersen, and me.
Corpus Callosum played a spectacular show at 10pm. And I, cameras in hand, took a bunch of photos. Look!
Two cameras for each of us, Mike and I went to the Handcar Regatta in Santa Rosa. Two cameras that are unfamiliar. A Pentax DSLR borrowed from Nicole with Ian’s wide angle lens, and a Mamiya 645. So, it was a day of making brand new mistakes. I missed my Contax, the camera that I’ve carried with me for over five years. But, had I brought that one, I would have remained in my comfort zone. I doubt I would have used either of these other cameras nearly as much.
There were races. One of the cars was carried across the finish line, with things falling off and clattering onto the tracks.
The Front Porch became a stage. I first encountered it at Burning Man, running across the playa with Slim, leaping onto the stairs as it was still moving, dancing on the porch in the moonlight. Here, it was still, parked by the train tracks with music being played to the crowd around it.
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Mike, Kelly, Mad Hatter
and I chased the photons together, driving toward the ocean to catch the last remnants of sunlight. This brought us to Sutro Baths in the dark. We climbed the ruins, Kelly and I in skirts and high heels. Long exposures with handheld flash. Distant light of the Cliff House and streetlights. Into the tunnel for more.
