I FINALLY, after many YEARS, replaced the 'coming soon' page for our little band's website. I put together my first WordPress site for deadendboyfriend.net. If you can't get enough of Deadend Boyfriend, we also have a Facebook Page
I have to say I am impressed with WP so far, after so many years of working with Drupal. I have not tried writing any custom code or doing anything fancy with it, but so far, so good.
I have also made a new Baseball page and have it 'good enough' to make it public. It is pretty basic, and will never quite be 'done', but feel free to poke around.
We are playing a gig Saturday night (4.8.2017, 8 to 10pm) at FLO in Healdsburg. Here's the flyer I made...
With a band like 'Deadend Boyfriend' playing at a place called 'FLO', my mind immediately turned to vintage feminine product ads. The original ad featuring this fresh, confident young lady included this copy:
The way you feel is free
Today and every day, you feel free, confident, unhampered. Tampax tampons, worn internally, make this possible. Keep you feeling cool and comfortably confident, in or out of the water. They let you wear what you wish, do what you want, any day. They're the better, easier protection. Aren't you glad you discovered them?
I was hoping to use that copy and replace 'Tampax tampons, worn internally' with 'Deadend Boyfriend', but decided to keep it 'subtle'.
I have been learning more about infrared photography, trying to really nail down how to take a decent shot and then process it. It isn't terribly complicated, but it requires a little research, practice and experimentation. You end up with images that have strangely shifted colors and light values, which you can further mess with in post-processing. If you are curious, this webpage is a pretty good introduction: photographylife.com/introduction-to-infrared-photography.
To really commit to it, you can take a digital camera and send it off to be converted, but most cameras work pretty well just using a filter you can stick in front of your lens. I am using a Hoya brand R72 filter. The gallery of my recent images is here.
The image in this post is one I made of a church in nearby Bodega: St. Theresa of Avila. Ansel Adams made a memorable photograph of it in 1953 (Church and Road, Bodega, CA). When I moved to Sebastopol almost 20 years ago, I was of course thrilled to realize it was less than half an hour from my house.
I broke my thumb, and now I have been given a cast to wear for the next 4 weeks. The cast is probably a good idea, but I am annoyed. I am reminded of this classic (if racist) comedy bit:
I have been walking around the house shouting "Not the craw, the CRAW!!!" as I struggle to do things like open mayonaise jars or button my pants.
For many years I assumed it was from Kentucky Fried Movie, but it's (obviously) from Get Smart.
I made a gallery of photos I took from my phone in San Francisco. Most of them were taken while I was in the city working, so they are mostly of the financial district and around Union Square. They were all taken in the first half of 2016.
