audrey penven

Friday night at the DNA Lounge. Oktoberfest burlesque, silly German outfits. Full album is here

Two rolls of film. Fuji 160 ISO. One of them is portrait film, the other has more saturated color. I never shoot with either of these things in mind. Why am I telling you this? Because I feel the need to say *something* factual about these rolls of film. What comes out of these is a surprise for both of us. I'm fairly certain they were shot sometime in the past few months. Though, I was sure of that with the first set and ended up with something from last year.

Anyway, sponsoring a roll of film means that you get to help bring these photographs into the world, onto the internet for all to see. You want to see this stuff, I promise. In addition, you get your very own 11x14 print. A physical thing, on photo paper, made by me in the darkroom.

Thank you to everyone who has sponsored one of these. Thank you to all of you who will do it in the future. You're absolutely wonderful.

Ok, this is what I've got this time:

Corpus Callosum's first music video, Lullaby #2, is now out in the world. I feel incredibly honored to have been part of the process. They celebrated the video release with the San Francisco crowd with a musical performance and a puppet show.

Afterward, I found myself at for Five Cent Coffee and Lady A and Her Heel Draggers. I was treated to some new music and dancing in the dark red room. When I wasn't dancing, I took a few photographs. Here they are:

Suzanne Forbes painted a beautiful portrait of me!

Now, I will present to you, Corpus Callosum's first music video. The song is "Lullaby #2." The video was shot at the Wave Organ in San Francisco over the course of a single day. Directed and produced by Corpus Callosum with Nicole Aptekar as the Director of Photography. I was on the technical crew and on camera #2.

Corpus Callosum - Lullaby #2 from Dax Tran-Caffee on Vimeo.

Last night at the Anno Domini Gallery, they played a concert with Battlehooch and then premiered the video. Watch the video and check out my photos from last night.

If you're in the SF Bay Area, join us at Noisebridge (2169 Mission Street, San Francisco) for a puppet show, musical performance, and another video screening. The all ages show starts at 7pm.

The first of my photos from monochrom's Arse Elektronika are up.

Roll #11

This one, normal color film, shot almost entirely in low light. Two girls performed a few songs at Noisebridge's Five Minutes of Fame. An accordion and a washboard. Stomping the beat. An art show at the DNA Lounge. Trista with her art. Unwoman's reflection. A walk to Sparky's with Rubin. More photos in the dark. Noisebridge again. A desire for a new representation of myself - a new photograph that is me. Pause for a few days. Photon hunting with Mike, Kelly, and Mad Hatter.

Roll #12

Kim Boekbinder playing in Oakland. Fire jam at NIMBY. Hornzooka, Spurious Causality, Enki and the flower I drew on his arm. The epic journey to Black Rock. Overheating. Smoke. The noise of the Dumb. Melted clutchline.

I decided last night that I was going to find an accordion today at the antique flea market. Sure enough, I found this. It was cheap, and it works. In my enthusiastic yelling, I accidentally haggled $5 off the price, and only realized this while running back from the ATM. With the exception of the colors (green and white), it's exactly what I wanted. And now I have a painting project ahead of me. I'm so excited!

Friday night was the Noisebridge Open House Party. Noisebridge has had a physical space for a year now. After a year 83C Wiese Street is dead, and we're in a new location at 2169 Mission Street. The art gallery featured photography by httf, Rubin Abdi, Joachim Pedersen, and me.

Corpus Callosum played a spectacular show at 10pm. And I, cameras in hand, took a bunch of photos. Look!