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Ok, you got me. I’ve been absolutely terrible about staying on top of the blog postings. File this post under “better late than never”.
This is a little photo journal of our trip to Cape Kiwanda on the Oregon Coast. It’s a beautiful gem on the Oregon coast because its one of the few places where it wasn’t covered by lava flow. This means that a large shelf of sandstone from the ancient ocean floor has been pushed up above the water where the elements slowly carve and shape it. This means you get to climb and explore amongst the result of millions of years of the energies of wind and water against sandstone. It’s one of those places that really makes me realize how immense a span of time a million years is.
I went on this little adventure with my friend Chad (Bogmon) and my best friend Alisha and Pro-tip: get past where everyone else goes and get amongst it. Afterwards several hours of playing the sun you can always opt for a well earned meal of Fish & chips with the Kiwanda Cream ale from Pelican Brewery. Damn good beer. Damn good fish and chips.
When asked by the good folks at Chilluminati if I wanted to play once again at the Karmaklysm event in Wisconsin this summer Alisha and I deciced to make it into a roadtrip to see Priest Lake – Idaho, Glacier National Park, the Grasslands, and Minneapolis along the long drive from Portland to Wisconsin. I was excited to give the newest addition to my kit a field test, this being the jawdropping 70-200mm f2.8 II. We had previously tried to book a 7 day backcountry hike, but it fills up fast and the hikes are awarded by lottery. We settled for a staying two nights. We camped at flattop mountain two nights. In the day in between hiking in and hiking out we hiked up to 50 mountain which was amazing – all in all it was a quality 27 mile hike. from which my legs are still sore. After Glacier we drove all day until we could go no further and caught the National Grasslands in North Dakota in the early morning. By the evening we ended up in Minneapolis and enjoy dinner and drinks with our friend Mellissa. We spent the next two days at the event with our homie Chad (Bogmon for those in the know). Not a whole lot to say about the cannonball run on the way back other than we tried to barrel through it as fast as possible. If you like any of the photos I recommend checking them out large to see the incredible detail the new lens captures (the wide angles of course are with the 10-22mm)
Awe-inspiring early morning storm front in North Dakota
Alisha spinning in the Grasslands
Alisha took this one =)
Moutain range from across the valley.
My first bokeh test. So smooth I want to eat it.
Priest Lake Sunset Bokeh test 2
Montana Field at days end.
Meeting of mountains
Grasslands
Fractal Mountain side lit by sparse cloudbreaks.
View from Flattop Mountain
Misa posing for a sharpness test
Sunset Bokeh
Alisha relaxing in an alpine meadow
50 Mountain. This meadow fills me with a special feeling. =)
More Glacier majesticness. New word!
U-shaped Glacial Valley
The business end of the storm.
I work for a company called Astral Buoyancy, they make really nice lifevests for insane kayakers who throw themselves off 200 foot waterfalls in large pieces of plastic. Every year we goto this really large event called Outdoor Sport retailer. I spent some time going around snapping photos (with permission of course) of my favorite booths there and also got some photos of products I had my artistic input in
The Temple
Columbia Sportswears Future Lounge
Oh man… futuristic logos
North Faces Set up.
Northface interactive display
Keens set up. I shoulda stuck around for happy hour.
Ospreys super function layout
Sorry I forgot which booth this awesome was attached to
Sanita Booth
The Bad Kidz throwing down
How many drunk kayakers can you fit in a van? 12.
An embossed folder I designed
A life vest I designed art for. more here
A limited edition carbon fiber helmet with the same art. This will be given away at some point in the future.
Crazy storm out of nowhere. Utah always puts the fear of god in me.
Some awesome graff spotted on the streets.
Future retro compostion
Inside the scale model of the Mormon temple theres this crazy pool on the back of oxen. What happens in there? Soaking?
Full picture of the inside of the mormon temple
Yonton of Astral and Jeff from American Whitewater raffling off the window painting.
This would be the 4th installment of Photosynthesis, the third one I’ve been invited to play music at and the best one yet. The team joined forces with the Makah Native American tribe who live on the very northwest tip of the Olympic Penninsula. I consider this invitation very special considering how horribly our country has treated the people who lived on the land before us. The Makah were in full force and seemed to have a great time as 900+ freaks weirdos and scenesters amassed on their land. We were there for 4 days and got to see quite a bit including some great times with friends in what we ended up calling CrabTown. Its miles and miles of tidal flats with all sorts of oceanic debris and strange strange creatures that had us crawling on all fours going “no seriously WHAT THE FUCK?” The Crabtown monicker is inspired by a It’s Always Sunny in Philedelphia where they decide to become crab people and “Live by the Crab ; Die by the Crab”
Anways, personal in-jokes aside The land is pretty boggling in terms of how beautiful it is. The event was amazing. Soon Ill post a link to the recording of the set i played which also went over really well.
Cape Flattery – possibly one of the most beautiful places Ive ever seen.
Playtime with b0t23
Not quite Crabtown.
Homie Jacaranda laying down the best downtempo set of the weekend.
More Flattery…because it will get you everywhere.
A box with pictures of galaxies on it… which everyone is holding. They are “Holding Space” … get it?
Tidepool Romance
H’Art center
My amazing wife, Alisha.
Still life in CrabTown
We’re crab people now, We Live by the Crab, we Die by the Crab.
Every year a band of hippies drive deep into the Washington high desert and annoy the local beaver population with really loud music. These are the photos from this years event. If you want more Prosperity type stuff I have photos from 2010 as well as a recording of my set from 2010.
This past weekend I dj’ed up in Seattle and took an extra day to hang out with my friends Terry, Michelle, Rubin and Alisha and finally see the Seattle Public Library. I was first clued into the SPL after watching a TED talk about this amazing structure.(I embedded it at the bottom in case you want to see why this building is so amazing) I highly recommend you give it a watch. I was personally blown away at the efficiency on all fronts and considerations that went into the design so that it functioned as the heart of a thriving civic space.This was evident in that there were hundreds of people all efficiently using the library at the same time but I didnt see a single line. This is the other side of all the times I’ve complained about poorly conceived or designed spaces. I also tested out some video on my camera which is the first link, which I recommend checking out in full screen mode.
I’ve been wanting to do the Mount Defiance / Starvation Creek trail for a while but its near the end of the Columbia River Gorge and the actual hike itself is brutal – 5,000 foot elevation gain over 5 miles. Its more or less straight up the mountain. We got a late start so we didn’t make it to the summit of Mount Defiance, but we did do 3/4′s of the hike. We plan to go back and summit this summer.
This hike is a mix-bag with some 3 amazing waterfalls including the hole in the rock waterfall as well as some really nice basalt formations. Unfortunately, theres a portion of the hike that walks under some telephone wire.
For those wanting to do this hike take I-84 east from Portland to exit 55. From the parking lot you want to walk on the trail to the right which backtracks west alongside 84. Take this for a mile and there are signs.
View the rest of the Travelogue Posts
- Travelogue: Maui, Hawaii
- Cape Kiwanda
- Glacier Roadtrip
- Salt Lake City And New Art
- Travelogue: Photosynthesis 2011
- Prosperity 2011
- Seattle trip photos
- Mt Defiance Hike
- Shasta Elemental
- SE Asia Travels part 8: Banteay Srei and more
- SE Asia Travels part 7: Ta Prohm & Floating Village
- SE Asia Travels part 6: Angkor Wat
- SE Asia Travels part 5: Saigon - Phnom Penh
- SE Asia Travels part 4: Southern Thailand Phuket
- SE Asia Travels part 3: Northern Thailand
- SE Asia Travels part 2: Bangkok, Thailand
- SE Asia Travels part 1: Bali, Indonesia
- Prosperity, Friends and uhh Lichen?
- Abstract Ice
- Seaweed picking at the Coast
For the past couple of years we have journeyed down to Mount Shasta in Feb to spend time in a large cabin with a large group of our friends and listen to music, hike, throw rocks at freight trains and get loopy. This years highlights include climbing around in Castle Crags and hitting up Stewart Mineral Springs on our way out of California. Enjoy the photos
View the rest of the Travelogue Blog Posts
- Travelogue: Maui, Hawaii
- Cape Kiwanda
- Glacier Roadtrip
- Salt Lake City And New Art
- Travelogue: Photosynthesis 2011
- Prosperity 2011
- Seattle trip photos
- Mt Defiance Hike
- Shasta Elemental
- SE Asia Travels part 8: Banteay Srei and more
- SE Asia Travels part 7: Ta Prohm & Floating Village
- SE Asia Travels part 6: Angkor Wat
- SE Asia Travels part 5: Saigon - Phnom Penh
- SE Asia Travels part 4: Southern Thailand Phuket
- SE Asia Travels part 3: Northern Thailand
- SE Asia Travels part 2: Bangkok, Thailand
- SE Asia Travels part 1: Bali, Indonesia
- Prosperity, Friends and uhh Lichen?
- Abstract Ice
- Seaweed picking at the Coast
My homies Evan and Jamie came through town and I decided to leave my house and see what was happening in the portland Club scene. Before indulging in Poutine, mushroom lasagna at the farm, coffee from Barista, Happy hour at Biwa and a 2am donut from Voodoo I snapped some photos of Invisible Allies getting set up and doing soundcheck. Enjoy these photos from the night out.
