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Last night, I went to the Box Factory to see Stripmall Architecture. Their new album (We Were Flying Kites) is wonderful - I've been listening to it constantly. At the show, I picked up the physical CD version, which came with a bonus disc - Object03. It has different versions of some of the songs, plus some that I hadn't heard before. If you're reading this, and you don't have their new album yet, go fix that now.

Tonight, Loud Objects performed at Noisebridge. Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan soldered their instrument while playing it. Beautiful 1-bit glitch. This makes me happy. Full photo set is here.

At last month's Hubba Hubba Revue, I shot with two cameras. The digital shots went up a little while ago. Now I present to you the film version of the night. 160 ISO film in my Contax with the 1.4f Zeiss lens. This, of course, means multiple exposures! A lot of them! Like this one of the beautiful Vienna la Rouge.

The rest of the photos are here, added to the set of digital shots.

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

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:

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.

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!

Mike, Kelly, Mad Hatter and I chased the photons together, driving toward the ocean to catch the last remnants of sunlight. This brought us to Sutro Baths in the dark. We climbed the ruins, Kelly and I in skirts and high heels. Long exposures with handheld flash. Distant light of the Cliff House and streetlights. Into the tunnel for more.