a log of “research”, projects, and things encountered. a place for me to share new work and things in process. see also: my regular web site Follow @notes_from_now Tumblr (3.0; @notesfromnow)http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1e0587594b7c9beca144770e12bb4140/tumblr_mi84r5Oefd1qm6dk1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>And the ASCENT/DESCENT records finally showed up!</p> <p>They’re lovely. </p> <p>Two soundscapes composed from field recordings of California species with increasing or decreasing populations, on vinyl, a medium simultaneously popular and obsolete.</p> <p>Records are 45rpm, 12” black and clear swirl vinyl, sealed in a poly bag for their own protection. Edition of 300.</p> <p>Cover art by Isabella Kirkland. Field recordings from the California Library of Natural Sounds (part of the collection of the Oakland Museum of California.) Composed by Torreya Cummings for Shipping + Receiving.</p> <p>available here: <a href="http://shiprecstore.bigcartel.com/product/ascent-descent">http://shiprecstore.bigcartel.com/product/ascent-descent</a></p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/43088781746http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/43088781746Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:59:29 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5d8cb7cd73d6d1caf00e5b613a07607f/tumblr_mi84m2QiIB1qm6dk1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>OBSOLETE CALIFORNIAS, a project I did with H.R. Smith as SHIPPING & RECEIVING happened in January, but you can get a sense of it here.</p> <p><a href="http://www.shippingandreceiving.org/">http://www.shippingandreceiving.org/</a></p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/43088625299http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/43088625299Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:56:26 -0500<p>I&#8217;m doing a project at Southern Exposure as part of the exhibition MAKING A SCENE.</p> <p>October 5-27, 2012</p> <p>An installation and photo studio. Making portraits influenced by the daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes, and dance party portraiture.</p> <p>more here: <a href="http://sfstrangefamiliars.tumblr.com/">http://sfstrangefamiliars.tumblr.com/</a><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbwohhBF7t1qjdyer.jpg"/><a href="http://soex.org/Exhibit/111.html">Southern Exposure</a></p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/33601491748http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/33601491748Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:11:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6jsg00IYk1qm6dk1o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Miss Prick & Dam Dyke<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6jsg00IYk1qm6dk1o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Lily Belle & Frenchy<br/><br/> <p>Another from <i>Destry Rides Again, Again</i> and one from the film, <i>Destry Rides Again</i>1939</p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/26362809400http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/26362809400Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:21:36 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6jrw50WoD1qm6dk1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>From <i>Destry Rides Again, Again</i>, a tableaux vivant endurance performance project I directed as part of Southern Machine Exposure Project, (a collaboration between Southern Exposure in SF and Machine Project in LA.) It was awesome.</p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/26362034203http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/26362034203Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:09:41 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2w6za1tZ21qm6dk1o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2w6za1tZ21qm6dk1o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>boat is surprisingly functional. still needs a name. attempting the crossing from Sausalito to Angel Island soon.</p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/21584218904http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/21584218904Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:52:21 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2hnw4ZAxd1qm6dk1o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>She’s going to be a boat. She’s going to need a name.</p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/21105712046http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/21105712046Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:33:39 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0lrdklM9R1qm6dk1o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Packing the remake of warhol’s HORSE for LA. Get in the van…</p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/18990875100http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/18990875100Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:32:08 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0kpep6bgZ1qhgi5mo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Welly’s whittle, March 5 2012. She’s good!</p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/18956785744http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/18956785744Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:10:23 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0jv7vuZkS1qm6dk1o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/18935861924http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/18935861924Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:59:55 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0hvh2OPG71qm6dk1o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Dutch threesome, whittle by jl, serpentine rock, clay pipe, lichen sample.</p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/18883462525http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/18883462525Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:10:14 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lud4477ejo1qm6dk1o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Installation shots: Kat Nyberg<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lud4477ejo1qm6dk1o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Installation shots: Kat Nyberg<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lud4477ejo1qm6dk1o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Installation shots: Kat Nyberg<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lud4477ejo1qm6dk1o4_500.jpg"/><br/> Installation shots: Kat Nyberg<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lud4477ejo1qm6dk1o5_500.jpg"/><br/> Installation shots: Kat Nyberg<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lud4477ejo1qm6dk1o6_500.jpg"/><br/> Installation shots: Kat Nyberg<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lud4477ejo1qm6dk1o7_500.jpg"/><br/> Installation shots: Kat Nyberg<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lud4477ejo1qm6dk1o8_500.jpg"/><br/> Installation shots: Kat Nyberg<br/><br/> <p>With the help of some friends, I recently completed a series of portraits in a derelict hotel in San Francisco. We had a party, listened to old records, drank fantastic cocktails, and tried not to fall through the crumbling staircase.</p> <p>Installation shots courtesy of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.katnyberg.com/">Kat Nyberg</a>. </p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/12527369202http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/12527369202Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:07:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltohp0FD3x1qhgi5mo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>That was fun to make.</p> <p><a href="http://whittlr.tumblr.com/post/11950437081/not-sure-we-can-have-another-post-after-this-one">whittlr</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Not sure we can have another post after this one. Want it to stay on top forever.</p> <p>Whittle by TC.</p> </blockquote>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11954836050http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11954836050Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:50:58 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnb45YOAj1qm6dk1o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnb45YOAj1qm6dk1o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Welly.<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnb45YOAj1qm6dk1o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11926784923http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11926784923Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:40:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltlae7Bjpb1qm6dk1o1_500.jpg"/><br/> cover up<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltlae7Bjpb1qm6dk1o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltlae7Bjpb1qm6dk1o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltlae7Bjpb1qm6dk1o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltlae7Bjpb1qm6dk1o5_500.jpg"/><br/> dead ticks<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltlae7Bjpb1qm6dk1o6_500.jpg"/><br/> back into the lye bath<br/><br/> <p>Scenes from the processing of a deer hide into raw hide, eventually to be processed into leather.</p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11877865518http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11877865518Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:30:00 -0400<p>Here&#8217;s the reason we still need art. Some friends and I did this project at the Treasure Island Music Festival last weekend. We decorated a boxtruck in mish-mash nautical style, and gave festival goers free sharpie drawings/tattoos. It was really fun. It was a way to limber up my drawing-on-demand skills, something I haven&#8217;t practiced since grade school, when drawing was a magic world-making skill that could keep you out from under the boot-heel of social calamity. </p> <p>People kept asking, confused: What company is this? Who hired you to do this? </p> <p>It&#8217;s our art project, I said. Nobody hired us. A curator selected our proposal, and the festival gave us money to rent the truck, but we&#8217;re doing it for our own entertainment, and yours. It&#8217;s art. You know, art? Making stuff nobody asked you to make?</p> <p>I could see their brains short-circuiting. </p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11576755575http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11576755575Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:12:04 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt81eradrA1qm6dk1o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>BAD IDEA tattoo</p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11576067792http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11576067792Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:47:15 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt81d64dS31qm6dk1o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Exploded house</p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11576039256http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11576039256Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:46:18 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt81duNFPf1qm6dk1o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><span>Cnidaria</span></p>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11576050309http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11576050309Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:46:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt81cbykGs1qm6dk1o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11576025521http://notesfromnow.tumblr.com/post/11576025521Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:45:47 -0400