audrey penven

Things happened today! Today is the day that I accidentally joined the Fabrication Team for Syzygryd. I also took photos.

This is a tube being cut by a large bandsaw.

This is the shop full of tubes.

This is NIMBY being very full of projects.

This is Slim doing one of the curved cuts on the tube with the plasma cutter.

The rest of the photos for the build so far are here.

Last weekend, I did a shoot with Unwoman at the abandoned 16th Street train station in Oakland.

Tonight I did a photoshoot with Kai and Jason on the broken piano. Kai begins grad school this fall in Chicago. They're taking this adventure together.

These are the digital photos I shot at Sand by the Ton. There was a beach party inside the American Steel warehouse in Oakland. We danced with sand under our feet. False Profit's Carbon Garden decorated the Symbiosis stage. There was fire and swimming pools. Circus acts. Music. Familiar sculptures. Good friends. All of it was beautiful.

More photos to come once the film is developed.

Also check out photos by others:
Scott Beale at Laughing Squid
Mikest
Hyperborea.

It started in the amphitheater in Mosswood Park. Nicole, Ian and I walked the few short blocks from home. Nearly every seat in the place was filled and standing people took the space close to the stage. Casual chatting. Hugs. Tying on armbands. Looking at maps.

Dax, on a megaphone explained the rules. Your armband must be visible. You must go to the checkpoints in order. You may travel on foot or on public transit. The city doesn’t know the game is happening, and it shouldn’t need to know. Cars are still real. (more…)

At the Fishtank in Oakland, it was a night of music. Corpus Callosum took the stage, playing until midnight.

post industrial folk noir

Orange light of the sunset streaming through the silhouette of the Mousetrap Game. Silver proximity suits. Charred helmets. Dance Dance Immolation. Setting ravers on fire. This is the correct use of propane. Chicken John and the bottle rockets. A thousand pennies. Goat skeleton marionette. Mousetrap. Forklift striptease. Elongated shadows by firelight.