To understand a human’s path, you have to discover his passion. Blissful thinking is such a lucid sensiblity. I was just walking around downtown San Jose in its freeze dried pandemic state, excuse for not using the word COVID for its a dirty word. I saw this gentle man sleeping in the 60 plus degree temperature in the doorway of a building. What I saw … Continue reading Photogenic Interlude: Blissful Thinking
On March 5th of this month, I was lucky, and healthy enough, to go out on a photo excursion nearby at Los Gatos Creek County Park. It’s a nice little nature reserve less than 10 minutes away from where I live here in Nor Cal city of San Jose. I have been meaning to get in some time to work on my photography starting with … Continue reading Photogenic Interludes: Olympus OM-1N Photojournal #1
H.A.K.M. the song is a drone piece developed during my nomadic state of creativity and construction of H.A.K.M. project. We have two short films from La Blogotheque with 9 year span circumventing the late 2000’s- late 2010’s. First Miho Hatori in 2009 (right before the beginning of the 2010’s) and Sudan Archives in 2018 (close to the end of the 2010’s). Both filmmakers techniques are … Continue reading Miho Hatori & Sudan Archives: La Blogotheque with a twist of feminine wilds in diversity.
Petites Planetes is showing a live film event online March 7th. The film is title, “When We Are Born.” It features the work of Vincent Moon and Olafur Arnalds. It’s a 23-minute long film done in one shot. This is Vincent Moon style cinematography that he has crafted for over 15 years. I know his style very well for I have viewed only a hand … Continue reading Petites Planetes: When We Are Born
((((((((((PRAISE THE DRONE))))))) building castles out of matchsticks · perceptual disturbances She is known from social media moniker as “The Sonic Nurse.” Anne Sulikowski is one of those intriguing females to ascertain my attention from a music/art cultural standpoint. Plus, she has this love of horror movies and horror movie villians like Leatherface! Bascially, she reminds of the artsy indie, riot girl who listen to … Continue reading Anne Sulikowski: The Sonic Nurse of Ambient-Drone
Aidan Baker and Jessica Moss are two present or former members of the Le Post Rock Coup known as GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR. I remember when I first heard of this Coup Musique D’Etat. It was from reading a SPIN magazine article on new musicians from the underground music scene. This article was written around the late 90’s to early 2000’s. I read through the … Continue reading Coup Musique D’etat: The Musical Caucus that has spread like wildfire for over 20 years
Yesterday, I watched an Instagram video from Alec Empire who is one of the founding members of the Digital Hardcore band Atari Teenage Riot; currently included in the band are Nic Endo & CX KiDTRONiK (photo to the left is one of the other founding member Carl Crack may he Rest In Power). In this video below, he bids us a Happy New Year in … Continue reading TOO DEAD FOR ME: Alec Empire’s preemptive spiel to his fans.
The culture of Drone music is one of austerity and esotericism. I remember my first taste of drone (before it was just experimental noise music) when I heard Godflesh’s Pure album. The track ‘Pure II’ was a mediation into the vestige of drone. It was an alkaline cold streaming sonic gaze that lulls one into a trance for over 10 minutes. As the years progressed, … Continue reading Praise The Drone)))))))))))))))))))))
This year was a challenge and headache all at once. I was riding high off my plan. I remained diligent, focused, determined and organized. Then, a car accident on March 23, 2020 during a sunny afternoon in Seattle sidetracked everything. I was unable to work and I was left living off my thread of money I have built from all the hardwork while working as … Continue reading I’m Already in 2021……
If the ether spoils Earth will in its toil A return to the afterbirth A distant concept of impure earth At the center of this venture I discovered a place to linger Pigeon point cove Desolate place disclose On a road know by many Scorched remembrance of yesterday’s raucous ocean waves with a pinch of gaunt mist A place secluded to be traveled by so … Continue reading Photogenic Interlude: Pigeon Point Dusk Rain
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