Again, super late posting on this mix. Sensing a theme lately? I feel as though I’ve been out of town almost as much as I’ve been home these past few months. However, this weekend I’m hopping on a plane to shoot my last wedding of the year, and after that I’m hoping to spend a few consecutive weekends in San Diego, catching up on my photo archive and posting more on this old blog of mine. Until then, enjoy the tunes!
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1. Hey Marseilles – To Travels and Trunks
2. Cataldo – Don’t Lose That Feeling
3. Eef Barzelay – In The Aeroplane Over the Sea (cover)
4. Beirut – Vagabond
5. Champagne Champagne – Soda & Pop Rocks
6. Two Sheds – Let Her Dance (cover)
7. Jose Gonzalez – Heartbeats
8. Stephin Merritt – Plant White Roses (Buffalo Rome)
9. Gillian Welch – Look At Miss Ohio
10. Kris Orlowski & the Passenger String Quartet – Your Move
11. Stephen Malkmus – Freeze the Saints
12. Dominant Legs – Hoop of Love
13. Waters – For the One
14. Jens Lekman – If You Ever Need A Stranger (To Sing At Your Wedding)
15. Alexi Murdoch – Crinan Wood
16. St. Vincent – Dilettante
17. Liam Finn – Cold Feet
18. Blind Pilot – New York
This mix is super late and I know, there hasn’t been much activity over here lately. In the past month and a half I’ve traveled to Florida, the Pacific Northwest, and Boston, so rest assured, I’ve been shooting a ton. I just need to stay in one place long enough to edit and share the photos!
This month’s mix is chock full of music from the Pacific Northwest, because in August I fell deeply in love with that part of the country. The Doe Bay Music Festival was a magical event – something that I am still swooning over (or as Heather would say, “swooming”). I still haven’t been able to adequately describe the weekend in words, so just look at the above photo while listening to this month’s mix, and you’ll get a wisp of the idea.
1. Frightened Rabbit – Skip the Youth
2. Lemolo – Whale Song
3. Ravenna Woods – Ghosts
4. Hot Bodies in Motion – Old Habits
5. Bryan John Appleby – The Words of the Revelator
6. Youth Rescue Mission – Very Nice Things
7. Death Cab for Cutie – Codes and Keys
8. Sean Walsh and the National Reserve – My Dizzy Head
9. Tony Kevin Jr – Let You Down
10. Josh Ritter – Good Man
11. Ok Sweetheart – Home
12. That Dog – One Summer Night
13. Kelli Schaefer – Black Dog
14. Thurston Moore – Benediction
15. Explosions in the Sky – Be Comfortable, Creature
Oh HAI, it’s been awhile. August has been full of a lot of amazing things, so many that it’s been hard to catch a wink of sleep for fear of missing a single second of it.
I shot this photo a few weeks ago outside of Soda Bar, and all I can say is that after all these years, I’m still in love with my 50mm f/1.8 lens. So much so that considering upgrading to the f/1.4 version feels wrong…
Major apologies for the lack of updates here. I’ve been busy with photography work, the day job, and travel. This past weekend I was in Florida visiting my sister and her husband, who just welcomed this bundle of cuteness into their lives 3 weeks ago.
July was a month chock-full of new friends, spontaneous adventures, and amazing tunes.
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Song list:
1. The Local Strangers – For Fear of Losing
2. Josh Ritter – Harrisburg
3. Writer – Where Was I
4. Motopony – King of Diamonds
5. Owl & The Pussycat – Don’t Play Me
6. The Tree Ring – Dreams Where I Am Sleeping
7. Calexico – Quattro (World Drifts In)
8. The Tallest Man on Earth – Weather of a Killing Kind
9. Ryan Adams – Come Pick Me Up
10. Campfire OK – Strange Like We Are
11. Spiritualized – Soul on Fire
12. Givers – Words
13. Pickwick – Limelight
14. The Rosebuds – Cover Ears
15. Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – One Fast Move Or I’m Gone
16. The Mountain Goats – Love Love Love
July was a month chock-full of new friends, spontaneous adventures, and amazing tunes.
DOWNLOAD JULY MIXTAPE HERE
Song list:
1. The Local Strangers – For Fear of Losing
2. Josh Ritter – Harrisburg
3. Writer – Where Was I
4. Motopony – King of Diamonds
5. Owl & The Pussycat – Don’t Play Me
6. The Tree Ring – Dreams Where I Am Sleeping
7. Calexico – Quattro (World Drifts In)
8. The Tallest Man on Earth – Weather of a Killing Kind
9. Ryan Adams – Come Pick Me Up
10. Campfire OK – Strange Like We Are
11. Spiritualized – Soul on Fire
12. Givers – Words
13. Pickwick – Limelight
14. The Rosebuds – Cover Ears
15. Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – One Fast Move Or I’m Gone
16. The Mountain Goats – Love Love Love
Taken back in March while dogsitting for Sarah. Just finished shooting the test roll from my Zeiss Contraflex that I acquired in December, and oh man am I in love with this camera…
“When we hit the city limits, don’t forget me for a minute tonight.”
North Star by The Rural Alberta Advantage.
Come explore with me. I can’t promise a plan, and we may have to drive at 2AM, but we’ll sleep on beaches, wake up to dogs sniffing our faces, drink coffee with Kahlua, continue on.
And laugh deliriously at towns named Carpinteria, for reasons we’ll never remember.
I never want to be too old for things like this.
Same group of kids as shown here. They couldn’t get enough of us, following us around yelling, “photo! photo!” I don’t usually take many photos of people when traveling, but I absolutely had to oblige these kids.
There is so much beauty in the land east of Big Sur. However, there are also blind turns on narrow roads and Budget rental trucks speeding around them, and sometimes that’s how you find the noise you make when you think you’re going to die. Thankfully, I was behind the wheel of a car I’ve driven many miles in the past seven years, and we didn’t crash into the side of a mountain (or the rental truck). It was a close call though…
The luminous Stacy Keck, photographer and road trip partner extraordinaire.
Spent the past few days tripping up the coast to Northern California with only a vague skeleton of a plan on a much needed vacation.
This was my view last night from a campground 9 miles off Highway 1 in Big Sur, up a narrow winding road that made the 1 seem like a straight shot. I’m glad we started shooting when we did, because about an hour later the just-past-full moon rose and completely obliterated the Milky Way, along with most of the stars.
It’s amazing what a 30 second exposure can reveal.
There were a lot of people and we had a limited amount of time, but the Monterey Bay Aquarium was something I was glad we made time for as we meandered our way up the Cali coast the past few days. Looking forward to getting back to Big Sur tomorrow though…
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Song list:
1. Archers of Loaf – Wrong
2. Scott Hutchison & James Graham – Splinter
From the wonderful First Edition – Fruit Tree Foundation album.
3. Other Lives – It Was the Night
4. Okkervil River – Westfall
Their Belly Up show was the best show I’ve seen all year, and the live rendition of this song made my jaw drop.
5. Marching Band – Uncomfortably Numb
Yet another band that I was introduced to by Adrian, via these fantastic mixes.
6. Bon Iver – Holocene
This song talks about winter, but it gives me nostalgia for suffocatingly humid summer nights filled with fireflies blinking through the woods.
7. Wooden Birds – Seven Seventeen
8. Telekinesis – Please Ask for Help
9. Matt & Kim – Cameras
10. Pepper Rabbit – Rose Mary Stretch
11. Guided by Voices – I Am A Scientist
Because I am, and always will be, a scientist.
12. The National – Lucky You
From the pre-Alligator Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers, this still remains one of my favorite National songs. And one of my favorite album titles.
13. The Thermals – I’m Gonna Change Your Life
14. Apex Manor – Coming To
15. Titus Andronicus – To Old Friends and New