Dream Wolf: Liz Wolf’s (from Why?) new project is named after a Mighty Boosh reference and is working on a full album of Janet Jackson covers! Put on your headphones to best enjoy this demo of one of her JJ tracks (via Bomarr):

Hungry Cloud Darkening: From the midwest, but playing in SF this Sunday. Reminiscent of Saturday Looks Good To Me. “Our Fog” is a favorite track so far. Also best heard with headphones.

Astronautilis: I first heard of Astronautilus when watching this trailer for his upcoming documentary. Was impressed enough to purchase (and enjoy) his newest album (Amazon). For fans of Sage Francis, Murder City Devils, B. Dolan, and Will Oldham… I know that’s a pretty random ass list of bands, but there you go.

Son Lux remixed: A great compilation of Son Lux songs remixed by Baths, Alias, and others. Proceeds go towards VSA and Accessibility.

Isaiah Toothtaker: dark hip hop. This violent ass kind of rap is not normally my thing, but ever since I heard his verse from the GoingBackToCali-esque “Hyperbolic Chamber Music” track I’ve been liking him more and more. Worth noting; Isaiah’s “cover” of the memed-out internet classic “Bed Intruder” song features samples of the North Carolina A&T marching band’s cover of the internet hit. Here’s a link to the “Intruder” video, but I warn you, it’s disturbing as shit!

Squarepusher: Yeah, so this guy has a new album out today too.

I’m so stoked to have one of my photos showing tonight at the Diana World Tour tonight at the Lomography Store in SF. Mike Estee happened to be walking by and took the above photo of me taking my “Scooter” photo, which happens to be a personal favorite since I’ve been shooting film, on my Diana camera. Awesome timing!

Anyways, come see the shot up close, and read the story behind it:

Lomography SF

309 Sutter Street

May 10th, 6-9

I was lucky enough to spend my Cuatro De Mayo riding around in a limousine packed with mariachi performers courtesy my friends at Uber. For a couple of hours, folks where able to log into Uber’s app and schedule a private appearance by one of three mariachi bands. Here are some of my film shots (taken on my Ricoh TF-500), if you like them I’d suggest checking out this Objective Scenes post to see my favorite iPhone shots from this ride too.

Recently acquired a modified Holga lens for my SLR as well as a bunch of ten year old Agva Vista film… so I put them together and got these shots. It’s hard to tell what effects are coming from what, but I’m assuming the really soft bright spots are the results of the plastic lens. Further analog adventures can be seen here.

I had a great time performing at last weekend’s super secret Pulsewave show in NYC. I had a great time meeting people, watching Falling For a Square, and covering Double Take’s “Hot Problems“… I don’t know if there’s a recording of the latter, but I did get this cool gif from Lucius Kwok as well as the photo below from Chiptography.

My next gig will be a dj set this Sunday at the DNA Lounge with Crashfaster and Peelander-Z.

A couple nights ago some assholes smashed up windows and cars on Valencia street as part of a Occupy meet-up gone bad. Some of these locally owned businesses got it worse than others, but you’d have to be a real douche to say that any of them deserved it.

Saw some folks sharing this article claiming the gathering at Dolores was hijacked by agent provocateurs (like the SFPD). I don’t doubt that these folks are probably not regular members of the Occupy community, or even citizens of the Bay Area, but when you have an event described as “We call upon all of our comrades from every corner of the Bay to descend upon Dolores Park for a ruckus street party to counter gentrification, capitalism, and the policing of our communities.” these are exactly the types as dickheads who are going to show up.

I think Jeremy Tooker, the owner of one of these smashed shops, nailed it when he said “This just seems like they’re frustrated with their impotency at this point. It’s like, ‘Look at me, I’m still here, I’m still occupying.’ “

Hey all! I’m in NYC, taking pictures and hanging out with friends. Today, Saturday, I’ll be doing an Instawalk along the High Line from 1pm to 2:30, followed by drinks and chatting about apps. For those interested, we’ll be meeting at 1pm at 10th and West 28th St and will be posting pics with the #instawalkNYC tag.

Later that night, I’ll be performing my chip music in Brooklyn with my friend Falling For a Square. I’m SO stoked to catch his debut performance and hope to have a new track to debut of my own. The show is somewhat low-key, but you can get details here

Also, Outlier is having an open studio that I’ll probably check out. Just saying.

Sunday…. not sure what I’ll be up to on Sunday, but I’m thinking it might involve Brooklyn Boulders. Anyone interested in joining me?

A few months ago I scored some great deals on film at a nearby American Eagle. Who knew they even had film? Apparently; nobody… so I bough nearly 100 rolls for about $1.50 each. They also had one of those Oktomat cameras by Lomography. I didn’t really have high hopes, but it was super cheap and I had a ton of film, so why not? I’ve finally gone through my roll and I have to admit I LOVE IT!

The Oktomat takes 8 sequential photos during a three second period, the end result takes up as much film as a single 35mm shot would take. I converted a few of these into lo-fi mini films, but I have to say I kind of dig these as 4×4 grids. It’s so cool to see the personality of each particular lens (there are 8 separate lenses). Particularly dig how the second picture from the left on the bottom row of each shot (which is actually the penultimate shot) seems to be the clearest in each of these examples.

I’m still cranking away on the Postagram Tips videos, having an awesome time too! This “camera hacks” episode is a personal favorite!

I had a lot of fun chatting with Keith Tharp for this week’s episode of Tiny Shutter podcast. TS is a great little blog too, highly recommend it for mobile photo fans.

Keep an eye out for some of my photos in the newest New York Times video spots airing online and on national tv throughout the next few months.

And from what I’ve been told, I’ve got a little photo spread and how to section in next month’s print edition of Wired. Neato!

Found this great Ricoh camera at a yardsale last week and I’m totally loving it. It’s a TF-500, and it really doesn’t look like much. When most folks see me with it, they don’t even bat an eye. I dig it’s wide lens, but found the telephoto feature to be really fun to play with too. Here’s my first roll with this camera, using Lomo’s 400 color negative film. Btw, if anyone has a Ricoh GR film camera for sale or trade, let me know