Here’s the first in my series of Found Art.

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I found a few sheets of undeveloped photo paper in a dumpster behind a camera store in Santa Clara. The paper was almost completely black, with hardly a noticeable image on them.

I scanned them and adjusted the levels until the images appeared… it was reminiscent of placing an exposed sheet of photo paper into the developer and watching the photo appear. Pretty wild. The photo is seemingly a wedding party portrait from maybe the early 20th century, maybe even earlier?

There is something that appeals to my sense of curiousity and adventure when I find found objects. It’s a little peek into someone else’s life, and there are so many stories attached to these things. I guess that’s why I like to listen to people. As I’ve always said, I believe everyone has a story… and I want to hear it.

See the 411 (as stated by Found Magazine) for some basic info on found objects.

On Friday, Kevin>, Brendon and I attended a Tsunami Benefit Concert at the Great American Music Hall for the Save The Children organization.

At around $20 a pop, the show was a good deal, which was a bonus, since donating our money to such a cause was worth it anyway.

We arrived about half an hour before the doors opened, with a line that went almost to the end of the block at Larkin St. It’s really not as bad as it sounds, that’s actually a pretty short line. It started to rain as they started letting people in (late, I must say) close to 8pm. The show also started late, I think around 8:30 or so.

Set to perform this night were Eric Bachman and Ben Gibbard of I was also delighted to find out that was added to the bill (love him!). Each artist performed solo (save Kozelek, who brought on a girl named Emily to sing a duet with him on two songs) and performed purely acoustic sets. They all delivered, the performances were great, raw and heartfelt, because I think they performed what they wanted to perform.

Ben Gibbard was obviously the headliner of the show (although the show was not touted that way), with his performance being the last one, and the audience’s anticipation was incredibly apparent. His setlist seemed a bit more thought out than the other performances, with a lot of crowd-pleasing songs. He performed a bunch of songs from both DCFC (more than half a dozen songs) and The Postal Service (2 or 3 songs), as well as a song from All-Time Quarterback (his lo-fi solo album)… oh, and a couple of cover songs that I cannot recall.

It was a quite a good show. I would’ve gone to this one, regardless of it being a benefit show or not… definitely worth it.

If anyone out there has a setlist, I would be very grateful.

Dear Reader,

Welcome to my new personal site (who am I? See here.). Take a look around, the navigation should be pretty straightforward and painless. See the tabs in the header for the main navigation. A lot of the expected features are here, and of course, more will be added as time goes on.

So what do I plan on doing with this? Well, the obvious is that it’s still blog-centric. I hope to expand on that by trying to include more art, including photography (& alternative processing), printmaking and found art. I hope to come up with a format that works for me (I very much like format, with a simple yet quite functional interface. It greets the reader with a photo on the main page, with the extended entry & comments seamlessly integrated.).

If you are looking for my old blog entries, you will find them . I separated them from this site, for I wanted a bit of a fresh start, or as worded it, “reinventing my digital self".

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Thanks for coming by!

There’s a girl with a crown and a scepter
Who’s on WLSD
And she says that the scene isn’t what it’s been
And she’s thinking of going home
That it’s old and it’s totally over now
And it’s old and it’s over, it’s over now
And it’s over, it’s over, it’s over now
I can see myself

At the end of the tour
When the road disappears
If there’s any more people around
When the tour runs aground
And if you’re still around
Then we’ll meet at the end of the tour
The engagements are booked through the end of the world
So we’ll meet at the end of the tour

Never to part since the day we met
Out on Interstate 91
I was bent metal you were a flaming wreck
When we kissed at the overpass
I was sailing along with the people
Driving themselves to distraction inside me
Then came a knock on the door which was odd
And the picture abruptly changed

At the end of the tour
When the road disappears
If there’s any more people around
When the tour runs aground
And if you’re still around
Then we’ll meet at the end of the tour
The engagements are booked through the end of the world
So we’ll meet at the end of the tour

This was the vehicle these were the people
You opened the door and expelled all the people
This was the vehicle these were the people
You opened the door and expelled all the people
This was the vehicle these were the people
You let them go

At the end of the tour
When the road disappears
If there’s any more people around
When the tour runs aground
And if you’re still around
Then we’ll meet at the end of the tour
The engagements are booked through the end of the world
So we’ll meet at the end of the tour
And we’re never gonna tour again
No, we’re never gonna tour again