nostalgiaphiles: Fall 2005

Fall 2005

My first quarter of college. Unlike the many people who go off to college with a sendoff—a goodbye party, tears, 'see you in a few months', and what-have-you—I simply packed a few bags, grabbed the tv, and drove 15 minutes up to campus to the Porter College dorms at UCSC.

Don't be fooled though—UCSC is certainly a city in and of itself. Not to mention I started college with a broken foot, a walking cast, and the busses were on strike.

super broken foot & moving into the dorms... 

Dorms...

Somehow I still managed to get out to shows. Judging by the amount of photos I have here, Sheena must have played every weekend that fall..

with Chris Cochran as "Empty Space"

I also scored an interview Geoff Rickly & sat in the press pit for a Thursday concert in SF. Wish it would have happened a few years earlier when I was obsessed with them,  but a memorable experience nonetheless..

Louis went with me..I was really nervous. 

Some of my favorite singles here:

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To get a closer look & see the whole set, visit my fickr here: Fall 2005If you see yourself and want me to send you a copy, hit me up! To conserve space, what you see here (for the most part) and on flickr are just contact sheets—I also have the actual individual photos offline. 

nostalgiaphiles: Summer 2005

Summer 2005

My summer before starting college I spent a lot of time in funky places watching my friends play music.

I was extremely attached to my camera..took it everywhere. I almost admire the photographer I was back then. With all the stages we shift through in our lives, this one for me was finding my eye. Everything was fascinating--shapes, colors, contrast, interactions. I'll never see like this again. Everyone always asks me what my tattoo means, and this is the closest I can think to describe it--this rite of passage. 

To get a closer look & see the whole set, visit my fickr here: Summer 2005If you see yourself and want me to send you a copy, hit me up! To conserve space, what you see here and on flickr are just contact sheets--I also have the actual individual photos offline. 

Nostalgia Files: Spring 2005

So I've been holding on to these contact sheets for the past few months, waiting for the perfect way to share them...and I'm not sure if this is it, but here we go! I've decided that at least once a week, until I run out of images, I am going to post contact sheets from years past. Now I've been taking pictures since my parents bought me a little toy camera in elementary school..but I didn't start to think of photography as an art medium until my senior year of high school. So that's where we'll start.

Spring 2005. 

I was taking a whole lot of photos with my old point-and-shoot digital camera, messing with the settings, playing with the colors on my computer. (& shooting a lot of black-and-white film for school, but I'll spare you that mess.. )

I was also exploring aesthetics, and you'll see a lot of these little obsessive moments where I'm trying to figure out how to photograph something so that it looks good..   

I spent a lot of time watching my awesomely talented friends play shows. 

..and I even went to my senior prom...

To get a closer look & see the whole set, visit my fickr here: Spring 2005If you see yourself and want me to send you a copy, hit me up!